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With the attainment of the required delegates to claim the Democratic Party's nomination for U.S. president, Sen. Barack H. Obama (D-IL) has written a new page in American history....
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On June 9, the San Francisco Labor Council passed a resolution "For a
Moratorium on Foreclosures, Utility Shutoffs, Evictions & Public Housing
Demolitions."...
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When I was growing up in the U.S. South in the racially turbulent 1960s, it
would have been impossible for a Black politician to become a viable
Presidential contender. Nothing a Black candidate could have done or said would
have prevented him (or her) from being excluded on the basis of skin color
alone. Many of us never thought we would see in our lifetime a Black person
with a real possibility of becoming President of the U.S....
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The Cuban Five are five Cuban men – Fernando Gonzalez, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labanino, Gerardo Hernandez - who are currently still in U.S. prison, serving four life sentences and 75 years collectively, after being wrongly convicted in U.S. federal court in Miami, on June 8, 2001.
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There apparently is still confusion regarding the March 27 federal decision. A new jury trial was ordered on the question of whether the penalty should be life or death. The court did not rule that Mumia should receive a life sentence as some have stated. The penalty-phase was reversed because the trial judge gave misleading and unconstitutional jury instructions. Nonetheless, I expect far greater gains.
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The Dalai Lama claims that China is committing "cultural genocide" against the Tibetan people, and his claims and news of the events unfolding in the regional capital of Lhasa have captured a great deal of attention in the major media outlets in the U.S....
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A delegation of Detroit activists traveled to Washington, D.C., on April 16 to participate in the national demonstration called by the Ad Hoc Network to Stop
Foreclosures and Evictions. The action took place outside the Mortgage Bankers
Association Annual Policy Summit held in a hotel just two blocks away from Capitol Hill....
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The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights condemns the latest
Department of Homeland Security immigration raid carried out on May 12, by the
Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) against immigrant workers
at a meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa....
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A terror raid against immigrant workers at a meatpacking plant in Postville,
Iowa, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on May 12 devastated
a whole town. Residents and local officials have expressed
their shock and anger in the national media....
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n June/July 2008 14 different routes of the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba will be on the road visiting more than 120 US and Canadian cities. We will travel in school buses, trucks, and cars to
Cuba via Mexico with medical and educational supplies collected from groups
across the US and Canada as a collective challenge to the inhuman and immoral US blockade and travel ban. Five of our buses will be named in honor of the Five Cuban patriots who are unjustly incarcerated in US jails. ...
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Anti-war activists in northern New York State are joining with the organizers of the Different Drummer cafe in Watertown and members of Iraq
Veterans Against the War (IVAW) for a new kind of war protest this May 17,
dubbed Armed Forces Day....
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The International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), known for its militant and democratic traditions as well as its economic and social justice activism, has written a new chapter in its glorious labor history by shutting down all 29 ports on the West Coast for eight hours on May Day....
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May Day, or International Workers' Day, was celebrated with marches, combative demonstrations and sometimes open struggles all over the world. In the non-imperialist world, these actions focused on the great increase in food
prices in recent weeks, in Europe on defending jobs and workers' wages. In both Europe and the United States, immigrant rights were up front. In the U.S. longshore workers held a rare political strike against war on the West
Coast....
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For the third consecutive year U.S. workers reclaimed their historic holiday, which originated with Chicago labor struggles for the 8-hour day in the 1880s. The dominant call this year was for full rights for 12 million undocumented workers....
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Many hundreds of people carried out massive protests and civil disobedience today, during the afternoon of a work day, in at least six key bridge and tunnel crossroads of New York City to demand justice for Sean Bell, the 23-year-old African American who was killed in a hail of 50 New York Police Department bullets in November 2006 in Jamaica, Queens, N.Y....
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May 7, 2008 - Oppose Zionist
celebration of 60 years of Nakba 2. May 16, 2008 - Major Rally at the UN to
commemorate 60 years of Nakba...
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A national press conference to demand the immediate release of Dr. Sami Al-Arian was held at the Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural Center in Harlem on April 15. Al-Arian was in the 44th day of a hunger strike to demand that the government abide by the terms of his release. He has been imprisoned for more than five years....Al-Arian, a tenured professor at the University of South Florida, was
arrested in 2003. Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft trumpeted it as the
"arrest of the most dangerous financier of Islamic Jihad in the Western
world." This case of a Palestinian who raised funds for orphans and charities back home is viewed as one of the most extreme examples of racist and anti-Muslim persecution....
