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On Dec. 9, 1981, Abu-Jamal was driving a taxi when he saw that police had stopped his brother. He got out of the car to make sure police were not
violating his brother's civil rights.In the altercation that followed, Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner was shot and killed. Witnesses saw a man flee the scene who did not look like Abu-Jamal. But when police arrived, they arrested Mumia Abu-Jamal, who had also been shot....
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Leonard Peltier will be 63 years old on September 12, 2007. It's an international day for demanding the immediate, unconditional freedom of this Native American artist, writer, and activist--one of the most widely recognized political prisoners in the world....
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What will happen to our Social Security benefits? This question is
being asked by the program’s 56 million recipients in response to the
Obama administration’s proposal to cut the annual cost-of-living raise
for all who receive these monthly checks, as part of his 2014 budget....
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One million Colombians marched in the capital city of Bogotá as well as
other cities and towns on April 9 to show their support of peace negotiations
between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Peoples
Army (FARC-EP). Talks which began in Oslo, Norway, in 2012 are now continuing
in Havana, Cuba....
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The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology is a
corporation that does military research for the Israeli government. They design
drones that kill Palestinian children and design tractors that bulldoze
Palestinian families....
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The International Action Center joins the Alliance for Global Justice, Witness for Peace-SW, National Lawyers Guild, Boston Bolivarians, National Network on Cuba, and all the organizations in the United States who are mobilizing to defend the Venezuelan election of President Nicolás Maduro and against U.S. interference in that country....
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Fascist-like elements backed by U.S. imperialism are
attempting a coup against constitutional rule in Venezuela. The Venezuelan
masses, other Latin Americans and progressives worldwide are standing up and
saying “no” to this coup, which follows the rightist defeat in that
country’s free and fair election April 14....
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Right-wing elements backed by U.S.
imperialism are attempting a coup against constitutional rule in Venezuela.
Seven people in Venezuela have already been killed. There is a witch hunt
against Cuban doctors who have made great sacrifice to provide health care
there. The Venezuelan masses, other Latin Americans and progressives worldwide
have stood up and said "no" to this coup, which follows the rightist
defeat in that country's free and fair election April 15....
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Right-wing elements backed by U.S. imperialism are attempting a coup against constitutional rule in Venezuela. Seven people in Venezuela have already been killed. There is a witch hunt against Cuban doctors who have made great sacrifice to provide health care there. The Venezuelan masses, other Latin Americans and progressives worldwide have stood up and said “no” to this coup, which follows the rightist defeat in that country’s free and fair election April 15....
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Much still remains unknown about the bomb explosions
yesterday at the finish line of the Boston Marathon and what was behind this
disaster that has tragically hit so many individuals and families who were on
the scene, the majority of them spectators....
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Learn about what's happening with Mumia now
and the reason to go to Philly on Wed., April 24th --and more...
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Join young people, poor people, community and workers’ rights activists; occupy veterans and the families of police killing victims from across the region and the country that will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the historic 1963 March for Freedom and Jobs led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by MARCHING 41 MILES FROM BALTIMORE, MD TO WASHINGTON, D.C., on Sat., May 11, 2013,
which is the 45th anniversary weekend of the Poor People’s March
Dr. King was to lead before he was assassinated....
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For a second month, tens of thousands of U.S. and south Korean troops are
carrying out simulated assaults on the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea — north Korea....
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When the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on same-sex marriage over two
days in late March, it signaled how far the fight for
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer rights and liberation has come. Mass
consciousness has changed. An ever-increasing majority of people in this
country now support same-sex marriage. Regardless of how the high court rules
in June, this trend will continue. One day soon the marriage battle will be
won....
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While the Obama administration continues to claim that it is providing only
“nonlethal” aid to the Syrian opposition, its role in fueling the
bloody war there is increasingly coming to light....
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A military coup on March 24 in the capital city of Bangui changed the
government of the Central African Republic. Michel Djotodia is the leader of
the Seleka Coalition, which seized power and established a new government
largely composed of political figures who had been in opposition to the former
regime....
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As the United States commemorates the 150th anniversary of the signing of
the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, a document
which officially ended slavery in those states and regions that rebelled
against the Union during the Civil War, one is also reminded of a not-so-noble
1863 event in New York City....
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The
International Action Center reprints below an official statement from the Korean
People’s Army on the dangerous situation created by U.S. military moves
close to the boundaries of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
— north Korea....
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By the time of his death, Martin Luther King had undergone
"a radical revolution of values." ...
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The International Action Center, including its chapters around the country,
condemn in the strongest terms the heinous, brutal assassination of Georges
Henri Honorat, a prominent editor of Haïti Progrès and secretary
general of Haiti’s Popular National Party, on March 23. The 55-year-old
Honorat was shot twice in a drive-by assault in front of his home in the Delmas
section of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. ...
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We will discuss the People’s Power Assembly Movement;
Worker Assemblies, Student & Youth Assemblies and the May 11th Baltimore to
Washington D.C. March to commemorate the 45th year since the 1968 Poor Peoples
Campaign and to ignite a new Poor People’s
Campaign....
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Chicago — The Rahm Emanuel administration and the Chicago Public
Schools, along with politically connected corporate interests, are making a
calculated move to turn the clock back for Black and Latino/a students to the
bad old days of Jim Crow apartheid “separate but equal”
schools....
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Achebe will be remembered for his literary contributions and his fierce
criticism of colonial and postcolonial African society. His books will remain a
mainstay of libraries and classrooms for many generations to come.
Nigeria today has still not overcome the legacy of imperialism. Despite its
vast oil wealth, there is profound inequality in the country....
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Ten years ago on March 20, Washington brought the long plague of invasion,
occupation and mass murder to the Iraqi people. The least the Iraqis deserve is
a moment of reflection....
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President Barack Obama’s four-day visit to Israel, the first since his
first election in 2008, began March 20. Worldwide media attention was focused
on what the powerful U.S. leader would tell its client regime and settler
state. Overall, reports indicated worse news for the beleaguered Palestinian
people and for sovereign Syria....
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Neither rain, snow nor sleet kept postal workers from protesting to demand
“Save six day mail.”...
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Thousands of teachers, parents and community members rallied on March 27 in
the Chicago downtown area to protest Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to close
54 public schools — in the predominately African-American and Latino/a
communities — to erase a $1 billion deficit. The rally began in
Chicago’s Daley Plaza and was followed by a march to City Hall that ended
at the Chicago Public Schools headquarters....
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Baltimore has become the capital of police killings! Since January, 2012, 16
people have been killed by the Baltimore City Police Department and not a
single officer has been indicted. The epidemic of police terror and abuse are
not confined to our city. The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement has documented that
every 36 hours a Black person is killed by police agencies in this country.
Police repression and racism go hand in hand with the mass incarceration of
young people, mostly of color, who are locked away in prisons across this
country. We march to bring national attention to these issues and to demand
community control of police and an end to mass incarceration. On May 11, 2013
we will link arms with the families of the victims of police killings to demand
that the Justice Department charge killer police....
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Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Maryland in 1820; her birth name was
Araminta Harriet Ross. As a child, she was beaten daily by those to whom she
was “hired out” to do domestic work. A field hand in her early teens, Tubman defied an overseer’s order to
restrain another field hand, and blocked a doorway so the man could escape.
When the overseer threw a two-pound weight at her, it broke her skull and left
her with lifetime seizures and narcolepsy. Around 1844, she married John
Tubman, a free Black man....
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The shadow of war has hung over the Korean peninsula for six decades —
almost a lifetime. That is how long the Korean people have been waiting for a
peace treaty to be signed since the fighting ended in 1953....
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French President François Hollande called for an end of the European
Union’s embargo on arms shipments to Syria just prior to an EU summit
meeting in Brussels on March 14. Britain also has taken this position. Both
countries are considering directly shipping weapons to the “rebels”
if the EU does not lift the embargo. (New York Times, March 15)...
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When European Union leaders gathered at their economic summit meeting
in Brussels, they were confronted by thousands of protesters who denounced them
and their austerity policies. Working people and labor union
representatives from all over Europe demonstrated at the European Commission
and Council headquarters on March 14....
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The concept of equal rights for women has been around for more than 200
years, ever since Mary Wollstonecraft published her essay, “A Vindication
of the Rights of Woman,” in 1792. “Equal rights for men and
women” was included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights passed
by the United Nations in 1948....
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In Michigan, only married couples, married individuals and single
individuals may adopt children. Same-sex couples are denied legal recognition
under one of the most restrictive anti-marriage laws in the country —
passed by the voters in 2004 — that has even been used to deny
union-negotiated health benefits to state workers’ same-sex partners.
Michiganians in same-sex relationships cannot jointly adopt children or adopt
the children of their partners....
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The July 26th Coalition, a solidarity group that supports the Cuban revolution, hosted a March 13 evening of information and open dialogue with two representatives of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) in New York City. The women were here participating in events held at the United Nations and hosted by the Commission on the Status of Women during International Working Women’s Month....
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Syria’s counterrevolutionary opposition has taken a step that moves it
even closer to U.S. imperialism. At the same time, the Barack Obama
administration has moved a step closer to direct and open intervention in the
war against Syria, using the pretext that “chemical weapons” have
been used....
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The National Association of Letter Carriers has called for 100 rallies and
other protests on Sunday, March 24, 2013, to save postal jobs and to keep six-day delivery. The NALC call for a National Day of Action invites unions, small business customers, civic organizations and faith groups, as well as all postal workers, families, friends and neighbors, to gather outside specified post offices in the major cities of each state. “We want to make this fight about the
cost of losing Saturday mail delivery and how it would affect people in each
and every state,” NALC President Fredric Rolando said. The American Postal Workers Union, the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the Rural Letter Carriers Union have all endorsed the March 24 rallies....
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The corporate media in the U.S. play a powerful role in preparation for
imperialist war. They play an even more insidious role in rewriting the history
of U.S. wars and obstructing the purpose of U.S. wars.<...
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A coalition of community-based
women's organizations that has organized events for the past eight years
have announced plans for women's events in Manhattan, Harlem, Brooklyn and
the Bronx to celebrate women's struggles. The events include a rally and
march on March 9th, starting at the site of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory fire in Manhattan, and tributes to Harriet Tubman on March 10 at
Harlem’s African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, in Brooklyn at Boys and
Girls High on Sat. March 16 and in the Bronx at the Bronx Art Space Gallery on
Sunday, March 24. All events are open to the media and are free. There will
also be a special tribute March 9 to the late President Hugo Chávez of
Venezuela -- the leader of the ongoing Bolivarian Revolution that promotes the
rights of women especially those of African and Indigenous
descent....
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Using an obscure, impersonal term — “sequester” —
U.S. finance capital is trying to put over European-style, across-the-board
budget cuts at the federal level. Shielded by the fog of political gridlock,
the bankers and financiers are testing the waters to see how far they can
go....
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He came from humble beginnings from among the teeming millions in Venezuelan
poverty and joined the army as much to make a living as to serve the people.
He and a group of mid-level military officers staged an unsuccessful coup
in February, 1992 against the corrupt regime of President Carlos Andrés
Pérez. Within eight years, the man that led the coup would be elected
president and Hugo Chávez would proclaim Venezuela as home of the
revolutionary liberator, Simón Bolívar, who fought and prevailed
against Spanish colonialists for Latin American independence early in the 19th
century....
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It was with profound and searing grief that our people and the Revolutionary
Government learned about the decease of President Hugo Chávez Frías
and are therefore preparing to pay a heartfelt and patriotic tribute to him,
for he will go down in history as a Hero of Our America....
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The International Action Center is supporting this campaign called by
the Korea Alliance of Progressive Movements! We urge you all to
do the same! Stand for Peace on the Korean Peninsula!...
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The International Action Center urges you to attend these NYC events
in honor of President Hugo Chávez and in solidarity with the Venezuelan
people:...
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Another status conference pertaining to the Central Park 5 civil lawsuit
against New York City and the New York Police Department was held on Feb. 19.
Supporters filled the large federal courtroom in downtown Manhattan to indicate
their justifiable outrage regarding the lack of progress in bringing closure to
this horrific, racist injustice....
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Just days before an inspection team was due to check that Greece’s new
austerity measures were in place, tens of thousands of workers took to the
streets on Feb. 20 and shut the country down. The strikers made it clear that
“reforms” that leave patients without health care and drugs,
students without education, taxpayers without money, families with no one
employed, workers without labor rights and 68 percent of the youth without jobs
are really attacks on the Greek people and their standard of living. (Greek
Reporter, Feb. 20)...
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The International Women’s Alliance calls on women all over the globe
to advance their ongoing struggles against imperialist globalization and the
crisis of capitalism by mobilizing with militant actions on March 8, 2013, to
commemorate International Working Women’s Day. The International Conference of Working Women over 100 years ago gave birth
to what is now popularly known as International Women’s Day. The origin
of this day was to highlight the resistance and organizing power of working
women to gain the right to fair wages and working hours, the right to vote and
an end to discrimination. Today, we must remember to hold true to the origins
of March 8 and return to the important issues that weigh heavily on women all
over the world: the crises of capitalism and imperialism....
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A coalition of community-based women's organizations that has
organized events for the past eight years have announced plans for women's
events in Manhattan, Harlem, Brooklyn and the Bronx to celebrate women's
struggles. The events include a rally and march on March 9th, starting at the
site of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan, and tributes to
Harriet Tubman on March 10 at Harlem’s African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church, in Brooklyn at Boys and Girls High on Sat. March 16 and
in the Bronx at the Bronx Art Space Gallery on Sunday, March 24. All events are
open to the media and are free....
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Nearly two years after the New York City Lesbian Gay
Bi Trans Community Center first barred the groups Siegebusters and Queers
Against Israeli Apartheid from meeting there, the lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and queer community erupted in outrage in mid-February, when the
Center again denied a space request from QAIA, as it had continually done for
the last two years....
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Support of the legal and legitimate rights of the Iranian people for
self-determination and sovereignty is growing as the new round of
negotiations with Iran and the countries of 5+1, i.e. US, UK, France,
Russia, China plus Germany is set for February 26th in
Kazakhstan....
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The new form of global warfare alleges to “protect” by
preemptively preventing mass atrocities. Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S.-educated
academic and mother, is caught in its web and now serving 86 years in a federal
prison in Texas....
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In support of efforts to pressure the U.S. government to repatriate Dr.
Aafia Siddiqui to Pakistan, former U.S. Congressperson Cynthia McKinney and
International Action Center Co-Director Sara Flounders traveled to Pakistan
last December...
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It is not too late to RSVP for this important fundraiser
for the Mississippi Workers Center which fights for social justice in one of
the poorest states in the country. No one will be turned away for lack of funds
or for making a modest donation. There will also be a silent auction held
during the event....
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Organizers with PIST — Parents to Improve
School Transportation — have begun talks with union and local activists
about a community response to the non-union student transportation crashes that
have occurred in the fourth week of the New York City public school bus
strike....
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John Brennan found himself in an uncomfortable and unusual situation on Feb.
7 when protesters loudly confronted him, intent on holding him and the U.S.
government accountable for their past and present war crimes. Brennan is the
chief counterterrorism adviser to the Obama administration....
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Pepe Palacios, a LGBTQ leader and activist from the
resistance movement in Honduras, spoke at an event hosted by the Venezuelan
Consulate here on Feb. 12. Palacios described the brutal government repression
in Honduras, as well as the courageous, unified resistance of the Honduran
people. The event was presented by the International Action Center and El
Colectivo Honduras USA Resistencia — Partido Libre. Palacios is traveling
throughout the U.S. as part of a national tour organized by the Honduras
Solidarity Network....
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An important film documentary about the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal premiered in
New York City on Feb. 1. “Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with
Mumia Abu-Jamal” explores through prison interviews, archival footage and
narrations, the life of a political prisoner known as “the voice of the
voiceless.” It was written and directed by Stephen Vittoria and
co-produced by Noelle Hanrahan from Prison Radio....
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Fourteen people in Bushwick were injured -- eleven of them children -- when a
car was slammed into by a school bus that union sources say was operated by the
non-union Fortuna Bus Company.
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Alex Jones, the ultra-right-wing radio host, has made a name for himself in
recent weeks by rabidly denouncing proposed gun control legislation. He yelled
at CNN interviewer Piers Morgan, but in his tirade Jones stated many historical
inaccuracies....
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Millions of workers across the United States received a rude and unpleasant
jolt this January when they discovered that their take-home pay had just shrunk
by 2 percent. The Social Security payroll tax cut of 2009 was restored, costing
workers an average amount of $850 a year, a significant wage decrease for
workers on the edge of financial ruin....
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The 500,000 members of Tunisia’s union federation shut down this North
African country’s major cities on Feb 8 as tens of thousands joined the
funeral march in Tunis of Chokri Belaïd, slain leader of the Unified
Patriotic Democratic Movement, a Marxist and pan-Arabist organization.
According to reports, masked killers gunned down Belaïd in his car on the
morning of Feb. 6 outside his home in Tunis....
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Minneapolis — Transgender activist and author Leslie Feinberg declared
in court here on Feb. 4 that she/ze was “not guilty” on a charge of
third-degree gross misdemeanor (property damage) for spray-painting “Free
CeCe Now” on the walls and pillars of the courthouse/jail in
Minneapolis....
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Pepe
is traveling throughout the US as part of a national tour organized by the
Honduras Solidarity Network. Please come to learn about the brutal repression
being carried out against the LGBT community in Honduras. But also learn about
the heroic resistance of the Honduran people who are organizing against the
illegal coup of 2009 and for a new society. Since 2009, over 80 mainly
transgender women and gay men have been killed in
Honduras....
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La Coalición Primero de Mayo Por los Derechos de Los Trabajadores y Los
inmigrantes, invita a todas las organizaciones de la Ciudad de New
York, para discutir la planeación de la Marcha y Rally del
Primero de Mayo, celebrada desde el 2005. / The May 1st Coalition for Worker & Immigrant Rights invites everyone to the Citywide Meeting to discuss plans for the May 1st rally & march as well as for other events throughout the year. This event has been hosted by the Coalition annually since 2005 at Union Square
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Now that President Obama has come out
in support of marriage equality, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has
dedicated a small budget to defend LGBT rights internationally, it’s the
perfect time to remind them that the abuse and killings of gay and transgender
people keep piling up in Honduras—even as Washington heralds the
country’s return to “democracy.”...
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CeCe McDonald survived a racist, transphobic attack by a group of neofascists, who attacked her and her friends on the streets of South Minneapolis on June 5, 2011....
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It was a special evening of solidarity with Venezuela on Jan. 31 in Detroit. With President Hugo Chávez ill and recovering from cancer surgery in Cuba, and the U.S. government working overtime with rightwing forces inside Venezuela to promote division and try to destabilize that country, Detroiters wanted to express their solidarity with Chávez, with the Bolivarian Revolution and with the masses of poor and working people in Venezuela....
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There are facts, and then there is fiction. Let’s deal with the fiction first. In the fictional world reflected in Hollywood movies like the remake of “Red Dawn,” the socialist north of Korea launches a war against the United States, invading and killing many people. It would hardly be necessary to answer such a ridiculous fiction were it not for the fact that the corporate media are constantly coming up with alarming stories about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, picturing it as irrational, aggressive and ready to attack....
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On Jan. 24, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the Pentagon had lifted its ban on women serving in combat, and that more than 230,000 “battlefront” positions could be opened up to them. Military officials must submit plans by May on how to include women in combat, although they have until January 2016 to list male-only positions....
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International Action Center co-director Sara Flounders was interviewed by RT News on Jan. 29 regarding the trials held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; U.S. secret prisons; and the use of torture by the U.S. Her comments also included the case of Aafia Siddiqui and other Muslim political prisoners. The six-minute video segment can be seen at tinyurl.com/atf88t8....
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Philadelphia — United around the goal “Mumia, Free in 4!” — meaning his release in four years — dedicated activists from several U.S. cities, France and Germany gathered at Temple University on Jan. 26 for a conference organized by Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal....
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As part of the decade-long NATO war and occupation in Iraq, led by the U.S., the imperialists conducted a campaign to promote foreign control by sowing and deepening religious and cultural divisions. The Iraqi people have paid a terrible price. More than a million lives have been lost, many from the shootings and bombings instigated by the NATO occupiers that continue to this day....
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Israel’s air force bombed a military facility in
western Syria at dawn today, according to several media sources. Reports
describe Israeli warplanes flying low, below radar, and destroying a building
northwest of Damascus. The Syrian Arab News Agency reported that “a
scientific research center used by the military” was hit, killing two
workers and wounding five....
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The 8,800 school bus drivers, matrons and mechanics of Amalgamated Transit
Union Local 1181-1061 have been on strike since January 16th, fighting the
anti-union Bloomberg administration's attempt to take away their job and
contract security. As the New York State AFL-CIO wrote, "For the first
time in 30 years, the mayor has removed a requirement that keeps the most
qualified, experienced, and skilled drivers on the job." He did not have
to do this and he can put it back legally!
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According to UN investigations in 2010 there are more than 27,000 prisoners held by the U.S. in more than 100 secret prisons around the world and on 17 ships as floating prisons. These are almost entirely Muslim prisoners....
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Tickets are now on sale ahead of the official date. Please buy tickets now
and/or reach out to ALL OF YOUR CONTACTS to buy pre-sale tickets for the
opening weekend, February 1-2-3. The greater the presale, the greater chance
the film has of opening in the largest screen at Cinema Village, the greater
chance Mumia has of making waves in NYC. We MUST PACK THE HOUSE for Mumia. This may be a film out in the marketplace but it is not our moment, it is his moment and we must make the most of it. Now is the time.
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As a Cuba solidarity network, we lift our voices to tell Washington and the
Venezuelan elite: NO to destabilization efforts in Venezuela, which we fully
recognize is also aimed at Cuba's sovereignty. We say: "Hands off the
Bolivarian Revolution."...
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French imperialism has launched major military operations in
West and East Africa under the guise of fighting “Islamic
terrorism.” French fighter jets and commandos have gone into operation in
the north and central regions of Mali....
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In response to the French imperialist intervention in January, the Coalition
of Patriotic Organizations of Mali (COPAM) called demonstrations against the
presence of foreign troops in their country. COPAM demands that the
current transitional president, Dioncounda Traoré, resign. They
target him for giving the green light to troops from the Economic Community of
West African States to intervene in Mali under the auspices of the U.N. (Radio
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The war that French imperialism has escalated in its former West African
colony of Mali has now spread to neighboring Algeria. There, some 82 people
have been reported killed after an attempted seizure of hostages at a natural
gas field. Imperialist governments are lining up for a long intervention in
Africa....
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CeCe McDonald survived a white-supremacist, anti-woman, transphobic hate crime.
Today, she is in a cell where sadistic racist and anti-trans guards hold the
key. Now, the city of Minneapolis is re-charging Leslie Feinberg with
3rd-Degree Gross Misdemeanor for writing the peoples’ verdict “Free
CeCe!” on the jailhouse/courthouse walls on June 4, 2012.
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From January 22 to January 31, activists in ten cities across the
U.S. will hold various events in solidarity with Venezuela....
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The only thing that surprised me when I heard that the Algerian kidnappers
had called for the release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui was that it hadn’t
happened sooner. Don’t get me wrong, as a former hostage myself, there is no way I condone the actions of what has unfolded in a remote corner of the
Algerian desert. And my heart goes out to the families of those who have lost
loved ones in the unfolding drama at the In Amenas gas plant siege said to have
been masterminded by Mohktar Belmokhtar. The infamous one-eyed Algerian
militant apparently with ties to al Qaida, has claimed responsibility for
launching Wednesday’s attack. It also goes without saying there is no way the kidnappers, whether politically or criminally motivated, can be justified
in their actions....
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Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets on January 10 throughout
Venezuela to show their support for legally elected President Hugo Chávez
as well as for the Bolivarian Revolution....
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In the U.S., the solidarity and progressive movement will organize National Days of Solidarity With Venezuela to send messages of good wishes to President Chavez and to let the people of Venezuela, especially the poor and working people who most benefit from the Bolivarian Revolution know that we will not allow the Obama administration to intervene in Venezuela....
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As you probably know, the Solidarity Center including the International
Action Center, will be moving to a new office space — 147 W. 24th St.,
2nd floor, Manhattan at the end of this month....
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New York — More than 8,000 school bus drivers who transport
152,000 pupils in this city every day, many of them children with special
needs, were forced to go on strike Jan. 16 to protect not only their jobs but
also the safety of the children they serve....
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Lynne Stewart's breast cancer is spreading to her lungs and
shoulders. She needs immediate treatment NOW. The prison
authorities have known this since September....
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The Venezuelan people have demonstrated over and over their support and gratitude to President Chavez and clearly remain committed to the process of fundamental change in their country, no matter what. We are confident that the fundamental roots of the Bolivarian Revolution will remain strong and grow....
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Two settlements were announced Jan. 7 in ongoing legal actions against the
major banks for abuses in placing millions of homes into foreclosure throughout
the U.S. But both only help banks, not homeowners....
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Those in China who advocate bourgeois democracy, deepening capitalist
reforms and opening up further to imperialism staged a journalists’
rebellion the first week of January at the nationally circulated magazine
Southern Weekend, based in Guangzhou. Guangzhou, which is across the bay from Hong Kong, is the capital of Guangdong province, the stronghold of capitalism
in China....
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French imperialism has launched major military operations in
West and East Africa under the guise of fighting “Islamic
terrorism.” French fighter jets and commandos have gone into operation in
the north and central regions of Mali....
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As we approach the new round of negotiations between the countries of 5+1 i.e.
US, UK, France, Russia, China plus Germany with Iran to discuss the so called
“Iran’s nuclear issue”, we the undersigned declare our stand
on this issue, as follows:...
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As we approach the new round of negotiations between the countries of 5+1 i.e.
US, UK, France, Russia, China plus Germany with Iran to discuss the so called
“Iran’s nuclear issue”, we the undersigned declare our stand
on this issue, as follows:...
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The event at historic Riverside Church’s Assembly Hall the evening of
Jan. 12 will long be remembered. Over 350 political, community and anti-war
activists, along with U.N. diplomats and consular officials from Cuba,
Venezuela, Peru, Iran and Serbia, celebrated both the 85th birthday of
human-rights lawyer and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and the 20th
anniversary of the International Action Center, an anti-imperialist,
anti-racist organization that Clark founded in 1992. The evening reflected a
broad leftist spectrum of respect and admiration for Clark and his principled
stances throughout his life. The gala event began with a delectable buffet of
mainly Latin American, South Asian and Middle Eastern hors d’oeuvres and
dishes prepared and donated by IAC staff and other activist volunteers....
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Three years after the earthquake that killed 300,000 people on Jan. 12,
2010, reconstruction has barely begun in Haiti. Debris has been removed from
the streets in Port-au-Prince, Léogane and Pétionville, but at least
500,000 people are still living in tents — ripped, torn and tattered by
the storms and hurricanes that have hit this country in the last three
years....
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On Dec. 31, outgoing North Carolina governor, Beverly Perdue, pardoned the
Wilmington 10 — the Rev. Benjamin Chavis, Connie Tindall, Marvin Patrick,
Wayne Moore, Reginald Epps, Jerry Jacobs, James McKoy, Willie Earl Vereen,
William Wright, Jr. and Ann Shepard — who had sentences ranging from 15
to 34 years following their convictions in 1972. Perdue was forced to publicly
admit that their sentences were “tainted by naked racism.” (CNN,
Jan. 1) A prolonged national and international struggle emerged in efforts to
free the nine African Americans and one white member of the 10....
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Jan. 10 — The people of Venezuela poured into the streets by the
hundreds of thousands in the country’s four major cities today to defend
recently re-elected President Hugo Chávez and his government....
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On Jan. 3, as part of its regular condition updates of President Hugo
Chávez following his Dec. 11 surgery, the government of the Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela alerted “the Venezuelan public of a campaign of
psychological warfare unleashed by the international media regarding the health
of the head of state,” as the Jan. 10 date anticipated for the oath of
office for his new six-year presidential term nears....
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The unnamed victim — whom protesters dubbed Braveheart and Dimini
(“lightning” in Hindi) — clung to life for almost two weeks
after the torturous attack by six men on her and her male companion in a moving
city bus. Now the perpetrators, including the driver and a youth, face murder
charges and possible death sentences....
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Since the International Action Center originated in 1992 out of two small
rooms in former Attorney General Ramsey Clark’s law office, this
organization has played a unique and vital role by combating the U.S.
imperialist offensive aimed at reconquering those parts of the world that had
won some independence and sovereignty between 1945 and 1991....
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More than 1,000 people from throughout New York state converged on Albany
Jan. 9 to demand that Gov. Andrew Cuomo respond to the people and not the
natural gas corporations by immediately announcing a statewide ban against
hydraulic fracturing. The large energy companies in this state and their allies
in Albany would like to extract natural gas that is trapped in the widespread
rock formation known as Marcellus Shale through the process called hydraulic
fracturing, or fracking....
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Charleston, S.C. — People from the West Coast and across the
country traveled to Charleston, S.C., to attend the ninth biannual Southern
Human Rights Organizers Conference (SHROC) on Dec. 7-9. The conference was held
in a hall belonging to Local 1422 of the International Longshoremen’s
Association, which represents thousands of dock workers on the East Coast....
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As assistant attorney general for the Lands Division, Ramsey Clark played a
key role in drafting the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 and the Voting
Rights Act of 1965....
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On the morning of Sept. 12, 1973, Victor Jara, the internationally acclaimed
folk singer/writer, theater director, activist and musician, was taken along
with thousands of prisoners to the Chile Stadium in Santiago, Chile, where he
was repeatedly beaten and tortured. The bones in his hands were broken, as were
his ribs....
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There are times when an individual framed, beaten and jailed by the police
is just a victim. There are other times when that person becomes a symbol of
struggle for an entire movement....
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On the day that the country was supposed to fall over the “fiscal
cliff,” Congress finally voted for a bill on taxes and other measures
that kept the government solvent for another two months. The Obama
administration claimed victory over the Republican right wing....
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International Longshore and Warehouse Union locals in the Pacific Northwest
continue to work at terminals owned by the Grain Handlers Association after
three out of four terminal owners imposed the agri-bosses highly concessionary
“last, best and final” offer on Dec. 27. By nearly 94 percent, ILWU
members rejected that package, which the ILWU reports demanded “more than
750 changes to a contract that’s made the industry successful for the
past 80 years.”...
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Just days before a potential strike by more than 14,500 workers at 14 ports
along the Eastern U.S. and the Gulf coasts, the International
Longshoremen’s union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) — the
port bosses — announced another temporary extension of their collective
bargaining agreement until Feb. 6 as negotiations continue. The previous
extension would have expired at midnight on Dec. 29....
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It is fitting that we gather today. As icy winds whip against the walls of Riverside Church, we celebrate the work and life of Ramsey Clark and the International Action Center — Ramsey’s 85th year and the IAC’s 20....
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Violence and defense against violence are life-and-death social questions
for those who are oppressed and exploited....
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It is a political creation – made by Congress itself, as a self- made
rule to force agreement (but really to blackmail political opponents), or else
massive cuts will be automatically made in defense, social services and other
government programs....
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The first question asked after Ramsey Clark’s speech last weekend does
not have an easy answer. Clark, 84, a former Attorney General who served under
Lyndon Johnson, traveled to Nebraska on a humanitarian mission to visit Ed
Poindexter and Mondo We Langa (David Rice) at the Nebraska State Penitentiary.
The men, now 68 and 66 years old, have been incarcerated for forty-two years
for the 1970 bombing death of an Omaha police officer, a crime they insist they
did not commit....
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The ominous signs of impending war with Syria escalate. NATO is massing
troops and military equipment on Syria's borders, and preparing to
install missiles aimed at Syria. U.S. warships are stationed off Syria’s
coast....
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By an overwhelming vote of its online readers, the British newspaper The
Guardian has been forced to name U.S. political prisoner Pvt. B. Manning its
“Person of the Year.”...
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Since Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced the recurrence of
the cancer that he has been battling since 2011 and the need for additional
surgery, he has been the object of world solidarity. He told the Venezuelan
people on Dec. 8 that his last medical examination showed that malignant cells
recurred at the site in his abdomen where he had been treated earlier. As a
result, he needed a fourth operation....
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The passage of the union-busting “right-to-work” law in Michigan
is a severe legal setback for the labor movement and for the workers, the
oppressed and all the progressive masses in the state. If not turned around, it
will encourage right-wing, anti-labor forces across the country....
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This year, possibly for the first time ever, the United Mine Workers did not
endorse a presidential candidate. In 2008, the union was an early endorser of
Obama, and has usually supported Democratic candidates. The union’s
decision to sit it out this year was an indication of the crisis that has
befallen coal miners, who don’t know where to turn for help....
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An exciting Jan. 12 gala is being organized by supporters
of the International Action Center to honor and celebrate the
organization’s 20th anniversary, as well as the 85th birthday of IAC
founder Ramsey Clark. The event will be held at the historic Riverside Church
in New York City and will raise funds to support the important anti-racist,
anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist work of the IAC....
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Most people find it unconscionable that anyone would deliberately harm a
child. In fact, most would have the same reaction to callous disregard that
puts a young life in danger’s way....
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Our lease is up on Jan 31! We have to relocate the fabulous Solidarity Center
from our home for the past 7 of our 20 years. We have a possible new office
almost in hand. But moving in New York City is very expensive, and security
deposits require months of advance rent. We need your help ...
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While this is not and legally cannot be an ILA- union initiated mobilization, it is supported by ILA rank-and-file leaders in solidarity with the Bangladeshi workers who lost their lives last month in the tragic fire, exploited with slave wages by Walmart and other corporate retail giants....
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In Colombia union organizers operate under the threat of violence, torture,
and even death. More union organizers are killed in Colombia than in any other
country in the world. Corporations like General Motors take advantage of the
anti-union climate....
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The FBI recently confirmed what it has stated all along: Wade Michael Page
acted alone. Page, a white supremacist associated with neofascist groups, walked into a Sikh temaple on the morning of Aug. 5 in Oak Creek, Wis., 12 miles south of Milwaukee, and opened fire as the Indian worshippers, many with children in tow, were preparing for services....
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder
wasted no time signing anti-labor, so-called “right-to-work” laws
passed today, disregarding the daylong protest of more than 12,000 workers and
community constituents. “The workers united will never be defeated”
echoed in the Capitol rotunda, while outside mounted Michigan State Police
pepper-sprayed laborers, many of them unemployed, and other workers to disperse
them. The rushed lame-duck enactment sought to make it a fait
accompli, but instead it is a declaration of war on the entire U.S.
working class and labor unions. A banner reading “General Strike to beat
back ‘right-to-work’ ’’ attracted much interest, as did
thousands of leaflets headlined: “Beat back ‘right-to-work’
Yes, WE CAN!” The Rev. Jesse Jackson called for a one-day work stoppage
and march on Washington, D.C.
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For almost 500 days, Asotrecol, the Association of Injured Workers and
Ex-Workers of General Motors Colmotores, has been fighting for justice.
Colmotores, the GM assembly plant in Bogotá, Colombia, is a house of
horrors....
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Like a giant magnifying glass, a natural disaster reveals in startling
detail the dimensions of the social disaster that lie beneath....
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Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians have been demonstrating on both sides
with regard to a draft constitution for the North African state. President
Mohamed Morsi, whose Nov. 22 edict increasing his political powers sparked mass protests, has now announced a Dec. 15 date for a national referendum to approve or reject the controversial document. The Muslim Brotherhood, which is behind Morsi’s political party, and the Salafist Muslim organizations form a majority in the government and have a broad political base, which means the referendum would likely approve the new
constitution....
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This year marks the 85th birthday of Ramsey Clark, the founder of the
International Action Center. And this year also marks the 20th anniversary of
the International Action Center I have had the privilege of both knowing and
collaborating with Ramsey for more than 40 years. Perhaps our most important
ongoing collaboration, together with Ben Bella (Algeria), Tony Benn (UK) and
Karmenu Bonnici (Malta), was being part of the coalition to oppose the Gulf War
and to demand an end to the criminal U.S.-led sanctions against the people of
Iraq — sanctions that eventually killed more than 1.5 million people and
marked only the beginning of the U.S. war against Iraq. At the end of this
month, Ramsey will be with us in Managua and will once again receive the love
and gratitude that our people have always felt for him. During my tenure as
President of the UN General Assembly, Ramsey was my key senior advisor on
international law, providing valuable insights into the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict, the so-called “responsibility to protect”— new
jargon to mask the old practice of wars of aggression — and the sorely
needed reform of the United Nations....
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Arriving in Karachi, Pakistan, at 4 a.m. for a trip in
support of efforts to free and repatriate Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, former U.S.
Congressperson Cynthia McKinney and International Action Center Co-Director
Sara Flounders received an overwhelmingly warm welcome on Dec. 2. Hundreds of
Siddiqui’s supporters met the two at the airport in the wee hours of the
morning, carrying flowers, signs and banners, and chanting “Free
Aafia!” and “Welcome!”...
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Oakland, Calif. — “Picket line means don’t
cross,” chanted striking Service Employees Local 1021 workers and their
community supporters as they picketed all seven terminals at the Port of
Oakland on Nov. 20. The workers had walked out in an unfair-labor-practices
dispute with the port....
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Please Join the International Action Center at Our 85th Birthday / 20th
Anniversary Gala Celebrating the 85th Birthday of Ramsey Clark:
& the 20th Anniversary of the IAC: JAN 12, RIVERSIDE CHURCH, NYC. Ramsey Clark remains a unique political figure in the United States. At great
sacrifice he has consistently opposed U.S. intervention abroad and fought for
justice at home. He has defended countless individuals and organizations,
targets of racism or repression, many who might have otherwise stood alone.
From prisoners on Texas death row, to the Attica prison rebels, to Native
American leader Leonard Peltier, to Jamil Al-Amin, the Plowshare defendants,
Lori Berenson in Peru, to prisoners in the Philippines, Turkey, Pakistan,
and Egypt — Ramsey Clark has been there for them. He has opposed nuclear
weapons, U.S. bases, drone wars and every U.S. aggression, including the most
recent dangerous threat of a new war on Iran....
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Within days of the start of Israel’s latest aerial offensive on the
imprisoned people of the Gaza Strip, solidarity protests with the Palestinian
people were held in over 300 cities worldwide. Demonstrations have continued
since the Nov. 21 cease-fire agreement....
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A cease-fire agreement went into effect in battle-scarred Gaza on Nov. 21.
After a week of heavy bombing raids and missile attacks by the Israeli armed
forces that killed more than 160 Palestinians and wounded over 1,000, mainly
civilians, Israel and the elected Hamas government of Gaza agreed to end
hostilities. The government of Egypt, with the participation of U.S. Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton, brokered the agreement....
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Mass protests erupted across Egypt following President Mohamed Morsi’s
Nov. 22 announcement of a series of decrees that would further consolidate his
administration’s power over areas of law, the judiciary and the
constitution. On Nov. 26, he met with leaders of the Supreme Judiciary Council
in Cairo in an attempt to calm the atmosphere on the eve of scheduled
demonstrations both for and against his ruling....
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The Russell Tribunal is an International People’s
Tribunal organized to bring to light Israel’s recognized violations of
international law and to advocate for an end to the Israeli occupation of
Palestine and Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights....
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Millions of people struck Nov. 14, and hundreds of thousands more poured
into the streets in an unprecedented, coordinated general strike against the
austerity measures that tear at the very bodies of the poor and working people
of Europe. People in 23 countries protested, coordinated by the European Trade
Union Confederation....
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Occupy Sandy and the massive grassroots relief
effort show that we, the people, can take matters into our own
hands...
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Please Join the International Action Center at Our 85th Birthday / 20th
Anniversary Gala Celebrating the 85th Birthday of Ramsey Clark:
& the 20th Anniversary of the IAC: JAN 12, RIVERSIDE CHURCH, NYC
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Please Join the International Action Center at Our 85th Birthday / 20th
Anniversary Gala Celebrating the 85th Birthday of Ramsey Clark:
& the 20th Anniversary of the IAC: JAN 12, RIVERSIDE CHURCH, NYC
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Please Join the International Action Center at Our 85th Birthday / 20th
Anniversary Gala Celebrating the 85th Birthday of Ramsey Clark:
& the 20th Anniversary of the IAC: JAN 12, RIVERSIDE CHURCH, NYC
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In the Western Cape of South Africa, where farmworkers produce fruits, and
wines that are sold domestically and internationally, employees in 16 towns and
farming communities have been on strike since Nov. 6. They are demanding a
minimum wage increase from $8 to $20 per day. Many are members of the South
African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU), an affiliate
of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. Nonetheless, the strikes are
similar in character to the unprotected miners’ actions....
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Nov. 22 will mark 13,439 days of incarceration for Native political prisoner
Leonard Peltier. This year’s commemoration of the National Day of
Mourning, to be held in Plymouth, Mass., will once again honor Peltier, a
hero-in-the-struggle who has been unjustly imprisoned since 1976....
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After superstorm Sandy we think “climate change.” It is back in
the headlines. But people in the Arctic have been noticing changes and coping
with them for many years. Now, sharp shifts in weather are occurring in the
Arctic, where ice and snow are an important part of life. These changes affect
transportation and food, making life much more difficult for Indigenous peoples
in the North....
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The following letter to the Obama administration was issued by the National
Network On Cuba on Nov. 13 following the United Nations General
Assembly’s 21st vote to end the U.S. embargo of Cuba....
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Nov. 19 — Israel has launched another brutal military attack on the
Palestinian people living in Gaza, a small, densely populated strip of land
that houses 1.7 million people. Once again, Israel has the complete backing of
the U.S. government, which for decades has bankrolled the Zionist settler state
and its military, enabling their many assaults on the Arab and Muslim peoples
of the oil-rich region....
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ON NOV. 21st the film “Red Dawn” will be released in theaters
throughout the United States. This film is vile, racist, war propaganda and
must be opposed by all progressive minded people....
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Israel continues to attack Gaza, killing innocent people and
destroying infrastructure!...
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Under capitalism, especially here in the United States, so-called
“democracy” serves the wealthy. Whoever wins elections, the
Pentagon and weapons industry still get funding, imperialist wars and
occupations go on, the rich get tax breaks, while workers and the poor face
more layoffs, cutbacks and attacks....
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For years, Pennsylvania families living near natural gas drilling activity
have relied on the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to
determine if hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, was impacting their well water.
Little did they know that the DEP was systematically withholding information on
potential contamination by issuing incomplete test results....
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On top of sanitation workers laboring 12-hour workdays and seven-day
workweeks, needed nonstop to clean up the city after Hurricane Sandy, one of
the workers’ biggest problems is the difficulty of obtaining fuel to get
to work. According to the president of the sanitation workers’ union,
Harry Nespoli: “They want to work but they have to have gas. People are
saying that they’re not going to give gas to Sanitation Workers.
That’s a total disgrace.” (thechiefleader.com, Nov. 9)...
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The distribution site was buzzing with activity. Carloads and even a small
U-Haul truck of aid were contributed by many volunteers. The area was so heavy
with activity that Occupy Sandy organizers had to assign traffic coordinators
to make sure donations were not blocking traffic....
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The people of Europe are angry, very angry — and they’re doing
something about it....
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Harsh austerity measures have created an economic and social disaster that
affects tens of millions across Europe. Greece, Portugal and Spain are
particularly hard-hit. A coalition of New York Greek-Americans, groups in
solidarity with Greece and working people across Europe have called for a rally
at the United Nations Missions of Greece and the European Union on Wednesday,
November 14, 2012....
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All activists fighting for real change need time, space and
discussion to grapple with the still unfolding crisis, total disarray and
infrastructure breakdown that has followed Hurricane Sandy. We need to prepare
for the corporate onslaught of the 'fiscal cliff' and evaluate months
of election saturation that dealt with none of the real issues facing the
planet....
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Nearly a week after Hurricane Sandy struck, as cold weather sets in and a new nor’easter storm threatens on Nov. 7, over a million households remain without power in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Some New Jersey communities are also without natural gas as a result of storm damage and may remain so for six to eight months....
