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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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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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Bomb blasts in and around the Ugandan capital of Kampala on July 11 killed at least 74 people who were gathered at a rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant watching the finals of the 2010 World Cup....
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Iraqi women have been among the most liberated of their gender in the
Middle East. They have a long history of political activism and social
participation since the 19th century, having taken part in the struggle against
colonial domination and in the fight for national unity, social justice and
legal equality throughout the 20th century. In fact, UNICEF reported in 1993
that “rarely do women in the Arab world enjoy as much power and support
as they do in Iraq.”...
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A look at Google News shows that tens of thousands of articles have reported
or commented on President Barack Obama's firing of Gen. Stanley McChrystal
and his replacement by Gen. David Petraeus. This exposure of disarray and
demoralization within U.S. imperialism's military and civilian leadership
provides a welcome opportunity to accelerate efforts to force Washington and
its allies to withdraw and end the illegal U.S.-NATO war and occupation of
Afghanistan....
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On June 18, a U.S. carrier group quietly slipped through the Suez Canal into
the Red Sea, headed toward the Persian Gulf. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike
Force included an aircraft carrier, a guided missile cruiser and nearly a dozen
Aegis-class destroyers. Also included were the German frigate GGS Hessen and at
least one Israeli vessel....
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Western imperialist states are continuing their efforts to undermine
Zimbabwe’s sovereignty. The most egregious campaign recently has been the
attempt to block the southern African nation from selling its diamonds on the
international market....
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Workers across Europe — specifically in Greece, Portugal, France,
Spain and Italy in the West and Romania in the East — have begun to
resist the capitalists’ relentless assault on their wages, benefits,
social services and secure existence....
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There are no vacations yet for the students who won a two-month strike at
the University of Puerto Rico. Instead, they have continued organizing and
demanding that the administration fulfills the agreement....
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In the final two weeks of June we have seen a number of serious developments in
the Middle East involving the United States, Israel, and the Islamic Republic
of Iran. While almost completely ignored by the U.S. mainstream press, there is
considerable alarm around the world and especially in the Middle East. Some of
these developments are unprecedented and could denote a sharp escalation in the
U.S./NATO and Israeli campaign against Iran, or even all-out war....
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Nodutdol will be organizing an interactive outdoor art exhibit on the national mall, a film screening, lobbying, press conference, and a congressional briefing....
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Therefore, we call on the UN Security Council to not only resolve the matter
of the Cheonan fairly but also work towards the realization of a Peace Treaty
on the Korean peninsula. This will legally ensure peace on the Korean
peninsula, as well as contribute to global peace....
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The climate change we are living is not any crisis, it is a global alert about the way toward self destruction
that the powerful have chosen, given the lack of equitable possibilities that
the world need in order to survive –the indigenous peoples, the social
groups living in poverty, women,the elderly and children are the
most affected by it in today’s world....
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A 22 year old U.S. soldier, Bradley Manning, has been arrested on suspicion of leaking classified combat video footage and secret documents to a whistle-blower website. SPC Manning, from Potomac, Maryland, is assigned to the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division and was stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer, located east of Baghdad. SPC Manning was arrested in Iraq and is currently being held in Kuwait pending further investigations. The WikiLeaks website posted a video which shows U.S. occupation forces shooting civilians on a Baghdad street during 2007....
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Jubilantly chanting, “Victory, victory, victory for history!” and “Eleven campuses, one UPR!” students at the University of Puerto Rico on the 58th day of their strike emerged from a final negotiating session with the Board of Trustees having won an agreement. It still has to be ratified at an assembly of the students as a whole....
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A video produced for and shown at the 2010 U.S. social forum's IAC workshop on the struggle for jobs and against wars....
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The government of the Spanish state has sabotaged an international conference in the Asturias autonomous region of Spain. By doing so, Spain joined the U.S. in supporting the occupation regime in Baghdad....
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June 28th, 2010, marks the first year of the Military Coup in Honduras; the worst political, social and economic disaster in Honduran history. In the morning of that fatal day, more than 200 military men irrupted in the residence of Constitutional President, José Manuel Zelaya Rosales, beat him, tied him down and in his pajamas, put him on a plane and dropped him in the Airport in Costa Rica. Today, President Zelaya and his family are exiled and wish to soon go back to Honduras. ...
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Israel and its apologists bristle when Israel is called an apartheid state.
Most loudly shouting, “Israeli apartheid,” however, are those who
know the best — the workers of South Africa, who suffered the most under
South African apartheid. South African trade unions have denounced the siege of
Gaza and the apartheid wall on the West Bank, and have urged forward the
boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS)....
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The heroes and heroines of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, so brutally attacked
by Israeli commandos on May 31, have transformed the struggle to break the
siege of Gaza and raised it to a higher level. They are the new Freedom
Riders....
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A group of politicians and Zionist organizations are trying to ban speakers to a major NYC meeting scheduled for this Thursday, June 17, 7 pm at House of the Lord Church, 415 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn and speaking tour by a Turkish Member of Parliament, a U.S. filmmaker and other survivors of the horrific Israeli attack on the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara....
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Talks from the IAC meeting after the attack on the Mavi Marmara in
international waters by Israel....
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Be part of the international opposition to
the blockade of Gaza. Make your voice heard! The International Action Center
urges you to sign a petition demanding justice in the wake of Israel's
latest brutality -- the massacre of 9 or more unarmed activists by the Israeli
army in international waters north of Gaza. Your message will go to President
Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden,
Congressional leaders, U.N. Secretary General Ban, members of the U.N. Security
Council, U.N. member states, and the President, Prime Minister, and Cabinet of
Israel along with Major media representatives and the International Red
Cross....
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An imperialist politician was forced to resign May 31, not for a scandal, not even for getting caught lying to the public. This time German President Horst Köhler, a Christian Democrat (CDU), was forced to resign for giving everyone a moment of truth about Germany’s role in the war in Afghanistan....
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Israeli troops’ criminal actions aboard the Turkish Mavi Marmara,
killing at least nine of the anti-blockade activists and wounding dozens, in
turn released a storm of sympathy worldwide for those on the Freedom Flotilla
and for the Palestinians caught in Gaza behind the Israeli blockade....
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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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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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In Nepal, Honduras, Greece and elsewhere around the world, this year’s
May Day actions went far beyond the traditional workers’ holiday by
opening major struggles over decisive policies and in some cases over questions
of power....
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Ten years ago, the International Action Center initiated a major demonstration
focused on the prison industrial complex. It was held on in front of the U.S.
Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. The march was called to take place on
April 15, the day before militant actions to oppose the criminal policies of
the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which were meeting in that
city; thousands of youth took part in those protests....
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Thirty thousand people convened at the World People’s Conference on
Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The
conference, which took place from April 19-22, hosted people from more than 135
countries and 90 official state representatives. Climate activists, community
organizers, artists, musicians, scholars and workers from around the world
joined forces over the common goal of finding an effective and practical
solution to the climate crisis — a task that the rich, ruling countries
of the world proved, at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, that they are incapable
of accomplishing....
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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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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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We make a call to the international community regarding the militarization
and potential massacre in the valley of Aguán, Northern Honduras. Reports
estimate that of over 5000 police and military from all over the country have
arrived in the valley of Aguán. There are over 3,500 families with women,
children and elderly people who since last year have reclaimed land that was
stolen or forcefully removed by the businessmen Miguel Facusse, René
Morales and Reynaldo Canales....
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Eight Honduran lawyers testified in Washington, D.C., at the Inter-American
Court of Human Rights of the Organization of American States. The eight hope
that the IACHR will expose and condemn the escalating human rights abuses
perpetrated in that country after the June 28 coup that removed democratically
elected President Manuel Zelaya Rosales from office. Above all, the lawyers
hope the IACHR will force the Honduran state to investigate and punish these
crimes....
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The U.S.-NATO occupation of Afghanistan, begun in 2001 under President
George W. Bush’s leadership, continues nine years and hundreds of
billions of dollars later. Another episode typifying this criminal war recently
took place when German troops shot and killed a group of soldiers in the puppet
Afghan National Army who were delivering supplies to a German military
base....
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It is an absolutely chilling demonstration of cold-blooded murder. A U.S. Apache gunship circles a Baghdad neighborhood looking for “targets” — people to kill. A military video shows the intended targets through superimposed crosshairs: a group of men dressed in civilian clothes, no masks, no apparent weapons, casually sauntering along a street and into a small square....
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While a group of workers held an 18-day occupation at Vestas wind turbine
plant on Great Britain’s Isle of Wight in July, other Vestas workers and
their supporters erected an encampment outside the plant. On Nov. 27 this tent
community — which after four months included such comforts as a kitchen,
showers, furniture and a solar-powered laptop/cell phone charging station!
— was disbanded when Vestas obtained a court eviction order. Campers,
however, were hardly demoralized....
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The youth are more interested than anyone else in
the future. Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of
society we would have. Today, the discussion centers on whether human society
will survive....
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African countries at the COP-15 climate change summit in Copenhagen led a
walkout for several hours on Dec. 14 to protest the efforts of the United
States, Britain and other imperialist countries and their allies to sidestep
responsibility for the worsening impact of carbon dioxide emissions. The
increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has caused
climate change that threatens the total collapse of agricultural production on
the African continent....
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The International Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which was two
years in the planning, ended in a train wreck. Nothing was arrived at: no
treaty, no deadlines, no binding agreement of any sort....
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Despite angry statements by U.S. officials and endless verbiage in the
establishment media about what it all means, this disagreement is about a
diplomatic embarrassment and is not substantial....
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The events of recent weeks in Haiti and Chile have had impacts far beyond the borders of these countries. These impacts have been global....
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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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A recent statement issued by the Obama administration indicates that it is
planning to carry out aerial bombardments in the Horn of Africa nation of
Somalia. The announcement comes amid intense fighting in the capital of
Mogadishu between the two Islamic resistance movements, Al Shabaab and Hizbul
Islam, and the U.S.-backed Transitional Federal Government that is ruling the
country....
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Against all odds the southern African nation of Zimbabwe is celebrating its
30th year of independence from British settler-colonialism....
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The fraud and failure of microloans and micro-financing as the
bankers’ solution to global poverty can most clearly be seen in
Bangladesh today, where microloans first gained international fame and
support....
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The Pentagon offensive against the Afghan city of Marjah was
public-relations media hype from the very first day. The sole purpose of the
offensive in Marjah was to convince the U.S. population and increasingly tepid
NATO allies that this imperialist war is winnable....
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As the March 7 national election approaches in Iraq, the number of U.S.
troops occupying the country has slipped below 100,000 for the first time since
the U.S.-led invasion seven years ago. The Pentagon plans to change the name of
its Iraq effort on Sept. 1, from “Operation Iraqi Freedom” to
“Operation New Dawn” when 50,000 troops remain....
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Let the Honduran People restore democracy through convening the Constitutional
Convention they have been demanding to rebuild their country on a basis of
equality and justice....
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President Obama’s election brought hope for change in many aspects of US policy including the potential to end the illegal, immoral and internationally condemned economic blockade of Cuba....
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The Union of South American Nations — UNASUR — held an emergency
meeting on Feb. 9 in Quito, Ecuador, to examine the situation in Haiti after
the earthquake and make plans for short- and long-term assistance to the
destroyed nation. Exterior ministers and special envoys from Argentina, Brazil,
Chile, Guyana, Surinam, Uruguay and Venezuela and the presidents of Colombia,
Paraguay and Peru joined current UNASUR President Rafael Correa from Ecuador
and Haitian President René Préval....
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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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Since the 1980s, militarists in Honduras
have trained paramilitary forces to torture and murder labor unionists and
other activists to prevent the people from exercising their basic right to
resist exploitation and oppression....
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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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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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The nations of Latin America and the Caribbean were built with the hands of thousands of black and indigenous people. The colonizers oppressed them with the use of the whip and the dollar. The misfortune of the Haitian people is not a product of their geography but a product of a history of occupation, that which determines who lives and who dies, whose life is worth more than others. ...
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The United States's goal to control the region for the benefit of its
corporations has no boundaries, whether posing as an aiding partner as in
Haiti, or through the imposition of an illegitimate government as in Honduras;
through 'diplomacy' or through blatant military force....
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Haiti has suffered a terrible natural disaster at the cost of hundreds of thousands of precious lives. This natural disaster however, has been bitterly aggravated by racism and imperialist domination....
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A partial list of marches, demonstrations and
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Haiti was the most prosperous of all the French colonies during the period
of slavery. The production of sugar, coffee and other agricultural products
brought tremendous profits to the colonial landowners on the island of
Hispaniola, which today encompasses both the Dominican Republic and Haiti. At
the time of an uprising on Aug. 14, 1791, led by Boukman, more than 500,000
enslaved Africans and thousands more free Blacks and people of mixed race lived
in Haiti....
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We thank all the true friends of Haiti, in particular the Government and the
people of South Africa for their solidarity with the victims of Haiti....
