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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hondurans continue the struggle in the streets. Defying criminal police and
military who repress, arrest and shoot tear and pepper gas, rubber bullets and
live ammunition at them, the people have protested the military coup regime
every day for seven long weeks....
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More than 100,000 troops from the Pentagon and its NATO allies now occupy
Afghanistan. They are inflicting more deaths and terror on the Afghans. They
are also dying in record numbers now, nearly eight years after the initial U.S.
invasion....
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We demand:
Stop the killings & repression of the Honduran people;No to human rights violations in Honduras;
Support the non-violent resistance of the Honduran People and the National Front for Resistance Against the Coup d’état;
Immediate return of Constitutional law and restore Constitutional President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales;
No to an electoral process as product of the de facto regime;
No to the militarization of Honduras, or U.S. military bases in Honduras...
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Celebrate the release of On the Move – Sounds
Inspired by Mumia Abu Jamal and to celebrate the voices that have come together
to demand through words and song that Mumia Abu Jamal be set free!...
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Youth jobless stats "beyond scary; they're catastrophic," says NY Times Columnist Bob Herbert...
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On June 28, 2009, the legitimate President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was taken from his house by the country's military at gunpoint and taken outside the country. An illegitimate and criminal government was installed with Raoberto Micheletti as its President. ...
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The push for meaningful health care reform is in peril. Congressional
Democrats have advanced flawed legislation that fails to live up to their
campaign pledge of universal health care reform. Republicans allied with
right-wing “Blue Dog” Democrats have worked overtime to derail any
attempt at reform....
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Imprisoned Palestinian national leader Ahmad Sa'adat, the General
Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was transferred
on August 11, 2009 to Ramon prison in the Naqab desert from Asqelan prison,
where he had been held for a number of months. He remains in isolation; prior
to his transfer from Asqelan, he had been held since August 1 in a tiny
isolation cell of 140 cm x 240 cm after being penalized for communicating with
another prisoner in the isolation unit....
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Honduran workers and farmers have protested every day since a military coup
d’état overthrew that country’s democratically elected
President Manuel Zelaya on June 28. Voices of that resistance movement spoke in
Philadelphia July 31 stressing the urgency that Zelaya be returned to power and
the coup d’état overturned....
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On July 29 the House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn hosted a
standing-room-only report-back meeting led by several participants of the Viva
Palestina historic U.S. convoy who returned July 17 and 18 from Gaza City in
Palestine. The audience was majority Black....
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Two hundred Haitians on July 26 crammed themselves into a small sailing
vessel, according to news reports. They were seeking to escape from a country
that continues to be occupied by foreign troops and whose people suffer from
massive poverty and starvation....
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The failure of capitalist methods of production and distribution is clearly
illustrated by the way the collapse of the financial and industrial centers in
Western Europe and the United States has devastated former colonial countries.
Since late 2007 tens of millions of workers and farmers in several regions of
the African continent have been severely affected by unemployment, rising
commodities prices, food deficits and the decline in material aid from the
industrialized states....
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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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December, 4, 5 and 6,/ Diciembre 4,5 y 6, 2009.
¡La lucha obrera no tiene fronteras! The workers’struggle has no borders!Uniting America's Working Class and Increasing its Influence...
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BEFORE THE G-20 SUMMIT, A CALL TO JOIN A NATIONAL MARCH FOR JOBS. The Unemployed, the Homeless, the Hungry & the Poor must no longer be INVISIBLE & SILENT.
IN PITTSBURGH SUNDAY, SEPT. 20. 2009. Tent City on the Hill - Sept. 20-25. Revive Dr. King's dream of a movement for a right to a job. If you don't have a job, fight to get one - if you have one -- fight to keep it....
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The International Action Center is calling on the anti-war and progressive movement to participate in National Days of Solidarity with the people resisting the coup d'etat in Honduras on the two month anniversary of
the coup ...
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This panel of speakers, the majority of whom are Iranian born, will present information and views based on research and sober analysis. Questions and answers follow the presentations....
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The Stop War On Iran Campaign was founded in March of 2005 to
oppose the threat of a U.S. attack on Iran. Since that time, Stop War On Iran
activists have held teach-ins, forums, and protests across the U.S.As threats
against Iran continue, we will continue to organize, mobilize and educate to
stop another war for Empire.The oil companies and Wall Street firms who want
control over Iran's vast natural resources have billions of dollars and
access to the corporate media to wage their disinformation campaign....
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Whereas, there is no recovery in sight from the current economic crisis.
Although government measures have enabled Wall Street to pocket hundreds of
billions of taxpayer dollars, still unemployment, foreclosures and poverty
continue to soar...
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We got in. We were in one of the last buses to arrive at the Gaza border in
Rafah toward night in mid-July when Palestinian students greeted us and rode
with us to Gaza City....
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We have just learned that Israeli security forces have refused entry to
three U.S. activists attempting to visit the Palestinian Territories. One of
them, Karen Sullivan, is being sent home on a flight tonight, and two others,
Sarah Martin and Katrina Plotz have refused to leave, and are being taken into
custody. They are being treated as criminals, while their only goal was to
learn about the reality of life for the Palestinian people. All three should be
allowed to enter the country, as millions of tourists do every year....
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Participants will include:...
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The arrest of Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by a Cambridge police officer after
showing two forms of identification after he, along with a Black limo driver,
had unjammed the lock to the front door of Gates' own house in a
predominantly white, upscale neighborhood known as "Harvard Square"
has brought the struggle against racism to the front pages of newspapers
throughout the US and around the world....
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The ongoing crisis in Iran following the recent presidential elections
has been a source of much misunderstanding and confusion in antiwar and
progressive organizations, particularly in the United States. In the face of ongoing threats of military action against Iran, especially recent remarks by Vice President Joe Biden that gave a green light for an Israeli attack and this week's visit by U.S. Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates to Israel, the antiwar movement must be clear in its opposition to any attack, or to the propaganda used to justify such an attack....
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The conflict in Iran that opened up with the June presidential elections
there has had an impact on the progressive and anti-imperialist movement
worldwide, including in the United States. Misunderstanding the events has
created some confusion in anti-war ranks. This is especially dangerous after
Vice President Joe Biden on July 5 gave a virtual green light to an Israeli attack on Iran. The anti-war movement must stay alert to protest any move in that direction....
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It has been amazing to see the popular surge, coalescence and coordination
during the first 23 days since the coup. Unions, youth and students, women,
peasants, Indigenous, Afro descendants—all have joined in the Popular
National Front of Resistance against the Coup D’État (FNPRG)....
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If the U.S. government was interested in supporting democracy or in building
respect for the will of the people in a democratic election, it should have
started by respecting the outcome of the 2006 Palestinian election. The
Palestinian people voted in large numbers, electing Hamas candidates to
parliament with large enough votes to form the Palestinian government. In Gaza,
Hamas had a total sweep....
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I demand that the Barack Obama administration and the U.S.
Congress unequivocally condemn the unconstitutional and anti-democratic
military coup in Honduras and insist that the military regime and the newly
appointed but illegitimate president of Honduras restore President Zelaya to
office, free all the imprisoned popular leaders and remove the curfew. I
further demand that the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras be recalled immediately
until such time as President Zelaya is restored to office....
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The discussion of this legal project, named Organic Law of
Gender Equality, represents a further advance of your Revolution and
demonstrates the wish to correct these inequalities and discriminations which
for decades have plagued our societies. We understand that it is not possible to have a society with justice and equality when some of the members of that society suffer discrimination, whether it is because of their age, the color of their skin, their ethnic origins, their sex or their sexual orientation....
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The ten days of turmoil in the aftermath of Iran’s
presidential election sharply divided world public opinion into two opposite
poles: those who believed in and supported Iran’s sovereignty and
independence, mainly the working people of Iran and the peoples of the
developing countries, on one hand, and those whose interests lie in believing
in U.S. hegemony in the Middle East and the domination of monopoly capital over
the world’s human and natural resources, on the other....
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Organizers of the largest U.S. humanitarian aid convoy to
Palestine in history spoke today by telephone from Cairo to 50 people
protesting outside the Egyptian United Nations Mission in New York. ...
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he largest humanitarian aid convoy in history to travel from
the U.S. to Palestine succeeded in crossing the Rafah border into Gaza late
today....
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For the better part of the last 75 years, revolutionary
peoples’ artist Irving Fierstein used his immense talent to depict the
many struggles of working and oppressed people for social and economic justice
and against imperialism. In the early 1980s Fierstein created a unique genre of
art—striking full-color revolutionary banners thoughtfully composed and
painstakingly painted by hand....
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July 14—Organizers of the largest U.S. humanitarian aid convoy to
Palestine in history spoke today by telephone from Cairo to 50 people
protesting outside the Egyptian United Nations Mission in New York. They
updated supporters on the progress of the Viva Palestina effort. The news was
that the Egyptian government had agreed to allow more than $1 million in
medical aid into Gaza, and that the convoy was expected to reach the border
with Gaza on July 15....
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Come out to hear the latest developments in Honduras following the
right-wing coup against President Manuel Zelaya on June 28th and demonstrate
your solidarity with the Honduran people, as they continue to demand their
president back....
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As we write, the Viva Palestina Convoy is being denied passage into Gaza by the Egyptian Government....
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As we write, the Viva Palestina Convoy is being denied passage into Gaza by the
Egyptian Government....
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In September the eyes of the world will be on Pittsburgh, where the G20 countries will meet to consider what to do about the biggest global economic crisis since the 1930s. The heads of governments, finance ministers and central bankers that will be in Pittsburgh for the summit hear the concerns of bankers and corporate executives all the time. They need to listen to the voices of the millions of people who have lost their jobs and their homes because of the crisis. The Bail out the People Movement, a coalition of community, labor, religious, and grassroots activists, wants to help dramatize the crisis of joblessness, and the need for action both in the U.S. and worldwide to the G20 summit. It is now clear that the stimulus legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in March has done little to stop the loss of jobs. There is no recovery for the unemployed, the underemployed and the poor; and things are only getting worse. This is why we're asking you to help make the idea of a Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed from September 19 through September 26, the week of the G20 Summit, a reality....
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As the world watches, massive demonstrations in Iran -- some say the largest since the 1979 Revolution -- are denouncing the results of the June 12 presidential election. Official announcements that incumbent
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad garnered nearly 63 percent of the vote are being met with cries of "fraud" by supporters of his principal
challenger, former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein....
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The largest ever US humanitarian aid convoy is now gathering in
Egypt to head across the border into Gaza on Monday, July 13....
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Please consider making an emergency donation.Stop War on Iran was founded in early 2005 as an international
campaign to oppose a U.S. military attack on Iran and other acts of war,
including sanctions and covert destabilization....
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Approximately 40 immigrant artists (artists who were displaced from their
homelands) will participate in 4 exhibits throughout the metropolitan New York
area, the first two openings taking place in July, 2009. The artists come from
a variety of continents and countries including Ivory Coast, Taiwan to
Guatemala and Chile....
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The thousands of Palestinian prisoners are facing an
ongoing campaign in denial of their rights - from denial of family visits, to
the imposition of solitary confinement and isolation. Every day, they stand on
the front lines, confronting the injustice and repression of the occupation, as
prisoners for the freedom of Palestinian land and the Palestinian people....
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On June 28, the Honduran army used weapons and force to take Honduras’
constitutional President Manuel Zelaya from his residence and send him to Costa
Rica in what was the first military coup d'état in Central America in
more than 30 years. This act of extreme violence can only bring more war and
destabilization to the region....
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The plight and suffering of children and teenagers who are
subjected to sexual and other forms of abuse cannot be relieved by a
reactionary campaign to foment racism, anti-gay bigotry and hatred of gender
and sex variance....
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June 30—Some 200 heavily armed soldiers from the Honduran army surrounded
the house of democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya at dawn on June 28.
After firing on the house, soldiers forced their way in, pointed their rifles
at Zelaya’s head and chest, and forced him into a vehicle. They drove him
to an airplane that flew him to Costa Rica....
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Today units of the Israeli navy blockading Gaza attacked and
boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the Spirit of Humanity, abducting 21 human
rights workers from 11 countries. The passengers and crew, including Noble
laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, are being
forcibly dragged toward Israel. The boat is carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza
with an international delegation that set sail from Lanarca, Cyprus....
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A press conference and vigil were held at the downtown federal building June
26 to support Leonard Peltier and his upcoming parole effort on July 28.
Supporters are being asked to write letters on behalf of Peltier, a leader of
the American Indian Movement and one of the longest-held political prisoners in
the U.S....