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“We know a tidal surge of about four to six feet came
into the Reservation. We still do not have electricity. We had our Tribal
burial grounds halfway covered with water. Right now it is the electricity that
is needed which is the issue. It’s getting cold and some of our elders
don’t have ways to heat their home,” said Shinnecock Chairman
Trustee Randy King describing the situation on the Shinnecock Reservation on
eastern Long Island after Hurricane Sandy. (nativestrength.com)...
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A crisis arising out of a major natural disaster tends to reveal a society’s strengths and weaknesses, values and priorities, and forms of organization....
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The storm that hit the U.S. East Coast Oct. 29 exposed the harm done by
capitalist priorities in the crucial areas of essential health care and
electric power for millions. Some 400 available industrial-scale generators sat unused while four major New York City hospitals located in flood zones and two New Jersey hospitals were forced to evacuate on an emergency basis. In the hospitals both the main energy source and emergency backup generators failed, providing the clearest possible example of bone- deep hospital and infrastructure maintenance cuts. Meanwhile, high-rise apartment houses and entire neighborhoods went for days without electric power. That meant days without drinking water, flush toilets, heat or functioning elevators. This creates life-threatening conditions, especially for seniors, the disabled and infants....
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The material aid gathered will be delivered to hard hit communities in Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan, Jersey City, Queens and elsewhere in coordination with groups who heroically came to the forefront and provided assistance such as CAAAV, Occupy Sandy, Peoples Power Movement, Anakbayan and others. These groups came together faster than FEMA or the Red Cross, organizations who have billions of the people's money but who are stymied by bureaucracy and a lack of genuine concern for the people....
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Following this join the Peoples Power Assembly in a “people to
people” relief effort. We will distribute water, do free blood pressure
screenings at the nearby Chelsea community and help in food distribution....
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“I am the proud father of Alan Blueford, murdered by the
Oakland police,” stated Adam Blueford. His spouse, Jeralynn
Blueford, added, “Alan’s murder was arbitrary, unnecessary and
racist. It’s sad to say but he was shot down because of the color
of his skin. They profiled him by saying he looked suspicious.”...
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After ravaging much of the Caribbean, Hurricane Sandy has hit the United
States. As of this writing, more than 8 million people here are without power,
38 are reported dead and still counting, and the damage is reckoned at many
tens of billions of dollars. No numbers have been put on personal losses of the
masses of people in terms of their homes, cars, household possessions, let
alone irreplaceable personal items of precious, sentimental value....
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The eyes of the world were glued to their TV screens. TeleSUR and the BBC in Spanish transmitted live the almost three-hour-long press conference of the representatives of FARC-EP and the Colombian government on Oct. 18, at the end of the establishment of the Peace Negotiation table in Oslo, Norway....
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Supporters of Bani Walid’s people demonstrated outside the General National Congress parliament in Tripoli, Libya, on Oct. 21 calling for a halt to the town’s siege. Bani Walid’s 80,000 people were a bastion of support for the former Jamahiriya government led by the martyred Col. Moammar Gadhafi. Protesters attempted to enter the building but were dispersed by police....
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So now we finally know part of the terrible truth. Will the Human Right Council finally wake up and start to investigate the thousands upon thousands of war crimes, committed by the Anglo-American occupation forces and their local Iraqi stooges? Will the ICC finally do what it is created for: persecute war criminals? Investigate the US genocide in Iraq? Please? After more than one million deaths, and millions of refugees?...
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With Hugo Chavez’s historic win this October, the Venezuelan people
have committed to carry forward the Bolivarian Revolution, with its advances in
social equality, human rights, community power, and more. Join us this January
to witness the presidential inauguration on January 10th, followed by visits to
different parts of the country. One of the focuses of this trip will be food
sovereignty, or how both the government and the people are taking back control
of the country’s agricultural and food systems. We will also explore
other areas of social transformation, including education, healthcare, and
direct citizen participation in the political process. There will also be trips
to beaches, parks, and other sites of interest....
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With Hugo Chavez’s historic win this October, the Venezuelan people have committed to carry forward the Bolivarian Revolution, with its advances in social equality, human rights, community power, and more. Join us this January to witness the presidential inauguration on January 10th, followed by visits to different parts of the country. One of the focuses of this trip will be food sovereignty, or how both the government and the people are taking back control of the country’s agricultural and food systems. We will also explore other areas of social transformation, including education, healthcare, and direct citizen participation in the political process. There will also be trips to beaches, parks, and other sites of interest....
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Turkey’s war jets forced down a civilian airliner flying from Moscow
to Damascus. Thirty-five Russians and Syrians were passengers on the Oct. 10
flight, endangered by the action. U.S. spokesperson Victoria Nuland immediately
supported Turkey’s act of air piracy. Also, some 150 U.S. special troops
moved into Syria’s southern neighbor, Jordan....
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As famine lurks throughout Haiti and cholera
daily kills the weak, the very young and the old, the response of the Haitian
people has been growing militancy. In massive numbers they have taken to the
streets to demand an end to the corrupt regime of President Michel
Martelly....
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One year since the brutal assassination of former Libyan leader Col. Moammar
Gadhafi, the Republican Party is using Libya’s political crisis in an
attempt to defeat President Barack Obama in the Nov. 6 election. Both U.S.
ruling-class parties backed the 2011 war against this oil-producing nation that
had maintained the highest standard of living in Africa....
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Information on Venezuela’s recent presidential elections....
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On Oct. 15, New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority announced the
fourth round of fare hikes in four years. During that time the MTA has also
been on a cutback frenzy. Dozens of station booths have been demolished. The
transit agency has made it harder for people with disabilities to qualify for
Access-A-Ride....
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The horrible, near-fatal shooting of a young Pakistani schoolgirl,
reportedly by members of the Taliban, has focused world attention on the
conflict between the armed Islamic group and Pakistani advocates of education
for women. Malala Yousafzai, 14 years old, was shot in the head and neck while
on a school bus, according to her classmates. She has been flown to Britain to
receive medical attention for severe damage to her skull....
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Along with DuPont and Syngenta, Monsanto controls 47 percent of the
worldwide proprietary seed market....
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If genetically modified (GM) foods and genetically engineered (GE) agricultural products are as “safe” as manufacturers Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences claim, why go to such great lengths to block efforts to label them?...
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For over a year and a half we've been hearing about what's going on in the Middle East, and the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. Yet with all the proclamations of ‘free press’ we seldom hear the voices of those most affected by war and terrorism....
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Solidarity with the victims and their families...
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he 11th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was not forgotten
by anti-imperialist activists inside the United States. From New York City to
Los Angeles, and in dozens of cities in between, the ongoing war and occupation
were denounced at actions held Oct. 5-7. Initiated by the United National
Antiwar Coalition and related organizations, the series of protests demanded
“U.S./NATO out of Afghanistan!” “Hands off Syria!”
“Don’t attack Iran!” “No more drone attacks!” and
“No sanctions!” Following are outlines of actions in several
cities....
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Turkey’s war-jets forced down a civilian airliner, flying from Moscow to Damascus. Thirty-five Russians and Syrians were passengers. This aggressive act brings NATO another step closer to open war against Syria as part of an imperialist plan to take over the country.
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On Thursday, at 3:00 PM in front of the MTA headquarters, anti-war activists, Muslim clergy and others will hold a press conference to announce legal action to prevent the MTA from blocking ads countering war, hate and racism.
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Faced with the risk that the escalating tension between Syria and Turkey
will lead to an open NATO attack on Syria, either directly or through the
Turkish army, the Platform Against Imperialist War CALLS UPON THE POPULATION TO
REACT WITH DETERMINATION TO OPPOSE THIS NEW AGGRESSION FROM THE IMPERIALIST
POWERS OF THE U.S., THE EU AND ISRAEL....
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I am dedicating the 20th-anniversary author edition of “Stone Butch
Blues” to CeCe McDonald and the ever growing struggle to free her....
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New York — The capitalist media waged a frenzied war campaign against
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejahd while the United Nations was in
session the end of September. This propaganda campaign was designed to create
popular support for “regime change” in Iran so that Wall Street can
take over that country’s oil resources....
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The autopsy report released Oct. 2 officially ruled
Anthony Anderson’s death a homicide. The report showed he died from a
ruptured spleen, severe blunt trauma injuries, six to 10 broken ribs and other
injuries. The Baltimore People’s Assembly – including
Anderson’s family – is calling for the jailing of killer
cops....
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A step forward toward building people’s power was taken in
Philadelphia when activists met on Sept. 26 in the western part of the city.
The People’s Power Assembly had been preceded by a series of speakouts
during the summer where community residents addressed the issues that concerned
them....
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Money is the lifeblood of capitalism.More and more, the bankers have it
locked away in their vaults and don’t know what to do with it. They
already face that most irrational feature of capitalism,
“overproduction,” which to them means that corporations
aren’t expanding because there’s not much of a market for more
goods and services, so therefore companies aren’t borrowing money and the
bankers are stuck with cash that’s just sitting there, not drawing
interest....
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While staying aware of its destructive capacity, we can expand our view if
we also examine its weaknesses. The Pentagon’s Achilles’ heel lies
within the contradictions of the capitalist system that created this
monstrosity....
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Sara Flounders has been active in progressive and anti-war organizing since
the 1960s. She is co-director of the International Action Center and
co-authored and/or edited 10 books the IAC published on U.S. wars and sanctions
against Iraq and Yugoslavia, on U.S. use of depleted uranium weapons, on Haiti
and Colombia, and on opposing military recruiters. She writes regularly for the
Marxist Workers World newspaper, and speaks on U.S. imperialist aggression on
alternative and corporate media outlets. She helped coordinate major
International War Crimes Tribunals to document the U.S. planned destruction of
Iraq and Yugoslavia and a Tribunal on earlier U.S. crimes in Korea....
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NATO-member Turkey has used alleged mortar fire from Syria as a pretext to
launch artillery fire across the border, killing Syrian soldiers, and to
prepare military intervention. NATO -- an alliance mainly of the former
colonial overlords of the world and the current biggest imperialist powers --
immediately supported Turkey's aggression. The British and German
governments, the European Union and the U.S. all criticized the Syrian
government and sympathized with Turkey. The Turkish Parliament has approved
further attacks....
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The International Action Center plans to submit an ad opposed to racism,
anti-Muslim bigotry and war to the MTA on Friday morning, Sept. 28. The IAC ads
are in response to the racist ads posted in NYC subway stations — placed
by Pam Geller from Stop Islamization of America and American Freedom Defense
Initiative. Geller's ads refer to Muslim community members as being
"savages" among other offensive language....
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Racism is a weapon of war. We stand in solidarity with
victims of police, state, and racial violence and build links to people under
attack – Muslims, Sikhs, immigrant workers, death row prisoners,
African-American and Latino youth, social justice activists are all
targets in an atmosphere of escalating racism and
repression....
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The International Action Center has contracted with MTA to run 10 ads opposed to racism, anti-Muslim bigotry and war. The IAC ads will be in NYC subway stations in one week, starting Monday, Oct 8. They are in response to the racist ads posted in NYC subway stations — placed by Pam Geller from Stop Islamization of America and American Freedom Defense Initiative. Geller's ads refer to Muslim community members as being "savages" among other offensive language.
Two years ago around the 9-11 date Pamela Geller, in a well-funded media campaign, tried to whip up in NYC the same climate of bigotry and intolerance against Muslims with an ugly campaign against the building of an Islamic Center blocks from the World Trade Center. The International Action Center with a broad coalition of forces challenged this campaign to demonize Muslims. Many thousands of people responded with mass rallies and meetings. A strong, united public challenge to the racist, bigoted forces helped to turn the ugly climate around. It is essential that all those outraged by the racist, pro-violent message be able to see a different message. The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) publicly stated that in order to protect freedom of speech, they must accept extreme right-wing racist Geller's $6,000 for 10 ads in the largest mass transit system in the western hemisphere with 8.5 million daily riders. The IAC is an all volunteer organization without funding,a except many small individual donations. It has advanced the funds to undertake this campaign because we felt it was important to counter the 'hate messaging' of Geller. But we hope many people will step forward to help carry the costs....
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This week the MTA issued another slap in the face to its riders. As if the
new round of fare hikes weren't enough, it carried racist, anti-Muslim ads
in ten NY subway stations.
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South African police have arrested striking workers in an effort to stem
protests and violence in the areas surrounding platinum and gold mines. Since
rock-drill operators walked off the job in August at the Lonmin Platinum
facilities at Marikana, 45 people have been killed....
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Some 1 million of Portugal’s 11 million people held massive marches in
Lisbon, Oporto and 38 other cities and towns to condemn the austerity policies
of the troika — the European Union, the European Central Bank and the
International Monetary Fund — and of the three parties backing austerity
in Parliament....
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There are times in history when war and politics converge with economics to
create a true turning point, a point at which things cannot and will not ever
be the same. Such points in time are marked by fierce struggle....
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During the period of September 18 to October 1, 2012, heads of states and
high-level officials from the world over will be gathering in New York to
address the 67th session of the U.N. General Assembly.
Pakistan USA Freedom Forum sees this as an ideal time for all peace-loving
people to send a clear message to the UN and the world and demand:
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The International Action Center joins the call by the United National Antiwar Coalition for demonstrations, meetings, vigils or other actions for the weekend of Oct. 5-7, along with protests internationally in 3 cities in Canada - Vancouver, Toronto, Windsor and protests in London, Tehran, Iran and Islamabad, Pakistan to mark the 11th anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan....
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Animated short on the impact of depleted uranium weapons and the
international campaign against them, produced by the International Coalition to
Ban Uranium Weapons and IKV Pax Christi....
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Following on what organizers describe as a hugely
successful community gathering of over 2000 people at Riverside Church, a
coalition of sponsoring groups is calling for a meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo
at his New York office on September 26 to discuss shutting down the notorious
Attica Correctional Facility....
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The massive, angry demonstrations and attacks on U.S. embassies sweeping
through the Muslim world comes in the context of a campaign against Muslims
carried out by the U.S. government in an attempt to justify their wars against
Muslim countries. This campaign includes preemptive prosecutions where FBI
agents create phony plots and encourage behavior that can be prosecuted and
attacks on civil liberties at home; the Peter King hearings; NYPD spying on
Muslims; raids and detentions; and states that have passed anti-Muslim laws. It
includes the physical attacks on Muslims, on mosques and on people who racist
whites think are Muslims, like Sikhs, and opposition to Muslim building
projects like Park 51 and much more....
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Charlotte, N.C. — Over 300 Southern workers, trade unionists and
community allies gathered for the Southern Workers Assembly on Sept. 3, Labor
Day, the opening day of the Democratic National Convention. The Wedgewood
Baptist Church was packed and supporters had to stand beside the pews. There
was a feeling in the air that Southern labor was uniting to forge a historic
new direction, towards rank-and-file-led social justice trade unionism,
particularly to challenge right-to-work (for less) laws and combat racism....
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As activists gear up for a Sept. 14 event in New York promoting the struggle
to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, the state of Philadelphia has lodged another attack
against him. On Aug. 15, this internationally revered political prisoner was
illegally sentenced to life imprisonment....
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A meeting in Tehran starting Aug. 26 puts into the sharpest perspective the
waning position of U.S. imperialism globally and especially in the Middle East.
Both the U.S. and Israel’s demands for a boycott of the meeting were
ignored. Clearly the U.S. hold is slipping....
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Nine years after the crushing to death of Rachel Aliene Corrie by an Israeli
bulldozer, a judge in Haifa has absolved the state of Israel of any
responsibility, either for her death or for failing to hold a full and credible
investigation....
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he United National Anti-war Coalition has called for protest actions across
the country on the anniversary of the imperialist U.S. invasion of
Afghanistan....
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Drop the charges against Leslie Feinberg: Court re-charges transgender author for action supporting CeCe McDonald
Call the City Attorney today! ...
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Some 50 workers celebrated outside the jail as South African authorities
announced on Sept. 2 that they were provisionally dropping murder charges
against 270 miners. All the jailed workers were scheduled to be released by
Sept. 6...
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Charlotte, N.C. — Called “the March on Wall Street South,”
a demonstration confronting the banks and corporations headquartered here that
are wreaking havoc across the country filled the uptown streets of this
Southern financial center on Sept. 2....
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hirty-four African miners were killed by police on Aug. 16 in Marikana, South Africa. Another 78 were wounded and 259 were arrested.These platinum miners were striking against Lonmin PLC-based in London-for living wages and safety. Every month a worker dies in the mines owned by Lonmin....
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Charlotte, N.C. — Volunteer activists with the March on Wall Street South coalition are in high gear mobilizing for a week of protest actions Sept. 1-6 around the Democratic National Convention. These events include a Festivaliberacion on Sept. 1, a march and rally on Sept. 2, and a Southern Workers Assembly on Sept. 3....
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The people must prepare to defend ourselves against the life-threatening and ever-intensifying economic and social misery that Wall Street and its politicians are imposing on us, including endless war....
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Chavela Vargas, born Isabel Vargas Lizano in the town of San Joaquín de Flores, Costa Rica, died at the age of 93 in Cuernavaca, México, on Aug. 5. A singer as well as a sex and gender rebel, Vargas emigrated to Mexico at the age of 14 and lived most of her life there as a naturalized Mexican citizen....
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Each week brings U.S. imperialism closer to direct military intervention in Syria with the aim of overthrowing the government of President Bashir al-Assad and crushing Syria’s independence and sovereignty. Up to now Washington has avoided direct intervention, working instead with its NATO allies through Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to fund and arm the reactionary opposition to Assad and the Syrian people....
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Ecuador, with the support of much of Latin America, is in what may be a long-term standoff with British imperialism over the fate of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange....
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Residents of Tampa Bay, Fla., are about to have their lives disrupted, not by a hurricane but by the heavily scripted exercise in political propaganda that is the Republican National Convention. Starting Aug. 27, roads and bridges will be closed, area businesses and schools shuttered, transportation services altered and heavily armed police will be everywhere. For four days, those who call Tampa Bay home will be excluded from the downtown convention area and subject to police search....
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Aug. 20 — Striking platinum miners have defied Lonmin Platinum PLC’s back to work orders and continue their job action in Marikana, South Africa, despite a horrific police massacre and threats of termination. This is the British-based, multibillion-dollar firm’s latest ultimatum to the mineworkers, who walked off their jobs on Aug. 10 to protest low salaries and poor working conditions....
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The International Action Center will be marching and urges all progressives to join in with the Coalition to March on the RNC in Tampa, FLA on August 27 . And on September 2, we will join with the Coalition to March on Wall St South;in Charlotte, NC for a March for Jobs and Justice at the start of the DNC....
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With the Non-Aligned Movement meeting this week in Tehran, Veterans For Peace is urging the organization of 120 nations not formally allied with any major power bloc to take steps to deter the Israeli-American threats of war against Iran over its nuclear enrichment program....
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On the day following the 41st anniversary of the Atticamassacre of courageous prisoners rising up against intolerable oppression, we come together to fight mass incarceration and to demand the closing of Attica as a symbolic commitment to this larger goal. We build on the powerful commemoration that took place last September 9 at Riverside Church....
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On Aug. 13, 2012, without any notice and in violation of his constitutional rights and state law, Mumia Abu-Jamal was formally sentenced by Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Pamela Dembe to life imprisonment without parole. The impact of this illegal sentencing is to prevent a possible challenge to the slow death of life imprisonment. All sentences, including "mandatory" sentences, require a formal proceeding allowing the person to be sentenced the right to be heard and to challenge his sentence....
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Ed Childs, chief steward of UNITE HERE Local 26 in Boston, has been in Charlotte since Aug. 1, hitting the streets, meeting and talking with poor and working people throughout the city as part of organizing efforts for the March on Wall Street South on Sept. 2....
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Organizing is in high gear for protests outside the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Charlotte, N.C., and Tampa, Fla., respectively. In Charlotte, the Sept. 2 “March on Wall Street South” will target the big banks that are headquartered in that city as well as the Democrats’ role in keeping up the status quo of the wealthy 1% or ruling elite....
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Charlotte, N.C. — Members and supporters of the March on Wall Street South: Building People’s Power at the DNC Coalition held an all-day national organizing conference at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Aug. 11. With only three weeks left to mobilize for the coalition’s protest activities scheduled for Sept. 1-6 around the Democratic National Convention, organizers gave reportbacks, conducted workshops, made outreach plans, provided cultural presentations, developed relationships with other participants and much more. Events scheduled or supported by the coalition include the Festivaliberación Sept. 1, the major MOWSS march and rally Sept. 2, and the Southern Workers Assembly Sept. 3....
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New York — Joseph “Jazz” Hayden, age 71, is an African-American Harlem resident. On his neighborhood “cop watch” beat, armed with his camera, he videotapes police brutality against Harlem residents, including unlawful stop-and-frisks. Hayden has been a longtime community activist and police reform advocate fighting to end the racially biased harassment of people of color....
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New York — Joseph “Jazz” Hayden, age 71, is an African-American Harlem resident. On his neighborhood “cop watch” beat, armed with his camera, he videotapes police brutality against Harlem residents, including unlawful stop-and-frisks. Hayden has been a longtime community activist and police reform advocate fighting to end the racially biased harassment of people of color. In December 2011, Hayden was stopped by police. He and his car were searched, resulting in his arrest. He was charged with two counts of felony possession of weapons. The weapons were a commemorative mini-replica of a baseball bat and a pen knife. Each count carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison....
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Gu Kailai’s trial and conviction for the alleged murder of British businessperson Neil Heywood is a show trial staged by the top leadership of the Communist Party of China for purely political purposes....
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Can a dollar figure be put on the Olympics? The answer is yes, according to a July 25 CNN article entitled, “Is the Olympics worth more than Google?” The article dissects a report released by Brand Finance, a worldwide consultative firm, which reveals that the XXX Olympics in London are worth $47.5 billion, second only to Apple at $70.6 billion and just ahead of Google at $47.4 billion. This particular view is based on figures in the International Olympic Committee’s financial statements. The worth of the games is reportedly more than that of Coca-Cola, Samsung and General Electric....
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New York — Representatives from the New York metropolitan region met on Aug. 1 to forge plans to demonstrate at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions....
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton toured nine African countries over an 11-day period beginning Aug. 1. During the tour Washington’s top diplomat pushed U.S. militarism and verbally attacked the People’s Republic of China. Clinton’s visit comes just two weeks after a major Africa-China summit meeting in Beijing between 50 countries on the continent and Chinese government leaders....
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The summer Olympics began in 1896 in Athens, Greece, as a vehicle for bringing together mainly amateur athletes from around the world who qualified to compete in various sports. Excluding the cancellation of these games in 1916, 1940 and 1944 due to two World Wars, the summer Olympics have taken place every four years in industrialized cities in North America, Europe and Asia. In 2016, the XXXI Olympics will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — the first Latin American country to host the games....
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he fighting in Syria is shaping up as a military showdown between the Syrian army on one side and “rebel” fighters openly backed by the U.S.-NATO imperialist powers, along with Israel, on the other. These “rebels” are being armed directly through NATO-member Turkey and the Qatari and Saudi Arabian monarchies....
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IAC joins other progressive organizations in urging people to sign on to the following statement on FBI raids and grand jury repression in Portland, Ore., and Olympia and Seattle, Wash....
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The city of Anaheim is about a 40- to 50-minute drive south of Los Angeles and is the home of Disneyland. Yet the terror of police repression — so familiar in the Black, Latino/a and immigrant communities of Los Angeles — was unleashed in Anaheim twice, on July 21 and 22....
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Organizing for the March on Wall Street South is going full speed ahead in Charlotte and across North Carolina and beyond....
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China’s Olympic triumphs prove once again the transforming nature of revolutions.
The People’s Republic of China sent its first delegation of athletes to the 1952 Olympic summer games in Helsinki, Finland. Arriving late, they were able to participate in only one sporting event. Due to the imperialists refusing to recognize the Chinese communist government in Beijing, and instead declaring Taiwan the representative of China in the Olympics, the PRC boycotted the summer games for the next 32 years....
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Black Zimbabweans lost their land during the colonial era, beginning in the late 19th century. In 1998 it became clear that the Republic of Zimbabwe in southern Africa would take action regarding long-delayed promises to distribute land to African farmers...
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Thousands of HIV-positive people and activists from all over the globe came to the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., in July to confront big drug companies and wealthy capitalist nations and to demand cheaper drugs and desperately needed prevention and treatment programs.
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Mobilizing has begun around the country for the March on Wall Street South: protest actions between Sept. 1 and 6 around the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Activities will include a Sept. 1 Festivaliberación!, focused on youth, students and immigrants; a Sept. 2 March on Wall Street South; and a Sept. 3 Southern Workers Assembly....
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This year, the International AIDS Conference is being held in Washington, D.C., a city with one of the highest HIV rates in the world. At 3 percent, the HIV rate in this country’s capital is close to that of Sub-Saharan Africa’s 5 percent rate. (unaids.org) This situation prevails despite the enormous wealth held by the 1% and the existence of a monumental academic and scientific establishment....
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Teachers, students with jobless futures and indentured to enormous loan debt, and public workers from the U.S. will travel to Tijuana, Mexico, for the Aug. 17 through 19 Ninth U.S./Cuba/Mexico/Latin America Labor Conference. The conference will be preceded by a 3-day seminar from Aug. 15 through 17 led by instructors from the Cuban Workers Central Union’s Lázaro Peña Workers School. The Aug. 17 evening program will uplift the struggle to free the Cuban 5 — Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, Ramón Labañino Salazar, René González Sehwerert, Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez and Fernando González Llort — unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. since 1998....
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We are once again on the verge of another disastrous war in the Middle East. The United States and its allies in Europe and the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are consciously pushing Syria toward a destructive civil war. The objective is to bring down the Assad regime, an ally of the Iranian government, as a stepping-stone toward further isolation of Iran and preparation of the ground for a military attack on that country....
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The most important question raised by the latest massacre in Colorado remains unasked by the corporate media: What is it about social conditions in the United States that promotes these terrible tragedies?...
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Philadelphia — With the stroke of a pen, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett exempted the state’s wealthiest counties from the direct impact of natural gas drilling. The controversial process of hydraulic fracturing — fracking — has taken a heavy toll on the rest of the state, turning many rural and once forested areas into industrial zones, contaminating air and water....
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Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana has not had much to say about the current deadly heat wave that has swept his state and much of the United States. Sitting in his air-conditioned office, he is largely insulated from the disaster that is sweeping not only Indianapolis, the state capital, but most of the country....
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Washington’s strategy to cement a military alliance of the U.S., Japan and south Korea came unglued on June 29 at the last minute as popular pressure forced the Seoul regime to back out of signing a military intelligence-sharing pact with Tokyo.
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Hundreds of striking coal miners marched 285 miles from Asturias on Spain’s north coast to the capital city of Madrid, where thousands of other workers joined them as they entered the city. Hundreds of thousands of others came to show solidarity as the miners’ three-week trek ended with a massive demonstration on July 11....
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With growing threats to the independence and sovereignty of the African continent, the African Union held its 2012 summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 15-16. The meeting was originally scheduled to be held in Malawi, but the country’s new president, Joyce Banda, refused to host the event if Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir attended....
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For a brief moment in time, the name and fate of Trayvon Martin broke through the daily media fog and touched the lives of tens of thousands of people, motivating them, mobilizing them and moving them to take direct action against the gross inaction of the state.
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The struggle for justice for Trayvon Martin, the murdered African-American youth, recently made headlines again. The 17-year-old Martin was unarmed when he was stalked and fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a self-proclaimed neighborhood watch person, in a gated community in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26....
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It is never admitted by U.S. government spokespeople — who love to shout out about “human rights violations” if the target is China or Iran — that the United States has political prisoners. Plenty of them. Many of them have been imprisoned since the Black, Native and Latino/a liberation struggles of the 1960s and 1970s....
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After a major victory last month that won permits to march, organizers with the Coalition to March on Wall Street South are moving forward with their plans for demonstrations before and during the Democratic National Convention. The convention will be held in Charlotte, N.C., during the first week of September....
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A New York City march on June 28 to celebrate the third year of resistance to the U.S.-sponsored coup in Honduras turned into a protest of the recent parliamentary coup in Paraguay as well. The International Action Center’s Committee in Solidarity with the Caribbean and Latin America, joined by activists from Honduras, Puerto Rico, Argentina and Ecuador, rallied near Times Square and then marched to the United Nations, stopping and chanting at the Honduran and Paraguayan consulates on the way....
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Demonstrations against U.S./NATO military intervention in Syria were held in at least 29 cities coast-to-coast in the United States during the week ending July 1. The United National Antiwar Coalition had called the protests and demanded: Hands off Syria and Iran! End the drone wars! and Money for jobs, education and health care, not endless war! Following are brief descriptions of some of these actions....
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On June 23, activists from the International Action Center joined in solidarity with the Peoples Organization for Progress at a rally in Newark, N.J. Held in the heart of the city’s downtown shopping district, this rally was the 363nd consecutive daily protest. POP intends to continue until the number of days equals the number of days of the 1955 Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott that sparked the Civil Rights Movement....
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Another right-wing coup d’état has toppled a democratically elected president in Latin America. Three years after the coup in Honduras that deposed President Manuel Zelaya in June 2009, the same forces have overthrown President Fernando Lugo in Paraguay....
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The Turkish regime, in cahoots with the NATO powers, has carried out a provocation against the Syrian people that threatens a new war of imperialist conquest in Western Asia. That’s the message out of Brussels on June 26, where a cynical meeting of NATO labeled Syria the “aggressor.” Why? Because Syria’s air defenses shot down a Turkish plane flying low and fast into its airspace as it was about to reach its territory. The Turkish government even admitted that its RF4E Phantom jet had flown into Syria’s airspace on June 22 — “erroneously.” Western governments and corporate media immediately heaped the blame on Syria — making it obvious that a planned provocation is in progress. Important sections of the anti-war and progressive movement in the United States have reacted to this new war thacreat, calling actions during the week of June 23 to July 1 to protest NATO war moves. They have also called for “day after” actions following any new U.S., NATO or Turkish aggression against Syria....
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The following timeline reviews the progression of U.S.-NATO intervention
in Syria and counteracts the Big Lie in the corporate media aimed at preparing
open imperialist military aggression against the Syrian people....
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The growing threat of war against Syria is escalating! Recently, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Russia not to get in the way of US backed efforts to force out the government of President Assad. The U.S. supplied Turkish jet shot down over Syria has heightened tensions. While Washington and its NATO allies openly funds and arms mercenary forces in Syria, the corporate media is making every effort to overwhelm us with calls for another "Humanitarian War"....
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The growing threats of war against Syria are alarming. Recently, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Russia not to get in the way of US backed efforts to force out the government of President Assad. The corporate media is making every effort to overwhelm us with calls for another “Humanitarian War”. The drum beat of aggression against Iran grows daily as well. The coup by the U.S. funded and trained Egyptian military, overturning the first popularly elected government in recent history is another ominous warning. The threat of new war is real while US drone attacks are an expanding form of anonymous war....
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During the past three years, the Turkish state has imprisoned some 8000 citizens under the guise of fighting terrorism. In a wave of detentions known as the “KCK operations,” it has targeted activists, academics, journalists, lawyers, students, elected officials, translators and publishers on account of their democratic activities in support of the rights demanded by Kurdish citizens in Turkey....
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Cars, buses and vans of labor and community activists will form a Caravan to Washington, DC, in the early hours of Thursday, June 28, to join a mushrooming national hunger strike to save postal services and jobs....
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Eight people continue to be held in jail in Chicago, arrested before or during the protests against the NATO summit in Chicago in May. Four of the men face terrorism-related charges and the other four serious felonies, while the NATO generals responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands have left town to return to their occupation of Afghanistan and plotting for their next war. ...
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A special event — “Activists want Charles Barron in Congress” — was held at the Solidarity Center in New York City June 8. Barron, a city councilperson, is running for U.S. Representative for Brooklyn’s 8th Congressional District. The primary election takes place June 26....
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The world crisis in education and the attack on public workers is the theme for a special U.S./Cuba/Mexico/Latin America/North America conference Aug. 17-19 in Tijuana, Mexico, which is next door to San Diego....
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Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald, a 24-year-old African-American transgender woman from Minneapolis, was sentenced June 4 to 41 months in prison for defending herself against a brutal attack by neofascists who verbally and physically assaulted McDonald and her friends outside a bar in June 2011. McDonald, who courageously defended herself and her friends against anti-trans, anti-woman, racist slurs and violence, was the only one arrested, charged and jailed at the time....
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The attempted railroading of longtime Chicano, anti-war and immigrant rights leader, Carlos Montes, drew to a close in Los Angeles on June 5 in a victory for the defense. In the end, a plea bargain was accepted that precluded jail time....
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s the U.S. and its allies prepare to intervene in Syria, they have seized on the massacre that took place at Houla last week to justify a war. The State Department called the rampage “despicable” and complained about a regime that could “connive in or organize” such a thing, although who was responsible is very much in dispute. Many countries, including the U.S., have expelled Syrian diplomats, which is often a prelude to war....
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In Chicago, long known as “the Windy City,” people are witnessing mega gales of wind as NATO comes to town....
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The Tinley Park Five — Jason W. Sutherland, Cody L. Sutherland, Dylan J. Sutherland, Alex R. Stuck and John S. Tucker — are currently imprisoned in Cook County Jail in Chicago. The Five, white anti-racist anarchists, were arrested on May 19 for allegedly physically breaking up an “economic summit” by members of the Illinois European Heritage Association at a restaurant in Tinley Park, a Chicago suburb. The Five are facing major felony charges, including “mob action, criminal damage to property and aggravated battery.”...
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A Russian news team was told by Syrian eyewitnesses that the May 25 massacre of civilians in Houla, universally blamed on the Assad government, was in fact committed by local criminals, mercenaries and other forces connected to the imperialist-armed “Free Syrian Army.”...
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On the evening of June 4th, Leslie Feinberg--renowned transgender activist and author of Stone Butch Blues and Trans Liberation--was arrested in solidarity with Chrishaun "CeCe" McDonald. CeCe McDonald is a 24-year-old African American transgender woman who was walking with a group of her friends in Minneapolis on the night of June 5th, 2011. As CeCe and her friends walked by the Schooner Tavern, a group of white bar patrons began shouting racist and transphobic slurs at them. One of the women in the group smashed her beer glass across CeCe's face. In CeCe's struggle to defend her life from this violent attack, one of her attackers died. CeCe was quickly arrested and charged with two counts of second degree murder. In May 2012, CeCe accepted a plea agreement to a reduced charge of second degree manslaughter by negligence, and on June 4th she received a 41-month prison sentence. On June 5th, 2012, she was transferred to a men's prison in St. Cloud, MN....
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The following statement was given by Leslie Feinberg on June 4 prior to the sentencing of CeCe McDonald. Feinberg was arrested later that night at a protest outside the county jail in downtown Minneapolis....
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June 5 — As Pride 2012 is being celebrated this June, bigotry and oppression against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals and communities — along with virulent racism — are alive and well across the United States....
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Carlos wants to thank all the people, organizations, unions and community
people who worked and supported him in this struggle against police/political
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On May 9 – one day before 5,000 anti-NATO protesters took to the streets of downtown Chicago – 8 anti-racist activists allegedly disrupted an “economic summit” held by members of the Illinois European Heritage Association (IEHA) at a restaurant in Tinley Park, a Chicago suburb....
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The Coalition to March on Wall Street South announced a major victory on May 29. The city of Charlotte granted conditional approval for permits for the Sept. 2 March on Wall Street South — after more than eight months of march and parks permit requests, a national petition campaign and threats of legal action. The march will take place one day prior to the Democratic National Convention....
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Cuban President Raul Castro’s daughter heard nothing but applause on May 23 as she made her first public appearance in San Francisco....
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he capitalist government and the big business media in the U.S. have firmly and vociferously taken sides against Bo Xilai and any manifestation of leftist policy in China. These same media and government have also demanded economic and political concessions from the Chinese government....
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Colombians launched a new movement in April that may challenge the oligarchy’s rule there. La Marcha Patriótica [Patriotic March or PM] is an outgrowth of the diverse social movements in Colombia....
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The Chinese government has responded to accusations by the U.S. government and media criticizing that rapidly developing country for purported violations of human rights. On May 25, it issued a very detailed report called “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011.”...
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Quebec’s university students have been waging a determined battle in the past four months to stop the provincial government from carrying through a 75 percent tuition hike....
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May 31 is the 91st anniversary of the “Race Riot” tragedy in Tulsa, Okla. It “was almost left out of history, not documented, passed over, wiped out!” stated Rep. Maxine Waters, of the Congressional Black Caucus....
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A delegation of human rights activists from the U.S., organized by Rights Action and the Alliance for Global Justice, recently visited the site of the May 11 massacre of indigenous Moskito people in Honduras....
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On May 9, President Obama held an interview with Robin Roberts [ABC-TV host], in which he expressed his “evolved” personal belief that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry....
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People today [May 19] released a resolution supporting marriage equality. At a meeting of the 103-year-old civil rights group’s board of directors [in Miami, Fla.], the organization voted to support marriage equality as a continuation of its historic commitment to equal protection under the law....
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Activist Sara Flounders from the International Action Center says that it is
likely that the UN will give an absolutely different version of what happened
in Houla, “because the whole purpose of the UN – peace mission
– from the beginning has been to give a diplomatic cover to continued
intervention in Syria,” she told RT....
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The Democratic National Convention is being held in Charlotte, North
Carolina during the first week in September. Charlotte has become
known as the "Wall Street of the South" because it
is home of Bank of America's world headquarters; Wells Fargo's
eastern regional headquarters; all kinds of other dirty corporations and banks, and has the second largest concentration of finance capital behind NYC. North Carolina is also the least unionized state in the
country....
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Women’s reproductive rights, primarily the right to abortion, are still under attack. With recent attacks by the Catholic Church and right-wing extremists, it is only appropriate that Susan Elizabeth Davis has published her first novel, “Love Means Second Chances.” Set in 1991, college student Christy, whose family is Catholic, battles with her protective but loving mom, Carole, when she decides to have an abortion. The story also revolves around Carole’s own past, when she became pregnant with Christy and her soon-to-be husband had wanted her to get rid of her child. With the help of Christy’s grandmother, Mary Louise, the two women explore how much love is needed at times of a struggle like this. ...
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On May 19, one day before the 15,000-person protest against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Summit in downtown Chicago, another kind of protest took place in a suburban community of Chicago known as Tinley Park. Eighteen anti-racists, with weapons in hand, confronted members of the Illinois European Heritage Association. Ten people were reportedly injured, mainly with head wounds....
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Spokespeople from the NATO countries and their loyal media outlets have seized upon a massacre at Houla, Syria, to mobilize for open imperialist military intervention against the Syrian government and — and no one should doubt this — against the people of Syria. NATO governments have already begun expelling Syrian diplomats. There seems to be no doubt at this time — May 29 — that a massacre took place. There is, however, much confusion about who exactly carried out the massacre. The corporate media is blaming the killings on the Syrian government and calling for foreign intervention. The Syrians, however, deny that their armed forces or police have taken part, blame the killings on the armed opposition and have themselves condemned the killings and are organizing an investigation....
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Spokespeople from the NATO countries and their loyal media outlets have seized upon a massacre at Houla, Syria, to mobilize for open imperialist military intervention against the Syrian government and — and no one should doubt this — against the people of Syria. NATO governments have already begun expelling Syrian diplomats....
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The Hunger Project reports that out of a global population of 6.8 billion, 925 million people do not have sufficient food for members of their households. Moreover, 98 percent of undernourished people live in the so-called developing countries — those states that are colonies or former colonies....
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Quebec students, who have been striking for three months for lower tuition and demonstrating each of the last 25 nights including May 18, have now targeted Law 78, adopted by the Quebec parliament a day earlier....
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The recent G8 summit did nothing to relieve the worldwide capitalist crisis that has cost up to 80 million jobs worldwide since 2008. Nor did it help feed the hungry, stop global warming or prevent wars....
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This city was the scene of an historic outpouring of activism and indignation on May 20, when at least 15,000 people rallied and marched in opposition to the imperialist war policies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The demonstration took place in defiance of state and ruling-class intimidation, which was engineered by the city administration and the corporate media under the aegis of the White House and the Pentagon. For weeks the local and national pro-business and military-friendly media had been inundated with reports of possible street violence and mass arrests. It was an attempt to discourage people from coming to Chicago for a series of activities that began on the weekend of May 12-13 with a People’s Summit. ...
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We are at a critical time. The trial for Carlos Montes will start June 20, and run for a week. We need you to pack the courtroom. Your presence during his trial will make the difference between his freedom and prison time!...
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The International Action Center congratulates the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda (CANG8) for a well-organized, powerful united mass rally with a focused message against NATO, NATO's wars, growing repression and the disastrous cuts in every social program. May 20 was, despite all the threats and violence baiting, the largest antiwar demonstration in many years....
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The International Action Center congratulates the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda (CANG8) for a well-organized, powerful united mass rally with a focused message against NATO, NATO's wars, growing repression and the disastrous cuts in every social program. May 20 was, despite all the threats and violence baiting, the largest antiwar demonstration in many years....
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Movement activists are poised to protest the frame-up of veteran Chicano organizer Carlos Montes in Los Angeles. Montes’ trial is set for May 15....
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The capitalist media worldwide have given a resounding show of support for the cause of Chen Guangcheng, a sightless dissident activist and pawn of U.S. intelligence who was smuggled into the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on April 27....
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The second-degree murder trial of Chrishaun “CeCe” McDonald in Minneapolis started April 30 and ended May 2. McDonald’s situation highlights the anti-transgender bigotry and racism rampant in society, as well as the inability of the “justice” system to mete out justice for the oppressed....
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All around the U.S. and the world, people are reacting with justifiable outrage and shock at the harsh prison sentence leveled against Marissa Alexander, an African-American mother of three, in Jacksonville, Fla. Alexander was sentenced to 20 years in prison on May 11 for using the “Stand Your Ground” law to protect herself from her abusive ex-spouse. This state law supposedly upholds the right to self-defense for anyone who feels threatened with bodily harm....
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he following speech was given by the late Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, on Aug. 15, 1970, on gay and women’s rights. Shelley Ettinger, a lesbian activist, wrote on her blog, “Read Red,” about Newton’s speech: “I think it's important to remember this speech because the Black liberation movement and even the Black community as a whole are so often slandered as though they're somehow more sexist and/or homophobic than other movements or other sectors of society, and here we have a great revolutionary leader speaking out just one year after the Stonewall Rebellion, far earlier than almost anyone else.” In light of President Barack Obama’s recent announcement in support of same-sex marriage, we are reprinting in its entirety Newton’s historic speech that urged revolutionary class solidarity with these oppressed groupings. ...
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Larry Holmes and I have been visiting political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal for 16 years. We started visiting him when he was on death row at State Correctional Institution-Greene in Waynesburg, Pa., which is near the West Virginia border. Our trips there by car from New York City would take at least seven hours, and even longer by bus....
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Below is the press release issued by the National Lawyers Guild about the criminal actions of the Chicago Police Department against prominent Occupy Chicago activists....
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s Egyptians prepare for the first round of national presidential elections on May 23-24, the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has enacted a series of repressive measures. Clashes between armed militias of supporters of the Islamist political parties killed up to 20 people on May 2 outside the Ministry of Defense in the Abbassiya District of Cairo. Many believe SCAF backs the militias....
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Thousands of activists plan to come to Chicago to protest the May 20 summit of the so-called North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But this U.S.-dominated gang of warmakers and enforcers for the banks will not be the only international organization meeting in Chicago that weekend....
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While the elections in Greece and France had a common thread — rejecting austerity — their impacts will be different....
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The capitalist media worldwide have given a resounding show of support for the cause of Chen Guangcheng, a sightless dissident activist and pawn of U.S. intelligence who was smuggled into the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on April 27....
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April 27 marked the 40th anniversary of the passing of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the founder of modern-day Ghana and a leading theoretician of the post-World War II national liberation movement for unity and socialism. Nkrumah’s legacy is reflected in the ongoing efforts of the peoples of Africa and the world who seek genuine freedom from colonialism, neocolonialism and imperialism....