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As soon as the devastating earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12, Cuban doctors
began saving lives.Years before this monumental disaster hit, Cuba had set up a medical mission
in Haiti to provide health care in areas where there had been little or none;
Cubans also were training Haitian medical workers in basic first aid. When the
quake struck, these teams quickly went into emergency mode....
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President Obama's response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in
military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first
responders and their specialized equipment; doctors and medical facilities and
equipment; and engineers, heavy equipment, and heavy movers. Sadly, President
Obama is dispatching Presidents Bush and Clinton, and thousands of Marines and
U.S. soldiers. By contrast, Cuba has over 400 doctors on the ground and is
sending in more; Cubans, Argentinians, Icelanders, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans,
and many others are already on the ground working--saving lives and treating
the injured. Senegal has offered land to Haitians willing to relocate to
Africa....
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Send a message to President Obama, former Presidents Clinton and Bush:
"The People of Haiti need food, water, and medical aid, not military
occupation"...
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In response to the devastating eqrthquake in Haiti, IFCO Pastors for Peace is supporting these organizations, which are delivering humanitarian aid quickly: Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, Lakou New York and Movement for Dominican Haitian Women....
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The International Action Center expresses its full solidarity with the
Haitian people at this time of greatest crisis following the devastating Jan.12
earthquake. In the Haitian capital, tens of thousands of lives have been lost
and the lives of hundreds of thousands of additional people are at stake. It is
essential that there be an all-out effort for immediate and massive
humanitarian relief effort....
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A grave tragedy has befallen the people of Haiti. Fight Imperialism Stand
Together extends its solidarity to the island nation, its people and the
peoples’ movements....
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The earthquake that flattened Haiti’s capital and brought a new
calamity to millions of people in that heroic but impoverished country has
awakened calls for solidarity and aid from the vast majority of the
world’s people. The number one priority is to provide food, drinkable
water and emergency medical care to the approximately 3 million Haitians
affected by the disaster to try to limit the deaths, injuries and illnesses to
the people....
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In the wake of the tragic events in Haiti,the organizers of the Martin Luther King Birthday Bail Out the People Not the Banks Protest on Wall St., scheduled for Friday, January 15, at Wall St. and Broad St. from 3:30 to 6:00 p.m., have decided to make Friday's protest a solidarity event with the Haitian people....
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A bomb explosion in a Central Intelligence Agency camp in Khost Province of Afghanistan on Dec. 30 resulted in the deaths of seven experienced operatives, including the base commander. The attack struck a heavy blow against the U.S.-led occupation. It has changed the ground rules for the U.S. spy organization and evoked threats from U.S. President Barack Obama and CIA head Leon Panetta....
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Demonstrators around the world marched in solidarity with the people of Gaza on the one-year anniversary of Israel’s massacre there and to demand an end to the Israeli blockade of Gaza....
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A Jan. 6 post on the Viva Palestina Web site reports, "One month, thousands of miles, ten countries, one ship and four flights later, Viva Palestina has begun to enter the besieged Gaza Strip."...
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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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Members of the Viva Palestina
international aid convoy to Gaza will begin a hunger strike at 11.25 am tomorrow
(27th) in protest at the Egyptian government's refusal to allow the convoy entry onto its soil....
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This is a report from New Jersey IAC activist Ralph Loeffler, who is with the Third Viva Palestina Lifeline to Gaza convoy, which is being blocked from entering Egypt at the Jordanian port of Aqaba....
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Last Dec. 27, the U.S.-funded Israel war machine unleashed a blizzard of U.S.-made weapons of mass destruction on the towns and refugee camps of Gaza, the most densely populated place on earth. 1,500 died, many of them women and children. Tens of thousands lost their arms, legs, eyes, were paralyzed, orphaned or made homeless....
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Among the most important corporate media censored news stories of the past
decade, one must be that over one million people have died because of the United
States military invasion and occupation of Iraq. This, of course, does not include
the number of deaths from the first Gulf War nor the ensuing sanctions placed
upon the country of Iraq that, combined, caused close to an additional one million
Iraqi deaths....
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The following lesbian/gay/bi and trans activists as well as progressives in the United States working in solidarity with the Honduran people and against the U.S.-backed
illegal military coup strongly condemn the assassination of Walter
Tróchez, a 25-year-old member of the lesbian/gay/bi/trans community in Honduras and an active participant in the National Resistance Front....
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...the Open Letter supports the growing international campaign for Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, by calling on trade unionists in
the United States to Divest from State of Israel Bonds, support workers'
refusal to handle Israeli cargo, break ties with the racist Histadrut, and
oppose U.S. military and economic aid for Israel....
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NEWS arriving from the Danish capital paints a picture of chaos. After
planning an event in which around 40,000 people were to participate, the hosts
have no way of keeping their promise. Evo, who was the first of the ALBA
presidents to arrive there, expressed certain profound truths emanating from
the millenary culture of his people....
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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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Many of us relearned something obvious over the past year: elections offer
only an opportunity to avoid tragedy, further exploitation and, at best,
stagnation with a bad outcome or with a good outcome, a better chance for
peace, the end of militarism, progress toward economic and social justice and a
world of cooperation, not competition. Most often, our two-party national
elections offer a slight difference, if any, on critical issues....
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The use of devices that carry and spread to unknown distances
high amounts of toxic metals poses the question of the present contamination in
the territory of the strip of Gaza. One report on the presence of metals in the
soil of Gaza, with samples in 170 locations, published in 2005, could be a
reference for comparison, if a more systematic collection of samples is
undertaken, as it should....
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I have been reading some of the slogans painted on the streets, and I think
those slogans of these youngsters, some of which I heard when I was young, and
of the young woman there, two of which I noted. You can hear among others, two
powerful slogans. One: Don’t change the climate, change the system....
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The International Action Center stands in solidarity with the thousands of
activists from across the globe who are protesting at the UN Climate Change
Conference in Copenhagen. We condemn the acts of police brutality, including
use of chemical weapons and the preemptive arrests of more than 1,000 people.
We demand the release of all who have been arrested....
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It was a great feeling to be one of the 100,000 people from all corners of
the world at the Palace Square in front of the Danish Parliament on Dec. 12,
the fifth day of the climate negotiations in Copenhagen....
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In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen -- with more
than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 heads of
state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets -- it is important to
ask: How is it possible that the worst polluter of carbon dioxide and other
toxic emissions on the planet is not a focus of any conference discussion or
proposed restrictions?...
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After a barrage of propaganda emanating from Washington and the big business
media, most people in the U.S. have been led to believe that any failure to
reach an agreement at the Copenhagen summit on climate change will be
China's fault....
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African countries at the COP-15 climate change summit in Copenhagen led a
walkout for several hours on Dec. 14 to protest the efforts of the United
States, Britain and other imperialist countries and their allies to sidestep
responsibility for the worsening impact of carbon dioxide emissions. The
increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has caused
climate change that threatens the total collapse of agricultural production on
the African continent....
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As we raised several times before, the purpose of
this redeployment is not to fight the war on terror, but it is instead a
humiliating submission to U.S. pressure that risks the security of Korean
people, and involves it in a bloody, amoral, war of aggression and occupation
for the ultimate purpose of installing a pro-U.S. regime....
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For a look at what REALLY happened in Honduras the day of the elections, this video is a must see. Thanks to REALNEWS for this excellent work....
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None of the Five should be in prison, for their only crime was to stop terrorism against Cuba, terrorism carried out by right-wing Cuban American organizations in Florida...
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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 new chapter in relations between the People’s Republic of China and the African continent began during the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum (FOCAC), which was held Nov. 6-9 in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced eight new measures to enhance partnerships with 53 African states in the areas of agriculture, debt relief, market access expansion, climate change, medical affairs, education, environmental protection and promotion of investment....
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Recently, at three General Motors and Ford plants in the U.S. and Canada, production was temporarily brought to a standstill. This time, however, the cause was not sagging car sales but an event halfway around the world....
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A national tour organized to highlight the use of administrative detention, an inhumane punishment aimed at Palestinian political prisoners, visited a number of U.S. cities from Nov. 3 to Nov. 20. Administrative detention is a cruel form of arrest that offers the accused man, woman or even child no charges to dispute, no trial and no limit to their maximum sentence....
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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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Nov. 2—After 125 days on the streets protesting the military coup that
had deposed their elected president, the people of Honduras have finally seen a
positive sign that could lead to the reinstatement of President José
Manuel Zelaya Rosales....
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The International Action Center congratulates the people of Honduras and their vanguard, the National Popular Front of Resistance against the Coup for the signing of the Tegucigalpa-San José accord last Friday, October 30....
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On 4 November 2009, the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report) is scheduled to be tabled before the Plenary of the UN General Assembly in New York. Following the Report’s endorsement at the Human Rights Council on 21 October 2009, it now falls to the General Assembly to ensure that the Report is endorsed and its recommendations acted upon. ...
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Some 2,000 demonstrators from all over Lebanon gathered in downtown Beirut
Oct. 12 to demand that the Lebanese government rebuild the Nahr al-Bared
Palestinian refugee camp destroyed by the Lebanese Army in 2007. A master plan
for reconstruction was approved by the Lebanese government in 2008, but
reconstruction has been postponed repeatedly....
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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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It concluded that there is evidence of serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law committed by Israel during the Gaza conflict and that Israel committed actions amounting to war crimes, and possibly crimes against
humanity....
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The renowned film director Roman Polanski is being held in a Swiss jail,
awaiting possible extradition to the United States. He was arrested on a
31-year-old warrant while traveling to the Zurich Film Festival to receive an
award. He faces charges for sexually assaulting a child in 1977 in Los Angeles....
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After a week of showing solidarity with the people of Honduras on the
streets and gaining insightful information on what has transpired during the
105 days since a right-wing coup, the 12 people composing the U.S. Delegation
in Solidarity with the Honduran Resistance returned to the U.S. in the wee
hours of Oct. 12....
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When cameras are running, Washington officials sometimes express
“concern” for the plight of the Palestinian people. But even this
phony caring doesn’t extend to the 4.5 million Palestinians who for 61
years have remained stateless, without official nationality, stranded in Arab
countries....
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On Monday, October 12, [2009] a 12-member U.S. delegation
returned from Honduras after a four-day visit to the country. Delegates
conducted a fact-finding investigation that included dozens of interviews, as
well as participation in street actions, in order to witness firsthand the
repression carried out by the fraudulent and illegal Micheletti
government....
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The tragic death of Mr. Roy George, Vice-president of Pricol Ltd., Coimbatore on 22 September 2009 occurred, as you are aware, against a background of deeply disturbing actions of management of Pricol Ltd Coimbatore. Not only has the company continually and openly flouted labour laws, Supreme Court directions, Chennai High Court directions, orders of the Government of Tamil Nadu, issued on 29th June 2009 that the demands of the workers are met, and the directions of the Labour Department of Government of Tamil Nadu, but it has continued to victimise and harass the workers. It has also pressurised and blackmailed them to try to force them to leave their union, the AICCTU. The workers however have refused to leave their union and have continued to struggle through a variety of peaceful and democratic means....
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Send a message to the White House, Congress, Honduran
officials and the media demanding they insure the safety and security of this
U.S. delegation....
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A press conference featuring representatives of the U.S. Delegation to Honduras, who will announce their intention to travel to Honduras from Oct. 7-11 on a fact-finding mission. The delegation calls on elected officials, the Obama administration and the State Department to assure our safety....
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According to the history books, 100 years ago on Sept. 21, 1909, Kwame
Nkrumah, the founder and leader of the African independence movement and the
foremost advocate of Pan-Africanism during his time, was born in the western
Nzima region of the Gold Coast, later known as the independent state of
Ghana....
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The G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh gathered the finance ministers, top bankers
and political leaders of the world’s largest economies, ostensibly to
take up the most serious economic collapse of capitalism in three generations.
Instead, they attacked Iran....
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It has been 27 years since the massacre of at least 2,000 unarmed
Palestinians and poor Lebanese in the Sabra and Shatila refugees camps here in
Beirut....
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t this moment the Embassy of Brazil in Tegucigalpa where President Manuel Zelaya has been staying since he returned to his country on September 21, together with his family and close to 100 supporters, is being blockaded and attacked with chemical and electronic noise-producing weapons by the Honduran military. Poisonous chemicals and gases are being thrown from helicopters. The entrance is guarded by heavily armed troops who do not allow the delivery of food or other necessities. Water and electricity have been cut off several times in an effort to starve and hurt those inside....
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President Zelaya reports from the Brazilian embassy that they have been subjected to "bombardments with chemical products and ultrasound waves that provoke illness and make people very nervous."...
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resident Manuel Zelaya, who was
deposed on June 28 by a right-wing pro-U.S. coup, has returned home to
his beloved country. Reports indicate that he is secure at the
Brazilian embassy. His return is a victory for the people of Honduras
and is a direct result of their non-stop and daily struggle for over 80
days....
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President Manuel Zelaya, who was deposed on June 28 by a
right-wing pro-U.S. coup, has returned home to his beloved country. Reports
indicate that he is secure at the Brazilian embassy. His return is a victory
for the people of Honduras and is a direct result of their non-stop and daily
struggle for over 80 days....