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There is a war going on inside this country—a war against immigrants,
especially undocumented immigrants. This war is escalating, and like most wars,
it is taking many casualties. The casualties are innocent children, women and
men whose only crime is the need to survive, to find a way to live and work in
the United States....
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The next day, July 4th,
hundreds of people from across the United States will depart New York to
Egypt, where they will load trucks with millions of dollars worth of medical
supplies and drive it to the besieged people of Gaza. Weapons made in USA have
brought death and destruction to the people of Palestine. We will be coming to
Gaza with medical aid that saves lives instead....
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Manuel Zelaya is backed by a majority of labor unions and social movements in
Honduras. This coup was carried out in a way that mirrors the removal of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti and the attempted coup against
President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, who was brought back to power by the
Venezuelan people....
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One the eve of America's Independence Day celebration, American Muslims
(with the support of concerned members of non-Muslim communities) will
spearhead a three-part initiative to draw attention to, and to educate the
public on, the enormous gulf that still exist between promise and fulfillment,
and how this socio-political deficiency within the American body-politic has
impacted the Muslim community (globally) post 9/11....
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Last night, Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the
Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights
workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former
U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The passengers and crew are being forcibly
dragged toward Israel....
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Last night, Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the
Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights
workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former
U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The passengers and crew are being forcibly
dragged toward Israel....
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[23 miles off the coast of Gaza, 15:30pm] - Today Israeli Occupation Forces
attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY,
abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate
Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a
complete list of passengers). The passengers and crew are being forcibly
dragged toward Israel....
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Councilmember Barron Calls on President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton to Call off Israeli Warships which are threatening the life of Fmr Rep Cynthia McKinney and those aboard the Spirit of Humanity...
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Manuel Zelaya is backed by a majority of labor unions and social movements in Honduras. This coup was carried out in a way that mirrors the removal of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti and the attempted coup against President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, who was brought back to power by the Venezuelan people...
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I demand that the Barack Obama administration and the U.S. Congress unequivocally condemn the unconstitutional and anti-democratic military coup in Honduras and insist that the military regime and the newly appointed but illegitimate president of Honduras restore President Zelaya to office, free all the imprisoned popular leaders and remove the curfew. I further demand that the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras be recalled immediately until such time as President Zelaya is restored to office....
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Supporters of the beleaguered Palestinian people plan to leave from New York
City on July 4 with medical supplies they will deliver to hospitals in
Gaza....
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Join dozens of organizations, academics and activists to
endorse this letter to Ban Ki-Moon, including the National Lawyers Guild, the
Palestinian Youth Network, UK MP George Galloway and many more! See full list of
initial endorsers below......
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Dan Restrepo, Presidential Advisor to President Obama for
Latin American Affairs, is currently on CNN en Español. He has just stated
that Obama's government is communicating with the coup forces in Honduras,
trying to "feel out" the situation....
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The People’s Summit and Tent City in Detroit was by far one of the most amazing experiences I’ve ever had. It was like going to Cuba, or Venezuela, and seeing the level of solidarity that exists among the people in those countries—solidarity that is borne of the struggle to build, in the case of Venezuela, or retain, in the case of Cuba, socialism....
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Type the words “Cuba Day against Homophobia” into Google’s search engine and you will find video clips and news stories about a festival on May 16 of this year in Havana and many other Cuban cities that raised public consciousness about the rights and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people....
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June 26, 2009, is the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a particularly significant day for those of us concerned about the continued use of this criminal act worldwide. Most recently, a US citizen of Filipino descent has fallen victim to this cruel and degrading act in the Philippines....
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In 2004, the NAACP voted unanimously (with one "nay" vote) to "reiterate its support of the international movement for a new and fair trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal." Yet the organization has done nothing since that time to ensure justice for Mumia....
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A CIA-trained sharpshooter takes position on a rooftop in Tehran. His contact on the street below, waiting with a camera, calls. “She just got out of the car. A perfect target.”...
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The confrontation among Iran’s ruling politicians that has brought
large crowds into the streets of Tehran is not taking place in isolation. It is
happening in a country still facing U.S. sanctions and warships, hostility from
every imperialist capital and venom from the West’s corporate media....
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We'll be closing down the petition around June 26 so that data can be compiled for delivery to the U.S. Parole Commission. So don't wait. Do it now. Not sure if you've signed? Sign again. Any duplicates will be deleted before the signatures are submitted to the Parole Commission....
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What a week coming up! The "G192" (UN Conference on the Financial and
Economic Crisis and its Impacts on Development), previously scheduled for June
1-4, is happening June 24-26: this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday....
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Wells Fargo, a recipient of $25 billion in
bailout funds, has cut off financing to Quad City Die Casting, throwing over
100 out of work. This is a devestating loss to the workers, but the effect
ripples out. It's a loss of over $6.4 million a year in lost wages and tax
revenue to our community....
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The third G20 summit is going
to be in Pittsburgh, Pa., on September 24 and 25, 2009. The challenge
before the movements for economic and social justice, as well as the
antiwar movement, is that the next meeting of the powers that govern
the world economy be met with a powerful mass mobilization demanding
that jobs and social needs, and not war and greed, prevail--here in the
U.S., and across the world. ...
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Kari Ann Cowan, Peltier's niece, reported on July 19 from the prison at
Lewisburg that Leonard may have suffered a heart attack. She stated, "He
had a hard time breathing. He was in his cell and had an ache in his chest. He
was kinda scared he was having a heart attack. He raised his hands, breathed
slowly and finally felt better."...
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Here’s how Koreans in the north look at the current situation
between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States,
based on conversations with a member of that country’s leading party, the
Workers Party of Korea....
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What distinguishes the contemporary economic crisis within global capitalism
from other downturns over the last three decades is that the rapid
deterioration of the social conditions of working people and the oppressed is
taking place simultaneously all over the planet....
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The Supreme Court has confirmed the U.S. legal system’s ongoing
hypocrisy in the treatment of the Cuban Five. The court on June 15 made public
a list of what cases it will hear during its coming term—and the appeal
of the Cuban Five was left off the list, with no explanation....
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Holding a banner calling for “Jobs & Human Needs, Freedom,
Equality, Peace,” a multinational group of women led a spirited march
through downtown Providence, R.I., on June 12 to the site of the National
Mayors Conference....
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Thousands of Haitians from all over North America traveled to Miami June 5
and 6 to spend hours paying tribute to Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste. They came
from Orlando, Fla., Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago, Atlanta and
Montreal....
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Leonard Peltier, a fighter for the liberation of the Indigenous peoples of
North America and the world, has been locked away in federal prison for more
than three decades....
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June 16—Hundreds of poor and working people have gathered at the
National People’s Summit and Tent City in downtown Detroit to put forward
the people’s vision of a future with guaranteed jobs and income,
universal health care, housing and utilities, and all rights that working class
people are currently denied under the capitalist system....
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On June 26, 2009, Trans and Gender Non Conforming People of Color and allies
will take to the streets of NYC once again and demand justice to let the world
know, that on the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, the rebellion is not over and
we will continue fighting for justice, raising our voices until we are
heard....
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The first thing to make clear about the Iranian election is that the U.S. and
other imperialist states have no right to intervene. The media here are now
filled with moralizing, even racist scolding of Iran over the election results.
Who are they to act so hoity-toity? Remember George W. Bush’s open theft
of the 2000 election in Florida?...
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The US Supreme Court announced today that it will not review the case of the
Five Cuban Patriots. This decision denies our 5 brothers, unjustly imprisoned
from more than a decade for monitoring terrorist organizations based in Miami,
from ever having the possibility of an impartial and just trial outside
Miami....
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The third G20 summit is going to be in Pittsburgh , Pa. on September 24 and 25,
2009. The challenge before the movements for economic and social justice, as
well as the antiwar movement, is that the next meeting of the powers that
govern the world economy be met with a powerful mass mobilization demanding
that jobs and social needs, not war and greed, prevail--here in the U.S. and
across the world....
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For decades, New Yorkers have relied on WBAI 99.5 FM, in the Pacifica Radio
Network, for radio broadcasting that provides real news and perspectives not
filtered by corporate media. Now, the station is under attack....
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An interview with Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke aired June 7 on the CBS
television program “60 Minutes.” The Fed head talked about the
multi-trillion-dollar bailout of the U.S. economy that has propped up financial
institutions, banks, and corporations such as insurance giant AIG. Bernanke
glibly stated he was prepared to double the amount if necessary in order to
stave off a collapse of the system....
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The third G20 summit is going to be in Pittsburgh, Pa., on September 24 and 25,
2009. The challenge before the movements for economic and social justice, as
well as the antiwar movement, is that the next meeting of the powers that
govern the world economy be met with a powerful mass mobilization demanding
that jobs and social needs, and not war and greed, prevail--here in the U.S.,
and across the world....
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Organizers of the People’s Summit and Tent City taking place June
14-17 in downtown Detroit have announced several demonstrations and other
events as part of its four-day agenda. The People’s Summit will counter
the National Summit, known until recently as the National Business Summit,
occurring June 15-17 at the GM Renaissance Center. A State of Emergency Fightback Rally will kick off the People’s Summit
on June 14. Organizers say they will do what the politicians have so far
refused to do–declare a state of economic emergency in Michigan and all
areas affected by high unemployment, plant closings, mass layoffs, and record
foreclosures and evictions. They will demand and begin instituting an immediate
moratorium on layoffs, budget cuts, evictions and foreclosures....
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Women have lost a true friend. Dr. George Tiller stood up for decades and provided vitally necessary medical and reproductive health care for women of all ages and backgrounds....
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The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea is not a threat to the United States or anyone else. The U.S. military is threatening North
Korea....
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"Moratorium on all foreclosures and evictions NOW!"...
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Byron Blake, United Nations ambassador for Jamaica and senior advisor to
President of UN General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto-Brockmann, will bring
greetings from UN President d’Escoto to the People's Economic
Summit's plenary session on May 31 in New York. Ambassador Blake is
scheduled to open the main plenary session at 1:pm....
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Home foreclosures soared in April to a record-high rate. One of every 374
homes, or 342,000 homes in the United States, received a foreclosure filing: a
notice of default, auction or sale notice, or bank repossession. Filings were
up 32 percent from April 2008. ...
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Anyone in the United States who pays attention to the corporate news media
must think that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea just violated
the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Right?
Except that no such treaty exists....
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More than 100 vigils, rallies, marches and other actions were held across
the U.S. and in other countries worldwide on May 19 in support of Troy Anthony
Davis, the Georgia man facing execution for a crime he has always denied
committing....
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The imperialists, with the U.S. leading the pack, have been pressuring
countries to delay or even cancel the conference. This pressure extended to
rewriting and watering down the original draft, which was considered “too
leftist.” Rich countries were planning to send low-level officials, while
Latin American countries were planning to send their presidents and/or their
foreign ministers....
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Mark D. Fussner died May 22 after an hours-long shoot-out with police
following the bailiff’s unsuccessful attempt to evict the 44-year-old
homeowner. Two 24th District Court officers had come to Fussner’s home on
Anne Street, in the working-class downriver Detroit suburb of Allen Park, to
carry out a writ of eviction after foreclosure....
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“Immigrant,” a bilingual community event on immigrant rights in
Syracuse, held in the Blodgett High School cafeteria, drew a
standing-room-only, multinational crowd of more than 110 people on May 14. ...
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Immigrants and their supporters have marched, rallied, picketed and even met
with the mayor’s staff to express their opposition to the enforcing of
immigration laws by Houston cops....
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In real life Travis Bishop is best known for his acoustic
country music CD, “So Here We Go.” He is also known as Sgt. Bishop,
currently AWOL from Fort Hood after refusing to deploy with the 57th Elite
Service Battalion to Afghanistan. He told his story recently in
fthoodsoldiervoices.blogspot.com....
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On May 18, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a stunning blow to women workers,
overturned lower courts’ decisions and ruled that AT&T, the
seventh-largest corporation in the world, could exclude maternity leaves when
calculating pension benefits....
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More than 2 million people were forced to flee their homes when the
Pakistani Army, financed and equipped by the Pentagon, moved into the Swat
Valley after a week of intense bombardment by bombers, jet fighters and
helicopter gunships....
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The U.S. Coast Guard and a few individual boaters pulled 27 people out of
the ocean off south Florida May 13. Ten of them were dead after fleeing mass
hunger and misery in Haiti. The sailing vessel they were on had sunk around 2
a.m. and the survivors had to tread water for 10 hours until their rescue....
