Current Actions
On the morning of December 9, long-time Baltimore Community activists
Sharon Black-Ceci and Steven Ceci were dragged from their home by Baltimore
police. The two, long-time leaders in the anti-racist, and poor
people's rights struggle, had been under police surveillance for their
political activism. They have each been falsely charged with possession of
marijuana with intent to distribute, a felony, and possession of marijuana, a
misdemeanor....
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Jenny Ulysse is a teen-aged Boston community organizer who was in Port-au-Prince Haiti on January 12 and was injured in the earthquake. She has been unable to receive an x-ray or any medical attention for her injured foot and leg since then. Although she is a legal resident of the United States, lives here with her family and is the main breadwinner, is employed and goes to school in Boston, her efforts to return and obtain necessary medical attention are being rebuffed at the U.S. embassy because she is not a citizen....
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In an effort to intimidate observers to Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s trial Federal Marshals have instituted a new and unprecedented measure of copying photo identification and having names and addresses logged by court security officers before admission into the courtroom. This is especially threatening to the Pakistani immigrant community who is deeply concerned about the fate of their sister Aafia. An additional level of metal detectors is also posted outside the courtroom....
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Over 200,000 may have died in the earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010.Thousands more are wounded and dying every day from infections, embolisms and lack of medical care and supplies. Some 2 million people are homeless. Please join the Coalition To Stand With Haiti in this demonstration to Honor the memory of the dead and to Show solidarity with those who are injured and who lost their family members and homes.
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Demand a Two-Year Moratorium on Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility
Shutoffs in Michigan and a State of Emergency in Detroit....
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The United States's goal to control the region for the benefit of its
corporations has no boundaries, whether posing as an aiding partner as in
Haiti, or through the imposition of an illegitimate government as in Honduras;
through 'diplomacy' or through blatant military force....
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On April 6, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal asking for a new trial for death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, based on evidence of racist prosecutorial misconduct during his original 1982 trial in Philadelphia. An important aspect of this misconduct is based on the 1986 Batson issue=97a legal decision that says that prospective jurors cannot be selected or unselected based on their race....
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A partial list of marches, demonstrations and
events...
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Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s trail continues Monday, January 25 and EVERY
DAY at 9:00am. In an effort to intimidate Dr Siddiqui’s supporters court
officials have harassed observers by taking I.D. numbers before they entered
the courtroom....
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The Supreme Court has tossed out a lower court
ruling that nullified the death sentence for former Black Panther Mumia
Abu-Jamal. He has been an outspoken activist from behind bars, claiming there
were procedural errors during his capital sentencing, and that too few blacks
were on the jury....
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Send a message to President Obama, former Presidents Clinton and Bush:
"The People of Haiti need food, water, and medical aid, not military
occupation"...
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In response to the devastating eqrthquake in Haiti, IFCO Pastors for Peace is supporting these organizations, which are delivering humanitarian aid quickly: Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, Lakou New York and Movement for Dominican Haitian Women....
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In the wake of the tragic events in Haiti,the organizers of the Martin Luther King Birthday Bail Out the People Not the Banks Protest on Wall St., scheduled for Friday, January 15, at Wall St. and Broad St. from 3:30 to 6:00 p.m., have decided to make Friday's protest a solidarity event with the Haitian people....
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Egyptian security police have launched a brutal, unprovoked assault on the
500-member third Viva Palestina humanitarian relief convoy to Gaza. Dozens of
convoy members have been injured and some are reported missing....
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On March 4, students and workers from all around the country will take action to defend education against increased privatization of K-12 schools and budget cuts, layoffs, furloughs and tuition increases at the college and university level—especially the public institutions....
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Last Dec. 27, the U.S.-funded Israel war machine unleashed a blizzard of U.S.-made weapons of mass destruction on the towns and refugee camps of Gaza, the most densely populated place on earth. 1,500 died, many of them women and children. Tens of thousands lost their arms, legs, eyes, were paralyzed, orphaned or made homeless....
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The following lesbian/gay/bi and trans activists as well as progressives in the United States working in solidarity with the Honduran people and against the U.S.-backed
illegal military coup strongly condemn the assassination of Walter
Tróchez, a 25-year-old member of the lesbian/gay/bi/trans community in Honduras and an active participant in the National Resistance Front....
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...the Open Letter supports the growing international campaign for Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, by calling on trade unionists in
the United States to Divest from State of Israel Bonds, support workers'
refusal to handle Israeli cargo, break ties with the racist Histadrut, and
oppose U.S. military and economic aid for Israel....
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Support arrived quickly for long-time Baltimore community activists Sharon
Black-Ceci and Steven Ceci, who were arrested and dragged from their home by
cops on Dec. 9. As of Dec. 14 more than 1,000 people had sent in messages or
signed a petition demanding their release from all charges, an inquiry into
police surveillance of Baltimore progressives and that police stop all attacks
on movement activists....
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Many of us relearned something obvious over the past year: elections offer
only an opportunity to avoid tragedy, further exploitation and, at best,
stagnation with a bad outcome or with a good outcome, a better chance for
peace, the end of militarism, progress toward economic and social justice and a
world of cooperation, not competition. Most often, our two-party national
elections offer a slight difference, if any, on critical issues....
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As Wall Street prepares to lavish its bankers and traders with billions in
year-end bonuses, the MTA is getting ready to worsen the economic crisis for
millions of New Yorkers....
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Black and Ceci, long-time leaders in the anti-racist, and poor
people’s rights struggle, had been under police surveillance for their
political activism....
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100s of billions are being spent on imperialist wars and occupations in
Afghanistan and Iraq, but as Martin Luther King pointed out, the bombs also
fall on poor communities in the U.S in the form of deepening poverty. This is
true across the country, but especially true in California - slammed by the
twin crises of skyrocketing unemployment and a resulting state budget crisis
that is prompting deep cuts in badly needed services. Students at UC campuses
are fighting to reverse a whopping 32% increase in tuition, home foreclosures
are still on the rise, and communities of homeless people are cropping up in
rural areas and in cities across the state. The media keeps calling it
recovery, but the jobs are just not coming back....
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On December 3rd, 2009, in New York City the Business Council for International
Understanding (BCIU) is presenting Vale CEO Roger Agnelli with its Global
Citizenship Award. Agnelli isn’t a ‘good citizen.’ Under his
watch Vale has waged an all out war on workers all over the world....
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A White House Summit on Jobs is scheduled for Dec. 3. But instead of a jobs program, the president is sending tens of thousands of troops to war in Afghanistan at a cost of 50 billion more dollars on top of the fortune already wasted on war. Join us on Dec. 3 in a protest in front of the White House during the Jobs Summit to demand a real jobs program that can put the 30 million workers who are either unemployed or underemployed to work at jobs that pay a living wage....
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Lynne Stewart has just been notified by Judge Koeltl to surrender tomorrow, to begin serving her sentence....
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Shannon’s actions prove him unfit to serve as US
ambassador to Brazil. How can Shannon effectively serve as US ambassador when
Brazil has been among the strongest voices demanding that the Age of Coups in
the Americas is over and that the Honduran coup cannot be allowed to
stand?...
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Among the topics Goldstein will address: high-tech globalization; the world-wide wage competition; the “jobless recovery”; the nature of the economic crisis; why capitalism cannot revive; the Republic Window and Doors plant occupation; strategies for a fight back; the socialist perspective...
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The International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal (ICFFMAJ) coalition convened an urgent meeting here on Oct. 17. Mumia supporters from Philadelphia, New York and Washington, D.C., were in attendance. It was a fightback strategy meeting of critical importance. Mumia, who has been on death row for over 27 years, is now, more than ever, faced with having his life snuffed out by the political powers that be....