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A vast reconstruction effort, spearheaded by Hezbollah, the Lebanese
resistance movement, is rebuilding some 300 villages and towns in Lebanon
devastated by the Israeli bombing of 2006. Yet these mountainous regions have
not yet restored much of the small family farming plots so crucial to the
economy....
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Mutadhar al-Zaidi, is an Iraqi journalist who was
jailed on Dec. 14, 2008, after he threw his shoes at then-U.S. President George
W. Bush, at a Baghdad press conference, with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal
al-Maliki. His actions which were hailed worldwide, protested the U.S.-led war
and occupation of Iraq. Following al-Zaidi’s release on Sept. 15, 2009,
he gave this speech....
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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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The International Action Center is excited to announce that it is organizing
a delegation to this important conference in Honduras. This conference will be
a striking blow against the illegitimate government of Roberto Micheletti as it
will show worldwide solidarity with the people of Honduras who continue to
demand the return of President Manuel Zelaya and a peoples Constitutional
Assembly despite wide repression....
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Biden’s threat came during a full corporate media offensive against Iran.
Its timing - and the new threats - should serve as an alert to the entire
progressive and anti-war movement. U.S. aircraft carriers, destroyers, nuclear
submarines, jet aircraft and drones clog the seas that wash up on Iranian
shores. In light of the events of this summer, and the ongoing propoganda war
against Iran, it is important to remember that John Bolton told the Telegraph
of London in 2007 that a US military attack on Iran would "be a 'last
option' after economic sanctions and attempts to foment a popular
revolution had failed."...
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s the decision day for escalating the U.S.-led occupation of Afghanistan
grows closer, a mass slaughter of Afghans in northern Kunduz province has put
the war on center stage worldwide and sharpened popular opposition within the
NATO countries, including inside the U.S. itself....
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Dahia was the area hardest hit by Israel in 2006. It suffered 934 bombing
raids, according to the Lebanese army. Much of the neighborhood was reduced to
rubble....
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In the 2006 war, in retaliation for its failed invasion, Israel bombed
virtually every one of Lebanon’s southern villages and towns. Roads and
bridges were destroyed, with mosques and churches smashed and Red Cross
ambulances, schools, government emergency centers, factories, power and water
networks blown apart. And then, in the last days of the war, after getting a
rush weapons’ delivery from the Pentagon, Israel dropped 1.2 million
cluster bombs on the South....
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The pride was palpable and the emotion stirring. It was the pride of a
people who have twice freed their land from U.S.-backed Israeli forces....
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The Gaza Strip, populated by 1.5 million Palestinians, is virtually an open-air prison—a place of punishment and exile for Palestinians. No one can officially get in or out of Gaza unless given permission at border checkpoints that are opened at the whim of Israel and Egypt. If your name is not on a pre-existing list, you can’t get into Gaza or leave it....
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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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The old adage, “Actions speak louder than words,” underlines a
dangerous reality regarding any alleged change in U.S. relations with Latin
America, and especially regarding Honduras and Colombia....
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There was much anticipation on the African continent about Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton’s 11-day recent visit to seven countries. However,
the tour’s outcome largely reaffirmed the continuance of past U.S. policy toward Africa....
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Hondurans continue the struggle in the streets. Defying criminal police and
military who repress, arrest and shoot tear and pepper gas, rubber bullets and
live ammunition at them, the people have protested the military coup regime
every day for seven long weeks....
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More than 100,000 troops from the Pentagon and its NATO allies now occupy
Afghanistan. They are inflicting more deaths and terror on the Afghans. They
are also dying in record numbers now, nearly eight years after the initial U.S.
invasion....
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We demand:
Stop the killings & repression of the Honduran people;No to human rights violations in Honduras;
Support the non-violent resistance of the Honduran People and the National Front for Resistance Against the Coup d’état;
Immediate return of Constitutional law and restore Constitutional President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales;
No to an electoral process as product of the de facto regime;
No to the militarization of Honduras, or U.S. military bases in Honduras...
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On June 28, 2009, the legitimate President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was taken from his house by the country's military at gunpoint and taken outside the country. An illegitimate and criminal government was installed with Raoberto Micheletti as its President. ...
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Honduran workers and farmers have protested every day since a military coup
d’état overthrew that country’s democratically elected
President Manuel Zelaya on June 28. Voices of that resistance movement spoke in
Philadelphia July 31 stressing the urgency that Zelaya be returned to power and
the coup d’état overturned....
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On July 29 the House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn hosted a
standing-room-only report-back meeting led by several participants of the Viva
Palestina historic U.S. convoy who returned July 17 and 18 from Gaza City in
Palestine. The audience was majority Black....
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Two hundred Haitians on July 26 crammed themselves into a small sailing
vessel, according to news reports. They were seeking to escape from a country
that continues to be occupied by foreign troops and whose people suffer from
massive poverty and starvation....
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The failure of capitalist methods of production and distribution is clearly
illustrated by the way the collapse of the financial and industrial centers in
Western Europe and the United States has devastated former colonial countries.
Since late 2007 tens of millions of workers and farmers in several regions of
the African continent have been severely affected by unemployment, rising
commodities prices, food deficits and the decline in material aid from the
industrialized states....
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The old adage, “Actions speak louder than words,” underlines a
dangerous reality regarding any alleged change in U.S. relations with Latin
America, and especially regarding Honduras and Colombia....
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December, 4, 5 and 6,/ Diciembre 4,5 y 6, 2009.
ˇLa lucha obrera no tiene fronteras! The workers’struggle has no borders!Uniting America's Working Class and Increasing its Influence...
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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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We have just learned that Israeli security forces have refused entry to
three U.S. activists attempting to visit the Palestinian Territories. One of
them, Karen Sullivan, is being sent home on a flight tonight, and two others,
Sarah Martin and Katrina Plotz have refused to leave, and are being taken into
custody. They are being treated as criminals, while their only goal was to
learn about the reality of life for the Palestinian people. All three should be
allowed to enter the country, as millions of tourists do every year....
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Participants will include:...
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The ongoing crisis in Iran following the recent presidential elections
has been a source of much misunderstanding and confusion in antiwar and
progressive organizations, particularly in the United States. In the face of ongoing threats of military action against Iran, especially recent remarks by Vice President Joe Biden that gave a green light for an Israeli attack and this week's visit by U.S. Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates to Israel, the antiwar movement must be clear in its opposition to any attack, or to the propaganda used to justify such an attack....
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The conflict in Iran that opened up with the June presidential elections
there has had an impact on the progressive and anti-imperialist movement
worldwide, including in the United States. Misunderstanding the events has
created some confusion in anti-war ranks. This is especially dangerous after
Vice President Joe Biden on July 5 gave a virtual green light to an Israeli attack on Iran. The anti-war movement must stay alert to protest any move in that direction....
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It has been amazing to see the popular surge, coalescence and coordination
during the first 23 days since the coup. Unions, youth and students, women,
peasants, Indigenous, Afro descendants—all have joined in the Popular
National Front of Resistance against the Coup D’État (FNPRG)....
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If the U.S. government was interested in supporting democracy or in building
respect for the will of the people in a democratic election, it should have
started by respecting the outcome of the 2006 Palestinian election. The
Palestinian people voted in large numbers, electing Hamas candidates to
parliament with large enough votes to form the Palestinian government. In Gaza,
Hamas had a total sweep....
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I demand that the Barack Obama administration and the U.S.
Congress unequivocally condemn the unconstitutional and anti-democratic
military coup in Honduras and insist that the military regime and the newly
appointed but illegitimate president of Honduras restore President Zelaya to
office, free all the imprisoned popular leaders and remove the curfew. I
further demand that the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras be recalled immediately
until such time as President Zelaya is restored to office....
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The discussion of this legal project, named Organic Law of
Gender Equality, represents a further advance of your Revolution and
demonstrates the wish to correct these inequalities and discriminations which
for decades have plagued our societies. We understand that it is not possible to have a society with justice and equality when some of the members of that society suffer discrimination, whether it is because of their age, the color of their skin, their ethnic origins, their sex or their sexual orientation....
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The ten days of turmoil in the aftermath of Iran’s
presidential election sharply divided world public opinion into two opposite
poles: those who believed in and supported Iran’s sovereignty and
independence, mainly the working people of Iran and the peoples of the
developing countries, on one hand, and those whose interests lie in believing
in U.S. hegemony in the Middle East and the domination of monopoly capital over
the world’s human and natural resources, on the other....
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Organizers of the largest U.S. humanitarian aid convoy to
Palestine in history spoke today by telephone from Cairo to 50 people
protesting outside the Egyptian United Nations Mission in New York. ...
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he largest humanitarian aid convoy in history to travel from
the U.S. to Palestine succeeded in crossing the Rafah border into Gaza late
today....
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July 14—Organizers of the largest U.S. humanitarian aid convoy to
Palestine in history spoke today by telephone from Cairo to 50 people
protesting outside the Egyptian United Nations Mission in New York. They
updated supporters on the progress of the Viva Palestina effort. The news was
that the Egyptian government had agreed to allow more than $1 million in
medical aid into Gaza, and that the convoy was expected to reach the border
with Gaza on July 15....
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Come out to hear the latest developments in Honduras following the
right-wing coup against President Manuel Zelaya on June 28th and demonstrate
your solidarity with the Honduran people, as they continue to demand their
president back....
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As we write, the Viva Palestina Convoy is being denied passage into Gaza by the Egyptian Government....
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As we write, the Viva Palestina Convoy is being denied passage into Gaza by the
Egyptian Government....
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As the world watches, massive demonstrations in Iran -- some say the largest since the 1979 Revolution -- are denouncing the results of the June 12 presidential election. Official announcements that incumbent
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad garnered nearly 63 percent of the vote are being met with cries of "fraud" by supporters of his principal
challenger, former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein....
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The largest ever US humanitarian aid convoy is now gathering in
Egypt to head across the border into Gaza on Monday, July 13....
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Please consider making an emergency donation.Stop War on Iran was founded in early 2005 as an international
campaign to oppose a U.S. military attack on Iran and other acts of war,
including sanctions and covert destabilization....
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The thousands of Palestinian prisoners are facing an
ongoing campaign in denial of their rights - from denial of family visits, to
the imposition of solitary confinement and isolation. Every day, they stand on
the front lines, confronting the injustice and repression of the occupation, as
prisoners for the freedom of Palestinian land and the Palestinian people....
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On June 28, the Honduran army used weapons and force to take Honduras’
constitutional President Manuel Zelaya from his residence and send him to Costa
Rica in what was the first military coup d'état in Central America in
more than 30 years. This act of extreme violence can only bring more war and
destabilization to the region....
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June 30—Some 200 heavily armed soldiers from the Honduran army surrounded
the house of democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya at dawn on June 28.
After firing on the house, soldiers forced their way in, pointed their rifles
at Zelaya’s head and chest, and forced him into a vehicle. They drove him
to an airplane that flew him to Costa Rica....
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Today units of the Israeli navy blockading Gaza attacked and
boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the Spirit of Humanity, abducting 21 human
rights workers from 11 countries. The passengers and crew, including Noble
laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, are being
forcibly dragged toward Israel. The boat is carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza
with an international delegation that set sail from Lanarca, Cyprus....
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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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Last night, Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the
Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights
workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former
U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The passengers and crew are being forcibly
dragged toward Israel....
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Last night, Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the
Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights
workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former
U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The passengers and crew are being forcibly
dragged toward Israel....
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[23 miles off the coast of Gaza, 15:30pm] - Today Israeli Occupation Forces
attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY,
abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate
Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a
complete list of passengers). The passengers and crew are being forcibly
dragged toward Israel....
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Councilmember Barron Calls on President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton to Call off Israeli Warships which are threatening the life of Fmr Rep Cynthia McKinney and those aboard the Spirit of Humanity...
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Manuel Zelaya is backed by a majority of labor unions and social movements in Honduras. This coup was carried out in a way that mirrors the removal of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from Haiti and the attempted coup against President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, who was brought back to power by the Venezuelan people...
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I demand that the Barack Obama administration and the U.S. Congress unequivocally condemn the unconstitutional and anti-democratic military coup in Honduras and insist that the military regime and the newly appointed but illegitimate president of Honduras restore President Zelaya to office, free all the imprisoned popular leaders and remove the curfew. I further demand that the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras be recalled immediately until such time as President Zelaya is restored to office....
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Supporters of the beleaguered Palestinian people plan to leave from New York
City on July 4 with medical supplies they will deliver to hospitals in
Gaza....
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Join dozens of organizations, academics and activists to
endorse this letter to Ban Ki-Moon, including the National Lawyers Guild, the
Palestinian Youth Network, UK MP George Galloway and many more! See full list of
initial endorsers below......
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Dan Restrepo, Presidential Advisor to President Obama for
Latin American Affairs, is currently on CNN en Español. He has just stated
that Obama's government is communicating with the coup forces in Honduras,
trying to "feel out" the situation....