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A newly reconfigured Transitional Federal Government established during
early 2009 in Somalia has lost control of large areas of the country to the
al-Shabab and Hisbul Islam resistance organizations. On May 17 and 18, the
towns of Jowhar and Mahaday north of Mogadishu, the capital, fell to
al-Shabab....
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Although pressure and hostility on the part of some G20 governments has
resulted in the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and
its Impact on Development being postponed from June 1 to 3 until June 24 to 26,
the People's Economic Summit this Sunday, May 31 will go on as scheduled....
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Based on the global capitalist economic crisis which is wreaking havoc on the
lives of hundreds of millions of people world wide, United Nations General
Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto-Brockman is organizing an urgent
Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on
Development, to take place on June 1-3 at the United Nations in New York City....
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Troy Davis is an African American on death row in Georgia. Davis was
convicted in the 1989 killing of a police officer despite what Amnesty
International calls "overwhelming doubts about his guilt....
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A flare-up in tensions between Chad and Sudan during the week of May 4 has
exposed the continuing efforts of French and U.S. imperialism to dominate the
political and economic future of North and Central Africa. An effort by Chad
rebels to attack the capital N’Djamena and overturn the Idriss Deby Itno
regime was reportedly defeated May 7 after air power halted the rebel
advance....
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Organizers of the People's Summit, including a tent city, in downtown
Detroit June 14-17 report momentum is building for the event. It's billed
as "four days of active resistance" to counter the National Business Summit held June 15-17 at the GM Renaissance Center....
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Inside the Roosevelt Hotel in busy midtown Manhattan on May 10, Pakistani
President Asif Ali Zardari was trying to reassure some 300 members of the
expatriate community that his just-completed visit to Washington was not a
capitulation to U.S. pressure....
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"There is no way I will deploy to Afghanistan. The occupation is immoral
and unjust. It does not make the American people any safer. It has the opposite
effect," said Army Specialist Victor Agosto, who has already served one
tour in Iraq in almost four years in the Army. He spoke on May 7 with Alice
Embree of "The Rag Blog," publication of the Austin Movement for a
Democratic Society....
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On May 19, from Alaska to West Virginia and from Argentina to Uganda, high
school and college students, faith-based groups and progressive community
organizations are organizing vigils, rallies and petition drives as well as the
vital means of communication to bring worldwide pressure on Georgia Gov. Sonny
Perdue and the Pardons and Parole Board to stop the execution of Troy Anthony
Davis....
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The struggle to free death-row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is heating up in New York City. On May 8, an emergency, militant street meeting took place in front of Harlem’s Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building to demand that elected officials call upon U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department to conduct a civil rights investigation into constitutional rights violations against Mumia. Congressperson Charles Rangel, who represents the Harlem community, has come out in support of the call for the investigation....
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Organizing for the June 14-17 People's Summit and Tent City in Detroit
is building fast. A planning meeting April 25 was attended by representatives
from a broad base of progressive organizations. They included the Autoworkers
Caravan, which has been in the forefront of challenging the massive attacks on
auto workers' wages and benefits; the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop
Foreclosures and Evictions; disabled activists from Warriors on Wheels; Call
'Em Out; the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization; the Detroit Coalition
Against Police Brutality; and the National Lawyers Guild. Two UAW members from
Toledo, Ohio, also attended....
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Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda announced his
resignation from his post as head of the Maoist-led coalition government on May
4, just over a year after his Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) placed
first in the country's Constituent Assembly (CA) elections....
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The government of Sri Lanka, with U.S. arms and military aid from Israel and
Pakistan, is waging a brutal war against the Tamil people of Sri Lanka....
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There was a kickoff rally May 1 at Union Square's historic site of many May Day gatherings -- and then a march to Foley Square, in front of the
notorious Federal Building, where many immigrants have experienced abuse, grief
and discrimination at the hands of "la migra," formerly known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service and now Immigration and Customs
Enforcement....
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s layoffs have spread to the service and retail sectors, where women are
the majority of workers, their jobless rate grew by an alarming 36.7 percent in
the five months prior to February 2009. The rate worsened for African-American
women, whose unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent in February, while for
Latinas it reached 10.2 percent....
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One of the meetings is the June 1 - 3 UN General Assembly's International
Conference on the Global Economic and Financial Crisis. On Sunday, May 31, the
day before the UN meeting, the People's Economic Summit will take place
directly across the street from the UN building, under tents in Dag
HammarskjÖld Plaza....Because of the unique nature of the June UN conference, The Bail Out the People Movement decided to call a People's Economic Summit in conjunction with it. The goal of the one-day People's Economic Summit is to bring together activists, organizers and leaders from the various movements and struggles around the region, the country, and some from around the world....
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An international movement has been established to protest the already seven-year-long imprisonment of Dragoljub Milanovic, a target of NATO's effort to blame the victim following its U.S.-led bombing campaign against Yugoslav civilians 10 years ago....
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Over the last several months, a series of dramatic cases involving police killings of civilians has brought to light the essential role of law enforcement within capitalist societies. Numerous cities throughout the United States have seen a dramatic increase in the murder of African Americans by cops as well as the escalation of raids and deportations against immigrants both documented and undocumented....
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Without a doubt, millions of people around the
world are anxious about the news of a possible pandemic of the swine flu virus....
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Fear of a swine flu pandemic is spreading much faster than the virus itself. While it's too soon to predict how widespread and deadly this new
variation of influenza virus will be, information about the likely
origin of the outbreak is starting to surface. A huge factory-farm pig
operation owned by U.S. corporate giant Smithfield and operated by its
Mexican subsidiary, Granjas Carroll de Mexico, may have spawned this new
threat to public health....
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Reports from Berkeley, CA where the Pacifica National
Board met this weekend are that the Interim Executive
Director, Grace Aaron has sanctioned the decision taken by the WBAI Local Station Board last Monday at its hastily called "executive session" to fire General Manager Tony Riddle and Program Director Bernard White....
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May 1 is May Day -- International Workers' Day. It began in the United States a long time ago during the struggle for the eight-hour work day, but that history is not well known here, and for good reason. The scions of
capitalism who feed us their ideology don't want workers and oppressed people to know their own history of struggle....
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ATTENTION ACTIVISTS AND ORGANIZERS! The Bail Out the People Movement is announcing three important projects: The third G20 summit is going to be in NYC on or around September 20, 2009. The
G20 summits are taking place in response to the greatest worldwide economic
crisis since the 1930s. However, the purpose of these high-level meetings of
governments and bankers is not to rescue the people of the world from
depression level unemployment, evictions, homelessness, poverty, social and economic inequality and war. These summits are about fixing the economic and
financial order that puts profits before people-and fixing that system by creating more poverty, misery and suffering....
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There have been two "walkouts" from the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Geneva. It is instructive to observe which countries walked out....
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In the aftermath of the April 12 sniper killings of three Somali teenagers by the U.S. Navy, several U.S. agencies met on April 17 to conduct a review of military and foreign policy toward this Horn of Africa nation. The State Department, Pentagon and Justice Department have outlined a series of options
to ostensibly fight "piracy" in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean....
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A citywide rally and sendoff were held here in mid-April for the December 12th Movement International Secretaria's delegation to the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. The conference takes place from April 20-24 in Geneva, Switzerland....
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Former congressman Tom Tancredo, a national symbol of hate, racism, sexism,
bigotry and the scapegoating of immigrants, was invited to speak at UNC Chapel Hill on April 14 by Youth for Western Civilization, a newly-formed white supremacist organization on campus....
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Following are excerpts from an e-mail campaign launched on April 15 by the New York Free Mumia Coalition, International Concerned Family and Friends
of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Millions for Mumia and the International Action Center. To date hundreds of thousands of emails have been sent to U.S. Attorney General
Eric Holder, President Barack Obama, congressional leaders, and the media to demand that the Justice Department initiate a civil rights investigation addressing a 27-year history of prosecutorial and judicial violations of Mumia's constitutional rights....
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Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal will be 55 on April 24. His family, friends and supporters are observing the day with a worldwide "Honk for
Mumia" and other displays of resistance to demand freedom for this world-famous African-American journalist held on Pennsylvania's death row....
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This Sudanese province is the theater of a conflict on which the international
opinion is rallying. As for any struggle on the African ground, we receive the
same images of misery: men are tearing, children are crying and blood is
flowing....
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While May Day has historically been a day of workers solidarity and a
celebration of labor power, this is not a day or year like any other....
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Review of progress and assessment of implementation of the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action by all stakeholders at the national, regional and international levels, including the assessment of contemporary manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance...
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We participants of the Civil Society Forum for the Durban Review Conference 2009 held in Geneva 17 to 19 April strongly welcome the holding of the Durban Review Conference and reaffirm our full and dedicated support for the Durban Declaration and Plan of Action (DDPA) adopted by the 2001 World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance....
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Imagine that you're on your way to a medical appointment or your job, and you face a gauntlet of screaming, angry people who are threatening you and trying to stop you from entering the building. That is what women nationwide have faced for 36 years -- since abortion was legalized -- as virulent right wingers have used hostile tactics to try to stop them from exercising their fundamental rights to reproductive choice and health services....
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Review of progress and
assessment of implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
by all stakeholders at the national, regional and international levels,
including the assessment of contemporary manifestations of
racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance...
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We, the representatives of local, national and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other civil society groups from around the world gathered in Durban/South Africa during the week of 28 August – 3 September 2001 for the World Conference against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR), guided by our
commitment in the struggle against racism and racial discrimination and inspired by the recommendations of the NGO Forums held in Strasbourg/France,
Santiago de Chile/Chile, Dakar/Senegal and Tehran/Iran and the related
sub-regional NGO meetings held in Warsaw/Poland, Kathmandu/Nepal, Cairo/Egypt
and Quito/Ecuador, in preparation for the World Conference, hereby make the
following Declaration:...
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We express our full support for a strong Durban Review Conference, the NGO/Civil
Society Forum, the Conference on Palestine, and other similar activities being
held before and during the Review Conference that support the Conference and
the goals for which it stands....
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After the execution of three Somalis and the wounding and capturing of
another in the Indian Ocean on April 12, a leader of the so-called pirates
vowed to avenge the deaths of these youth who held the U.S. captain of a cargo
vessel known as the Maersk Alabama for five days. Captain Richard Phillips was
released while the U.S. military and the corporate media hailed the killings of
the Somalis, saying the actions were justified....
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Between 20-24 April 2009 the world will take either an important step forward towards prohibiting discrimination, especially racial discrimination, or an unfortunate step backwards, if
governments are unwilling to confront or even to discuss the core issues. Which
way the international community will go will depend largely on the activities
of states, and to a lesser extent civil society, participating in the Durban
Review Conference to be held at the UN European headquarters in Geneva....
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The decision by the Obama administration to boycott
the Durban Review Conference Against Racism has raised a torrent of petitions,
protests and criticism. An actual boycott of the upcoming April 20-24 meeting
would be the first time that the United States has refused to participate in a
United Nations conference. This has come as a shock to many who expected a
fundamentally different attitude toward an international conference on racism
from the Obama administration....
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Please sign a petition to President Obama urging the
United States to participate in the Durban Review Conference and its remaining
preparatory meetings. The United States is currently refusing to participate in
the Durban Review Conference, a United Nations Conference to discuss the
elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerances....
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Clearly, the fight to bail out the people will not end in April. We must
continue to build a movement that will guarantee jobs,homes, health care, an
end to repression and war, and everything the people need during this growing
economic crisis....Since 2006, workers have come out to commemorate May 1st, International Workers
Day. Despite the raids and deportations, immigrant workers, the sector whose
struggle bore May Day in Chicago two centuries ago, have revived May Day, a day
celebrated by billions around the world every year. In 2005, workers and
activists reclaimed May Day once again and held several May Day demonstrations
in New York City and elsewhere....
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On April 6, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Mumia
Abu-Jamal's appeal for a new guilt-phase trial. The
Supreme Court has not yet decided whether to consider the Philadelphia DA's separate appeal, which is attempting to execute Abu-Jamal WITHOUT a new sentencing hearing. In
response to yesterday's rejection, Abu-Jamal's lead
attorney, Robert R. Bryan, will be filing a "petition for re-hearing" in the U.S. Supreme Court....
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In an early sign of what promises to be a growing movement, 1,000 people defied
a torrential downpour to rally on Wall Street on Friday, April 3 in response to
a national call from the Bail Out the People Movement. The central demands of the demonstration were: 1) a real jobs program; and 2) an immediate moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. Participants included unions,
community groups, youth and students from Detroit, Boston, Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Buffalo and dozens of organizing centers throughout the
country....
