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A film about a succesful non-violent struggle in India loin_de_loeil 2008-09-30 10:11 AM
It's about a film that might interest all those who want to see non-violence not only in speeches, but also in action. (text/plain)

No to the Bailout of the Capitalist Speculators! Internationalist Group 2008-09-28 3:46 PM
The financial crisis that has been heating up since early 2007 reached the boiling point in late September. Credit markets virtually stopped functioning. A full-blown panic swept stock markets worldwide. The U.S. economy is in the throes of a recession that could turn into a Depression lasting for years. In these dire straits, the Wall Street speculators who set off this crisis are demanding that the government rescue them with a bailout priced at $700 billion. The actual costs will be far higher, a trillion dollars or more. Meanwhile, the Democrats are pushing hardest for the Bush bailout of the banks. Presidential candidate Barack Obama blames "greed" for the crisis on Wall Street (capitalism without greed?) and says there must be no "blank check to Washington" -- meaning he's for putting in a few conditions as window dressing. Following in the Democrats' footsteps, the AFL-CIO labor bureaucrats called a demo for "No Blank Check for Wall Street." Yet no amount of regulation will stop the boom-bust cycle of capitalism. Meanwhile unemployment lines are growing and a million families were thrown out of their homes by bank foreclosures in the last year. While the fat cats, Democrats and bureaucrats are all going for the Bush bailout to prop up U.S. capitalism, revolutionary Marxists oppose this trillion-dollar giveaway to the Wall Street speculators, calling instead for a program of transitional demands leading to the expropriation of the banks and the entire bourgeoisie through workers revolution. (text/html)

BTL:Taxpayers Reject Blank Check for Wall Street Bailout Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2008-09-25 4:49 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

ROTC Get Out, Stay Out! Obama Wants You to Serve Imperialism Revolution no. 5 2008-09-25 12:24 AM
Barack Obama dropped a bomb on his young enthusiasts at Columbia University on September 11. The heavily Democratic crowd booed McCain when he called for the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) to be brought back to campus (it was driven out in 1969 by protests against the Vietnam war). Liberal students expected a different answer from Columbia alum Obama, but the forum was a symphony of agreement as both candidates campaigned for expanding the military and pledged their enthusiastic support to U.S. imperialism. That should have been the tip-off for anyone who hadn't figured it out by then: Obama is no "peace candidate" but like McCain he is a certified imperialist war candidate. (text/html)

Prevent The Murder of Troy Anthony Davis by State of Georgia On Sept 23 Davis Supporter 2008-09-22 1:18 PM

Help stop racist executions of innocents in Georgia (image/jpeg)

38 Reasons To Defeat McCain Populist Registration 2008-09-21 9:03 PM
Before it was the Mellons and the Carnegies and mining companies controlling Pittsburgh workers. Now they have been replaced by others even worse. McCain wants to bankrupt the Social Security Fund in order to do the bidding of big oil and religious haters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan. (text/plain)

PHILIPPINES: Suspend US Military Deployments to Mindanao Citizens’ Peace Watch 2008-09-16 1:35 PM
A broad coalition of NGOs, social movements, and political parties from Mindanao and the rest of the country today called for all US military deployments in Mindanao suspended pending the conclusion of a fair and thorough probe by lawmakers. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Time Ecology - Four Gifts from the Work Less Party marc 2008-09-15 10:25 PM
These four videos from the Work Less party of Vancouver, British Columbia could reinvigorate dialogue and life. As kairos time replaces everyday time, working less could replace overconsumption and destruction of nature. (text/plain)

The Ground Noise and the Static: A Chronicle of the Battle of Saint Paul (Illustrated) Mike GW & James K 2008-09-15 9:50 PM

“Please, please, my friends, my dear friends, please, please don’t be diverted by the ground noise and the static”—John McCain, on being interrupted just before he can accept the GOP’s nomination, 9/4/08 (image/jpeg)

60th founding anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea National Democratic Front of the Philippines 2008-09-15 12:59 PM

Message on the occasion of the 60th founding anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