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Charles Taylor, former rebel leader and head of state in the West African country of Liberia, was convicted on April 26 by the Special Tribunal on Sierra Leone. The court, held in the Netherlands, was ostensibly set up by the United Nations in conjunction with the Sierra Leone government....
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The Campaign to Stop Killer Coke partnered with Occupy Atlanta, the International Action Center and other organizations to stage a two-prong action at the annual Coca-Cola stockholders’ meeting, held at the Cobb Galleria in suburban Atlanta on April 25....
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Longtime Los Angeles Chicano activist and organizer Carlos Montes will go on trial May 15 on trumped-up charges that amount to political persecution. Montes’ supporters are mobilizing for his legal and popular defense....
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Carlos Montes goes on trial Tuesday, May 15, to 22, 2012 because District Attorney Steve Cooley is moving forward with the FBI-initiated political prosecution against this long time Chicano leader and anti-war, labor, and immigrant rights activist. Along with the FBI, District Attorney Steve Cooley is attempting to imprison Carlos Montes on charges stemming from 42 years ago....
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The International Action Center urges you to take immediate action on the appeal below in solidarity with 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike in the prisons of the U.S.-backed Israeli apartheid regime....
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Over the last several months, a grouping within the Occupy Wall Street movement has met hundreds of times to discuss getting involved with May Day. The discussions and deliberations in these meetings exemplify how much the events that erupted on Wall Street last September signify that a movement has been born in this country....
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A broad array of immigrant rights groups, day laborers, grassroots unionists, street vendors, community organizations and some of the city’s most important labor unions have joined the youthful Occupy Wall Street movement in calling on everyone to be in Union Square on May Day....
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Having a “heavy heart” and being “devastated” were the main words that Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin used when the killer of their 17-year-old son, Trayvon Martin, was released on a $150,000 bond from the Sanford, Fla., jail....
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The potential environmental hazards resulting from the oil and natural gas industry’s drive for super-profits are becoming increasingly apparent and alarming. The evidence is surfacing from the Gulf of Mexico, two years after the major BP oil spill, to the waters of the Susquehanna River, heavily impacted by a decade of Marcellus Shale fracking....
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The Coalition to Protest at the Democratic National Convention held its national organizing conference April 14 in Charlotte to discuss action plans. Activists from throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Detroit, Atlanta, New York City and Philadelphia discussed and adopted action plans for the first week in September....
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The campaign in China to discredit Bo Xilai has reached a new crescendo. Every newspaper, television and radio station in the country has carried official statements and editorials attacking Bo and repeating the charge that he is under investigation for unspecified “serious disciplinary violations.” ...
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Close to 1,000 people from around the U.S. protested in front of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. on
April 24, the 58th birthday of political prisoner – Mumia Abu-Jamal – to demand his release. ...
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The “5 Days for the Cuban 5 in Washington, D.C.” are over, but its broad and unified call to the Obama administration continues to echo: Open the U.S. prison doors and return Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González, Antonio Guerrero and Rene González to their Cuban homeland....
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On December 9, 2011 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, over 1,100 people gathered to mark the 30th anniversary of Mumia Abu-Jamal's incarceration. Archbishop Desmond Tutu asked our nation to "rise to the challenge of reconciliation, human rights, and justice" and called for Mumia's "immediate release." And when Frances Goldin--Mumia's literary agent--called on the audience to OCCUPY the Justice Department, the call was met with a roar of excitement....
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Ahmed Ben Bella, the first president of independent Algeria, and one of the great revolutionary figures of Arab nationalism, died on April 11 at age of 96....
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A youngster goes out for a snack, simply something to munch on and a sweet drink to wash it down with. A man nearby sees him and suspicion arises. In a matter of moments, the unarmed teenager is dead and the shooter calmly claims self-defense. The cops come, called by people who witnessed the transaction. They chat with the shooter, perhaps exchange information in the way usually done at a traffic accident, put in a call to the court and leave. Imagine the dialogue:...
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Activists from around the world will gather in Washington, D.C., on April 24 to occupy the Justice Department and demand the full release of radical journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. Their motivation stems from the historic peoples’ victory that removed Abu-Jamal from death row and stopped the state’s repeated efforts to kill him. ...
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The campaign of vilification to destroy Bo Xilai is an all-out attempt by the top leadership of the Communist Party of China to put up a smokescreen concealing a right-left political struggle over the deepening economic and political penetration of capitalism at the summits of Chinese society....
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From September 1-6, 2012, poor and working people from across the world will march on the Wall Street of the South in Charlotte, North Carolina....
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In Florida in 1998, five Cuban men were arrested and eventually tried on
trumped-up charges of conspiracy to commit espionage, and given sentences
ranging from 15 years to 2 live terms plus 15 years....
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On April 28, women will march and rally in state capitals and major U.S. cities against the recent attacks on women and in defense of women’s rights. This initiative, started by two women on Feb. 19 with a Facebook page titled, “Organizing Against the War on Women,” has caught fire with angry women all over the country. ...
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I am going to start out with an apology. I am directing it most sincerely to Trayvon's mother who is bearing a burden no mother should ever have — the sudden, violent death of her child. But I most respectfully must disagree when she states that this is not a "white and Black thing.” It is. It is just the latest in a long series of Black and white "things" that have been happening ever since the first Black person was ripped from all he knew and loved and transported unwillingly as a chattel slave from Africa to serve the Europeans (whites) in America....
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Protests have continued around the country demanding justice for the African-American youth, Trayvon Martin, who was gunned down by vigilante George Zimmerman on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla. The following are news reports from some of those actions that helped to pressure authorities to arrest Zimmerman on April 11....
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Students and community people marched and rallied April 16 at the Pontiac Academy for Excellence in Education to demand the school rehire teacher Brooke Harris, 26, who was terminated after her students participated in an educational project related to the struggle for justice for Trayvon Martin....
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The arrest on April 11 of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin is an important victory. Millions of people in the U.S., however, agree that the struggle for justice for Martin is far from over. Those who have come out into the streets chanting “I am Trayvon Martin” — and many of them are new to the movement — have come to understand exactly what it took to get Zimmerman charged with second-degree murder. And it wasn’t putting their confidence in the racist Florida authorities....
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In 2006, immigrant workers and their supporters revived May Day as part of a
spring of actions against the Sensenbrenner bill which attempted to criminalize
immigrants, especially the undocumented....
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Congratulations on being part of the historic victory which got Mumia off death row! The amazing 30-year-old international movement to free Mumia did it. Despite great efforts to kill Mumia by the state of Pennsylvania and all its backers -- the courts, the police, the corporate institutions and the politicians who hate him for telling the truth about who runs America -- we stopped them from killing our brother....
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On December 9, 2011 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, over 1,100 people gathered to mark the 30th anniversary of Mumia Abu-Jamal's incarceration. Archbishop Desmond Tutu asked our nation to "rise to the challenge of reconciliation, human rights, and justice" and called for Mumia's "immediate release." And when Frances Goldin--Mumia's literary agent--called on the audience to OCCUPY the Justice Department, the call was met with a roar of excitement. ...
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A historic unity has been achieved in NYC. Immigrant groups, labor, the Occupy Wall Street and progressive movement have united for one single demonstration at Union Square on Tuesday, May 1st....
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Starting this weekend, solidarity friends from different U.S.
cities, Canada and Europe will gather in the capital of the United States to
denounce the colossal injustice committed against the Cuban 5 and to demand
that President Obama immediately release these men whose only crime was
to defend their people from the scourge of terrorism. Until the Cuban 5
return to their homeland the solidarity movement will continue to demand that
the U.S. government grant regular visas to all the family members of the
Five....
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It is now world news that Bo Xilai, a high-ranking member of the 25-member Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, has been removed from his key post as Party Secretary of the important Chongqing branch of the CCP....
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On August 27, 2012, while the Republican National Convention selects a candidate for president, we will be marching in the streets of Tampa, Florida demanding jobs, healthcare, education, equality and peace. We will let the entire world know, "We have had enough of the endless attacks on the rights of working people and our standard of living!" We will defend Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. We will defend ourselves against union busting. We will defend our children's right to an affordable, quality education. We want money spent on human needs, not on wars overseas and corporate greed....
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Black Workers for Justice held its 29th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Banquet on April 7 at the North Carolina Association of Educators building in Raleigh, N.C. BWFJ has a rich history of anti-racist, pro-worker fightback in the U.S. South and especially in North Carolina, which remains the least unionized state in the country. North Carolina’s public sector workers continue to fight for the right to collective bargaining....
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The ouster of Bo Xilai as Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing comes at a juncture of intensifying contradictions, pressures and antagonisms in China. They reflect three decades of a steadily advancing encroachment of the capitalist mode of production and a dangerous erosion of the socialist framework established by the great Chinese Revolution of 1949....
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A historic unity has been achieved in NYC. Immigrant groups, labor, the Occupy
Wall Street and progressive movement have united for one single demonstration
at Union Square on Tuesday, May 1st....
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It is with great sadness that we announce that peace and justice activist Ed
Lewinson, passed away on April 10 at his home in South Orange, NJ. Sara
Flounders who visited Ed at St Barnabus Hospital several days before he died
said that Ed was alert, interested in the struggle and following the news....
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George Zimmerman, the killer of the 17-year-old African American Trayvon Martin, was formally charged on April 11 with second-degree murder. It took the state of Florida 45 days to make an arrest of the wanna-be-cop Zimmerman, who fatally shot the unarmed teenager on Feb. 26 because he looked “suspicious” while wearing a hoodie. The charge was announced by Angela Corey, a special prosecutor who was assigned to the case on March 14 in order to decide whether or not to bring charges against Zimmerman. A conviction can carry anywhere from a 25-year sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole....
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Activities include lobbying, lit distribution, documentary film
screenings, public cultural events. Personalities, actors and artists, union
leaders, writers, researchers, and activists from the U.S. and abroad will
gather in D.C. for these days....
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Momentum is building for concentrated activity in Washington DC, as a growing list of endorsers who support changing relations with Cuba embrace 5 days for the Cuban 5, April 17 to 21. Last week Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers and actor Danny Glover both agreed to participate in the largest of the public events, "Obama Give me Five" on Friday April 20th at 6:00 pm. The evening of exhibits, speakers and poetry will take place at the Festival Center, located at 1640 Columbia Road, NW, Washington....
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As national outrage has grown against the racist murder of Trayvon Martin, protests have taken place around the country, many on a day or two’s notice in large and small cities and towns. Everyone who has participated is demanding justice in this case and the immediate arrest of George Zimmerman, the vigilante who killed the 17-year-old African-American youth in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26....
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New Delhi, India, was the venue for the fourth BRICS Summit, which convened on March 29. BRICS stands for Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa, which together house 43 percent of the world’s population and are playing a greater role within a world economic system still dominated by the capitalist mode of production and social relations....
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Even as the failure of authorities in Florida to arrest the killer of 17-year-old African-American Trayvon Martin continues to stoke the fires of righteous anger at racism, another killing has taken place that has touched a nerve of outrage and solidarity around the U.S....
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On Thursday, April 12, Dr. Tarek Mehanna will be sentenced in Moakley U.S. Courthouse in Boston. The Tarek Mehanna Support Committee is urging everyone to be in court by 9 a.m. for a strong showing of support and solidarity....
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Longtime residents of the 32-unit Riverdale Mobile Home Village in Jersey Shore, Pa., read in the Feb. 18 Williamsport, Pa., Sun-Gazette that their leases were being terminated “immediately” and they would have to move by April 1....
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As each day passes without an arrest of Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman, the anger and outrage around the country among the grassroots masses increase tenfold. It has been 37 days since Martin, a 17-year-old African American, was fatally shot on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., as he was returning home from buying iced tea and a bag of Skittles candy. A so-called neighborhood watchman, Zimmerman stalked the unarmed teenager with a 9mm gun, then shot him in the chest as Martin cried for help. Zimmerman’s “excuse” for going after Martin was that he looked “suspicious” because he was wearing a hoodie....
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“Pam Africa, Our Revolutionary Daughter of the Dust, Her Life and Work” was celebrated in her home city of Philadelphia on March 30-31 in commemoration of International Women’s Day. The tribute began March 30 with a reception at the Charles L. Blockson Collection at Temple University. Speakers featured fellow activists in MOVE and the International Concerned Family & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, two representatives of the Black Panther Party, as well as family members, including her mother, Bessie Knighton....
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A 24-hour general strike, involving more than 80 percent of the workforce on a countrywide level, stopped large sections of the economy in Spain on March 29. The leaders of the two major union confederations that called the strike, the UGT and the CCOO, provided the numbers. ...
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A rally and march denouncing Wall Street’s war on women took place March 31 in New York City in commemoration of International Working Women’s Day, March 8. Despite cold, windy, damp and drizzly weather, women activists and their supporters rallied at the bull, a tourist attraction on Wall Street that represents the interests of the 1% — the bankers and bosses....
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Picture the Homeless was "informed" by the NY Post on Friday, March 30, that The Post had obtained a leaked letter from the New York City Council directing the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to freeze PTH funding in the wake of a misleading and racially-charged article the Post ran last Sunday. Picture the Homeless has not received any letter or other communication from the City Council regarding this matter, though HPD officials contacted PTH on Thursday and directed PTH to turn over certain business records....
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Monica Moorehead, a March 31st organizer, states, “Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, has told the world that her son is everybody's son. It is in this spirit that our coalition encourages all mothers, grandmothers, daughters, sisters, aunts, cousins, nieces, girlfriends and spouses of all ages, nationalities, gender expressions and sexual preferences to attend along with
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Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old Black youth killed by racist vigilante
George Zimmerman, was robbed of any opportunities that the future may have held for him. His parents were robbed of their son, his younger stepbrother a
guiding hand, his girlfriend, other family members and friends a person who
brought them immense joy, laughter, heartache — all the gifts and
frustrations that a loved one brings....
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March 26 — The Million Hoodie marches calling for justice for Trayvon
Martin and an end to institutionalized racism are spreading like wildfire, with
protests from coast to coast....
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March 26 — Exactly one month ago on Feb. 26, Trayvon Martin was just
another unknown African American whose young life was tragically and brutally
cut short. What a difference a month makes. Today Trayvon Martin’s name
has become a universal rallying cry for justice in every nook and cranny of the
unjust U.S....
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As contradictions mount in the global capitalist economy, they are reflected
in China. The factional struggle in the Chinese leadership can only be
understood as a struggle over which way to go forward and how to contain and
resolve the mounting economic and social contradictions arising out of
capitalist development....
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Honduras Solidarity Event - 3/26/12 @6:00 PM - @International Action Center...
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Special prosecutor, Angela Corey, stated on April 9 that a grand jury will not hear the case of vigilante, George Zimmerman, who lynched by bullet our brother and son, Trayvon Martin, on Feb. 26. Therefore, the investigation will continue without an arrest. Trayvon Martin was just another unknown African American
whose young life was tragically and brutally cut short. What a difference a
month makes. Today Trayvon Martin’s name has become a universal rallying
cry for justice in every nook and cranny of the unjust U.S.His death has come
to symbolize every young person of color’s nightmare as they rightfully
fear becoming a victim of senseless violence — be it at the hand of a
police officer, a prison guard or a racist vigilante — because of how
they look and dress. Martin was stalked by vigilante George Zimmerman as he was
returning home from picking up a can of iced tea and a bag of Skittles for his
younger brother in a gated community in Sanford, Fla., where he was visiting
his father. On 911 tapes, Zimmerman said that Martin looked
“suspicious” because he was wearing a hoodie. The police dispatcher
told Zimmerman not to pursue Martin, but he did so anyway. Zimmerman later
revised this to claim that Martin was pursuing him. The armed Zimmerman
outweighed the unarmed 17-year-old Martin by 90 pounds. ...
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Five Days to Free the Cuban Five begins April 17 and continues through a
demonstration on April 21 at the White House. The theme will be “Obama,
give me Five,” referring to the five Cubans held in the U.S. against
their will....
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The People’s Power tour was launched in New York on March 11. The tour
seeks to bring working, poor and oppressed people into a nationwide discussion
to help develop a unifying fightback program of action. Its literature points
to the life-and-death social issues that are intensified by the current global
capitalist economic crisis, such as “unemployment, low wages,
foreclosures, police and ICE terror, racist incarcerations, hunger and
homelessness.”...
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March 21 — Thousands of outraged people from all walks of life gathered at Union Square in New York City tonight to protest the brutal murder of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American, on Feb. 26. Martin was shot to death by a racist vigilante, George Zimmerman, in a gated community in Sanford, Fla., near Orlando. Zimmerman stalked Martin, claiming that he looked “suspicious” because he was wearing a hoodie....
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TRAYVON MARTIN a 17-year-old African-American youth, was shot in the chest and killed at point-blank range by a vigilante on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla. Martin was unarmed as he was returning from a store when his young life was tragically cut short. The man who shot him, George Zimmerman — who lived in a gated community — has not been arrested as of this writing...
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Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American youth, was shot in the chest
and killed at point-blank range by a vigilante on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla.
Martin was unarmed as he was returning from a store when his young life was
tragically cut short. The man who shot him, George Zimmerman — who lived
in a gated community — has not been arrested as of this writing....
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While the stock markets in the United States and Europe have recovered — a bit — and the Greek workers have not had a general strike and massive protests for a few weeks, the struggle is far from over....
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The Occupy Wall Street movement has made the inequality in capitalist society an issue that has put the rich on the defensive, at least in public. The growth of inequality in the last 30 years, and especially in the last decade, has been talked about for years in many quarters by economic analysts and even some politicians. But before the Occupy Wall Street movement raised the slogan of the 1% versus the 99%, this condition went entirely unchallenged and was merely observed as an inevitable, undesirable (unless you were part of the 1%) fact of life....
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Demonstrators chanted, “Tear down Jailhouses! Build up School Houses!” outside Heery International Inc.’s Philadelphia office as part of a national call from Occupy Oakland to Occupy for Prisoners on Feb. 20....
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Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Fernando González and Rene González, known as the Cuban Five, have been unjustly held in U.S. prisons since 1998....
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As the United States and the European Union escalate their military and economic roles on the African continent, mounting political crises have resulted in much social unrest. From Libya and Kenya to Nigeria and Somalia, internal turmoil, labor unrest and mass resistance illustrate the interconnectedness of events throughout the international scene....
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One of the speakers at the opening meeting of the People’s Power Tour at Judson Memorial Church here on March 11 was retired postal worker and union organizer Eleanor Bailey, who has been putting in her time and enthusiasm organizing for a demonstration on March 17 to stop Post Office closings. Bailey began working at the P.O. just when both African Americans and women were flooding into the system, and her trade union activism represented the shift in the demographics of P.O. workers. Her talk, which we paraphrase here, gives a special perspective to the current struggle....
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Can postal workers and the communities that depend on postal jobs and services stop Congress from privatizing the highest rated government agency — the U.S. Postal Service?...
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Displaying the mighty power of workers and the poor in Wisconsin and beyond, more than 60,000 protesters flooded the State Capitol grounds for a people’s march and rally on March 10. Refusing to be beaten down by union busting and austerity imposed by Gov. Scott Walker and his 1% bosses, the rainbow of protesters made clear that the people’s uprising in Wisconsin is in full fightback motion. March 10 was the one-year anniversary of when the state Legislature illegally rammed through, and Walker signed, the union-busting bill attacking public sector workers....
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Demonstrators rallied at the Alabama State Capitol on the afternoon of March 9, after completing the final leg of the 54-mile, week-long march between Selma and Montgomery. Marchers protested Alabama’s toughest-in-the-U.S. immigration law, for workers’ rights and against laws in 31 states requiring voters to show some form of identification at the polls....
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Outraged by cuts in funding and the tripling of tuition at community colleges and state universities, students, faculty and other educators held protests throughout California on March 1. The local actions culminated four days later in a statewide demonstration in Sacramento and a brief sit-in, led by Occupy for Education forces, in the Capitol rotunda....
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International Women’s Day, commemorated on March 8, was founded in 1910 by European socialist women, to demonstrate solidarity with women worldwide. The special day honors struggles against inequality, oppression and war....
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ith the war on women in full swing, women are fighting mad and fighting back. Threats to health care and reproductive rights, especially safe, legal abortion and birth control, and reactionary attitudes toward women have been met with strong anger and resistance by women and male allies across the United States....
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The blood-curdling action of a U.S. sergeant who stormed into the homes of
Afghan civilians and blew away 16 people, including children, is not an
isolated one as the Pentagon war makers are projecting. Even President Barack
Obama’s “apology” cannot hide the fact that maintaining U.S.
troops in Afghanistan is the broader crime....
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On March 2, the so-called U.N. Panel of Experts from the Human Rights Council issued a 200-page report on Libya, saying in essence that war crimes were committed by both the government led by Col. Moammar Gadhafi and the National Transitional Council forces that were put in power by the imperialist states. The report stated that Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973 were justified and legitimate and that the Gadhafi administration deserved to be overthrown by the Western states and their allies....
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On Dec. 5, 2008, workers at a Chicago factory made history. When the Republic Windows and Doors management told them, with no advance notice, that they were out of a job and had lost their health benefits, 260 members of United Electrical Workers Local 1110 occupied the plant....
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The tornado season in the United States started early this year — a whole season early. Winter’s grip was still on the land when deadly twisters in the Midwest and South disintegrated homes and flung people and animals around like rag dolls. Like everything else about the weather these days, that broke all kinds of records....
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Poet, essayist, editor, teacher, radio host, political activist and union
organizer, Louis Reyes Rivera willingly served as a bridge between African- and
Latino/a-American communities. No wonder his unexpected death on March 2 in
Brooklyn, N.Y., initiated a crescendo of accolades and reminiscences from those
communities as well as many cultural and activist groups....
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With President Barack Obama set to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 4, the Council on Foreign Relations and Foreign Affairs Magazine, two imperialist think tanks where U.S. strategists express their opinions and analysis, scheduled a “debate” on March 1 in New York City. The question to debate was, is it “Time to Attack Iran?”...
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Without getting publicity in the United States, a struggle opposing U.S. corporate interests is brewing in Central America. An Indigenous woman, Cacica [Chief] Silvia Carrera is leading this struggle. ...
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Syrian insurgents are being trained by personnel of the NATO-backed National
Transitional Council in Libya, as Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin has complained on March 7 before the UN Security Council. In addition, NATO member States are actively intervening in the Syrian civil war. There is much evidence of direct and even military support to armed opposition groups by U.S., France and British forces, even if the intervening powers have taken every effort to
leave no obvious traces....
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On that day we will say that we are all Mumia, we are all immigrants, we are all prisoners, we are all Bradley Manning, we are all poor, we are all Palestinian, we are all Troy Davis, we are all political prisoners, we are all occupiers!!! ...
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Encourage a nationwide discussion on developing a PEOPLES POWER program demanding jobs, housing and education, an end to all social inequalities including racism, sexism and LGBTQ oppression, the massive deportations and imperialist war. Let's target the root of these ills—the capitalist system—and the need to end this brutal system of exploitation;...
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The May 1st coalition, other immigrant groups, sectors from the labor movement
as well as the Occupy Wall Street movement are all meeting to discuss May Day 2012...
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No longer can soothing words from the White House, the State Department or the Pentagon cover up the intolerable brutality of the U.S.-NATO war of occupation in Afghanistan. ...
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WOMEN are deeply impacted by the global capitalist economic crisis caused by the 1%, made up of bankers, bosses and politicians like New York 's Mayor Michael Bloomberg who exploit the world’s 99%. The Can We Live! Campaign is a struggle-oriented program to bring together and to organize initiatives on economic and political issues, not just during March -- International Working Women’s Month -- but year round. Its 10-point program asks the fundamental question: Can We Live when the 1% deprives us of: Access to healthy, toxic-free food;
Jobs, not jails—Promote the right to organize; Defend public workers, a livable wage and/or guaranteed income and Social Security; end discrimination based on age, nationality, disability; Demand pay equity; cancel credit card and student debt;
Healthcare for all—Demand reproductive justice; hands off Medicare and Medicaid; restore and expand all social programs; Free quality education from the cradle to the grave; Housing as a human right—No foreclosures, evictions, and utility shutoffs; end homelessness;
A clean environment; Legalization, not deportation—Unite families; end Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids; No domestic and state violence against WOMEN—Stop sexual exploitation, trafficking and police brutality; restore safe houses; No imperialist war—Stop all violence against WOMEN in the military and in occupied lands; bring the troops home;
Full rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people....
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Voice your opposition to this phony debate on whether military attack or
sanctions and sabotage should be used to attack Iran. Both sides of this debate
are promoting war with Iran and the death and destruction of yet another
country in the Middle East. The only debate is what weapons to use....
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The 84th Academy Awards announcements for the acting categories held little surprise for three out of the four categories. Front-runners Octavia Spencer, Christopher Plummer and Jean Dujardin were all expected to win and did. The only other category that wasn’t a shoo-in was for best lead actress. ...
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Under capitalism — a system that puts profits before human needs — genuine support needed for developing one’s talent is generally not made available, much less encouraged. Luck, along with having influential connections, plays a central role in many instances on whether the individuals become famous or not. What usually happens is that many talented people are left to figure out on their own how best to display their creativity to others as opposed to hoping to be “discovered.”...
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Atlanta, Feb. 11 – Blustery, frigid winds buffeted the crowd gathered in support of Brandon White, a 20-year-old gay man whose videotaped beating at the hands of reputed gang members outside a corner store shocked millions of viewers nationwide. Just a week earlier, the slight youth was viciously attacked by three young men, who used anti-gay slurs as they punched and kicked him repeatedly, while two others videotaped the assault....
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Workers in some factories and students in the universities in Egypt held strikes on Feb. 11, one year after the revolution that forced President Hosni Mubarak out of office and shook the world. A week earlier massive protests held the Egyptian regime and the police responsible for the deaths of more than 70 people at a soccer match....
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A settlement has been trumpeted between the federal government and 49 state
attorneys general with Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo
and Ally Financial “to address mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure
abuses.” (Department of Justice, Feb. 9) While acknowledging the massive
fraud perpetrated by these institutions in carrying out foreclosures, the
agreement provides minimal compensation for the hundreds of thousands of
families who have lost their homes....
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Update: On Feb. 21 the Guardian (Britain) reported that
Adnan had agreed to end his hunger strike in exchange for his release from
detention on April 17....
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The struggle to free Chrishaun "CeCe" McDonald in Minneapolis deserves wide publicity and support. McDonald, 23, is an African-American transgender woman who was brutally attacked by racist, anti-lesbian/gay/bi/trans/queer bigots on June 5. As is often the case in a society permeated by racism, sexism and anti-LGBTQ bigotry and oppression, McDonald, the victim and survivor, was the only person charged after the attack. She goes on trial April 30 on charges of second-degree murder and intent to commit murder....
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THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT AND THE BLACK STRUGGLE...
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A fire that began late in the evening on Feb. 14 burned 382 prisoners to death at the Comayagua Prison Farm in Honduras. Some clutched the bars of their cells while others drowned in the water tanks in an attempt to escape the flames. According to Berta Oliva of the prisoner relative organization Cofadeh (Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras), some were shot to death before they burned. ...
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Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike for 63 days – one day for each
year of the occupation of Palestine; one day, one year, of steadfastness,
resilience, resistance, and dignity in the face of occupation and oppression.
His courage and commitment must inspire us all to act to amplify his message,
support his action, demand his freedom – and the freedom of
Palestine....
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The jailing of courageous 72-year-old human rights attorney Lynne Stewart is an attempt by the U.S. government to silence dissent, curtail vigorous defense lawyers, and instill fear in those who would fight against the U.S. government’s racism, seek to help Arabs and Muslims being prosecuted for free speech, and defend the rights of all oppressed people. Stewart has spent her life defending poor and unpopular defendants....
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Since the U.S.-NATO-engineered war began against Libya last March 19, a new
push has begun to recolonize Africa through the machinations of various
intelligence agencies, special forces and surrogate militias armed and trained
by the imperialists. Regional insecurity has grown rapidly....
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In March 2003, Dr. Siddiqui was kidnapped with her three young children in
Karachi, Pakistan, and held in secret detention by U.S. forces at Bagram Prison
in Afghanistan for five years....
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On Jan. 19, a request for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles from the
United States was filed in the Panamanian courts, according to LaEstrella.com.
Posada and four co-conspirators were convicted of the attempted assassination
of the then-Cuban president, Fidel Castro, at the 2000 Ibero-American Summit in
Panama. Their plot to bomb the crowded university venue with 200 pounds of
explosives was thwarted, saving many lives....
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For the big-business media like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and CNN television, the big news from Greece involves what is going to happen to Greek bonds, the euro, the European economy and the world economy. For these media and their owners, the hundreds of billions, even trillions of dollars at stake explain this emphasis....
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Northern Illinois Assistant U.S. Attorney Barry Jonas stated that the “investigation is continuing” in the case of the anti-war and international solidarity activists hit with FBI raids and grand jury repression. Jonas is known for his leading role in prosecuting the leaders of the Holy Land Foundation while he was trial attorney for the Department of Justice Counterterrorism Section....
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strong>The struggle for Syria isn't just about Syria--it's the
struggle for a free, democratic Middle East versus one that lives under the
yoke of American and Israeli hegemony....
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When the New York Times publishes an op-ed piece stating that Honduras is
“descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss” and adds
that this is “in good part the State Department’s making,”
something is changing. (Jan. 26)...
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A series of attacks have been launched against the U.S.- and NATO-installed
National Transitional Council in Libya. The most significant events occurred on
Jan. 23 when local forces still loyal to the former government of slain leader
Col. Moammar Gadhafi retook the city of Bani Walid, located 120 miles southeast
of Tripoli....
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Judge Carvès Jean, basing his decision on the recommendation of
Haiti’s state prosecutor, told the media on Jan. 30 that he had dropped
all murder, torture and other charges against Jean-Claude Duvalier. The former
Haitian dictator, who has had the support of both U.S. and French imperialism,
will face only corruption charges....
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Dr. Huey Percy Newton, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party for
Self-Defense, was born in Monroe, La., on Feb. 17, 1942, the youngest of seven
children born to Walter Newton and Armelia Johnson....
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The love affair with Trader Joe's is over! We're tired of the lies
and false promises! Trader Joe's claims to be wholesome, hip and
sustainable, but it’s all just an image. After nearly two years of a
nation-wide campaign, Trader Joe's still refuses to sign an agreement with
the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a group of farm workers in Florida who have
successfully pressured corporate giants like Whole Foods and McDonald’s
to agree to ensure that farm workers in their supply chains get treated
humanely and get paid at least one penny more per pound of tomatoes they pick....
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We are in very dangerous times, and we have to do everything we can to
prevent another war—this time against Iran. Almost every day we
hear about new sanctions, new threats, new promises that “all options are
on the table.” It seems like the general public is complacent about this
and do not understand the severe consequences –possibly World War
III....
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Anti-war organizations from across the United States and 6 other countries
came together on Saturday, Feb. 4, to protest the rising crescendo of threats
against Iran. In more than 30 states and 80 cities, large and small, groups
joined forces to raise four key demands. "No war, no sanctions, no intervention, no assassinations!" was the slogan on the lead banner of the New York demonstration, which was sponsored by an ad hoc committee of several groups. Many placards and hand-made signs also pointed to Wall Street and the banks as the real danger, not Iran. The corporate media have been reporting for weeks that the Israeli regime
is weighing an attack on Iran aimed at dismantling its nuclear program. Yet
even former U.S. intelligence officers point out that Iran's nuclear
development is entirely peaceful; it is not building any nuclear weapons. (See
"Divining the Truth About Iran" by Ray McGovern, published by
commondreams.org.) Yet totally unsubstantiated claims to the contrary form the
basis on which Israel, which itself has a large nuclear arsenal and has been
armed and financed by the U.S., is now publicly claiming its right to launch a
military attack on Iran....
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As January ended, so did several meetings where representatives of the global 1% gather to decide the fate of hundreds of millions — the 99%....
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Political prisoner and revolutionary journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was
transferred Jan. 27 to general population in SCI-Mahanoy in Frackville, Pa. He
had spent almost 30 years on Pennsylvania death row since he was convicted of
first degree murder July 3, 1982, for the 1981 killing of a white police
officer in Philadelphia. Mumia has proclaimed his innocence since his arrest on
Dec. 9, 1981, which was followed by a sham of a trial. His state and federal
appeals for a new trial to prove his innocence have been systematically denied
by the courts. While on death row, none of his visitors could physically touch
him, an unimaginable form of torture....
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The following are three important anti-imperialist events scheduled for the coming months. The International Action Center is supporting and participating in each of them....
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The Feb. 4 actions are aimed to condemn US, it's EU allies and Israel’s war threats, covert and overt operations, sanctions, assassinations and media propaganda of repeated lies. This in short constitutes the current policies of the hegemonic powers, headed by US government, against the peace-loving people of Iran....
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Some 2,000-plus Occupy Oakland participants were met with heavy police
violence and hundreds of arrests on Jan. 28 as they marched on the long-vacant
Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center. The group had been planning the building
occupation for several months....
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Long-time Tunisian ruler President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled his country
on Jan 14, 2011, for the monarchy of Saudi Arabia, where he has been granted
political refuge. The uprising that began in Tunisia 14 months ago was the
first in a series of events that have reshaped the debate and struggle in much
of Africa and the Middle East....
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It was more than 10 years ago — Oct. 7, 2001, to be precise —
that the Bush administration first sent troops to Afghanistan, in what it
called Operation Enduring Freedom. The name was cooked up by whoever in the
Pentagon comes up with such euphemisms. The only thing that has endured is war,
brutal and destructive....
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The Occupy movement has made it very clear that hundreds of thousands of
people across the United States, from big cities on both coasts to smaller ones
in the midlands and hundreds of towns and rural areas in between, are
distressed and angry enough at the present situation to march in the rain and
snow, occupy banks, sleep on the ground, attend countless meetings, defy hordes
of cops before getting arrested, and above all make their voices heard....
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n response to brutal police repression in Oakland this evening (including tear-gas, "flash" grenades, projectiles, mass arrests, and a pregnant woman hit in the belly by a policeman's baton) direct action working groups from at least Occupy Wall St, Occupy Boston, and Occupy Philly, have stayed up late to craft a massive coordinated response. Here are the initial results:...
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During mid-January, the number of deaths and injuries in Somalia escalated as foreign military forces accelerated their campaign to destroy the al-Shabab Islamic resistance movement and subdue areas of the country under its control....
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On August 27, 2012, while the Republican National Convention selects a
candidate for president, we will be marching in the streets of Tampa, Florida
demanding jobs, healthcare, education, equality and peace. We will let the
entire world know, “We have had enough of the endless attacks on the
rights of working people and our standard of living!” We will defend
Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. We will defend ourselves against union
busting. We will defend our children's right to an affordable, quality
education. We want money spent on human needs, not on wars overseas and
corporate greed....
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When the Democratic National Convention meets in Charlotte, N.C., in
September, there will be thousands of people from across the country in the
streets to raise demands for jobs and justice on the world stage....
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Thousands of demonstrators came out Jan. 20 to “Occupy Wall Street
West” to mark the second anniversary of the Supreme Court Citizens United
decision. This ruling called anonymous campaign contributions “free
speech” and claimed corporations were “people,” thus
increasing the already overwhelming power of the rich over politicians....
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In his speech assuming the rotating presidency of the United Nations
Security Council for the Republic of South Africa, President Jacob Zuma
criticized the U.N. for its stance that led to the eight-month war against
Libya....
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Educators for Mumia, Millions for Mumia, the
International Action Center and other grassroots organizations joined Concerned
Family and Friends at the Calvary Church in Philadelphia to discuss the next
steps to win Abu-Jamal’s release from prison. Major initiatives have been
established for local, national and international actions around the Free Mumia
Campaign....
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A broad spectrum of U.S.-based anti-imperialist and anti-war organizations
agreed on a Jan. 17 conference call to hold coordinated protests across the
country on Saturday, Feb. 4. The demands will be: “No war, no sanctions,
no intervention, no assassinations against Iran.” The ad-hoc group that took part in the call decided that although there are
only two weeks to organize, it will invite anti-war forces around the world to
join in, if possible, so that this emergency action could develop into a global
day of action....
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Feb 11th, 2011, the whole world witnessed millions of Egyptian protesters marching in the streets of Egypt and protesting in Tahrir Square, demanding their basic human rights: dignity, freedom, and social justice. After decades of patience and suffering, Egyptians finally spoke out loudly and peacefully demanding the fall of a police-based authoritarian regime, the end of Mubarak’s dictatorship, and the establishment of a civilian, democratic state. Under the maximal pressure exerted by Egyptians, Mubarak was toppled. The Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) took charge in leading the country through the transitional stage. At that time, SCAF members and military personnel were regarded as heroes...
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A broad spectrum of U.S.-based anti-imperialist and anti-war organizations, including the IAC, agreed on a Jan. 17 conference call to hold coordinated protests across the country on Saturday, Feb. 4. The demands will be: “No war, no sanctions, no intervention, no assassinations against Iran.”...
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The following statement was issued by Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general and co-founder and representative of the International Action Center:...
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to four countries in Latin America and the Caribbean highlights the commitment of the members of the Bolivarian Alliance of Our America (ALBA) to defy U.S. threats and act as sovereign, independent nations....
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There is growing apprehension that through miscalculation, deliberate provocation or a staged false flag operation, a U.S. war with Iran is imminent. The dangerous combination of top U.S. officials’ public threats, the Pentagon’s massive military deployment, continued drone flights and industrial sabotage against Iran provides an ominous warning. The corporate media have been more than willing to cheer industrial sabotage, computer viruses and targeted assassinations. War maneuvers with Israel scheduled for mid-January were suddenly postponed Jan. 15 until May or later....
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We believe that the message of the postcard will be an attractive one for US
audiences and will be stronger if the same message gets multiplied all over the
world. We will make the PDF available for you to print them locally....
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In Their quest for Dignity, Freedom, Justice, and Democracy, Egyptian &
Egyptian Solidarity Groups are calling upon people from all nations, races,
colors, and religions as well as human rights and peace groups and
organizations to join Egyptians abroad in their rallies to support the Egyptian
revolution....
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As many people as possible should go to 100 Centre St. tomorrow starting at 11 a.m. in solidarity with Larry Holmes, Caleb Maupin, Tony Murphy, Gavrielle Gemma, Toni Arenstein and Tim Barker following their arrests during the Occupy 4 Jobs protest today. The Court Clerk's office, located on the 1st floor, will have a docket list of cases. Please look for these names on the list. We are still unaware of the charges as of tonight. Take the #4, 5 or 6 trains to City Hall...
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Another Iranian Scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, has been assassinated in Iran by a car bomb. This is the fifth Iranian scientist targeted by assassins working in Iran in two years. Four attacks succeeded. This is a deadly escalation of the covert criminal activities conducted by the U.S., Israel and their terrorists and domestic spies in Iran against the government and people of Iran. ...
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 83 years old on Jan. 15.
In honor of this iconic civil rights, anti-war and social justice activist, the
federal government and other public agencies close every year on the Monday
following his birthday. King was martyred in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4,
1968....
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After 11 earthquakes recently rocked northwestern Ohio, seismologists
acknowledged there is strong evidence linking the quakes to the disposal of
waste water produced in the process of drilling for natural gas, known as
hydraulic fracturing....
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The San Francisco Labor Council on Jan. 9 unanimously condemned military
escort for the union-busting international grain and food cartel EGT,
headed by Bunge Ltd. at the Port of Longview, Wash. ...
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In the spirit of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on Monday, Jan. 16, at 1
p.m., hundreds of people -- including those who have exhausted unemployment
benefits, as well as students, labor and community activists -- will gather in
Union Square NYC to commence an Occupation for Jobs....
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As 2012 began, Washington’s actions and threats gave substance to U.S.
imperialism’s long-standing war plans against Iran. The actions included
sanctions aimed at breaking Iran’s economy, warship deployments off
Iran’s shores and plans for joint war exercises with Israel....
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The pitiful December jobs and employment numbers are a bitter reminder, four
years after the present crisis officially began in December 2007, that
capitalism is at a dead end....
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Since December 14, Mumia has been kept in solitary in SCI Mahanoy's dungeon. Its restrictions and conditions belie its modern construction. On January 6 Mumia told us that he wants all of his supporters to broaden this call, to not just focus on his case, but to understand that all torture units must be shut down....
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Mumia is being kept in solitary in SCI Mahanoy's dungeon. Its restrictions
and conditions belie its modern construction. Mumia just told us on Friday
[Jan. 6] that he wants all of his supporters to broaden this call, to not just
focus on his case, but to understand that all torture units must be shut
down....
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In their quest for dignity, Freedom, Justice, and
Democracy, Egyptian Americans & Egyptian Solidarity
Groups are calling upon people from all nations, races, colors, and
religions as well as human rights and peace groups and organizations to join
Egyptians abroad in their rallies to support the Egyptian revolution....
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Some 10,000 women of all classes and walks of life took to the streets of
Cairo on Dec. 20 to protest the military’s misogynistic, violent assaults
on Egyptian women. Many demanded that the military step down immediately....
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Although Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams dropped the death
sentence on Dec. 7, Mumia Abu-Jamal remains in administrative custody since
being transferred from SCI Greene to SCI Mahanoy on Dec. 14. He has been kept
isolated from the general population, with limited phone access and visits with
family still conducted behind glass walls....
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The Wikileaks website released cables showing that plans for the Kenyan
military invasion of southern Somalia had been mapped out for nearly two years
and refuting claims that the intervention was done without Washington’s
knowledge. They showed that high-level meetings had taken place in early 2010
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which laid the ground work for renewed attempts to
eliminate the Al-Shabaab Islamic resistance movement that controls large
sections of the Horn of Africa nation....
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The “libertarian” movement has never been friendly to the 99%.
Its members are not apologetic about wanting to abolish all social programs
that aid the people, from Medicaid to food stamps. They want to shut down every
government department that in any way limits the excesses of the 1%. These
include the Departments of Labor, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services,
among others....
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International Longshore and Warehouse Union rank-and-file
members and the Occupy movements in Longview, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; Seattle;
Oakland, Calif.; Los Angeles and other West Coast cities are organizing to
blockade a grain ship arriving in Longview sometime in January. This ship is
supposed to be loaded by a non-ILWU crew with cargo from the new EGT export
terminal. The date won’t be known until three to four days in
advance....
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ILWU rank and file, Occupies in Longview, Portland, Seattle, Oakland, LA and
other West Coast Occupies are organizing to blockade a grain ship coming to
Longview. This ship is intended to load scab cargo from the EGT terminal. The
date won't be known until 3-4 days in advance, but is anticipated to be
sometime in January....
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Next spring, international military, financial, and political leaders who serve the 1% at home and abroad will meet in Chicago to discuss their economic and military strategies for the planet for the coming period....
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A call has been put out by Occupy Wall Street to let our government know the people will not tolerate any more attacks on our rights!...
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The number of people in the U.S. who are officially poor or “near
poor” has become a matter of controversy....
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As Washington was announcing the end of its occupation, Iraqis burned
U.S. flags, brandished banners and thronged the streets of Falluja to
celebrate the U.S. troops’ withdrawal from the former
resistance stronghold and site of some of the Iraq War’s fiercest
battles....
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More than 7,000 Haitians have died and over 500,000 have been sickened from
the cholera the United Nations introduced to Haiti a little over a year ago.
Haiti has the highest rate and greatest severity of cholera of any country in
the world....
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A significant legal victory for trans and gender nonconforming workers was
recently won in a case brought by Vandy Beth Glenn. A three-judge panel of the
11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously on Dec. 6 that Georgia
Legislative Services had discriminated against Glenn when it fired her in 2007.
Glenn went back to work on Dec. 9....
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In 2012 the International Action Center will commemorate its 20th anniversary. What a celebration! We are full of enthusiasm and determination for the period ahead. Twenty years of resistance to endless wars and now a new surge of hope! How true the famous observation on change: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” The whole world has turned. A new spirit of struggle and resistance has finally come to the U.S. Youth are in the streets. The International Action Center is in the midst of the new Occupy movement from coast to coast. The unsolvable global capitalist crisis has pushed millions of youth who feel they have no future into open struggle and awareness of the super-rich 1% whose profits are based on war, massive government bailouts, cutbacks in all social programs, and a national plague of foreclosures....