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At the Bank of America Plaza spirited demonstrators echoed chants off the towering Bank of America corporate
building calling for an end to bank bailouts and foreclosures and evictions. A
picket line of dozens of protesters rallied around a large tent set up to dramatize the epidemic of "Hoovervilles" or tent cities in California due to the housing and job crisis. ...
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Enter area at Pine and Broadway go East one SHORT block to Nassau This is just a block from the Friday Rally site. We will join United for Peace and Justice as they come by at Pine and Broadway, about 1:00pm. One block further at
Wall and Broadway the whole march will turn Left down Wall Street, turn Right at Broad Street and the NY Stock Exchange, then turn Right on
Exchange and go back to Broadway. From there the march will proceed South to Battery Park....
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As we write (3:00 pm Friday), thousands of activists, students, youth, trade unionists, and community organizers are marching through the streets of the Wall Street financial district demanding "Bail Out the People - Not the Banks!" Police have arrested 4 protesters so far, and they are being held at the 1st
Precinct....
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Activists from more than 50 organizing centers across the U.S. will march on
Wall Street this weekend - starting Friday at 1 pm - to demand a real bailout
for working people, including an immediate moratorium on foreclosures and
evictions and a real jobs program....
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It has been brought to my attention that you have issued an order today to
change the locks on the WBAI transmitter room in the Empire State Building
tomorrow. I have several questions that deserve honest answers:...
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BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE now has VERY exciting Friday and Saturday plans. We have just confirmed BOTH Friday and Saturday Rally Permits for Wall Street....
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Rally Friday, April 3:
Gather at 1:00 pm on Wall Street at Broadway. Rally on Broadway from Wall Street south to Exchange and block further South on
Broadway to the 'Bull'. There will be contingents of youth, women, worker and
immigrant rights, and more. ...
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On Friday morning, just a few hours before the Wall St. rally, the bureau of
labor statistics is going to announce that another two-thirds of a million
workers got laid off in March....
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The following statement was issued by members of the December 12th Movement, who held a press conference on March 21 in Harlem on the U.S.
government's refusal to attend the United Nations World Conference against Racism-Durban Review in April....
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It is an honor to address this meeting of the International Committee to
Defend Slobodan Milosevic. This organization has never faltered in its resistance to NATO, defending the people of Serbia and of all of the former Yugoslavia....
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We are gathered here today to remember historical facts, interpret them
under the light of experience and extract the necessary lessons to guide our
efforts and our struggles for peace and a new world governed under the primacy
of justice and solidarity. ...
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Hundreds of representatives are meeting in Belgrade on March
23-24 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led 78-day bombing of
Yugoslavia and the heroic resistance of its people and military during NATO's aggressive and illegal war. ...
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With just one week to go before the April 3 March on Wall Street, we need your help to reach out across the metropolitan area....
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On Friday, April 3, the Bail Out the People Movement, a growing coalition of
hundreds of organizations and thousands of activists, will march on Wall Street
and AIG. Protesters on April 3 will bring demands for a real jobs program, a
moratorium on foreclosures, and other necessary programs for bailing out the
people, not banks and Wall Street financial institutions....
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On Friday, April 3, the Bail Out the People Movement, a growing coalition of
hundreds of organizations and thousands of activists, will march on Wall Street
and AIG. Protesters on April 3 will bring demands for a real jobs program, a
moratorium on foreclosures, and other necessary programs for bailing out the
people, not banks and Wall Street financial institutions....
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This year, on April 3 and April 4, we honor the legacy of Dr. King with our
urgent call for a new direction by marching on the financial capital of the
country, Wall Street....
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I strongly support the participation of the United States in the Global UN Conference Against Racism scheduled to be held in Geneva, Switzerland from 20 - 24 April of this year. It is an embarrassment for the Obama Administration to continue the Bush Administration's practice of refusing dialogue with others. Moreover, given the painful history of racism in the U.S. it is shameful for America to refuse to participate in a conference against racism. ...
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Ricardo Alarcón, president of Cuba's Parliament, speaking in
Havana, denounced the U.S. and international corporate media for their silence
regarding the massive international support for the petition to the U.S.
Supreme Court to hear the case of the Cuban Five....
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n the vast U.S. spy network, there are undoubtedly whole rooms -- maybe
even whole buildings -- of "experts" whose job is to analyze
what's happening in Cuba. They study all kinds of data, some of it
published openly by the Cuban government, some of it provided, or rather sold,
by counter-revolutionaries cultivated by U.S. diplomats and handlers....
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No event is so tragic that U.S. financiers and brokers won't look for
a way to make money from it. It's a relief when someone exposes them for
the vultures they are....
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Dorotea Manuela saluted working women warriors, including those who carried
through the Flint sit-down strike to victory in 1937. Sandra McIntosh of Work
for Quality, Fight for Equity spoke of the struggle for access to quality
education, which is under attack in Boston. Palestinian activist Layla Hijab
Cable gave an inspiring historical overview of Palestinian women resisting
Zionist occupation, ethnic cleansing and genocide...
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Celebrations, commemorations and protests were held worldwide on
International Women's Day (IWD) this year from Lima, Peru, to Lahore,
Pakistan. The themes varied but all actions demonstrated women declaring their
rights and protesting against injustice....
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On International Women's Day this year, we express our solidarity with
our heroic sisters in Gaza who have endured the horrific U.S.-backed Israeli
siege and who are standing up with courage and resilience....
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The May 1st Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights held a news conference
on March 17 at Union Square to announce the upcoming May Day rally in New York
City, which has been held there each year since 2005....
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On the sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, support is growing for war
resisters in the United States and Canada in the wake of new deportations and
repression....
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It is becoming clear that the stimulus packages and bail out proposals coming from Wall Street and Washington won't even make a dent in the growing number of layoffs and foreclosures. Working people must organize independently to demand a bail out for the people, not the banks. It's time to march on Wall Street!
The stock markets are crashing, the world economy is headed into a depression, and the U.S. government and its top bankers are giving trillions of dollars to bailout the richest 1 percent of the people while doing nothing to rescue ordinary working and poor people....
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40 Years of Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution! 40 Years of Friendship with the Cuban People!...
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Members of immigrant groups, unions, laborers, students, human rights
activists, and workers in general who are part of the May 1st Coalition Worker
and Immigrant Rights will announce the next steps on the path to achieve the
same success of past demonstrations of immigrants in the city of New York and
other American cities....
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Hundreds of women, along with male supporters, rallied at Union Square and
then marched together on March 8 to commemorate International Women's
Day. They called for "a bailout of women and our communities," not
the banks, in the U.S. and worldwide....
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This year's event included strong participation from Latina, Asian and
Black women, as well as many activists from Philadelphia's LGBT
community. With the growing economic crisis hitting women the hardest, many
speakers addressed social and economic justice issues, including the mortgage
crisis, health care reform and the struggle to pass the Employee Free Choice
Act....
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Protesters from the Gaza Committee in Dearborn, Mich., picketed Starbucks on
March 7 over its connections to Israel. ...
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A divestment teach-in at Temple University on March 5 put technology to use
for Palestine as students here spoke directly with students from the Hampshire
College divestment movement in Massachusetts through the power of Skype, an
Internet telephone program....
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Several thousand protesters gathered in front of San Francisco City Hall
March 5 as the marriage rights struggle made its way to the California Supreme
Court....
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The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments on as few as 100 cases per year,
although thousands are submitted. The briefs submitted support a full
examination of the legal issues in both cases....
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Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir visited the North Darfur state capital
of El-Fasher on March 8 in defiance of an International Criminal Court warrant
issued for his arrest just a few days before. It was the first ICC warrant
issued against a sitting head of state. As he addressed a rally of tens of
thousands of supporters, the president defied the ICC and its imperialist
backers....
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Let us remind the world that part of Dr. King's dream was that everyone
should have the right to a job or an income. Rekindling that dream could not be
more crucial today when the worse economic crisis since the 1930s is throwing
20,000 workers out of a job each day....
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Manik Mukherjee, General Secretary of the International Anti-imperialist
and People's Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC), has issued the
following statement condemning the indictment of President Omar Hasan Ahmad Al
Bashir of the Republic of Sudan by the International Criminal Court....
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The foreclosed homes auction today [March 8, 2009] at the Jacob Javits Convention Center is an
insult to the millions who have lost their homes and jobs in what is know the
biggest economic crises since the depression of the 1930s....
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The U.S. government is threatening to expel 30,000 Haitians living inside
its borders. Among the millions of undocumented workers in the U.S. who live
each day with the fearful possibility of deportation, the Department of
Homeland Security has made undocumented Haitians a special focus....
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The People's Summit will occur simultaneously with the National
Business Summit, sponsored by the Detroit Economic Club, taking place at Ford
Field in downtown Detroit....
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In just over 48 hours, more than 30,000 messages have been
sent to NYC Mayor Bloomberg, the NYC City Council, the
Jacob Javits Center, and the Real Estate Disposition
Corporation (REDC)demanding the cancellation of a
foreclosure auction planned for this Sunday....
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he Palestinian Unified Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
against Israel is taking hold and growing in unions, universities and among
political forces on many continents....
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Please join us on Sunday morning at 10:00 am sharp at a demonstration against the biggest auction of foreclosed homes ever in New York
City....
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Tell President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Clinton,
U.N. Secretary-General Ban, Caribbean Economic Community Chair Barrow, Homeland
Security Secretary Napolitano, ICE director John P. Torres, Congress and
members of the media: Stop the Deportation of 30,000 Haitians!...
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Ending Ceremony Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Memorial at 4 p.m. Site of 1911
fire that killed 146 women workers and girls.......
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The Troops Out Now Coalition condemns the announcement today that
Washington plans to keep an occupying force of 50,000 troops in Iraq
indefinitely....
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It is becoming clear that the stimulus packages and bail out proposals coming from Wall Street and Washington won't even make a dent in the growing number of layoffs and foreclosures. Working people must organize independently to demand a bail out for the people, not the banks.It's time to march on Wall Street!...
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Trade union actions starting in January have brought Guadeloupe, a French colony in the Caribbean, to a standstill. The underlying reasons for the work
stoppage stem from the global economic crisis and the total political control of Guadeloupe by the French imperialist state under the leadership of the rightist president, Nicholas Sarkozy....
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The same day that a unity government took office in Zimbabwe, Feb. 13, opponents of Western colonialism protested before the British and U.S. missions to the United Nations in New York City demanding an end to the economic sanctions imposed on this southern African country and the right to self-determination. ...
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Activists from around New England will gather Feb. 28 at the union hall of
the Boston School Bus Drivers, United Steelworkers Local 8751, for a conference
on the economic crisis and how to fight back. The event is being hosted by USW
8751....
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The following excerpts are from talks presented at a Feb. 8 "Zimbabwe: Pan Africanism or Imperialism" forum in Harlem, N.Y. The forum was organized by the December 12th Movement and Friends of Zimbabwe....
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The people voted overwhelmingly for an end to war and occupation. The world
demands that it end. Most importantly, the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, and
Palestine demand that it end....
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A Lebanese ship carrying 60 tons of humanitarian aid for the besieged people
of Gaza was aggressively intercepted and seized on Feb. 5 by the Israeli navy....
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The statements of war resisters Benji Lewis and Robin Long are strong
examples of the current surge in GI resistance and the emerging struggles for
amnesty and sanctuary....
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The current surge in GI resistance, as reported in earlier articles in
Workers World, has begun to stimulate calls for a sanctuary movement. In such a
movement, people massively communicate unconditional support for GIs who refuse
to fight in unjust wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Sanctuary cities
have been established in Ithaca, N.Y., and Berkeley, Calif....
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The heroic six-day factory occupation this past December by the Republic Windows and Doors workers in Chicago continues to resonate among labor activists and progressive forces throughout the United States....
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The Treasury Secretary will soon announce plans for the federal government to essentially take over the failed mortgage industry. The announcement is expected to include a dramatic expansion of the Troubled Asset Recovery
Program, under which the U.S. Treasury will either directly control or have a significant interest in most mortgages, either through the creation of a special federal bank for failing loans or with enhanced federal guarantees to back up failing loans....
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In collaboration with the International Action Center, City Councilor Chuck
Turner has launched a new phase of his "Campaign for Truth, Light and
Justice," focusing national and international attention not just on
frame-up charges against Turner but also on eight years of corrupt practices by
the Bush administration's Department of "Justice."...
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Activists fighting to stop home foreclosures and community devastation
gathered in the bitter cold outside the state Capitol here on Feb. 3 as Gov.