PRESS-RELEASE. The artist will be paint his picture with blood Artyom Suslov 2008-09-14 12:47 PM
The artist and poet from St.-Petersburg (Russia) Artyom Suslov recently declared war to mass culture. He said that intends to write the picture using of his own blood and wants to do so publicly during the performance at one of the central streets of St. Petersburg. (text/plain)

Doing Business in the Arabian Gulf Gabriel Sawma 2008-09-14 2:11 AM
The United States uses about one-quarter of the world’s total energy output, but have less than five percent of the world’s population. According to statistics of the US Dept. of Energy, 19.9% of crude oil products imports to the US, during January 2005, came from the Persian Gulf countries (Petroleum Supply Monthly). This article is written to make U.S. Businesses familiar with customs, traditions and laws governing business dealings with that region of the world. (text/plain)

Pmas. La farsa de la CIA al descubierto Luis Agüero Wagner 2008-09-13 10:11 PM
¿Puede ignorar Fernando Lugo que tiene a la CIA en su gabinete, con Camilo Soares o Gloria Rubín? (text/plain)

Periodismo cooptado por la CIA Luis Agüero Wagner 2008-09-13 11:47 AM

Basta mencionar son estrellas del periodismo un ex policía de Stroessner (Alcibíades González Delvalle), el ex animador de los cumpleaños del dictador (Humberto Rubín) y la mayoría de los redactores son empleados de un operador del Cóndor. (image/jpeg)

After DNC/RNC, fight ICE and support immigrant rights struggle: a call to action primate against ICE 2008-09-13 6:14 AM

please read, forward widely, discuss with others, and ACT! (image/jpeg)

Thank Nicky Exarchou if America is Stupider than You! Bobby Meade 2008-09-11 8:08 PM
Since the US has allowed Illegal Alien Nicky Exarchou to live here since WW II, the USA is now a "nation of sh*theads" with a sh*thead in the White House. Hey Pitt! Nicky sent a lot of people to Aliquippa! See if any of them survived..... (text/plain + 10 comments)

INTERVIEW: New British Film About Mumia Abu-Jamal Showing in NYC Hans Bennett 2008-09-11 12:24 AM

For the first time since the film's US Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last January, <a href="http://www.inprisonmywholelife.com">"In Prison My Whole Life"</a> will be shown to a US audience. This new film about the internationally renowned death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal will be shown this week at the <a href="http://urbanworld.com/in_prison_my_whole_life.cfm">Urbanworld Film Festival</a> in New York City on <a href="https://www.fandango.com/purchase/movietickets/process03/ticketboxoffice.aspx?row_count=1995774946&mid=118780&tid=AAQCR">Sept 11</a> and <a href="https://www.fandango.com/purchase/movietickets/process03/ticketboxoffice.aspx?row_count=1995775132&mid=118780&tid=AAQCR">Sept 13</a>. In Prison is also being shown at the <a href="http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/organizing-to-abolish-the-prison-industrial-complex/">CR10 Conference</a> in Oakland, CA, on September 26. Officially endorsed by <a href="http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17442">Amnesty International</a>, In Prison features interviews with Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Ramona Africa, Mos Def, Snoop Dogg, Steve Earle, and more, including an interview with Abu-Jamal's brother Billy Cook, as well as an interview with photographer Pedro Polakoff and <a href="http://www.abu-jamal-news.com/temp/German%20Book%20Reveals%20New%20Evidence.html">German author Michael Schiffmann</a>, who recently discovered Polakoff's <a href="http://www.abu-jamal-news.com/">crime scene photos</a> that were never seen by the 1982 jury . In this new interview with co-producer Livia Giuggioli Firth, she talks about when she first learned about Mumia Abu-Jamal, making the film, the new appeal to the US Supreme Court, and more. "I hope Mumia will have a new trial, because has been sitting in solitary confinement for 27 years, and it is a disgrace. We will never know the truth about Dec. 9, 1981 until then," says Firth. RELATED: October, 2007 <a href="http://insubordination.blogspot.com/2007/10/in-prison-my-whole-life-interview-with.html">interview with William Francome</a> about In Prison (image/jpeg)