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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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A CIA-trained sharpshooter takes position on a rooftop in Tehran. His contact on the street below, waiting with a camera, calls. “She just got out of the car. A perfect target.”...
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The confrontation among Iran’s ruling politicians that has brought
large crowds into the streets of Tehran is not taking place in isolation. It is
happening in a country still facing U.S. sanctions and warships, hostility from
every imperialist capital and venom from the West’s corporate media....
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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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Here’s how Koreans in the north look at the current situation
between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the United States,
based on conversations with a member of that country’s leading party, the
Workers Party of Korea....
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What distinguishes the contemporary economic crisis within global capitalism
from other downturns over the last three decades is that the rapid
deterioration of the social conditions of working people and the oppressed is
taking place simultaneously all over the planet....
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The Supreme Court has confirmed the U.S. legal system’s ongoing
hypocrisy in the treatment of the Cuban Five. The court on June 15 made public
a list of what cases it will hear during its coming term—and the appeal
of the Cuban Five was left off the list, with no explanation....
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Thousands of Haitians from all over North America traveled to Miami June 5
and 6 to spend hours paying tribute to Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste. They came
from Orlando, Fla., Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago, Atlanta and
Montreal....
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The first thing to make clear about the Iranian election is that the U.S. and
other imperialist states have no right to intervene. The media here are now
filled with moralizing, even racist scolding of Iran over the election results.
Who are they to act so hoity-toity? Remember George W. Bush’s open theft
of the 2000 election in Florida?...
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The US Supreme Court announced today that it will not review the case of the
Five Cuban Patriots. This decision denies our 5 brothers, unjustly imprisoned
from more than a decade for monitoring terrorist organizations based in Miami,
from ever having the possibility of an impartial and just trial outside
Miami....
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The third G20 summit is going to be in Pittsburgh , Pa. on September 24 and 25,
2009. The challenge before the movements for economic and social justice, as
well as the antiwar movement, is that the next meeting of the powers that
govern the world economy be met with a powerful mass mobilization demanding
that jobs and social needs, not war and greed, prevail--here in the U.S. and
across the world....
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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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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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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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More than 2 million people were forced to flee their homes when the
Pakistani Army, financed and equipped by the Pentagon, moved into the Swat
Valley after a week of intense bombardment by bombers, jet fighters and
helicopter gunships....
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The U.S. Coast Guard and a few individual boaters pulled 27 people out of
the ocean off south Florida May 13. Ten of them were dead after fleeing mass
hunger and misery in Haiti. The sailing vessel they were on had sunk around 2
a.m. and the survivors had to tread water for 10 hours until their rescue....
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A newly reconfigured Transitional Federal Government established during
early 2009 in Somalia has lost control of large areas of the country to the
al-Shabab and Hisbul Islam resistance organizations. On May 17 and 18, the
towns of Jowhar and Mahaday north of Mogadishu, the capital, fell to
al-Shabab....
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Although pressure and hostility on the part of some G20 governments has
resulted in the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and
its Impact on Development being postponed from June 1 to 3 until June 24 to 26,
the People's Economic Summit this Sunday, May 31 will go on as scheduled....
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Based on the global capitalist economic crisis which is wreaking havoc on the
lives of hundreds of millions of people world wide, United Nations General
Assembly President Miguel D'Escoto-Brockman is organizing an urgent
Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on
Development, to take place on June 1-3 at the United Nations in New York City....
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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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Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda announced his
resignation from his post as head of the Maoist-led coalition government on May
4, just over a year after his Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) placed
first in the country's Constituent Assembly (CA) elections....
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The government of Sri Lanka, with U.S. arms and military aid from Israel and
Pakistan, is waging a brutal war against the Tamil people of Sri Lanka....
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s layoffs have spread to the service and retail sectors, where women are
the majority of workers, their jobless rate grew by an alarming 36.7 percent in
the five months prior to February 2009. The rate worsened for African-American
women, whose unemployment rate rose to 9.9 percent in February, while for
Latinas it reached 10.2 percent....
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One of the meetings is the June 1 - 3 UN General Assembly's International
Conference on the Global Economic and Financial Crisis. On Sunday, May 31, the
day before the UN meeting, the People's Economic Summit will take place
directly across the street from the UN building, under tents in Dag
HammarskjÖld Plaza....Because of the unique nature of the June UN conference, The Bail Out the People Movement decided to call a People's Economic Summit in conjunction with it. The goal of the one-day People's Economic Summit is to bring together activists, organizers and leaders from the various movements and struggles around the region, the country, and some from around the world....
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An international movement has been established to protest the already seven-year-long imprisonment of Dragoljub Milanovic, a target of NATO's effort to blame the victim following its U.S.-led bombing campaign against Yugoslav civilians 10 years ago....
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Over the last several months, a series of dramatic cases involving police killings of civilians has brought to light the essential role of law enforcement within capitalist societies. Numerous cities throughout the United States have seen a dramatic increase in the murder of African Americans by cops as well as the escalation of raids and deportations against immigrants both documented and undocumented....
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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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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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This Sudanese province is the theater of a conflict on which the international
opinion is rallying. As for any struggle on the African ground, we receive the
same images of misery: men are tearing, children are crying and blood is
flowing....
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Review of progress and assessment of implementation of the Durban Declaration and
Programme of Action by all stakeholders at the national, regional and international levels, including the assessment of contemporary manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance...
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We participants of the Civil Society Forum for the Durban Review Conference 2009 held in Geneva 17 to 19 April strongly welcome the holding of the Durban Review Conference and reaffirm our full and dedicated support for the Durban Declaration and Plan of Action (DDPA) adopted by the 2001 World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance....
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Review of progress and
assessment of implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
by all stakeholders at the national, regional and international levels,
including the assessment of contemporary manifestations of
racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance...
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We, the representatives of local, national and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other civil society groups from around the world gathered in Durban/South Africa during the week of 28 August – 3 September 2001 for the World Conference against Racism, Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR), guided by our
commitment in the struggle against racism and racial discrimination and inspired by the recommendations of the NGO Forums held in Strasbourg/France,
Santiago de Chile/Chile, Dakar/Senegal and Tehran/Iran and the related
sub-regional NGO meetings held in Warsaw/Poland, Kathmandu/Nepal, Cairo/Egypt
and Quito/Ecuador, in preparation for the World Conference, hereby make the
following Declaration:...
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We express our full support for a strong Durban Review Conference, the NGO/Civil
Society Forum, the Conference on Palestine, and other similar activities being
held before and during the Review Conference that support the Conference and
the goals for which it stands....
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After the execution of three Somalis and the wounding and capturing of
another in the Indian Ocean on April 12, a leader of the so-called pirates
vowed to avenge the deaths of these youth who held the U.S. captain of a cargo
vessel known as the Maersk Alabama for five days. Captain Richard Phillips was
released while the U.S. military and the corporate media hailed the killings of
the Somalis, saying the actions were justified....
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Between 20-24 April 2009 the world will take either an important step forward towards prohibiting discrimination, especially racial discrimination, or an unfortunate step backwards, if
governments are unwilling to confront or even to discuss the core issues. Which
way the international community will go will depend largely on the activities
of states, and to a lesser extent civil society, participating in the Durban
Review Conference to be held at the UN European headquarters in Geneva....
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The decision by the Obama administration to boycott
the Durban Review Conference Against Racism has raised a torrent of petitions,
protests and criticism. An actual boycott of the upcoming April 20-24 meeting
would be the first time that the United States has refused to participate in a
United Nations conference. This has come as a shock to many who expected a
fundamentally different attitude toward an international conference on racism
from the Obama administration....
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Please sign a petition to President Obama urging the
United States to participate in the Durban Review Conference and its remaining
preparatory meetings. The United States is currently refusing to participate in
the Durban Review Conference, a United Nations Conference to discuss the
elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
intolerances....
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The following statement was issued by members of the December 12th Movement, who held a press conference on March 21 in Harlem on the U.S.
government's refusal to attend the United Nations World Conference against Racism-Durban Review in April....
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It is an honor to address this meeting of the International Committee to
Defend Slobodan Milosevic. This organization has never faltered in its resistance to NATO, defending the people of Serbia and of all of the former Yugoslavia....
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We are gathered here today to remember historical facts, interpret them
under the light of experience and extract the necessary lessons to guide our
efforts and our struggles for peace and a new world governed under the primacy
of justice and solidarity. ...
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Hundreds of representatives are meeting in Belgrade on March
23-24 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led 78-day bombing of
Yugoslavia and the heroic resistance of its people and military during NATO's aggressive and illegal war. ...
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Ricardo Alarcón, president of Cuba's Parliament, speaking in
Havana, denounced the U.S. and international corporate media for their silence
regarding the massive international support for the petition to the U.S.
Supreme Court to hear the case of the Cuban Five....
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n the vast U.S. spy network, there are undoubtedly whole rooms -- maybe
even whole buildings -- of "experts" whose job is to analyze
what's happening in Cuba. They study all kinds of data, some of it
published openly by the Cuban government, some of it provided, or rather sold,
by counter-revolutionaries cultivated by U.S. diplomats and handlers....
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Celebrations, commemorations and protests were held worldwide on
International Women's Day (IWD) this year from Lima, Peru, to Lahore,
Pakistan. The themes varied but all actions demonstrated women declaring their
rights and protesting against injustice....
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On International Women's Day this year, we express our solidarity with
our heroic sisters in Gaza who have endured the horrific U.S.-backed Israeli
siege and who are standing up with courage and resilience....
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40 Years of Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution! 40 Years of Friendship with the Cuban People!...
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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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Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir visited the North Darfur state capital
of El-Fasher on March 8 in defiance of an International Criminal Court warrant
issued for his arrest just a few days before. It was the first ICC warrant
issued against a sitting head of state. As he addressed a rally of tens of
thousands of supporters, the president defied the ICC and its imperialist
backers....
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Manik Mukherjee, General Secretary of the International Anti-imperialist
and People's Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC), has issued the
following statement condemning the indictment of President Omar Hasan Ahmad Al
Bashir of the Republic of Sudan by the International Criminal Court....
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The 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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he Palestinian Unified Call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
against Israel is taking hold and growing in unions, universities and among
political forces on many continents....
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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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The Troops Out Now Coalition condemns the announcement today that
Washington plans to keep an occupying force of 50,000 troops in Iraq
indefinitely....
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Trade union actions starting in January have brought Guadeloupe, a French colony in the Caribbean, to a standstill. The underlying reasons for the work
stoppage stem from the global economic crisis and the total political control of Guadeloupe by the French imperialist state under the leadership of the rightist president, Nicholas Sarkozy....
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The same day that a unity government took office in Zimbabwe, Feb. 13, opponents of Western colonialism protested before the British and U.S. missions to the United Nations in New York City demanding an end to the economic sanctions imposed on this southern African country and the right to self-determination. ...
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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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A Lebanese ship carrying 60 tons of humanitarian aid for the besieged people
of Gaza was aggressively intercepted and seized on Feb. 5 by the Israeli navy....
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As of this letter's date, the Israeli military has brutally killed over 784 (and rising) people in Gaza, including countless children and women....
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Eighteen months ago, outraged when the Palestinians voted for the militant leadership of Hamas in democratic elections, Israel imposed a total lockdown on the entire population of Gaza. But the entire people were determined to continue to resist. They found a way to circumvent total starvation....
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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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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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Israel's savage assault on the civilian population of Gaza has aroused the greatest worldwide outrage ever against the U.S.-backed settler state. Perhaps nothing symbolized this more than the report of veteran anti-apartheid fighter Dennis Brutus leading a protest in Durban, South Africa, against
Israeli Ambassador Dov Segev-Steinberg. Brutus was instrumental in the cultural
boycott campaign against apartheid South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s....
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Washington and Tel Aviv want to destroy any organization that fights for Palestinian self-determination. And
the European Union wants this too. Why? Because the Palestinian struggle and
especially Gaza for 60 years has been the shining example of resistance to
occupation, an example of national liberation for all the world. And the
imperialists hope that by smashing the civilian population they can defeat this struggle and demoralize millions....
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This forum coincided with the terrorist and criminal attack launched by “Israel” against the Palestinians in Gaza, at a time when the whole world is facing financial, economic and political crises resulting mainly from the policies of war and hegemony. The forum aimed at reinforcing the possibility of building an alternative world based on the principles of respecting humanity as a whole and defending the vulnerable and oppressed in the world....
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The best protection against another Lebanon, Iraq, and Gaza is to make sure that the United States enacts better policy by electing better policy-makers. The financial crisis inside the U.S. also means that the traditional engines of empire have run out of gas. Gaza also shows us that the mighty don't always win....
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The following is from a talk by Sara Flounders, co-director of the
International Action Center, at the Palestine Plenary Session of the Jan. 16-18
Beirut International Forum for Resistance, Anti-Imperialism, Peoples'
Solidarity and Alternatives....
