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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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The International Action Center has announced the formation of the Latin America-Caribbean Solidarity Committee. The committee has already begun planning a number of events in solidarity with the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) of Honduras....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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From Friday, July 23 to Sunday July 25 the International Action Center will
be joining hundreds of other anti-war and community activists at the Crowne
Plaza Hotel in Albany, NY for a National Conference to Bring the Troops Home
Now. This United National Antiwar Conference will be an intense weekend of
plenary sessions, workshops, education, resolutions and networking....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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May 31 — A firestorm of condemnation and protest has followed
Israel’s latest brutality — the massacre of at least 9 unarmed
activists by the Israeli navy in international waters north of Gaza. The
activists were part of a 750-member delegation on a six-boat flotilla
attempting to bring humanitarian aid to the besieged people of Gaza.The Freedom Flotilla was the largest attempt to date in the growing movement
to break a three-year blockade of Gaza by Israel. Led by the Free Gaza Movement
and Insani Yardim Vakfi, a Turkish organization, the flotilla carried some
10,000 tons of humanitarian aid, including medical and construction supplies.
Representing 40 different countries, participants in the international
delegation included 85-year-old Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, and government
diplomats from various countries....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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 United States's goal to control the region for the benefit of its
corporations has no boundaries, whether posing as an aiding partner as in
Haiti, or through the imposition of an illegitimate government as in Honduras;
through 'diplomacy' or through blatant military force....
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On April 6, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal asking for a new trial for death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, based on evidence of racist prosecutorial misconduct during his original 1982 trial in Philadelphia. An important aspect of this misconduct is based on the 1986 Batson issue=97a legal decision that says that prospective jurors cannot be selected or unselected based on their race....
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A partial list of marches, demonstrations and
events...
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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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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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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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The Supreme Court has tossed out a lower court
ruling that nullified the death sentence for former Black Panther Mumia
Abu-Jamal. He has been an outspoken activist from behind bars, claiming there
were procedural errors during his capital sentencing, and that too few blacks
were on the jury....
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Send a message to President Obama, former Presidents Clinton and Bush:
"The People of Haiti need food, water, and medical aid, not military
occupation"...
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In 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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Egyptian security police have launched a brutal, unprovoked assault on the
500-member third Viva Palestina humanitarian relief convoy to Gaza. Dozens of
convoy members have been injured and some are reported missing....
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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On Oct. 28, President Barack
Obama signed the 2010 Defense Authorization Act, the largest military budget in
U.S. history....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Although providing transportation for especially unemployed workers across the country is an expensive venture, we must make it happen. Why? A delegation of participants who traveled great lengths and made stops along the way to highlight California's growing jobless and homeless plight is decisive. California's economy and its worsening trend has become a crystal ball showing the bleak future for working people in the entire nation and an example of how politicians refuse to address the needs of working and poor people and instead cater to the needs of the super rich monopoly banks and corporations. Buses and caravans to Pittsburgh would say in a loud clear voice:...
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"Fight or Starve" read the headlines of a leaflet being distributed by the Unemployed Council members in 1933. Flash forwards 76 years and it?s Labor Day 2009. A year ago the collapse of Lehman Brothers set off a worldwide melt down of the banking system and the biggest world economic crisis since the 1930s. One year later, after more than 13 trillion dollars of help from the government, they say Wall Street is okay. As finance ministers prepare for the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh this month, the spin is that the recovery is here or near and that U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke saved the country and the planet from a second great depression....
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ow that the documents recording the systematic torture of thousands of prisoners in secret U.S. prisons has been released to the world media in U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s report, the secret documents on the imprisonment and torture of Dr Aafia Siddiqui must also be released to the courts and to the world....
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United Steel Workers Union and United Electrical Workers have endorsed and are mobilizing....
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Both the United Steel Workers and the United Electrical workers unions have endorsed the March for Jobs in Pittsburgh, September 20....
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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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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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Youth jobless stats "beyond scary; they're catastrophic," says NY Times Columnist Bob Herbert...
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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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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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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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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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For the better part of the last 75 years, revolutionary
peoples’ artist Irving Fierstein used his immense talent to depict the
many struggles of working and oppressed people for social and economic justice
and against imperialism. In the early 1980s Fierstein created a unique genre of
art—striking full-color revolutionary banners thoughtfully composed and
painstakingly painted by hand....
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Come out to hear the latest developments in Honduras following the
right-wing coup against President Manuel Zelaya on June 28th and demonstrate
your solidarity with the Honduran people, as they continue to demand their
president back....
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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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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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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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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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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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June 26, 2009, is the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a particularly significant day for those of us concerned about the continued use of this criminal act worldwide. Most recently, a US citizen of Filipino descent has fallen victim to this cruel and degrading act in the Philippines....