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The Labor Outreach Committee (LOC) of Occupy Wall Street is appealing
for your support for the nurses. Their struggle embodies many of the
core issues motivating the Occupy movement. They are up against
hospital CEOs who make millions in salaries, yet demand givebacks in
healthcare at a time when, like the rest of the 99%, nurses are
struggling with soaring living expenses....
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As it
enters its twentieth year, the International Action Center can count a long
list of major and increasing initiatives and contributions it has made in the
struggle against militarism, authoritarianism, and economic exploitation at
home and abroad....
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I visited Mumia Dec. 15, in the new prison that houses him, SCI Mahanoy. Even though he has been released from death row, he remains in Administrative Custody while he awaits transfer to general population. Because he is still in Administrative Custody and not yet in general population, visits still take place behind the plexiglas barrier characteristic of the no-contact visits to prisoners on death row....
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Dangerous provisions inserted into the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 (NDAA-2012) have created great alarm among civil liberties organizations, Muslim organizations, groups that defend anti-war activists and many activists of the Occupy Wall Street movement who have recently been targeted across the country....
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The Occupy 4 Jobs network is celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day in New
York City with a direct action to demand jobs. The Jan. 16 event will begin at
1 p.m. at Union Square. “The MLK holiday is the perfect day to do this,” said Larry Holmes, a leading organizer of the Bail Out the People Movement, one of the founders of Occupy 4 Jobs. “What most people don’t know is that in the last months of his life, King was devoted to opening a struggle for everyone to have a decent-paying job.” In early 1968, before his April 4th assassination, King announced the Poor
People’s Campaign, which was to culminate in a March on Washington
demanding a $12 billion Economic Bill of Rights. The demands of the campaign
were jobs, income and housing. The Economic Bill of Rights guaranteed
employment to all and an annual income to those unable to work....
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The police campaign to wipe out the Occupy Wall Street movement across the
country should drive home a truth that has long been experienced by oppressed
communities, workers on strike, fighters for civil rights, immigrant workers
and many others. The regime of capitalist democracy in the United States has a
violently repressive character — side-by-side with its controlled
“democratic” institutions....
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A very important conference on climate change took place in Durban, South
Africa, during early December. COP 17 was sponsored by the United Nations and
was billed as an event that would bring all states and regions together to
hammer out a new agreement for limiting the rapid pace of global warming, which
many cite as the cause of the escalating problems of natural disasters,
droughts and mounting food deficits....
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African-American lesbian activist, poet and writer Audre Lorde wrote that
“the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s
house.” Published in 1984, her statement is a perfect response to U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Dec. 6 announcement that the U.S.
will supposedly be championing the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and queer people around the world. Clinton gave her outrageously
hypocritical remarks at an event recognizing International Human Rights Day in
Geneva, Switzerland....
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After nearly three decades on Pennsylvania’s death
row, former Black Panther Party member and world-renowned journalist, Mumia
Abu-Jamal, was moved into transitional area at SCI Greene maximum security
prison on Dec. 11, following an announcement by Philadelphia District Attorney
Seth Williams earlier in the week that he would no longer seek
Abu-Jamal’s execution....
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Today, Occupy activists from Vancouver, Canada, to San
Diego, Calif., disrupted and shut down West Coast ports in solidarity with port
workers. Specifically, they embraced the port truckers’ struggle for
union recognition and efforts by the International Longshore Workers Union to
fight union-busting in Longview, Wash. They were also responding to federally
coordinated attacks on the Occupy movement across the country. Once again, the largest protests were in Oakland, Calif. Despite continuous and well-publicized attempts by Oakland city officials and the Port of Oakland to discredit the port shutdown campaign, the all-day protest was massive. It started at 5 a.m. at the West Oakland Bay Area Rapid Transit station, in the shadow of the Port of Oakland....
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Battle lines have formed as the West Coast Occupy movements, from San Diego to Alaska, flex their collective muscle against the federally coordinated, brutal attacks targeting the Occupy movements across the country. They are organizing for blockades of West Coast ports on Dec. 12 in San Diego; Los Angeles/Long Beach; Port Hueneme, CA (central coast); Oakland; Portland, Ore.; Seattle; Tacoma, Wash.; and possibly more. Solidarity actions have been called by OWS in New York and by Occupy movements inland locations, as well....
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While the military government now says the turnout at the polls was 52 percent, lower than its earlier figure of 70 percent, many voters waited in line for hours to participate in the first of three elections for parliament. They saw the vote as a right won by the revolutionary movement....
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The U.S.-NATO forces, using the United Nations and the Arab League as a cover, are positioning themselves for a military intervention in Syria. At the same time, they have upped their economic war on the government led by Bashir al-Assad....
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More than 2 million workers walked out for 24 hours on Nov. 30 in England, Scotland and Wales in an action the union leadership called the largest in at least 30 years. Some say it was the biggest since the 1926 general strike. The strikers closed two-thirds of the schools, picked up no garbage, forced the postponement of 6,000 nonessential operations in the hospitals and did this defying weeks of anti-strike propaganda....
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The New York City Central Labor Council coordinated a Dec. 1 march for “Jobs and Economic Fairness” from Herald Square to Union Square in midtown Manhattan that drew 20,000 workers, according to the organizers. (www.nycclc.org) Unions in both the public and private sector participated, including many teachers and iron workers, with strong delegations from the United Federation of Teachers, the Professional Staff Congress, the New York State Nurses Association and many other unions....
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It is more than four years since the housing bubble burst and the world capitalist economic crisis came down upon the heads of the working class and the oppressed in August 2007. Despite all the talk of economic recovery, the plague of unemployment, underemployment, rising poverty, lower wages and general insecurity is still growing....
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Battle lines have formed as the West Coast Occupy movements, from San Diego to Alaska, flex their collective muscle against the federally coordinated, brutal attacks targeting the pro-Occupy Wall Street movements across the country. They are organizing for blockades of West Coast ports on Dec. 12 in San Diego; Los Angeles/Long Beach; Port Hueneme, Calif. (central coast); Oakland; Portland, Ore.; Seattle; Tacoma, Wash.; and possibly more. Solidarity actions have been called by OWS in New York and inland locations, as well....
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"Now that it is clear that Mumia should never have been on death row in the first place, justice will not be served by relegating him to prison for the rest of his life"yet another form of death sentence. Based on even a minimal following of international human rights standards, Mumia must now be released. I therefore join the call, and ask others to follow, asking District Attorney Seth Williams to rise to the challenge of reconciliation, human rights, and justice: drop this case now, and allow Mumia Abu-Jamal to be immediately released, with full time served."...
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Every year the International Action Center sends out a full report of the
past year of struggle and solidarity actions to our many supporters....
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We woke up this morning to the news that the cops had finally shut down Occupy Philly. The eviction deadline had been announced for Sunday, Nov. 25, at 5 p.m., but nothing happened until around 1 a.m. Wednesday. By then the 322 tents had dwindled to less than 100, with maybe 75 people at the General Assembly Tuesday night. The homeless population had been moved to another location Sunday afternoon....
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When New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg, effectively ended the Occupy
Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park on Nov. 15, many wondered if the
movement had been weakened. Just two days later, several actions took place on the “Historic Day of Action for the 99 Percent.” Thousands of New Yorkers rallied at the Stock Exchange. Later that day, thousands more occupied a building near the New School. That afternoon, more than 32,000 people marched from Foley Square across the Brooklyn Bridge. It is clear that regardless of location, the Occupy movement is alive and well. OWS has not only survived, it has given birth to a new movement and is encouraging more people to get out on the streets....
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Organizing is under way for a coordinated mass blockade of West Coast ports
on Monday, Dec. 12, targeting “Wall Street on the waterfront”
— the major companies owned and controlled by “the 1 percent”
ruling elite....
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Having survived two execution orders and 30 years on death
row in solitary confinement, never being able to touch his dying mother or
sister, his spouse, children or grandchildren (let alone anyone else, other
than the prison guards who handcuff and shackle him), Mumia Abu-Jamal, an
innocent man, now faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life in
prison....
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Some 1,400 cops attacked the Occupation Los Angeles people and their
supporters late on the evening of Nov. 29, eventually clearing the area and
arresting as many as 250 that night....
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The 7th International Colloquium for the freedom of the
Cuban Five concluded in this eastern Cuban city on Nov. 19. Representatives
from international committees that have mobilized parliaments, unions, Nobel
laureates and millions over the past 13 years of unjust U.S. incarceration of
these five heroic Cuban men planned the next phase in a week of
events....
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Friends do not beat up on other friends. Friends do not open cans of pepper
spray into the faces and throats of their friends. Friends do not trample each
other purposely on horseback. Friends do not stab one another. Friends do not
arrest one another. Friends do not bring one another to court — or
threaten to imprison one another. Friends do not purposely injure each other so
severely that it leads to hospitalization....
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More than 3 million workers in Portugal walked off the job on Nov. 24 to
protest austerity measures and the takeover of their country’s economy by
the “Troika” — the European Union, the European Central Bank
and the International Monetary Fund. This has been done with the collusion of
the big Portuguese capitalists and their political parties....
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Dec. 17 marks the anniversary of a year of uprisings, strikes, government
resignations and regime change on the African continent. A resource-rich and
strategically located geopolitical region, Africa has experienced numerous mass
demonstrations, general strikes, rebellions and full-scale military assaults as
part of a heightening global class struggle for control of the
continent’s economic and political future....
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ALL OUT FOR MUMIA ON FRIDAY, DEC. 9, THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS
INCARCERATION AND FRAMEUP...
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Record numbers of Egyptian voters of all ages and classes, women and men,
cast ballots for a new parliament Nov. 28 and 29. Some waited in line for hours
to vote in the first election of its kind in 50 years....
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Once again, the organizers of the National Day of Mourning
dedicated the day to Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier. Peltier was
framed up by the FBI and has been wrongfully imprisoned since 1976....
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Several hundred people came to Plymouth, Mass., on Nov. 24 to commemorate the 42nd annual National Day of Mourning. Celebrated by some as “thanksgiving” Thursday, this is a day when Native people and their supporters stand together and refuse to give thanks for the genocide and theft of lands caused as a result of the European invasion of Indigenous lands, in Plymouth and elsewhere....
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Global warming has hit the Arctic region hard, making
the lives of the Native peoples living along the coast of Alaska in isolated
communities that depend on hunting and fishing for their survival much, much
harder....
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“A social movement strong enough to force change.” That
statement could describe the Occupy Wall Street movement, but it refers to the
struggle of Mexican electrical workers and Mexican miners in Cananea, Sonora.
Leaders from these struggles will open the 8th U.S./Cuba/Mexico/Latin America
Labor Conference on Dec. 2 in Tijuana, Mexico....
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The Western-orchestrated military effort to defeat the Islamic resistance
group Al-Shabaab in Somalia is bogged down, despite the deployment of the most
modern weapons against this people’s movement....
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If the mayor of New York City thought that he, his judge and his shock
troops could put a halt to the Occupy Wall Street movement by raiding Zuccotti
Park in the early hours of Nov. 15, he was wrong....
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The masses have opened a new chapter in the Egyptian
revolution. They have stood strong in Tahrir Square for nearly four days
against bullets and gas demanding that the military regime, which succeeded
President Hosni Mubarak last Feb. 12, step down....
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The Occupy Wall Street movement at Zuccotti Park in New York City heard the
powerful voices of women activists, the majority of them immigrants from Latin
America, at a rally organized Nov. 20 by a broad coalition led by Women Workers
for Peace and La Peña del Bronx....
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The International Atomic Energy Agency made public the names of Iranian
nuclear scientists in a new report released this week. Publishing their names
makes these scientists targets for assassination....
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The eyes of the world were on the city of Oakland and the massive people’s march to the nation’s fifth-largest container port on Nov. 2 for the General Strike and Day of Mass Action called by Occupy Oakland. Not only has the Occupy movement gone global, Occupy Oakland has become the focal point of the movement. In fact, on Oct. 28, Egyptian pro-democracy protesters marched from Tahrir Square to the U.S. Embassy in support of Occupy Oakland and against police brutality witnessed in Oakland on Oct. 25, and commonly experienced in Egypt....
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Nov. 15 — As the political character of Occupy Wall Street has grown sharper, with its movement increasingly targeting foreclosures and union-busting, the ruling class made a decision: Cut off the movement at the head. After Occupy encampments in Portland, Denver, and Oakland were shut down, New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the New York Police Department to clear out Zuccotti Park — the site of Occupy Wall Street, which since Sept. 17 has spawned a worldwide movement against the ravages of capitalism. Police in riot gear went into Zuccotti Park at 1 a.m. on Nov. 15 and violently evicted protesters, with about 70 arrested at last count. The goal of Billionaire Bloomberg and his cohorts on Wall Street remains the same: to decapitate the movement. As protesters reentered the square, they did so under heavy police presence, with onerous rules such as no tents, sleeping bags, backpacks and so on. People with medical equipment were denied access....
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Under the cover of a bogus report by a United Nations agency, the U.S. and its allies are laying the groundwork for a military attack on Iran. In order to counter this danger to humanity, the International Action Center would like to expose the perfidious role of the agency in question, the International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA is supposed to be a neutral investigator of nuclear development around the world. Instead, it has turned into a tool for imperialist aggression....
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In order to give an idea of the potential of the USSR in its efforts to
maintain parity with the United States in this sphere, we only need to point
out that when its disintegration occurred in 1991, in Byelorussia there were 81
nuclear warheads, in Kazakhstan 1400 and in the Ukraine approximately 5000; all
these went over to the Russian Federation, the only state capable of sustaining
its immense cost, in order to maintain independence....
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This Dec. 2, 3 and 4 workers from the U.S., Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela,
Argentina and other Latin American countries will analyze the global capitalist
crisis, its effects on workers throughout the hemisphere and with real examples
showing how to combat it. Three days of intensive classes and discussion --
Nov. 29, 30 and Dec. 1 , with teachers from Cuba's Lazaro Pena workers'
school -- will precede the conference....
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On Tuesday, November 15 thousands of people were in the streets again to
respond to the brutal, coordinated police attack on the center of the Occupy
Wall Street movement - Zuccotti Park – at 1 am Tuesday morning. The mass
arrests and destruction came without warning or any provocation. When word went out of the police attack immediately supporters descended on the Wall Street
area of Manhattan. At Zuccotti Park, activists resisted the police destruction and theft of their personal belongings. There were beatings and 200 mass arrests.The media was illegally barred from the area during the police assault. Refusing to be intimidated, the movement quickly regrouped and mobilized on
Tuesday. Activist lawyers rushed into court for a temporary restraining order.
The city immediately appealed the order and not surprisingly the courts sided
with billionaire Bloomberg. The police and courts, just like the Pentagon,
defend the interests of the 1%. ...
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We’re sure you were relieved on October 11, 2011, as were we, when the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed several lower court rulings since 2001 that Mumia should never have been sentenced to death. That decision is a tribute to the amazing international movement that has fought all these years for justice for
Mumia. But wae write to you now calling on you to help in this critical next stage
of the struggle to gain Mumia’s final release from prison....
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An all-out offensive against the Al-Shabaab Islamic resistance movement
based in Somalia is currently underway in the southern region of this Horn of
Africa nation. A combined force of U.S. Predator drones and French naval
vessels is targeting four towns in the southern region so that Kenyan military
forces on the ground can seize Kismayo, a port city under the control of
Al-Shabaab. The city is a major source of trade and serves as the economic
lifeline for the resistance movement, which has been labeled by the U.S. as a
terrorist organization allied with al-Qaida....
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Alfonso Cano, leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP) was killed in combat on Nov. 4 by the
Colombian Army in that country’s southwest region of Cauca. For several
hours that day, dozens of helicopters and planes surrounded this rural area,
the home of peasant families, and then they started bombing, hitting the place
where the FARC leader was....
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Calling all people of conscience: Following numerous Associated Press
reports about NYPD programs that profile, investigate and entrap American
Muslims not even suspected of committing a crime ...
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A People’s Assembly held Nov. 5 at Hostos Community College in the South Bronx launched an exciting fightback program for jobs, against racism and for the rights of workers and poor people to unions, food, healthcare, and public education....
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From capitalist media pundits to the Occupy Wall Street encampments
struggling to hold public space in countless cities and towns across the U.S.,
this question is bubbling underneath the daily actions and police
repression....
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A public memorial and cultural tribute was held for Consuela Lee — an
African-American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and teacher — at the
historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem in New York City on Oct. 29. Lee
passed away from a long illness associated with Alzheimer’s disease at
the age of 83 on Dec. 26, 2009, in Atlanta....
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People’s Assembly Sat. Nov. 5 to be Live-Streamed from Hostos College,
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The scene was a perfect storm of organized chaos. Here
were the young and old, students and workers, immigrants and oppressed, all
addressing the failures of capitalism’s current worldwide crisis,
outlining the destructive forces of global banking systems and highlighting the
lack of communal values in a place that loves to cry patriotism....
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On Tuesday, Oct. 25, a pre-dawn police raid tore up and destroyed the Occupy
Oakland camp. It was a war zone. More than 500 police from at least 12
jurisdictions took part in the paramilitary operation, arresting more than 130
by day’s end, beating many and sending one Iraqi war vet to the hospital
in critical condition....
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Nov. 1 — Like a force of nature that astonishes everyone with its
power, Occupy Oakland has inspired bold actions by youth and workers across the
United States, electrifying the political climate and forcing city officials
and police authorities to constantly revise their plans for dealing with this
broad-based people’s movement....
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Early Tuesday morning 900 police from a dozen police
agencies in the Bay Area, along with Homeland Security, brutally cracked
down on demonstrators who marched in support of Occupy Oakland....
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On the day Verizon announced that its third-quarter profits had jumped to $1.38 billion, more than 2,000 members of the Communication Workers union, together with contingents from unions including the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union, District Council 37; the United Auto Workers; the Teamsters union; and the Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York held a vibrant, militant picket line in front of Verizon’s headquarters on Water Street on Oct. 21....
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The chain reaction of protest occupations that has swept the United States
has already reinvigorated the struggle for equality and for participation in
decisions that affect the lives of the 300 million people the demonstrators
call the 99 percent....
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An all-out offensive against the Al-Shabaab Islamic resistance movement
based in Somalia is currently underway in the southern region of this Horn of
Africa nation. A combined force of U.S. Predator drones and French naval
vessels is targeting four towns in the southern region so that Kenyan military
forces on the ground can seize Kismayo, a port city under the control of
Al-Shabaab. The city is a major source of trade and serves as the economic
lifeline for the resistance movement, which has been labeled by the U.S. as a
terrorist organization allied with al-Qaida....
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The People’s Assembly at Hostos College in the Bronx, N.Y., scheduled
for Saturday, Nov. 5, has the ingredients for a unifying moment, bringing
workers’ and communities’ struggles together with the mushrooming Occupy Wall Street movement. Outreach in the Bronx has focused on postal workers’ unions, parents’ associations and tenants’ groups. People are excited to know they will be encouraged to speak up for themselves as well as hear from others with the same problems....
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Early Tuesday morning 900 police from a dozen police agencies in the Bay Area, along with Homeland Security, brutally cracked down on demonstrators who marched in support of Occupy Oakland. The demonstrators were marching to reestablish the Oakland occupation, which was shut down earlier in the day....
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Despite all the nice words by U.S. officials in world forums about their support for “peaceful” protests, despite all the sympathy expressed by politicians, from President Barack Obama on down, regarding the dire conditions that have sparked the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, despite all the efforts by many demonstrators to show good will to the authorities, the riot police have now been called out in many cities and the crackdown has begun....
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Will it develop a strong and
independent, working class-centered orientation with an understanding that
inequality based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and class are
realities that must be confronted as part of the process of forging real
solidarity amongst the 99%?...
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Dr. Tarek Mehanna is a 28-year-old Muslim, an Egyptian-American and a
graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He has
been held in solitary confinement 23 hours a day since his arrest in 2009....
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The prisoner hunger strikers at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison
called off their protest action on Oct. 13. Two days later, prisoners at
Calipatria State Prison decided to “temporarily” end their hunger
strike....
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The brutal lynching of Moammar Gadhafi, the leader of Libya, is the latest
criminal act in NATO's seven-month war of regime change and conquest....
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Almost every major national labor union — except in the construction
trades — and the AFL-CIO have endorsed Occupy Wall Street. But more
important is that in major cities they have offered significant organizational,
financial and political support to this movement....
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The first confrontation between the Occupation Wall Street demonstrators and
billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York cops ended in victory for...
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Occupy Boston and the United National Antiwar Committee
rocked the city’s business district as 5,000 protesters marched on Oct.
15 with cries of “Whose streets? Our streets!” A contingent from
Steelworkers Local 8751 representing Boston school bus drivers led the march
from a union sound truck festooned with placards declaring “Wall Street =
War Street.” The truck was ringed by a steadfast security contingent from
Vets for Peace/Smedley Butler Brigade....
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News spread around the world on Oct. 20-21 that NATO planes had struck a car
caravan leaving Sirte in Libya, wounding Moammar Gadhafi, and that the Libyan
leader was captured alive and subsequently killed. The details of his death are
sketchy and may be purposely distorted or obscured by his killers. This main
fact stands out: It took the intervention of the imperialist air forces —
including a U.S. Predator drone and a French warplane — to end the life
of this African leader....
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On Friday, October 21, the Council on American Islamic Relations New York Chapter (CAIR-NY) will be joining the Islamic Leadership Council of Metropolitan New York in hosting Friday Prayer (Jummah) at Occupy Wall Street. Jummah will begin at 1pm in Zuccotti Park. A sermon will be delivered on social justice in Islam by Imam Aiyub Abdul Baki of the Islamic Leadership Council....
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This Friday evening, Oct. 21, together with Occupy Wall Street, Verizon and Verizon Wireless workers will march to protest Verizon corporate greed. Please join us.
We will assemble at 140 West Street between 4 and 5 p.m., march east on Barclay Street and then down Broadway. We should arrive at Liberty Plaza around 5:30 p.m. and move on towards the Verizon Wireless store at about 6 p.m....
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These are hard times. There doesn’t appear to be any respite coming soon. The political atmosphere has shifted in response to the greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression. This crisis, because of how the changes in technology, communication and production have made the world smaller, is global in its impact....
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Just the very name — Occupy Wall Street! — has struck a chord with millions of people across the United States who are suffering from the often capricious devastation wreaked by the capitalist crisis, which has meant a job destroyed here, a family evicted there, until whole communities are left in tatters....
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In international financial centers, big cities and small towns, protests swept through Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Australasia, Canada and the U.S. Demonstrators in the hundreds of thousands protested corporate avarice, growing poverty, joblessness and austerity cutbacks....
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On Saturday, October 29, 2011, the
life and work of accomplished pianist and theatrical performer, Consuela
Edmonia Lee (aka Consuela Moorehead), will be honored at the historic
Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New York by an impressive list of
renowned filmmakers, musicians and artists....
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ost news published in the corporate media here about the problems in the
“eurozone” involve the threat of Greece declaring bankruptcy and
this spreading to Portugal and maybe even Spain and Italy....
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, formerly director of the CIA, said
at a news conference at NATO headquarters on Oct. 6 that the nearly
nine-month-old war against the North African state of Libya would continue
until all vestiges of resistance on the part of the people were eliminated....
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Statement by the Bail Out the People Movement in support of students and
activists in Denver Colorado who are embarking on an occupation of the largest
university campus in the state....
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The federal trial of Paul Bergrin, the strong and
courageous attorney who took on the White House and US military for authorizing
abuses in Iraq, and who is wrongfully accused of murder, gets more and
more outrageous....
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The International Women’s Alliance (IWA) supports the ‘Occupy Wall Street’
actions and calls on women’s organizations, networks, and alliances
worldwide to join and express their solidarity especially on the Global Day
of Action on October 15....
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Preliminary recommendations from the September Observer Team’s findings are 1. International Human Rights Organizations increase their attention on Honduras as the electoral process is pursued by the FARP and the land struggle continues in the Aguan Basin of Honduras. 2. That US congress and State Department take concrete and public action to condemn human right violations in Honduras and withhold military/police aid from Honduras while Honduran military and police agents continue to be complicit in forced disappearances, illegal raids, illegal detentions and human rights violations across the country....
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A worsening economic crisis; three disastrous wars that have killed millions of
people and cost trillions of dollars stolen from essential programs for OIL,
OIL, OIL and the U.S. corporate drive for markets, profit and empire –
this is why the U.S. government has FALSELY accused the Iranian government of
sponsoring a terrorist plot in the United States....
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Billionaire Bloomberg has announced that tomorrow he wants to
“clean” Zucotti Park, the site of Occupy Wall Street....
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ABRACADABRA is not a play. It is an act of Justice and Life, written mainly by children who share the dream of freedom . A teacher invites her students to walk the road to the essences, through five very true stories of
heroism and virtue....
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Here's a prediction: Seth Williams, the district
attorney of Philadelphia, will decide not to seek to reimpose the death penalty
on Mumia Abu-Jamal, the world-famous journalist, former Black Panther and
condemned prisoner who has spent the last almost 30 years of his life on
Pennsylvania's overcrowded death row....
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Today the United States Supreme Court rejected a request from the
Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office to overturn the most recent
federal appeals court decision declaring Mumia Abu-Jamal’s death sentence
unconstitutional. The Court’s decision brings to an end nearly thirty
years of litigation over the fairness of the sentencing hearing that resulted
in Mr. Abu-Jamal’s being condemned to death. Mr. Abu-Jamal will be
automatically sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole
unless the District Attorney elects to seek another death sentence from a new
jury....
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Edward Asner, Jackson Browne, James Cromwell, Mike Farrell, Danny
Glover, Susan Sarandon, Peter Coyote, Bonnie Raitt, Elliott Gould, and
Others Send Letter to President Obama for the Safety and Immediate Return
of One of the Cuban 5, Rene Gonzalez to Cuba....
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The people are rising up. The anti-corporation sentiments that galvanized the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City are spreading across the U.S. and the world. The list of cities either staging or planning occupations increases by the hour....
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Oct. 15 is a day of nationally coordinated
antiwar actions in cities across the U.S., the 10th anniversary of the
massively destructive and criminal U.S. war on Afghanistan....
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We will meet at 4 PM at the North corner (or back end) of Foley Square –
at Worth and Lafayette Streets, underneath a yellow banner like the one
above....
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Cross the Brooklyn Bridge !...
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The arrest of over 700 people on Saturday, Oct 1 on the Brooklyn Bridge by the New York City Police Department is an outrage and an injustice. Numerous videos clearly show top NYPD police officials actually leading the demonstration on to the roadway of the bridge, not the pedestrian walkway. Then they blocked further movement and started arresting hundreds of activists. This is entrapment....
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Sept. 26 — The outrage over the state of Georgia’s execution of
Troy Davis at 11:08 p.m. on Sept. 21 has not abated. Rather, his name has
become a code word for resistance and struggle....
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Despite the Sept. 15 visit to Libya of British Prime Minister David Cameron
and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the struggle for control of the oil-
producing North African state of Libya is far from complete. Battles for
control of Bani Walid and Sirte illustrate that supporters of Muammar
Gadhafi’s government still represent a disciplined fighting force against
the U.S./NATO fighter jets and military operatives backing the National
Transitional Council “rebels.”...
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During an interview with WOR radio on Sept. 16, New York City’s
billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, stated that the conditions of high
employment in the U.S. could lead to social unrest on a par with what has
occurred throughout parts of North Africa, the Middle East, Britain, Spain,
Greece and elsewhere. His specific comment was, “You have a lot of kids
graduating college can’t find jobs. That’s what happened in Cairo.
That’s what happened in Madrid. You don’t want those kinds of riots here.”...
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Stop-and-frisk, harassment, marijuana busts – all directed
disproportionately at African American and Latino youth – is a constant
feature in neighborhoods where unemployment is the highest. And when people come out to demand jobs and justice, or to protest the racist execution of Troy Davis, they get kicked, tripped, punched and pepper-sprayed....
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The North Carolina House of Representatives voted 75-42 on Sept. 12 to place
a constitutional ban on gay marriage on the ballot for the 2012 state
elections. If Amendment One is ratified, it would permanently ban all same-sex
marriages in North Carolina, prevent private employers from providing health
insurance benefits to same-sex couples, and render null and void in this state
all same-sex marriages made in other states....
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In the wake of the outrageous murder of Troy Davis, on Saturday the NYPD
violently attacked the Occupy Wall Street protesters for doing nothing but
taking to the streets against racism, unemployment and bank bailouts. The
latest word is they will not be released until tomorrow....
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“Occupy Wall Street” was a demonstration rooted in tweets,
Facebook messages, and email exchanges. There was no call to kick it off, no
list of endorsers, and no office with a director and staff. There were lists of
Web pages, some of which had links to files to make leaflets, and certainly
meetings occurred where issues and tactics were considered....
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On Sept. 16, Judge Joan Lenard refused to allow René González, one
of the five Cuban heroes unjustly held in U.S. prisons, to return to Cuba and
his family when he is released on Oct. 7....
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This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 2001 U.N. Durban (South Africa) World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. To commemorate the event there will be a high-level United Nations General Assembly meeting on racism in New York City on Sept. 22. ...
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The vast majority of the people in the U.S. depend on wages to get by. Only
7 percent of those who work full-time are self-employed. Farmers, for example,
who a century ago made up almost half the population, now account for less than
1 percent. Vastly more people work for large corporations or retail chains than
have their own businesses....
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Davis, who was sentenced to death in 1991 for the murder of an off-duty
police officer, is scheduled to be executed in Georgia on Sept. 21. However, no
direct evidence was brought to convict Davis during his trial, and seven of the
nine witnesses who testified that Davis was the shooter have since recanted
their testimony, saying they were coerced by police into giving false
statements. Davis himself has consistently proclaimed his innocence....
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I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to human rights
and human kindness, in the past year. I have experienced such emotion, joy,
sadness and never-ending faith. It is because of all of you that I am alive
today. As I look at my sister Martina I am marveled by the love she has for me
and of course I worry about her and her health, but as she tells me she is the
eldest and she will not back down from this fight to save my life and prove to
the world that I am innocent of this terrible crime....
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Sept. 20 — The Georgia State Board of Parole and Pardons denied
clemency to death-row inmate Troy Davis this morning. With this latest decision
and all other legal channels seemingly exhausted, Davis faces imminent
execution on Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification
Prison in Jackson, Ga....
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The International Action Center strongly condemns the state-sanctioned murder of inmate, Troy Davis, by the racist state of Georgia Sept. 21 at 11:08 p.m. Davis maintained his innocence while strapped to a gurney in the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer for which he was sentenced to death row in 1991....
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Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people have voiced their opposition to the execution of Troy Davis. There were demonstrations, vigils and other forms of protest in some 300 locations on Sept. 16. 4000 people came out in Atlanta on Friday, the International Day of Solidarity with Troy Davis, overflowing the sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist Church and filling the outside space....
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Troy Davis's EXECUTION HAS BEEN SET FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. TELL THE GEORGIA GOV., LEGISLATURE, PARDONS AND PAROLE BOARD, PRESIDENT OBAMA, ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER, CONGRESS AND THE MEDIA: STOP THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS. On March 28, 2011, the US Supreme Court failed to take up the appeal of Troy Anthony Davis, the Savannah, Ga. man whose scheduled execution has been halted three times in the past because of the growing evidence and public belief in his innocence. 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." No physical forensic evidence was presented at Davis' trial, and 7 of the 9 non-police witnesses have recanted their testimony, with at least two saying they were pressured by police to finger Davis as the killer....
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On Sept. 5, hundreds of militant protesters — facing off police and tear gas in Port-Salut, Haiti — called for justice and reparations for a Haitian youth who has charged Minustah marines with gang rape. They also called for the U.N. occupation forces to leave their country....
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President Barack Obama, facing formidable challenges to his re-election bid in 2012 as well as the potential further erosion of the Democratic Party base in the Senate and House of Representatives, unveiled the American Jobs Act during a special address to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 8. On Sept. 12 he announced the submission of a $447 billion proposal to Congress that is purportedly designed to create jobs amid the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s....
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More than 12,000 individuals have taken the time to sign this on-line
petition and it has generated more than 3 MILLION <3,000,000> email
messages to officials and media demanding STOP the Execution of Troy Davis....
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These PDFs are to be folded in half, placed on a copier
and and blown up to 200% of their original size. This will make two 11" x
17" panels, which together will make a 22" x 17" sign....
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U.S. imperialism is once again maneuvering to counter growing world support for the Palestinian struggle. Its primary motive is to protect the interests of U.S. capital in the Middle East, which center around, but are not restricted to, exploitation of the fabulous oil wealth in the area....
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People from every sector of the regional New York City progressive movement,
including representatives of various religious communities, gathered at City
Hall Park near the World Trade Center site on Sept. 11 to show solidarity with
the Muslim community. That group has focused over the past month on condemning
the racism and bigotry whipped up by the ultra-right, which was holding what
turned out to be a small anti-Muslim rally a few blocks to the west....
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Millions of U.S. and global activists are engaged in a massive effort to stop this legal lynching. They are signing petitions, organizing rallies and meetings, and contacting elected officials and other influential individuals. A Twitter account at hash tag Too Much Doubt is rapidly informing millions more. Every avenue is being pursued to mobilize public opinion to influence the Georgia Pardons and Parole Board — which meets on Sept. 19 — to grant Davis clemency. The governor-appointed five-member board has the authority to stop the execution. Although the board has previously denied Davis clemency, three new members have not heard all the details of his case....
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Palestinians everywhere are mobilizing to remind the world of their right to self-determination. In New York we are marching to the UN because the world’s attention is focused on the vote on Palestine scheduled to take place there....
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WE ARE JOINING FORCES!!!!
EMERGENCY RALLY TO STOP THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS!!!!
Friday, SEPTEMBER 16TH 4:30 – 6:30!!!
TIMES SQUARE (42ND Street & 7th Avenue)
Please note the location change the rally will not be at Union Square!!!!!!
Amnesty International USA, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, New Yorkers for
Alternatives to the Death Penalty, The Brecht Forum, International Action Center,
Theater of the Oppressed Lab NY are joining forces!!!!!!
EMERGENCY RALLY TO DEMAND THAT THE GEORGIA BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES COMMUTE
TROY’S SENTENCE – A FINAL CHANCE TO PREVENT TROY DAVIS FROM BEING
EXECUTED!!!! ...
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All anti-death penalty activists in the U.S. and worldwide should prepare NOW to organize coordinated actions on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16.
Plan an activity - a rally, demonstration, petitioning drive, teach-in, community leafletting, etc on that day in your city.
Post your event at iacenter.org/actions/troydavissept16listlocalaction and justicefortroy.org
In ATLANTA, at 6pm on September 16th there will be a March assembling at Woodruff Park, Peachtree and Edgewood and concluding at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 407 Auburn Ave with a service featuring national civil rights, community and religious leaders, Martina Correia and other family members of Troy Davis,and exonerated prisoners....
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Last year there was an overwhelming response to the International Action
Center’s call for an anti-racist demonstration on Sept. 11....
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Some 15,000 children and thousands more adults will be cut off cash
assistance in Michigan on Oct. 1 due to draconian legislation adopted in the
state in recent months. These cuts were passed by the conservative state
Legislature and signed into law by Republican Gov. Rick Snyder....
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After nearly seven months of war against the North African state of Libya,
the combined forces of NATO and its National Transitional Council
“rebel” units are tightening their noose around the areas of the
country where armed resistance has prevented the counterrevolution from taking
over. Those millions of Libyans who remain loyal to the government and are
opposing the efforts to loot the national wealth of this oil-producing nation
are being pressured to lay down their arms and surrender....
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All anti-death penalty activists in the U.S. and worldwide should prepare NOW to organize coordinated actions before Sept. 21. The IAC will send out a proposed date for these actions in conjunction with Georgia activists....
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“Food is a right” is not just a slogan. In 1999 the United
Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights determined that food
is actually a human right. But the price of food has doubled worldwide since
2000, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization....
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Is there a connection between the controversial natural gas drilling process
known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the extremely rare
5.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Washington, D.C., and significant sections
of the U.S. East Coast on Aug. 23? This is a question many scientists are now
asking....
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Dozens of demonstrators gathered in front of the Jacob K. Javits Federal
Office Building here on Aug. 5 to protest cuts of $127 billion to food stamps
and the Women, Infants and Children program. Congress mandated the cuts in
April, to extend from 2012 to 2021....
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By directing their enormous joint military and economic power against a
poorly armed, nonindustrialized country of 6 million people, the imperialist
states of North America and Western Europe have imposed a criminal regime on
the Libyan people....
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Extreme right-wing, racist forces — who last year whipped up a climate of racism against the Islamic Prayer Center at 51 Park Place — are planning to use the tenth anniversary of September 11 for another anti-Muslim hatefest....
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We, the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS), condemn in the strongest terms the US, NATO and their puppet forces for their barbaric military campaign against the people in the whole of Libya since several months ago and in Tripoli currently. The combination of escalated NATO air bombardments and ground movement of Libyan puppet forces and NATO special forces against Tripoli since 20 August aims to deliver the final blow on the Gaddafi regime....
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New York City Mayor Bloomberg has announced that in the event of a hurricane, that he will not evacuate prisoners at Rikers’ Island, claiming instead to have a “contingency plan” in place. The experience of prisoners in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina shows that city authorities will abandon the basic rights of prisoners in the face of disaster....
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Under the most incredibly difficult conditions – including NATO bombing, mercenary landings, Special Forces operations and the destruction of civilian infrastructure – the heroic resistance to imperialist conquest in Libya has continued....
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A six-month-old war against the government of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya has reached a new stage as NATO escalated its intervention with air power, naval power, strategy and intelligence to push the Transitional National Council’s armed units into the capital, Tripoli....
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The NATO powers of Europe and the U.S. are declaring victory after having pounded the small country of Libya for five brutal months. They are claiming that the “rebel” forces they command, whose road to Tripoli was paved by NATO air strikes that knocked out much of Libya’s civil and military capability, now control the capital....
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On August 20, the African community of the world will register our condemnation of and resistance to the wars being made against our people and our freedom everywhere.We will oppose the heinous bombing of Libya and the violent attempt to overthrow that government....
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President Barack Obama on Aug. 18 demanded that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, saying that the Syrian leader’s days are numbered. The governments of Britain, France and Germany joined in this demand. This statement is a blatant imperialist interference in Syria’s internal affairs. More than that, it is an open threat to intervene militarily in another country in that region, just as the U.S. and its European allies have done already in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Somalia, with rockets and bombs. It is a threat against the Syrian people of something like the last five months of slaughter of the Libyan people....
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Collective punishment of civilian populations, including denial of water and food, is prohibited under the Geneva Conventions:...
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We are writing to you on an urgent matter. As you know, the streets of
London and other British cities erupted in rebellion earlier this week,
following the police killing of a young Black man and father of three, Mark
Duggan, in the Tottenham area on August 4....
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Wednesday's (Aug. 10) first Planning Meeting of the Emergency Mobilization Against
Racism, War and Anti-Muslem Bigotry to counter the racist, right-wing forces on
Sunday, September 11 was a tremendous step forward. We discussed plans for a
Rally, March and Cultural Exhibition....
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Extreme right wing racist forces, who last year whipped up an ugly climate
of hate against the Islamic Prayer Center at 51 Park Place, have announced new
plans for Sunday, September 11 this year at the same location....
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Join the International Action Center at the August 13 Millions
March in Harlem!...
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In the largest U.S. strike in four years, 45,000 union members took to the picket lines from Massachusetts to Virginia on Aug. 7 after their contract with Verizon Communications expired. The courageous strikers, who belong to the Communication Workers union and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, refuse to go back to work until they have a decent contract....
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In the past year the British government has announced and implemented huge cuts in education and social service programs in the face of growing unemployment and poverty. Now Black and working-class youth are responding with direct action and mass rebellion.<...
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Extreme right-wing, racist forces, who last year whipped up a climate of hate against the Islamic Prayer Center at 51 Park Place, have announced ugly new plans for this year -- the 10th anniversary of 9/11 -- at the same location near the World Trade Center site. This is a very dangerous threat. Anders Breivik, the racist, right-wing Norwegian responsible for the recent mass murder of 77 mostly young people in Norway, has quoted extensively from the writings of Pamela Geller of Stop Islamization of America and Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch. These are the two organizations opposing the Islamic Prayer Space at 51 Park Place....
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RALLY for UNITY & SOLIDARITY
MANIFESTACIÓN POR LA UNIDAD Y LA SOLIDARIDAD
Sun • SEPT 11, 2011
NY City Hall • 1 pm
RALLY Broadway & Park Pl.
Dom • 11 de sept • 1 pm
La MANIFESTACIÓN
el lado oeste de la ALCALDÍA
Broadway y Park Pl.
Be there!
Volunteers & Activists needed...
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For 18 days the people of Egypt gathered in the streets in the millions and brought down the 30-year reign of U.S. client Hosni Mubarak. This January 25 Revolution, named for its first day of protest, was led by youth and students....
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June 18 — The Egyptian Socialist Party was founded here today before a packed auditorium of more than 400 Egyptians and international guests. What made such an assembly possible was the enormous mass revolution of last Jan. 25 that removed the U.S.-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak and made the name “Tahrir Square” an inspiration for popular revolt worldwide....
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More than 85 percent of Egypt’s poor live in rural areas. Like all
Egyptians, they are participating in the protests held throughout the country,
and are expecting that a new Egyptian government will meet their urgent
needs....
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In addition to the mass protests in Egypt, another arena for demanding
rights and fighting corruption has been Egypt’s independent trade union
movement. This movement expressed its solidarity with the demonstrators, and
added its clout to the struggle to bring down Hosni Mubarak five months
ago....
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Thousands of angry Egyptians took to the streets of Cairo and Alexandria at
the end of June, battling the Central Security forces for hours before
successfully pushing the riot police back. These were the most intense clashes
in five months, since Egypt’s 18-day revolution in January that ousted
U.S.-client Hosni Mubarak....
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The desperate situation of the Haitian people has given rise to political
tensions in the country’s Parliament and anger among the people against
the U.S.-backed regime. The only effective aid for combating the cholera
epidemic has come from socialist Cuba....
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The destructive bombing attacks on Libya by the Pentagon and NATO are highly
unpopular in the United States, although you wouldn’t know it from
corporate media coverage....
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The resolution of the debt-ceiling crisis shows the growing strength of the
right wing in capitalist politics and the bankruptcy of President Barack Obama
and the Democratic Party leadership. It also guarantees that the economic
crisis of the workers and the people in general will get worse at a time when
capitalism is sliding toward a new crisis....
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The International Migrants’ Alliance (IMA) denounces former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s sexual assault on female migrant worker Nafissatou Diallo, as well as the case’s subsequent handling by US prosecutors and the Western media, as not only an attack on her person but on women and migrants as well....
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The scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World won’t make the giant media monopolies any less mouthpieces for the billionaire ruling class....
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For almost five months, the combined military forces of the United States and NATO have pounded Libyan cities, towns, villages and ports in an effort to overthrow the government of Moammar Gadhafi....
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The debt ceiling battle is being fought by representatives of the rich
with no input whatsoever by the people. We're being asked to sit on the
sidelines while the Democrats and Republicans duke it out. Possibly we can root
for one side or another....
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The International Women’s Assembly successfully held its First General
Assembly on July 5 and 6 in Quezon City, Philippines, under the theme
“Advance the Global Anti-imperialist Women’s Movement! Strengthen
the International Women’s Alliance!”...
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Leaders of the hunger strike in the Security Housing Unit at
California’s Pelican Bay State Prison accepted an offer July 20 from the
California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation and have ended their
weeks-long action. Members of the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition
confirmed reports of the hunger strike’s end after speaking with some of
the prisoners involved. ...
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Whether or not a deal is reached in Washington on how to raise the debt
ceiling and avoid a government default, the workers and the oppressed have no
independent voice in the debate. The process gives them no choice but to accept
the result of venomous political warfare in the capitalist establishment....