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Over a thousand people voiced their collective outrage here April 19 that political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal was once again denied the right to a fair hearing by an injustice system determined to keep this innocent man imprisoned for life if it can&'t silence him outright through execution....
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WORLD EVENTS have made May Day 2008 a turning point. AT NO OTHER TIME in our lives has it been more critical to march together and work together. WE NOW FACE AN ECONOMIC CRISIS the likes of which we have not seen in our lifetimes that is throwing millions out of their homes, jobs and making it more difficult to get healthcare, an education or even gas and food....
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Yesterday, on the morning of April 15th, Dr. Al-Arian was removed from the abusive prison of Howard County Detention Center in Maryland. Although immigration officials promised to prevent any further abuse, he was simply thrown from the pot into the frying pan....
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Rainbow Flags for Mumia is a coalition of lesbian, gay, bi and trans people and organizations that came together in 1999 to demand a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal. The following are excerpts from a call issued by RF4M
organizers Imani Henry and LeiLani Dowell to help raise awareness and solidarity with the Free Mumia rally in Philadelphia on April 19....
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In his new book, O'Connor argues that Abu-Jamal was clearly framed by police, and that the actual shooter was a man named Kenneth Freeman. O'Connor criticizes the local media, who, he says, "bought into the prosecution's story line early on and has never been able to see this case for what it is: a framing of an innocent and peace-loving man."...
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The Ad Hoc National Network to Stop Foreclosures and Evictions brought people, many facing foreclosure, from as far away as Boston, Raleigh and Miami. Sharon Black, a Baltimore organizer who chaired the rally, pointed out that the billionaire bankers were in D.C. to lobby for more tax breaks and concessions
from Congress....
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I urge you to join me and many others at 3:00 pm on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 in a
national protest at the Mortgage Bankers Association Conference in Washington
D.C. at the Washington Court Hotel, 525 New Jersey Avenue, N.W....
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Friday, April 11, is the scheduled release date of Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian professor on a hunger strike, who has been imprisoned for more than five years. But the Department of Justice, through its continuous abuse of the grand jury system, is threatening to keep him imprisoned for many years....
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On Nov. 30, 2007 African-American police brutality and anti-war
activist Larry Hales was arrested after 10 cops illegally busted into
his home without a warrant and without permission, physically attacked him and handcuffed his partner to a chair. He is facing frame-up charges
of "interfering with the police" and faces extended jail time for being the victim of a police attack.
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This Legal Update is made on behalf of my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who remains on Pennsylvania’s death row. Many people have inquired as to our
reaction and position concerning recent legal developments, and what will happen now. This should answer many of those questions and alleviate some of the confusion....
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There is considerable documentation of the extremely
"irregular" decision making by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. See the...minority position in the Third Circuit ruling. We must expose the conspiracy to convict
Mumia, to deny him a new trial, and to have him either executed or imprisoned
for life. We will not accept their decision. Into
the streets for our brother, Mumia, and for ourselves!!!...
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In response to an online petition campaign over 50,000 email messages have been sent to the members of the House and Senate Banking and Finance Committees demanding a
moratorium on bank foreclosures and evictions. The number is continuing to
grow!...
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The following statement was issued on March 29 by Pam Africa,
coordinator of the International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia
Abu-Jamal, on the March 28, 2008 court ruling by the three-judge panel of the Third
Circuit of Appeals....
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Emergency protests took place in a number of cities March 28, 2008, the day after a 2
to 1 court ruling March 27 made by the 3rd Circuit of Appeals that upheld the
guilty verdict in the case of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and called for a resentencing hearing due to flawed jury instructions in the original trial....
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A ruling by the three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals rejecting Mumia Abu-Jama's appeals has left supporters outraged and
convinced that, for this internationally known political prisoner, there is no chance for a "fair trial" within the U.S. injustice system....
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Ed Lewinson is 78 years old and blind. On Wednesday he leaves for Federal prison in Elkton Ohio to serve a 90 day prison sentence based on his arrest protesting the School of the Americas (U.S. School of Torture) at Ft Benning GA....