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As the people of Gaza staved off yet another attempt by the U.S.-armed and
-funded Israeli military to eradicate the cause of Palestine by murdering its
people, delegates from around the world gathered in Beirut to build solidarity
and practical support for their cause among secular leftist and Islamic
anti-imperialist forces....
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From five prisons scattered throughout the bowels of the United States, we condemn this
crime with all our strength; we demand that the barbarity stop now and we send all of our love and support from the deepest part of our souls to the beloved Palestinian people. We will be with you today and always. If there is one thing that profoundly hurts us about our imprisonment it is that we cannot do much more for you, for your cause, for our peoples, but we trust that soon we will be able to accompany you physically....
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It's good that Jewish people of conscience are disassociating themselves from the Gaza aggression. But it's not enough. This atrocity is only the latest, and it's no aberration. It reflects the program of the Israeli settler state—which is based on the theft of Palestine, the ouster and suppression of the Palestinian people, and the racist ideology of Zionism—and of its primary sponsor, the Pentagon and U.S. business establishment....
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The United Nations just stands by, the European Union is in
full support of the Zionist state and the whole war is paid and equipped by U.S. imperialism. From Saudi Arabia to Egypt to India, nations who were once considered friends
of Palestine stand by and watch Gaza BURN -- Day after Day, after Day!! ...We must sustain an ongoing movement to BOYCOTT, DIVEST and to
impose SANCTIONS on the Israeli state and WAR CRIMES CHARGES on its leaders. We
must demand an accounting from our own governments. ...
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It's not enough to oppose the bombing. It's not enough to demand an end to the 41-year occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. We stand in complete and unconditional support for the self-determination of the Palestinian people. This includes the right to return to Palestine, from the river to the sea, and the right to democratically determine the form and the future of the Palestinian state.
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International Action Center co-director Sara Flounders, on route to the Beirut Forum (Jan. 16-19), spoke at the important Rosa Luxemburg Conference in Berlin Jan. 10 (sponsored by the daily newspaper, Junge Welt). The conference became a de-facto tribunal condemning Israel, along with its backers in the U.S. and the European Union, for war crimes in Gaza. Before 1,000 people, Flounders argued forcefully for the Palestinian right to resist siege and occupation and the need for progressives in the imperialist countries to act in solidarity with this resistance in Palestine as well as in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan....
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While the president of the UN General Assembly has condemned Israel's killings of Palestinians as "genocide," so too have Black activists and religious leaders who will be holding a press conference Thursday at the Downtown Federal Building to denounce the U.S. government for funding and supplying with arms Israel's latest war in Gaza, which has killed nearly 1,000 Palestinians with well over 4,000 injured....
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Today, more than 15,000 people rallied in Times Square to protest Israel's ongoing assault against the people of Palestine . The demonstration stretched from 42nd Street south to 38 Street, along 7th Ave , and was followed by a spirited march past the New York Times building to the Time Warner building on 58th Street where CNN's New York office is located. Eyewitnesses reported that the police used pepper spray in an unprovoked assault on the protesters including teenagers and children as young as ten years old. Others were pushed and struck by police....
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For 18 months my people in Gaza have been under siege, incarcerated inside the world's biggest prison, sealed off from land, air and sea, caged and starved, denied even medication for our sick. After the slow death policy came the bombardment. In this most densely populated of places, nothing has been spared Israel's warplanes, from government buildings to homes, mosques, hospitals, schools and markets. More than 540 have been killed and thousands permanently maimed. A third are women and children. Whole families have been massacred, some while they slept....
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We are writing with an urgent request for your help to build an ongoing massive
outpouring of support and solidarity to stand with Gaza....
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The International Action Center condemns the criminal
U.S.-backed Israeli bombing and invasion of Gaza, and the massacre of now
nearly 600 and serious wounding of thousands of Palestinians. We call upon the
progressive, anti-war and workers' movement in the United States to join the
angry, growing worldwide protests of these latest Israeli war crimes with U.S.
complicity and stop the genocide. We refuse impunity to the Israeli state and
its backers....
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La Federación Democrática Internacional de Mujeres - FDIM, expresa su condena al ataque militar asesino, perpetrado por el Estado sionista de Israel con apoyo y respaldo de la Administración Bush , en la Franja de Gaza, en la Palestina. Después de más de diez días de bombardeos aéreos y ahora también por tierra, ese crimen de guerra sin precedente, deja centenares de muertos y miles de heridos, de entre ellos las mujeres, los nińos y los anciőes, en medio de una destrucción volumosa, dejando el pueblo palestino sin electricidad, en la oscuridad total, sin comida, sin agua y sin remedios en los hospitales que viven un verdadero colapso. ...
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The following is a
summary of actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people of Gaza,
concentrating on those that took place between Jan. 1 and Jan. 4, 2009. By Jan.
4 this included some emergency protests of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza
strip....
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"Denunciamos que con el visto bueno de la Casa Blanca y bajo la complicidad del
sistema de Naciones Unidas, se permite al gobierno sionista de Israel convertir
a Gaza en un inmenso campo de concentración, convertir a Palestina en la mayor prisión a cielo abierto conocida en el mundo y tolerada por muchos de los
supuestos países defensores de los Derechos Humanos", declar acció Carolus Wimmer, Vicepresidente del Parlatino Grupo Venezolano, ante los recientes ataques de
Israel contra el pueblo palestino en la Franja de Gaza...."
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Since December 27, 2008, the US-supported Zionist Israel has carried
out a war of aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza. It has
launched air strikes by F-16 jet fighter planes and Apache helicopters
and artillery shelling by naval vessels in order to massacre hundreds
and injure thousands of Palestinians and destroy their homes, mosques,
schools, public buildings, oil depots, power plants, water facilities
and other infrastructure.
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Saturday saw sizable protests throughout the world against the bombing and invasion of Gaza. -- As the Israeli military began a massive ground invasion of Gaza, including infantry, tanks, and
artillery, hundreds of thousands of people were in the streets around the world
chanting "Free, Free Palestine!"...The International Action Center is mobilizing for demonstrations across the
U.S. to stop the attack on Gaza, and we are networking with activists across
the globe who are taking to the streets against U.S./Israeli war crimes....
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The genocidal U.S.-backed Israeli bombardment of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip has had at least one unintended consequence. It has mobilized the anti-imperialist movement and other anti-war forces around the world. The Washington-Tel-Aviv axis might not yet see this as an obstacle to their war crimes. But it is a work in progress, coming as the workers' movements are beginning to get in motion to fight the repercussions of the capitalist economic collapse. Now they are fighting to prevent the massacre associated with what appears to be a planned ground assault into Gaza.
In 2006, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon had other unintended consequences....
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The genocidal U.S.-backed Israeli bombardment of the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip has had at least one unintended consequence. It has mobilized the anti-imperialist movement and other anti-war forces around the world. The Washington-Tel Aviv axis might not yet see this as an
obstacle to their war crimes. But it is a work in progress, coming as the
workers' movements are beginning to get in motion to fight the
consequences of the capitalist economic collapse. Even in vast parts of the
world where the winter holidays often drain the strength of a social movement,
people reacted quickly, angrily and in some places massively to oppose the new
Israeli assault....
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The 1,400-plus delegates at the 18th Congress of the Portuguese Communist Party, and the thousands of other PCP militants invited to observe, made it clear that in this one corner of imperialist Europe there is a living, breathing combat organization with roots in every laboring and productive
section of society....
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More than 5,000 delegates filled the hall to overflowing at the Arab International Congress for the Right of Return, held in Damascus, Syria, on Nov. 23 and 24. Delegates came from 54 countries....
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The International Anti-imperialist and people's Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC) strongly condemns the horrendous aerial attack by Israel on Gaza killing and injuring hundreds of Palestinian people and demands that Israeli aggression against Palestine must immediately cease. In a most brazen manner the Israeli Government has bragged more severe attacks might follow....
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The youth organization FIST (Fight Imperialism, Stand Together) sent out the following statement on the Israeli assault on Gaza: The massacre of at least 225 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip by the Zionist military, using U.S.-supplied F-16s and Apache attack helicopters, is the
latest in a long line of crimes against humanity committed by Israel....
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Unable to break the spirit of the Palestinians after 18 months of putting Gaza under siege, the Israeli terror machine, using U.S.-supplied Israeli F-16 warplanes and “Apache” helicopters, dropped more than 100 tons of bombs on Palestinians in Gaza on Dec. 27. The unprecedented onslaught on a civilian population killed at least 229 people and wounded at least 700 more. (Reuters, Dec. 28)...
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The International Action Center condemns the criminal
U.S.-backed Israeli bombing massacre on Gaza, and the mass murder of 200 and serious wounding of another 300 Palestinians. We call upon the progressive, anti-war and workers' movement in the United States to join the angry, growing worldwide protests of these latest Israeli war crimes with U.S.
complicity. We refuse impunity to the Israeli state and its backers....
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e must act now, before the massacres continue! Over 200 people were killed in Gaza on Saturday, December 27 in a series of Israeli attacks -
with US-made and paid for weaponry - upon the Palestinian people. These
cold-blooded killings come on top of a siege on Gaza that has killed hundreds by depriving them of medical care, deprived Gazans of electricity, power and
fuel and attempted to strangle the life of the Palestinian people in Gaza....
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Today, November 23rd, I was slated to give remarks in Damascus,
Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, sadly, the 60th year that the
Palestinian people have been denied their Right of Return enshrined in that
Universal Declaration. But a funny thing happened to me while at the Atlanta airport on my way to the Conference: I was not allowed to exit the country....
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The right of the Palestinian
refugees to return to their homes and lands from which they were expelled with
compensation for the losses that they have incurred lies at the centre and
heart of the Palestinian issue. It is a deeply-rooted and inalienable right
that cannot be compromised, bargained or diminished....
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The Ethiopian government on Nov. 25 announced it was withdrawing its
military forces from neighboring Somalia. This represents a defeat for the
foreign policy aims of Washington, which encouraged the government of Meles
Zenawi to invade Somalia in December 2006....
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What's their real agenda? To use the crisis over the terrorist attacks in Mumbai as a lever to bring Pakistan more fully into the U.S.-led war against Afghanistan....
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This First Arab International Congregation is taking place at a time when defense and support of the heroic Palestinian Resistance is sorely needed. We are confident that its decisions and the Damascus Declaration for the Right of Return will resonate throughout Palestine, the Middle East and all over the world, including Washington D.C.
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The Israeli Army invaded the Gaza Strip on Nov. 4 with tanks, helicopters and jet aircraft. The attack was an explicit violation of a five-month Egyptian-mediated truce between Israel and the Palestinian resistance groupings in Gaza. The elected Hamas government there had agreed to the cease-fire....
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In a recent statement from the United Nations Mission in Congo (MONUC), the
possibility was raised of a greater military presence there under U.N.
auspices. This announcement comes at a time when there has been an escalation
of fighting between rebel groups and the Congolese National Army in North and
South Kivu provinces, located in mineral-rich eastern Congo....
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The Pakistani government warned Gen. David Petraeus, now head of the U.S.
Central Command running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, that frequent missile
strikes on its territory risk inflaming anti-American sentiment. (AP, Nov.
3)...
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Four U.S. Black Hawk helicopters swept across the Iraqi-Syrian border Oct.
26 to the al-Sukkariah family farm in the town of Abu Kama. U.S. Special Forces landed and killed eight civilians, including three children, according to the
Syrian government. It was the first attack of this scale by U.S. military forces against Syria....
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For months now Afghanistan has been deadlier for U.S. troops than Iraq, even
though there are 32,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and 160,000 in Iraq....
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The 2008 Cuba/Venezuela/Latin America/North America Labor Conference is fast approaching - along with an economic crisis that crumbles illusions in the
profit-first capitalist system and a new administration coming to Washington,D.C. setting the sights of millions of workers on a better life. There is a lot to learn and much to discuss and share....
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Help us pressure the Egyptian Government to Open the Rafah Crossing so that Palestinians may access basic supplies to survive....
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The world is facing one of the most severe economic crises affecting the common man, due to the imperial and reckless policies of Bush and his allies. These same policies have led to one of the darkest days of Pakistan's history,
November 3, 2007, when the worst dictator of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf
declared a state of emergency in Pakistan, suspended the constitution for the
second time and arrested Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Iftikhar Chaudhry and
his sixty fellow judges of the Pakistani Superior Courts, forcing the country from civilized society to the dark ages....
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The IAPSCC condemns in strongest terms the latest US attacks on Syria and Pakistan killing many citizens of the two countries. This is a gross violation of the sovereignty of the two nations and must be regarded as blatantly illegal and unjustified acts of war. ...
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All who want to stop the Bush White House from starting another war should
immediately protest the unilateral, unjustifiable and criminal October 26 U.S.
assaults on Syrian and Pakistani sovereignty. Don’t let Bush get away
with expanded war crimes in the Middle East. Condemn his efforts to hand a wider war to the next administration....
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Violent and repressive tactics are being used against
thousands of Indigenous people who are participating in a national mobilization
to bring attention to the humanitarian crisis they face....