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On July 22 a bomb attack on central Oslo and a massacre at an island Labor Party summer camp killed 76 people, most of them youths. It was the worst such tragedy in that country of 4.8 million people since World War II....
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On June 2 hotel housekeepers who are members of UNITE HERE launched a
coordinated eight-city speak-out “to break the silence on the dangers of
their jobs.” The workers stated that they were “inspired by the
courageous stand taken by the housekeepers in New York against some of the most
powerful men in the world.” ...
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NATO planes bombed Libya’s capital city of Tripoli on July 17 for more than two hours. From 60 to 75 ordinances hit targets in the Tajura and Seraj suburbs....
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If you went to a shopping center, a street corner or a graduate school of a top university in the U.S. and conducted a pop quiz asking who are the kings or crown princes of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco and Bahrain; the emir of Kuwait, Qatar or Dubai; and the sultan of Oman, most people would not be able to name any of them....
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Even the most rabid budget cutters on Wall Street are now pushing for an increase in the debt ceiling. The bankers and bosses were happy to see the Republican extreme right wing play chicken with default in order to get cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. They have already gotten President Barack Obama to agree to put cutting Social Security and other entitlements on the bargaining table....
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Hear former U.S. Congressperson Cynthia McKinney, recently returned from leading a delegation to Libya during the U.S. bombing and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Akbar Muhammad & other leading opponents of the U.S. war on Libya along with VIDEO footage. ...
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Right now there are 200 prisoners at Pelican Bay on a hunger strike. They are experiencing life-threatening health conditions according to an urgent update received by the Hunger Strike Prisoner Solidarity Coalition and from medical personnel at the prison. The California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation continues to refuse to negotiate. It is urged that phone calls be made to the following authorities immediately, demanding they enter into negotiations before they have (more) deaths on their hands: ...
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Facundo Cabral, the well-known Argentinean songwriter, died July 9, the
victim of a horrendous shooting in Guatemala on his way to the airport. He was
74 years old and had just finished a concert in that country’s capital
before heading to Nicaragua where he was planning to end his concert tour. He
was suffering from cancer and was about to go for treatment....
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Hear former U.S. Congressperson Cynthia McKinney, who recently returned from leading a delegation to Libya in opposition to the U.S. criminal destruction of Libya.
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Just as the right of public sector workers to collective bargaining has been attacked this year in state legislatures from New Hampshire to California, so too have there been widespread legislative attacks on women’s right to legal, safe, accessible abortion....
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The hotel housekeeper who accused then-head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn of raping her is fighting back after a media barrage meant to defame her character and undermine her credibility. This brave woman has filed a libel suit against the New York Post for a series of articles in which the paper, in vulgar and demeaning terms, openly claimed she was a prostitute....
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One thing is clear: whether in Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan,
Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, or Venezuela,
bombing people and saber rattling certainly don't win us
any friends....
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On Wednesday, July 6, Carlos Montes will go to a Los Angeles court to
face six felony charges and enter a plea of "Not Guilty" The
charges all deal with firearms, ammunition and permits. Like millions of other
Americans, Carlos has for years held legal permits for guns. The fact is that
the charges against Carlos carry a total penalty of up to 18 years, and are
aimed at his effective political organizing against war and for people’s
civil rights....
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As the U.S./NATO war against the North African state of Libya entered its
fourth month, the House of Representatives voted on June 24 to withhold
authorization for the bombing campaign. In a resolution to support the war,
members of Congress turned down the Obama administration’s military
strategy by a vote of 295 against and 123 in favor....
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Quemada (BURN): In the Nineteenth Century, the cynical and pragmatic British
agent William Walker (Marlon Brando) arrives in Queimada, a Portuguese colony
in the Antilles, to promote a revolution to benefit the sugar trade with
England. He sees in the water/luggage bearer, José Dolores, the necessary
potential to become the leader of the slave revolt. Dolores succeeds in
expelling the Portuguese troops from the island; but then the provisional
government of President Teddy Sanchez assumes power over Quemada with the
support of the British government. Ten years later William Walker is hired
again, but now by the Royal Company that is exploiting the sugar cane
plantations and the Queimada government to chase José Dolores who is
disturbing the sugar cane interests of England with his army of rebels. Written
by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
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Support the fight of Native California Indigenous peoples to save the ruins of
one of their ancient burial mounds. City of Vallejo, California, plans to
destroy the ruins of the Glen Cove Shellmound, also known as Sagorea Te have
been set back by an occupation of the site now in its 12th week...
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At first glance it would seem that Athens, Ohio, and Athens, Greece, are worlds apart. Not only does language separate them, but more than 5,100 miles of land and ocean stand between them. The only thing they seem to have in common is a name....
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On June 28, as the New York City Council was scheduled to vote on a pro-banker, anti-people budget deal, more than 100 residents of the “Bloombergville” encampment marched around City Hall. They had been sleeping on the sidewalk nearby for 16 days trying to stop Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s impending cuts....
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The U.S. Supreme Court recently dealt a brutal blow to women workers employed by Wal-Mart. On June 20 the justices dismissed the Dukes v. Wal-Mart lawsuit, decreeing that these workers cannot sue their employers as a class for sex discrimination....
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Two NATO airstrikes on June 19 and 20 exposed even further the criminal
nature of the imperialist war against the North African state of Libya. On June
19 NATO forces struck a civilian residential area in Tripoli, the capital,
killing nine people in a household, including two children....
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These cuts have nothing to do with any kind of “deficit.”
Billionaire Bloomberg made that clear Friday night when he said, “We
always have the money. They question is, do we need to spend it on this or
that? Or spend it now or later?”...
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South African President Jacob Zuma paid a state visit to Libya on May 30 that proved to be a fruitless effort to bring about a ceasefire in the war launched by Western-backed rebels and NATO forces, which have intensified their bombing of the capital of Tripoli and other areas of the country. Zuma was acting on behalf of the African Union, which held an extraordinary meeting on May 25 aimed at bringing an end to the war against Libya....
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fter nearly three months of U.S./NATO bombing operations over Libya, the North African state has remained defiant in the face of one of the most intense military operations in recent months by the imperialist countries of North America and Western Europe. Official NATO sources say that more than 10,000 sorties have been flown over the oil-rich nation resulting in large-scale destruction of the country’s infrastructure and the reported deaths of 10,000 to 15,000 people....
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On direct orders from the Italian government, headed by Silvio Berlusconi (who himself faces many investigations), three Libyans were arrested in Perugia, including Ahusain Nouri, president of the League of Libyan students in Italy...
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Over the last few years, as the movement for boycott, divestment and
sanctions of Israel (BDS) has gathered steam in the U.S. and throughout the
world, the apartheid state of Israel has turned to various tactics in an
attempt to counter the growing solidarity with the Palestinian people. One such
strategy is to portray Israel as the only place in the Middle East that is
friendly to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people....
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June 19 — Launched on the heels of a massive public workers’
rally on June 14, and inspired by gigantic occupations of public squares in
Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, Greece and Wisconsin, the Bloombergville encampment near
New York’s City Hall has withstood police intimidation and inclement
weather to mount a spirited and sustained protest against the current onslaught
of anti-people budget cuts in New York City and state....
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Greece’s left-wing labor confederation PAME held the third general
strike of 2011 on June 15, protesting the government’s newest plans to
cut another 6.4 billion euros from the already existing austerity budget. PAME,
which marched in 67 cities, represents about half the organized workers and has
led the workers’ struggle against the Troika....
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The International Action Center - IACenter.org urges full support for 2 events to oppose US/NATO War on Libya on Saturday & Monday...
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Congressional opposition to the president regarding the
authorization of U.S. military attacks against Libya has opened up a path for a
more popular participation in the struggle to end U.S. aggression in North
Africa. An IAC petition opened a light on this issue: violation of the War
Powers Act. The mass unhappiness with the war on Libya -- 70 percent of the
population opposing that war in polls -- is reflected in the act of Congress
challenging the administration, whatever the motivation of the individuals.
This mass displeasure is also reflected in the actions of political figures
like Cynthia McKinney in traveling to Libya to bring back the
truth....
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Films of Struggle, Fundraiser for Peoples Video Network and
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Plaintiffs Dennis Kucinich, Walter B. Jones, John Conyers, Jr., Roscoe
Bartlett, Michael E. Capuano, Dan Burton, Howard Coble, John J. Duncan, Jr.,
Timothy V. Johnson, and Ron Paul (hereinafter “the Plaintiffs”),
all members of Congress, bring this Complaint in their official capacities and
as taxpayers and allege as follows:...
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he U.S. has now intervened militarily in Libya for almost 90 days. As we wrote last month (see petition), this is a violation of the War Powers Act. For the first time, the Congress has challenged the president regarding the War Powers Act. First the House voted to raise the question with President Barack Obama at the 60-day limit since the March 19 initial bombing raids. Then Republican Rep. John Boehner sent a message warning President Obama that he would have to justify the intervention....
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The spirit of resistance is alive across the state of Wisconsin. From the
first eruption of struggle here in February, when Gov. Scott Walker introduced
a union-busting bill, and as attacks on working and oppressed people have
broadened and sharpened, youth and students have played a decisive role,
helping to advance and build the fightback....
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A historic vote on the application of the 1973 War Powers Resolution has
upheld the Obama administration’s continuation of large-scale bombings
aimed at overthrowing the government of Libya....
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Some 80,000 people marched down the streets to Syntagma Square in Athens,
Greece, on June 5 on the 12th straight day of protests emulating the uprising
of youth in Spain. In Greece organized struggles over the past 18 months have
also included general strikes led by the PAME labor confederation....
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Before dawn broke June 5, as the news spread that Yemen’s President
Ali Abdullah Saleh had left for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, fireworks
filled the sky. As one Yemeni blogger put it, the party started at 6 a.m. To
celebrate, people sacrificed cows and goats in “Change Square,” the
site of the large encampment that had been peacefully pressuring Saleh to leave
for the last four months....
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Prisoners earning 23 cents an hour in U.S. federal prisons are manufacturing
high-tech electronic components for Patriot Advanced Capability 3 missiles,
launchers for TOW (Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided) anti-tank
missiles, and other guided missile systems. A March article by journalist and
financial researcher Justin Rohrlich of World in Review is worth a closer look
at the full implications of this ominous development. ...
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This new book provides the bankground and analysis key to
understanding today’s fast-breaking Middle East
events....
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Without presenting a shred of reliable evidence, NATO and International
Criminal Court conspirators are charging the Libyan government with conspiracy
to rape -- not only rape as the "collateral damage" of war, but rape
as a political weapon....
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It is now 1:10 in the afternoon and as the daily life in Tripoli unfolds that
includes teachers, staff, and children at school, shopkeepers working in their
businesses, streetsweepers sweeping the streets, people moving to and fro in
the cars, on bicycles, and on foot, Tripoli has thus far since around 11:00 up
to now, received at least 29 bombs....
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They couldn’t break Geronimo ji Jaga. The FBI and Los Angeles district attorney framed the Black Panther Party leader for murder and jailed him for 27 years....
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ declared on March 25, 2011
– that there are 3 repressive regimes in the Middle East that must be
condemned – Syria, Libya and Iran. Why is the U.S. targeting these
particular countries?...
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The steering committees of the two large coalitions that mobilized on March 24 and May 12 against the massive cuts proposed in Mayor Bloomberg’s executive budget announced plans for a unified and protracted resistance and camp-in beginning Tuesday June 14....
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Speaking on Libyan TV May 21, former U.S. Congressperson Cynthia McKinney condemned the brutal war against the government and the people of that country. McKinney, an African American and a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy in Africa and the Middle East, traveled to Libya as part of a fact-finding mission to expose the criminal nature of the war....
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Founded in 1945 at the end of World War II, NATO was founded by the United States in response to the Soviet Union’s survival as a communist state. NATO was the U.S. insurance policy that capitalist ownership and domination of European, Asian and African economies would continue....
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Hundreds of thousands of people, predominantly youth, took to the streets
throughout Yemen on May 28 to demand President Ali Abdullah Saleh leave.
Earlier, there had been heavy fighting between government forces and tribally
based militias, joined by dissident factions of the army. (Miami Herald, May
28)...
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May 30 — Demonstrations and occupations against the capitalist crisis, austerity and mass unemployment continued into their third week across Spain, sending ripples across the rest of the continent as other young people and workers organized protests and encampments in solidarity with the revolt that ignited on May 15. It’s now called 15-M....
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As a result of the ongoing people’s struggle in Wisconsin and worldwide support for it, a permanent injunction was issued by a Dane County judge May 26 that struck down the union-busting bill signed by Gov. Scott Walker on March 11....
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NATO has announced it will continue the criminal bombing of Libya for another 90 days. The U.S. Congress has postponed any vote on President Obama’s obvious violation of the War Powers Act. In the face of this, Cynthia McKinney has returned to Libya with a fact finding delegation to meet with Libyans under attack by NATO’s bombs. She plans to bring back to the U.S. documented evidence of NATO war crimes....
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Manuel Zelaya is going home. After nearly two years in forced exile, after
two years of protests and marches, after strikes in the streets of Honduras,
after the martyrdom of hundreds of members of a huge nationwide resistance,
Hondurans have won the right to bring back “Mel,” their
“Máximo Líder,” the elected General Coordinator of the
Front for the National Popular Resistance of Honduras (FNRP)....
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As the Japanese economy reels from the combined effects of the recent
tsunami and human-made nuclear disaster, Japanese workers are facing increased
repression as they attempt to fight back against the economic effects of the
calamity and expose the nuclear industry for the danger it poses....
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President Barack Obama delivered a foreign policy address related to
developments in the Middle East on May 19. The speech — which avoided
addressing the uprisings throughout North Africa, the Palestinian question and
the U.S./NATO war against Libya — created even more hostility toward his
administration domestically and internationally....
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Consider these horrific facts provided by the National Organization for
Women: Every year approximately 132,000 women report they have been violently
violated by rape or attempted rape. More than half of that number knew their
attackers. It’s estimated that two to six times that many women are
raped, but do not report it. Every year 1.2 million women are raped by their
current or former male partners, some more than once....
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The sun had not dawned yet on the cold, crisp morning of May 17 in Alhambra,
a neighborhood east of Los Angeles. It was hard to believe spring had arrived
that morning when at 5 a.m. the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
SWAT team assembled in front of Carlos Montes’ driveway and front yard.
The silence was shattered along with Montes’ door as the officers rammed
it down and then sprang into his home bearing automatic rifles....
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On May 17, 2011 at 5:00 AM, the SWAT Team of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s
Department and members of the FBI raided the home of Carlos Montes, a long time
Chicano activist and active member of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. The
SWAT Team smashed the front door and rushed in with automatic weapons as Carlos
slept. The team of Sheriffs and FBI proceeded to ransack his house, taking his
computer, cell phones and hundreds of documents, photos, diskettes and mementos
of his current political activities in the pro-immigrant rights and Chicano
civil rights movement. Also taken were hundreds of historical documents related
to Carlos Montes’ involvement in the Chicano movement for the past 44
years....
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Drawing inspiration from the fighting spirit and determination of Tahrir
Square and the peoples of Egypt, Tunisia and the Middle East, the peoples of
Spain took the struggle against capitalist austerity, mass unemployment and the
conditions of the economic crisis to a new level this past week....
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Thousands of Palestinian refugees from Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and
Gaza surged across fenced off borders and into Israel on May 15, asserting
their right to return home. The unarmed protesters were fired upon by Israeli
soldiers, killing 16 and wounding hundreds....
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On May 19 the war against Libya will reach its 60-day mark. On that date this criminal war will be in explicit violation of the War Powers Act. The War Powers Act is a U.S. law that grew out of the struggle against the war in Vietnam. It requires a president involved in a military conflict lasting longer than 60 days to come before Congress for authorization to continue the war. Knowing that this war is immoral, illegal and based on lies, the Obama administration has refused to address the reasons behind initiating yet another war after years of death and destruction in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. In the past 57 days of a war that was promoted as a "humanitarian
intervention" to enforce a "no-fly zone," the U.S. and NATO have conducted more than 2,500 bombing missions.
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We, the undersigned, are alive today because some individual or small group of
individuals decided that our insistent and persistent proclamations of
innocence warranted one more look before we were sent to our death by
execution. We are among the 138 individuals who have been legally exonerated
and released from death rows in the United States since 1973. We are alive
because a few thoughtful persons – attorneys, journalists, judges,
jurists, etc. – had lingering doubts about our cases that caused them to
say "stop" at a critical moment and halt the march to the execution
chamber. When our innocence was ultimately revealed, when our lives were saved,
and when our freedom was won, we thanked God and those individuals of
conscience who took actions that allowed the truth to eventually come to
light....
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People in the U.S. and around the world have broad sympathy for the popular
demonstrations taking place in the Middle East. All the uprisings, however, are
not necessarily the same....
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Playwright Tony Kushner has done some good work. His most famous plays, the
“Angels in America” cycle, were some of the first mainstream dramas
to draw attention to how the AIDS crisis was devastating the gay community in
this country. His musical “Caroline, or Change,” which I saw in
2004 during its all-too-brief Broadway run, is an honest, tough-minded yet
tender treatment of race, racism, and Black-Jewish relations in the 1960s
South....
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Since the beginning of the people’s upsurge in Wisconsin in early
February, the students and workers have resisted in numerous mass actions. One
of the most courageous of these was a student occupation at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, which ended in the early morning hours of May 7 after the
students were evicted from their occupied space by the administration and
charged with “trespassing.”...
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President Barack Obama has praised the targeted assassination of Osama bin
Laden as a turning point and “one of the greatest military and
intelligence operations in U.S. history.”...
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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." On March 28, 2011, the Supreme Court refused to take up his appeal, and he could be executed at any time....
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All out on May 12 in New York City! Join in a mass march on Wall Street to
say ‘Enough!’ to service cuts, job cuts, wage cuts and other
anti-worker, anti-union, anti-poor, anti-youth attacks. Wall Street has the
money. It’s time to stop budget cuts and make the bosses and bankers pay
up! March with New Yorkers Against the Budget Cuts, CUNY Mobilization Network,
Transport Workers Union, students, youth and many others. Gather at 4 p.m. at
the Bowling Green subway stop, across from 2 Broadway....
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Thousands of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank cheered the news
that the occupied Palestinian territories had taken a major step toward
reconciliation. On April 27 the movements of Hamas and Fatah announced an
agreement to unite. In a move that seems to have stunned the Western
imperialist diplomatic world, the two groups agreed to create an interim unity
government and hold elections within a year....
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NATO airstrikes carried out April 30 against the home of the son of Libyan
leader Moammar Gadhafi killed three of Gadhafi’s grandchildren as well as
his youngest son, Saif al-Arab Gadhafi. The attacks took place amid a dramatic
escalation in fighting between Libyan government forces and the Western-backed
rebels in various parts of the North African state....
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International Workers’ Day — May Day — was honored throughout the U.S. on May 1 with marches demanding legalization for immigrants and an end to union busting and attacks on workers, including vicious anti-immigrant and anti-worker legislation enacted or under consideration in several states....
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In one of the biggest marches and rallies in Wisconsin history, more than 100,000 people participated in this year’s May Day in Milwaukee....
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The workers’ movement in the United States took a significant step forward this May Day when labor and immigrant organizations in New York City came together after a march and closed the day by exchanging speakers under the banner “May Day Is Workers’ Day.”...
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Despite what is being reported, the invasion of Libya has already begun. Units operating on Libyan territory for a long time have prepared the war and are carrying out the assault: they are the powerful oil companies and U.S. and European investment banks....
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Nearly 300 people rallied April 25 in front of a Rosedale, Md., McDonald’s restaurant, which was the site of a vicious attack on a transgender woman several days before. The rally numbers made it the largest event to date in Baltimore County, Md., in support of the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer community....
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On April 26 the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia unanimously issued a ruling upholding its earlier decision calling for a new sentencing hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1982. On Pennsylvania’s death row for almost 29 years, Abu-Jamal — a world-renowned political prisoner and former Black Panther Party member — has consistently maintained his innocence....
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Students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are protesting the
administration’s planned eviction of their occupation by midnight Friday,
May 6....
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When U.S. imperialism engages in an attack on any government or
movement, it is essential that the workers’ and progressive political
movements for change gather as much information as is available and take a
stand....
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Very little is known about the top-secret U.S. operation that executed Osama bin Laden, except what President Barack Obama chose to announce: that U.S. secret forces found bin Laden, killed him May 1 and disposed of his body at sea on May 2....
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Union leaders from the center of the struggles in Wisconsin and California
spoke at a news conference April 29 in New York’s Union Square to help
build for what they hope will be a massive May Day march this year....
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U.S., British and French imperialism have escalated their military intervention
in Libya beyond the criminal bombardment of Libya, begun on March 19. The one
dominant imperialist power and the two former colonial rulers of the world
jointly stated their intentions in a open letter published on April 15 in the
Washington Post and other media. U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime
Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy wrote that their
goal was to remove Moammar Gadhafi, the leader of Libya. for good. That’s
what they call “regime change.” This is even in violation of the
resolution rammed through the UN Security Council. It is international
lawlessness on a grand scale....
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STAND with the North Carolina Association of Educators and the North
Carolina Defend Education Coalition who will be demonstrating on May 3 at the
North Carolina General Assembly for FULL FUNDING NOW!...
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In a
show of unity, May 1st Coalition members joined with union members from LIUNA,
SEIU Local 1199, 32BJ, LACLAA and others at City Hall to announce that speakers
from the Foley Square Coalition & May 1st would be sharing speakers and
supporting each others activities. The Union Square organizers will be leaving
14th St. earlier than usual to join the Foley Square rally in a closing unity
rally....
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has unanimously
declared that Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence is unconstitutional. In
today's decision, the Court of Appeals reaffirmed its 2008 finding that Mr.
Abu-Jamal's sentencing jury was misled about the process for considering
evidence supporting a life sentence. The Court found that, in violation of the
United States Supreme Court's 1988 decision in Mills v. Maryland, the jury
was improperly led to believe that that it could only consider unanimously
agreed upon evidence favoring a life verdict. This mistake rendered Mr.
Abu-Jamal's death sentence fundamentally unfair. ...
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he increased attacks on both immigrant and non-immigrant workers show the
need for the most united, militant action possible on May Day in the U.S.
May Day originated in the U.S. from the struggle of immigrants and other
workers who fought and died for the eight-hour workday in 1886 – for the
right of all workers to a decent life....
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Leaders From Immigrant Workers Organizations and Unions Will Announce May
Day Plans Tomorrow at City Hall Press Conference...
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The wave of confrontation churning though the Arab world came late to Morocco.
It was only on February 20 that the first demonstrations against the regime took place. Announced in advance, they attracted some 8,000 people in Casablanca and Rabat. Police dispersed them with brutal force....
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The objective of the war against Libya is not just its oil reserves (now estimated at 60 billion barrels), which are the greatest in Africa and whose extraction costs are among the lowest in the world, nor the natural gas reserves of which are estimated at about 1,500 billion cubic meters. In the crosshairs of "willing" of the operation “Unified Protector” there are sovereign wealth funds, capital that the Libyan state has invested abroad....
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The U.S./NATO war against Libya’s people and government reveals every day that there is no such thing as a humanitarian war carried out by imperialist states against post-colonial countries....
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Beloved around the world to this day, Fidel stated in 1961: “This is what they cannot forgive us ... that we have made a Socialist Revolution right under the nose of the United States. ... Comrades, workers and farmers, this is the Socialist and democratic Revolution of the people, by the people and for the people. And for this Revolution ... we are willing to give our lives.”...
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Mobilize! That is the way the San Francisco Labor Council is answering the Pacific Maritime Association’s attack on the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10. In a unanimous resolution, the SFLC called for mass action at the PMA’s San Francisco headquarters on April 25 and established a broad defense committee for the union and its members....
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The antiwar movement is back on the streets. Thousands marched on April 9 in
New York and April 10 in San Francisco. These demonstrations represented an important step forward for the United National Antiwar Committee and the antiwar movement as a whole. The new antiwar movement needs to oppose the US foreign wars but also defend the domestic victims of the "war on terror," the Muslims who are being attacked. It must connect the dots between the money spent on war and the attacks on unions and cuts to education and needed programs. This is what these demonstrations on April 9 and 10 did....
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Manik Mukherjee, General Secretary, International Anti-imperilist and
People’s Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC) has issued the
following statement on the imperialist attack on Libya :...
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Israel has been rewarded by the U.S. imperialist government for its latest
assault on the besieged Palestinian territory of Gaza, which began on April 7
at the same time as the federal budget showdown in Washington....
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In the early morning of March 31, the state Legislature of New York passed
an austerity budget that cuts more than $1 billion from education. Cuts to
state spending on Medicaid will lead to a loss of federal matching funds that
will total $5 billion. Hundreds of millions more were cut from other vital
social services....
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Already bogged down in a bitter war of occupation, the U.S. has found itself
facing renewed outrage by Afghans who are protesting both the U.S. and its NATO
allies. Otherwise “pacified” cities have joined with guerrilla
forces operating mainly in the countryside to demand that U.S. and NATO forces
leave immediately....
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The U.S. government’s façade that it is a champion of democracy
and respectful of other countries’ sovereignty has once again been torn
away by Washington’s recent treatment of two distinct governments in two
Latin American countries: Colombia and Ecuador....
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The ongoing people’s struggle in Wisconsin won a victory in the April 5
elections when independent Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg won
a seat in the Wisconsin Supreme Court over Justice David Prosser, a Republican
conservative. It was announced on April 5 that Kloppenburg had won the election
by a few hundred votes....
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U.S., U.N. and NATO military forces have intensified the implementation of
policies aimed at total economic domination and regime change for states that
resist interference in their internal affairs. As Africa becomes more of a
major source for exploiting oil, strategic minerals and agricultural
commodities, the continent will be under increasing pressure from Western
capitalist countries....
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Three thousand activists demonstrated against U.S. wars abroad on April 10 in San Francisco. Protesters rallied in Dolores Park in the city’s Mission district both before and after a march through the community. The United National Antiwar Committee sponsored the actions. Those who attended were buoyed by what they described as “the renewal of the anti-war movement....
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And the beat goes on. Right-wing, pro-corporate politicians continue their
attacks on working and poor people across the country. At the same time, they
are escalating their war on women’s rights and health care, but not
without resistance....
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On April 4th longshore workers joined tens of thousands of workers in more
than 1000 cities and towns across the country. They heeded the call of the
AFL-CIO for 'no business as usual' to show support for embattled
Wisconsin workers on the anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.'s assassination as he supported Memphis, Tenn. sanitation workers'
strike for collective bargaining and dignity forty-three years ago....
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Carter, invited by Cuban President Raul Castro, on behalf of The Carter Center, is the first US President in 50 years to set foot on Cuban soil. He ended his three-day trip on March 30th by also calling to remove Cuba from the U.S. State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism, to lift the US blockade now having been imposed on Cuba for half a century, and to remove all restrictions imposed on its citizens regarding travel to Cuba....
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After demonstrating against U.S. wars abroad, join the May 1st Coalition for Worker & Immigrant Rights in protesting the war at home!...
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The new war in Libya has given rise to a new movement, as the largest anti-war demonstration New York has seen in years took to the streets of Manhattan....
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WE are the vast majority of humanity who want peace, a healthy planet and a society that prioritizes human needs, democracy and civil liberties for all....
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Poor and working people in Japan, the U.S. and around the world are the ones
paying for these nuclear plants, paying the costs of disaster and also
guaranteeing the profits of the relatively small handful of people who own
them. The workers at the plant, the community around them and the people in
general should be the ones to make the decisions to shut down plants at
immediate risk and demand protection from GE and other nuclear power giants, as
well as accountability and reparations for the damages these corporations have
already caused....
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The New York Times, the Washington Post and other corporate news sources are
now openly admitting that the opposition forces fighting the Libyan government
are supported and coordinated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and
Britain’s MI6 with in-country special forces....
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Now is a good time to watch, either again or for the first time, the
powerful 1981 film “Lion of the Desert.” It tells the story of Omar
Mukhtar, a legendary leader of the armed resistance to Italy’s colonial
conquest of Libya....
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he Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has drawn an important
conclusion from the unprovoked bombing of Libya by U.S. and NATO forces:
Developing countries should never let down their guard and believe promises
made by the imperialists....
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The following news release was put out by the Central News Agency of the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea....
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The right-wing, imperialist Italian government headed by Silvio Berlusconi
has joined France, Qatar and Kuwait in recognizing the so-called
“rebel” Libyan National Transitional Council. The recognition comes after chief executive officer Paolo Scaroni of
Italy’s giant oil monopoly, Eni, met with council members to discuss
reviving the company’s access to oil production now in
“rebel” territory. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, referring to Scaroni, said:
“He had important meetings on restarting cooperation about energy....
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The historical tsunami that continues to shake the Middle East and Southwest
Asia has the apologists and strategists of imperialism scrambling to catch up
with events. “We have no permanent allies, only permanent
interests” seems to be their slogan, but this “pragmatic”
approach is fraught with unexpected dangers and contradictions....
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For the second time in two weeks, French President Nicolas
Sarkozy has launched military operations aimed at overthrowing an African
government. This latest was a military assault against President Laurent
Gbagbo’s government in the Ivory Coast. Gbagbo has rejected the results
of a disputed run-off election held last November as well as calls from the
West and the regional organization ECOWAS for him to step down....
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The response has been overwhelming. This will be the largest Rally against endless wars and cutbacks in NYC in years....
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The recent visit to Cuba by former US President Jimmy
Carter, renews our hope. His positive statements calling for the
freedom of the Cuban 5 and the right of family visits during an interview
with Cuban television constitutes an encouraging sign for our struggle. In addition, his statements have appeared in media around the world, for many
of these news outlets this marks the first time they have mentioned the Cuban
5. But we can not sit still while the 5 continue to be imprisoned
and think it is over....
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The union movement has called for “We Are
One” actions across the country to mark this important
anniversary and to call for solidarity with Wisconsin workers and the struggle
for justice every where. Thousands of actions both big and small are
being called not only by the unions but by community and student groups who are
joining on this day....
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President Barack Obama’s speech of March 28 was largely devoted to justifying U.S. military intervention in Libya on humanitarian grounds, as being necessary to prevent a “massacre.” It was meant to obscure the fundamental fact that Washington is leading an effort, joined by the British and French imperialists, to destroy a sovereign government and recolonize Libya....
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The Latin America-Caribbean Solidarity Committee of the
International Action Center & HondurasUSAResistencia urges everyone to read
the following statement in solidarity with the people of Honduras. A wave of
repression is sweeping the country and the movement in the US must say no. We
urge everyone to organize an contingent in solidarity with Latin America &
the Caribbean and the historic April 9 anti-war actions in NYC and San
Francisco. Si se puede!...
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The hearts of workers and the oppressed of the world go out to the Japanese
people who have been hit by an earthquake and tsunami and are now threatened
with nuclear disaster. We can never forget that more than 200,000 people,
almost all civilians, were murdered by U.S. nuclear bombs dropped on Japan in
1945, while millions suffered from radiation poisoning, cancer and birth
defects in the following decades....
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Even before the first U.S. bombs rained down on Libya, protesters across the
U.S. stood up to voice their opposition to yet another U.S. war for oil. These
protests continue....
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However the rebellion in Libya began, it was both inevitable and entirely
predictable that it would quickly become an opening for imperialist
intervention and counterrevolution in the oil-rich North African country....
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The bombing of Libya, which began on March 19, has aroused world opposition
to this new aggression by the U.S. and European imperialist powers....
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Women — mostly teenaged or very young — have been kidnapped,
tortured, raped, mutilated and killed by the hundreds in Ciudad Juárez,
Mexico, sister city to El Paso, Texas....
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he major national Antiwar Rallies in NYC
at Union Square, on Saturday, April 9 and in San Francisco on Sunday, April 10
are just 2 weeks away. Momentum is building based on the urgency of
responding to the new attacks in Libya, no end to the U.S. wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan, more attacks and threats to Gaza, ugly attacks on
Muslims, new attacks on unions and collective bargaining and a new rounds of
cutbacks of every possible social program, particularly hitting the Black and
immigrant communities and the unemployed....
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In the most recent racist and reactionary link in the vicious chain of the politically motivated frame up of Boston African American City Councilor and community leader Chuck Turner, Federal Judge Woodlock denied Chuck's motion for a stay of execution of sentence pending the appeal of his conviction, effectively appointing himself judge jury and executioner, thus proving that Capitalist judges are always more class conscious than constitutionally minded....
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The ferocious storm of uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East continues to stymie the efforts of the U.S. and other Western powers to suppress or contain them. There are ongoing significant protests in Yemen, Bahrain, Kuwait and Iraq, all places with a substantial U.S. military presence....
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On March 17, 2011, Washington showed its true intentions by pushing through a U.N. Security Council resolution that amounts to a declaration of war on the government and people of Libya. A U.S. attack is the worst possible thing that could happen to the people of Libya. It also puts the unfolding Arab revolutions, which have inspired people across North Africa and Western Asia, in the gravest danger. The resolution goes beyond a no-fly zone. It includes language saying U.N. member states could "take all necessary measures" ... "by halting attacks by air, land and sea forces under the control of the Gadhafi regime."(CNN.com, Mar 17)...
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U.S. and French cruise missiles and bombs are raining down on the African state of Libya. This is not a "humanitarian' intervention....
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In the USA we hope we are experiencing that groundswell of a time when events and history come together; that the protest against what is happening to civil service workers will result in such a wave of people power that change will start breaking out for all of us....
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The International Action Center calls on all anti-war and
social justice activists to call Emergency Response STOP THE
U.S. WAR AGAINST LIBYA AND BAHRAIN actions in their areas on
Friday, March 18 or Saturday, Marcy 19, or to mobilize support
for any already existing anti-war demonstrations called to
mark the anniversary of the Iraq War, with this statement and
signs to STOP THE U.S. WAR AGAINST LIBYA AND BAHRAIN, as well
as to intensify the mobilization for the April 9th and 10th
Anti-War demonstrations in New York and San Francisco called
by the United National Antiwar Committee....
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March 15 — Events continue to unfold rapidly in North Africa and the Gulf states. On March 14 Saudi Arabia sent tanks and 2,000 troops into the kingdom of Bahrain to protect the Al Khalifa royal family there from mass protests demanding an end to the monopoly of political power in the hands of the king....
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March 13 — Libyan government forces have taken several towns both east
and west of Tripoli, the capital, driving out rebel groups that have been
calling for military intervention by the imperialist states. Morale among the
opposition is reportedly declining in Benghazi, which has been the de facto
headquarters of the rebels....
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The passage of right-wing Gov. Scott Walker’s union-busting bill
should not be the end of the story in Wisconsin. It should be the beginning of
a new phase of escalated struggle by the unions, the community and students to
overturn this illegal denial of workers’ rights. Walker and the right-wing Republican state legislative group are outright tools of the banks, the bondholders and corporations that are rolling in money
and still putting their profits before union rights and people’s
needs. There are many grounds on which to base a mass fightback to overturn this bill: It is illegal under international law; it was passed illegally; it denies
fundamental rights of unions and all workers, and it attacks communities and
students....
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At a meeting at Hostos College on Saturday, March 5, some 200 labor, student
and community activists gave a ringing endorsement for a large-scale
mobilization to rally at City Hall and march to Wall Street on March 24. The
coalition includes numerous public sector unions, the CUNY Mobilization
Network, the South Bronx Community Congress, the Freedom Party, the Coalition
for Public Education, and the Bail Out the People Movement....
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Wisconsin private sector and public workers in the tens of thousands thrust
their fight against a union-busting law into news front pages. More than two
years ago, the Mexican Electrical Union - SME were robbed of their collective
bargaining rights. Their union was declared illegal. The pro-big business
Mexican government forced 44,000 workers out of their jobs at Mexico's
second largest electrical power distributor, Luz y Fuerza (Central Light and
Power), jeopardizing not only the workers but the income of pensioners. Find
out how their struggle is like the one faced in the U.S. from the workers on
the front lines in Mexico and from a Cuban representative of the World
Federation of Trade Unions who will present some of the alternatives already in
process in the Americas. An injury to one is an injury to all. There are no
borders in the workers struggle against capitalism. Come out to learn about our
common interests and struggles and the need for mutual solidarity....
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With the corporate media’s attention concentrated on Libya, its oil
reserves and the real danger of U.S. and NATO’s military intervention,
one could almost forget that enormous popular revolts are percolating
throughout North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula....
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As of March 7, Libyan military forces have stepped up their counteroffensive
against rebel units backed by the U.S. and European Union countries. Government
soldiers have retaken the town of Bin Jawad and are mounting assaults on rebels
near the oil port of Ras Lanuf as well as Az Zawiyah, Tobruk and Misurata....
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The uprisings in Libya, coinciding with the struggles of other countries in North Africa and Western Asia respond to conditions similar to those of other countries but have very different consequences....
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Five years ago Yugoslavia's president died in The Hague. The local UN tribunal denied him adequate medical treatment. A conversation with Catherine
Schütz...
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Senate Republicans in Wisconsin attempted the nuclear option! In a
final show of disregard for the sentiments of the majority of the people they
severed the union-busting provisions from the budgetary bill. This move allowed them to vote without a quorum on the union busting part alone. Last night they rammed this through the Senate. Thursday it will come before the Assembly. But not without resistance, thousands of people have already refilled the Capitol bringing with them sleeping bags, drums and making plans to stay.
The Wisconsin AFL-CIO and many others have put out an emergency call to come to Madison this morning. Protests are schedule this whole week and weekend. On Saturday, farmers are planning to drive their tractors to Madison to join union members. Milwaukee high school students are marching 80 miles to the Capitol....
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The great struggle of the Wisconsin public workers has galvanized union
solidarity on a national level not seen since 1981. That was when the AFL-CIO
organized the Solidarity Day demonstration of half a million workers in
Washington, D.C., after President Ronald Reagan had fired 18,000 air traffic
controllers, members of the PATCO union, and banned them from federal
employment for life....
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The movement to stop Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s “budget
repair bill” continues to draw mass support nationally and
internationally. The resistance has blossomed into a statewide people’s
rebellion with rallies, demonstrations, candlelight vigils and other protest
actions all focused on “kill the bill.”...
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The following is a statement from Jason Campbell, an inmate in Ohio State Penitentiary, where Lucasville uprising prisoners Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Bomani Shakur and Jason Robb recently won significant improvements in the terms of their confinement through a 12-day hunger strike and an international campaign of support. ...
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Following is the statement of Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Geneva, March
1 [2011]....
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Honor the right of Native American Prisoner Jason Campbell (Vo'kome Nahkohe) to practice his religion! All of his religious freedom hunger strike demands are just and legitimate. They must be granted immediately! His religious necklace, which was confiscated from him illegally, must be immediately returned. Remove him from isolation and restore all privileges. No reprisals for his just hunger strike action!...
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On Sunday, Feb. 27, Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannochi resigned; he was replaced
by the elderly Beji Caïd Essebsi. On Monday the ministers of Industry and
Finance, the last remnants of the old regime also resigned. In the evening so
did Nejib Chebbi and Ahmed Brahmi, representatives respectively of the
Tajdid movement and the PDP, the two legal parties under Ben Ali. On
Tuesday they were followed by two other ministers. We have lived without a
government for four days in which terror has been circling like a bird of prey
around the Qasbah: youth beaten, threatened, persecuted by police and hired
criminals who have taken over the streets of the Medina and the surrounding
April 9th Avenue. At the same time the space has been restructured and the
class divide has drawn new geographical lines: while still Qasbah snugly in its
sacred area, with its illustrious barbarians and hardened militants, the silent
majority, silent for 23 years, decided to speak for about two hours a
day, between 5 and 7 p.m., at a daily assembly convened at the Dome in the
pompous Olympic Village, to support Ghannouchi, demand an end to the
demonstrations and defend the "revolution" from those who want to
make one...
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Defying threats from the puppet government and several party militias,
thousands of Iraqis from Basra in the south to Suleimaniya in the Kurdish north
took to the streets Feb. 25 in a “Great Day of Anger” inspired by
the uprisings across the Arab world....
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A new cabinet was sworn in on Feb. 22 in the aftermath of Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak’s resignation and the suspension of parliament and the
previous government. This was precipitated by the Feb. 11 Supreme Military
Council’s coup. The new cabinet’s appointment and publication of
the first set of political reforms on Feb. 26 is an attempt to address the
Egyptian people’s demands for a rapid return to civilian rule....
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Less than a dozen years after NATO bombed Yugoslavia into pieces, detaching
the province of Kosovo from Serbia, there are signs that the military alliance
is gearing up for another victorious little “humanitarian war”,
this time against Libya. The differences are, of course, enormous. But
let’s look at some of the disturbing similarities....
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The protests that we are witnessing in Libya must be examined carefully and
wisely. We have to realize that the intifada of Libya is not totally a genuine
one for reform; Part of it is provoked by the United States and the Zionists to
occupy this oil-producing country, under the pretence of
“democracy,” to get rid of its legitimate government for saying
“no” to US and Zionist domination. Those who broke ranks with
Gaddafi called upon the USto intervene, militarily if necessary, to get rid of
the legitimate government. This call gives an excuse for the US and its
European allies to pass a criminal resolution of the Security Council and
propose sanctions and a “no fly zone.” These actions remind us of
the same scenario that Iraq endured that caused its destruction. The infamous
resolution will give the US and its allies open interpretations and the options
of using military power that might lead to the invasion of Libya....
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The leaders of the rebellion, meeting yesterday in the headquarters in
Benghazi, have concluded that on their own they will not be able to overthrow
Gaddafi. Therefore a majority of them asked for US-NATO intervention using
air power, beginning with the imposition of a no-fly zone on
Libya. "The United States - they say - brought democracy when
they intervened in Kosovo." A part of the rebel forces, however, thought
otherwise: "We must free ourselves on our own; if we ask for foreign
intervention it would be treason."...
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The Arab world is seething. Though it was ignored by most of the Western media, the mood has also spread to Iraq in recent weeks to generate a massive protest movement. In contrast to the demonstrations in other Arab countries very little was reported here in Germany -- could it be because so many seriously believe Iraq has been “liberated” since Saddam Hussein's 2003 fall? At last Friday’s (Feb. 25) nationwide demonstrations alone, according to UPI, at least 29 people were killed and hundreds injured. Three hundred demonstrators were reportedly arrested. Even the Washington Post, which shows a lot of sympathy for the government forces, reported about 23 dead.
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STOP THE ATTACKS ON WORKING FAMILIES, THE ORGANIZED & UNORGANIZED, AND ALL WORKING PEOPLE AROUND THE GLOBE!...
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March 2, 2011--"The United States is moving naval and air forces in the region" to "prepare the full range of options" in the confrontation with Libya: Pentagon spokesperson Col. Dave Lapan of the Marines made this announcement yesterday, March 1. He then said that "It was President Obama who asked the military to prepare for these options," because the situation in Libya is getting worse. The military then began "the planning and preparation" phase for an intervention in Libya. Pentagon planners are working on several specific plans, depending on how the “repositioning of forces” begins so as to have maximum flexibility to implement any option. ...
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Libya had been an Italian colony until Italy’s defeat in World War II.
After the war, the U.S. and Britain set up a monarchy in Libya under King Idris
I. Moammar al-Gadhafi was a military officer when he led a coup in 1969 against
the monarchy. This led to the nationalization of Libya’s oil and social
gains for the Libyan people...
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The White House is meeting with its allies among the European imperialist NATO countries to discuss imposing a no-fly zone over Libya, jamming all communications of President Moammar Gadhafi inside Libya, and carving military corridors into Libya from Egypt and Tunisia, supposedly to “assist refugees.” (New York Times, Feb. 27)...
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It is with great excitement that we announce the formation of Mumia's new legal team. Both Christina Swarns and Judith Ritter have argued before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals for Mumia. They are now formal co-counsel representing him in the ongoing appeal of his murder conviction and death sentence. The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), as the premier legal organization in this country fighting for racial justice, has committed itself to "sweep the grave injustices embodied in this case into the dustbin of history." ...