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In 2004, the NAACP voted unanimously (with one "nay" vote) to "reiterate its support of the international movement for a new and fair trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal." Yet the organization has done nothing since that time to ensure justice for Mumia....
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We'll be closing down the petition around June 26 so that data can be compiled for delivery to the U.S. Parole Commission. So don't wait. Do it now. Not sure if you've signed? Sign again. Any duplicates will be deleted before the signatures are submitted to the Parole Commission....
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What a week coming up! The "G192" (UN Conference on the Financial and
Economic Crisis and its Impacts on Development), previously scheduled for June
1-4, is happening June 24-26: this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday....
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Wells Fargo, a recipient of $25 billion in
bailout funds, has cut off financing to Quad City Die Casting, throwing over
100 out of work. This is a devestating loss to the workers, but the effect
ripples out. It's a loss of over $6.4 million a year in lost wages and tax
revenue to our community....
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The third G20 summit is going
to be in Pittsburgh, Pa., on September 24 and 25, 2009. The challenge
before the movements for economic and social justice, as well as the
antiwar movement, is that the next meeting of the powers that govern
the world economy be met with a powerful mass mobilization demanding
that jobs and social needs, and not war and greed, prevail--here in the
U.S., and across the world. ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Let us remind the world that part of Dr. King's dream was that everyone
should have the right to a job or an income. Rekindling that dream could not be
more crucial today when the worse economic crisis since the 1930s is throwing
20,000 workers out of a job each day....
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The foreclosed homes auction today [March 8, 2009] at the Jacob Javits Convention Center is an
insult to the millions who have lost their homes and jobs in what is know the
biggest economic crises since the depression of the 1930s....
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The 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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Please join us on Sunday morning at 10:00 am sharp at a demonstration against the biggest auction of foreclosed homes ever in New York
City....
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Tell President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State Clinton,
U.N. Secretary-General Ban, Caribbean Economic Community Chair Barrow, Homeland
Security Secretary Napolitano, ICE director John P. Torres, Congress and
members of the media: Stop the Deportation of 30,000 Haitians!...
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Ending Ceremony Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Memorial at 4 p.m. Site of 1911
fire that killed 146 women workers and girls.......
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It is becoming clear that the stimulus packages and bail out proposals coming from Wall Street and Washington won't even make a dent in the growing number of layoffs and foreclosures. Working people must organize independently to demand a bail out for the people, not the banks.It's time to march on Wall Street!...
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The New York Post maligned President Barak Obama in an overtly racist cartoon
depicting two police officers, one is pointing a smoking gun at a large
chimpanzee, lying on the ground clearly shot dead.The caption reads "They'll have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill."...
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Activists from around New England will gather Feb. 28 at the union hall of
the Boston School Bus Drivers, United Steelworkers Local 8751, for a conference
on the economic crisis and how to fight back. The event is being hosted by USW
8751....
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The 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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First, let us begin by saying thank you.
Thank you for demonstrating to and for African people and the world the courage
and conviction that must be had to be self-determining in the face of
insurmountable odds. Odds that would have crushed others with any less will to
be free....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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On Tuesday, Governor Paterson is going to release his budget proposal. He will be proposing the most devastating across the board cuts in every social need vital to the well being of New Yorkers since the 1970's....
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Their workplace was suddenly shutdown when Bank of America withdrew a line of credit. No 60 days notice was given to these workers, as required by the WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notification) Act. Their vacation pay was stolen, too....
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The Bail Out the People Movement invites you to come together on Jan. 17, 2009
to talk, share and plan to fight back. If there was ever a time for us to recommit ourselves to Dr. King's struggle for economic and social justice, there can hardly be any doubt that now, 80 years after his birth, is that time....
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During the week of December 8-13 Organize Protests in Front of Your Local Bank of America Office or Building....
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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On Monday, October 27, Troy Davis, an African American on death row in Georgia, is scheduled to be legally lynched by the state of Georgia. Davis was
convicted in the 1989 killing of a police officer despite what Amnesty International calls "overwhelming doubts about his guilt."...
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The stock markets are crashing, the world economy is headed into a deep recession or even depression, and the U.S. government and its top bankers, along with their counterparts around the world, are giving what's going to amount to trillions of dollars to bailout the richest 1
percent of the people ...
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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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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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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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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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Anti-war activists need to address the latest phase of the war - the war against working people here!...
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Cuban leaders of the Confederation of Cuban Workers (CTC) will visit Tijuana, Mexico, a city 15 minutes from the San Diego, U.S./Mexico border. This conference will give people from North America (the United States, Canada and Mexico) the opportunity to hear first hand from the Cubans about Cuba’s workers and their unions. Also, you will hear from leaders of the Venezuelan union, UNT, about the present situation of the Venezuelan revolution and the issues facing Venezuelan workers, representatives of Mexico, United States, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Haiti, the Philippines and Nicaragua discussing the social and labor movements in the Americas....