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Hundreds of military veterans of the Bush administration&'s so-called war on terror attended the Winter Soldier 2008 hearings held here March 13-16 at the National Labor College, an AFL-CIO affiliate just outside Washington.
The four-day event was organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW)....
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When the Mortgage Bankers Association meets in Washington, D.C., on April
16-17 at the swanky Washington Court Hotel, their gathering will draw
protesters. The MBA is a national lobbying group that represents the interests
of the banks, including lending firms that are directly responsible for the
evictions of tens of thousands of people, including both buyers and renters, from their foreclosed homes....
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The Coalition to Save Harlem Announces an Online Petition Against the 125th Street Rezoning Plan....
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Attention antiwar activists--dust off your protest signs and bring them to a national demonstration against home foreclosures and evictions in Washington DC, on Wednesday, April 16. Join the Ad Hoc National Network Against Home Foreclosures and Evictions in front of the Mortgage Bankers Association Annual Conference, the biggest assembly of mortgage bankers in the country, to demand a moratorium on home foreclosures and evictions. Almost everyone hates the war in Iraq, but until now many have seemed resigned to leaving it up to politicians to end it. That's because most people have felt that the war didn't affect them personally. That mindset is coming to an end. ...
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THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS HAS RULED AGAINST A NEW TRIAL FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL. THEY HAVE CALLED FOR A SENTENCING HEARING WHICH CAN RESULT IN EITHER AN EXECUTION OR LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE.DAY AFTER PLANS ARE IN EFFECT
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We hope that you can join us to welcome and hear Edgar Paez, from the National Board of SINALTRAINAL, the Colombian union of the food industry workers. He will be April 1-2, 2008, in Philadelphia as part of a tour through the U.S. to bring attention to the danger not only for Colombian orkers, but for workers in the U.S as well, of signing a Free Trade agreement with Colombia....
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On September 1, 2008, tens of thousands plan to take to the streets of St. Paul, Minnesota, to say no to the war and occupation in Iraq. The Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War, made up of more than 100 organizations from across the country, has been seeking permits for this demonstration since days after the Republicans announced they would hold their national convention in Minnesota. While we have a permit to assemble and rally at the State Capitol, the City of St. Paul continues to withhold a permit for a march on the Xcel Center, where the Convention will be held....
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The campaign demanding justice for Larry Hales is gaining momentum. People around the country are outraged at the action last Nov. 30 of the Denver police, who stormed the home of Hales, a prominent anti-police brutality and
political activist in Denver, as well as a central organizer for upcoming protests at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver....
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THE MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION (MBA) -- the biggest national lobby of all the banks -- including the criminal predatory lenders, that are busy evicting your neighbors, relatives, friends
and maybe you from your home -- is holding it's annual policy conference in Washington D.C., on April 16 and 17. Their main goal is to make sure that bankers continue to get bailed out while families get tossed out! ...
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As the fifth anniversary of the criminal U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan neared, tens of thousands hit the streets on Mar. 15 calling for an
end to the war. In Los Angeles marchers targeted CNN at the corner of Sunset and Cahuenga chanting, "CNN, can't you see? Put the peace march on TV!"...
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Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred yesterday morning, on the 9th day of his hunger strike, to a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina run by the Bureau of Prisons. Since beginning his no- water or food hunger strike on March 3, Dr. Al-Arian has lost 23 pounds and grown weaker. He has not yet been given an IV. A doctor who examined him on Monday said he is suffering from starvation and Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transferred yesterday morning, on the 9th day of his hunger strike, to a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina run by
the Bureau of Prisons. Since beginning his no- water or food hunger strike on
March 3, Dr. Al-Arian has lost 23 pounds and grown weaker. He has not yet been given an IV. A doctor who examined him on Monday said he is suffering from starvation and dehydration....
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The issues in this case concern the right to a fair trial, the struggle against the death penalty, and the political repression of a
courageous writer and ournalist. My goal is to
win a new and fair trial for Mumia, and a jury acquittal upon his retrial. I want him to go home to his family. Nevertheless, Mumia is in great danger, for if all is lost he will be executed. We must never forget that racism, fraud, and politics are threads that have run through this case since the beginning and continue today....