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The Al-Mahalla strike is part of the spate of industrial unrest that has rocked the country in the midst and aftermath of the 25 January revolution. Policemen, bank employees, workers at the Helwan Coke Company, in military production, cement, iron and steel and at the Suez Canal all struck for higher wages and improved working conditions, demanding an end to corruption in the workplace....
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OIL became the principal wealth in the hands of the large yankee transnationals; with that source of energy, they had at their disposal an instrument that considerably
increased their political power in the world. It was their principal weapon when they decided to simply liquidate the Cuban Revolution as soon as the first, just and sovereign laws were enacted in our homeland: by depriving it of oil....
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WE are the vast majority of humanity who want peace, a healthy planet and a society that prioritizes human needs, democracy and civil liberties for all....
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Venezuelan president calls for mediation to end crisis while the US and other powers weigh military options....
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For 12 straight days peaceful protesters: high school and college students,
families with children, workers from all of the unions including teachers,
state workers, nurses and firefighters have continued a 24 hour presence at the
Capitol....
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As popular revolts spread across the Arab world, now breaking out in Morocco
and Algeria, Jordan, Yemen and Bahrain, even in Kuwait, it is important to
remember one of the nations in this region that faces a special situation: It
is forcibly occupied by 50,000 U.S. troops. It is Iraq, which the U.S. and
Britain invaded in March 2003 and which the U.S. has occupied since. No one
should forget, when considering the crimes of the U.S.-backed tyrants, that
U.S. imperialism is responsible for the deaths of a million Iraqis and the
displacement of 4 million....
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Anti-government protesters in Bahrain swarmed back into a symbolic square on
Feb. 19, putting riot police to flight in a striking victory for their
cause....
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Protests continued throughout the country of Yemen on Feb. 21 to demand the
ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The demonstrations, which began during
the time of the uprising in Tunisia and gained traction with recent events in
Egypt, have increased in scope and intensity in the past 12 days....
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Of all the struggles going on in North Africa and the Middle East right now,
the most difficult to unravel is the one in Libya....
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The International Action Center urges solidarity with the resistance
struggles shaking dictatorships throughout the Arab World....
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Anti-government demonstrations have spread to the Horn of Africa nation of
Djibouti, where 30,000 people marched on Feb. 18 demanding the resignation of
President Ismael Omar Guelleh. Two people were killed when police attacked
protesters in this country’s capital, which is also called Djibouti....
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The heroic occupation of the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison has electrified the entire U.S. labor movement, which has suffered decades-long attacks in the form of devastating layoffs; plant closings; loss of wages, health care benefits, pensions and much more.Now right-wing, Tea Party-supported governors like Scott Walker in Wisconsin – on behalf of big business and Wall Street – are attempting to decimate the right of all workers to unionize with reactionary legislation like the “budget repair bill” that would deny workers the basic right to collective bargaining....
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In Michigan there is currently a struggle over whether or not to pass “anti-bullying” legislation. To define its opponents as “bigoted extremists” would be an understatement. Who could possibly stand in the way of protecting a child from assault, harassment and intimidation?...
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On Jan. 28, Mumia Abu-Jamal retained the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. to represent him in the ongoing appeal of his capital murder conviction and death sentence. LDF will serve as co-counsel in the case with Judy Ritter, Esq., of Widener Law School in Wilmington, Del., who has represented Mr. Abu-Jamal since 2003....
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Inside the state Capitol building in Madison, Wis., the halls normally filled with politicians and corporate lobbyists are now occupied by thousands of people. Banners and posters with messages of solidarity and slogans denouncing Gov. Walker's attack on the public sector hang from every wall....
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The delegation includes a member of Honduras USA Resistencia who
will be a delegate to the historic first Grand National Assembly of the Frente
National de Resistencia Popular (FNRP) Assembly and two international observers. The Assembly will be held on February 26, 2011 in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa....
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“Now is the time. We can't let this die because we are at ground
zero and what happens here affects the rest of the world. We have to be strong.
A united front,” said Mahlon Mitchell of the Professional Firefighters of
Wisconsin at the massive afternoon rally at the state Capitol Feb. 19. Mitchell
became the first African-American president of the PFW on Jan. 12. On Feb. 19 the biggest demonstration yet, with an estimated crowd of
100,000, filled the grounds outside the state Capitol and continued the sit-in.
A massive roving picket line with all sectors of the working class -- union and
non-union workers, the unemployed, students, people of color, immigrants, and
the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer community -- marched on the
streets for the entire day accompanied by drumming, chanting, dancing and
singing....
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The following link connects our readers with the first of a series of 15 excellent daily stories on the trial of anti-Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in El Paso, Texas. These articles are available in English and Spanish. ...
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Since Feb. 14, tens of thousands of students, workers and other community members have liberated the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison in response to Gov. Scott Walker’s “budget repair” bill, which would eliminate collective bargaining rights for 175,000 public sector union workers statewide. Gilbert Johnson, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 82 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, told this reporter: “We’re repulsed by the efforts of the current administration to strip us of our rights and dignity. The increasing protests statewide, and especially at the state Capitol, are exactly what’s needed to kill Gov. Walker’s bill, which is a union-busting and anti-worker attack. The resistance by the people of Wisconsin is inspiring and instilling hope in poor and working people all over the country. We need a constant stream of people going to the Capitol to stop this bill and for all to come out to the emergency rally Thursday.”...
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The Bail Out the People Movement is calling for nationally coordinated actions on Friday, February 18 and Saturday, February 19 in support of Wisconsin workers and students who have been occupying the state Capitol for the past four days. Activists involved in the occupation are enormously excited about the idea of coordinated national actions of support....
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Thousands of Wisconsin public workers, students and teachers have been occupying the state Capitol for four days. In Capitol Square 50,000 workers have protested Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to enact legislation ("Budget Repair Bill") that would wipe out the right of public workers to have a union, and would make collective bargaining illegal. Across Wisconsin schools and universities have been shut down by teachers, students and communities defending their right to education. Wisconsin workers and students are standing up for the rights of workers everywhere....
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The Egyptian military would like to put the genie of the
Egyptian Revolution back in the bottle. But it won’t go back. The
so-called “orderly transition” — backed by the Obama
administration, NATO and the Egyptian ruling class — has the immediate
tactical goal of pushing the masses of people off the streets and off the stage
of history....
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Ghazala, a courageous woman, founder of the Committee of Unemployed
Graduates of Gafsa that so actively participated in the protests of 2008, has
given us a contact in Qasserine. We meet him halfway there, in Mejel Bel Abbes.
Boubaker, 33 year old, master's in engineering, also a member of the
Committee of Unemployed Graduates, is surviving by doing some odd jobs as an
electrician. He is tall, a bit prim, neatly dressed in the dignified severity
that attempts to preserve a modest sovereignty of his appearance in the midst
of difficulties. Like many educated young people in similar circumstances in a
situation where he is forced to remain single, he has wound up developing,
without wanting to, an air of a preacher or priest: there is something, how can
we put it, excessively clean in their dress and mannerisms. He speaks little
French, but has an almost scholarly knowledge of the history of the area, whose
natural wealth, well known by Romans, Vandals and Berbers, has been
misappropriated and wasted by postcolonial Tunisia....
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greatest analysts of human society described real revolutions
as “festivals of the masses.” We see then that the 18 days
that overturned the Hosni Mubarak dictatorship is one of the
greatest revolutions in the history of humanity. Never before
have so many in such a condensed period of time become the
actors and writers of their own history. We congratulate the
people of Egypt for their tremendous victory over a tyrant who
for 30 years had the support of the “great powers” of the
European Union and especially of the United States until the
final moments of his reign....
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These reports from Cairo are from Faiza Rady, formerly a resident of
Philadelphia, who has returned to Egypt...
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The International Action Center joins with the people of Egypt and the world in
celebrating the stunning triumph of people's power and mass action in
Egypt. The greatest analysts of human society described real revolutions as
“festivals of the masses.” We see then that the 18 days that
overturned the Hosni Mubarak dictatorship is one of the greatest revolutions in
the history of humanity. Never before have so many in such a condensed period
of time become the actors and writers of their own history. We congratulate the
people of Egypt for their tremendous victory over a tyrant who for 30 years had
the support of the “great powers” of the European Union and
especially of the United States until the final moments of his reign....
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From Gafsa to Redeyef you travel towards striped mountains that mark the
border with Algeria, under a pure blue sky, through a hard, dry terrain, a
planetary extension, which is about to succumb once more to the temptation of
being landscape: small towns with camels browsing between the houses, shepherds
with colorful headdresses, massive women sitting in the sun, wrapped in white
cloth, sharing tasks and conversation. Everything seems fresh, clean,
motionless, eternal and clear. But in reality there are few places in Tunisia
as ground down by its history as this square of adverse and ancient
land....
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In the midst of the gravest foreign policy crisis since assuming her job — the mass uprising in Egypt — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton went to Haiti on Jan. 30....
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On January 28, 2011, Mumia Abu-Jamal retained the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) to represent him in the ongoing appeal of his capital murder conviction and death sentence. LDF will serve as co-counsel in the case with Judy Ritter, Esq., of Widener Law School in Wilmington, Delaware, who has represented Mr. Abu-Jamal since 2003....
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The Egyptian revolt against the U.S.-backed Hosni Mubarak regime has inspired many workers and oppressed people throughout the world. Mass solidarity demonstrations have taken place to show support for Egypt’s popular uprising. Here are brief reports on just a few notable actions, most of them on Feb. 5 or 6....
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With the popular uprising that is rocking cities across Egypt now heading into its third week, solidarity rallies are building across the U.S. in response. Many of these protests are calling on the U.S. government to end its funding for the repressive regime of Hosni Mubarak....
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Feb. 9 reports from Cairo say there are growing numbers of Egyptian workers who have gone out on strike all over the country, as the struggle to oust the despised, U.S.-backed Mubarak regime intensifies....
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Feb. 8 — Hosni Mubarak’s military-police regime and its creators in Washington are waging a war of attrition to wear down the newly emerging Egyptian revolution. But the people show no signs of backing down. More than a million anti-government demonstrators today once again filled Liberation Square. Despite police-agent attacks, gradual escalation of pressure from the military and slanderous campaigns against the protesters on Egyptian state television, all reports are that masses of people have flooded into central Cairo to demand the immediate ouster of Mubarak....
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"France is Paris, the rest is scenery," 19th century French
centralism said with contempt. Many times before we had been in central and
southern Tunisia, but we had never seen anything but flocks of sheep and
clouds, striated mountains and clean deserts, and people who seemed to
passively accept, in the villages and cafes along the highway, their condition
as a watermark or wrinkle in the tapestry. Our short and intense journey,
parallel to the turbulence that has shaken the country for more than a month,
reflects the decisive transformation, mental and material, of a landscape into
a territory....
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March in Solidarity with millions of Egyptian People in their struggle for
democracy and human rights as they demand the immediate DEPARTURE of the
repressive U.S. backed Mubarak regime....
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Bloomberg and Cuomo are leading attacks on unionized workers, especially in the public sector. They want to cut pension and lay off teachers and other civil servants. These attacks hurt all workers...
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This interview was conducted in bits and parts, in the middle of a protest
demonstration, stopping to talk once you recovered your breath after running
through the streets near Bourghiba Avenue. These are crucial days for the
revolution, but the glare of the mainstream media is now directed towards
Egypt. "Tunisia is not an international issue but a local one," the
Al Jazeera employees told us when we tried to inform them that Benali militia
had returned to their old ways in Sfax. Boukadous disagrees. "The
revolution began in the provinces and remains very active there."...
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Nationalists, liberals, Islamists and leftists: A National Assembly should choose new transitional leadership in Egypt. There must be strong representation of youth....
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The masses in Tahrir (Liberation) Square - now known among the fighters as
Martyrs’ Square — gave the counterrevolutionary thugs of a dying
regime blow for blow, pushed them back and held the square, thus achieving both
a military and political victory. They were fully aware of the crucial
political importance of holding the square for the people. This was a victory
for the masses of Egyptian people, the people of the Middle East as a whole,
and the workers and oppressed of the world....
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“You can only talk of revolution if there is a time when the whole
people go out to the streets to take part in a big festival. The victories are
celebrated and if we are not celebrating it's because there is victory. We
have not been able to celebrate anything in the street, not even the expulsion
of Ben Ali. And that means we have not yet won.”...
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Don’t be confused by the deceptive and false statements uttered by
President Obama or Secretary of State Hillary Roddam Clinton suggesting that
they have sympathy for Egyptians fighting for liberation and jobs in Tahrir
Square. <...
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Since the early hours of the morning loud music from large speakers in front
of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry on the Corniche Al Nile in downtown Cairo has
been booming. Shortly past 8 a.m., at the end of the curfew, as the first cars
and pedestrians crossed over from the Nile Zamalik in the direction of the city
center, an additional person reports to the loudspeaker to speak. He promises
that the government understands the concerns of the people and resolves to keep
the country in peace and prosperity. A man holds a T-shirt in the air, on which
President Hosni Mubarak is caught looking down and smiling. A good three dozen
men wave the Egyptian flag and look around uncertainly, and some melancholy men
behind them run swiftly past them along the promenade towards Tahrir Square,
Liberation Square. While some — probably for fear of losing their jobs
— cheer the Mubarak regime — the others will demand this day the
resignation of the man who ruled Egypt for 30 years. Only rarely is there even
a short battle of words between the two camps, that is then quickly ended by
soldiers, who have been blocking for days now bank of the Nile between the
State Department and Tahrir Square....
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We returned this morning to Qasba, closed on all four sides by barbed wire.
The police only let in the employees who work in the district. But from the
outside we were able to see and photograph, the new lime painted on the walls
looking like a facelift, revealing a hidden history, a strangled antiquity.
There is no doubt they have done a good job. Not a trace of a slogan or a comma
of graffiti or stroke of black ink. Not even on the prime minister's stone
palace can you find the slightest trace of the noisy discussions that for five
days fused politics and life in a pure present without future....
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The revolutionary upheaval in Egypt has brought millions of workers, youth
and professionals into the streets to demand the removal of the U.S.-backed
regime of Hosni Mubarak. The potential looms for a total collapse of
Washington’s foreign policy in the region....
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As of Jan. 24, the Lebanese Parliament is holding discussions to form a new
government. A year-old “unity government” containing all political
factions fell on Jan. 12, when Hezbollah pulled its people out of cabinet
posts....
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Jan. 30 — Massive protests continue throughout Egypt to demand an end to the regime of President Hosni Mubarak, a 30-year dictatorship that has served as an anchor for U.S. imperialism in the Middle East. In the streets protesters have fraternized with members of the military, while police forces have largely retreated. Meanwhile, youth direct traffic, as self-defense committees have been organized to defend neighborhoods from violence at the hands of “thugs,” who many suspect to be plainclothes police and members of the ruling National Democratic Party. After three days of demonstrations in which tens of thousands of people faced brutal repression at the hands of the Egyptian state apparatus, hundreds of thousands came out on Jan. 28 to protest the police brutality, poverty, unemployment and corruption they have endured under the Mubarak regime. Defying a curfew imposed by Mubarak the day before, protesters hit the streets not only in the capital city, Cairo, but in cities throughout the country....
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Hamida Ben Romdhane, director of La Press on January 13, still director of La Press on January 30, writes an article today entitled "I am guilty,” in which he lashes out against "the smoothies, sycophants, calculators and manipulators" that for years have been lackeys in the service of the dictator's personality cult. "Today," he says, "Tunisia breathes freely and so does our newspaper. ...
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NY with UPR New York with University of Puerto Rico Solidarity Committee) applauds students at the University of Puerto Rico who have developed and implemented creative and peaceful civil disobedience tactics in opposition to the University Administration’s implementation of an unjust tuition increase, the current trend towards privatization, and the use of riot police on University grounds....
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IAPSCC salutes the people of Egypt for their determined struggle to end the
30-year long tyrannical rule of Mubarak having a tacit understanding with
Israel and who was backed by the imperialist powers, esp. the USA, all these
years. Inspired by the example of Tunisian people’s struggle and victory
over dictatorial rulers, people in Egypt have taken to the streets for over one
week defying curfew and planning still more powerful movement....
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After two weeks of restraint, in fact, the police have returned to take
charge of the situation. Yesterday they broke hands and legs in the Qasbah and
throughout the day lists have circulated of unconfirmed dead and missing. At
least 20 people were arrested this afternoon at the station. And on the Qasbah
square where yesterday there were still blankets, tents and cooking pots, some
dozens of mobile phones were scattered about. Of many of the people the police scattered yesterday nothing is known.Meanwhile this morning, 12 hours later, the walls of the building that for five
days was the ministry of the people were being painted over, the Press
published a front-page photograph of the crushed concentration under the
headline: "in the Qasbah the freedom caravan follows the protests."
The revolution is already a brand-name, the spark of life of a government that
weaves in the darkness and a press that uses new names to name the same
things....
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The courtroom was packed with supporters when anti-war activists Ahlam
Mohsen and Max Kantar were arraigned on Jan. 24 in front of U.S. Magistrate
Judge Joseph G. Scoville. Both pleaded not guilty and were released on personal
bond until trial....
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At 9:30 a.m. a taxi driver answered our question about Mohamed Ghannouchi
with impeccable reasoning:“Do you know why I want him to go? Because he doesn't want to go.
If he doesn't want to go, it's because he is hiding something. If he is
hiding something, it can't be something good. And if he is hiding something
bad, he has to go.”...
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If everything was following a plan, if 120 people were killed to rejuvenate
the old country and better locate it in an Arab world submissive to
Washington's plans, if it were aimed at better ensuring continuity by
introducing some cosmetic changes, then now it would have to sweep away the
embers that the wind -- always unpredictable -- has blown together at the
Qasbah. The past returns with unsettling speed....
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A seemingly all-powerful military, police and media apparatus, that has had the
support of the U.S. superpower for decades, is crumbling before the even
greater strength of a united people who have first conquered fear and may now
push the dictator’s regime into the dustbin of history....
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Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities across Egypt
demanding the ouster of U.S. ally President Hosni Mubarak. These are the
largest anti-regime protests in Mubarak’s 30-year rule of this North
African country of 85 million people. Though the White House has declared the
Mubarak regime “stable,” even greater protests are expected on Jan.
28 following Friday services at mosques throughout the country. Egyptian
opposition forces were inspired by the uprising in nearby Tunisia, which on
Jan. 14 forced that country’s dictator, Zine El Abadine Ben Ali, to flee
to Saudi Arabia. The uprising in Tunisia surprised not only its own rulers but
their imperialist overlords in Paris and Washington....
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To affirm and ensure our participation in the revolution of our people, who fought for their right to freedom and national dignity, this people who sacrificed dozens of martyrs and thousands of wounded and arrested, and in order to complete and secure the victory against both domestic and foreign enemies and against those who are attempting to hijack the sacrifices of the people, have constituted "The January 14th Front” as a political structure to promote and ensure the revolution to achieve its goals and fight and stop the forces of counterrevolution; this front is a structure that brings together national, progressive and democratic parties, forces and organizations....
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After a festive and liberating week with unanimous participation, Tunisian society is beginning to split along class lines. It is a territorial division, which is beginning to separate Bourguiba Avenue from the Qasbah, and is also a cyber division, in which the same people who used facebook to fuel the revolution are today calling for calm and the restoration of order against the insurgent proletariat. You can perceive a disturbing contraction. Hamida Ben Romdhane, director of La Press, which on Jan. 13 dutifully praised the last steps Ben Ali took to try to calm the masses, on Jan. 20 exhibited on its front cover jewels allegedly confiscated from the Trabelsi family and praised the revolution of the worthy people of Tunisia....
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The unknown country, which has made the revolution, which has sacrificed 120 lives in the protests, is found not on Bourguiba Avenue, where intellectuals celebrate a revolution that they can gain from and then withdraw, but in the Qasbah in front of the prime minister's headquarters. Yesterday hundreds of people slept here, and now, at 12 a.m. (on Jan. 24), thousands of them are still shouting: "nidal nidal hata iusqut el nitham", "Al yaum al-yaum tusqut el-hukuma" ("Struggle, struggle until we end the regime","today, today we overthrow the government.") ...
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A revolution, can it so easily become a habit? Is it compatible with the customary normal duties of government, the production and reproduction of everyday life, the natural decline of forces? The government hopes and protesters fear the same thing: fatigue will set in. But this Sunday [Jan. 23] of transition to "the first day of normality," which will once again put to the test the people's ability to break out, Bourguiba Avenue remains vibrant under a light so pure, so sharp, that its buildings and the trees look bare, even skinless....
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In some sense these days I feel very Tunisian: because, like other Tunisians, I realize that up to now I understood nothing about Tunisia. And because what is now clear to me, like to all other Tunisians, is mostly a great confusion. The situation, eight days after the collapse of the tyrant, it stretches and stretches without breaking. As in all revolutions, everything is decided in the first few weeks and today one everything feels a little uncomfortable -- like amorphous, painful, formless freedom -- a great uncertainty....
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The following is a day-by-day chronicle of developments in Tunisia, which are written in Spanish and which the IAC is translating to English:...
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A leading U.S. scientist who deals with global warming and climate change is calling the People’s Republic of China “the best hope” for turning around a looming disaster for the world and “stopping rule by fossil fuel interests.”...
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Jan. 24 — Tunisia’s workers and youth have continued mass demonstrations and strikes aimed at removing the neocolonial regime and replacing it with a representative government of national unity....
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The Pima County Tea Party Patriots are holding a rally Jan. 28 in Tucson, Ariz., to launch a campaign to oust County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik. The Tea Party and right-wingers all over the country have opened a campaign of vilification against Dupnik because he pointed the finger at the ultraright in his press conference on the day of the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an attack that claimed six lives....
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Brother Bomani is one of three prisoners who went on hunger strike at
Ohio State Penitentiary to protest the conditions of their confinement and were
supported by a nationwide and international movement. OSP Warden David
Bobby brought the hunger strike to an end by offering the prisoners more than
they had asked for on 1/14/11....
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On Oct 29 a predominantly white and suburban federal jury falsely found
African-American Boston City Councilor guilty of one count of attempted
extortion and three counts of lying to the FBI. The community has shown
its unwavering support for Chuck, voting for him, packing the trial and turning
out hundreds strong at a rally on October 30 at the District 7 office in
Roxbury. saying "We Stand with Chuck Turner. Chuck is Innocent! The
verdict is the crime!"...
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Haiti has endured a year of unimaginable and profound suffering, under a
government dedicated to greed and serving the interests of the imperialists.
More than 1.5 million people are living in huts or under sheets and tarps
throughout Port-au-Prince, still homeless since last January’s
earthquake. There is an unemployment rate of 80 percent. More than 3,600 people
have died and another 171,000 are infected from the cholera epidemic, imported
by Minustah, the U.N.’s occupation force....
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Comrades, as an Irish republican who spent 15 years in gaol I can fully understand the stance you are taking. I have spoken to many of my comrades who were in prison with me and they too send solidarity greetings....
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said on Jan. 11 that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was “becoming a direct threat to the United States.”...
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A broad group of New York City area organizations have called for a demonstration at the downtown Manhattan FBI offices on Jan. 25 to protest FBI repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists. This protest is one of dozens planned for cities around the U.S. and worldwide....
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Cars piled into the parking lot of the church next to the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown. The parked cars left just enough room for a contingent of friends and family members of the hunger strikers to defy the frostbite weather and gather with colorful banners and signs. The contingent drove to the prison to deliver nearly 1,200 names on a petition collected through the Internet, including more than 600 collected through www.iacenter.org....
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Jan. 18 — A popular uprising in the North African state of Tunisia since mid-December has driven President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had ruled the Western-allied government for 23 years, into exile. Ben Ali fled on Jan. 14 after tens of thousands of workers and youths attacked the Ministry of the Interior and other government buildings in the capital of Tunis and in the city of Carthage. When a street vendor who was attacked by police committed suicide by self-immolation on Dec. 17, it unleashed this enormous struggle. Defying tear gas and even live fire from the security forces that killed between 50 and 100 people, thousands also demonstrated in dozens of Tunisia’s provincial cities until they brought down a repressive head of state....
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December 2010, under the direction of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the FBI
delivered nine new subpoenas in Chicago to anti-war and Palestine solidarity
activists. Patrick Fitzgerald’s office is ordering the nine to appear at
a Grand Jury in Chicago on January 25....
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Jan. 22 marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court
decision legalizing abortion. Tens of thousands of women have been saved from
death and serious injury since abortion became legal in 1973. Women who chose
to have safe, legal abortions ever since have felt enormous security and relief
as they went about their lives....
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In late fall of 2009, the Barack Obama administration, under heavy pressure
from the Pentagon, agreed to increase U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan by
another 30,000 troops. According to the deal between Obama and the generals,
the troops were to start withdrawing in July 2011. It was supposed to be a
“surge” leading to a quick victory....
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“So much energy coming is from all over. I’m just trying to hang
on and ride the wave,” wrote political prisoner Bomani Shakur Jan. 6, the
third day of his hunger strike at Ohio State Penitentiary. Convicted as Keith
LaMar, Bomani and two other death-sentenced prisoners started refusing food on
Jan. 3 to demand that they be treated like other prisoners facing
execution....
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The steadfast determination that we saw in Gaza reinforces the importance of the major national antiwar coalition that is taking shape for April 9, organized by the United National Antiwar Committee - UNAC.
What makes the April 9th bi-coastal rallies, in New York City and San Francisco truly historic is this coalitions very strong solidarity with the Palestinian people as well as the strong opposition to racism and the wave of anti-Islamic hysteria that has been sweeping the country. The International Action Center has made these issues a cornerstone of our work for many years.
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The steadfast determination that we saw in Gaza reinforces the importance of the major national antiwar coalition that is taking shape for April 9, organized by the United National Antiwar Committee - UNAC.
What makes the April 9th bi-coastal rallies, in New York City and San Francisco truly historic is this coalitions very strong solidarity with the Palestinian people as well as the strong opposition to racism and the wave of anti-Islamic hysteria that has been sweeping the country. The International Action Center has made these issues a cornerstone of our work for many years.
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On Jan. 3, four prisoners held in Ohio State Penitentiary, a supermax prison started a hunger strike to protest the highly restrictive conditions they have been subjected to since they were moved to the prison in 1998. These prisoners are Bomani Shakur aka Keith LaMar, Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Jason Robb and Namir Abdul Mateen aka James Were, all received death sentences as the result of wrongful convictions on charges related to the 1993 prison uprising in Lucasville, Ohio. Hasan and Robb helped negotiate the settlement of the Lucasville uprising, preventing a massacre such as the one in Attica in 1971 which resulted in more than forty deaths....
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The Martin Luther King Day protest focuses on
Woodlawn management’s announced plans to outsource 23 of the remaining 38
union jobs at Woodlawn, as an act of vengeance against the workers for choosing
a fighting union to represent them. Woodlawn management told the union it has
contracted with the Brickman group, a Westchester-based firm that exploits
immigrant labor, underpaying them and then abandoning them when they stand up
and ask questions....
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Hear: Ramsey Clark and Sara Flounders, just returned from Gaza on: Gaza in 2011 – what is needed from the Solidarity Movement?...
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This year, through an exciting educational and cultural program, we will
celebrate and honor the achievements of young people in Cuba, as well as learn
about their daily lives and experiences as we visit organic gardens,
neighborhood projects, health centers and schools....
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The Jan. 8 shooting of Arizona Congressperson Gabrielle Giffords should
rightfully be termed a political assassination attempt. The planned murder
attempt, which took the lives of six people, including a 9-year-old child,
takes place in a political climate of extreme racism, anti-immigrant terror,
and fear-mongering that the right-wing, their politicians and pundits have been
stoking for more than a decade.It is part of the calculation of the ruling elite in this country to fan the flames of division, racism, and reactionary thinking in order to divert
people’s attention from the economic crisis. The attempt on the life of a
member of Congress is a direct by-product of the economic crisis....
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A dispute over a recent election in the West African state of Ivory Coast has prompted calls by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for President Laurent Gbagbo to step down. According to the U.N. head, the electoral commission has determined that opposition leader Alassane Ouattara won the election....
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A powerful storm system dumped heavy snow from the Carolinas to Canada on the U.S. East Coast during 36 hours starting Dec. 26. New York and the rest of the Northeast took the brunt of the blizzard, with snowfall totals measuring from 20 to 32 inches. The follow-up to this storm has raised the stakes as Wall Street and the banks are on the attack against unionized public service workers and insist on eliminating jobs....
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The movement in solidarity with the people of Gaza has grown rapidly since the Dec. 27, 2008, bombing and invasion of Gaza that killed 1,450 Palestinians, almost all civilians. The ongoing Israeli blockade of the 1.5 million people living in the small territory and the continued Israeli threats have accelerated this movement’s growth. Behind this development is not only the exposure of the crimes of the Israeli occupation regime, but also the courage of Palestinians both in Gaza and the West Back who keep on struggling against all odds....
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The anti-racist movement celebrated an important victory when it was announced on Dec. 30 that the prison sentences of Jamie Scott and Gladys Scott would be suspended by Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour....
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Dec. 30 — Gov. Haley Barbour calls the impending release of the Scott
Sisters an “early” release. A release from 16 years of wrongful
incarceration is most certainly not an “early” release....
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International human rights activist Ramsey Clark led a delegation that,
after a day-long struggle for admission, crossed into Gaza on Jan. 4 to show
solidarity with the blockaded population of the strip. Two years ago the
Israeli military invaded and bombed Gaza two years ago, killing 1,450
Palestinians, almost all civilians, including many children. Among those with
Clark is Co-director of the International Action Center Sara Flounders. Both
are veteran solidarity activists with the struggle of Palestinians for
self-determination and the right to live in peace and freedom in every part of
Palestine.....
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With the beginning of a new year and in coordination with committees and
friends from other countries, we propose to start a new and steady campaign on
behalf of the Cuban 5:...
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Four death-sentenced prisoners, wrongfully convicted of crimes following the 1993 prison rebellion in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, started a “rolling” hunger strike Jan. 3. The strike is to protest the highly restrictive solitary confinement where they have been placed in the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary, located in Youngstown, since 1998. These prisoners are starting to run out of appeals. They say they would rather die, if they must, on their own terms, rather than on a gurney by lethal injection. They intend the hunger strike to help strike a blow against confinement conditions so inhumane that they amount to torture....
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Before I speak my piece, let me make one thing perfectly clear: I don’t want to die. I want to live and breathe and strive to do something righteous with my life. Truly. For the past 16 years, however, I’ve been in solitary confinement, confined to a cell 23 hours a day for something I didn’t do and, speaking honestly, I have gone as far as I’m willing to go. Am I giving up? No....
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On Jan. 3, four prisoners held in Ohio State Penitentiary, a supermax prison started a hunger strike to protest the highly restrictive conditions they have been subjected to since they were moved to the prison in 1998. These prisoners are Bomani Shakur aka Keith LaMar, Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Jason Robb and Namir Abdul Mateen aka James Were, all received death sentences as the result of wrongful convictions on charges related to the 1993 prison uprising in Lucasville, Ohio. Hasan and Robb helped negotiate the settlement of the Lucasville uprising, preventing a massacre such as the one in Attica in 1971 which resulted in more than forty deaths....
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The Concerned Coalition to Respect Prisoners’ Rights learned that on
or about December 16, Terrance Bryant Dean was severely beaten by guards at
Macon State Prison where he was incarcerated. The Coalition asserts this brutal
beating was not isolated and was a retaliatory act carried out by the
Department of Corrections (DOC) against non-violent striking inmates. The
Coalition was formed to support the interests and agenda of thousands of
Georgia prisoners who staged a peaceful protest and work strike initiated in
early December....
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The Bail Out the People Movement took to the streets
yesterday in the wake of the storm crisis that paralyzed the city....
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The Ohio State Penitentiary (OSP) in Youngstown, Ohio, holds 539 people
behind its brick walls, multiple barbed wire fences and iron bars. It is within
this dungeon that four of the men known as the Lucasville Five are
incarcerated: Bomani Shakur, Adbullah Hasan, Jason Robb and Namir Abdul Mateen.
These men are held in a special section of OSP’s death row, awaiting
lethal injection for the crime of participating in a rebellion....
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How does the struggle behind the walls tie in with
the overall struggle of the anti-war, anti-racist, women’s, labor, gay
rights and general progressive movement?...
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Following is a message from political prisoner Bomani Shakur, one of the
Lucasville Five, read at the 9th annual March to Stop Executions in Houston....
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Following is a commentary from political prisoner Bomani Shakur, one of
the Lucasville Five, now on death row in Ohio on false charges from a 1993
prison uprising. Shakur was convicted as Keith LaMar....
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A mass movement of protest and anger has erupted in Haiti against the
oppression, extreme poverty and desperation experienced by the vast majority of
people. The militant struggle is challenging the so-called
“constitutionally mandated” election of Nov. 28, claiming fraud and
misconduct throughout the process....
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The New Year began early for the IAC.On Thanksgiving eve we were confronted with the danger of renewed U.S. war on the Korean peninsula. We initiated an emergency protest for December 3, together with other peace and solidarity organizations....
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Tens of thousands of workers in Greece took to the streets Dec. 15 to
protest the drastic austerity measures the Greek government has imposed on
them, under pressure from the banks that loaned money to cover its financial
crisis....
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Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Bomani Shakur (Keith LaMar), Jason Robb and Namir
Mateen (James Were) will start a hunger strike on Monday Jan. 3 to protest
their 23-hour a day lock down for nearly 18 years. These four death-sentenced
prisoners have been single-celled (in solitary) in conditions of confinement
significantly more severe than the coniditions experienced by the approximately
125 other death-sentenced prisoners at the supermax prison, Ohio State
Penitentiary in Youngstown....
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After the George Bush-Dick Cheney ticket stole the 2000 presidential elections, Halliburton Corporation became a household word in the United States. Vice President Cheney had been Halliburton’s CEO during 1995-2000. With its subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown and Root, Halliburton won lucrative government contracts during the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq....
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On Dec. 17 Bradley Manning turned 23 in a cell at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va. For him, it was just another day of isolation and abuse at the hands of the U.S. military. From the beginning of his detention in late April, Manning, a U.S. soldier suspected of releasing the thousands of documents published by WikiLeaks, has been held in intensive solitary confinement....
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THEY are the government, corporate, and financial powers that
wage war, ravage the environment and the economy and trample on our democratic
rights and liberties....
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This is the whole basis of a materialist understanding of history. But this
reality can sometimes be confirmed in a manner that catches everyone by
surprise. Dominance that was once unchallenged is suddenly contested on all
sides. The struggle for change breaks out in new and unexpected ways....
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he myth of a post-racial U.S. society in light of the election of President
Barack Obama was shattered once again when the body of Frederick Jermaine
Carter, a 26-year-old Black man, was discovered Dec. 3 hanging from a tree in a
predominantly white area in the town of Greenwood, Miss....
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What conclusions or lessons can be drawn from the historic Georgia
prisoners’ strike that lasted close to a week and involved as many as 10
institutions across the state?...
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The dangerous military crisis on the Korean peninsula has been defused for
the moment. The Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea did not retaliate,
even though the U.S. imperialists and their south Korean clients on Dec. 20
staged provocative live-fire exercises from Yeonpyeong Island, eight miles from
the mainland of the DPRK. The DPRK, which had warned of retaliation if the exercises went forward,
declared that the limited exercises carried out by the south Korean military
were “not worth it.” The U.S. and the south Korean regime were
shown up as military provocateurs willing to risk a major war....
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After receiving massive support in Cuba, a delegation of Iranian activists has visited Venezuela in the second stop of its tour of Latin American countries, an effort designed to promote international solidarity with Iran....
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Five Somali nationals were convicted of piracy in a U.S. federal court in
Norfolk, Va., on Nov. 24, with their sentencing set for March 2011. Based on
slave-era laws and criminal statutes that have not been enforced since the
1820s, the Somalis could be sentenced to life in prison....
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For over week, since December 9, thousands of Georgia prisoners have refused
to work, stopped all activities and locked down in their cells in a peaceful
protest for their human rights. It is urgent to support this heroic act of
resistance to inhuman prison conditions and racism....
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According to reports from family members and prisoner rights advocates,
thousands of incarcerated men throughout Georgia engaged in a coordinated
strike starting Dec. 9. They refused to go to work or participate in other
assignments or activities, but stayed in their cells, calling it a
“lockdown for liberty.” Using unauthorized cell phones, the prisoners have been able to organize among themselves and to communicate with news media and supporters. What is so extraordinary about this action besides its statewide character
is its unity among the prisoners — Black, Latino, white, Muslims,
Christians, Rastafarians — to achieve their central demand to be treated
as human beings, not slaves or animals.
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According to reports from family members and prisoner rights advocates,
thousands of incarcerated men engaged in a coordinated strike starting Dec. 9.
They refused to go to work or participate in other assignments or activities,
but stayed in their cells, calling it a “lockdown for liberty.”...
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Today marks the one year anniversary of the assassination of Walter Trochez, a human rights, LGBTQ and democracy activist in Honduras. His death, like those of many other activists, LGBTQ leaders, journalists, unionists and teachers has been nominally investigated by a police force that itself has been implicated in violence against civilians since the coup on June 28, 2009. Despite the efforts of the U.S. State Department, multinational corporations, the Government of Honduras and their lobbyists to portray the current situation as sporadic violence, attributable to generic 'crime' within a post-election return to normalcy, it is clear that targeted bloodshed and a culture of impunity has taken hold....
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The International Action Center is endorsing and supporting the action
called by Veterans for Peace and others on Thursday, December 16, 2010 in
Washington DC. This action will be the largest veteran-led civil resistance to
U.S. wars in recent history. After a rally at Lafayette Park in Washington, DC,
many will engage in nonviolent civil resistance at the White House....
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Students and faculty at the City University of New York, in opposition to
another tuition increase, held two disruptions at meetings of the Board of
Trustees in November. The board had proposed a 5 percent tuition increase,
which would amount to $125 more per semester, to begin in the spring of 2011.
On top of that, the BOT proposed an additional increase of $500 per semester
for the Hunter College School of Social Work. CUNY tuition had already been
raised by 15 percent in 2009. Since 2003, tuition has increased 44 percent....
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The New York chapter of the Women’s Fightback Network hosted a
reportback meeting Dec. 4 on the Montreal International Women’s
Conference that took place Aug. 13-16 in Canada. The meeting, held at the
Solidarity Center in Manhattan, was standing room only as women activists of
many nationalities, ages and political backgrounds saw video footage and a
power point presentation about the conference....
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Hundreds of thousands of Haitians still live under tarps and tents because
their houses were destroyed in the Jan. 12 earthquake. Hundreds are dying every
week from an epidemic of cholera caused by lack of access to clean water. Haiti
is still occupied by Minustah, the U.N.’s armed force for the
“stabilization” of this impoverished country....
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Imperialist diplomacy is constructed on lies and secrets. No one is
surprised by the secrets. Few are surprised by the lies. Still, a sudden
exposure of the lies and secrets can arouse a strong political reaction....
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Documents released by the WikiLeaks website under the direction of
Australian national Julian Assange provide insight into U.S. political
maneuvers on the African continent. Although more attention was paid to
diplomatic cables on events in Saudi Arabia, Britain, Iran, etc., there are
significant leaks related to the frustrations of the U.S. State Department in
influencing developments in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Morocco and
Algeria....
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For the seventh consecutive year, union leaders, social movement activists
and socialists from many countries in the Western Hemisphere came together in
this dynamic border city on the first weekend in December for intense
discussions. They focused on the global crisis of the imperialist system, its
increasing belligerence and its devastating attacks on the living conditions of
the international working class....
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When the campaign “Solidarity with Iran – SI!” was
initiated in mid October 2010 through an appeal under the same name, the
initiators – House of Latin America (HOLA), an NGO based in Iran - were
confident of the promising prospect of the campaign. Now, the
campaign's success in a short period to gain the support of 100s of
activists and 10s of organizations involved in the international peace movement
indicates the correctness of such assessment....
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In 2009, as a result of an investigation of the State of North
Carolina’s Crime Laboratory, two former FBI agents concluded that false
forensic evidence had been used, and exonerating evidence hidden from the
defense, in 280 criminal cases over 16 years. In three of those, cases men were
executed before the truth was uncovered....
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I’m troubled but hopeful as I write you now. During the past year, there
has been a dangerous upsurge, largely manufactured by the media, in
anti-Islamic bigotry. Simultaneously – supposedly, in the name of
“peace” – there has been a surge of U.S. attacks against
civilians, largely by drones, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. The so-called
“end of combat operations” in Iraq has become a cruel joke....
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Just a few months ago, on July 26, 2010, Lucius Walker, the head of the American organization Pastors for Peace, at an encounter with Cuban intellectuals
and artists, asked me what the solution for Haiti’s problems would be....
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The FBI has informed a lawyer from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) that at
least three subpoenas to appear before a Grand Jury have been delivered in the
Chicago area....
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The only legal options that were considered by the Third Circuit Court of
Appeals, a federal court immediately below the US Supreme Court, at the
November 9 hearing were whether Mumia Abu-Jamal is to be executed or get life
in prison without parole. The question of Mumia's guilt or innocence and
the opportunity of a new trial was not part of this hearing. The Third Circuit
decided that issue in March 2008 in a decision made by the same three judges
who conducted this hearing....
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On Nov. 23, the government of South Korea mobilized 70,000 troops for a week
of military maneuvers just off the border of the Democratic Peoples Republic of
Korea. The DPRK said that these military maneuvers simulated an invasion of the
north....
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Latin American solidarity and anti-imperialist activists around the world, as well as the people of Latin America did not need WikiLeaks’ “leaked” documents to tell them what they already knew: the U.S. government was well aware that the June 28, 2009 ouster of democratically and legitimately elected President Jose Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was illegal and unconstitutional....
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Scores of U.S. warships and fighter jets, carrying more than 6,000 crew members
and reinforced by ships, planes and 70,000 soldiers of the armed forces of
south Korea, began carrying out joint military “exercises” in the
sea west of Korea on Nov. 28. They have brought the divided peninsula to the
brink of war. In July some 20 U.S. warships and 200 planes had carried out
similar maneuvers with the armed forces of the south. So this is the second
time in less than six months that Washington and the right-wing south Korean
regime of Lee Myung-Bak have carried out a grave provocation against the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (socialist north Korea)....
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As part of the week of nationally coordinated actions to STOP FBI REPRESSION and CALL OFF THE GRAND JURY WITCH HUNT on Thursday, Dec 2 at 5pm we will hold a Rally and meeting at Congressman Jerrold Nadler's office. As the Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Representative Nadler has an important role to play in defending the civil liberties of all Americans!...
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In response to a U.S. War Crisis on Korean peninsula we are urging your participation in a Rally this Tuesday, Nov 30 at 5pm at Rockefeller Center and 2 on-line actions....
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For more than a week, mass protests against the U.N.’s occupation have broken out throughout Haiti, especially in Cap-Haïtien on its northern coast and Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital. Protests have also taken place in southern cities like Cayes and in the center of the country in Gonaïve....
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The Committee to Stop FBI Repression continues to denounce the FBI raids on activists in the Midwest on Sept. 24 and to demand an end to the grand jury witch-hunt. The warrants and subpoenas clearly violate people’s First Amendment rights to freedom of association — by demanding materials like address books and information regarding “recruitment and indoctrination” to anti-war, solidarity and other political organizations. This kind of sweeping investigation and grand jury witch-hunt is a dangerous precedent for all people of conscience....
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On Nov. 23, the government of South Korea mobilized 70,000 troops for a week of military maneuvers just off the border of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. The DPRK said that these military maneuvers simulated an invasion of the north....
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This past August, activists attended a historic Women’s Anti-Imperialist Conference in Montreal Attend a Special Forum to hear reports ...
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On Oct 29 a predominantly white and suburban federal jury falsely found African-American Boston City Councilor guilty of one count of attempted extortion and three counts of lying to the FBI. The community has shown its unwavering support for Chuck, voting for him, packing the trial and turning out hundreds strong at a rally on October 30 at the District 7 office in Roxbury. saying "We Stand with Chuck Turner. Chuck is Innocent! The verdict is the crime!"...