Stop the USA Killing and Torturing Machine geral 2008-09-10 8:51 PM
The USA's war on Mankind through torture, imprisonmen and killing cannot stand; the indominable human spirit does not permit it. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Corrupción en el círculo intimo del Obispo Luis Agüero Wagner 2008-09-10 8:49 PM

En Paraguay muchos jueces son incorruptibles a la manera de la humorada de Bertold Brecht: nadie puede inducirlos a hacer justicia, menos aún si deben hacerla con el entorno de Fernando Lugo. (image/jpeg)

11 Links on the Impaling Palin Populist 29 2008-09-10 12:50 PM
Pennsylvania has hunters, ethical hunters who are not the idle rich aerially gunning down animals, facilitated by Palin in Alaska nor the Dick Cheney and John Cornyn (senator from Texas) kind. Cornyn and Cheney in Rolling Rock killed over 400 birds in 1 day, birds raised in cages and released in nets directly in fromt of them. (text/plain)

CODDLING OF PALIN IS FALSE FEMINISM, DISGUISED SEXISM, AND RIGHT-WING ANTI-WORKING-WOMEN Ruth Rubinstein 2008-09-10 4:48 AM
The call of so-called feminists to coddle Palin is really disguised sexism and based on a medieval, male-chauvinist mentality that women are weak and fragile and should be protected. We don’t need an American Margaret Thatcher, an icon and poster child for right-wing policies that harm poor and middle-class working women, the majority of women. It’s time to expose Palin for what she really is. (text/plain)

Pit Bulls and Lipstick Randy Redbull 2008-09-10 3:11 AM
I have to admit that I have never actually seen a pig putting on lipstick. I guess it was because pigs had a hard time holding lipstick in their hooves, and the fact that their species never adapted to the manufacture and sale of mirrors for self-conscious assessment? But a pit bull with lipstick? What are we to think of such a shocking metaphor—that is of a hockey mom equating to a pit bull? Or why do moms continue to where lipstick after getting married anyway? (text/plain)

Irish Republican Seeks Normalized Status. Pol Brennan Support Group 2008-09-08 3:44 PM

Pól Brennan was born in 1953 in one of the poorest neighborhoods of Belfast, Northern Ireland. While growing up, he witnessed first-hand the sectarian bigotry that plagued the North of Ireland at the time. In 1972 when he was 19, like many of his friends and neighbors he became a civil rights activist. (image/jpeg)

Chevron, BP push Sarah Palin as Condoleezza Rice's successor Sea Shepherd Supporter 2008-09-08 1:49 PM
Sarah Palin helps Chevron pollute beluga whale habitat (text/plain)

Update: The Criminal Corruption and Animal Cruelty of Gov. Sarah Palin ARC 2008-09-04 10:44 PM

Perhaps after you read this file, you will feel as my friends and I feel, that Sarah Palin was fasttracked from a mayor's job in a 4600 resident town to the governor's chair, coached in everything she said or did, and prepared to be a neocon candidate on the national stage...all in 2 years time. Vote fraud could have defeated her Democratic opponent. All of this occurred as the neocon dominated FBI was investigating Senator Stevens. Certainly Murkowski defeated governor and Stevens had corrupt offices, but the orchestration of the chorus for Palin by oil prostitutes Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and others was it seems planned. "That most dangerous of all classes: the wealthy criminal class" wrote President Theodore Roosevelt of plutocrats and their pawns. (image/jpeg + 14 comments)

Denver Diaries - Report on Iraq Vets and Rage Against the Machine Concert and March Carl Davidson 2008-09-02 12:09 AM

Carl Davidson's Denver Diaries: Day Five - Rage, Vets, Antiwar. To see all six days, go to the 'Progressives for Obama' site. (image/jpeg)

McCain picks prowar, prodrilling huntress as running mate. ARC 2008-08-29 6:27 PM
McCain's running mate choice is pro war, pro drilling in Alaska, a woman who calls herself prolife while gutting the moose she shoots, a woman who wants polar bears removed from the endangered species list. (text/plain)

Tensions Begin at DNC ex-Faultliners 2008-08-25 8:16 PM

Anti-capitalists reclaim the streets of downtown Denver to kick off protests at DNC. (image/jpeg)