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An unprecedented humanitarian crisis has brought about tremendous suffering, illness, and death to more than 500,000 war refugees in Mindanao, Philippines....
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During the last week of September, unprecedented fighting took place in
several areas of the east African nation of Somalia. This rising tide of armed
conflict is directly related to the resistance efforts of the Somali people against the occupation of their country by the military forces of neighboring Ethiopia. The Ethiopian invasion in December 2006 was fully supported, financially and militarily, by the U.S....
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All surveys and opinion polls show that a majority of people living in Germany oppose the country's massive participation in the illegal
occupation of Afghanistan, although only a minority in the Bundestag (Parliament) reflect this position. Here, the demonstrators from the Left Party carry a banner that reads: "Federal Army out of Afghanistan."...
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Prachanda said, he was labeled a terrorist by the U.S. and had a price on his head of 55 million rupees (about $1.2 million). The CPN(M) is still on the U.S. "terrorism watch list," even though he is now representing Nepal at the General Assembly....
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Actor Danny Glover sent the following message of solidarity on Sept. 13
to the concert "Five Stars and One Song" held in New York in support of the Cuban 5....
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After months of painstaking negotiations between the ruling Zimbabwe African
National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the two main opposition parties,
the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T) and the small breakaway
faction known as the MDC-M, the leadership of these organizations reached an
agreement to share power in a Government of National Unity (GNU)....
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U.S. imperialism's every effort to assert itself and reverse its declining global domination confirms its weakened position....
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Anti-war activists need to address the latest phase of the war - the war against working people here!...
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The struggle between U.S. imperialism on one side and the movement for
sovereignty and self-determination for the countries of Latin America on the other reached a new stage in early September with use of paramilitary force against the popular Evo Morales government in Bolivia. This escalation has already led to more than 30 deaths, the expulsion of two U.S. ambassadors and an emergency meeting of Latin America heads of state in Chile....
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Cuban leaders of the Confederation of Cuban Workers (CTC) will visit Tijuana, Mexico, a city 15 minutes from the San Diego, U.S./Mexico border. This conference will give people from North America (the United States, Canada and Mexico) the opportunity to hear first hand from the Cubans about Cuba’s workers and their unions. Also, you will hear from leaders of the Venezuelan union, UNT, about the present situation of the Venezuelan revolution and the issues facing Venezuelan workers, representatives of Mexico, United States, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Haiti, the Philippines and Nicaragua discussing the social and labor movements in the Americas....
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As many of you know, the Bush Administration, with the support of politicians from both parties in Congress, has repeatedly threatened Iran with military action, and many now believe that an attack may be imminent....
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The International Action Center would like to express its solidarity with Bolivia, President Evo Morales, and the MAS government in this time of U.S. orchestrated violence in Santa Cruz and other departments of the Media Luna. We support Bolivia's declaration of the U.S. Ambassador Phillip Goldberg as a persona non grata, and we protest U.S. involvement in Bolivia and its efforts to undermine and subvert the process of change in Bolivia that will benefit the sectors of its population that have been most oppressed, the Indigenous and Afro-Bolivian peoples. ...
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The Bush Administration, with the support of politicians of both parties in Congress, has repeatedly threatened Iran with military action, and many now believe that an attack may be imminent.The Stop War on Iran campaign has issued an international call for actions on September 27....
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With little more than a month past since Bolivian President Evo
Morales won a recall referendum with 67% of the vote, Bolivia's
secessionist opposition has taken to the streets beginning in Santa Cruz, one
of the wealthiest regions of the country. Three days of mayhem and violence
have wracked the city of Santa Cruz resulting in at least 8 deaths so far,
spurred on by calls broadcast over the national media to join in "civil
disobedience" against the government....
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The International Action Center condemns the U.S. silencing of Mrs. Masood
"disappeared" of
Pakistan. The United States Department of Homeland Security has cowardly
revoked the travel visa for Amna Masood Janjua. She was prevented from
traveling to the US to meet with human rights organizations and members of
Congress by US agents who boarded the plane she was on, forcing her off. ...
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With shouts of "Jallalah Evo" and "Jallalah
Bolivia," which roughly translate to "We will continue in the
struggle," thousands of exhilarated Bolivians celebrated their triumph
over a recall referendum on Aug. 10. They gathered in Plaza Murillo facing
Palacio Quemado, the presidential palace, awaiting their president, Evo
Morales, after defeating the recall by a wide margin....
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The undersigned, friends of Iraq from France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the United States of America, Egypt, Sweden and Iraq, organized in the International Anti-Occupation Network (IAON) and gathered in Le Feyt, France, from 25 to 27 August 2008, have adopted the following position and declaration reflecting our commitment to a true end to the occupation and to a lasting, sustainable peace in Iraq....
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In early August the western powers and news media launched an anti-Russia campaign following events in Georgia and South Ossetia. With great concern, people around the world watched the recent military confrontation in Georgia, which had been a republic in the former Soviet Union. ...
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The Georgian army's assault on the small nation of South Ossetia this August, backed and armed by the U.S., will have widespread repercussions,
including here in the U.S. The attack immediately caused great suffering to
tens of thousands of people in South Ossetia and Georgia. It was the topic of a top-level meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels and will impact on the struggle against placing U.S. missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic....
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Tell Bush, Cheney, Rice And Congress: U.S. hands off Georgia & Russia - No
New War - End Nato Now! Please Join The IAC's U.S. Hands Off Georgia &
Russia - End Nato Now Campaign. Your Action Is Needed Now!...
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As the threat of war and sanctions against Iran grows, “No War on Iran” was a slogan and chant that resonated across the U.S. on the weekend of Aug. 1-2 as emergency marches, rallies, vigils, teach-ins, honk for peace picket lines and leaflet distributions were held to protest U.S.-Israeli war threats against Iran.
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Manik Mukherjee, General Secretary of International Anti-imperialist and People's Solidarity Coordinating Committee (IAPSCC)attended the programme on National Workers Day Celebration on invitation from the Sudan Workers Trade Union Front (SWTUF). The Conference started on August 3, 2008 with nearly 2000 delegates from 20 countries at the Friendship Hall, Khartoum. The Text of Manik Mukherjee's Speech at the Conference is given below. ...
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(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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Fifty five years is a short period of time in the life of a nation but enough to confirm that July 26 marked the beginning of a new era in Cuban history. In his fundamental speech at the official ceremony on the 20th anniversary of the Moncada also held here in Santiago de Cuba, Fidel recalled the inflammatory poem written by the outstanding Communist leader and noble intellectual Ruben Martínez Villena: ...
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It is with great sadness that we learned today that our comrade and friend, Yoomi Jeong, is no longer among us. We had stood together shoulder
to shoulder for years fighting to end the U.S. occupation of the Korean peninsula and to build solidarity and understanding between the progressive movements
in Korea and the United States. During those years of struggle we learned to respect and appreciate the devotion, skill, understanding and love that Yoomi brought to this work. We again witnessed her determination as she fought her illness against all odds these last two years....
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Colombia made prime news around the world on July 2 like never before. We learned that former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt had been freed from a Marxist guerrilla group along with three U.S. Pentagon contractors -- Tom Howes, Marc Gonsalves and Keith Stansell -- and 11 members of the Colombian army and police....
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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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Recent news makes it clear why it is more important than ever that we take to the streets on August 2. According to press reports, President Bush has given the Israeli military the go-ahead to prepare for an imminent attack on Iran. Once again the most powerful forces of US corporate power - the military-industrial-petroleum complex -are using Israel as their proxy to threaten war on surrounding countries in the region. Israel is armed, financed, and politically and diplomatically supported by Washington....
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We have just been notified about the decision of the three Judges of Atlanta. Under absurd political pressures, two of them rejected nearly all of our appeal points, and only granted three of us retrials,in an attempt to divide us, weaken us and isolate us....
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Please show your support for the Migrants Trade Union and the right of migrant workers in South Korea to form and join trade unions. Send a letter to the South Korean Supreme Court and government telling them to recognize
MTU!!...
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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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As told by most history textbooks in the U.S., the Korean War started with a
June 25, 1950, invasion from the communist north and the freedom-loving U.S. came to the aid of the besieged democratic Republic of Korea in the south. The reality was very different....
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Mr. Marsalis, perhaps by now you've seen or heard about the open letter to you from the British Committee for Universities of Palestine
regarding your quartet's concert date in Tel Aviv on July 17.
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea took a dramatic step on June
27 to prove conclusively to the world that it was disabling its technology for
making nuclear weapons. As representatives of the international media recorded
the event, it blew up the cooling tower at its Yongbyon reactor. The reactor had been shut down and sealed since July 15 of last year....
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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was inaugurated for a sixth term on June
29 after winning a landslide victory on behalf of the ruling Zimbabwe African
Nation Union-Patriotic Front against the opposition Western-backed Movement for
Democratic Change-Tsvangira....
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We are writing because of the new and immediate danger of a U.S. attack on Iran, either directly by the Pentagon or through Israel. ...
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On June 26, the Stop War on Iran Campaign issued a call for emergency actions on August 2 to stop the Bush Administration's drive towards an attack against Iran. In the few days since we’ve issued the call, responses have been pouring in. Already, we have heard back from activists and organizers who are planning protests, rallies, and pickets in more than 50 cities, including a major demonstration in New York City in Times Square and a demonstration in front of the White House in Washington. Actions will also be held in Los Angeles, several cities in Texas, locations throughout New England, small towns in Utah, and more. We are working on compiling a list of the growing number of local actions now, which we will have online soon....
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Allendistas and revolutionaries in New York are inviting everyone to celebrate the birth of President Salvador Allende, who was cruelly assassinated and defeated by a U.S. decree and by the armed Pinochet gang....
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Two years ago, in this very hall, the international community agreed to
eradicate world hunger. It adopted a goal of halving the number of malnourished
people by 2015. Today that modest and inadequate goal seems like a pipe dream....
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South Korea has been seeing nightly mass demonstrations for over a month, a
candlelight march of 1 million people on June 10 and a strike wave of key industrial unions. All are connected to a trade agreement between Washington and the current government of President Lee Myung-bak that would allow U.S. beef into the country....
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Join with the International Action Center and U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange on a fact-finding mission to investigate human rights violations in Colombia and attend the Tribunal!...
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The danger of a U.S. attack on Iran, either directly by the Pentagon or through Israel, was made more explicit in the first week of June....
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A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the verdicts
of guilt against each of the five Cuban heroes on June 4. This was the second
round of appeals for the Five, all of whom have been in prison for almost a
decade for trying to prevent U.S.-backed terrorist organizations in Miami from
engaging in violent attacks on Cuba....
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The Cuban Five are five Cuban men – Fernando Gonzalez, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labanino, Gerardo Hernandez - who are currently still in U.S. prison, serving four life sentences and 75 years collectively, after being wrongly convicted in U.S. federal court in Miami, on June 8, 2001.
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The following relation has
being created by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the
Sovereignty of Iraq (CEOSI,) with the information provided by direct Iraqi university sources and international and Arab media. ...
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The 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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Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New
York City on May 15th to protest the presentation of the Milton Friedman Prize
to Yon Goichochea. Inside, the leader of a counterrevolutionary Venezuelan student group received the award at a lavish $500-a-plate banquet sponsored by The Cato Institute, a right-wing think tank....
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A political and military accord signed between the Sudanese government of Omar
al-Beshir and Chadian President Idriss Deby in January was dissolved in the
aftermath of an attack by a Darfur rebel group on May 10. The so-called Justice
and Equality Movement (JEM) carried out an assault in Omdurman resulting in the
deaths of approximately 200 people....
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With the theme "Sovereignty and Food Security: Food for Life," delegations from 15 countries met in Managua, Nicaragua, on May 7 to discuss and plan strategies to confront the serious hunger crisis that is affecting the
peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean....
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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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The International Action Center sends greetings of
solidarity, condolence and great respect to the comrades, friends and family of the great Philippine working class leader Crispin Beltran
- Ka Bel. His heroic contributions to the struggle of the Philippine people stand as a shining example to all peoples fighting for change and a new world....
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NATO held a three-day meeting in Bucharest, Romania, on April 2 to 4, attended by George W. Bush and other heads of state. It was a stormy affair. This alliance of imperialist military powers, long dominated by the U.S., was divided on several proposals being pushed by Washington....
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s the Bush administration really trying to help the people of Myanmar recover from the natural disaster that struck there? Then why is it insisting that the Pentagon be in charge of its aid? And why did it impose sanctions on the country when it knew the cyclone was about to hit?...
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On the eve of the NATO summit, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chair of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, said an additional 7,500 soldiers and 3,000 military trainers
needed to be sent immediately to Afghanistan....
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Human Rights activists from NYC want to express their
solidarity with the Asociacion Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH), Pro Human
Rights Association, and its directors Francisco Soberon and Miguel Lugo who are
being harassed by Peruvian officials....
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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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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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U.S. imperialism is ramping up its military threats in Latin America and the Caribbean. On April 24 the U.S. Navy announced the re-establishment of the U.S.