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On the rainy night of Nov. 5, hundreds of thousands of Haitians huddled under their tarps and tents while Hurricane Tomas passed. The government, which told them to flee, put only 15,000 people on trucks to go to higher ground....
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Thousands of people demonstrated in Madrid, Spain, on Nov. 13 in response to a Nov. 8 massacre carried out by Moroccan security forces in a displaced person’s camp at Laayoune, Western Sahara, in northwest Africa. Dozens of Sahawari people were killed, and up to 4,500 injured in the massacre....
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Speaking at a Nov. 10 Town Hall meeting here on the war on dissent, Minneapolis anti-war and Colombia-solidarity activist Jess Sundin received a standing ovation after describing her experience as a target of FBI raids on Sept. 24. “We have got to push back to stop these attacks,” Sundin stated. “We can’t let them attempt to silence us.”...
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A United Nations Human Rights Council gathering in Switzerland heard testimony from oppressed groups inside the United States who exposed Washington’s official state policy of gross violations against peoples of color and workers in general....
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Another huge fraud is being perpetrated so the rich can get their way. Their weapon is fear. The corporate media are full of pundits explaining the government must cut the national budget or everything will collapse...
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A Good-bye to Lynne Stewart - 4 to 6pm
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A Tribute to Lolita Lebron -7pm...
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e urge all individuals concerned with human rights to
sign this international petition to U.S. and Pakistani government officials, urging the immediate repatriation to Pakistan of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui....
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As part of the International Week to Repatriate Dr. Aafia Siddiqui campaign,a coalition in the U.S. - led by The Peace Thru Justice Foundation and the International Action Center - will pay a visit the Pakistani Consulate to hold
a press conference (followed by a presentation of petitions), to call on the
Pakistani government to secure Dr. Siddiqui's release and repatriation back
to her home country where she rightfully belongs....
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“I voted for Obama because I felt his message and wanted to be a part of a change in America. This year it’s different. All the confusion with the Tea Party, all the negativity against the president and the Republicans who want to take back their country, all my hope is gone,” said Brian Henderson, a 22-year-old Washington, D.C., resident. “But I’m still going to vote and encourage others to do so also. It’s hard to get excited when you don’t feel like the options are any better than the devil and Satan in some places.” (finalcall.com, Nov. 1)...
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Many participants believed the real choice humanity faces is between increased misery and wars on one side and the struggle for a socialist future on the other. The capitalist collapse and persistent decline for the working class make this choice ever more urgent....
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A recent decision by the Federal Reserve to provide the bankers another $600
billion in bailout funds demonstrates the government’s continuing
failure, even under Democratic Party leadership, to provide any relief for
working people and the oppressed....
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From Dec. 3 to 5 in Tijuana, Mexico — just minutes from the San Diego,
Calif., airport — a cross-section of workers from Latin America who are
confronting the global crisis will meet with U.S. workers grappling with
devastating challenges. Building on six previous conferences, the
meeting’s aim is to grow the unity of the working class in the Americas
and increase its influence — from the tip of Chile to Alaska — by
sharing problems but also examining strategies to fight and win....
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More than 500 people, mostly African Americans and
youth, mobilized for a noontime outdoor rally Nov. 9 in support of political
prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. The rally lasted through a hearing of the 3rd U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals that argued on whether the death sentence would be
reinstated against Mumia, who has maintained his innocence since being
railroaded to death row in 1982. The court’s ruling will be announced at
a later date. Supporters for Mumia included a delegation from the Transport
Workers Union Local 100; Charles Barron, the New York gubernatorial candidate
for the Freedom Party; Free Mumia Coalition (NYC), International Concerned
Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal and the International Action Center.
Activists traveled from as far away as California, Texas, Arizona, Germany and
France to stand with Mumia....
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Nectalí Rodezno, Attorney and Coordinator
of the National Lawyers Front
Against the Military Coup in Honduras, Is leading an extensive tour in the United States during the
month November,exposing the truth of what really happened in Honduras, during
the military coup in June 28th, 2009....
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On November 9, 2010, Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia Will
Consider Reinstating Death Sentence on Internationally Renowned Death Row
Political Prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal...
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ll are well-known and respected activists who, according to FBI
spokespersons, were targeted because of their role in seeking justice for
workers and other oppressed peoples throughout the world. In addition to having
their homes invaded, they were subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury. They
have not been arrested or charged with any crime....
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We all are stunned and saddened by the abrupt announcement that Tariq Aziz
has been condemned to hang. He was found guilty on bogus charges by the
illegitimate court in Baghdad that tried various Ba’ath Party officials,
including President Saddam Hussein. At that time, he received a sentence of 22
years in prison, assuring he would die before he again saw daylight. Now, he is
sentenced to hang....
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Mumia Abu-Jamal is innocent. He’s spent over 28 years on death row after
being unjustly convicted. Mumia was framed because he exposed police brutality
as a radio journalist and for helping to found the Philadelphia chapter of the
Black Panther Party in 1969.The real criminals are the FBI and cops, who bombed
the MOVE house on May 13, 1985, burning to death six adults and five children.
The MOVE 9 are innocent political prisoners who must be released. A “Tea
Party” majority on the U.S. Supreme Court has virtually ordered the
Federal Appeals Court to reinstate Mumia’s death sentence. Don’t
let the bigots lynch Mumia Abu-Jamal. Show the Federal Appeals Court that we
demand justice. Mumia must not die! RALLY in Philadelphia Nov 9. For more
information: Free Mumia Coalition (NYC) 212.330.8029 www.freemumia.com...
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Most political pundits and leading corporate-oriented publications are
predicting significant gains by right-wing Republican candidates across the
United States in the midterm elections taking place Nov. 2. This possible shift
in power within ruling-class politics is attributed to two main factors: the
so-called conservative backlash as represented by the Tea Party and the lack of
enthusiasm among key constituents within the African-American and Latino/a
communities, as well as among working women, who voted overwhelming for the
Democratic Party in 2006 and 2008....
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The anniversary of the birth of a cherished freedom fighter occurred
recently. On Oct. 6, 1917, Fannie Lou Townsend was born and grew up on a
Mississippi plantation in a sharecropper family. She began picking cotton at
the age of 6. She was the youngest of 20 children and the granddaughter of an
enslaved African. After marrying, she became Fannie Lou Hamer....
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Bail Out the People is mobilizing 110% to get out the vote for the Freedom Party citywide. We could use a hand....
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The International Action Center announces two important NYC showings of a
new and exciting film, “Justice on Trial”, on the case of Mumia
Abu-Jamal at Riverside Church and Baruch College, Oct. 31 and Nov. 2. All out
for Mumia, Nov. 9, Philadelphia!!...
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Clarence Thomas, long-time ILWU Local 10 member and labor activist who
co-chaired the rally with Jack Heyman, another ILWU dockworker, proudly
announced, “All of the Bay Area ports are shut down today in honor of the
fight for justice for Oscar Grant.”...
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A military and political crisis for the U.S.-backed Transitional Federal
Government in Somalia has prompted calls for additional troop deployments under
the ostensible command of the United Nations Security Council. Both the U.S.
and the secretary general for the U.N. have publicly acknowledged that nearly
8,000 Ugandan and Burundian troops propping up the TFG have not been able to
effectively challenge the growing influence of Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen
(popularly known as Al-Shabaab) and Hizbul Islam, the leading resistance groups
inside the Horn of Africa nation....
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A prisoner was kneeling on the ground, blindfolded and handcuffed, when an
Iraqi soldier kicked him in the neck. A U.S. marine sergeant was watching and
reported the incident, which was duly recorded and deemed “valid.”
The outcome: “No investigation required.”...
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The U.N. General Assembly on Oct. 26 voted 187 to 2 against the 48-year
economic blockade of Cuba. Only the U.S. and Israel voted for it. Palau,
Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained....
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After the elections: Join us for a discussion of a new kind of unified &
inclusive antiwar movement that can challenge the wars abroad and at home:
Regional ANTIWAR Conference, Saturday Nov. 6 12 Noon to 4 pm St Mark’s
Church on the Bowery - 10th St & 2nd Ave, New York City. DISCUSS: Making it
real — a massive movement to bring the war $$, troops, and mercenaries
home now, rebuilding our cities, providing jobs, schools and health care that
we all have a right to. Inclusion and solidarity with the targets of war
demonization — building solidarity and confronting anti-Muslim and
anti-immigrant bigotry and racism; combating FBI raids and other expression of
antiwar and international solidarity activists. Incorporating the war on
Palestine into the antiwar movement’s demands and actions. Hear concrete
plans for the coming months and be part of planning for a giant April 9th NYC
antiwar demonstration....
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The Black and Latino/a-led Freedom Party is attempting to get a minimum of
50,000 votes in the Nov. 2 midterm elections in New York State in order to
secure ballot status. One of the FP’s main goals is to challenge the
decades-long, oppressive stranglehold that the big business, pro-war Republican
and Democratic parties have had, a hold that keeps workers and oppressed
peoples economically and politically powerless....
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Koch Oil Industries, Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch, ExxonMobil and the super
rich are all telling us to hate Muslims, hate immigrants and blame them for
everything. They don’t like speaking in their own names so they get the
Tea Party to do it for them....
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On Oct. 19 the office phones of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and
President Barack Obama are expected to ring all day as they did a week earlier.
Concerned labor, community and anti-war callers will demand that the government
end repression of anti-war and international solidarity activists, return all
materials seized in the raids on their homes and office in September and call
off the grand jury....
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The message was as grim and clear as a KKK cross burning. “Mosques, we
burn,” said a warning scribbled at the door of the smoke-smudged mosque
of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem in Palestine’s West Bank....
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With the close of the most recent round of climate talks in Tianjin, China,
which took place during the first week of October, the world is gearing up for
the next major talks in Cancún, Mexico, to begin in late November. The
Tianjin talks, with delegates from more than 150 countries, produced very
little progress, as the fundamental divide between the desires of rich
countries and the needs of poor ones was not resolved....
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A people-to-people delegation that included two members of the International
Action Center arrived in Tehran, Iran, Oct. 9 to increase solidarity with the
people of Iran, defend Iran’s sovereignty and stop the accelerated U.S.
push for war against Iran....
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he recent revelations of massive fraud in the processing of foreclosures by
major banks demonstrate the urgent necessity for activists to press the demand
for an immediate declaration of a two-year moratorium to halt all foreclosures
and evictions in the U.S....
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In Mexico, from Nov. 3-11, Migrants & their supporters will
declare:...
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Cuban leaders of the Confederation of Cuban Worker s (CTC) will visit Tijuana,
Mexico, a border city 15 minutes south of downtown San Diego and the
San Diego Airport - 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 Latinoamerican and Caribbean workers. Also, you will
hear from Union leaders of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Haiti,
Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil, El Salvador, Puerto Rico and the
U.S. discussing the social and labor movements in the Americas.
and coordinators of Encuentro Sindical Nuestra America have also been
invited. ESNA is a new development that involves the largest and most militant
labor federations throughout Latin America.
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The 16-year struggle to free Jamie and Gladys Scott from a Mississippi
prison has caught the significant attention of a progressive African-American
journalist. Bob Herbert, who writes for the New York Times on a regular basis,
penned two op-ed pieces within three days of each other exposing the injustice
that the African-American sisters have suffered and calling for their immediate
release....
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Resolution in Support of the Cuban Five, their Rights to Fair
Trial and Visitation Rights for their Families...
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On Oct. 5, 2000, a coup engineered by U.S. imperialist agencies and
supported by Western European imperialist governments overthrew the Socialist
Party government in Yugoslavia led by Slobodan Milosevic. At the time —
only 16 months after a vicious 79-day U.S.-led NATO air war against the people
of Yugoslavia — there was much confusion even among progressive and
anti-war forces in the imperialist countries due to the overwhelming
anti-Milosevic propaganda in the corporate media. The following interview by
Cathrin Schütz with former Milosevic aide Vladimir Krsljanin throws light
on those events and the developments in Serbia in the last 10 years....
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A critical hearing is scheduled Nov. 9 in the nearly three-decade-old case
of journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, who sits on death row in
Pennsylvania. Mumia was severely wounded and arrested on Dec. 9, 1981, in
Philadelphia and was later charged, tried and convicted of the murder of police
officer Daniel Faulkner....
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The World Day Against the Death Penalty was commemorated on Oct. 10 with a
major emphasis on the United States, where more executions take place than any
other industrialized country. Since the death penalty was reinstituted by the
U.S. Supreme Court in 1976, 1,229 executions have taken place, with 41 in 2010
alone and counting. (Death Penalty Information Center, Oct. 6)...
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DeAsia Bronaugh, a Black high school student, was acquitted on all charges on Oct. 7 in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court....
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There's a great opportunity this Monday [Oct. 18, 2010] to gather friends together and support the Freedom Party's NY State campaign....
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The recent spate of suicides by young people who are lesbian, gay, bi or trans or perceived as such by their peers is heartbreaking. It is also a call to action.
We stand with all those stepping forward in solidarity with LGBT youth against the bashers, the bullies. We add our voices to the chorus telling our beautiful, precious children and teens: “Hang in there. It will get better.” But we say something else, too. Our message to the youth, LGBT and straight allies alike, is: Join us in the struggle....
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Nearly 80 demonstrations in 25 states were organized on Oct. 7, the second
National Day of Action to Defend Education, as thousands of students and
workers took to the streets to fight back against the attacks on education
being leveled across the country in the form of devastating budget cuts,
tuition hikes and the growing threat of privatization....
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There is much to be learned from the indisputable fact that the U.S. military, despite all its high-tech weaponry and the billions of dollars at its disposal, has lost control of the situation in Afghanistan and has forced even the corrupt Pakistani government to denounce Pentagon attacks as “intolerable” and close parts of its border with Afghanistan....
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On the invitation of an Iranian non-governmental organization dedicated to the building of solidarity with the people of Latin America and in response to increasing threats and continuing sanctions on Iran by the United States, delegates from international solidarity, anti-war and women's organizations, including the International Action Center, met in Iran to coordinate efforts to defend the people of Iran in this urgent hour....
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U.S. efforts to supply its troops and the puppet regime in Afghanistan came
to a standstill on Sept. 30. Convoys of trucks bearing fuel and other supplies
were backed up for hundreds of miles on the long supply route that runs from
Karachi, the main port of Pakistan, to the mountain passes leading into
Afghanistan....
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n exciting event launched the Freedom Party campaign on Oct. 3 at the
Church of the Resurrection, which also serves as home to the South Bronx
Community Congress. Charles Barron and Ramon Jimenez, candidates for governor
and attorney general, respectively, both spoke eloquently about the emerging
Black and Latino/a alliance that sees well beyond the Nov. 2 elections to a new
“people’s power bloc” that can genuinely fight for and
protect the interests of working people in the city and state of New York....
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Rutgers University held a silent vigil the night of Oct. 3 for 18-year-old
Tyler Clementi, a first-year student and serious violinist, who jumped off the
George Washington Bridge after he and a male friend’s encounter in his
dorm room was secretly streamed online. Clementi’s death is but one in a growing number of teen suicides....
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Oct. 5 — Representatives of 14 solidarity activists in the Midwest
announced this morning that none of them would comply with subpoenas ordering
them to testify before a grand jury in Chicago today or Oct. 19. They stood
before television cameras and more than 100 supporters in front of the Federal
Building where a grand jury was about to be empaneled....
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Sara Flounders and John Parker, leaders of the International Action Center in
New York and Los Angeles, will be joining a people-to-people delegation to
visit Iran on Oct. 9. The purpose of the trip is to express solidarity with the
people of Iran, in the face of continuing U.S. threats to attack a nation of 75
million people....
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n October 6, 1976 a civilian Cuban airliner took off from the coast of Barbados towards Cuba. Among the 73 passengers on board was the Cuban Junior Fencing team who were proudly returning to their island with gold medals. Along with them were 11 humble students from Guyana who were to begin studying in Cuba, five passengers of the Democratic Republic of Korea, among them a young girl. There were 57 Cuban passengers and flight crew on that plane. But flight 455 never made it to its destination. Its 73 passengers died a horrible death when a bomb, ordered to be placed in the plane by the international terrorists Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, blew up in mid air....
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The Ecuadorean people came into the streets by the thousands to confront the
national police and prevent a coup and possible assassination of President
Rafael Correa on Sept. 30. A section of about 800 of these police had kept the
president captive for 14 hours at the Police Hospital in Quito before military
units brought him back to the presidential palace....
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Thursday, July
15, Federal Judge John Koeltl attempted to bury me
alive.
Acting for the Government and Judges of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals,
he sentenced me at their demand, to more than five times the term he
originally thought "right and just." With his new sentence,
of ten years, I am buried in the Prison Industrial Complex until I am
nearly 80 years old, if I make it....
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Furcan Dogan Furcan Dogan. I’m going to say Furcan Dogan so often that it
will seem as “American” as Tom Smith or Bill Jones. Furcan Dogan
was an American, a young American of only 19 years when on May 31st a hail of
Israeli bullets ended his life on the Gaza aid ship, Mavi Marmarar. Furcan was
filming the Israeli assault when an IDF commando fired his first shot
pointblank hitting Furcan squarely in the chest. Four more shots were fired
into Furcan leaving him dead and unrecognizable....
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The plans in New York are connected to the October 7th
National Day of Action to Defend Public Education, the
continuation of the national movement that began on March
4th 2010....
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On Tuesday, Oct. 5, the first of 14 solidarity activists targeted by the FBI
will appear before a Chicago Grand Jury. Let's show the Inquisitors
''we will not them silence our movement!...
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DAPT, a national disability rights action group, fought state budget cuts
to Medicaid home services by mobilizing in Washington, D.C., Sept. 19-22.
Activists chained themselves to three gates at the White House and blocked
street intersections. ADAPT also barricaded the Department of Housing and Urban
Development building and parking structures with their wheelchairs until HUD
Secretary Shaun Donovan agreed in writing to meet with them on Oct. 15. Sixteen
were arrested....
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The nearly 29-year struggle to free political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal faces
a critical juncture with the announcement that the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Third Circuit will review Abu-Jamal’s death sentence on Nov. 9. It is
imperative that all who stand for justice and against racism and state
repression pack the courtroom in Philadelphia....
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At the rally on Saturday, Oct. 2, for jobs,peace and equality, many critical issues will be raised by the International Action Center and Bail Out the People Movement and other organizations, such as the need for a real WPA jobs program. However in the wake of the FBI raids and Grand Jury subpoenas against activists last week, the IAC and BOPM want to make sure that there is very visible opposition to FBI repression, with the understanding that the attack on these activists is an attack on all who are fighting against war, racism and for economic and social justice....
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On Oct. 7 there will be a citywide rally including students, educators,
workers and community activists to defend public education at 4 p.m. at the
Harlem State Office Building, followed by a march across Harlem, ending at the
City College of New York....
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Anti-war, anti-racist and left political activists in the United States have
responded with unprecedented energy and outrage against nationally coordinated
FBI raids on the homes of well-respected political organizers. Within 72 hours
of the Sept. 24 raids, protest demonstrations were held or scheduled in 32
cities across the country....
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Progressive activists and organizations across the U.S. began immediately to
galvanize a struggle upon learning of the outrageous attacks carried out
against solidarity activists by federal agents and the Obama administration.
Demonstrations have been called in at least 32 cities and towns from coast to
coast. The day after the Sept. 24 multistate raids and grand jury subpoenas, a broad
range of progressive activists and community members denounced the FBI at a
rally at the federal building in downtown Milwaukee....
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Tell
President Obama, Attorney General Holder, DOJ Inspector General Fine, the
Senate and House Judiciary Committees, Congressional Leaders, U.N. Secy Gen
Ban, and members of the media to STOP THE FBI CAMPAIGN OF REPRESSION AGAINST
ANTI-WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY ACTIVISTS
NOW! ...We denounce the Federal Bureau of Investigation harassment of anti-war and solidarity activists. The FBI raided seven houses and an office in Chicago and Minneapolis on Friday, September 24, 2010. The FBI served subpoenas to testify before a federal grand jury to 13 activists in Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan. The FBI also attempted to intimidate activists in Wisconsin, California and North Carolina....
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The International Action Center supports the call below from the Minnesota Antiwar Committee for Emergency Actions at federal buildings and FBI offices to Support Anti-War and International Solidarity Activists and Stop FBI Raids and Harassment, and urges you to participate in one of the actions listed below or to organize an action in your city if one is not already planned.
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We denounce the Federal Bureau of Investigation harassment of anti-war and solidarity activists in several states across the country. The FBI began turning over six houses in Chicago and Minneapolis this morning, Friday, September 24, 2010, at 8:00 am central time. The FBI handed subpoenas to testify before a federal grand jury to about a dozen activists in Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan. They also attempted to intimidate activists in California and North Carolina....
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If you are a WBAI member, please vote for all of the Justice & Unity
candidates AND in the following rank order....
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You do not know me. Why should you? Or maybe you should have known me and the
many other UN officials who struggled in Iraq when you prepared your Iraq
policy. Reading the Iraq details of your "journey", as told in your
memoir, has confirmed my fears. You tell a story of a leader, but not of a
statesman. You could have, at least belatedly, set the record straight. Instead
you repeat all the arguments we have heard before, such as why sanctions had to
be the way they were; why the fear of Saddam Hussein outweighed the fear of
crossing the line between concern for people and power politics; why Iraq ended
up as a human garbage can. You preferred to latch on to Bill Clinton's 1998
Iraq Liberation Act and George W Bush's determination to implement it....
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On Thursday October 7th, 2010, students, educators, workers, and activists
from community organizations across New York City will rally
at 4pm outside the Harlem State Office Building at Adam Clayton
Powell, Jr. Blvd and 125th street before marching across Harlem,
finally ending at City College New York (CCNY)....
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Dr. Aafia Siddiqui's sentencing is scheduled for Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 at 9 AM.Please attend, pack the court and show your support for our sister, Aafia Siddiqui.Be at court by 8am...
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The plight of the Cuban Five is never far from the minds of progressive
people around the world. This Sept. 12, exactly 12 years since their arrest in
the United States for defending Cuba from terrorist attacks, organizations and
individuals intensified demands for their release through petitions,
demonstrations and ad campaigns....
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The thousands who united on Sept. 11 to say no to the Tea Party and its
racist allies have given a new impetus to the anti-racist and workers’
struggle. They faced a right-wing opponent with a month’s head start, big
funding and enormous media publicity. But they stood strong to defend their
Muslim sisters and brothers and confront the hate-mongers, resisting pressure
from the government and corporate media. In the end, they outnumbered and
out-shouted the elements who follow Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich and their ilk.
Even the rightist New York Post had to admit that the anti-racists
out-organized the right-wing gang....
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The U.S. corporate press was silent when thousands of Hondurans poured into
the streets of Tegucigalpa on Sept. 7 to join the 12-hour national strike
called by the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP). It affected all 18
provinces and paralyzed the streets of 11 Honduran cities. Traffic was stopped
on roads and bridges. ...
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A series of 85 fires struck several Detroit neighborhoods on Sept. 7. High
winds of up to 50 miles per hour hit the city that day and blew down power
lines, sparking fires that spread rapidly....
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We urge all individuals concerned with human rights to
sign this international petition to U.S. and Pakistani government officials, urging the immediate repatriation to Pakistan of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui....
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Hundreds of thousands of Haitians have been living in misery for more than
seven months — without houses, jobs, sanitation, potable water or
electricity. The lucky ones have tents for shelter, others only tarps or
sheets....
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The official unemployment rate, which was 9.5 percent in July, has no
credibility. It is classic “political spin” intended to fill
workers’ heads with hope that a recovery is right around the corner....
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The hullabaloo and objections to the proposed building of the Islamic
Cultural Center, also known as Cordoba House or the Park 51 project, as being
“insensitively” located in lower Manhattan near the World Trade
Center site, are not due to concern for “the feelings of the 9/11
families.” That is not the real issue at hand....
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Much of the focus on the rapid expansion of natural gas extraction through
hydrofracturing, or “fracking,” has centered on methane leaks and
chemical contamination of residential water wells. In Dimock, Pa., more than 15
residents sued Cabot Oil and Gas Corp., charging permanent damage to their
wells....
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August was a month of fierce struggle in Honduras. The National Popular
Resistance Front (FNRP) has engaged in strikes, marches and sit-ins, while the
government of Honduras has responded with ruthless repression. Speaking Sept. 6
on the resistance station Radio Globo, Juan Barahona, assistant coordinator of
FNRP and president of the United Workers Federation, said he had never seen
such brutality by the military and police in Honduras, not even in the
1980s....
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On September 11 the Tea Party and its racist and right wing allies plan to again demonstrate at the World Trade Center site. For months these bigots have attempted to whip up hysteria against a proposed Islamic masjid (mosque) and community center several blocks from the WTC.
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By any estimate, the people who came out against racism and bigotry far outnumbered the Tea Party crowd.
Forced into action by a vicious anti-Muslim rally meant to stop construction of a downtown Islamic Center, on September 11 thousands of people took to the streets of New York to say no to racism....
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On September 11 the Tea Party and its racist and right wing allies plan to again demonstrate at the World Trade Center site. For months these bigots have attempted to whip up hysteria against a proposed Islamic masjid (mosque) and community center several blocks from the WTC. On September 11 right wing, Christian fundamentalist plan a “Burn the Quran” day at a Florida Masjid. These same forces targeting masjids around the country are waging a national hate campaign against all people of color and immigrants....
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On the ninth anniversary of September 11, thousands of people marched against racism in a diverse show of solidarity that far outnumbered the Tea Party-led hate rallies.“We had at least 10,000 people,” said Sara Flounders, one of the coordinators of the Unity and Solidarity Rally. “And the rally program – with speakers from the labor movement, immigrants' rights coalitions, and clergy from synagogues, churches and mosques – featured the dynamic diversity of almost every community in New York.” Once the opponents of Park51 had made September 11 into a racist attack on Muslims, the question was whether progressive forces were going to allow this poisonous hate campaign to go unchallenged.Today that question was resoundingly answered in a dynamic anti-racist rally that attracted over fifty speakers and featured noted personalities such as anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, former Congressperson Cynthia McKinney, and former U.S. Attorney Ramsey Clark....
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hursday afternoon the top media story was
racist Pastor Terry Jones in Gainesville, Florida announcing that he was
cancelling his planned 9/11 Quran burning. This came after heavy pressure from
the White House and Pentagon fearful of the response in the Muslim world. It is
also a grassroots victory based on the mass mobilization against this ugly
threat taken on in Gainesville, Florida by the local Students for a Democratic
Society – SDS....
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Wednesday night’s organizing meeting in New York City for the Saturday, September 11 march against the ugly racism & Islamophobia leveled by the right wing Tea Party against a Muslim Community Center near Ground Zero was truly amazing and inspiring.The plans for a racist rally on September 11 against an Islamic Community Center have galvanized a united anti-racist response. About 100 organizers and activists from dozens of groups attended the meeting to plan a massive show of unity and solidarity. Here are some highlights:...
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The Emergency Mobilization Against Racism and Anti-Islamic Bigotry is
organizing a rally for civil rights and religious freedom on Saturday,
September 11th. This rally is a response to the ugly and violent attacks, both
verbal and physical, which are happening more and more frequently around the
country. It is also a specific response to the hate-filled protest being called
by a coalition of racist and anti-Islamic organizations on September 11th....
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Tens of thousands of teachers in Puerto Rico held a one-day work stoppage Aug. 26 to protest the neoliberal Gov. Luis Fortuño’s offensive, which has left the island’s education system in shambles. This historic stoppage shut 90 percent of the island’s schools. Teachers showed great resistance, as the recent successful student strike of the University of Puerto Rico also did....
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The French government of Nicolas Sarkozy is attacking the country’s large and diverse immigrant and foreign communities, which it calls the sources of delinquency and crime, with expulsions and deportations, loss and denial of French citizenship, and new laws imprisoning parents for the crimes their children commit, as well as increased police violence. According to many French political analysts, the Sarkozy administration is using this approach to repair its public standing, which has been battered by the worldwide recession, growing unemployment and the anger of France’s combative unions....
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Uniting under the theme, “Moving forward the militant global women’s movement in the 21st century,” more than 350 women from 32 countries participated in the Montreal International Women’s Conference, held Aug. 13-16. The conference resulted in the formation of an International Women’s Alliance. The IWA will hold its first assembly in 2011 to adopt a constitution of principles of unity and an action proposal....
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For nearly 30 long, tortuous years, Marilyn Buck was a political prisoner of the state; a captive in the federal prison system for her role in the liberation of former Black Panther Assata Shakur....
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Racism and ageism were themes for the keynote speakers at the Old Lesbians Organizing for Change national gathering here in July, and for the speakout sessions done in a format known as “fishbowls.” The 150 participants ranged in age from 59 to 87....
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“We won! It’s over — America!” A young man whoops and hollers in what could be a cry from the crowd at a sports game. In fact, it was the ill-judged, hubristic “victory’” shout of a soldier rolling over the Kuwaiti border in his armored truck, as supposedly the last U.S. combat brigade left Iraq after seven grueling years....
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Activists here and around the country have begun mobilizing to stop cold those who promote racism and hatred of Muslims. They plan to confront a vicious demonstration and rally scheduled for the World Trade Center site on Sept. 11. A rally and counterprotest near the WTC site on Aug. 22 showed that the confrontation is gaining momentum....
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New York — Chants of “We want jobs!” rang out at the corner of Wall and Broad streets in the shadow of the Stock Exchange at noon on Aug. 12 as the “99ers” made their first appearance in struggle in the streets....
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The following statement was issued by the Communist Youth Union (KSM) of the Czech Republic on Aug. 3 regarding the Czech government’s intention to place a U.S. early-warning system in their country. It illustrates both the continuing aggressive role of the U.S. and NATO in Eastern Europe and the existence of progressive forces in that region that are resisting renewed imperialist domination....
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Many articles have been written reflecting on five decades of historical experience — referred to as the 50th anniversary of the “Year of Africa” — since 17 African nations gained political independence. Yet few pay adequate attention to the indispensable role of women in the campaigns for national liberation and their continuing efforts in the present century....
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he economic crisis has hit the workers in Michigan, a state of heavy industry, especially hard, and has also brought with it an intensified struggle against racism. These brief reports cover three different areas of the state....
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Expressing the sounds of her beloved Puerto Rico, hundreds of people singing plenas and chanting about her valiant character accompanied independence fighter Lolita Lebrón to her final resting place in the Old San Juan Cemetery. She was buried close to her dear Maestro, Don Pedro Albizu Campos. As she had requested, the burial took place just over 24 hours after her death....
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An energetic protest demanding jobs in Harlem, N.Y., and beyond hit several targets on Aug. 6. Community leaders and activists began their action at North General Hospital — where workers, represented by Service Employees Local 1199, were given only four days’ notice that the entire hospital would be shut down. Describing the closing of the hospital as an attack on the whole community, union members declared their struggle to be not just a fight for jobs, but also a fight to preserve affordable health care in Harlem....
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The United Nations’ International Court of Justice ruled that a 2008 declaration of separation by the parliament of Serbia’s Kosovo province was legal under international law. Although the judges explained their July 22 decision on a narrow basis, it may still encourage recognition of the historically Serbian province’s secession....
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On September 11 the Tea Party and its racist and right wing allies plan to again demonstrate at the World Trade Center site. For months these bigots have attempted to whip up hysteria against a proposed Islamic masjid (mosque) and community center several blocks from the WTC....
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Even in a time of global climate change, the immense suffering of the Pakistani people due to vast floods did not have to happen. Investment in infrastructure and a timely emergency response program could have minimized what has become one of the world's worst disasters. But decades of U.S. intervention to keep corrupt and reactionary military regimes in power against the will of the people have left this country one of the poorest and least developed in the region....
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On Monday, August 16th Solidarity Rally for Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused by
the U.S. military of leaking the video called "Collateral Murder" to
the website WikiLeaks. The footage, made public in April 2010, shows US Army
Bravo Company 2-16 killing civilians in Bagdad in July 2007....
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On Sunday August 8, renowned actor Danny Glover visited Gerardo Hernandez at USP Victorville, California. The meeting caused a big stir in the prison that just a few days before had held Gerardo in "the hole" under
inhumane conditions....
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Although the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act was
celebrated across the U.S. on July 26 with much publicity, in a corner of
Detroit the practical struggle to implement it was quietly playing out in the
struggle spirit that originally won the ADA....
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There will be much to do in support of Lynne Stewart in
these next months. For the moment, the priority is to see that Lynne is sent to
the Federal Corrections Institition for Women in Danbury rather than somewhere
in Texas or even further from her family and friends. WRITE TO THE BUREAU OF
PRISONS IMMEDIATELY! TURN YOUR PAIN AT LYNNE'S HORRIFIC SENTENCE INTO
FIGHTING BACK. THIS IS STEP 1....
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On July 29 the racist, anti-immigrant law SB1070 went into effect in
Arizona. On July 28, federal judge Susan Bolton temporarily blocked the worst
parts of the law from being implemented. Nonetheless, July 29 was a day filled
with nonstop protests and bold actions as people took to the streets to show
their outrage at this bigoted attack against immigrants and workers....
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Two Korean groups in the United States — the pro-reunification,
community-based, grassroots organization Nodutdol and the National Campaign to
End the Korean War — held a joint cultural event in Washington, D.C., on
July 25 to call for a peace treaty between the U.S. and the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea, often referred to by the U.S. media as north
Korea....
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With the overwhelming support of the more than 700 people who registered for
the three-day event, the United National Anti-war Conference decided July 25 to
adopt an action program. It included support for a series of actions across the
country in the coming weeks and months and for mass demonstrations next April 9
on the East and West Coasts. These actions will demand the immediate withdrawal
of U.S. and other occupation troops and mercenaries from Iraq, Afghanistan and
Pakistan....
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nce Again the US
government has imposed another cruel punishment against Gerardo
Hernandez, one of the Cuban 5 imprisoned in the US for fighting against
terrorism....
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On Aug. 13-16, a ground-breaking conference of women from many countries and
organizations will be held in Montreal to take up the crucial issues facing
women worldwide, such as war, occupation, and corporate globalization, which
brings with it low wages, and sweatshops and forces millions of women a year to
leave their homelands to obtain jobs. The worldwide economic crisis is only
worsening conditions for millions of women....
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The U.S. and south Korean militaries are staging their largest joint war
exercises in years off the coast of the Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea....
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Despite a continuous onslaught of attacks against immigrant workers,
resistance and opposition continue to grow in the U.S. — not only against
Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070, but also against the entire campaign to
criminalize and drive workers born outside this country underground....
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A political firestorm erupted on July 20 when Shirley Sherrod, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s rural development director for Georgia, was
terminated as the result of a false accusation made against her by a right-wing
propagandist. A deceptively edited video of a speech, delivered by Sherrod at
an NAACP event in March, was used as the pretense for her firing and public
vilification....
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The media explosion following the publication of reports of some 90,000
classified cables between U.S. officials may accelerate the struggle to end the
imperialist occupation of Afghanistan....
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Organizations from Arizona’s three major population centers —
Tucson, Flagstaff and Phoenix — met on July 17 to prepare coordinated
activities for July 29, the date of SB 1070’s implementation. SB 1070 is
a racist, anti-immigrant state law that is opposed by immigrant rights
advocates, progressives and justice-loving people in Arizona and around the
country....
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LGBTQ organizations, Immigrant Rights
groups & progressive allied organizations are being asked to please
circulate the following email widely to their internet networks as soon as
possible. They ask that your constituents and members sign on to the online
petition in support of the boycott and circulate it widely as part
of Week of Solidarity against
the anti-immigrant attacks in Arizona & Call to Action for Human Rights
July 23-30, 2010...
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Marilyn Buck, a political prisoner in the U.S., was released July 15 from
the federal prison medical center in Carswell, Texas, according to her support
group, Friends of Marilyn Buck. She is paroled to New York. As of the writing
of this article, no further details about her release have been made
available....
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This is the moment to open a campaign to reawaken and mobilize a movement that
can end the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. The New York Times in the
U.S., the Guardian in Britain and Der Spiegel in Germany have published their
spins on 92,000 classified cables released by Wikileaks, cables with messages
between U.S. officials regarding the occupation of Afghanistan and the war
against the Afghan resistance....
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hereby demand the immediate repeal of Arizona's unconstitutional and racist anti-immigrant law SB 1070, which legalizes racial profiling by law enforcement and makes failure to carry immigration documents a crime....
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In 1945, two U.S. colonels in Washington D.C. divided the Korean peninsula
along the 38th parallel. This arbitrary divide soon became a border and
military frontline before and during the Korean War. An Armistice temporarily
ceased fighting on the Korean peninsula and established the Demilitarized Zone
(DMZ) along the 38th parallel. A peace treaty was never signed, and to this
day, Korea remains in a state of war....
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The Muslim Solidarity Committee and Project SALAM (Support And Legal
Advocacy for Muslims) have called for a public demonstration on Sunday,
July 25 in Albany in solidarity with the Muslim community there, that
has been subject to discrimination and persecution by the U.S.
political police. The demonstration is set for the end of a national
anti-war conference in the city. The organizers have called on
conference participants to meet at east steps of the Capitol,
Washington & State Streets, a block from the Conference site, at 1
p.m. for a march to Masjid As-Salam at 278 Central Avenue. The Muslim
Solidarity Committee and Project SALAM will also participate in a
luncheon panel on political repression and closing Guantanamo. ...
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On June 25 more than 300 people attending the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit took part in a People’s Movement Assembly organized around global ecological justice and environmental racism. ...
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Bomb blasts in and around the Ugandan capital of Kampala on July 11 killed at least 74 people who were gathered at a rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant watching the finals of the 2010 World Cup....
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The U.S.-based social-networking monolith Facebook has begun an all-out assault on its members, deleting three active groups that advocated for progressive and radical causes, permanently banning the accounts of four individuals who administered one group, and sending threatening messages to others....
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Iraqi women have been among the most liberated of their gender in the
Middle East. They have a long history of political activism and social
participation since the 19th century, having taken part in the struggle against
colonial domination and in the fight for national unity, social justice and
legal equality throughout the 20th century. In fact, UNICEF reported in 1993
that “rarely do women in the Arab world enjoy as much power and support
as they do in Iraq.”...
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A look at Google News shows that tens of thousands of articles have reported
or commented on President Barack Obama's firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal
and his replacement by Gen. David Petraeus. This exposure of disarray and
demoralization within U.S. imperialism's military and civilian leadership
provides a welcome opportunity to accelerate efforts to force Washington and
its allies to withdraw and end the illegal U.S.-NATO war and occupation of
Afghanistan....
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Activists supporting African-American political prisoner and revolutionary
journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal held a lively street meeting on the corner of Sixth
and Market near the Liberty Bell monument in Philadelphia on July 4....
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On June 18, a U.S. carrier group quietly slipped through the Suez Canal into
the Red Sea, headed toward the Persian Gulf. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike
Force included an aircraft carrier, a guided missile cruiser and nearly a dozen
Aegis-class destroyers. Also included were the German frigate GGS Hessen and at
least one Israeli vessel....
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Western imperialist states are continuing their efforts to undermine
Zimbabwe’s sovereignty. The most egregious campaign recently has been the
attempt to block the southern African nation from selling its diamonds on the
international market....
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Workers across Europe — specifically in Greece, Portugal, France,
Spain and Italy in the West and Romania in the East — have begun to
resist the capitalists’ relentless assault on their wages, benefits,
social services and secure existence....
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Potentially toxic and carcinogenic chemicals are used in the hydraulic
fracturing process to obtain natural gas from shale. Whenever industry
officials are confronted with concerns regarding their use, their standard
answer is, “The chemicals account for less than 1 percent of the fluid
that is blasted underground.”...
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There are no vacations yet for the students who won a two-month strike at
the University of Puerto Rico. Instead, they have continued organizing and
demanding that the administration fulfills the agreement....
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In the final two weeks of June we have seen a number of serious developments in
the Middle East involving the United States, Israel, and the Islamic Republic
of Iran. While almost completely ignored by the U.S. mainstream press, there is
considerable alarm around the world and especially in the Middle East. Some of
these developments are unprecedented and could denote a sharp escalation in the
U.S./NATO and Israeli campaign against Iran, or even all-out war....
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Nodutdol will be organizing an interactive outdoor art exhibit on the national mall, a film screening, lobbying, press conference, and a congressional briefing....
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Therefore, we call on the UN Security Council to not only resolve the matter
of the Cheonan fairly but also work towards the realization of a Peace Treaty
on the Korean peninsula. This will legally ensure peace on the Korean
peninsula, as well as contribute to global peace....
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Lynne Stewart, targeted by
the Bush-era Justice Dept. for daring to forcefully advocate for her client, is
in danger - and only immense popular support can save her....
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July 3rd is the day that political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death for a killing he did not commit. This year’s July 4 theme is “ancestral uprising!” featuring dramatic presentations through performances of heroic anti-slavery fighters. The protest will also include a special presentation on the year-long struggle to demand a civil rights investigation for Mumia on the part of the U.S. Justice Department...
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The climate change we are living is not any crisis, it is a global alert about the way toward self destruction
that the powerful have chosen, given the lack of equitable possibilities that
the world need in order to survive –the indigenous peoples, the social
groups living in poverty, women,the elderly and children are the
most affected by it in today’s world....
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A 22 year old U.S. soldier, Bradley Manning, has been arrested on suspicion of leaking classified combat video footage and secret documents to a whistle-blower website. SPC Manning, from Potomac, Maryland, is assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division and was stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer, located east of Baghdad. SPC Manning was arrested in Iraq and is currently being held in Kuwait pending further investigations. The WikiLeaks website posted a video which shows U.S. occupation forces shooting civilians on a Baghdad street during 2007....
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Jubilantly chanting, “Victory, victory, victory for history!” and “Eleven campuses, one UPR!” students at the University of Puerto Rico on the 58th day of their strike emerged from a final negotiating session with the Board of Trustees having won an agreement. It still has to be ratified at an assembly of the students as a whole....
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A video produced for and shown at the 2010 U.S. social forum's IAC workshop on the struggle for jobs and against wars....
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The government of the Spanish state has sabotaged an international conference in the Asturias autonomous region of Spain. By doing so, Spain joined the U.S. in supporting the occupation regime in Baghdad....
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June 28th, 2010, marks the first year of the Military Coup in Honduras; the worst political, social and economic disaster in Honduran history. In the morning of that fatal day, more than 200 military men irrupted in the residence of Constitutional President, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, beat him, tied him down and in his pajamas, put him on a plane and dropped him in the Airport in Costa Rica. Today, President Zelaya and his family are exiled and wish to soon go back to Honduras. ...
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To reverse the destructive changes at WBAI over the past year, it is crucial that the Justice & Unity Campaign win back its majority on the
Local Station Board....
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We will be joining thousands of other activists in Detroit for
the U.S. Social Forum from Tuesday, June 22 through Saturday, June 26 -- a week
of workshops, education and networking. We are especially interested in meeting
up with other revolutionary activists and militant community organizations....
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Join us for an in-depth dialogue on the current state of climate change
negotiations from a global perspective that will identify the way forward for
climate justice. Topics will include a comparison between the Copenhagen
Accord, the recently reviewed text of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term
Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) and significant Bolivian submissions to the UNFCCC
(UN Framework Convention on Climate Change). The issue of "Putting U.S.
Militarism Back into the Climate Change Calculations" will also be
addressed....
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Israel and its apologists bristle when Israel is called an apartheid state.
Most loudly shouting, “Israeli apartheid,” however, are those who
know the best — the workers of South Africa, who suffered the most under
South African apartheid. South African trade unions have denounced the siege of
Gaza and the apartheid wall on the West Bank, and have urged forward the
boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS)....
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The heroes and heroines of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, so brutally attacked
by Israeli commandos on May 31, have transformed the struggle to break the
siege of Gaza and raised it to a higher level. They are the new Freedom
Riders....
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A group of politicians and Zionist organizations are trying to ban speakers to a major NYC meeting scheduled for this Thursday, June 17, 7 pm at House of the Lord Church, 415 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn and speaking tour by a Turkish Member of Parliament, a U.S. filmmaker and other survivors of the horrific Israeli attack on the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara....