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Tomorrow morning, Brynwood Partners, the Union busting company that brought
Stella D’Oro, is sending trucks to the plant in the Bronx to remove
machinery. The workers are asking supporters to join them in an emergency
protest against the removal of the machinery....
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The tragic death of Mr. Roy George, Vice-president of Pricol Ltd., Coimbatore on 22 September 2009 occurred, as you are aware, against a background of deeply disturbing actions of management of Pricol Ltd Coimbatore. Not only has the company continually and openly flouted labour laws, Supreme Court directions, Chennai High Court directions, orders of the Government of Tamil Nadu, issued on 29th June 2009 that the demands of the workers are met, and the directions of the Labour Department of Government of Tamil Nadu, but it has continued to victimise and harass the workers. It has also pressurised and blackmailed them to try to force them to leave their union, the AICCTU. The workers however have refused to leave their union and have continued to struggle through a variety of peaceful and democratic means....
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ouncil Member Tony Avella will hold a press conference with Stella D’Oro workers, Ms. Joyce Alston, President of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM) Local 50, and many other union leaders and representatives to urge the mayor to personally intervene to prevent the proposed closure of the 77 year old Stella D’Oro bakery in the Bronx,......
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t this moment the Embassy of Brazil in Tegucigalpa where President Manuel Zelaya has been staying since he returned to his country on September 21, together with his family and close to 100 supporters, is being blockaded and attacked with chemical and electronic noise-producing weapons by the Honduran military. Poisonous chemicals and gases are being thrown from helicopters. The entrance is guarded by heavily armed troops who do not allow the delivery of food or other necessities. Water and electricity have been cut off several times in an effort to starve and hurt those inside....
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Over a thousand people gathered in Arsenal Park in Pittsburgh to resist the G-20 countries meeting in the David L. Lawrence Convention Center downtown. Young activists representing struggles against racism, gentrification, imperialist wars, gender oppression and environmental destruction gathered together in an effort coordinated by the Pittsburgh G-20 Resistance Project. ...
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The International Action Center is proud to join with the following organizations that are in the forefront of community organizations of struggle and resistance in NY/NJ area and are endorsing and supporting the Justice & Unity Campaign at WBAI radio in the Local Station Board elections. Justice & Unity will UNDO THE COUP supported by the current WBAI board majority and will help save WBAI and protect community voices on the air...
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Sean O'Sullivan, senior at University of Pittsburgh, who was not taking part in the protests earlier in the day, stated "It was the police who started the violence and ended up finishing the violence. It felt like a war zone...the police kept becoming more and more violent, taking over more and more of the street....
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More than 1,000 protesters marched through the streets here on Sept. 20 demanding a real jobs program, like the public works program the Roosevelt administration enacted during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
It was the first demonstration related to the G-20 summit, a gathering of Treasury officials and central bankers from 20 countries that is to take place in the city later in the week. The goal of the G-20 is to protect bank profits. ...
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resident Manuel Zelaya, who was
deposed on June 28 by a right-wing pro-U.S. coup, has returned home to
his beloved country. Reports indicate that he is secure at the
Brazilian embassy. His return is a victory for the people of Honduras
and is a direct result of their non-stop and daily struggle for over 80
days....
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President Manuel Zelaya, who was deposed on June 28 by a
right-wing pro-U.S. coup, has returned home to his beloved country. Reports
indicate that he is secure at the Brazilian embassy. His return is a victory
for the people of Honduras and is a direct result of their non-stop and daily
struggle for over 80 days....
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As we write, caravans are already on the road to Pittsburgh, some
from as far away as California and Florida. Over the next few days, community
organizers, activists, students, veterans, unemployed people and trade
unionists will be arriving in Pittsburgh for the March for Jobs and Tent City.
As the G20 assembles to discuss the global financial crisis, this broad
coalition of people across the U.S. is building for this major protest to
ensure that the voiceless are heard. This will be a week-long effort, starting
on on Sunday, September 20 with a March for Jobs, and continuing with the Tent
City which will last through Friday....
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Students face a devastating new reality. Along with the usual back-to-school
jitters, students across the country must cope with massive budget cuts, higher
tuition rates and decreased financial aid. Those students who manage to scrape
together the extra funds necessary to graduate face a terribly bleak job market
when they leave their campuses....
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Over the next few days, community organizers, activists, students, veterans,
unemployed people and trade unionists will be arriving in Pittsburgh for the
March for Jobs and Tent City.? As the G20 assembles to discuss the global
financial crisis, this broad coalition of people across the U.S. is building
for this major protest to ensure that the voiceless are heard. This will be a
week-long effort, starting on on Sunday, September 20 with a March for Jobs,
and continuing with the Tent City which will last through Friday....
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The International Action Center is excited to announce that it is organizing
a delegation to this important conference in Honduras. This conference will be
a striking blow against the illegitimate government of Roberto Micheletti as it
will show worldwide solidarity with the people of Honduras who continue to
demand the return of President Manuel Zelaya and a peoples Constitutional
Assembly despite wide repression....
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Biden’s threat came during a full corporate media offensive against Iran.
Its timing - and the new threats - should serve as an alert to the entire
progressive and anti-war movement. U.S. aircraft carriers, destroyers, nuclear
submarines, jet aircraft and drones clog the seas that wash up on Iranian
shores. In light of the events of this summer, and the ongoing propoganda war
against Iran, it is important to remember that John Bolton told the Telegraph
of London in 2007 that a US military attack on Iran would "be a 'last
option' after economic sanctions and attempts to foment a popular
revolution had failed."...
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As the G-20 summit prepares to descend upon Pittsburgh, the city has been
thrust into the spotlight and is being highlighted for its "commitment to
employing new and green technology to further economic recovery and
development". It has been and is being denoted as the city that got it right,
where pollution has been eroded, the rivers cleaned and the jobs in industry
have thoroughly been replaced....
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Although providing transportation for especially unemployed workers across the country is an expensive venture, we must make it happen. Why? A delegation of participants who traveled great lengths and made stops along the way to highlight California's growing jobless and homeless plight is decisive. California's economy and its worsening trend has become a crystal ball showing the bleak future for working people in the entire nation and an example of how politicians refuse to address the needs of working and poor people and instead cater to the needs of the super rich monopoly banks and corporations. Buses and caravans to Pittsburgh would say in a loud clear voice:...
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"Fight or Starve" read the headlines of a leaflet being distributed by the Unemployed Council members in 1933. Flash forwards 76 years and it?s Labor Day 2009. A year ago the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off a worldwide melt down of the banking system and the biggest world economic crisis since the 1930s. One year later, after more than 13 trillion dollars of help from the government, they say Wall Street is okay. As finance ministers prepare for the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh this month, the spin is that the recovery is here or near and that U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke saved the country and the planet from a second great depression....
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ow that the documents recording the systematic torture of thousands of prisoners in secret U.S. prisons has been released to the world media in U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s report, the secret documents on the imprisonment and torture of Dr Aafia Siddiqui must also be released to the courts and to the world....
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United Steel Workers Union and United Electrical Workers have endorsed and are mobilizing....
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Both the United Steel Workers and the United Electrical workers unions have endorsed the March for Jobs in Pittsburgh, September 20....
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It's a group of Treasury officials and central bankers from 20 countries, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Its goal is to protect bank profits, whatever it costs the people of the world....
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We are excited about our upcoming Katrina Anniversary Program! We
hope you will join us and our allies for this program to honor our
volunteers, reflect on on our positive change and progress, and
share in fellowship with those that have made this possible....