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A march more than five blocks long went from Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, near
the United Nations, through Times Square and past Madison Square Garden to
protest the U.S. theft of Serbia's Kosovo. Many New Yorkers and tourists
watched with interest as the marchers went on their way to the St. Sava Serbian
Orthodox Church on 25th Street near Broadway....
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Growing list of cities participating in actions on
or around Feb. 29, 2008, in solidarity with the Haitian people, on the 4th
anniversary of the Feb. 29, 2004 coup d'etat in Haiti....
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The very instability and wrenching poverty that imperialism has brought to
the region will in the long run be the seeds of its undoing. The history of the
achievements made when Yugoslavia enjoyed real independence and sovereignty
through unity and socialist development will assert itself in the future....
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The demonstration of over 500,000 people in Belgrade and the attack on the U.S.
Embassy show the depth of outrage and anger over the seizure of the Serbian
province of Kosovo. Two Kosovo border posts were destroyed, one by fire the other in an explosion, along with ten McDonald's outlets and several Western banks and other hated targets. The Western media had overwhelming applauded the U.S. destruction in 1999 and
it now has a responsibility to explain the reason for the mass anger of millions of people. The outrage is because the province of Kosovo is not
actually being granted "independence." Millions of people see recognition of Kosovo's "independence" as an effort to legitimize a direct U.S. colony and to permanently secure a giant U.S. military base in the region....
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On March 8, 1908, working women in the needle trade industry took to the streets of New York City demanding better working conditions, higher wages, shorter workdays and the overall improvement of women's lives in this country. These women marched through New York City demanding justice for women workers and immigrant workers; they were in fact working immigrant women. The message and militancy of these women were so inspiring to women around
the world that in 1910 the International Socialist Congress meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, officially declared March 8 International Women's Day....
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Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center, delivered a
30-minute assembly program on Feb. 8 to the 1,000-person student body of Phillips Exeter Academy, a prominent private high school in New Hampshire. Her talk was divided into four sections: why capitalism requires war and inequality; why capitalism requires racism; the basics of socialism; and the choices that we make that impact society....
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No one should be awakened by armed squads bursting into their homes in the dead of night with shotguns and automatic weapons drawn taking away parents and relatives leaving children alone....
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Earlier this month the federal government issued a statement in which they labeled Joanne Chesimard, known to most in the Black community as Assata
Shakur, as a domestic terrorist. In so doing, they also increased the bounty on
her head from $150,000 to an unprecedented $1,000,000. Viewed through the lens
of U.S. law enforcement, Shakur is an escaped cop-killer. Viewed through the
lens of many Black people, including me, she is a wrongly convicted woman and a hero of epic proportions....
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Workshops will coordinate with the activities of the International Action Center and Troops Out Now Coalition. Trainees will have a chance to gather footage from demonstrations, meetings and forums and will learn to edit that footage and stream it on YouTube and Facebook....
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One hundred and fifty anti-racist activists continued the legacy of Martin
Luther King Jr. on Jan. 21 as they confronted members of the white supremacist
organization, the Nationalist Movement, in Jena, La. The event took place on Martin Luther King Day in this small Louisiana town that has been the stage for what is being called the new civil rights movement....
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Reports of demonstrations against racism on Martin Luther King Day from cities around the United States. Demonstrators called for cutting the military budget and using the money for jobs, housing, education and health
care....
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The U.S. backed Israeli blockade of Gaza must end!
Internationally coordinated demonstrations will be happening on Friday and
Saturday. International Action Center urges everyone to attend the demonstration nearest you, and to forward this call from Al-Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition) to as many people and as many lists as you can!...
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A small clique of WBAI board members and their friends, led by multimillionaire marketing huckster Steve Brown and variously called "ACE" and "independents," have escalated their illegitimate efforts to take control of the station. In November, they sued Pacifica and got a judge to stop the board elections that were almost complete....
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On Monday, January 21, from coast to coast, thousands took to the streets to march against racism.The Martin Luther King March Against Racism Coalition called for nationwide actions, saying, "There is a time for celebrations and there's a time for fighting. Now is a time that we need to fight. And fight like hell. On this King Holiday we must organize and march against the forces of racism, reaction and war, not just the war abroad but the war raging here at home. To know what's happening, is to know that nothing is more important than jump starting a multi-racial movement against racism."...