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Lynne Stewart, the 70 year old “Peoples Lawyer” should not be in jail. The charges, long trial and her conviction are an effort at government intimidation....
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Talks from the IAC meeting after the attack on the Mavi Marmara in
international waters by Israel....
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The matter of reparations for African Americans is one that the U.S.
government has forever refused to address. Yet the condition of second-class
status of persons of color, particularly Black people, is a matter of record in
this country, ruled and dominated by white supremacy....
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A massive march filled the streets of downtown Phoenix on May 29 as close to
200,000 people gathered to denounce the racist SB 1070 law and show their
determination to fight back against this anti-immigrant attack. The streets
were packed from curb to curb for over three miles as demonstrators made their
way along the six-mile route that began at Steele Indian School Park, snaked
its way through downtown and ended at the state Capitol building....
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Be part of the international opposition to
the blockade of Gaza. Make your voice heard! The International Action Center
urges you to sign a petition demanding justice in the wake of Israel's
latest brutality -- the massacre of 9 or more unarmed activists by the Israeli
army in international waters north of Gaza. Your message will go to President
Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden,
Congressional leaders, U.N. Secretary General Ban, members of the U.N. Security
Council, U.N. member states, and the President, Prime Minister, and Cabinet of
Israel along with Major media representatives and the International Red
Cross....
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At 12:35 a.m. on May 16, more than 20 Detroit police officers staged a raid
at a two-family dwelling on the east side where they said a warrant was to be
served for a suspect in a recent murder case. The police threw a flash bomb
through the front window of the frame house. It caused a fire in the bed where
7-year-old Aiyana Stanley Jones was sleeping alongside her grandmother,
Mertilla Jones....
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An imperialist politician was forced to resign May 31, not for a scandal, not even for getting caught lying to the public. This time German President Horst Köhler, a Christian Democrat (CDU), was forced to resign for giving everyone a moment of truth about Germany’s role in the war in Afghanistan....
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Israeli troops’ criminal actions aboard the Turkish Mavi Marmara,
killing at least nine of the anti-blockade activists and wounding dozens, in
turn released a storm of sympathy worldwide for those on the Freedom Flotilla
and for the Palestinians caught in Gaza behind the Israeli blockade....
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The International Action Center joins with the Gaza Freedom March, Al Awda
Palestine Right to Return Coalition NY and a number of Palestine solidarity and
human rights activists and organizations in calling for Emergency protests on
Monday and Tuesday in response to the brutal Israeli attack on 600 unarmed
Palestine Solidarity activists participating in the Free Gaza Flotilla....
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At approximately 1 p.m. on May 21, more than a dozen people occupied the
Tucson Headquarters of the U.S. Border Patrol to draw attention to impacts of
border militarization in Indigenous Communities. Six people, including Alex
Soto, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation and a volunteer with the
group O’odham Solidarity Across Borders, locked themselves together for
up to three and a half hours. “Indigenous voices have been ignored. In
our action today we say NO MORE!” said Soto....
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Momentum is growing for the national march to stop SB 1070 to be held May 29
in Phoenix. The march will demand the repeal of SB 1070, Arizona’s
“Show me your papers” law, and an end to racist immigrant-bashing
and the blaming of immigrants for economic and social problems which in reality
result from the capitalist economic crisis....
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Thousands of Puerto Rican students, sons and daughters of the working class and
some already workers themselves, anticipated May Day actions by defiantly
challenging the University of Puerto Rico’s board of administrators and
the island government in mid-April when they called a student strike to defend
affordable public higher education on the island....
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When a supposed attempt to set off a car bomb in New York City fizzled in early May, with no one injured, a massive government investigation was launched to bring the alleged “terrorists” to justice....
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As millions of gallons of crude oil continue to spew into the Gulf of Mexico, the owner of the collapsed oil rig that caused the disaster is trying desperately to elude responsibility for what has already cost the lives of 11 workers and threatens to become the worst oil catastrophe in U.S. history....
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A month-long meeting, involving 189 countries, is underway at the United Nations. It’s the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review. This review of a nuclear disarmament treaty that went into effect 40 years ago occurs every 5 years. Its stated purpose was disarmament by the countries holding nuclear weapons, stopping the spread or proliferation of nuclear weapons to other countries, and the right of all countries to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes....
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I had the opportunity to attend the April 20-22 World People’s
Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba,
Bolivia, where people from all over the world initiated a discussion about
finding real solutions to the climate crisis. During this conference, I
attended an April 21 workshop called “Taking action against corporations
that damage the climate,” which brought up the Water Wars against Bechtel
Corporation....
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More than 150 years ago Karl Marx explained that “The history of all
hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. Patrician and
plebian, lord and serf, in a word oppressor and oppressed.” The struggle
is an “uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight.” With modern
society come “new conditions of oppression and new forms of
struggle.”...
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Hate crimes against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities
are far from rare in the United States. In many cases, it is not just
hate-filled bigots who commit these crimes, but the government itself....
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After four weeks on the picket line, 1,500 nurses and allied professional
workers at Temple University Hospital forced management to back down on
contract proposals that demanded severe concessions from the workers. The
nurses’ victory in this confrontation strikes a blow for all workers who
face concessions in upcoming contracts....
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In Nepal, Honduras, Greece and elsewhere around the world, this year’s
May Day actions went far beyond the traditional workers’ holiday by
opening major struggles over decisive policies and in some cases over questions
of power....
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It was a significant event that not even the big-business-owned press could
ignore, hard as they wanted to do. May Day 2010 in the United States was the
largest national outpouring of protests since the May Day Immigrant Uprising of
2006, when millions of people, the great majority of Latin American and
Caribbean origin, took to the streets against the reactionary Sensenbrenner
bill that denied full immigrant rights....
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Tens of thousands of people rallied, chanted and rocked to Hip Hop performers and other artists and orators for more than three hours in Union Square today before marching two miles to the federal buildings in downtown Manhattan. This year’s May Day action focused on combating the recently passed Arizona anti-immigrant law and demanding legalization of all undocumented workers in the U.S. and their families....
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This week nationwide press conferences are being held in various
cities by leading coalitions in the immigrant rights movement to collectively
denounce attempts to criminalize immigrants, from the recent bill in Arizona to
the Schumer plan. Included in the media events are the May 1st Coalition in
Tucson, Arizona; the May 1st Coalition in New York, New York; the Miami May Day
Coalition in Miami, Florida; and here in Los Angeles the Southern California
Immigration Coalition (SCIC)....
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On Saturday May 1, 2010, a diverse coalition of immigrant rights advocates,
community and union leaders, artists and youth-based community organizations
will gather in Union Square at midday for a rally, march and Hip Hop concert in
support of immigrant and worker rights. In light of legislation passed in
Arizona last week, the Union Square event will emphasize condemning this
racially charged legislation that will terrorize not only immigrants but all
communities of color....
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Ten years ago, the International Action Center initiated a major demonstration
focused on the prison industrial complex. It was held on in front of the U.S.
Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. The march was called to take place on
April 15, the day before militant actions to oppose the criminal policies of
the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which were meeting in that
city; thousands of youth took part in those protests....
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Thirty thousand people convened at the World People’s Conference on
Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The
conference, which took place from April 19-22, hosted people from more than 135
countries and 90 official state representatives. Climate activists, community
organizers, artists, musicians, scholars and workers from around the world
joined forces over the common goal of finding an effective and practical
solution to the climate crisis — a task that the rich, ruling countries
of the world proved, at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, that they are incapable
of accomplishing....
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Seventy-five years ago, Pres. Roosevelt signed the executive order
establishing the Works Projects Administration, the biggest public jobs program
in U.S. history. Join unemployed people, trade unionists, community and youth
activists and organizations from all over the country on Saturday, May 8 in
Washington, D.C. to call for a real jobs program for the 30 million unemployed
and underemployed people in the U.S. today....
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April 23 — When the Arizona Senate passed a sweeping, racist
anti-immigrant bill on April 19, it unleashed a firestorm of outrage from
Arizona’s oppressed communities. The bill legalizes racial profiling and
criminalizes all undocumented people as “trespassers.” It also
contains provisions attacking day laborers, allows for the seizure of any
vehicle used to transport an undocumented person, and calls for the arrest of
anyone who provides assistance to an undocumented person....
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The Arizona law targeting all immigrants, and all Latinos/as, has been passed by both houses of the Arizona Legislation. The governor has three days to either veto, sign or let it pass into law without action. We must let the Arizona state government know that this racist attack will be answered by not only protests, but a full-scale tourism and convention boycott of Arizona...
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On April 17, the openly Nazi group NSM held a rally at Los Angeles City Hall. Many groups, including socialist, anti-war and anti-racist organizations, mobilized to challenge their so-called right to free speech that motivates violence, racism and genocide against non-European peoples and the LGBTQ community....
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In the early morning hours of April 15, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the FBI and other Homeland Security agencies launched a military operation against Tucson’s mostly Latino/a and Indigenous south side neighborhoods....
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In 2006, May Day was revived in the U.S., the country of its origin, as a result of the upsurge of immigrant workers. This was a great step forward for the workers' struggle....
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This is a critical moment in the long battle to save the life of world-renown
African-American political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, who has been on
Pennsylvania’s death row for almost 28 years. Millions of people
worldwide know that he has never had a fair trial or appeals process before a
jury of his peers—that he has been denied his basic legal and
constitutional rights....
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The strike at Temple University Hospital in north Philadelphia that began March 31 is heading into its third week. Hospital administrators are demonstrating their lack of concern over patient safety and are ready to spend whatever it takes to break the union representing more than 1,500 nurses and professional/technical staff....
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The PASNAP members of the Temple University Nurses and Healthcare Professionals remain strong in continuing their strike, begun March 31, against Temple University Hospital. Members remain committed to improving patient safety and raising the bar on union rights....
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Among the many so-called “Tea Party” actions mobilizing right-wing forces on the pretext of opposing paying taxes was one called by a local New York City group, which seemed to be based in Staten Island. The Tax Day rally, however, was set at the Central Post Office across from Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.<...
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Acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan met with President Barack Obama
on April 11 at the White House as a prelude to the Nuclear Security Summit held
in Washington, D.C....
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April 3 was “Call to Action Day” at Columbia University —
a day to inform, mobilize and organize to save the life of political prisoner
Mumia Abu-Jamal. The theme was “Live from Death Row: Mumia at the
Crossroads in the Age of Obama.” It was organized by Educators for Mumia
Abu-Jamal....
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In solidarity with the struggling people of Haiti , the International Action Center is re-publishing the groundbreaking book, Haiti: A Slave Revolution, 200 Years after 1804....
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Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba Agricultural High
School in the small town of Fulton, Miss., just wanted to do what millions of
high school students around the country look forward to every spring: get
dressed up, go to prom and have a great time. But McMillen is a lesbian. She
wanted to take her girlfriend to the prom. She wanted to wear a tuxedo....
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A visit of the “Tea Party Express” to cities in the Midwest
— a region of the country that has been most devastated by the economic
crisis of capitalism — did not go unchallenged. Rather, activists and
community members confronted them at several stops to denounce the right-wing
attempt to divide working and oppressed people and to show that the racist,
sexist, anti-lesbian-gay-bi-trans, anti-immigrant, corporate-funded Tea Party
does not speak for working people....
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The corporate media may give it a different spin, but for
Palin and Wall Street’s Tea Party, Boston was a bust....
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We make a call to the international community regarding the militarization
and potential massacre in the valley of Aguán, Northern Honduras. Reports
estimate that of over 5000 police and military from all over the country have
arrived in the valley of Aguán. There are over 3,500 families with women,
children and elderly people who since last year have reclaimed land that was
stolen or forcefully removed by the businessmen Miguel Facusse, René
Morales and Reynaldo Canales....
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Eight Honduran lawyers testified in Washington, D.C., at the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States. The eight hope
that the IACHR will expose and condemn the escalating human rights abuses
perpetrated in that country after the June 28 coup that removed democratically
elected President Manuel Zelaya Rosales from office. Above all, the lawyers
hope the IACHR will force the Honduran state to investigate and punish these
crimes....
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In the first action of its type during the current U.S. wars in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Berkeley, Calif., City Council on March 9 passed
a resolution entitled, “Universal and Unconditional Amnesty for Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Pakistan War Military Resisters and Veterans Who Acted In
Opposition to the War for Matters of Conscience,” according to a report
from Courage to Resist....
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The U.S.-NATO occupation of Afghanistan, begun in 2001 under President
George W. Bush’s leadership, continues nine years and hundreds of
billions of dollars later. Another episode typifying this criminal war recently
took place when German troops shot and killed a group of soldiers in the puppet
Afghan National Army who were delivering supplies to a German military
base....
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On April 3, day four of their continued effort to win a fair contract,
striking nurses from Temple University Hospital brought their case to the
doorstep of a luxury condominium in Rittenhouse Square — the home of
Temple University President Ann Weaver Hart. If Hart didn’t get the
message, her neighbors and visitors in the park clearly heard it....
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Writers for Mumia, an afternoon of readings and testimonials by poets, playwrights, journalists, book authors, wordsmiths and activists, will be held April 24 from 2:30 to 6 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church, 512 W. 126th St. in Harlem. The New York Chapter of the National Writers Union and the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition of New York City are co-sponsoring the event, which precedes a rally in front of the Justice Department’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., on April 26....
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The Boston chapter of the Bail Out the People Movement will be holding a protest against Sarah Palin and the Tea Party on April 14 at 9:30 a.m. The protest will take place at the Boston Common Bandstand, where these extreme ultraright reactionaries will be holding a rally. ...
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It is an absolutely chilling demonstration of cold-blooded murder. A U.S. Apache gunship circles a Baghdad neighborhood looking for “targets” — people to kill. A military video shows the intended targets through superimposed crosshairs: a group of men dressed in civilian clothes, no masks, no apparent weapons, casually sauntering along a street and into a small square....
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While a group of workers held an 18-day occupation at Vestas wind turbine
plant on Great Britain’s Isle of Wight in July, other Vestas workers and
their supporters erected an encampment outside the plant. On Nov. 27 this tent
community — which after four months included such comforts as a kitchen,
showers, furniture and a solar-powered laptop/cell phone charging station!
— was disbanded when Vestas obtained a court eviction order. Campers,
however, were hardly demoralized....
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The youth are more interested than anyone else in
the future. Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of
society we would have. Today, the discussion centers on whether human society
will survive....
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African countries at the COP-15 climate change summit in Copenhagen led a
walkout for several hours on Dec. 14 to protest the efforts of the United
States, Britain and other imperialist countries and their allies to sidestep
responsibility for the worsening impact of carbon dioxide emissions. The
increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has caused
climate change that threatens the total collapse of agricultural production on
the African continent....
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The International Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which was two
years in the planning, ended in a train wreck. Nothing was arrived at: no
treaty, no deadlines, no binding agreement of any sort....
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Despite angry statements by U.S. officials and endless verbiage in the
establishment media about what it all means, this disagreement is about a
diplomatic embarrassment and is not substantial....
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With 30 million unemployed or underemployed, the failure of the just-signed
health care law to meet the needs and expectations of the population, plus its
giveaway to the health care industry, is bound to add to the frustration and
alienation of the workers....
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Southern California, Occupied México- On Friday and Saturday March 26 and
27, the International Action Center (IAC) and Unión del Barrio hosted a
National Labor Tour coordinated by the US/Cuba Labor Exchange to Southern
California. The purpose of the tour was two fold; 1) to bring together workers
in the US with those from Latin America to discuss the current social and
political problems arising from US Economic Trade Policies (Free Trade
Agreements), and 2) to build support for the Bolivarian Alternative for Nuestra
América (ALBA) the social and economic integration program for continental
unity....
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The events of recent weeks in Haiti and Chile have had impacts far beyond the borders of these countries. These impacts have been global....
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Join unemployed people, youth, labor and community activists from all over the
country in Washington D.C. on May 8 to tell the government that today’s
jobless crisis is as bad as it was 75 years ago — when the unemployed
demanded and won a public jobs program....
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Tens of millions of people in this country were hoping to be delivered from
the clutches of the ruthless profiteers who control the health care system and
were hoping for universal health care. But the very opposite has happened....
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On March 21 a multitude of immigrants and their supporters amassed in the
largest demonstration for immigrant rights in Washington, D.C., in decades, if
not ever....
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Renee Washington DeFreitas, a 51 year old state employee and mother of five
did everything she was supposed to: she worked hard long hours, volunteered for
overtime when it existed, saved her money, and bought a home with the hope that
she would have something as she grew older, both for herself and her children
and grandchildren....
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A lot of noise is being made over what happened recently in Israel when U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden went there to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....
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On March 2, seven U.S. doctors gave a report on their month-long mission of providing post-earthquake medical services in Haiti at a program at Judson Memorial Church in New York City....
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On March 21, tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people will be demonstrating for immigrant rights in Washington, D.C....
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A recent statement issued by the Obama administration indicates that it is
planning to carry out aerial bombardments in the Horn of Africa nation of
Somalia. The announcement comes amid intense fighting in the capital of
Mogadishu between the two Islamic resistance movements, Al Shabaab and Hizbul
Islam, and the U.S.-backed Transitional Federal Government that is ruling the
country....
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Against all odds the southern African nation of Zimbabwe is celebrating its
30th year of independence from British settler-colonialism....
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This year’s May Day is more important than ever as the economic and
financial crisis continues to strike a heavy blow on workers from the U.S. and
around the world. A recovery with no jobs is a recovery solely for the
multinational corporations, who are raking in record profits as the people face
increasing poverty, joblessness, homelessness, disease and death. The escalation of war abroad in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the racist,
ruthless military occupation of Haiti demand our response....
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On March 4 more than 100 demonstrations were organized in 33 states
against the devastating cuts, layoffs and tuition hikes as part of the National
Day of Action to Defend Education, including campuses such as the University of
Maryland and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The following reports
are examples of some of these significant protests, which are signs pointing to
the potential of a revitalized national youth and student fight-back movement
reminiscent of the 1960s....
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The fraud and failure of microloans and micro-financing as the
bankers’ solution to global poverty can most clearly be seen in
Bangladesh today, where microloans first gained international fame and
support....
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The Pentagon offensive against the Afghan city of Marjah was
public-relations media hype from the very first day. The sole purpose of the
offensive in Marjah was to convince the U.S. population and increasingly tepid
NATO allies that this imperialist war is winnable....
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Students protested cuts in education in over 100 cities across the U.S. on March 4th, 2010, a day of National Student Action. This is the first national student protest involving thousands of students and workers. These are some of the videos from that event....
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The Bail Out the People Movement, meeting in New York on Feb. 24, voted to endorse and help to mobilize for the March 20 National March on Washington. The demonstration, called by the Answer Coalition, raises the slogans: U.S. out of Afghanistan and Iraq, Free Palestine, Reparations for Haiti, and Money for Healthcare, Jobs and Education. The endorsement, proposed by the International Action Center, had unanimous support and was followed by a concrete discussion of outreach, transportation and material to take to Washington....
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Women's International Democratic Federation, of which the WFN is a member, will be holding its annual Seminar in the United Nations. This year will be a special one since it is the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the International Women's Day....
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As the March 7 national election approaches in Iraq, the number of U.S.
troops occupying the country has slipped below 100,000 for the first time since
the U.S.-led invasion seven years ago. The Pentagon plans to change the name of
its Iraq effort on Sept. 1, from “Operation Iraqi Freedom” to
“Operation New Dawn” when 50,000 troops remain....
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Let the Honduran People restore democracy through convening the Constitutional
Convention they have been demanding to rebuild their country on a basis of
equality and justice....
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President Obama’s election brought hope for change in many aspects of US policy including the potential to end the illegal, immoral and internationally condemned economic blockade of Cuba....
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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 pre-kindergarten through
12th grade schools, budget cuts, layoffs, furloughs and tuition increases at
college and universities — especially the public institutions....
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The Union of South American Nations — UNASUR — held an emergency
meeting on Feb. 9 in Quito, Ecuador, to examine the situation in Haiti after
the earthquake and make plans for short- and long-term assistance to the
destroyed nation. Exterior ministers and special envoys from Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, Guyana, Surinam, Uruguay and Venezuela and the presidents of Colombia,
Paraguay and Peru joined current UNASUR President Rafael Correa from Ecuador
and Haitian President René Préval....
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The year is 2010. Yet discrimination against and exploitation of the workers who grow and harvest our food supply continues today and in its vilest forms — against immigrants and women....
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Across the country, students, teachers, faculty and other workers, along with
concerned parents, community activists and organizations, will be using the
week of March 4 to strike decisively to defend public education and the right
to pursue higher learning. The effects of the economic crisis have been felt in all sectors. Hundreds of
thousands have faced having their homes foreclosed on or being evicted.
Millions have lost their jobs and have added to the ranks of unemployed,
especially people of color. Many families face hunger on a daily basis....
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At least $100 billion will be spent this year in occupying Afghanistan.
Over three million jobs at $15 per hour could be created with this money.
Instead it’s being used to kill children thousands of miles away....
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This year’s May Day is more important than ever as the economic and financial crisis continues to strike a heavy blow on workers from the U.S. and around the world. A recovery with no jobs is a recovery solely for the multinational corporations, who are raking in record profits as the people face increasing poverty, joblessness, homelessness, disease and death....
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Activists from the U.S. and worldwide organized a day-long teach-in in Philadelphia and online to demand: No death penalty; No life sentence and for a Civil Rights Investigation in support of the award-winning journalist and political prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal. The following videos will help to summarize the legal and political issues connected to Mumia's case along with action proposals to build a broad fightback movement to win his freedom....
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Since the 1980s, militarists in Honduras
have trained paramilitary forces to torture and murder labor unionists and
other activists to prevent the people from exercising their basic right to
resist exploitation and oppression....
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In light of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opened the door for
reinstatement of the death penalty for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal,
activists from the Philadelphia region, across the U.S. and around the globe
will take part in an important teach-in in Philadelphia on Feb. 13, to take up
the next stage in the struggle to free Mumia....
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Activists from Philadelphia, across the U.S. and around the globe will take
part in an important video streaming, video conferencing and live teach-in to
take up the next stage in the struggle to free Mumia Abu-Jamal....
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The plight of Mumia Abu-Jamal is included in this Black History Month forum
because what’s happening to him is part of the history of Black people
in the U.S. and throughout the African Diaspora. This includes a history of
oppression, repression, enslavement, apartheid, domestic terrorism, exploitation,
racial discrimination, marginalization, resistance, and a continuing struggle
for liberation, civil and human rights, social justice and equal protection
under the law....
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The U.S. government’s first prolonged reaction to the earthquake was
to send in the U.S. Marines and the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. This
is the notorious force unit that had invaded Vietnam, [Haiti’s]
neighboring Dominican Republic in 1965, Grenada in 1984, Haiti in 1994 and
Afghanistan. Under the preposterous pretext of providing security to the
devastated nation, the U.S. landed and deployed armed soldiers instead of civil
rescue personnel and equipment, water and food....
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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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Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s trial for alleged attempted murder of FBI agents
and U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan entered its second week Jan. 25 in New York
City. Court officials forced all who wanted to attend the trial to twice go
through metal detectors and submit to thorough searches, give photo IDs and
sign their name. This intimidating process targeting noncitizens from the
Pakistani community is being challenged....
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On Jan. 19 the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that has opened the way
for the reinstatement of the death sentence for Mumia Abu-Jamal. The federal
court’s ruling, which moved away from earlier rulings regarding
sentencing phase regulations, was the latest in a long history of state, local
and federal courts changing or even reversing their own legal precedents in the
case of this world-renowned journalist and political prisoner....
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Jan. 26. — The U.S. secured its occupation of Haiti when the Pentagon
placed 13,000 troops in the country around the capital and on nearby ships,
with at least 4,000 more scheduled to arrive. It’s now two weeks after a
magnitude 7.0 earthquake leveled the capital city and nearby towns, wreaking
havoc on the population, and in doing so eliminated the Haitian government
bureaucracy, police and the United Nations military mission...
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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 nations of Latin America and the Caribbean were built with the hands of thousands of black and indigenous people. The colonizers oppressed them with the use of the whip and the dollar. The misfortune of the Haitian people is not a product of their geography but a product of a history of occupation, that which determines who lives and who dies, whose life is worth more than others. ...
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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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Haiti has suffered a terrible natural disaster at the cost of hundreds of thousands of precious lives. This natural disaster however, has been bitterly aggravated by racism and imperialist domination....
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A partial list of marches, demonstrations and
events...
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On January 16th at 1:45 AM three vans left the International Action
Center/Bail Out People Movement office in Los Angeles to make a 7-hour trip to
Phoenix, AZ to join with 20,000 activists protesting racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio....
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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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Haiti was the most prosperous of all the French colonies during the period
of slavery. The production of sugar, coffee and other agricultural products
brought tremendous profits to the colonial landowners on the island of
Hispaniola, which today encompasses both the Dominican Republic and Haiti. At
the time of an uprising on Aug. 14, 1791, led by Boukman, more than 500,000
enslaved Africans and thousands more free Blacks and people of mixed race lived
in Haiti....
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We thank all the true friends of Haiti, in particular the Government and the
people of South Africa for their solidarity with the victims of Haiti....
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As soon as the devastating earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12, Cuban doctors
began saving lives.Years before this monumental disaster hit, Cuba had set up a medical mission
in Haiti to provide health care in areas where there had been little or none;
Cubans also were training Haitian medical workers in basic first aid. When the
quake struck, these teams quickly went into emergency mode....
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President Obama's response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in
military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first
responders and their specialized equipment; doctors and medical facilities and
equipment; and engineers, heavy equipment, and heavy movers. Sadly, President
Obama is dispatching Presidents Bush and Clinton, and thousands of Marines and
U.S. soldiers. By contrast, Cuba has over 400 doctors on the ground and is
sending in more; Cubans, Argentinians, Icelanders, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans,
and many others are already on the ground working--saving lives and treating
the injured. Senegal has offered land to Haitians willing to relocate to
Africa....
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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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The International Action Center expresses its full solidarity with the
Haitian people at this time of greatest crisis following the devastating Jan.12
earthquake. In the Haitian capital, tens of thousands of lives have been lost
and the lives of hundreds of thousands of additional people are at stake. It is
essential that there be an all-out effort for immediate and massive
humanitarian relief effort....
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A grave tragedy has befallen the people of Haiti. Fight Imperialism Stand
Together extends its solidarity to the island nation, its people and the
peoples’ movements....
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The earthquake that flattened Haiti’s capital and brought a new
calamity to millions of people in that heroic but impoverished country has
awakened calls for solidarity and aid from the vast majority of the
world’s people. The number one priority is to provide food, drinkable
water and emergency medical care to the approximately 3 million Haitians
affected by the disaster to try to limit the deaths, injuries and illnesses to
the people....
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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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Looking for terrorists? Get a mirror, Secretary of State Clinton....
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A bomb explosion in a Central Intelligence Agency camp in Khost Province of Afghanistan on Dec. 30 resulted in the deaths of seven experienced operatives, including the base commander. The attack struck a heavy blow against the U.S.-led occupation. It has changed the ground rules for the U.S. spy organization and evoked threats from U.S. President Barack Obama and CIA head Leon Panetta....
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Demonstrators around the world marched in solidarity with the people of Gaza on the one-year anniversary of Israel’s massacre there and to demand an end to the Israeli blockade of Gaza....
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A Jan. 6 post on the Viva Palestina Web site reports, "One month, thousands of miles, ten countries, one ship and four flights later, Viva Palestina has begun to enter the besieged Gaza Strip."...
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Members of the Viva Palestina
international aid convoy to Gaza will begin a hunger strike at 11.25 am tomorrow
(27th) in protest at the Egyptian government's refusal to allow the convoy entry onto its soil....
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My August parole denial was appealed in short order. We are expecting a response to that appeal sometime very soon. It has occurred to me that the viciousness of this system knows no bounds, and so I believe strongly in the coming days we will hear of another loss, another denial. This one will be timed and intended specifically as a twisted Christmas present for me, such is the nature of those in charge. With no sense of balance, fairness, or decency, I await my own personal stocking stuffer....
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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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This is a report from New Jersey IAC activist Ralph Loeffler, who is with the Third Viva Palestina Lifeline to Gaza convoy, which is being blocked from entering Egypt at the Jordanian port of Aqaba....
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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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Among the most important corporate media censored news stories of the past
decade, one must be that over one million people have died because of the United
States military invasion and occupation of Iraq. This, of course, does not include
the number of deaths from the first Gulf War nor the ensuing sanctions placed
upon the country of Iraq that, combined, caused close to an additional one million
Iraqi deaths....
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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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NEWS arriving from the Danish capital paints a picture of chaos. After
planning an event in which around 40,000 people were to participate, the hosts
have no way of keeping their promise. Evo, who was the first of the ALBA
presidents to arrive there, expressed certain profound truths emanating from
the millenary culture of his people....
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On the evening of Nov. 30, scores of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
queer activists packed Cleveland City Council chambers in anticipation of a
tremendous victory for the transgender community. That night the Council
revised the city charter to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity
and gender expression....
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Imagine finding methane and metals in your drinking water or having your
water well explode or catch on fire. Imagine getting thrown out of bed one
morning as your entire house is lifted off the ground from an explosion due to
methane gas build-up. These nightmares are a reality for a growing number of
families whose homes are located near natural gas drilling sites in New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and other states across the U.S....
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Washington has already begun to send more troops to occupy Afghanistan
following President Barack Obama’s Dec. 1 speech at West Point. In
Afghanistan as in Iraq, the U.S. occupation will bring death to more Afghan
civilians and more U.S. troops. It threatens to open a civil war in Pakistan,
while the occupation of Iraq continues....
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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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The use of devices that carry and spread to unknown distances
high amounts of toxic metals poses the question of the present contamination in
the territory of the strip of Gaza. One report on the presence of metals in the
soil of Gaza, with samples in 170 locations, published in 2005, could be a
reference for comparison, if a more systematic collection of samples is
undertaken, as it should....
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I have been reading some of the slogans painted on the streets, and I think
those slogans of these youngsters, some of which I heard when I was young, and
of the young woman there, two of which I noted. You can hear among others, two
powerful slogans. One: Don’t change the climate, change the system....
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The International Action Center stands in solidarity with the thousands of
activists from across the globe who are protesting at the UN Climate Change
Conference in Copenhagen. We condemn the acts of police brutality, including
use of chemical weapons and the preemptive arrests of more than 1,000 people.
We demand the release of all who have been arrested....
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It was a great feeling to be one of the 100,000 people from all corners of
the world at the Palace Square in front of the Danish Parliament on Dec. 12,
the fifth day of the climate negotiations in Copenhagen....
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In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen -- with more
than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 heads of
state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets -- it is important to
ask: How is it possible that the worst polluter of carbon dioxide and other
toxic emissions on the planet is not a focus of any conference discussion or
proposed restrictions?...
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After a barrage of propaganda emanating from Washington and the big business
media, most people in the U.S. have been led to believe that any failure to
reach an agreement at the Copenhagen summit on climate change will be
China's fault....
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African countries at the COP-15 climate change summit in Copenhagen led a
walkout for several hours on Dec. 14 to protest the efforts of the United
States, Britain and other imperialist countries and their allies to sidestep
responsibility for the worsening impact of carbon dioxide emissions. The
increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has caused
climate change that threatens the total collapse of agricultural production on
the African continent....
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the same, Mumia is still on death row because the prosecution filed an appeal
wit the Supreme Court in order to push through his execution. Mumia is now in
the greatest danger to be executed since his arrest on December 9, 1981....
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As we raised several times before, the purpose of
this redeployment is not to fight the war on terror, but it is instead a
humiliating submission to U.S. pressure that risks the security of Korean
people, and involves it in a bloody, amoral, war of aggression and occupation
for the ultimate purpose of installing a pro-U.S. regime....
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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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For a look at what REALLY happened in Honduras the day of the elections, this video is a must see. Thanks to REALNEWS for this excellent work....
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None of the Five should be in prison, for their only crime was to stop terrorism against Cuba, terrorism carried out by right-wing Cuban American organizations in Florida...
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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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Several hundred Native people and their supporters gathered in Plymouth,
Mass., for the 40th annual National Day of Mourning, which is a protest of the
U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and a day of mourning for Native ancestors who died
as a result of the European invasion of the Americas....
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Why is the largest military machine on the planet unable to defeat the
resistance in Afghanistan, in a war that has lasted longer than World War II or
Vietnam? Afghanistan ranks among the poorest and most underdeveloped countries in the
world today. It has one of the shortest life expectancy rates, highest infant
mortality rates and lowest rates of literacy.The total U.S. military budget has more than doubled from the beginning of
this war in 2001 to the $680 billion budget signed by President Barack Obama
Oct. 28. The U.S. military budget today is larger than the military budgets of
the rest of the world combined. The U.S. arsenal has the most advanced
high-tech weapons....
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Following months of Pentagon pressure to send more U.S. troops to Central Asia, President Barack Obama announced the escalation to West Point Army officers and the country on Dec. 1. He said he had already issued orders to send some 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan and that the transfer of troops was already underway....
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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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Lynne's bail has been revoked, and she is now being held in jail after the Second Circuit ruled on her and the government's appeals on November 17, 2009....
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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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A new chapter in relations between the People’s Republic of China and the African continent began during the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum (FOCAC), which was held Nov. 6-9 in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced eight new measures to enhance partnerships with 53 African states in the areas of agriculture, debt relief, market access expansion, climate change, medical affairs, education, environmental protection and promotion of investment....
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Recently, at three General Motors and Ford plants in the U.S. and Canada, production was temporarily brought to a standstill. This time, however, the cause was not sagging car sales but an event halfway around the world....
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A national tour organized to highlight the use of administrative detention, an inhumane punishment aimed at Palestinian political prisoners, visited a number of U.S. cities from Nov. 3 to Nov. 20. Administrative detention is a cruel form of arrest that offers the accused man, woman or even child no charges to dispute, no trial and no limit to their maximum sentence....
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Nov. 19, longtime civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart was ordered by Judge John G. Koeltl to turn herself in to begin serving a prison sentence for her 2006 conviction for conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists....Many see Stewart’s incarceration as a boon, particularly for those who are behind bars without adequate legal representation. And though she was disbarred upon her indictment, Stewart will undoubtedly play the role of jailhouse lawyer, acting as a mentor and advocate to those on the inside for whom justice is hard won if at all....
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Unfortunately, the military coup in Honduras and the United States’
announcement to recognize the elections, without reversing the military coup is
another coup to all of Latin America and undoubtedly a regression in relations.
The other day, while waiting at a traffic light, I told another driver who was
wearing a hat with the image of Obama, “Obama has let us down in my
country Honduras, they are about to recognize some elections under a state of
terror”. The traffic light changed and each of us accelerated and quickly
lost sight of each other....
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When I first met with Secretary of State
Clinton on July 8 after the coup d'etat, the position of the Obama
administration was made clear to me and to the world regarding its
condemnation of the coup d'etat, non-recognition of the coup regime
authorities and urging the return to the rule of law with the reinstatement of
the President elected by the people....
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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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n Oct. 28, President Barack Obama signed the 2010 Defense Authorization
Act, the largest military budget in U.S. history....
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Nov. 2—After 125 days on the streets protesting the military coup that
had deposed their elected president, the people of Honduras have finally seen a
positive sign that could lead to the reinstatement of President José
Manuel Zelaya Rosales....
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On Oct. 28, President Barack
Obama signed the 2010 Defense Authorization Act, the largest military budget in
U.S. history....
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The International Action Center congratulates the people of Honduras and their vanguard, the National Popular Front of Resistance against the Coup for the signing of the Tegucigalpa-San José accord last Friday, October 30....
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On 4 November 2009, the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report) is scheduled to be tabled before the Plenary of the UN General Assembly in New York. Following the Report’s endorsement at the Human Rights Council on 21 October 2009, it now falls to the General Assembly to ensure that the Report is endorsed and its recommendations acted upon. ...
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Why is Bloomberg, the 8th richest man in the U.S.,
spending $100 million to buy this election? Yes he’s arrogant and enjoys
controlling the lives of 9 million people in NYC....
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Some 2,000 demonstrators from all over Lebanon gathered in downtown Beirut
Oct. 12 to demand that the Lebanese government rebuild the Nahr al-Bared
Palestinian refugee camp destroyed by the Lebanese Army in 2007. A master plan
for reconstruction was approved by the Lebanese government in 2008, but
reconstruction has been postponed repeatedly....
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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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On Oct. 13, a 21-year-plus-10-month prison term was imposed on Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez by the same Florida U.S. District Court that initially condemned him to a life sentence plus 10 years. The steadfast support of the Cuban people and government, amplified with worldwide solidarity, forced the U.S. government to back off some of the unjust and wildly excessive life sentences imposed on Guerrero, one of the revolutionary heroes known as the Cuban Five....
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Join us as we dedicate the 40th national day of mourning to our brother, Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier. Create true awareness of indigenous peoples and shatter the untrue image of the Pilgrims and the unjust system of racism, sexism, homophobia and war....
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It concluded that there is evidence of serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed by Israel during the Gaza conflict and that Israel committed actions amounting to war crimes, and possibly crimes against
humanity....
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The renowned film director Roman Polanski is being held in a Swiss jail,
awaiting possible extradition to the United States. He was arrested on a
31-year-old warrant while traveling to the Zurich Film Festival to receive an
award. He faces charges for sexually assaulting a child in 1977 in Los Angeles....
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A summit of African and South American leaders convened on the
Venezuelan-Caribbean island of Margarita Sept. 26-27. The gathering was a
follow-up to the first Africa-South America Summit held in Abuja, Nigeria, in
November 2006....
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After a week of showing solidarity with the people of Honduras on the
streets and gaining insightful information on what has transpired during the
105 days since a right-wing coup, the 12 people composing the U.S. Delegation
in Solidarity with the Honduran Resistance returned to the U.S. in the wee
hours of Oct. 12....
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Stella D’Oro, owned by the vulture private equity company Brynwood
Partners, closed its Bronx, N.Y., biscuit plant and fired 136 workers.
Management refused to pay the full amount of severance and other benefits to
the workers although their union contract spells it out explicitly. Many of the
workers have over 30 years of service....
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On Oct. 3, more than 200 people attended a conference in Chicago on the
deepening economic crisis in the United States. The event, whose theme was
“They Say Cut Back, We Say Fight Back,” was held at the Teamster
City building on the city’s West Side....
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Downtown Atlanta was the backdrop to a demonstration of hundreds of disabled
people demanding equality and the freedom to choose to live in their communities instead of nursing homes....
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When cameras are running, Washington officials sometimes express
“concern” for the plight of the Palestinian people. But even this
phony caring doesn’t extend to the 4.5 million Palestinians who for 61
years have remained stateless, without official nationality, stranded in Arab
countries....
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On Monday, October 12, [2009] a 12-member U.S. delegation
returned from Honduras after a four-day visit to the country. Delegates
conducted a fact-finding investigation that included dozens of interviews, as
well as participation in street actions, in order to witness firsthand the
repression carried out by the fraudulent and illegal Micheletti
government....
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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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Send a message to the White House, Congress, Honduran
officials and the media demanding they insure the safety and security of this
U.S. delegation....
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A press conference featuring representatives of the U.S. Delegation to Honduras, who will announce their intention to travel to Honduras from Oct. 7-11 on a fact-finding mission. The delegation calls on elected officials, the Obama administration and the State Department to assure our safety....
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According to the history books, 100 years ago on Sept. 21, 1909, Kwame
Nkrumah, the founder and leader of the African independence movement and the
foremost advocate of Pan-Africanism during his time, was born in the western
Nzima region of the Gold Coast, later known as the independent state of
Ghana....
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The G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh gathered the finance ministers, top bankers
and political leaders of the world’s largest economies, ostensibly to
take up the most serious economic collapse of capitalism in three generations.
Instead, they attacked Iran....
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It has been 27 years since the massacre of at least 2,000 unarmed
Palestinians and poor Lebanese in the Sabra and Shatila refugees camps here in
Beirut....
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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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President Zelaya reports from the Brazilian embassy that they have been subjected to "bombardments with chemical products and ultrasound waves that provoke illness and make people very nervous."...
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The following resolution was adopted by the delegates meeting of the San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO) on Sept. 28, 2009....
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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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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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A vast reconstruction effort, spearheaded by Hezbollah, the Lebanese
resistance movement, is rebuilding some 300 villages and towns in Lebanon
devastated by the Israeli bombing of 2006. Yet these mountainous regions have
not yet restored much of the small family farming plots so crucial to the
economy....
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Mutadhar al-Zaidi, is an Iraqi journalist who was
jailed on Dec. 14, 2008, after he threw his shoes at then-U.S. President George
W. Bush, at a Baghdad press conference, with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal
al-Maliki. His actions which were hailed worldwide, protested the U.S.-led war
and occupation of Iraq. Following al-Zaidi’s release on Sept. 15, 2009,
he gave this speech....
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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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Chanting, “Whose factory? Our factory!” a strong contingent of
Stella D’Oro workers and hundreds of supporters transformed the annual
New York City Labor Day celebration on Sept. 12 into a militant march.
“Keep Stella D’Oro in the Bronx!” resonated with thousands of
parading working-class rank-and-file union members. Wave upon wave of workers
chanted and raised fists in solidarity as they passed by the Stella D’Oro
contingent, which stopped at 70th Street and Fifth Avenue. Spirits were
lifted....
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With Defense Secretary Robert Gates expected to ask for 45,000 more U.S.
troops for Afghanistan, it looks like a U.S. escalation of that ugly war will
be the next big issue to be fought out in Congress, with most opposition coming
from Democrats. Will the administration rely on support from the most rightist
forces in Congress to continue to promote the war against the Afghans, sending
many thousands of U.S. youth and contract mercenaries to kill and die occupying
that Central Asian land?...
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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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s the decision day for escalating the U.S.-led occupation of Afghanistan
grows closer, a mass slaughter of Afghans in northern Kunduz province has put
the war on center stage worldwide and sharpened popular opposition within the
NATO countries, including inside the U.S. itself....
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Dahia was the area hardest hit by Israel in 2006. It suffered 934 bombing
raids, according to the Lebanese army. Much of the neighborhood was reduced to
rubble....
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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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In the 2006 war, in retaliation for its failed invasion, Israel bombed
virtually every one of Lebanon’s southern villages and towns. Roads and
bridges were destroyed, with mosques and churches smashed and Red Cross
ambulances, schools, government emergency centers, factories, power and water
networks blown apart. And then, in the last days of the war, after getting a
rush weapons’ delivery from the Pentagon, Israel dropped 1.2 million
cluster bombs on the South....
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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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The pride was palpable and the emotion stirring. It was the pride of a
people who have twice freed their land from U.S.-backed Israeli forces....
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The Gaza Strip, populated by 1.5 million Palestinians, is virtually an open-air prison—a place of punishment and exile for Palestinians. No one can officially get in or out of Gaza unless given permission at border checkpoints that are opened at the whim of Israel and Egypt. If your name is not on a pre-existing list, you can’t get into Gaza or leave it....
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New York—On Aug. 21 the Solidarity Center here was filled with five hours of inspiring sounds: music and spoken word from talented artists (photo right) brought together to support the case of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, known worldwide as the “voice of the voiceless.”...
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A wave of outrage swept the progressive community worldwide at the news that Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier was denied parole on Aug. 21. The U.S. government said Peltier will not be eligible for another parole hearing until 2024, when he will be 79 years old....
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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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As the crisis for the Honduran oligarchy and U.S. imperialism deepens, momentum gathers for the August 28th Days of Action against the coup. August 28th will be the two month anniversary of the coup d’état where President Manual Zelaya was ousted....
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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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The old adage, “Actions speak louder than words,” underlines a
dangerous reality regarding any alleged change in U.S. relations with Latin
America, and especially regarding Honduras and Colombia....
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There was much anticipation on the African continent about Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton’s 11-day recent visit to seven countries. However,
the tour’s outcome largely reaffirmed the continuance of past U.S. policy toward Africa....
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