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We demand:
Stop the killings & repression of the Honduran people;No to human rights violations in Honduras;
Support the non-violent resistance of the Honduran People and the National Front for Resistance Against the Coup d’état;
Immediate return of Constitutional law and restore Constitutional President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales;
No to an electoral process as product of the de facto regime;
No to the militarization of Honduras, or U.S. military bases in Honduras...
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Celebrate the release of On the Move – Sounds
Inspired by Mumia Abu Jamal and to celebrate the voices that have come together
to demand through words and song that Mumia Abu Jamal be set free!...
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Youth jobless stats "beyond scary; they're catastrophic," says NY Times Columnist Bob Herbert...
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December, 4, 5 and 6,/ Diciembre 4,5 y 6, 2009.
¡La lucha obrera no tiene fronteras! The workers’struggle has no borders!Uniting America's Working Class and Increasing its Influence...
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BEFORE THE G-20 SUMMIT, A CALL TO JOIN A NATIONAL MARCH FOR JOBS. The Unemployed, the Homeless, the Hungry & the Poor must no longer be INVISIBLE & SILENT.
IN PITTSBURGH SUNDAY, SEPT. 20. 2009. Tent City on the Hill - Sept. 20-25. Revive Dr. King's dream of a movement for a right to a job. If you don't have a job, fight to get one - if you have one -- fight to keep it....
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The International Action Center is calling on the anti-war and progressive movement to participate in National Days of Solidarity with the people resisting the coup d'etat in Honduras on the two month anniversary of
the coup ...
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This panel of speakers, the majority of whom are Iranian born, will present information and views based on research and sober analysis. Questions and answers follow the presentations....
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Whereas, there is no recovery in sight from the current economic crisis.
Although government measures have enabled Wall Street to pocket hundreds of
billions of taxpayer dollars, still unemployment, foreclosures and poverty
continue to soar...
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We have just learned that Israeli security forces have refused entry to
three U.S. activists attempting to visit the Palestinian Territories. One of
them, Karen Sullivan, is being sent home on a flight tonight, and two others,
Sarah Martin and Katrina Plotz have refused to leave, and are being taken into
custody. They are being treated as criminals, while their only goal was to
learn about the reality of life for the Palestinian people. All three should be
allowed to enter the country, as millions of tourists do every year....
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Participants will include:...
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The arrest of Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by a Cambridge police officer after
showing two forms of identification after he, along with a Black limo driver,
had unjammed the lock to the front door of Gates' own house in a
predominantly white, upscale neighborhood known as "Harvard Square"
has brought the struggle against racism to the front pages of newspapers
throughout the US and around the world....
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The ongoing crisis in Iran following the recent presidential elections
has been a source of much misunderstanding and confusion in antiwar and
progressive organizations, particularly in the United States. In the face of ongoing threats of military action against Iran, especially recent remarks by Vice President Joe Biden that gave a green light for an Israeli attack and this week's visit by U.S. Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates to Israel, the antiwar movement must be clear in its opposition to any attack, or to the propaganda used to justify such an attack....
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I demand that the Barack Obama administration and the U.S.
Congress unequivocally condemn the unconstitutional and anti-democratic
military coup in Honduras and insist that the military regime and the newly
appointed but illegitimate president of Honduras restore President Zelaya to
office, free all the imprisoned popular leaders and remove the curfew. I
further demand that the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras be recalled immediately
until such time as President Zelaya is restored to office....
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For the better part of the last 75 years, revolutionary
peoples’ artist Irving Fierstein used his immense talent to depict the
many struggles of working and oppressed people for social and economic justice
and against imperialism. In the early 1980s Fierstein created a unique genre of
art—striking full-color revolutionary banners thoughtfully composed and
painstakingly painted by hand....
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Come out to hear the latest developments in Honduras following the
right-wing coup against President Manuel Zelaya on June 28th and demonstrate
your solidarity with the Honduran people, as they continue to demand their
president back....
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As we write, the Viva Palestina Convoy is being denied passage into Gaza by the Egyptian Government....
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As we write, the Viva Palestina Convoy is being denied passage into Gaza by the
Egyptian Government....
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In September the eyes of the world will be on Pittsburgh, where the G20 countries will meet to consider what to do about the biggest global economic crisis since the 1930s. The heads of governments, finance ministers and central bankers that will be in Pittsburgh for the summit hear the concerns of bankers and corporate executives all the time. They need to listen to the voices of the millions of people who have lost their jobs and their homes because of the crisis. The Bail out the People Movement, a coalition of community, labor, religious, and grassroots activists, wants to help dramatize the crisis of joblessness, and the need for action both in the U.S. and worldwide to the G20 summit. It is now clear that the stimulus legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in March has done little to stop the loss of jobs. There is no recovery for the unemployed, the underemployed and the poor; and things are only getting worse. This is why we're asking you to help make the idea of a Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed from September 19 through September 26, the week of the G20 Summit, a reality....
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Please consider making an emergency donation.Stop War on Iran was founded in early 2005 as an international
campaign to oppose a U.S. military attack on Iran and other acts of war,
including sanctions and covert destabilization....
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Approximately 40 immigrant artists (artists who were displaced from their
homelands) will participate in 4 exhibits throughout the metropolitan New York
area, the first two openings taking place in July, 2009. The artists come from
a variety of continents and countries including Ivory Coast, Taiwan to
Guatemala and Chile....
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The next day, July 4th,
hundreds of people from across the United States will depart New York to
Egypt, where they will load trucks with millions of dollars worth of medical
supplies and drive it to the besieged people of Gaza. Weapons made in USA have
brought death and destruction to the people of Palestine. We will be coming to
Gaza with medical aid that saves lives instead....
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Manuel Zelaya is backed by a majority of labor unions and social movements in
Honduras. This coup was carried out in a way that mirrors the removal of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti and the attempted coup against
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, who was brought back to power by the
Venezuelan people....
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One the eve of America's Independence Day celebration, American Muslims
(with the support of concerned members of non-Muslim communities) will
spearhead a three-part initiative to draw attention to, and to educate the
public on, the enormous gulf that still exist between promise and fulfillment,
and how this socio-political deficiency within the American body-politic has
impacted the Muslim community (globally) post 9/11....
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Last night, Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the
Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights
workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former
U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The passengers and crew are being forcibly
dragged toward Israel....
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Last night, Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the
Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights
workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former
U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The passengers and crew are being forcibly
dragged toward Israel....
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[23 miles off the coast of Gaza, 15:30pm] - Today Israeli Occupation Forces
attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY,
abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate
Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a
complete list of passengers). The passengers and crew are being forcibly
dragged toward Israel....
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Councilmember Barron Calls on President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton to Call off Israeli Warships which are threatening the life of Fmr Rep Cynthia McKinney and those aboard the Spirit of Humanity...
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Manuel Zelaya is backed by a majority of labor unions and social movements in Honduras. This coup was carried out in a way that mirrors the removal of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti and the attempted coup against President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, who was brought back to power by the Venezuelan people...
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I demand that the Barack Obama administration and the U.S. Congress unequivocally condemn the unconstitutional and anti-democratic military coup in Honduras and insist that the military regime and the newly appointed but illegitimate president of Honduras restore President Zelaya to office, free all the imprisoned popular leaders and remove the curfew. I further demand that the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras be recalled immediately until such time as President Zelaya is restored to office....
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June 26, 2009, is the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a particularly significant day for those of us concerned about the continued use of this criminal act worldwide. Most recently, a US citizen of Filipino descent has fallen victim to this cruel and degrading act in the Philippines....
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In 2004, the NAACP voted unanimously (with one "nay" vote) to "reiterate its support of the international movement for a new and fair trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal." Yet the organization has done nothing since that time to ensure justice for Mumia....