Jennifer Granholm delivered her annual State of the State address. The action was called by the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions....
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The central issue in this case is racism in jury selection. The prosecution systematically removed people from sitting on the trial jury purely because of the color of their skin, that is, being black. The bigotry that killed Martin Luther King, Jr., so many years ago, has been rampant in the case of my client and is a central part of the state's quest to murder him in the name of the law....
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When there is no longer any need for a Harvey Milk School, when LGBT youths
don't have to fear for their physical safety, when repression and hiding
and discrimination are bad old memories, the work of Milk and the countless,
nameless others who battled for full rights will be complete....
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As of this letter's date, the Israeli military has brutally killed over 784 (and rising) people in Gaza, including countless children and women....
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Eighteen months ago, outraged when the Palestinians voted for the militant leadership of Hamas in democratic elections, Israel imposed a total lockdown on the entire population of Gaza. But the entire people were determined to continue to resist. They found a way to circumvent total starvation....
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Chuck Turner is a progressive Black Activist (45 year history) and Boston City Councilor (9 years) who has been a consistent tireless fighter against war and racism and every form of injustice for over four decades. The letter below is addressed by Chuck Turner to those who love justice everywhere:...
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The struggle to free the Cuban Five entered a new stage Jan. 30 when the
defense team filed a formal request—a petition for a writ of
certiorari—asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decisions of lower
courts that have caused these five Cuban antiterrorist heroes to be imprisoned
in the United States since 1998....
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The Pentagon reported in January that “Suicides among soldiers rose
for the fourth straight year, exceeding the rate for civilians for the first
time in decades.” ...
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They demanded that President-elect Barack Obama and Black
elected officials in Congress meet their historical obligations of fighting
injustice by ending their silent complicity and work towards ending all aid to
Israel....
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Since the invasion of Gaza began on Dec. 27, the idea of divestment and boycott against Israel has spread to college campuses all over the country. A group called Students for Justice in Palestine based at Hampshire College, a small liberal arts school in western Massachusetts, has been advocating for divestment at its school for the last two years....
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Outrage has been the public response to projected New York City subway fare
hikes. Despite the corporate media trying to make it seem like the hikes are inevitable, anger has been growing. From the streets to the limited public
forums provided by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, that anger is beginning to gel into a movement....
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Israel's savage assault on the civilian population of Gaza has aroused the greatest worldwide outrage ever against the U.S.-backed settler state. Perhaps nothing symbolized this more than the report of veteran anti-apartheid fighter Dennis Brutus leading a protest in Durban, South Africa, against
Israeli Ambassador Dov Segev-Steinberg. Brutus was instrumental in the cultural
boycott campaign against apartheid South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s....
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Iraq war resisters Cliff Cornell and Chris Teske were deported from Canada last week. Teske crossed the British Columbia-Washington state border unassisted on Jan. 22 at an undisclosed location. Cornell planned to do the same on Jan. 23....
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Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans has sent a letter to Michigan Gov.
Jennifer Granholm requesting she declare a state of economic emergency in the
county and a six-month moratorium on foreclosures....
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Organizers with the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and
Evictions are gearing up for a Feb. 3 demonstration at the state Capitol in Lansing, Mich., when Gov. Jennifer Granholm delivers her annual State of the State address. Activists continue to demand that the governor declare a state of economic emergency in Michigan and take executive measures to give immediate relief to the people, including imposition of a two-year moratorium on
foreclosures and evictions....
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I want to thank each and everyone of you for your efforts in my urgent time of need, you cannot imagine how much my spirit has been lifted from the cards and letters, the phone calls and how everyone kept up the pressure. My gratitude is really more than I can express. My return to Lewisburg was met like a hero’s welcome, and many people came to assure me of my safety there. It is so ironic that the prisoners in a federal maximum-security prison can guarantee my safety, but the Bureau of Prisons will not. I did not say, “cannot”, but “will not” do so. You have to remember the BOP is a little brother to the FBI and they came from an illegitimate mother called the JUST-US (Justice) Department.
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Washington and Tel Aviv want to destroy any organization that fights for Palestinian self-determination. And
the European Union wants this too. Why? Because the Palestinian struggle and
especially Gaza for 60 years has been the shining example of resistance to
occupation, an example of national liberation for all the world. And the
imperialists hope that by smashing the civilian population they can defeat this struggle and demoralize millions....
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Leonard has been transferred back to USP-Lewisburg and released to the
general population....
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Internationally known Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier has been victimized and brutalized since being transferred to U.S. Penitentiary Canaan in Pennsylvania on January 14....
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This forum coincided with the terrorist and criminal attack launched by “Israel” against the Palestinians in Gaza, at a time when the whole world is facing financial, economic and political crises resulting mainly from the policies of war and hegemony. The forum aimed at reinforcing the possibility of building an alternative world based on the principles of respecting humanity as a whole and defending the vulnerable and oppressed in the world....
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The best protection against another Lebanon, Iraq, and Gaza is to make sure that the United States enacts better policy by electing better policy-makers. The financial crisis inside the U.S. also means that the traditional engines of empire have run out of gas. Gaza also shows us that the mighty don't always win....
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On July 9, 2007 City Council Speaker Christine Quinn
illegally fired Viola Plummer, who was then City Councilman Charles
Barron’s Chief of Staff. The firing was in retaliation for Mrs.
Plummer's and Mr. Barron's opposition to Speaker Quinn's
racist intervention in the City Council's naming of 4 blocks in Bedford-Stuyvesant after famed and respected Black Nationalist Sonny Abubadika Carson....
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The following is from a talk by Sara Flounders, co-director of the
International Action Center, at the Palestine Plenary Session of the Jan. 16-18
Beirut International Forum for Resistance, Anti-Imperialism, Peoples'
Solidarity and Alternatives....
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Activists with the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions
are stepping up their struggle for a moratorium on foreclosures, evictions,
utility shutoffs and plant closings. At a Jan. 10 coalition meeting, organizers
announced plans for a demonstration at the State Capitol in Lansing on Feb. 3
when Gov. Jennifer Granholm delivers her annual State of the State address....
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In the early morning of the first day of the new year, as celebrations
around the country were waning and millions were clinging to a hope of change
coming soon with the first African-American president, the police of Bay Area
Rapid Transit demonstrated the brutality of the capitalist state in Oakland,
Calif....
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The November elections were considered a mandate by the people to stop the
war in Iraq. What does this have to do with women? With the pro-choice
struggle? With reproductive freedom for all women? It has everything to do with
it because the money that is funding this vicious war and occupation comes
directly from us. ...
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As the people of Gaza staved off yet another attempt by the U.S.-armed and
-funded Israeli military to eradicate the cause of Palestine by murdering its
people, delegates from around the world gathered in Beirut to build solidarity
and practical support for their cause among secular leftist and Islamic
anti-imperialist forces....
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From five prisons scattered throughout the bowels of the United States, we condemn this
crime with all our strength; we demand that the barbarity stop now and we send all of our love and support from the deepest part of our souls to the beloved Palestinian people. We will be with you today and always. If there is one thing that profoundly hurts us about our imprisonment it is that we cannot do much more for you, for your cause, for our peoples, but we trust that soon we will be able to accompany you physically....
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In many ways, the U.S.-financed genocidal siege of Gaza that many
of us have been demonstrating against in recent weeks is a harbinger of the
widening war against the workers and oppressed peoples of the planet that is
sure to intensify this year. In 2009, more and more lives are going to be
devastated by the biggest global eIn many ways, the U.S.-financed genocidal siege of Gaza that many of us have been demonstrating against in recent weeks is a harbinger of the widening war against the workers and oppressed peoples of the planet that is
sure to intensify this year. In 2009, more and more lives are going to be devastated by the biggest global economic crisis since the depression of the 1930s.conomic crisis since the depression of the
1930s....
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I am so OUTRAGED! My brother Leonard was severely beaten upon his arrival at the Canaan Federal Penitentiary. When he went into population after his transfer, some inmates assaulted him. The severity of his injuries is that he suffered numerous blows to his head and body, receiving a large bump on his head, possibly a concussion, and numerous bruises. Also, one of his fingers is swollen and discolored and he has pain in his chest and ribcage. There was blood everywhere from his injuries....
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It's good that Jewish people of conscience are disassociating themselves from the Gaza aggression. But it's not enough. This atrocity is only the latest, and it's no aberration. It reflects the program of the Israeli settler state—which is based on the theft of Palestine, the ouster and suppression of the Palestinian people, and the racist ideology of Zionism—and of its primary sponsor, the Pentagon and U.S. business establishment....
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The United Nations just stands by, the European Union is in
full support of the Zionist state and the whole war is paid and equipped by U.S. imperialism. From Saudi Arabia to Egypt to India, nations who were once considered friends
of Palestine stand by and watch Gaza BURN -- Day after Day, after Day!! ...We must sustain an ongoing movement to BOYCOTT, DIVEST and to
impose SANCTIONS on the Israeli state and WAR CRIMES CHARGES on its leaders. We
must demand an accounting from our own governments. ...
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It's not enough to oppose the bombing. It's not enough to demand an end to the 41-year occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. We stand in complete and unconditional support for the self-determination of the Palestinian people. This includes the right to return to Palestine, from the river to the sea, and the right to democratically determine the form and the future of the Palestinian state.
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International Action Center co-director Sara Flounders, on route to the Beirut Forum (Jan. 16-19), spoke at the important Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Berlin Jan. 10 (sponsored by the daily newspaper, Junge Welt). The conference became a de-facto tribunal condemning Israel, along with its backers in the U.S. and the European Union, for war crimes in Gaza. Before 1,000 people, Flounders argued forcefully for the Palestinian right to resist siege and occupation and the need for progressives in the imperialist countries to act in solidarity with this resistance in Palestine as well as in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan....
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While the president of the UN General Assembly has condemned Israel's killings of Palestinians as "genocide," so too have Black activists and religious leaders who will be holding a press conference Thursday at the Downtown Federal Building to denounce the U.S. government for funding and supplying with arms Israel's latest war in Gaza, which has killed nearly 1,000 Palestinians with well over 4,000 injured....
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Today, more than 15,000 people rallied in Times Square to protest Israel's ongoing assault against the people of Palestine . The demonstration stretched from 42nd Street south to 38 Street, along 7th Ave , and was followed by a spirited march past the New York Times building to the Time Warner building on 58th Street where CNN's New York office is located. Eyewitnesses reported that the police used pepper spray in an unprovoked assault on the protesters including teenagers and children as young as ten years old. Others were pushed and struck by police....
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The International Action Center and Fight Imperialism-Stand Together (FIST) strongly condemn the fatal shooting of 22 year-old African-American father, Oscar Grant, by BART cop Johannes Mehserle, Jan. 1 at the Fruitvale station in Oakland, Calif. Grant was forced off the train at 2 a.m. with others and forced to lie face down on the ground. While he was laying face down, Mehserle pulled his gun from its holster and shot Grant in the back....
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For 18 months my people in Gaza have been under siege, incarcerated inside the world's biggest prison, sealed off from land, air and sea, caged and starved, denied even medication for our sick. After the slow death policy came the bombardment. In this most densely populated of places, nothing has been spared Israel's warplanes, from government buildings to homes, mosques, hospitals, schools and markets. More than 540 have been killed and thousands permanently maimed. A third are women and children. Whole families have been massacred, some while they slept....
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We are writing with an urgent request for your help to build an ongoing massive
outpouring of support and solidarity to stand with Gaza....
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The International Action Center condemns the criminal
U.S.-backed Israeli bombing and invasion of Gaza, and the massacre of now
nearly 600 and serious wounding of thousands of Palestinians. We call upon the
progressive, anti-war and workers' movement in the United States to join the
angry, growing worldwide protests of these latest Israeli war crimes with U.S.
complicity and stop the genocide. We refuse impunity to the Israeli state and
its backers....
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La Federación Democrática Internacional de Mujeres - FDIM, expresa su condena al ataque militar asesino, perpetrado por el Estado sionista de Israel con apoyo y respaldo de la Administración Bush , en la Franja de Gaza, en la Palestina. Después de más de diez días de bombardeos aéreos y ahora también por tierra, ese crimen de guerra sin precedente, deja centenares de muertos y miles de heridos, de entre ellos las mujeres, los niños y los anciões, en medio de una destrucción volumosa, dejando el pueblo palestino sin electricidad, en la oscuridad total, sin comida, sin agua y sin remedios en los hospitales que viven un verdadero colapso. ...