Fourth Fleet to increase and coordinate the U.S. military presence there. As a
sign of its aggressive intent, the new commander is Rear Adm. Joseph D. Kernan, who has been head of the Naval Special Warfare Command, better known as the SEALs....
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In 1948 villages and towns in Palestine were destroyed by the Israeli military and its Zionist gangs. Hundreds of Palestinian women, men and children were killed. New towns -- exclusively for Israelis -- were built atop the ruins. Seven hundred fifty thousand Palestinians fled to neighboring Arab countries living their lives in refugee camps. They continue to live in forced
exile (shatat) all over the world and as internally displaced in refugee camps
in Palestine. In the three generations of raising their children, their numbers
have grown to millions, and the their struggle to return home has never faltered....
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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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A large crowd of protesters marched on Haiti's Presidential Palace April 8 waving green branches and shouting, "We're hungry! Feed us!" They pushed large metal trash bins to scale the walls....
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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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The Brooklyn-based December 12 Movement issued the following statement titled "West launches preemptive propaganda strike to depose presidency
of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe" on March 30 from Harare, Zimbabwe....
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For the Office of the Attorney General (the "Fiscalia") it is clear that the action at San Jose de Apartado sought to impose fear and terror in the civilians of that community....
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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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Can there be any doubt that the U.S. government is behind the attacks on China targeting the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing? The events that unfolded at the lighting of the Olympic flame March 24 in
Greece were most revealing. A protest briefly disrupted the ceremonies. The news reports all said that the protest was about Tibet....
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A category of semi-secret U.S. bases is vastly extending the
Pentagon's military presence around the globe. Innocuously called CSLs, for Cooperative Security Locations, these bases are a new, covert form of intervention....
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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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Unable to defeat the Palestinian people's determination to assert
their rights and sovereignty after 60 years of the most brutal occupation and
expropriation of land, the entire U.S.-Israeli strategy for years has been based on exacerbating every division, every difference in the Palestinian struggle....
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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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In this time of economic crisis, thousands of homes are being foreclosed, workers are being laid off in record numbers, and our education system and social programs are severely underfunded. Meanwhile, the raging wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing human lives on both sides as well as U.S. tax dollars. The population of the U.S. has proven that we are against these imperialist wars; and yet our tax dollars are going to these occupations, as opposed to our needs....
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Suppose a group of KKKers and other white supremacists had their own "church" that was really a center for justifying and organizing murderous attacks on African Americans. Suppose an African-American person, tired of lynchings, tortures, beatings and humiliation of his people, came into this church with guns blazing....
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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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As news flashed of the formal resignation of Cuba's Fidel Castro from the office of the President, morbid celebrations broke out in "Little Havana"(Miami), Florida, the U.S. capital of the Cuban exiled, anti-Castro movement. Just as they rejoiced at his illness in 2006, they reveled at his resignation....
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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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A four-member jury of distinguished legal officials, after hearing and
considering two days of intense, moving and precise testimony at the
International Associations Center in Brussels, Belgium, on Feb. 24 found the Israeli state guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in its 2006 war on Lebanon....
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The International Citizens' Tribunal on Lebanon, according to conventional and usual international law, and according to the imperative standards contained in the 1948 and 1949 Geneva Conventions and Protocol A (1977) and in the Statute of the International Criminal Court of 1998; acknowledging the enormous crimes committed by Israel in the 2006 war (indiscriminate bombardments and destruction, murder of more than one thousand and one hundred persons, among them children, women and elderly persons, enormous damage to social and economic life, use of forbidden arms, etc.) declares the Israeli authorities responsible for the 2006 war against Lebanon and guilty of the following international crimes: War Crimes, Crimes against humanity, Genocide...
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March 2nd,The government of Alvaro Uribe murdered Comandante Raul Reyes of the FARC at dawn on March 1 in an operation conceived and
executed with U.S. support.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's defense minister first
announced this news in a triumphant official statement that greatly distorted the facts of the events so as to hide the criminal nature of the terrorist act....
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The International Action Center urges everyone to support the Colombian people at this critical moment. Over the past weekend, relations
between Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador became very tense when the Colombian government with the complicity of the U.S. crossed illegally into Ecuador and invaded this neighboring country. The Colombian government rained many bombs and cowardly executed a group of insurgent forces from the FARC-EP, including Raul Reyes, Chancellor in charge of International Relations....
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Some 5,000 people, about 90 percent of them originally from Serbia but now
part of the working class in the factories in and around Vicenza, marched Feb.
24 through that northern Italian town to protest the secession of Kosovo from
Serbia....
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On Feb. 24 hundreds gathered in front of the White house to
oppose the latest U.S. attack on Serbia, organized by the STOP (Stop Terrorizing Orthodox Peoples) Coalition. Major protest demonstrations
were held in Geneva and Zurich, Switzerland; Vienna, Austria; Athens, Greece; Vicenza, Italy; Montreal and Toronto; Cleveland and Chicago. This week demonstrations will continue, including a major demonstration in front of the U.N. on March 2 from 2 to 4 p.m....
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Those who know and love Cuba know that Fidel's announcement that he
would not run again for president marked a sad day. Yet we are confident that
the Revolution will prevail at every phase of its long journey....
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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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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, at a NATO meeting in Munich on Feb. 10, threatened the European population with alleged terrorist threats to their security. Gates insisted that the Europeans should be ready to send their youth
to be cannon fodder in U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere in Asia....
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n early January, in a unilateral move, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC) released two women it had been holding. Its aim was to demonstrate it was serious about wanting to negotiate a humanitarian exchange of prisoners with the Colombian government....
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Chad, in central Africa, was brutally conquered by France over a century ago and made part of its colonial empire. Today, while nominally independent, it is
the fifth poorest country in the world, according to the U.N. However, it has become a significant, though not major, exporter of oil in the past three years....
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The Venezuelan government has promised that the recent attempts by the world's largest oil company, ExxonMobil, to steal assets that belong to the Venezuelan people will be met with stiff resistance....
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The internal crisis wrenching Pakistan today cannot be separated from the impact of decades of U.S. military aid and continuing intervention to support military dictatorship there....
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Speakers include: Ramsey Clark, Najam Ud Din, Ryan Hancock, Sara Flounders, and Omer Khwaja. Special screening of "Missing in Pakistan," a 24-minute independently produced documentary about the abduction and illegal detention of Pakistani citizens by Pakistani intelligence agencies....
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wo organizations that analyze the media have counted 935 false statements made by the Bush gang between Sept. 11, 2001, and March 19, 2003, that greased the way for the invasion of Iraq. This useful information exposes almost by itself the responsibility of the entire U.S. ruling class for the conspiracy to wage war....
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A federal judge here on Jan. 28 sentenced Ricardo Palmera, a peace negotiator for the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces-People's Army (FARC-EP), to 60 years in prison without parole....
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By tearing down the wall between Gaza and Egypt, the Palestinian people and their organizations gave an impulse to the anti-imperialist movement all over the Middle East and throughout the world. Demonstrations set for Jan. 25-26,which were first called as a plea to stop Israel’s criminal siege of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, turned into militant displays of solidarity with a people in struggle....
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The whole world watched in wonder on Jan. 23 when the blockaded Palestinian people of Gaza blew up the walls imprisoning them and walked en masse into Egypt....
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Some 60,000 people protested in front of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, on Dec. 2. They were demanding the right of political prisoner Vojislav Seselj to defend himself before the anti-Yugoslav tribunal at The Hague, which the U.S. and other NATO forces set up through the United Nations in 1992. The tribunal is known as the ICTY....
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The ultra-right-wing forces now running Serbia's Kosovo province plan to announce its secession from Serbia in 2008. The U.S. and most NATO powers support this reactionary move, continuing their strategy of "divide and conquer" in the Balkans. This strategy has pulled Yugoslavia into pieces, leaving the region unstable, divided and now facing new internecine wars....
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he U.S. calls it "Operation Status." The United Nations calls it "The Ahtisaari Plan." It is the U.S./NATO
"independence" project for Kosovo, which has been a province of Serbia since the 14th century. With NATO's 17,000 troops backing it, Kosovo's government is set to secede on Feb. 6, declaring itself a separate country....
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The Iraqi sectarian Government established under the US occupation is about to agree with the occupying power to transfer all Iraqi prisoners
of war (POW) and detainees held in the Baghdad International Airport prison
from US authority to its authority. This information was confirmed by the
American airport prison authority who informed
the defense lawyers of Iraqi POW that beginning with 31 March 2008 it will relinquish the responsibility of their safety during their visits to the prison. This means that the handover is imminent, and a new carnage place, similar to that when president Saddam Hussein and his comrades were handed over to the same sectarian Government and its Militias. ...
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More than 800,000 Palestinians have been living in darkness since Israel forcibly closed the border and blocked fuel shipments into Gaza on Jan. 18, forcing Gaza's only electrical plant to shut down. The general director
of Gaza's single electricity plant, Derar Abu Sissi, explained that "the catastrophe will affect hospitals, clinics, water wells, houses, factories, all aspects of life."...
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The U.S. backed Israeli blockade of Gaza must end!
Internationally coordinated demonstrations will be happening on Friday and
Saturday. International Action Center urges everyone to attend the demonstration nearest you, and to forward this call from Al-Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition) to as many people and as many lists as you can!...
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The Israeli state, with the complete backing of the imperialists of the U.S.
and the European Union, as well as their clients among the corrupt feudal monarchs in the region, has deprived the entire Palestinian population in Gaza of electricity, sanitation, potable water, heat, cooking gas, medicines and adequate food. And it is winter in Palestine. Nothing has been done to end this
crime against humanity, this collective punishment of the Palestinian people, despite many appeals to international agencies and organizations....
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The Bush administration released on Feb. 1 a vile four-page summary of a longer classified report on Iraq called the National Intelligence Estimate. Prepared by 16 U.S. intelligence agencies active there, the summary described the situation in Iraq as going from bad to worse. ...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez publicly announced on Jan. 9 that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia had just sent him details of the location in their country where two women held by the FARC, Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez de Perdomo, were to be released....
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Beginning in 2001 students from the U.S. began studying in Havana for free at the Latin American School of Medicine (LASM). Originally 500 students were offered scholarships annually. This has been increased to 1,000. The only condition is that the students make a commitment to serve poor communities in the U.S. after receiving their medical licenses....
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The crimes committed by the Israeli army in Lebanon during
the summer 2006 are a violent affront to the universal human conscience. These are criminal acts, as many people feel instinctively. They are different from
the acts that take place in all armed conflict committed by the aggressor as well as by the aggressed. But feeling is not enough. The facts must be
established. They must then be assessed in light of existing international law. This should be done with the detachment and rigor of a process that excludes any a priori conclusions, the results of which will convince all people of good will....
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In the past week, the Bush Administration has been caught red-handed manufacturing the highly publicized provocation" off the Iranian coast on Jan. 6 when five small Iranian open-air speedboats allegedly
challenged three massive U. S. guided-missile warships. The U.S. Navy has now admitted that it had spliced together the audio and video tape it
presented as evidence and that the threatening voice on the video warning "you may explode" may not have belonged to any Iranian sailors....
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The deeds committed by the Israeli army and secret services in Lebanon, as in the occupied Palestinian territories, is a violent affront to the universal human conscience. These are criminal acts, as many people feel instinctively.They are different from the acts that take place in all armed conflict committed by the aggressor as well as by the
aggressed.But feeling is not enough.The facts must be
established....
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The International Jury of Conscience for Lebanon” is a project which intends to develop the struggle against
impunity regarding the crimes committed, which intends to promote international
law and in particular human rights and which places the respect of fundamental
human rights above any other consideration. The discussion will proceed in greatest serenity and the publicity that arises from it will reside exclusively within the framework of human rights. It will question only the facts that occurred during the conflict of July-August 2006 in connection with the respect
of these rights. This project does not include a political debate on the question of the relationship between Israel and its neighbors, nor about the Palestinian question....
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The Bush Administration has initiated an extremely dangerous war provocation just off Iran's coast, in the Strait of Hormuz. With Bush on his way to the Middle East to mobilize a collection of oil-rich U.S. client states against Iran, the U.S. government is working overtime to create a public-relations incident to heighten tensions in the region and threaten a new war. ...
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A report of interviews, meetings, and other first-hand accounts of the situation in the Philippines: issued March 2007...
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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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We know that US imperialism will always use wars of aggression as a potent weapon in order to control the much needed resources in the
world for the benefit of the big monopoly corporations. US imperialism will always display its military strength and capability to bully nations asserting their sovereignty. It is actually strengthening military
relations with Japan and Australia to ensure that its interest in South-East Asia and the Pacific is well guarded. ...
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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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For 11 months the people's movement of Nandigram has defied the full power of the Indian state, military, police and armed death squads in a
struggle to halt a planned "chemical hub" that would destroy their district....