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As many of you know, the Bush Administration, with the support of politicians from both parties in Congress, has repeatedly threatened Iran with military action, and many now believe that an attack may be imminent....
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The Bush Administration, with the support of politicians of both parties in Congress, has repeatedly threatened Iran with military action, and many now believe that an attack may be imminent.The Stop War on Iran campaign has issued an international call for actions on September 27....
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The International Action Center condemns the U.S. silencing of Mrs. Masood
"disappeared" of
Pakistan. The United States Department of Homeland Security has cowardly
revoked the travel visa for Amna Masood Janjua. She was prevented from
traveling to the US to meet with human rights organizations and members of
Congress by US agents who boarded the plane she was on, forcing her off. ...
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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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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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(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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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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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
terrorist groups in Miami. ...
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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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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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"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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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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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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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 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 Dalai Lama claims that China is committing "cultural genocide" against the Tibetan people, and his claims and news of the events unfolding in the regional capital of Lhasa have captured a great deal of attention in the major media outlets in the U.S....
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A delegation of Detroit activists traveled to Washington, D.C., on April 16 to participate in the national demonstration called by the Ad Hoc Network to Stop
Foreclosures and Evictions. The action took place outside the Mortgage Bankers
Association Annual Policy Summit held in a hotel just two blocks away from Capitol Hill....
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The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights condemns the latest
Department of Homeland Security immigration raid carried out on May 12, by the
Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) against immigrant workers
at a meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa....
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A terror raid against immigrant workers at a meatpacking plant in Postville,
Iowa, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on May 12 devastated
a whole town. Residents and local officials have expressed
their shock and anger in the national media....
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n June/July 2008 14 different routes of the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba will be on the road visiting more than 120 US and Canadian cities. We will travel in school buses, trucks, and cars to
Cuba via Mexico with medical and educational supplies collected from groups
across the US and Canada as a collective challenge to the inhuman and immoral US blockade and travel ban. Five of our buses will be named in honor of the Five Cuban patriots who are unjustly incarcerated in US jails. ...
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Anti-war activists in northern New York State are joining with the organizers of the Different Drummer cafe in Watertown and members of Iraq
Veterans Against the War (IVAW) for a new kind of war protest this May 17,
dubbed Armed Forces Day....
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The International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), known for its militant and democratic traditions as well as its economic and social justice activism, has written a new chapter in its glorious labor history by shutting down all 29 ports on the West Coast for eight hours on May Day....
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May Day, or International Workers' Day, was celebrated with marches, combative demonstrations and sometimes open struggles all over the world. In the non-imperialist world, these actions focused on the great increase in food
prices in recent weeks, in Europe on defending jobs and workers' wages. In both Europe and the United States, immigrant rights were up front. In the U.S. longshore workers held a rare political strike against war on the West
Coast....
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For the third consecutive year U.S. workers reclaimed their historic holiday, which originated with Chicago labor struggles for the 8-hour day in the 1880s. The dominant call this year was for full rights for 12 million undocumented workers....
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Many hundreds of people carried out massive protests and civil disobedience today, during the afternoon of a work day, in at least six key bridge and tunnel crossroads of New York City to demand justice for Sean Bell, the 23-year-old African American who was killed in a hail of 50 New York Police Department bullets in November 2006 in Jamaica, Queens, N.Y....
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May 7, 2008 - Oppose Zionist
celebration of 60 years of Nakba 2. May 16, 2008 - Major Rally at the UN to
commemorate 60 years of Nakba...
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A national press conference to demand the immediate release of Dr. Sami Al-Arian was held at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural Center in Harlem on April 15. Al-Arian was in the 44th day of a hunger strike to demand that the government abide by the terms of his release. He has been imprisoned for more than five years....Al-Arian, a tenured professor at the University of South Florida, was
arrested in 2003. Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft trumpeted it as the
"arrest of the most dangerous financier of Islamic Jihad in the Western
world." This case of a Palestinian who raised funds for orphans and charities back home is viewed as one of the most extreme examples of racist and anti-Muslim persecution....
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Over a thousand people voiced their collective outrage here April 19 that political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was once again denied the right to a fair hearing by an injustice system determined to keep this innocent man imprisoned for life if it can&'t silence him outright through execution....
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WORLD EVENTS have made May Day 2008 a turning point. AT NO OTHER TIME in our lives has it been more critical to march together and work together. WE NOW FACE AN ECONOMIC CRISIS the likes of which we have not seen in our lifetimes that is throwing millions out of their homes, jobs and making it more difficult to get healthcare, an education or even gas and food....
