http://www.iacenter.org/ en-us http://www.iacenter.org/actions/forum051613/ YOU ARE INVITED TO A FORUM actions Thu, 16 May 2013 08:32:00 UTC http://www.iacenter.org/actions/ppm051613/ The Poor People’s March began May 11 in Baltimore at the site of the police killing of Anthony Anderson, Sr., an unarmed African-American, and arrived the next day in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. actions Thu, 16 May 2013 08:24:00 UTC http://www.iacenter.org/prisoners/breaking_news_on_lynne_stewart_05_15_13/ The International Petition Campaign to Free Lynne Stewart and Save Her Life is gratified to report that today, May 13, following urgent communications from former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and social activist Dick Gregory, that Federal Bureau of Prisons General Counsel Kathleen Kenney telephoned Ramsey Clark to advise that a recommendation of Compassionate Release for Lynne Stewart from FMC Carswell Warden Jody R. Upton is on the desk of FBP Director Charles E. Samuels, Jr. with a full package of documentation. prisoners Wed, 15 May 2013 00:06:00 UTC http://www.iacenter.org/cuba/assata051313/ cuba Mon, 13 May 2013 13:47:00 UTC http://www.iacenter.org/actions/ppm051312-d/ Washington, D.C. — The second day of the Poor People’s March for Jobs and Justice, May 12, began with excitement as women from the National Coalition of Leaders to Save Section 5 (of the Voting Rights Act), who drove from Selma, Ala., took the lead of the march with other women on Mothers’ Day. It was Coretta Scott King who led the first poor people’s campaign on Mothers’ Day 45 years ago. A handful of marchers who had elected to walk through the night joined the larger group to applause for their high spirits. Everyone marched the last 10-mile segment of the 41-mile trek from Baltimore to Washington, D.C actions Mon, 13 May 2013 09:51:00 UTC http://www.iacenter.org/actions/ppm051213-c/ Within hours of the start of the Poor People’s Campaign and March, which headed from Baltimore to Washington, D.C., on May 11, words had turned into action. Some hundreds of marchers defied Baltimore County cops who were blocking the way at a Walmart Supercenter in Halethorpe, Md.</p> <p>Most marchers wove their way past the police and made it to the doors of the mammoth retailer, where they shouted, “Walmart, union! Walmart, union!” and “Walmart, slave wages” as they blocked traffic in the parking lot. The police, who physically abused Black women marchers, made it clear they were there to protect Walmart’s “private property.” actions Sun, 12 May 2013 09:25:00 UTC http://www.iacenter.org/lgbt/collins051113/ hen the great African-American baseball player, Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier of the then all-white, segregated Major Baseball League on April 15, 1947, as a Brooklyn Dodger, it was a historic first. It was even more remarkable because there wasn’t a modern-day Civil Rights Movement at that time to support his efforts. In fact, it would take another seven years before the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott was launched to challenge Jim Crow racism in Alabama and throughout the South. lgbt Sat, 11 May 2013 09:03:00 UTC