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We'll be closing down the petition around June 26 so that data can be compiled for delivery to the U.S. Parole Commission. So don't wait. Do it now. Not sure if you've signed? Sign again. Any duplicates will be deleted before the signatures are submitted to the Parole Commission....
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What a week coming up! The "G192" (UN Conference on the Financial and
Economic Crisis and its Impacts on Development), previously scheduled for June
1-4, is happening June 24-26: this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday....
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Wells Fargo, a recipient of $25 billion in
bailout funds, has cut off financing to Quad City Die Casting, throwing over
100 out of work. This is a devestating loss to the workers, but the effect
ripples out. It's a loss of over $6.4 million a year in lost wages and tax
revenue to our community....
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The third G20 summit is going
to be in Pittsburgh, Pa., on September 24 and 25, 2009. The challenge
before the movements for economic and social justice, as well as the
antiwar movement, is that the next meeting of the powers that govern
the world economy be met with a powerful mass mobilization demanding
that jobs and social needs, and not war and greed, prevail--here in the
U.S., and across the world. ...
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On June 26, 2009, Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color and allies
will take to the streets of NYC once again and demand justice to let the world
know, that on the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, the rebellion is not over and
we will continue fighting for justice, raising our voices until we are
heard....
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The third G20 summit is going to be in Pittsburgh , Pa. on September 24 and 25,
2009. The challenge before the movements for economic and social justice, as
well as the antiwar movement, is that the next meeting of the powers that
govern the world economy be met with a powerful mass mobilization demanding
that jobs and social needs, not war and greed, prevail--here in the U.S. and
across the world....
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For decades, New Yorkers have relied on WBAI 99.5 FM, in the Pacifica Radio
Network, for radio broadcasting that provides real news and perspectives not
filtered by corporate media. Now, the station is under attack....
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An interview with Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke aired June 7 on the CBS
television program “60 Minutes.” The Fed head talked about the
multi-trillion-dollar bailout of the U.S. economy that has propped up financial
institutions, banks, and corporations such as insurance giant AIG. Bernanke
glibly stated he was prepared to double the amount if necessary in order to
stave off a collapse of the system....
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The third G20 summit is going to be in Pittsburgh, Pa., on September 24 and 25,
2009. The challenge before the movements for economic and social justice, as
well as the antiwar movement, is that the next meeting of the powers that
govern the world economy be met with a powerful mass mobilization demanding
that jobs and social needs, and not war and greed, prevail--here in the U.S.,
and across the world....
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Organizers of the People’s Summit and Tent City taking place June
14-17 in downtown Detroit have announced several demonstrations and other
events as part of its four-day agenda. The People’s Summit will counter
the National Summit, known until recently as the National Business Summit,
occurring June 15-17 at the GM Renaissance Center. A State of Emergency Fightback Rally will kick off the People’s Summit
on June 14. Organizers say they will do what the politicians have so far
refused to do–declare a state of economic emergency in Michigan and all
areas affected by high unemployment, plant closings, mass layoffs, and record
foreclosures and evictions. They will demand and begin instituting an immediate
moratorium on layoffs, budget cuts, evictions and foreclosures....
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"Moratorium on all foreclosures and evictions NOW!"...
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Byron Blake, United Nations ambassador for Jamaica and senior advisor to
President of UN General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto-Brockmann, will bring
greetings from UN President d’Escoto to the People's Economic
Summit's plenary session on May 31 in New York. Ambassador Blake is
scheduled to open the main plenary session at 1:pm....
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The imperialists, with the U.S. leading the pack, have been pressuring
countries to delay or even cancel the conference. This pressure extended to
rewriting and watering down the original draft, which was considered “too
leftist.” Rich countries were planning to send low-level officials, while
Latin American countries were planning to send their presidents and/or their
foreign ministers....
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Although pressure and hostility on the part of some G20 governments has
resulted in the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and
its Impact on Development being postponed from June 1 to 3 until June 24 to 26,
the People's Economic Summit this Sunday, May 31 will go on as scheduled....
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Based on the global capitalist economic crisis which is wreaking havoc on the
lives of hundreds of millions of people world wide, United Nations General
Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto-Brockman is organizing an urgent
Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on
Development, to take place on June 1-3 at the United Nations in New York City....
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Troy Davis is an African American on death row in Georgia. Davis was
convicted in the 1989 killing of a police officer despite what Amnesty
International calls "overwhelming doubts about his guilt....
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Organizers of the People's Summit, including a tent city, in downtown
Detroit June 14-17 report momentum is building for the event. It's billed
as "four days of active resistance" to counter the National Business Summit held June 15-17 at the GM Renaissance Center....
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On May 19, from Alaska to West Virginia and from Argentina to Uganda, high
school and college students, faith-based groups and progressive community
organizations are organizing vigils, rallies and petition drives as well as the
vital means of communication to bring worldwide pressure on Georgia Gov. Sonny
Perdue and the Pardons and Parole Board to stop the execution of Troy Anthony
Davis....
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Organizing for the June 14-17 People's Summit and Tent City in Detroit
is building fast. A planning meeting April 25 was attended by representatives
from a broad base of progressive organizations. They included the Autoworkers
Caravan, which has been in the forefront of challenging the massive attacks on
auto workers' wages and benefits; the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop
Foreclosures and Evictions; disabled activists from Warriors on Wheels; Call
'Em Out; the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization; the Detroit Coalition
Against Police Brutality; and the National Lawyers Guild. Two UAW members from
Toledo, Ohio, also attended....
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One of the meetings is the June 1 - 3 UN General Assembly's International
Conference on the Global Economic and Financial Crisis. On Sunday, May 31, the
day before the UN meeting, the People's Economic Summit will take place
directly across the street from the UN building, under tents in Dag
HammarskjÖld Plaza....Because of the unique nature of the June UN conference, The Bail Out the People Movement decided to call a People's Economic Summit in conjunction with it. The goal of the one-day People's Economic Summit is to bring together activists, organizers and leaders from the various movements and struggles around the region, the country, and some from around the world....
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Reports from Berkeley, CA where the Pacifica National
Board met this weekend are that the Interim Executive
Director, Grace Aaron has sanctioned the decision taken by the WBAI Local Station Board last Monday at its hastily called "executive session" to fire General Manager Tony Riddle and Program Director Bernard White....
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May 1 is May Day -- International Workers' Day. It began in the United States a long time ago during the struggle for the eight-hour work day, but that history is not well known here, and for good reason. The scions of
capitalism who feed us their ideology don't want workers and oppressed people to know their own history of struggle....
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ATTENTION ACTIVISTS AND ORGANIZERS! The Bail Out the People Movement is announcing three important projects: The third G20 summit is going to be in NYC on or around September 20, 2009. The
G20 summits are taking place in response to the greatest worldwide economic
crisis since the 1930s. However, the purpose of these high-level meetings of
governments and bankers is not to rescue the people of the world from
depression level unemployment, evictions, homelessness, poverty, social and economic inequality and war. These summits are about fixing the economic and
financial order that puts profits before people-and fixing that system by creating more poverty, misery and suffering....
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Former congressman Tom Tancredo, a national symbol of hate, racism, sexism,
bigotry and the scapegoating of immigrants, was invited to speak at UNC Chapel Hill on April 14 by Youth for Western Civilization, a newly-formed white supremacist organization on campus....
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While May Day has historically been a day of workers solidarity and a
celebration of labor power, this is not a day or year like any other....