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The following is a
summary of actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people of Gaza,
concentrating on those that took place between Jan. 1 and Jan. 4, 2009. By Jan.
4 this included some emergency protests of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza
strip....
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"Denunciamos que con el visto bueno de la Casa Blanca y bajo la complicidad del
sistema de Naciones Unidas, se permite al gobierno sionista de Israel convertir
a Gaza en un inmenso campo de concentración, convertir a Palestina en la mayor prisión a cielo abierto conocida en el mundo y tolerada por muchos de los
supuestos países defensores de los Derechos Humanos", declar acció Carolus Wimmer, Vicepresidente del Parlatino Grupo Venezolano, ante los recientes ataques de
Israel contra el pueblo palestino en la Franja de Gaza...."
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Since December 27, 2008, the US-supported Zionist Israel has carried
out a war of aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza. It has
launched air strikes by F-16 jet fighter planes and Apache helicopters
and artillery shelling by naval vessels in order to massacre hundreds
and injure thousands of Palestinians and destroy their homes, mosques,
schools, public buildings, oil depots, power plants, water facilities
and other infrastructure.
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Saturday saw sizable protests throughout the world against the bombing and invasion of Gaza. -- As the Israeli military began a massive ground invasion of Gaza, including infantry, tanks, and
artillery, hundreds of thousands of people were in the streets around the world
chanting "Free, Free Palestine!"...The International Action Center is mobilizing for demonstrations across the
U.S. to stop the attack on Gaza, and we are networking with activists across
the globe who are taking to the streets against U.S./Israeli war crimes....
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The genocidal U.S.-backed Israeli bombardment of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip has had at least one unintended consequence. It has mobilized the anti-imperialist movement and other anti-war forces around the world. The Washington-Tel-Aviv axis might not yet see this as an obstacle to their war crimes. But it is a work in progress, coming as the workers' movements are beginning to get in motion to fight the repercussions of the capitalist economic collapse. Now they are fighting to prevent the massacre associated with what appears to be a planned ground assault into Gaza.
In 2006, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon had other unintended consequences....
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The genocidal U.S.-backed Israeli bombardment of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip has had at least one unintended consequence. It has mobilized the anti-imperialist movement and other anti-war forces around the world. The Washington-Tel Aviv axis might not yet see this as an
obstacle to their war crimes. But it is a work in progress, coming as the
workers' movements are beginning to get in motion to fight the
consequences of the capitalist economic collapse. Even in vast parts of the
world where the winter holidays often drain the strength of a social movement,
people reacted quickly, angrily and in some places massively to oppose the new
Israeli assault....
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The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community of Cleveland won a major victory with City Council’s passage of a domestic partner registry on Dec. 8....
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The 1,400-plus delegates at the 18th Congress of the Portuguese Communist Party, and the thousands of other PCP militants invited to observe, made it clear that in this one corner of imperialist Europe there is a living, breathing combat organization with roots in every laboring and productive
section of society....
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There are not enough adjectives to express the kind of gratitude due the
courageous workers of the Chicago Republic Window and Doors factory....
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The more than 300 conference delegates came mainly from the South, but also traveled from other U.S. regions, representing local, state and regional labor, community, and youth and student struggles and campaigns. The social composition of the conference was Black, Latin@ and white of all ages and political experiences....
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In an investigative article released this week, a reporter who spent a year
and a half in New Orleans connects the dots on reports that have circulated
ever since Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 showing that Black people were dying
from indiscriminate shootings as well as from drowning after Katrina....
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Life-long civil rights advocate Ramsey Clark, winner of the 2008 United Nations Human Rights Award and founder of the International Action Center, held a press conference in front of the JFK Federal Building here on Dec. 17 to defend Chuck Turner, an African-American community leader and five-term Boston city councilor, against racist frame-up charges from U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan....
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Students at The New School in New York City formed the New School Radical Student Union and occupied the dining hall of a New School building on Dec. 17, demanding more accessible and democratic education....
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More than 5,000 delegates filled the hall to overflowing at the Arab International Congress for the Right of Return, held in Damascus, Syria, on Nov. 23 and 24. Delegates came from 54 countries....
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The International Anti-imperialist and people's Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC) strongly condemns the horrendous aerial attack by Israel on Gaza killing and injuring hundreds of Palestinian people and demands that Israeli aggression against Palestine must immediately cease. In a most brazen manner the Israeli Government has bragged more severe attacks might follow....
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The youth organization FIST (Fight Imperialism, Stand Together) sent out the following statement on the Israeli assault on Gaza: The massacre of at least 225 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by the Zionist military, using U.S.-supplied F-16s and Apache attack helicopters, is the
latest in a long line of crimes against humanity committed by Israel....
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Unable to break the spirit of the Palestinians after 18 months of putting Gaza under siege, the Israeli terror machine, using U.S.-supplied Israeli F-16 warplanes and “Apache” helicopters, dropped more than 100 tons of bombs on Palestinians in Gaza on Dec. 27. The unprecedented onslaught on a civilian population killed at least 229 people and wounded at least 700 more. (Reuters, Dec. 28)...
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The International Action Center condemns the criminal
U.S.-backed Israeli bombing massacre on Gaza, and the mass murder of 200 and serious wounding of another 300 Palestinians. We call upon the progressive, anti-war and workers' movement in the United States to join the angry, growing worldwide protests of these latest Israeli war crimes with U.S.
complicity. We refuse impunity to the Israeli state and its backers....
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e must act now, before the massacres continue! Over 200 people were killed in Gaza on Saturday, December 27 in a series of Israeli attacks -
with US-made and paid for weaponry - upon the Palestinian people. These
cold-blooded killings come on top of a siege on Gaza that has killed hundreds by depriving them of medical care, deprived Gazans of electricity, power and
fuel and attempted to strangle the life of the Palestinian people in Gaza....
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New classes in camera and editing starting January 4, 2009, at the Solidarity Center, 55 W. 17th Street, 5th floor., New York City
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A campaign to "Bring the Guard home! It's the law!" is
slated for a January 21 launch, immediately following Inauguration Day, in
Washington, D.C. Organizers say momentum for the campaign has been building
over the course of 2008, as state after state has joined the effort. Vermonters
initiated the campaign in January with the introduction of legislation ending
future deployments of the Vermont National Guard to Iraq. Legislators in New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island followed with similar
legislation in those states....
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Students of the New School University, from the Radical Student Union and SDS, along with supporters from universities including NYU, Hunter College, City
College of NY, CUNY Graduate Center, Rutgers University and Borough of Manhattan Community College, are currently occupying the New School Graduate Faculty Building (65 5th Avenue in Manhattan - @14th Street)....
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Steve Millies, a long time activist, took the podium at the meeting and denounced the MTA as "a collection agency for the biggest banks and insurance companies," and said that the budget should be "thrown in
the garbage can."...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal remains on Pennsylvania’s death row. Last week marked the 27th anniversary of his unjust imprisonment. Racism, fraud and politics have been threads that have run through the case since its inception, and continue today....
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We cannot sit back and
expect that change will just happen now. In order to make real change, people
must be mobilized and organized. Otherwise, all of the hopes for a new
direction can be quickly diverted....
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Today, November 23rd, I was slated to give remarks in Damascus,
Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, sadly, the 60th year that the
Palestinian people have been denied their Right of Return enshrined in that
Universal Declaration. But a funny thing happened to me while at the Atlanta airport on my way to the Conference: I was not allowed to exit the country....
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The right of the Palestinian
refugees to return to their homes and lands from which they were expelled with
compensation for the losses that they have incurred lies at the centre and
heart of the Palestinian issue. It is a deeply-rooted and inalienable right
that cannot be compromised, bargained or diminished....
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International Action Center founder Ramsey Clark, a former US Attorney General and internationally renown human rights defender, received the respected United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights on the 60th Anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 10 December 2008....
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Their workplace was suddenly shutdown when Bank of America withdrew a line of credit. No 60 days notice was given to these workers, as required by the WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification) Act. Their vacation pay was stolen, too....
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The Bail Out the People Movement invites you to come together on Jan. 17, 2009
to talk, share and plan to fight back. If there was ever a time for us to recommit ourselves to Dr. King's struggle for economic and social justice, there can hardly be any doubt that now, 80 years after his birth, is that time....
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During the week of December 8-13 Organize Protests in Front of Your Local Bank of America Office or Building....
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Hundreds of people participated in the 39th National Day of Mourning here,
organized by the United American Indians of New England, on Nov. 27. The event
is held on every U.S. "Thanksgiving" Day to tell the truth about that myth and uncover the real experience of Native peoples in this area since 1492....
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The Ethiopian government on Nov. 25 announced it was withdrawing its
military forces from neighboring Somalia. This represents a defeat for the
foreign policy aims of Washington, which encouraged the government of Meles
Zenawi to invade Somalia in December 2006....
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Dec. 6 will be a day of international solidarity to free Mumia Abu-Jamal. It
is sorely needed. Lynne Abraham, the Philadelphia district attorney known as
“the deadliest D.A. in the U.S.,” is calling on the U.S. Supreme
Court to reinstate Abu-Jamal's death sentence despite mounds of evidence
showing his innocence....
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What's their real agenda? To use the crisis over the terrorist attacks in Mumbai as a lever to bring Pakistan more fully into the U.S.-led war against Afghanistan....
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Every year since 1970, United American Indians of New England have organized
the National Day of Mourning observance in Plymouth at noon on Thanksgiving Day. Every year, hundreds of Native people and our supporters from all four
directions join us. Every year, including this year, Native people from
throughout the Americas will speak the truth about our history and about current issues and struggles we are involved in....
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This First Arab International Congregation is taking place at a time when defense and support of the heroic Palestinian Resistance is sorely needed. We are confident that its decisions and the Damascus Declaration for the Right of Return will resonate throughout Palestine, the Middle East and all over the world, including Washington D.C.
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Since 1970, Native Americans have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US thanksgiving holiday....
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The Israeli Army invaded the Gaza Strip on Nov. 4 with tanks, helicopters and jet aircraft. The attack was an explicit violation of a five-month Egyptian-mediated truce between Israel and the Palestinian resistance groupings in Gaza. The elected Hamas government there had agreed to the cease-fire....
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The government's witch hunt and persecution of the San Francisco 8 continue unabated despite growing public support to drop the charges and release the former Black Panther Party members....
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In a recent statement from the United Nations Mission in Congo (MONUC), the
possibility was raised of a greater military presence there under U.N.
auspices. This announcement comes at a time when there has been an escalation
of fighting between rebel groups and the Congolese National Army in North and
South Kivu provinces, located in mineral-rich eastern Congo....
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The Pakistani government warned Gen. David Petraeus, now head of the U.S.
Central Command running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, that frequent missile
strikes on its territory risk inflaming anti-American sentiment. (AP, Nov.
3)...
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Four U.S. Black Hawk helicopters swept across the Iraqi-Syrian border Oct.
26 to the al-Sukkariah family farm in the town of Abu Kama. U.S. Special Forces landed and killed eight civilians, including three children, according to the
Syrian government. It was the first attack of this scale by U.S. military forces against Syria....
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For months now Afghanistan has been deadlier for U.S. troops than Iraq, even
though there are 32,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and 160,000 in Iraq....
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There is a new political situation in the U.S. and in the world. Even though
Barack Obama's sweeping electoral victory was not entirely unexpected, now that it has happened -- the reality of it -- the way in which it demonstrated to the world that something big has changed about the working
class in the U.S., is so stunning that many still find it hard to believe....
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The 2008 Cuba/Venezuela/Latin America/North America Labor Conference is fast approaching - along with an economic crisis that crumbles illusions in the
profit-first capitalist system and a new administration coming to Washington,D.C. setting the sights of millions of workers on a better life. There is a lot to learn and much to discuss and share....
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Help us pressure the Egyptian Government to Open the Rafah Crossing so that Palestinians may access basic supplies to survive....
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To: President Bush, Senator McCain, Governor Palen, Attorney General Mukasey,
Governors of Key States, Congressional and Republican Party leaders and members
of the media...
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The world is facing one of the most severe economic crises affecting the common man, due to the imperial and reckless policies of Bush and his allies. These same policies have led to one of the darkest days of Pakistan's history,
November 3, 2007, when the worst dictator of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf
declared a state of emergency in Pakistan, suspended the constitution for the
second time and arrested Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Iftikhar Chaudhry and
his sixty fellow judges of the Pakistani Superior Courts, forcing the country from civilized society to the dark ages....
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The IAPSCC condemns in strongest terms the latest US attacks on Syria and Pakistan killing many citizens of the two countries. This is a gross violation of the sovereignty of the two nations and must be regarded as blatantly illegal and unjustified acts of war. ...