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Yesterday, on the morning of April 15th, Dr. Al-Arian was removed from the abusive prison of Howard County Detention Center in Maryland. Although immigration officials promised to prevent any further abuse, he was simply thrown from the pot into the frying pan....
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Rainbow Flags for Mumia is a coalition of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people and organizations that came together in 1999 to demand a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal. The following are excerpts from a call issued by RF4M
organizers Imani Henry and LeiLani Dowell to help raise awareness and solidarity with the Free Mumia rally in Philadelphia on April 19....
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In his new book, O'Connor argues that Abu-Jamal was clearly framed by police, and that the actual shooter was a man named Kenneth Freeman. O'Connor criticizes the local media, who, he says, "bought into the prosecution's story line early on and has never been able to see this case for what it is: a framing of an innocent and peace-loving man."...
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The Ad Hoc National Network to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions brought people, many facing foreclosure, from as far away as Boston, Raleigh and Miami. Sharon Black, a Baltimore organizer who chaired the rally, pointed out that the billionaire bankers were in D.C. to lobby for more tax breaks and concessions
from Congress....
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I urge you to join me and many others at 3:00 pm on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 in a
national protest at the Mortgage Bankers Association Conference in Washington
D.C. at the Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue, N.W....
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Friday, April 11, is the scheduled release date of Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian professor on a hunger strike, who has been imprisoned for more than five years. But the Department of Justice, through its continuous abuse of the grand jury system, is threatening to keep him imprisoned for many years....
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On Nov. 30, 2007 African-American police brutality and anti-war
activist Larry Hales was arrested after 10 cops illegally busted into
his home without a warrant and without permission, physically attacked him and handcuffed his partner to a chair. He is facing frame-up charges
of "interfering with the police" and faces extended jail time for being the victim of a police attack.
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This Legal Update is made on behalf of my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who remains on Pennsylvania’s death row. Many people have inquired as to our
reaction and position concerning recent legal developments, and what will happen now. This should answer many of those questions and alleviate some of the confusion....
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There is considerable documentation of the extremely
"irregular" decision making by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. See the...minority position in the Third Circuit ruling. We must expose the conspiracy to convict
Mumia, to deny him a new trial, and to have him either executed or imprisoned
for life. We will not accept their decision. Into
the streets for our brother, Mumia, and for ourselves!!!...
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In response to an online petition campaign over 50,000 email messages have been sent to the members of the House and Senate Banking and Finance Committees demanding a
moratorium on bank foreclosures and evictions. The number is continuing to
grow!...
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The following statement was issued on March 29 by Pam Africa,
coordinator of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia
Abu-Jamal, on the March 28, 2008 court ruling by the three-judge panel of the Third
Circuit of Appeals....
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Emergency protests took place in a number of cities March 28, 2008, the day after a 2
to 1 court ruling March 27 made by the 3rd Circuit of Appeals that upheld the
guilty verdict in the case of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and called for a resentencing hearing due to flawed jury instructions in the original trial....
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A ruling by the three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals rejecting Mumia Abu-Jama's appeals has left supporters outraged and
convinced that, for this internationally known political prisoner, there is no chance for a "fair trial" within the U.S. injustice system....
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Ed Lewinson is 78 years old and blind. On Wednesday he leaves for Federal prison in Elkton Ohio to serve a 90 day prison sentence based on his arrest protesting the School of the Americas (U.S. School of Torture) at Ft Benning GA....
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Hundreds of military veterans of the Bush administration&'s so-called war on terror attended the Winter Soldier 2008 hearings held here March 13-16 at the National Labor College, an AFL-CIO affiliate just outside Washington.
The four-day event was organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW)....
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When the Mortgage Bankers Association meets in Washington, D.C., on April
16-17 at the swanky Washington Court Hotel, their gathering will draw
protesters. The MBA is a national lobbying group that represents the interests
of the banks, including lending firms that are directly responsible for the
evictions of tens of thousands of people, including both buyers and renters, from their foreclosed homes....
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The Coalition to Save Harlem Announces an Online Petition Against the 125th Street Rezoning Plan....
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Attention antiwar activists--dust off your protest signs and bring them to a national demonstration against home foreclosures and evictions in Washington DC, on Wednesday, April 16. Join the Ad Hoc National Network Against Home Foreclosures and Evictions in front of the Mortgage Bankers Association Annual Conference, the biggest assembly of mortgage bankers in the country, to demand a moratorium on home foreclosures and evictions. Almost everyone hates the war in Iraq, but until now many have seemed resigned to leaving it up to politicians to end it. That's because most people have felt that the war didn't affect them personally. That mindset is coming to an end. ...