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Clearly, the fight to bail out the people will not end in April. We must
continue to build a movement that will guarantee jobs,homes, health care, an
end to repression and war, and everything the people need during this growing
economic crisis....Since 2006, workers have come out to commemorate May 1st, International Workers
Day. Despite the raids and deportations, immigrant workers, the sector whose
struggle bore May Day in Chicago two centuries ago, have revived May Day, a day
celebrated by billions around the world every year. In 2005, workers and
activists reclaimed May Day once again and held several May Day demonstrations
in New York City and elsewhere....
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On April 6, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Mumia
Abu-Jamal's appeal for a new guilt-phase trial. The
Supreme Court has not yet decided whether to consider the Philadelphia DA's separate appeal, which is attempting to execute Abu-Jamal WITHOUT a new sentencing hearing. In
response to yesterday's rejection, Abu-Jamal's lead
attorney, Robert R. Bryan, will be filing a "petition for re-hearing" in the U.S. Supreme Court....
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In an early sign of what promises to be a growing movement, 1,000 people defied
a torrential downpour to rally on Wall Street on Friday, April 3 in response to
a national call from the Bail Out the People Movement. The central demands of the demonstration were: 1) a real jobs program; and 2) an immediate moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. Participants included unions,
community groups, youth and students from Detroit, Boston, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Buffalo and dozens of organizing centers throughout the
country....
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At the Bank of America Plaza spirited demonstrators echoed chants off the towering Bank of America corporate
building calling for an end to bank bailouts and foreclosures and evictions. A
picket line of dozens of protesters rallied around a large tent set up to dramatize the epidemic of "Hoovervilles" or tent cities in California due to the housing and job crisis. ...
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Enter area at Pine and Broadway go East one SHORT block to Nassau This is just a block from the Friday Rally site. We will join United for Peace and Justice as they come by at Pine and Broadway, about 1:00pm. One block further at
Wall and Broadway the whole march will turn Left down Wall Street, turn Right at Broad Street and the NY Stock Exchange, then turn Right on
Exchange and go back to Broadway. From there the march will proceed South to Battery Park....
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As we write (3:00 pm Friday), thousands of activists, students, youth, trade unionists, and community organizers are marching through the streets of the Wall Street financial district demanding "Bail Out the People - Not the Banks!" Police have arrested 4 protesters so far, and they are being held at the 1st
Precinct....
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Activists from more than 50 organizing centers across the U.S. will march on
Wall Street this weekend - starting Friday at 1 pm - to demand a real bailout
for working people, including an immediate moratorium on foreclosures and
evictions and a real jobs program....
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It has been brought to my attention that you have issued an order today to
change the locks on the WBAI transmitter room in the Empire State Building
tomorrow. I have several questions that deserve honest answers:...
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BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE now has VERY exciting Friday and Saturday plans. We have just confirmed BOTH Friday and Saturday Rally Permits for Wall Street....
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Rally Friday, April 3:
Gather at 1:00 pm on Wall Street at Broadway. Rally on Broadway from Wall Street south to Exchange and block further South on
Broadway to the 'Bull'. There will be contingents of youth, women, worker and
immigrant rights, and more. ...
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On Friday morning, just a few hours before the Wall St. rally, the bureau of
labor statistics is going to announce that another two-thirds of a million
workers got laid off in March....
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With just one week to go before the April 3 March on Wall Street, we need your help to reach out across the metropolitan area....
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On Friday, April 3, the Bail Out the People Movement, a growing coalition of
hundreds of organizations and thousands of activists, will march on Wall Street
and AIG. Protesters on April 3 will bring demands for a real jobs program, a
moratorium on foreclosures, and other necessary programs for bailing out the
people, not banks and Wall Street financial institutions....
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On Friday, April 3, the Bail Out the People Movement, a growing coalition of
hundreds of organizations and thousands of activists, will march on Wall Street
and AIG. Protesters on April 3 will bring demands for a real jobs program, a
moratorium on foreclosures, and other necessary programs for bailing out the
people, not banks and Wall Street financial institutions....
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This year, on April 3 and April 4, we honor the legacy of Dr. King with our
urgent call for a new direction by marching on the financial capital of the
country, Wall Street....
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No event is so tragic that U.S. financiers and brokers won't look for
a way to make money from it. It's a relief when someone exposes them for
the vultures they are....
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The May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights held a news conference
on March 17 at Union Square to announce the upcoming May Day rally in New York
City, which has been held there each year since 2005....
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It is becoming clear that the stimulus packages and bail out proposals coming from Wall Street and Washington won't even make a dent in the growing number of layoffs and foreclosures. Working people must organize independently to demand a bail out for the people, not the banks. It's time to march on Wall Street!
The stock markets are crashing, the world economy is headed into a depression, and the U.S. government and its top bankers are giving trillions of dollars to bailout the richest 1 percent of the people while doing nothing to rescue ordinary working and poor people....
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Members of immigrant groups, unions, laborers, students, human rights
activists, and workers in general who are part of the May 1st Coalition Worker
and Immigrant Rights will announce the next steps on the path to achieve the
same success of past demonstrations of immigrants in the city of New York and
other American cities....
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Let us remind the world that part of Dr. King's dream was that everyone
should have the right to a job or an income. Rekindling that dream could not be
more crucial today when the worse economic crisis since the 1930s is throwing
20,000 workers out of a job each day....
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The foreclosed homes auction today [March 8, 2009] at the Jacob Javits Convention Center is an
insult to the millions who have lost their homes and jobs in what is know the
biggest economic crises since the depression of the 1930s....
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The People's Summit will occur simultaneously with the National
Business Summit, sponsored by the Detroit Economic Club, taking place at Ford
Field in downtown Detroit....
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In just over 48 hours, more than 30,000 messages have been
sent to NYC Mayor Bloomberg, the NYC City Council, the
Jacob Javits Center, and the Real Estate Disposition
Corporation (REDC)demanding the cancellation of a
foreclosure auction planned for this Sunday....
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Please join us on Sunday morning at 10:00 am sharp at a demonstration against the biggest auction of foreclosed homes ever in New York
City....
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Tell President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Clinton,
U.N. Secretary-General Ban, Caribbean Economic Community Chair Barrow, Homeland
Security Secretary Napolitano, ICE director John P. Torres, Congress and
members of the media: Stop the Deportation of 30,000 Haitians!...
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Ending Ceremony Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Memorial at 4 p.m. Site of 1911
fire that killed 146 women workers and girls.......
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It is becoming clear that the stimulus packages and bail out proposals coming from Wall Street and Washington won't even make a dent in the growing number of layoffs and foreclosures. Working people must organize independently to demand a bail out for the people, not the banks.It's time to march on Wall Street!...
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The New York Post maligned President Barak Obama in an overtly racist cartoon
depicting two police officers, one is pointing a smoking gun at a large
chimpanzee, lying on the ground clearly shot dead.The caption reads "They'll have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill."...
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Activists from around New England will gather Feb. 28 at the union hall of
the Boston School Bus Drivers, United Steelworkers Local 8751, for a conference
on the economic crisis and how to fight back. The event is being hosted by USW
8751....
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The people voted overwhelmingly for an end to war and occupation. The world
demands that it end. Most importantly, the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, and
Palestine demand that it end....
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First, let us begin by saying thank you.
Thank you for demonstrating to and for African people and the world the courage
and conviction that must be had to be self-determining in the face of
insurmountable odds. Odds that would have crushed others with any less will to
be free....
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Chuck Turner is a progressive Black Activist (45 year history) and Boston City Councilor (9 years) who has been a consistent tireless fighter against war and racism and every form of injustice for over four decades. The letter below is addressed by Chuck Turner to those who love justice everywhere:...
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Today, February 6, is the 33rd anniversary of Leonard Peltier's
arrest.Time to set him free... Because it is the RIGHT thing to do....