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Jan. 22 marks the 35th anniversary of the legalization of the right to
abortion in the United States. The Supreme Court's landmark 1973 ruling
in the case of Roe v. Wade finally guaranteed women the right to obtain safe, legal abortions in every state in hospitals, clinics and doctors'offices....
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Puerto Ricans have resisted U.S. culture and the imposition of English-only
in schools, and over the years have formed liberation organizations such as the
Nationalist Party, the FALN and the Macheteros. Now the movement and its allies
are calling for the FBI and the U.S. Navy to get out of Puerto Rico. International solidarity is needed....
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Fascistic groups like the Nationalist Movement should not have the right to free speech in order to spread their vile, hateful venom especially against Black and other people of color....
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Troops Out Now Coalition is part of and urges full support and a strong turn-out for The PEOPLE'S PEACE CONFERENCE 2008....
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This year, let's help put the meaning back into the Martin Luther King holiday on January 21st by marching against racism, oppression, war, poverty and division. In New York, the march will assemble at 1 PM for an opening rally at 32nd Street and 7th Avenue, near the offices of radio station WABC (which recently put Don Imus back on the air!). Then we will march to Columbus Circle and rally outside of CNN's offices (located inside the Time Warner building)....
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Fighters for reproductive justice for poor women are stepping up their campaign to overturn the Hyde Amendment, a reactionary law enacted by Congress in 1976 and signed by Democratic President Jimmy Carter in 1977. The Hyde
Amendment denies women on Medicaid the right to funding for abortions. It is named for its archreactionary sponsor, Henry Hyde, a former long-term Republican congressman from Illinois. ...
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On Dec. 20th, just five days before the Christmas holiday, residents and supporters of New Orleans public housing were denied their right to speak regarding the demolition of 4,700 public housing units. The housing is to be
replaced by :mixed income housing," which really means upscale and expensive housing....
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The Coalition to Stop the Demolitions is calling for National Days of Action
on Jan. 25 and 26. The call is to rally activists around the country to show
solidarity with public-housing residents in New Orleans and to save four
public-housing developments from being demolished by private developers in
favor of more expensive luxurious developments....
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Victor Toro Ramerez fought the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Now he is fighting deportation from the U.S., and is linking his own struggle
to that of all undocumented workers....
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Monday, Jan 21, in New York City and across the nation: The International Action Center and the Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST) youth group are initiating an important call to action around the U.S. for Jan. 21, 2008, the official Martin Luther King Jr. birthday holiday. The call motivates people for solidarity and unity in the struggle against racism and all forms of injustice at home and abroad. It also calls for a national march in New York City along with other mobilizations around the country on this day focusing support for the Black community and immigrant rights:...
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Resolution calls for federally-funded public works program (like WPA of the 1930s) with prevailing wages and the right to organize...the Right of Return of evacuees...and an end to state repression, racial profiling and police brutality in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast....
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On Sept. 30, the television program "Desperate Housewives" had one of its main characters make a scripted racist slur against Filipino medical
professionals. The character insulted the medical education system of the Philippines....
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One of the most underreported stories from the Vietnam War is the role played by the disintegration of military discipline as the war dragged on. While the situation in Iraq has not reached the same point yet, revolutionaries
understand that the fact that the bosses are forced to rely on workers in uniform to wage their wars raises the possibility that the troops will say, "No."...
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Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on Pennsylvania's death row for over a quarter of a century.
His 1982 conviction for the shooting death of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel
Faulkner, has been contested by jurists, human rights organizations, and peoples
of conscience the world over. Even though he is arguably the most famous political
prisoner in the United States, his case and struggle for justice distills many
of the issues that racially stigmatized groups and others have faced in the United
States for decades: police brutality and violence, racist applications of the
death penalty, prosecutorial misconduct, suborning of witnesses, and the use of
wealth and political privilege in criminal justice systems to service the ideological
interests of groups and classes in power. ...
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We are writing this at a critical time in the struggle for justice and peace,
but one in which there is also great potential. The war in Iraq drags on towards a fifth year, despite a clear mandate from the people to bring the
troops home now. The Bush Administration is still threatening the people of
Iran with ominous sanctions and a new war....
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We must strive to promote international friendship, sharing and true respect for humankind and to oppose the
policies of domination, globalization, and war....
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As part of its effort to forge new ties, Rainbow Solidarity for the Cuban Five held a meeting at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City June 2. Leaders from various organizations voiced their commitment to work on behalf of the Cuban heroes,...