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All who want to stop the Bush White House from starting another war should
immediately protest the unilateral, unjustifiable and criminal October 26 U.S.
assaults on Syrian and Pakistani sovereignty. Don’t let Bush get away
with expanded war crimes in the Middle East. Condemn his efforts to hand a wider war to the next administration....
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On Monday, October 27, Troy Davis, an African American on death row in Georgia, is scheduled to be legally lynched by the state of Georgia. Davis was
convicted in the 1989 killing of a police officer despite what Amnesty International calls "overwhelming doubts about his guilt."...
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There are new developments in the case of my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who is on Pennsylvania's death row, that are the most significant and deadly since his 1981 arrest....
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Violent and repressive tactics are being used against
thousands of Indigenous people who are participating in a national mobilization
to bring attention to the humanitarian crisis they face....
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The stock markets are crashing, the world economy is headed into a deep recession or even depression, and the U.S. government and its top bankers, along with their counterparts around the world, are giving what's going to amount to trillions of dollars to bailout the richest 1
percent of the people ...
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An unprecedented humanitarian crisis has brought about tremendous suffering, illness, and death to more than 500,000 war refugees in Mindanao, Philippines....
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U.S. troops in Afghanistan shot Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and took her into custody in July. She lies in solitary confinement in the Manhattan
Detention Center, with an open scar from her sternum to her lower abdomen. She has not seen her lawyer, Elizabeth Fink, because if she leaves her cell she faces an excruciating strip search....
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Click the link below to send a message directly to presiding Judge Larry Stephen, Mayor Bloomberg, Gov Paterson, Senators Clinton and Schumer, the New York State Legislature, and members of the media!...
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Foreclosure fighters took on Deutsche Bank Sept 25 in Boston, in the latest
eviction blockade organized by the City Life Tenant Organizing Program and its
supporters. Four protesters were arrested, including this writer, while trying to prevent the Boston police and a constable from evicting the Esquival family in Boston's Roslindale neighborhood....
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During the last week of September, unprecedented fighting took place in
several areas of the east African nation of Somalia. This rising tide of armed
conflict is directly related to the resistance efforts of the Somali people against the occupation of their country by the military forces of neighboring Ethiopia. The Ethiopian invasion in December 2006 was fully supported, financially and militarily, by the U.S....
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In the week since Bush announced plans to use $700 billion in public funds
to rescue Wall Street banks, nearly 200 demonstrations have been organized throughout the U.S. to oppose the bailout and express the righteous anger of workers and poor. Many were organized by grassroots groups taking advantage of the Internet to get the word out....
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The Jersey 4 are young African-American lesbians from Newark, N.J., who were
convicted of "gang assault" charges in June 2007 after defending themselves against a man who attacked them and three of their friends in August 2006....
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All surveys and opinion polls show that a majority of people living in Germany oppose the country's massive participation in the illegal
occupation of Afghanistan, although only a minority in the Bundestag (Parliament) reflect this position. Here, the demonstrators from the Left Party carry a banner that reads: "Federal Army out of Afghanistan."...
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Prachanda said, he was labeled a terrorist by the U.S. and had a price on his head of 55 million rupees (about $1.2 million). The CPN(M) is still on the U.S. "terrorism watch list," even though he is now representing Nepal at the General Assembly....
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Actor Danny Glover sent the following message of solidarity on Sept. 13
to the concert "Five Stars and One Song" held in New York in support of the Cuban 5....
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After months of painstaking negotiations between the ruling Zimbabwe African
National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the two main opposition parties,
the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T) and the small breakaway
faction known as the MDC-M, the leadership of these organizations reached an
agreement to share power in a Government of National Unity (GNU)....
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As banks fail, jobs disappear and the economy sinks deeper into a horrific crisis of poverty and misery, the television channels and political campaigns have suddenly become full of the most unlikely people denouncing "big business."...
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President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy Geithner and
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson have been huddled in round-the-clock meetings,
hammering out deals. It has been done in secrecy, behind the backs of the
workers and the middle class, who will get stuck with the bill. They have been
working out these deals with the same loan sharks of high finance whose orgies
of speculation, gambling and deception in pursuit of profit led to the crisis
in the first place....
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The Senate has just voted to pass a US$700-billion financial bailout for corrupt financial institutions, while ignoring the real needs of working people. In addition to an unprecedented giveaway to Wall Street, the bill also includes $100 billion dollars in tax breaks for corporations - but no relief for working people who are facing foreclosure and who need health care, jobs, and education....
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Chanting "Bail out the people, not the banks," hundreds of poor and working people from across Michigan converged on the Capitol here on Sept. 17 demanding the State Legislature enact SB 1306, a
two-year foreclosure moratorium bill. The action was sponsored by the
Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions. Protesters were outraged that the federal government has pledged hundreds of
billions of dollars to bail out the same mortgage, banking and insurance
companies that caused the foreclosure crisis. Activists were serious and
determined to win relief by forcing the state and federal governments to pass a
moratorium to immediately halt foreclosures....
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U.S. imperialism's every effort to assert itself and reverse its declining global domination confirms its weakened position....
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Anti-war activists need to address the latest phase of the war - the war against working people here!...
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The struggle between U.S. imperialism on one side and the movement for
sovereignty and self-determination for the countries of Latin America on the other reached a new stage in early September with use of paramilitary force against the popular Evo Morales government in Bolivia. This escalation has already led to more than 30 deaths, the expulsion of two U.S. ambassadors and an emergency meeting of Latin America heads of state in Chile....
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Cuban leaders of the Confederation of Cuban Workers (CTC) will visit Tijuana, Mexico, a city 15 minutes from the San Diego, U.S./Mexico border. This conference will give people from North America (the United States, Canada and Mexico) the opportunity to hear first hand from the Cubans about Cuba’s workers and their unions. Also, you will hear from leaders of the Venezuelan union, UNT, about the present situation of the Venezuelan revolution and the issues facing Venezuelan workers, representatives of Mexico, United States, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Haiti, the Philippines and Nicaragua discussing the social and labor movements in the Americas....
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As many of you know, the Bush Administration, with the support of politicians from both parties in Congress, has repeatedly threatened Iran with military action, and many now believe that an attack may be imminent....
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The International Action Center would like to express its solidarity with Bolivia, President Evo Morales, and the MAS government in this time of U.S. orchestrated violence in Santa Cruz and other departments of the Media Luna. We support Bolivia's declaration of the U.S. Ambassador Phillip Goldberg as a persona non grata, and we protest U.S. involvement in Bolivia and its efforts to undermine and subvert the process of change in Bolivia that will benefit the sectors of its population that have been most oppressed, the Indigenous and Afro-Bolivian peoples. ...
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The Bush Administration, with the support of politicians of both parties in Congress, has repeatedly threatened Iran with military action, and many now believe that an attack may be imminent.The Stop War on Iran campaign has issued an international call for actions on September 27....
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With little more than a month past since Bolivian President Evo
Morales won a recall referendum with 67% of the vote, Bolivia's
secessionist opposition has taken to the streets beginning in Santa Cruz, one
of the wealthiest regions of the country. Three days of mayhem and violence
have wracked the city of Santa Cruz resulting in at least 8 deaths so far,
spurred on by calls broadcast over the national media to join in "civil
disobedience" against the government....
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The International Action Center condemns the U.S. silencing of Mrs. Masood
"disappeared" of
Pakistan. The United States Department of Homeland Security has cowardly
revoked the travel visa for Amna Masood Janjua. She was prevented from
traveling to the US to meet with human rights organizations and members of
Congress by US agents who boarded the plane she was on, forcing her off. ...
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Labor Day weekend is always an important time in Detroit, known as the "Motor City," home to hundreds of thousands of organized and
unorganized workers....
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Pro-choice organizations sprang into action in July after they discovered
proposed Bush administration regulations that endanger women's reproductive rights and medical care....
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John McCain spoke of combating "threats to peace and liberty" as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination Sept. 4. Meanwhile, thousands of demonstrators braved waves of riot-police attacks to charge that U.S. imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and liberty facing the world....
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I have watched with keen interest and renewed hope as your campaign has mobilized millions of Americans behind your message of changing a political system that serves a small economic elite at the expense of the peoples of the
United States and the world. Your election as president of the United States, where slaves and Indians were long considered less than human under the law, will undoubtedly constitute a historic moment in race relations in the United
States....
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Foreclosures and evictions are devastating working families around the country. One in nine homeowners nationwide is either behind in their mortgage payments or their family homes are in foreclosure. Over 72,000 homeowners have lost their homes in the Detroit area alone. The vacant home rate in Detroit is 18 percent, second only to New Orleans.
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With shouts of "Jallalah Evo" and "Jallalah
Bolivia," which roughly translate to "We will continue in the
struggle," thousands of exhilarated Bolivians celebrated their triumph
over a recall referendum on Aug. 10. They gathered in Plaza Murillo facing
Palacio Quemado, the presidential palace, awaiting their president, Evo
Morales, after defeating the recall by a wide margin....
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There has been extensive news attention to the ongoing federal proceedings concerning my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, on the hotly contested issue of racism in jury selection and the ordering of a new jury trial on the question of life or death. (Abu-Jamal v. Horn, 520 F.3d 272 (3rd Cir. 2008).) The massive issue of racism will be presented to the U.S. Supreme Court later this year. However, few are aware that we have been actively litigating separate issues concerning fraud and the subornation of perjury by the Philadelphia Police Department and the District Attorney of Philadelphia. We are now before the Supreme Court regarding this governmental misconduct which resulted in Mumia being convicted and sentenced to death.
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The undersigned, friends of Iraq from France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the United States of America, Egypt, Sweden and Iraq, organized in the International Anti-Occupation Network (IAON) and gathered in Le Feyt, France, from 25 to 27 August 2008, have adopted the following position and declaration reflecting our commitment to a true end to the occupation and to a lasting, sustainable peace in Iraq....
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In early August the western powers and news media launched an anti-Russia campaign following events in Georgia and South Ossetia. With great concern, people around the world watched the recent military confrontation in Georgia, which had been a republic in the former Soviet Union. ...
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The Georgian army's assault on the small nation of South Ossetia this August, backed and armed by the U.S., will have widespread repercussions,
including here in the U.S. The attack immediately caused great suffering to
tens of thousands of people in South Ossetia and Georgia. It was the topic of a top-level meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels and will impact on the struggle against placing U.S. missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic....
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(Denver) Today, thousands of activists from across the country rallied at the State Capitol and marched through the streets of Denver to kick off a week of protests during the Democratic National Convention....
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Aug. 26 -- A series of rallies, marches, teach-ins and cultural events have
taken place in the first two days of people's resistance to the Democratic Party during its national convention in Denver....
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Denver police have used violence and mass arrests in an attempt to silence
dissent during the Democratic National Convention. However, organizers and activists have put the city and police on notice that their intimidation
tactics will not work....
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Tell Bush, Cheney, Rice And Congress: U.S. hands off Georgia & Russia - No
New War - End Nato Now! Please Join The IAC's U.S. Hands Off Georgia &
Russia - End Nato Now Campaign. Your Action Is Needed Now!...
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As the threat of war and sanctions against Iran grows, “No War on Iran” was a slogan and chant that resonated across the U.S. on the weekend of Aug. 1-2 as emergency marches, rallies, vigils, teach-ins, honk for peace picket lines and leaflet distributions were held to protest U.S.-Israeli war threats against Iran.
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Manik Mukherjee, General Secretary of International Anti-imperialist and People's Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC)attended the programme on National Workers Day Celebration on invitation from the Sudan Workers Trade Union Front (SWTUF). The Conference started on August 3, 2008 with nearly 2000 delegates from 20 countries at the Friendship Hall, Khartoum. The Text of Manik Mukherjee's Speech at the Conference is given below. ...
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Countrywide and its parent corporation, Bank of America, were forced to back down and stop foreclosure proceedings against Detroit resident Rubie
Curl-Pinkins due to a mass outcry and militant struggle.During a July 18 demonstration outside Pinkins' home, Moratorium NOW!
Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions activists, along with community members and others, stepped up the struggle to stop her eviction July 25 from the home she has owned for 45 years. This demonstration was covered widely by local media....
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Organizers with the Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions have been on the go in Michigan. Activists have been fanning out and spreading the message that a ray of hope exists in the midst of the economic depression and home foreclosure epidemic devastating families in cities, rural areas and communities throughout the state. They have been publicizing SB 1306,
a law recently introduced in the Michigan legislature that would put a two-year moratorium or halt on foreclosures and evictions....