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On July 9, 2007 City Council Speaker Christine Quinn
illegally fired Viola Plummer, who was then City Councilman Charles
Barron’s Chief of Staff. The firing was in retaliation for Mrs.
Plummer's and Mr. Barron's opposition to Speaker Quinn's
racist intervention in the City Council's naming of 4 blocks in Bedford-Stuyvesant after famed and respected Black Nationalist Sonny Abubadika Carson....
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In many ways, the U.S.-financed genocidal siege of Gaza that many
of us have been demonstrating against in recent weeks is a harbinger of the
widening war against the workers and oppressed peoples of the planet that is
sure to intensify this year. In 2009, more and more lives are going to be
devastated by the biggest global eIn many ways, the U.S.-financed genocidal siege of Gaza that many of us have been demonstrating against in recent weeks is a harbinger of the widening war against the workers and oppressed peoples of the planet that is
sure to intensify this year. In 2009, more and more lives are going to be devastated by the biggest global economic crisis since the depression of the 1930s.conomic crisis since the depression of the
1930s....
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I am so OUTRAGED! My brother Leonard was severely beaten upon his arrival at the Canaan Federal Penitentiary. When he went into population after his transfer, some inmates assaulted him. The severity of his injuries is that he suffered numerous blows to his head and body, receiving a large bump on his head, possibly a concussion, and numerous bruises. Also, one of his fingers is swollen and discolored and he has pain in his chest and ribcage. There was blood everywhere from his injuries....
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Today, more than 15,000 people rallied in Times Square to protest Israel's ongoing assault against the people of Palestine . The demonstration stretched from 42nd Street south to 38 Street, along 7th Ave , and was followed by a spirited march past the New York Times building to the Time Warner building on 58th Street where CNN's New York office is located. Eyewitnesses reported that the police used pepper spray in an unprovoked assault on the protesters including teenagers and children as young as ten years old. Others were pushed and struck by police....
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e must act now, before the massacres continue! Over 200 people were killed in Gaza on Saturday, December 27 in a series of Israeli attacks -
with US-made and paid for weaponry - upon the Palestinian people. These
cold-blooded killings come on top of a siege on Gaza that has killed hundreds by depriving them of medical care, deprived Gazans of electricity, power and
fuel and attempted to strangle the life of the Palestinian people in Gaza....
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New classes in camera and editing starting January 4, 2009, at the Solidarity Center, 55 W. 17th Street, 5th floor., New York City
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Students of the New School University, from the Radical Student Union and SDS, along with supporters from universities including NYU, Hunter College, City
College of NY, CUNY Graduate Center, Rutgers University and Borough of Manhattan Community College, are currently occupying the New School Graduate Faculty Building (65 5th Avenue in Manhattan - @14th Street)....
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Steve Millies, a long time activist, took the podium at the meeting and denounced the MTA as "a collection agency for the biggest banks and insurance companies," and said that the budget should be "thrown in
the garbage can."...
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On Tuesday, Governor Paterson is going to release his budget proposal. He will be proposing the most devastating across the board cuts in every social need vital to the well being of New Yorkers since the 1970's....
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Their workplace was suddenly shutdown when Bank of America withdrew a line of credit. No 60 days notice was given to these workers, as required by the WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification) Act. Their vacation pay was stolen, too....
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The Bail Out the People Movement invites you to come together on Jan. 17, 2009
to talk, share and plan to fight back. If there was ever a time for us to recommit ourselves to Dr. King's struggle for economic and social justice, there can hardly be any doubt that now, 80 years after his birth, is that time....
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During the week of December 8-13 Organize Protests in Front of Your Local Bank of America Office or Building....
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Dec. 6 will be a day of international solidarity to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. It
is sorely needed. Lynne Abraham, the Philadelphia district attorney known as
“the deadliest D.A. in the U.S.,” is calling on the U.S. Supreme
Court to reinstate Abu-Jamal's death sentence despite mounds of evidence
showing his innocence....
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Since 1970, Native Americans have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US thanksgiving holiday....
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Help us pressure the Egyptian Government to Open the Rafah Crossing so that Palestinians may access basic supplies to survive....
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To: President Bush, Senator McCain, Governor Palen, Attorney General Mukasey,
Governors of Key States, Congressional and Republican Party leaders and members
of the media...
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All who want to stop the Bush White House from starting another war should
immediately protest the unilateral, unjustifiable and criminal October 26 U.S.
assaults on Syrian and Pakistani sovereignty. Don’t let Bush get away
with expanded war crimes in the Middle East. Condemn his efforts to hand a wider war to the next administration....
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On Monday, October 27, Troy Davis, an African American on death row in Georgia, is scheduled to be legally lynched by the state of Georgia. Davis was
convicted in the 1989 killing of a police officer despite what Amnesty International calls "overwhelming doubts about his guilt."...
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The stock markets are crashing, the world economy is headed into a deep recession or even depression, and the U.S. government and its top bankers, along with their counterparts around the world, are giving what's going to amount to trillions of dollars to bailout the richest 1
percent of the people ...
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Click the link below to send a message directly to presiding Judge Larry Stephen, Mayor Bloomberg, Gov Paterson, Senators Clinton and Schumer, the New York State Legislature, and members of the media!...
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The Senate has just voted to pass a US$700-billion financial bailout for corrupt financial institutions, while ignoring the real needs of working people. In addition to an unprecedented giveaway to Wall Street, the bill also includes $100 billion dollars in tax breaks for corporations - but no relief for working people who are facing foreclosure and who need health care, jobs, and education....
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Anti-war activists need to address the latest phase of the war - the war against working people here!...
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Cuban leaders of the Confederation of Cuban Workers (CTC) will visit Tijuana, Mexico, a city 15 minutes from the San Diego, U.S./Mexico border. This conference will give people from North America (the United States, Canada and Mexico) the opportunity to hear first hand from the Cubans about Cuba’s workers and their unions. Also, you will hear from leaders of the Venezuelan union, UNT, about the present situation of the Venezuelan revolution and the issues facing Venezuelan workers, representatives of Mexico, United States, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Haiti, the Philippines and Nicaragua discussing the social and labor movements in the Americas....
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As many of you know, the Bush Administration, with the support of politicians from both parties in Congress, has repeatedly threatened Iran with military action, and many now believe that an attack may be imminent....
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The Bush Administration, with the support of politicians of both parties in Congress, has repeatedly threatened Iran with military action, and many now believe that an attack may be imminent.The Stop War on Iran campaign has issued an international call for actions on September 27....
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The International Action Center condemns the U.S. silencing of Mrs. Masood
"disappeared" of
Pakistan. The United States Department of Homeland Security has cowardly
revoked the travel visa for Amna Masood Janjua. She was prevented from
traveling to the US to meet with human rights organizations and members of
Congress by US agents who boarded the plane she was on, forcing her off. ...
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Foreclosures and evictions are devastating working families around the country. One in nine homeowners nationwide is either behind in their mortgage payments or their family homes are in foreclosure. Over 72,000 homeowners have lost their homes in the Detroit area alone. The vacant home rate in Detroit is 18 percent, second only to New Orleans.
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In early August the western powers and news media launched an anti-Russia campaign following events in Georgia and South Ossetia. With great concern, people around the world watched the recent military confrontation in Georgia, which had been a republic in the former Soviet Union. ...
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(Denver) Today, thousands of activists from across the country rallied at the State Capitol and marched through the streets of Denver to kick off a week of protests during the Democratic National Convention....
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Aug. 26 -- A series of rallies, marches, teach-ins and cultural events have
taken place in the first two days of people's resistance to the Democratic Party during its national convention in Denver....
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Denver police have used violence and mass arrests in an attempt to silence
dissent during the Democratic National Convention. However, organizers and activists have put the city and police on notice that their intimidation
tactics will not work....