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Hundreds of Native people and their supporters gathered in Plymouth, Mass., on Nov. 22 to commemorate the 38th National Day of Mourning. Day of Mourning has been held annually since 1970 on U.S. thanksgiving day to provide a forum for Indigenous people to speak the truth about the history of this country and to speak out about current conditions in Indian Country. Participants, led by members of United American Indians of New England, marched to protest the lies told about thanksgiving and the European theft of the Americas and held a rally at the site of Plymouth Rock....
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The Haitian Revolution is a singular event in history. Never before or since has an enslaved people risen up, broken their chains, and established a new state. Haiti was a beacon of hope and inspiration to the enslaved Africans of the United States. Haiti's history has been turbulent, but not for the reasons given by mainstream historians. ...
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The San Francisco-based Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), with the support of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), has filed a lawsuit against Constant in U.S. federal court in the Southern District of New York on behalf of women who survived savage gang rapes and other forms of extreme violence, including attempted murder. The legal groups are using the Alien Tort Claims Act, adopted in 1789, which gives survivors of egregious human rights abuses, wherever committed, the right to sue persons responsible for the abuses in U.S. federal court. Since 1980, the law has been used successfully in cases involving torture (including rape), extrajudicial killing, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and arbitrary detention. ...
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The U.S. Marine Corps launched another offensive this May--this one not a landing on some foreign beach but a legal attack on its own anti-war Iraq veterans. Given the results of the first skirmish in Kansas City, Mo., on June 4, 2007, the USMC already seems to be deciding that it might retreat rather than find itself fighting another losing battle with a popular army....
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This book is aimed at increasing recruiting problems by helping young people and their parents counter the lies of the recruiters. In this book, you will find practical tools for challenging recruiters, exposing their falsehoods, and getting them out of our schools. ...
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Leonard Peltier will be 63 years old on September 12, 2007. It's an international day for demanding the immediate, unconditional freedom of this Native American artist, writer, and activist--one of the most widely recognized political prisoners in the world....
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It is mind-boggling for us to be here, now, at this late hour, with Leonard Peltier still in chains. Books have been written; documentaries have been produced; congresspeople have joined his freedom campaign -- all for naught. For Leonard Peltier, a former leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM), is still not free! That, to anyone with a soul, is a damned shame. ...
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Since 1970, hundreds of other Native Americans from across the country and their non-Native allies have been converging on Plymouth Harbor to let people know that Thanksgiving is a "Day of Mourning" that marks the genocide of thousands of Native Americans, the theft of Native Lands and the assault on Native Cultures. On Thursday, November 23, 2006 despite the cold and rainy weather, hundreds of people gathered and marched on Plymouth Harbor and joined in solidarity as various tribal elders and members spoke about the hypocrisy of the current U.S. government's attack against immigrants and spoke of the importance of Unity among all Indigenous Peoples. Elder Bert Waters read the following statement from Leonard Peltier: ...
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Last fall, when two Black high school students sat under the "white" tree on their campus, white students responded by hanging nooses from the tree. When Black students protested the light punishment for the students who hung the nooses, District Attorney Reed Walters came to the school and told the students he could "take [their] lives away with a stroke of [his] pen." Racial tension continued to mount in Jena , and the District Attorney did nothing in response to several egregious cases of violence and threats against black students....
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Last Friday, September 23, 2005, while the pro-independence movement in Puerto Rico was commemorating the 137th anniversary of El Grito de Lares, the day the first Republic of Puerto Rico was proclaimed in 1868, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, respected and legendary leader of the liberation movement was being assassinated by FBI sharpshooters just a few miles away in the western coast of the island. ...
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The International Action Center, an organization with over 15 centers throughout the United States, denounces the Bush Administration's announcement that the FBI has issued an arrest warrant for ANTONIO CAMACHO NEGRON a Puerto Rican pro-independence leader and former political prisoner....
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Vieques is an island municipality of Puerto Rico, separated from it by 6-8 miles of sea. It measures 21 by 4 miles, with an area of 33,000 sq. acres. Population: 9,400 inhabitants who live in the narrow, middle strip of land sandwiched between two U.S. large Naval facilities. ...