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THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS HAS RULED AGAINST A NEW TRIAL FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL. THEY HAVE CALLED FOR A SENTENCING HEARING WHICH CAN RESULT IN EITHER AN EXECUTION OR LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE.DAY AFTER PLANS ARE IN EFFECT
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We hope that you can join us to welcome and hear Edgar Paez, from the National Board of SINALTRAINAL, the Colombian union of the food industry workers. He will be April 1-2, 2008, in Philadelphia as part of a tour through the U.S. to bring attention to the danger not only for Colombian orkers, but for workers in the U.S as well, of signing a Free Trade agreement with Colombia....
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On September 1, 2008, tens of thousands plan to take to the streets of St. Paul, Minnesota, to say no to the war and occupation in Iraq. The Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War, made up of more than 100 organizations from across the country, has been seeking permits for this demonstration since days after the Republicans announced they would hold their national convention in Minnesota. While we have a permit to assemble and rally at the State Capitol, the City of St. Paul continues to withhold a permit for a march on the Xcel Center, where the Convention will be held....
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The campaign demanding justice for Larry Hales is gaining momentum. People around the country are outraged at the action last Nov. 30 of the Denver police, who stormed the home of Hales, a prominent anti-police brutality and
political activist in Denver, as well as a central organizer for upcoming protests at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver....
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THE MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION (MBA) -- the biggest national lobby of all the banks -- including the criminal predatory lenders, that are busy evicting your neighbors, relatives, friends
and maybe you from your home -- is holding it's annual policy conference in Washington D.C., on April 16 and 17. Their main goal is to make sure that bankers continue to get bailed out while families get tossed out! ...
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As the fifth anniversary of the criminal U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan neared, tens of thousands hit the streets on Mar. 15 calling for an
end to the war. In Los Angeles marchers targeted CNN at the corner of Sunset and Cahuenga chanting, "CNN, can't you see? Put the peace march on TV!"...
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Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred yesterday morning, on the 9th day of his hunger strike, to a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina run by the Bureau of Prisons. Since beginning his no- water or food hunger strike on March 3, Dr. Al-Arian has lost 23 pounds and grown weaker. He has not yet been given an IV. A doctor who examined him on Monday said he is suffering from starvation and Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred yesterday morning, on the 9th day of his hunger strike, to a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina run by
the Bureau of Prisons. Since beginning his no- water or food hunger strike on
March 3, Dr. Al-Arian has lost 23 pounds and grown weaker. He has not yet been given an IV. A doctor who examined him on Monday said he is suffering from starvation and dehydration....
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The issues in this case concern the right to a fair trial, the struggle against the death penalty, and the political repression of a
courageous writer and ournalist. My goal is to
win a new and fair trial for Mumia, and a jury acquittal upon his retrial. I want him to go home to his family. Nevertheless, Mumia is in great danger, for if all is lost he will be executed. We must never forget that racism, fraud, and politics are threads that have run through this case since the beginning and continue today....
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A march more than five blocks long went from Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, near
the United Nations, through Times Square and past Madison Square Garden to
protest the U.S. theft of Serbia's Kosovo. Many New Yorkers and tourists
watched with interest as the marchers went on their way to the St. Sava Serbian
Orthodox Church on 25th Street near Broadway....
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Growing list of cities participating in actions on
or around Feb. 29, 2008, in solidarity with the Haitian people, on the 4th
anniversary of the Feb. 29, 2004 coup d'etat in Haiti....
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The very instability and wrenching poverty that imperialism has brought to
the region will in the long run be the seeds of its undoing. The history of the
achievements made when Yugoslavia enjoyed real independence and sovereignty
through unity and socialist development will assert itself in the future....
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The demonstration of over 500,000 people in Belgrade and the attack on the U.S.
Embassy show the depth of outrage and anger over the seizure of the Serbian
province of Kosovo. Two Kosovo border posts were destroyed, one by fire the other in an explosion, along with ten McDonald's outlets and several Western banks and other hated targets. The Western media had overwhelming applauded the U.S. destruction in 1999 and
it now has a responsibility to explain the reason for the mass anger of millions of people. The outrage is because the province of Kosovo is not
actually being granted "independence." Millions of people see recognition of Kosovo's "independence" as an effort to legitimize a direct U.S. colony and to permanently secure a giant U.S. military base in the region....
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On March 8, 1908, working women in the needle trade industry took to the streets of New York City demanding better working conditions, higher wages, shorter workdays and the overall improvement of women's lives in this country. These women marched through New York City demanding justice for women workers and immigrant workers; they were in fact working immigrant women. The message and militancy of these women were so inspiring to women around
the world that in 1910 the International Socialist Congress meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, officially declared March 8 International Women's Day....