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Recent news makes it clear why it is more important than ever that we take to the streets on August 2. According to press reports, President Bush has given the Israeli military the go-ahead to prepare for an imminent attack on Iran. Once again the most powerful forces of US corporate power - the military-industrial-petroleum complex -are using Israel as their proxy to threaten war on surrounding countries in the region. Israel is armed, financed, and politically and diplomatically supported by Washington....
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Please show your support for the Migrants Trade Union and the right of migrant workers in South Korea to form and join trade unions. Send a letter to the South Korean Supreme Court and government telling them to recognize
MTU!!...
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CSNY urges everyone to attend this year's annual July 26th 2008 Celebration in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution! This years event will take place on saturday, July 26th at the 1199/SEIU Building Martin Luther King Labor Center, 310 West 43rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues, Times Square Subway Stop) in Manhattan. ...
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Dear Friends of the Cuban Five: For more than ten years, Adriana and Gerardo have not been able to see each other. Olga and René have also been denied the right to family visits, since August 2000.
This is due to the cruel and unjustified refusal by the U.S. government to grant entry visas to the wives of two of the Cuban Five.
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This resolution, which has 220 co-sponsors from both major parties, demands that the President immediately impose
a land, sea, and air blockade on Iran to stop shipments of gasoline, and to subject all cargo entering or leaving Iran to stringent inspection
requirements....
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We are writing because of the new and immediate danger of a U.S. attack on Iran, either directly by the Pentagon or through Israel. ...
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On June 26, the Stop War on Iran Campaign issued a call for emergency actions on August 2 to stop the Bush Administration's drive towards an attack against Iran. In the few days since we’ve issued the call, responses have been pouring in. Already, we have heard back from activists and organizers who are planning protests, rallies, and pickets in more than 50 cities, including a major demonstration in New York City in Times Square and a demonstration in front of the White House in Washington. Actions will also be held in Los Angeles, several cities in Texas, locations throughout New England, small towns in Utah, and more. We are working on compiling a list of the growing number of local actions now, which we will have online soon....
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Allendistas and revolutionaries in New York are inviting everyone to celebrate the birth of President Salvador Allende, who was cruelly assassinated and defeated by a U.S. decree and by the armed Pinochet gang....
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Join with the International Action Center and U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange on a fact-finding mission to investigate human rights violations in Colombia and attend the Tribunal!...
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A delegation of Detroit activists traveled to Washington, D.C., on April 16 to participate in the national demonstration called by the Ad Hoc Network to Stop
Foreclosures and Evictions. The action took place outside the Mortgage Bankers
Association Annual Policy Summit held in a hotel just two blocks away from Capitol Hill....
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Three years ago, The Daily News ran a story about reservists returning from Iraq in 2004 from the same unit who were suffering from what euphemistically has been called "Gulf War Syndrome." It turned out that they all had been exposed to radioactive dust during their tour of duty in Iraq. The short term and long term effects of this exposure are slowly emerging into public consciousness....
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n June/July 2008 14 different routes of the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba will be on the road visiting more than 120 US and Canadian cities. We will travel in school buses, trucks, and cars to
Cuba via Mexico with medical and educational supplies collected from groups
across the US and Canada as a collective challenge to the inhuman and immoral US blockade and travel ban. Five of our buses will be named in honor of the Five Cuban patriots who are unjustly incarcerated in US jails. ...
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May 7, 2008 - Oppose Zionist
celebration of 60 years of Nakba 2. May 16, 2008 - Major Rally at the UN to
commemorate 60 years of Nakba...
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WORLD EVENTS have made May Day 2008 a turning point. AT NO OTHER TIME in our lives has it been more critical to march together and work together. WE NOW FACE AN ECONOMIC CRISIS the likes of which we have not seen in our lifetimes that is throwing millions out of their homes, jobs and making it more difficult to get healthcare, an education or even gas and food....
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Yesterday, on the morning of April 15th, Dr. Al-Arian was removed from the abusive prison of Howard County Detention Center in Maryland. Although immigration officials promised to prevent any further abuse, he was simply thrown from the pot into the frying pan....
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Rainbow Flags for Mumia is a coalition of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people and organizations that came together in 1999 to demand a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal. The following are excerpts from a call issued by RF4M
organizers Imani Henry and LeiLani Dowell to help raise awareness and solidarity with the Free Mumia rally in Philadelphia on April 19....
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The Ad Hoc National Network to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions brought people, many facing foreclosure, from as far away as Boston, Raleigh and Miami. Sharon Black, a Baltimore organizer who chaired the rally, pointed out that the billionaire bankers were in D.C. to lobby for more tax breaks and concessions
from Congress....
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I urge you to join me and many others at 3:00 pm on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 in a
national protest at the Mortgage Bankers Association Conference in Washington
D.C. at the Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue, N.W....
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On Nov. 30, 2007 African-American police brutality and anti-war
activist Larry Hales was arrested after 10 cops illegally busted into
his home without a warrant and without permission, physically attacked him and handcuffed his partner to a chair. He is facing frame-up charges
of "interfering with the police" and faces extended jail time for being the victim of a police attack.
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There is considerable documentation of the extremely
"irregular" decision making by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. See the...minority position in the Third Circuit ruling. We must expose the conspiracy to convict
Mumia, to deny him a new trial, and to have him either executed or imprisoned
for life. We will not accept their decision. Into
the streets for our brother, Mumia, and for ourselves!!!...
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In response to an online petition campaign over 50,000 email messages have been sent to the members of the House and Senate Banking and Finance Committees demanding a
moratorium on bank foreclosures and evictions. The number is continuing to
grow!...
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The following statement was issued on March 29 by Pam Africa,
coordinator of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia
Abu-Jamal, on the March 28, 2008 court ruling by the three-judge panel of the Third
Circuit of Appeals....
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Ed Lewinson is 78 years old and blind. On Wednesday he leaves for Federal prison in Elkton Ohio to serve a 90 day prison sentence based on his arrest protesting the School of the Americas (U.S. School of Torture) at Ft Benning GA....
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When the Mortgage Bankers Association meets in Washington, D.C., on April
16-17 at the swanky Washington Court Hotel, their gathering will draw
protesters. The MBA is a national lobbying group that represents the interests
of the banks, including lending firms that are directly responsible for the
evictions of tens of thousands of people, including both buyers and renters, from their foreclosed homes....
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The Coalition to Save Harlem Announces an Online Petition Against the 125th Street Rezoning Plan....
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Attention antiwar activists--dust off your protest signs and bring them to a national demonstration against home foreclosures and evictions in Washington DC, on Wednesday, April 16. Join the Ad Hoc National Network Against Home Foreclosures and Evictions in front of the Mortgage Bankers Association Annual Conference, the biggest assembly of mortgage bankers in the country, to demand a moratorium on home foreclosures and evictions. Almost everyone hates the war in Iraq, but until now many have seemed resigned to leaving it up to politicians to end it. That's because most people have felt that the war didn't affect them personally. That mindset is coming to an end. ...
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THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS HAS RULED AGAINST A NEW TRIAL FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL. THEY HAVE CALLED FOR A SENTENCING HEARING WHICH CAN RESULT IN EITHER AN EXECUTION OR LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE.DAY AFTER PLANS ARE IN EFFECT
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We hope that you can join us to welcome and hear Edgar Paez, from the National Board of SINALTRAINAL, the Colombian union of the food industry workers. He will be April 1-2, 2008, in Philadelphia as part of a tour through the U.S. to bring attention to the danger not only for Colombian orkers, but for workers in the U.S as well, of signing a Free Trade agreement with Colombia....