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From June 27 to July 1, Atlanta will host the first-ever Social Forum held in the United States. The U.S. Social Forum will gather thousands of grassroots and community activists from across the country who will engage each other in political discussion and strategy planning. The operating slogan for the five-day event is "For another world to be possible, another U.S. is
necessary."...
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More than 1 million immigrants and supporters skipped work and school and took to the streets of New York City today in support of immigration rights.
As the day began, many businesses throughout the region remained closed, as owners observed the May 1 Great American Boycott -- a day of no work, no School, no shopping, and no selling. ...
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We the undersigned uncategorically denounce the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid and detention of at least 350 immigrant workers at Michael Bianco Inc. in New Bedford, MA. which took place the morning of Tuesday, March 6, 2007. We stand firmly in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in all immigrant communities and demand the immediate release of all who have been detained by ICE. Further, we demand an immediate end to these raids and deportations of immigrant workers and the reunification of their families.
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Poison DUst tells the story of three young men from New York who could not get answers for their mysterious ailments after their National Guard unit's 2003 tour of duty in Iraq. A mother reveals her fears about the extent of her child's birth defects and the growing disability of her young husband -- a vet. ...
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Some 10,000 grassroots organizers, anti-racist fighters, farm workers, domestic workers, anti-war veterans, former prisoners and their families, spokespeople for lesbian/gay/bi/trans rights, women's rights and environmental organizations, and activists in virtually every progressive struggle underway in the U.S. today came together in Atlanta from June 27 to July 1 for the U.S. Social Forum....
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Salam Alrawi, Alwan for the Arts, Ramsey Clark, Sara Flaunders, Abdeen Jabara, DeeDee Halleck, Ahmed Issawi, Mona Khalidi, Clark Kissinger, Emily Kunstler, Dan Meyers, Ralph Poynter, Michael Ratner, Margaret Ratner Kunstler, Michael Steven Smith, and Lynne Stewart invite you to attend a book party to celebrate the release of:
Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine,
by Joel Kovel
&
We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon,
Edited by Kamal Boullata and Kathy Engel
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The Women's Fightback Network is a grassroots alliance of poor and working women, immigrants, disabled activists, students, elders and youth, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and transgender women--all standing together to protest budget cuts, racism, sexism and war. As women, we have a special place in the fight for equality and human needs....
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We the undersigned--lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender-nonconforming, and other activists fighting oppression based on sexuality, gender and sex--express our support for the right of the Black community in Brooklyn to decide to rename an avenue for the late Black community activist Sonny Abubadika Carson, who some called the "Mayor of Bed-Sty" for his long-time community activism....
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There are many developments on the legal and other fronts concerning my client, Mumia Abu-Jamal. We remain in active litigation before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and also have issues pending in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Mumia has been honored by fellow writers through acceptance into a prestigious organization, a Nobel Prize winner recently visited him, an excellent new book was released in France, a leading British newspaper has published a major article on Mumia, and a superb film recently premiered in London and Rome. The following are the highlights....
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On
Aug. 28, 2007, New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. attacked British unions
for supporting a boycott of Israel. The Chief, an influential weekly newspaper
that covers civil service unions and is widely read by New York City civil service
union members and New York City politicians, published an article in the Sept.
7th edition about Comptroller Thompson’s action. The article included a
statement of praise for Thompson’s action that was issued by Jewish Labor
Committee (JLC) President Stuart Appelbaum....
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Low-income women are often forced to use money they need for food and rent to cover the cost of an abortion. Many women cannot raise enough money and must continue the pregnancy and stay trapped in poverty. ...
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For one week, activists from across the U.S. maintained a 24-hour encampment directly in front of the Capitol to demand "Cut the War Funding - Stop the War at Home and Abroad!"...
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We urge our fellow trade unionists to join us on Sept. 29th and to participate in an encampment in front of the Capitol from Sept. 22-29 to
demand no war funding....
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Aug. 26, "Women's Equality Day," marks the day, 87 years ago, that women legally got the right to vote in the U.S. There was no equality for all women back then and today there is still no "equality" to celebrate....
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Hundreds of Endorsers - More than 40 Organizing Centers - It's time to Shut Down Washington! Stop the War at Home & Abroad!...
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MARCH ON WASHINGTON D.C. & WORLDWIDE PROTEST SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2007 - 4th Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Iraq...
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