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The financing of U.S. president George W. Bush's wars is now just about accomplished for 2008. By a large majority, briefly before Dec. 25 the House of Representatives and Senate granted an additional $70 billion for the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan. A large number of Democrats again voted for continuing the funding. What made it easier for this bill to pass was that in the U.S. there was a changed perception of the war in occupied Iraq....
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The Israeli siege of Gaza is an international crime of collective punishment on an entire population. It is a crime carried out with the full support and authorization of Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had rejected overtures by Hamas, the militant Islamic group that is the elected government in Gaza, for discussions about
even a temporary cease-fire. ...
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Three years ago today, on May 1, 2003, U.S. President George Bush made his famous landing on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln in a secret flight and sent his congratulations to the sailors and pilots while standing under a banner that read: "Mission Accomplished." At that same time, when Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld still believed he could "shock and awe" all of
Iraq into accepting these plans, the U.S. leaders might have believed they could set up a single weak and submissive Iraqi puppet government....
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To conclude I would like to denounce the total lack of interest in human lives by the occupying forces and the Western mainstream press. There is obviously a lot of racism involved in the way this occupation is handled
by the MNF-I and covered by the media. Some of the academics assassinated were among the finest scientists not only in the Middle East, but worldwide. Nevertheless, none of these murders have been investigated, and very few commemorations appeared in the Western press when these famous academics were killed. And that is another crime....
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As was agreed upon in the meeting of Iraq activists in Madrid during the
International Seminar about the assassination of Iraqi academics and health workers, the International Anti-Occupation Network has been established....
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Representatives from anti-war groups in eight countries met here the weekend of April 21 to 23, 2007, to discuss a grim emergency: the assassinations and disappearances of hundreds of Iraqi scientists, doctors, teachers and other intellectuals under the U.S.-UK occupation. They heard firsthand the plight of Iraqi academics and medical professionals who struggle to live amid constant threats, physical violence,
kidnappings and the operation of death squads....
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"Defender a los docentes y profesionales de la sanidad iraquies forma parte indisociable de la solidaridad global con el pueblo iraqui y su movimiento de liberacion
nacional contra la ocupacion." / "Defending Iraqi academics and health professionals is not separate from the necessity of being in solidarity with the Iraqi people and their national anti-occupation movement."...
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The United States-led occupation of Iraq is a dead end, politically, militarily, morally and economically The national popular resistance in Iraq is the sole legal and legitimate representative of the Iraqi people and the Republic of Iraq....
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The International Anti-Occupation Network
(IAON), along with the Palestinian, Arab and Spanish delegations, condemns and
rejects the interference of the Spanish Foreign Ministry and the Madrid Social Forum (FSM) and its cowardice in the face of attempts by Israel to impose Zionist forces on the civil society "Forum for a Just Peace in the Middle East". These forces cannot and do not subscribe to the Forum's Reference Document that affirms the inviolability of international law....
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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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With little fanfare, Colombia has become the third largest
recipient of U.S. military aid in the world—behind only Israel and Egypt.
U.S. Special Forces troops are already on the ground there, involved in combat with popular insurgencies. Yet Colombia is rarely mentioned in any of the major media in the United States. ...
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The U.S. and European imperialist powers are responsible for the genocidal
slave trade that decimated Africa, the genocide of the Indigenous population of
the Americas, the colonial wars and occupations that looted three-quarters of
the globe. It was German imperialism that was responsible for the genocide of Jewish people. To call for military intervention by these same powers as the answer to conflicts among the people of Darfur is to ignore 500 years of history....
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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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The U.S. prosecutor, on the other hand, decided to prolong what a United Nations Commission has termed an "arbitrary detention." The prosecution has not abided by the August 2005 decision for a new trial in an impartial location. Nor has it repatriated the Five to their homes and loved ones in Cuba. ...
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We met, as we are doing now, fifteen years ago at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro. It was a historic moment. There, we took on the commitment later on contained in the Convention on Climate Change and, subsequently, in the Kyoto Protocol. Cuba was then the first country to take the environmental issue to a constitutional platform. ...
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In a significant show of international support for the International Campaign to Hold Coca-Cola Accountable, over 500 activists from around the world packed the workshop on the campaign at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil on January 29, 2005. The workshop was one of the most popular workshops at the World Social Forum. A pattern has emerged as a result of Coca-Cola's bottling operations in India. Communities living around Coca-Cola bottling plants in India are facing severe water shortages and the groundwater and soil has been contaminated as a direct result of Coca-Cola's practices. Coca-Cola is also accused of distributing toxic waste to farmers and selling contaminated drinks in India. ...
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The anti-war movement in the United States and around the world needs a clear view of the Pentagon's "Plan Colombia" and its impact on this hemisphere. Now that information is available in a book from the International Action Center: "War in Colombia--Made in U.S.A."...
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The Venezuelan National Electoral Commission (CNE) early on Dec. 3 announced the results of the previous day's referendum on proposed major changes to 69 articles of the Venezuelan Constitution. The "No" vote opposing the reforms had won by a margin of less than 2 percent over the "Yes" option, which would have deepened progressive changes and ratified the reconstruction of society on a socialist basis....
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The 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 persons whose signatures appear below are people who are extremely concerned with the indiscriminate arrests, arbitrary deportations and assassinations that experienced by Haitians and/or Dominican-Haitians sisters and brothers who live in the Dominican Republic. ...
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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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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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The original purpose of this meeting has been completely distorted. The imposed center of debate has been a so-called reform process that overshadows the most urgent issues, what the peoples of the world claim with urgency: the adoption of measures that deal with the real problems that block and sabotage the efforts made by our countries for real development and life. ...
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Venezuelan counter-revolutionaries, with the full support of the U.S. and other
imperialist governments, have been attempting to use the non-renewal of Radio
Caracas Television's (RCTV) broadcasting license to destabilize the
popular progressive government of President Hugo Chevez....
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Since 1998, when current President Hugo Chavez won a popular election in
Venezuela, the U.S. government has worked tirelessly with the oligarchy in that
country to overturn Chavez's presidency. Chavez was re-elected in 2000,
again by a large turnout from the people....
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For those people who know Mali's capital Bamako has only a handful of large buildings -- some government offices, the luxury hotel at 15 stories, the international bank and the great mosque -- it may have been a surprise that this city was picked for the African session of 2006's Polycentric World Social Forum (WSF)....
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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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The United States may have the world's largest military machine but
ultimately this government cannot control the forces it has unleashed. There is
a rising global movement against this ruthless competition and spiraling
economic chaos. Six months after NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia a new
movement against corporate globalization was born in Seattle. Hundreds of
thousands of young activists have focused on the brutal policies imposed by the
International Monetary Fund, the World Bank;and the trade agreements such
as NAFTA and the FTAA, and the World Trade Organization. This is a movement
outraged at sweatshop conditions, prisons, environmental devastation and
capitalist chaos...
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The imperialist media tries
to demonize all those who defy U.S. hegemony of the planet, from Saddam
Hussein to Robert Mugabe to Slobodan Milosevic. Rarely have they been
so successful in imposing these falsehoods on those considered on the
left as they were with Milosevic; they even managed to extend this demonization
to Serbs in general. Even this last summer, the media rehashed all the
old stories of Srebenica during the civil war in Bosnia. In the article
below, Diana Johnstone, a meticulous journalist and careful observer of
events in the Balkans, presents a different view of what happened that
summer 10 years ago. ...
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U.S. occupation
forces in Afghanistan and Iraq are creating a nightmare for the population
there as they step up military repression in the face of growing resistance. ...
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A multinational
delegation from 26 different countries visited the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea at the end of July for a commemoration of the 50th anniversary
of the signing of the armistice that ended the 1950-53 U.S.-led war on
Korea. The leaders of North Korea have renewed their efforts to replace
that armi stice with a peace treaty, and to move towards reunification
of the 70 million Korean people. ...
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A letter written fifty-six
years ago was recently unearthed by a Harvard historian and is getting a lot
of attention. U.S. Ambassador to Seoul during the Korean War, John J Muccio
wrote the letter to U.S. Undersecretary of State, Dean Rusk. It clearly spells
out the secret policy the U.S. military had of shooting Korean refugees. It
isn't the only evidence, but it is unambiguous and from the highest level,
and because of that, very important....
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Please join our campaign to demand U.S. Hands Off North Korea, by http://www.iacenter.org/koreacampaign.shtml to the Bush Administration, members of Congress, the UN Secretary General, and the media. Help us build a national grass roots movement to stop another bipartisan drive to war. ...
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The nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula is an offspring of the U.S. policy of nuclear threat based on its deep-rooted hostile policy toward the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK the formal name for North Korea) for over half a century. During the Korean War U.S. considered dropping a nuclear bomb at the border of china and North Korea. ...
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An American delegation of peace, labor and social justice activists led by Cindy Sheehan is in Seoul to join the nationwide mobilization against the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement currently being negotiated. The delegation is joining the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) who has called for a General Strike from all sectors of South Korean society to demand that the Roh government seriously address the needs of workers and peasants....
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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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Musharraf, who first seized power in a 1999 coup, has declared martial law in a desperate attempt to bolster his faltering dictatorship. Opposition leaders have been arrested. Peaceful political meetings have been raided. All international and private news channels have been shut down, with only the state-owned stations allowed to remain on the air....
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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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Join Ramsey Clark, Howard Zinn, George Galloway, Dennis Halliday, Harold Pinter, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Tony Benn, Lynne Stewart, David Swanson and thousands more in an international campaign to Stop War on Iran.
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Why is Iran increasingly a target of U.S. threats? Who in Iran will be affected if the Pentagon implements plans, already drawn up, to strike more than 10,000 targets in the first hours of a U.S. air barrage on Iran? ...
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A standing-room-only crowd of 400 people packed the meeting hall all day in Tokyo Dec. 15 for the first public hearing of a tribunal charging President George Bush with war crimes in Afghanistan. The Afghan war and the threatened war in Iraq are drawing wider interest in Japan since the country's military supported U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and is being set up for support operations against Iraq. This marks Japan's first open military intervention since World War II. ...
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Get ready for a bumper crop of poppies in Afghanistan. Once processed, it will flood the streets of this country with tons of low-priced heroin. On March 31, 7.5 tons of unrefined morphine were seized by police in Turkey, a NATO power that is playing a big role in Bush's war in Afghanistan. This biggest drug haul ever in Turkey is believed by the authorities there to have come from Afghanistan....
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U.S. newspapers have recently printed photos of smiling Afghan girls on their way to school in Kabul for the first time since the Taliban outlawed education for girls in 1996. The establishment media's message is: "Thanks to the U.S. invasion, the women of Afghanistan are finally on their way to democracy and human rights."...
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In the next few days, the Italian Parliament will discuss about re-funding the Italian military mission in Afghanistan. 8 Senators belonging to the majority coalition announced that they will vote NO. Saturday, July 15, after the call for action of the antiwar Senators, a national Assembly will take place, which already got support of intellectuals, trade-unionists and members of civil-society and catholic associations. Given the international character of the struggle against the occupation of Afghanistan, expressions of solidarity sent by movements of different countries, such the ones which are already being received by the organizers, are of utmost importance. It is important that such statements reach the organizers before the national Assembly takes place, on July 15th [2006]. ...
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Under the theme “Women of the World: a
vital force against neoliberal globalization, terrorism and imperialist wars;
for equality, social and economic justice and for peace,” more than 1,000
women representing organizations from five continents met in Caracas,
Venezuela, from April 9 through 14. They were joined by thousands of Venezuelan
women who hosted the 14th Congress of the Women’s International
Democratic Federation....
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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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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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We have seen this before! The Bush Administration, with no visible opposition from the Democratically-controlled Congress, has taken another major step toward war. This time against the people of Iran....
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Late last night the UN First Committee passed, by an overwhelming majority, a resolution highlighting concerns over the military use of uranium. The resolution entitled 'Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium'1 was passed by 122 votes to six at the UN First Committee in New York; with 35 abstentions. The resolution urges UN member states to re-examine the health hazards posed by the use of uranium weapons. ...
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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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Please tell Bush and Congress: HANDS OFF CUBA! Sign the petition and send it to President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Rice, Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez, U.N. Secretary-General Ki-moon, Congressional leaders, your own Congressional delegation, and media representatives!...
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If the full dimensions of the horror the U.S. occupation has created in Iraq were exposed and confronted, world outrage would reach such a pitch that the occupation could not continue. A huge number of reports that are largely ignored or given only passing mention in the corporate media confirm an unprecedented level of destruction of essential infrastructure, loss of life and massive displacement of people....
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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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41 Organizing Centers in 23 States! Over 60 Buses planned! Over 1000 endorsers...
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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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For the first time in the five years of the WSF's existence, the issues of Africa were at its center. According to Malian organizer Mamadou Goita, "We had over 300 people from the rural areas of Mali alone, while another 8,000 came from neighboring countries. All of them participated in the forum and enriched the discussions. This has never happened before."...
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Two demonstrations were held in Detroit today against the rising tide of United States militarism in Iraq and Somalia....
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Audio streaming of panel discussion...
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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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