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Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center, delivered a
30-minute assembly program on Feb. 8 to the 1,000-person student body of Phillips Exeter Academy, a prominent private high school in New Hampshire. Her talk was divided into four sections: why capitalism requires war and inequality; why capitalism requires racism; the basics of socialism; and the choices that we make that impact society....
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No one should be awakened by armed squads bursting into their homes in the dead of night with shotguns and automatic weapons drawn taking away parents and relatives leaving children alone....
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Earlier this month the federal government issued a statement in which they labeled Joanne Chesimard, known to most in the Black community as Assata
Shakur, as a domestic terrorist. In so doing, they also increased the bounty on
her head from $150,000 to an unprecedented $1,000,000. Viewed through the lens
of U.S. law enforcement, Shakur is an escaped cop-killer. Viewed through the
lens of many Black people, including me, she is a wrongly convicted woman and a hero of epic proportions....
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Workshops will coordinate with the activities of the International Action Center and Troops Out Now Coalition. Trainees will have a chance to gather footage from demonstrations, meetings and forums and will learn to edit that footage and stream it on YouTube and Facebook....
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One hundred and fifty anti-racist activists continued the legacy of Martin
Luther King Jr. on Jan. 21 as they confronted members of the white supremacist
organization, the Nationalist Movement, in Jena, La. The event took place on Martin Luther King Day in this small Louisiana town that has been the stage for what is being called the new civil rights movement....
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Reports of demonstrations against racism on Martin Luther King Day from cities around the United States. Demonstrators called for cutting the military budget and using the money for jobs, housing, education and health
care....
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The U.S. backed Israeli blockade of Gaza must end!
Internationally coordinated demonstrations will be happening on Friday and
Saturday. International Action Center urges everyone to attend the demonstration nearest you, and to forward this call from Al-Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition) to as many people and as many lists as you can!...
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A small clique of WBAI board members and their friends, led by multimillionaire marketing huckster Steve Brown and variously called "ACE" and "independents," have escalated their illegitimate efforts to take control of the station. In November, they sued Pacifica and got a judge to stop the board elections that were almost complete....
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On Monday, January 21, from coast to coast, thousands took to the streets to march against racism.The Martin Luther King March Against Racism Coalition called for nationwide actions, saying, "There is a time for celebrations and there's a time for fighting. Now is a time that we need to fight. And fight like hell. On this King Holiday we must organize and march against the forces of racism, reaction and war, not just the war abroad but the war raging here at home. To know what's happening, is to know that nothing is more important than jump starting a multi-racial movement against racism."...
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Jan. 22 marks the 35th anniversary of the legalization of the right to
abortion in the United States. The Supreme Court's landmark 1973 ruling
in the case of Roe v. Wade finally guaranteed women the right to obtain safe, legal abortions in every state in hospitals, clinics and doctors'offices....
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Puerto Ricans have resisted U.S. culture and the imposition of English-only
in schools, and over the years have formed liberation organizations such as the
Nationalist Party, the FALN and the Macheteros. Now the movement and its allies
are calling for the FBI and the U.S. Navy to get out of Puerto Rico. International solidarity is needed....
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Fascistic groups like the Nationalist Movement should not have the right to free speech in order to spread their vile, hateful venom especially against Black and other people of color....
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Troops Out Now Coalition is part of and urges full support and a strong turn-out for The PEOPLE'S PEACE CONFERENCE 2008....
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This year, let's help put the meaning back into the Martin Luther King holiday on January 21st by marching against racism, oppression, war, poverty and division. In New York, the march will assemble at 1 PM for an opening rally at 32nd Street and 7th Avenue, near the offices of radio station WABC (which recently put Don Imus back on the air!). Then we will march to Columbus Circle and rally outside of CNN's offices (located inside the Time Warner building)....
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Fighters for reproductive justice for poor women are stepping up their campaign to overturn the Hyde Amendment, a reactionary law enacted by Congress in 1976 and signed by Democratic President Jimmy Carter in 1977. The Hyde
Amendment denies women on Medicaid the right to funding for abortions. It is named for its archreactionary sponsor, Henry Hyde, a former long-term Republican congressman from Illinois. ...
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On Dec. 20th, just five days before the Christmas holiday, residents and supporters of New Orleans public housing were denied their right to speak regarding the demolition of 4,700 public housing units. The housing is to be
replaced by :mixed income housing," which really means upscale and expensive housing....
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The Coalition to Stop the Demolitions is calling for National Days of Action
on Jan. 25 and 26. The call is to rally activists around the country to show
solidarity with public-housing residents in New Orleans and to save four
public-housing developments from being demolished by private developers in
favor of more expensive luxurious developments....