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On September 1, 2008, tens of thousands plan to take to the streets of St. Paul, Minnesota, to say no to the war and occupation in Iraq. The Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War, made up of more than 100 organizations from across the country, has been seeking permits for this demonstration since days after the Republicans announced they would hold their national convention in Minnesota. While we have a permit to assemble and rally at the State Capitol, the City of St. Paul continues to withhold a permit for a march on the Xcel Center, where the Convention will be held....
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THE MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION (MBA) -- the biggest national lobby of all the banks -- including the criminal predatory lenders, that are busy evicting your neighbors, relatives, friends
and maybe you from your home -- is holding it's annual policy conference in Washington D.C., on April 16 and 17. Their main goal is to make sure that bankers continue to get bailed out while families get tossed out! ...
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Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred yesterday morning, on the 9th day of his hunger strike, to a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina run by the Bureau of Prisons. Since beginning his no- water or food hunger strike on March 3, Dr. Al-Arian has lost 23 pounds and grown weaker. He has not yet been given an IV. A doctor who examined him on Monday said he is suffering from starvation and Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred yesterday morning, on the 9th day of his hunger strike, to a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina run by
the Bureau of Prisons. Since beginning his no- water or food hunger strike on
March 3, Dr. Al-Arian has lost 23 pounds and grown weaker. He has not yet been given an IV. A doctor who examined him on Monday said he is suffering from starvation and dehydration....
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Growing list of cities participating in actions on
or around Feb. 29, 2008, in solidarity with the Haitian people, on the 4th
anniversary of the Feb. 29, 2004 coup d'etat in Haiti....
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hareef Aleem, Larry Hales and African-American police
brutality and anti-war activist Larry Hales was arrested after 10 cops
illegally busted into his home without a warrant and without permission,physically attacked him and handcuffed his partner to a chair. He is facing
frame-up charges of interfering with the police" and faces extended jail time for being the victim of a police attack....
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The demonstration of over 500,000 people in Belgrade and the attack on the U.S.
Embassy show the depth of outrage and anger over the seizure of the Serbian
province of Kosovo. Two Kosovo border posts were destroyed, one by fire the other in an explosion, along with ten McDonald's outlets and several Western banks and other hated targets. The Western media had overwhelming applauded the U.S. destruction in 1999 and
it now has a responsibility to explain the reason for the mass anger of millions of people. The outrage is because the province of Kosovo is not
actually being granted "independence." Millions of people see recognition of Kosovo's "independence" as an effort to legitimize a direct U.S. colony and to permanently secure a giant U.S. military base in the region....
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On March 8, 1908, working women in the needle trade industry took to the streets of New York City demanding better working conditions, higher wages, shorter workdays and the overall improvement of women's lives in this country. These women marched through New York City demanding justice for women workers and immigrant workers; they were in fact working immigrant women. The message and militancy of these women were so inspiring to women around
the world that in 1910 the International Socialist Congress meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, officially declared March 8 International Women's Day....
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No one should be awakened by armed squads bursting into their homes in the dead of night with shotguns and automatic weapons drawn taking away parents and relatives leaving children alone....
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Speakers include: Ramsey Clark, Najam Ud Din, Ryan Hancock, Sara Flounders, and Omer Khwaja. Special screening of "Missing in Pakistan," a 24-minute independently produced documentary about the abduction and illegal detention of Pakistani citizens by Pakistani intelligence agencies....
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Workshops will coordinate with the activities of the International Action Center and Troops Out Now Coalition. Trainees will have a chance to gather footage from demonstrations, meetings and forums and will learn to edit that footage and stream it on YouTube and Facebook....
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The Iraqi sectarian Government established under the US occupation is about to agree with the occupying power to transfer all Iraqi prisoners
of war (POW) and detainees held in the Baghdad International Airport prison
from US authority to its authority. This information was confirmed by the
American airport prison authority who informed
the defense lawyers of Iraqi POW that beginning with 31 March 2008 it will relinquish the responsibility of their safety during their visits to the prison. This means that the handover is imminent, and a new carnage place, similar to that when president Saddam Hussein and his comrades were handed over to the same sectarian Government and its Militias. ...
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The U.S. backed Israeli blockade of Gaza must end!
Internationally coordinated demonstrations will be happening on Friday and
Saturday. International Action Center urges everyone to attend the demonstration nearest you, and to forward this call from Al-Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition) to as many people and as many lists as you can!...
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The Israeli state, with the complete backing of the imperialists of the U.S.
and the European Union, as well as their clients among the corrupt feudal monarchs in the region, has deprived the entire Palestinian population in Gaza of electricity, sanitation, potable water, heat, cooking gas, medicines and adequate food. And it is winter in Palestine. Nothing has been done to end this
crime against humanity, this collective punishment of the Palestinian people, despite many appeals to international agencies and organizations....
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In the past week, the Bush Administration has been caught red-handed manufacturing the highly publicized provocation" off the Iranian coast on Jan. 6 when five small Iranian open-air speedboats allegedly
challenged three massive U. S. guided-missile warships. The U.S. Navy has now admitted that it had spliced together the audio and video tape it
presented as evidence and that the threatening voice on the video warning "you may explode" may not have belonged to any Iranian sailors....
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Troops Out Now Coalition is part of and urges full support and a strong turn-out for The PEOPLE'S PEACE CONFERENCE 2008....
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This year, let's help put the meaning back into the Martin Luther King holiday on January 21st by marching against racism, oppression, war, poverty and division. In New York, the march will assemble at 1 PM for an opening rally at 32nd Street and 7th Avenue, near the offices of radio station WABC (which recently put Don Imus back on the air!). Then we will march to Columbus Circle and rally outside of CNN's offices (located inside the Time Warner building)....
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Fighters for reproductive justice for poor women are stepping up their campaign to overturn the Hyde Amendment, a reactionary law enacted by Congress in 1976 and signed by Democratic President Jimmy Carter in 1977. The Hyde
Amendment denies women on Medicaid the right to funding for abortions. It is named for its archreactionary sponsor, Henry Hyde, a former long-term Republican congressman from Illinois. ...
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The Coalition to Stop the Demolitions is calling for National Days of Action
on Jan. 25 and 26. The call is to rally activists around the country to show
solidarity with public-housing residents in New Orleans and to save four
public-housing developments from being demolished by private developers in
favor of more expensive luxurious developments....
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Victor Toro Ramerez fought the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Now he is fighting deportation from the U.S., and is linking his own struggle
to that of all undocumented workers....
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Monday, Jan 21, in New York City and across the nation: The International Action Center and the Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) youth group are initiating an important call to action around the U.S. for Jan. 21, 2008, the official Martin Luther King Jr. birthday holiday. The call motivates people for solidarity and unity in the struggle against racism and all forms of injustice at home and abroad. It also calls for a national march in New York City along with other mobilizations around the country on this day focusing support for the Black community and immigrant rights:...
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The Bush Administration has initiated an extremely dangerous war provocation just off Iran's coast, in the Strait of Hormuz. With Bush on his way to the Middle East to mobilize a collection of oil-rich U.S. client states against Iran, the U.S. government is working overtime to create a public-relations incident to heighten tensions in the region and threaten a new war. ...
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We must strive to promote international friendship, sharing and true respect for humankind and to oppose the
policies of domination, globalization, and war....
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Join Ramsey Clark, Howard Zinn, George Galloway, Dennis Halliday, Harold Pinter, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Tony Benn, Lynne Stewart, David Swanson and thousands more in an international campaign to Stop War on Iran.
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MARCH ON WASHINGTON D.C. & WORLDWIDE PROTEST SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2007 - 4th Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Iraq...
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