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(RHC)—Senator Yeidckol Polevnsky Gurwitz of the Mexican Senate has added her name to the list of international politicians, activists and cultural and artistic personalities who are urging the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice to grant visas without further delay to Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva, whose husbands, Gerardo Hernandez and René Gonzalez are serving prison sentences in US gaols for infiltrating
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Fifty five years is a short period of time in the life of a nation but enough to confirm that July 26 marked the beginning of a new era in Cuban history. In his fundamental speech at the official ceremony on the 20th anniversary of the Moncada also held here in Santiago de Cuba, Fidel recalled the inflammatory poem written by the outstanding Communist leader and noble intellectual Ruben Martínez Villena: ...
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It is with great sadness that we learned today that our comrade and friend, Yoomi Jeong, is no longer among us. We had stood together shoulder
to shoulder for years fighting to end the U.S. occupation of the Korean peninsula and to build solidarity and understanding between the progressive movements
in Korea and the United States. During those years of struggle we learned to respect and appreciate the devotion, skill, understanding and love that Yoomi brought to this work. We again witnessed her determination as she fought her illness against all odds these last two years....
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More than two weeks after being granted bond by a federal judge, Sami Al-Arian is still being held in prison. In fact, Dr. Al-Arian is now being subjected to the worst treatment by prison officials
since his stay in Coleman Federal Penitentiary in Florida three years ago....
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Colombia made prime news around the world on July 2 like never before. We learned that former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt had been freed from a Marxist guerrilla group along with three U.S. Pentagon contractors -- Tom Howes, Marc Gonsalves and Keith Stansell -- and 11 members of the Colombian army and police....
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Two thousand people joined the Longest Walk 2 at the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 11. This mobilization marks the 30th anniversary of
the original Longest Walk, when thousands of Native Americans converged on the
Capitol to defeat eleven pieces of legislation that would have terminated
Native American tribal rights....
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If bombs start falling on Iran, a world calamity will surely result. Yet this
is a distinct possibility since President Bush has not taken the "military
option" off the table - the exact same language he used just before the
senseless attack on Iraq, hundre4des of thousands of Iraq deaths, over 4100
U.S. military deaths and $562 billion ago....
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On Monday, May 12, 2008, at 10:00 a.m., in an operation involving some 900 agents, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed a raid of Agriprocessors Inc, the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse and meat packing plant located in the town of Postville, Iowa. The raid --officials boasted–--was “the largest single-site operation of its kind in American history.” ...
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Today our Petition for Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc, submitted on behalf of my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, was denied by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Simply put, we did not receive the needed majority vote from the nine sitting judges; at least five votes for a rehearing were necessary. However, Justice Thomas L. Ambro continues to urge the granting of relief on the issue of racism in jury selection. ...
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Recent news makes it clear why it is more important than ever that we take to the streets on August 2. According to press reports, President Bush has given the Israeli military the go-ahead to prepare for an imminent attack on Iran. Once again the most powerful forces of US corporate power - the military-industrial-petroleum complex -are using Israel as their proxy to threaten war on surrounding countries in the region. Israel is armed, financed, and politically and diplomatically supported by Washington....
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We have just been notified about the decision of the three Judges of Atlanta. Under absurd political pressures, two of them rejected nearly all of our appeal points, and only granted three of us retrials,in an attempt to divide us, weaken us and isolate us....
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Please show your support for the Migrants Trade Union and the right of migrant workers in South Korea to form and join trade unions. Send a letter to the South Korean Supreme Court and government telling them to recognize
MTU!!...
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"For a long time, others spoke on our behalf. Now we speak for ourselves." The message was clear: the time for the voice of the grassroots migrants has come with the resounding success of the International Migrants Alliance (IMA) founding assembly....
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CSNY urges everyone to attend this year's annual July 26th 2008 Celebration in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution! This years event will take place on saturday, July 26th at the 1199/SEIU Building Martin Luther King Labor Center, 310 West 43rd Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues, Times Square Subway Stop) in Manhattan. ...
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Dear Friends of the Cuban Five: For more than ten years, Adriana and Gerardo have not been able to see each other. Olga and René have also been denied the right to family visits, since August 2000.
This is due to the cruel and unjustified refusal by the U.S. government to grant entry visas to the wives of two of the Cuban Five.
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This resolution, which has 220 co-sponsors from both major parties, demands that the President immediately impose
a land, sea, and air blockade on Iran to stop shipments of gasoline, and to subject all cargo entering or leaving Iran to stringent inspection
requirements....
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United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia On June 27, 2008, I submitted on behalf of my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Petition for Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Yesterday it was deemed "filed" by the court following rulings on related motions. The focus of the Petition is the issue of racism in jury selection. If unsuccessful, we will proceed to the United States Supreme Court...
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As told by most history textbooks in the U.S., the Korean War started with a
June 25, 1950, invasion from the communist north and the freedom-loving U.S. came to the aid of the besieged democratic Republic of Korea in the south. The reality was very different....
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Mr. Marsalis, perhaps by now you've seen or heard about the open letter to you from the British Committee for Universities of Palestine
regarding your quartet's concert date in Tel Aviv on July 17.
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea took a dramatic step on June
27 to prove conclusively to the world that it was disabling its technology for
making nuclear weapons. As representatives of the international media recorded
the event, it blew up the cooling tower at its Yongbyon reactor. The reactor had been shut down and sealed since July 15 of last year....
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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was inaugurated for a sixth term on June
29 after winning a landslide victory on behalf of the ruling Zimbabwe African
Nation Union-Patriotic Front against the opposition Western-backed Movement for
Democratic Change-Tsvangira....
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We are writing because of the new and immediate danger of a U.S. attack on Iran, either directly by the Pentagon or through Israel. ...
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On June 26, the Stop War on Iran Campaign issued a call for emergency actions on August 2 to stop the Bush Administration's drive towards an attack against Iran. In the few days since we’ve issued the call, responses have been pouring in. Already, we have heard back from activists and organizers who are planning protests, rallies, and pickets in more than 50 cities, including a major demonstration in New York City in Times Square and a demonstration in front of the White House in Washington. Actions will also be held in Los Angeles, several cities in Texas, locations throughout New England, small towns in Utah, and more. We are working on compiling a list of the growing number of local actions now, which we will have online soon....
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Allendistas and revolutionaries in New York are inviting everyone to celebrate the birth of President Salvador Allende, who was cruelly assassinated and defeated by a U.S. decree and by the armed Pinochet gang....
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Two years ago, in this very hall, the international community agreed to
eradicate world hunger. It adopted a goal of halving the number of malnourished
people by 2015. Today that modest and inadequate goal seems like a pipe dream....
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With the attainment of the required delegates to claim the Democratic Party's nomination for U.S. president, Sen. Barack H. Obama (D-IL) has written a new page in American history....
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On June 9, the San Francisco Labor Council passed a resolution "For a
Moratorium on Foreclosures, Utility Shutoffs, Evictions & Public Housing
Demolitions."...
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South Korea has been seeing nightly mass demonstrations for over a month, a
candlelight march of 1 million people on June 10 and a strike wave of key industrial unions. All are connected to a trade agreement between Washington and the current government of President Lee Myung-bak that would allow U.S. beef into the country....
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Join with the International Action Center and U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange on a fact-finding mission to investigate human rights violations in Colombia and attend the Tribunal!...
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When I was growing up in the U.S. South in the racially turbulent 1960s, it
would have been impossible for a Black politician to become a viable
Presidential contender. Nothing a Black candidate could have done or said would
have prevented him (or her) from being excluded on the basis of skin color
alone. Many of us never thought we would see in our lifetime a Black person
with a real possibility of becoming President of the U.S....
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The danger of a U.S. attack on Iran, either directly by the Pentagon or through Israel, was made more explicit in the first week of June....
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A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the verdicts
of guilt against each of the five Cuban heroes on June 4. This was the second
round of appeals for the Five, all of whom have been in prison for almost a
decade for trying to prevent U.S.-backed terrorist organizations in Miami from
engaging in violent attacks on Cuba....
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The Cuban Five are five Cuban men – Fernando Gonzalez, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labanino, Gerardo Hernandez - who are currently still in U.S. prison, serving four life sentences and 75 years collectively, after being wrongly convicted in U.S. federal court in Miami, on June 8, 2001.
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There apparently is still confusion regarding the March 27 federal decision. A new jury trial was ordered on the question of whether the penalty should be life or death. The court did not rule that Mumia should receive a life sentence as some have stated. The penalty-phase was reversed because the trial judge gave misleading and unconstitutional jury instructions. Nonetheless, I expect far greater gains.
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The following relation has
being created by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the
Sovereignty of Iraq (CEOSI,) with the information provided by direct Iraqi university sources and international and Arab media. ...
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The U.S. and European imperialist powers are responsible for the genocidal
slave trade that decimated Africa, the genocide of the Indigenous population of
the Americas, the colonial wars and occupations that looted three-quarters of
the globe. It was German imperialism that was responsible for the genocide of Jewish people. To call for military intervention by these same powers as the answer to conflicts among the people of Darfur is to ignore 500 years of history....
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We met, as we are doing now, fifteen years ago at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro. It was a historic moment. There, we took on the commitment later on contained in the Convention on Climate Change and, subsequently, in the Kyoto Protocol. Cuba was then the first country to take the environmental issue to a constitutional platform. ...
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In a significant show of international support for the International Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable, over 500 activists from around the world packed the workshop on the campaign at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil on January 29, 2005. The workshop was one of the most popular workshops at the World Social Forum. A pattern has emerged as a result of Coca-Cola's bottling operations in India. Communities living around Coca-Cola bottling plants in India are facing severe water shortages and the groundwater and soil has been contaminated as a direct result of Coca-Cola's practices. Coca-Cola is also accused of distributing toxic waste to farmers and selling contaminated drinks in India. ...
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The Venezuelan National Electoral Commission (CNE) early on Dec. 3 announced the results of the previous day's referendum on proposed major changes to 69 articles of the Venezuelan Constitution. The "No" vote opposing the reforms had won by a margin of less than 2 percent over the "Yes" option, which would have deepened progressive changes and ratified the reconstruction of society on a socialist basis....
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The San Francisco-based Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), with the support of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), has filed a lawsuit against Constant in U.S. federal court in the Southern District of New York on behalf of women who survived savage gang rapes and other forms of extreme violence, including attempted murder. The legal groups are using the Alien Tort Claims Act, adopted in 1789, which gives survivors of egregious human rights abuses, wherever committed, the right to sue persons responsible for the abuses in U.S. federal court. Since 1980, the law has been used successfully in cases involving torture (including rape), extrajudicial killing, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and arbitrary detention. ...
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This book is aimed at increasing recruiting problems by helping young people and their parents counter the lies of the recruiters. In this book, you will find practical tools for challenging recruiters, exposing their falsehoods, and getting them out of our schools. ...
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Last fall, when two Black high school students sat under the "white" tree on their campus, white students responded by hanging nooses from the tree. When Black students protested the light punishment for the students who hung the nooses, District Attorney Reed Walters came to the school and told the students he could "take [their] lives away with a stroke of [his] pen." Racial tension continued to mount in Jena , and the District Attorney did nothing in response to several egregious cases of violence and threats against black students....
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Vieques is an island municipality of Puerto Rico, separated from it by 6-8 miles of sea. It measures 21 by 4 miles, with an area of 33,000 sq. acres. Population: 9,400 inhabitants who live in the narrow, middle strip of land sandwiched between two U.S. large Naval facilities. ...
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Venezuelan counter-revolutionaries, with the full support of the U.S. and other
imperialist governments, have been attempting to use the non-renewal of Radio
Caracas Television's (RCTV) broadcasting license to destabilize the
popular progressive government of President Hugo Chevez....
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Since 1998, when current President Hugo Chavez won a popular election in
Venezuela, the U.S. government has worked tirelessly with the oligarchy in that
country to overturn Chavez's presidency. Chavez was re-elected in 2000,
again by a large turnout from the people....
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A multinational
delegation from 26 different countries visited the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea at the end of July for a commemoration of the 50th anniversary
of the signing of the armistice that ended the 1950-53 U.S.-led war on
Korea. The leaders of North Korea have renewed their efforts to replace
that armi stice with a peace treaty, and to move towards reunification
of the 70 million Korean people. ...
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A letter written fifty-six
years ago was recently unearthed by a Harvard historian and is getting a lot
of attention. U.S. Ambassador to Seoul during the Korean War, John J Muccio
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