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Victor Toro Ramerez fought the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Now he is fighting deportation from the U.S., and is linking his own struggle
to that of all undocumented workers....
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Monday, Jan 21, in New York City and across the nation: The International Action Center and the Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) youth group are initiating an important call to action around the U.S. for Jan. 21, 2008, the official Martin Luther King Jr. birthday holiday. The call motivates people for solidarity and unity in the struggle against racism and all forms of injustice at home and abroad. It also calls for a national march in New York City along with other mobilizations around the country on this day focusing support for the Black community and immigrant rights:...
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Resolution calls for federally-funded public works program (like WPA of the 1930s) with prevailing wages and the right to organize...the Right of Return of evacuees...and an end to state repression, racial profiling and police brutality in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast....
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On Sept. 30, the television program "Desperate Housewives" had one of its main characters make a scripted racist slur against Filipino medical
professionals. The character insulted the medical education system of the Philippines....
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One of the most underreported stories from the Vietnam War is the role played by the disintegration of military discipline as the war dragged on. While the situation in Iraq has not reached the same point yet, revolutionaries
understand that the fact that the bosses are forced to rely on workers in uniform to wage their wars raises the possibility that the troops will say, "No."...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on Pennsylvania's death row for over a quarter of a century.
His 1982 conviction for the shooting death of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel
Faulkner, has been contested by jurists, human rights organizations, and peoples
of conscience the world over. Even though he is arguably the most famous political
prisoner in the United States, his case and struggle for justice distills many
of the issues that racially stigmatized groups and others have faced in the United
States for decades: police brutality and violence, racist applications of the
death penalty, prosecutorial misconduct, suborning of witnesses, and the use of
wealth and political privilege in criminal justice systems to service the ideological
interests of groups and classes in power. ...
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We are writing this at a critical time in the struggle for justice and peace,
but one in which there is also great potential. The war in Iraq drags on towards a fifth year, despite a clear mandate from the people to bring the
troops home now. The Bush Administration is still threatening the people of
Iran with ominous sanctions and a new war....
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We must strive to promote international friendship, sharing and true respect for humankind and to oppose the
policies of domination, globalization, and war....
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As part of its effort to forge new ties, Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five held a meeting at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City June 2. Leaders from various organizations voiced their commitment to work on behalf of the Cuban heroes,...
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Hundreds of Native people and their supporters gathered in Plymouth, Mass., on Nov. 22 to commemorate the 38th National Day of Mourning. Day of Mourning has been held annually since 1970 on U.S. thanksgiving day to provide a forum for Indigenous people to speak the truth about the history of this country and to speak out about current conditions in Indian Country. Participants, led by members of United American Indians of New England, marched to protest the lies told about thanksgiving and the European theft of the Americas and held a rally at the site of Plymouth Rock....
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The Haitian Revolution is a singular event in history. Never before or since has an enslaved people risen up, broken their chains, and established a new state. Haiti was a beacon of hope and inspiration to the enslaved Africans of the United States. Haiti's history has been turbulent, but not for the reasons given by mainstream historians. ...
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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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The U.S. Marine Corps launched another offensive this May--this one not a landing on some foreign beach but a legal attack on its own anti-war Iraq veterans. Given the results of the first skirmish in Kansas City, Mo., on June 4, 2007, the USMC already seems to be deciding that it might retreat rather than find itself fighting another losing battle with a popular army....
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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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It is mind-boggling for us to be here, now, at this late hour, with Leonard Peltier still in chains. Books have been written; documentaries have been produced; congresspeople have joined his freedom campaign -- all for naught. For Leonard Peltier, a former leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM), is still not free! That, to anyone with a soul, is a damned shame. ...
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Since 1970, hundreds of other Native Americans from across the country and their non-Native allies have been converging on Plymouth Harbor to let people know that Thanksgiving is a "Day of Mourning" that marks the genocide of thousands of Native Americans, the theft of Native Lands and the assault on Native Cultures. On Thursday, November 23, 2006 despite the cold and rainy weather, hundreds of people gathered and marched on Plymouth Harbor and joined in solidarity as various tribal elders and members spoke about the hypocrisy of the current U.S. government's attack against immigrants and spoke of the importance of Unity among all Indigenous Peoples. Elder Bert Waters read the following statement from Leonard Peltier: ...
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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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Last Friday, September 23, 2005, while the pro-independence movement in Puerto Rico was commemorating the 137th anniversary of El Grito de Lares, the day the first Republic of Puerto Rico was proclaimed in 1868, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, respected and legendary leader of the liberation movement was being assassinated by FBI sharpshooters just a few miles away in the western coast of the island. ...
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The International Action Center, an organization with over 15 centers throughout the United States, denounces the Bush Administration's announcement that the FBI has issued an arrest warrant for ANTONIO CAMACHO NEGRON a Puerto Rican pro-independence leader and former political prisoner....
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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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From June 27 to July 1, Atlanta will host the first-ever Social Forum held in the United States. The U.S. Social Forum will gather thousands of grassroots and community activists from across the country who will engage each other in political discussion and strategy planning. The operating slogan for the five-day event is "For another world to be possible, another U.S. is
necessary."...
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More than 1 million immigrants and supporters skipped work and school and took to the streets of New York City today in support of immigration rights.
As the day began, many businesses throughout the region remained closed, as owners observed the May 1 Great American Boycott -- a day of no work, no School, no shopping, and no selling. ...
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We the undersigned uncategorically denounce the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid and detention of at least 350 immigrant workers at Michael Bianco Inc. in New Bedford, MA. which took place the morning of Tuesday, March 6, 2007. We stand firmly in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in all immigrant communities and demand the immediate release of all who have been detained by ICE. Further, we demand an immediate end to these raids and deportations of immigrant workers and the reunification of their families.
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Poison DUst tells the story of three young men from New York who could not get answers for their mysterious ailments after their National Guard unit's 2003 tour of duty in Iraq. A mother reveals her fears about the extent of her child's birth defects and the growing disability of her young husband -- a vet. ...
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Some 10,000 grassroots organizers, anti-racist fighters, farm workers, domestic workers, anti-war veterans, former prisoners and their families, spokespeople for lesbian/gay/bi/trans rights, women's rights and environmental organizations, and activists in virtually every progressive struggle underway in the U.S. today came together in Atlanta from June 27 to July 1 for the U.S. Social Forum....
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Salam Alrawi, Alwan for the Arts, Ramsey Clark, Sara Flaunders, Abdeen Jabara, DeeDee Halleck, Ahmed Issawi, Mona Khalidi, Clark Kissinger, Emily Kunstler, Dan Meyers, Ralph Poynter, Michael Ratner, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Michael Steven Smith, and Lynne Stewart invite you to attend a book party to celebrate the release of:
Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine,
by Joel Kovel
&
We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon,
Edited by Kamal Boullata and Kathy Engel
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The Women's Fightback Network is a grassroots alliance of poor and working women, immigrants, disabled activists, students, elders and youth, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and transgender women--all standing together to protest budget cuts, racism, sexism and war. As women, we have a special place in the fight for equality and human needs....
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We the undersigned--lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender-nonconforming, and other activists fighting oppression based on sexuality, gender and sex--express our support for the right of the Black community in Brooklyn to decide to rename an avenue for the late Black community activist Sonny Abubadika Carson, who some called the "Mayor of Bed-Sty" for his long-time community activism....
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There are many developments on the legal and other fronts concerning my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal. We remain in active litigation before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and also have issues pending in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Mumia has been honored by fellow writers through acceptance into a prestigious organization, a Nobel Prize winner recently visited him, an excellent new book was released in France, a leading British newspaper has published a major article on Mumia, and a superb film recently premiered in London and Rome. The following are the highlights....
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On
Aug. 28, 2007, New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. attacked British unions
for supporting a boycott of Israel. The Chief, an influential weekly newspaper
that covers civil service unions and is widely read by New York City civil service
union members and New York City politicians, published an article in the Sept.
7th edition about Comptroller Thompson’s action. The article included a
statement of praise for Thompson’s action that was issued by Jewish Labor
Committee (JLC) President Stuart Appelbaum....
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Low-income women are often forced to use money they need for food and rent to cover the cost of an abortion. Many women cannot raise enough money and must continue the pregnancy and stay trapped in poverty. ...
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For one week, activists from across the U.S. maintained a 24-hour encampment directly in front of the Capitol to demand "Cut the War Funding - Stop the War at Home and Abroad!"...
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We urge our fellow trade unionists to join us on Sept. 29th and to participate in an encampment in front of the Capitol from Sept. 22-29 to
demand no war funding....
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Aug. 26, "Women's Equality Day," marks the day, 87 years ago, that women legally got the right to vote in the U.S. There was no equality for all women back then and today there is still no "equality" to celebrate....
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Hundreds of Endorsers - More than 40 Organizing Centers - It's time to Shut Down Washington! Stop the War at Home & Abroad!...
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MARCH ON WASHINGTON D.C. & WORLDWIDE PROTEST SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2007 - 4th Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Iraq...
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U.S. agents abducted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of
Haiti over a week ago and flew him to this intensely poor former French colony
in the heart of Africa in an attempt to isolate him and keep him from telling
the truth about what has happened in his Caribbean country....
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