Youngest ever British person visits longest serving Black Panthers in solitary confinement carrie reichardt 2008-08-22 1:58 AM

An 11 year old from London has become the youngest ever British person to visit two prisoners in Louisiana State Prison, who are the longest serving inmates in solitary confinement. Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox have spent over 35 years held in 6ft x 9ft cells for crimes even a federal judge has overturned. (image/jpeg)

Eli Lilly Zyprexa RICO Lawsuit Danny Haszard 2008-08-21 9:43 PM
Through a complex series of illegal rackets and lies, Eli Lilly drug company built a multi-billion dollar drug enterprise at the expense of taxpayers, consumers and patient lives (text/plain)

Uphold the Militant Tradition of International Women's Movement Prof. Jose Maria Sison 2008-08-19 4:50 AM

In solidarity and with utmost joy, the International League of People's Struggle joins today the celebration of women in general and their revolutionary struggle for emancipation and liberation from imperialism, feudalism and patriarchalism. We remember and honor millions of women who trailblazed and paved the path for women's liberation movement. (image/jpeg + 14 comments)

Sandinistas repudiados por la "izquierda" en Paraguay luis aguero wagner 2008-08-16 7:17 PM
Rosario Murillo, esposa del presidente de Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, criticó duramente a la ministra paraguaya de la mujer, Gloria Rubín, quien previamente condenó a Daniel Ortega como un depravado sexual, haciéndose eco de unas denuncias del año 1998 (text/plain)

The Company You Keep Paul Heller 2008-08-16 3:23 PM
John McCain sure has some unsavory characters working for his campaign... What does that say about him? (text/plain)

CRASH THE RNC: Sector 4 Barricade Building Contest UA in the Bay 2008-08-15 1:24 AM

Representatives of our corrupt two-party system intend to host self-congratulatory celebrations this summer at the Democratic National Convention in Denver and the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. We support demonstrating opposition to their parties by crashing and shutting them down, while having a little fun ourselves. In alliance with thousands of others nationwide who are collaborating to swarm the RNC on day one, September 1st -- Bay Area, Santa Cruz, and other Northern California radicals have banded together as "Unconventional Action (UA) in the Bay" and collectively chosen to adopt SECTOR 4 in downtown St. Paul. Our commitment to blockades, direct action, and other roaming protest mischief at the RNC is pledged in full solidarity with those working to disrupt the DNC in late August. (image/jpeg)

Rhetoric for Radicals JD 2008-08-08 4:18 PM

New book for activists and organizers. (image/jpeg)

PHILIPPINES: Open Letter to the NPA General Command and the NDF Collective 2008-08-05 11:10 AM

We, the undersigned, condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent spate of killings of farmers and farmer-leaders in Masbate, perpetrated by individuals identified as belonging to the local command of the New People’s Army. (image/jpeg)

Stalinist Spanish Civil War Artwork Vandalized in San Francisco workers memory project 2008-08-01 9:34 PM
A small example of direct action to commemorate the beginning of the Spanish Civil War... (text/plain)

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder Gregg Mosson 2008-07-31 2:45 PM

Former L.A. County District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi has written a book outlining how to bring murder charges against President George W. Bush after the president leaves office. This article reviews Bugliosi's arguments. (image/jpeg)

Interview With Cindy Sheehan – The Peace Mom vs. Congressional Madam (Speaker) Cathy Garger 2008-07-26 8:40 PM

Cindy Sheehan gives a candid interview in which she explains exactly why she is running for Congress in order to oppose Rep. Nancy Pelosi and remove her from her throne. (image/jpeg)

SolarFest Renewable Energy Fair Linda Commoner 2008-07-19 8:04 PM

SolarFest Renewable Energy Fair ~ Meridian Park School ~ 175th and Meridian Ave N Shoreline WA ~ July 19, 2008 ~ 10AM – 8PM (image/jpeg)

The Evilness of Power: new anarchist documentary-video collage mr1001nights 2008-07-18 4:40 AM
An examination of the effects of power and hierarchy on individuals, society and the world at large. It highlights the potential of online video for activists on a low budget. (text/plain)

Update on Daniel McGowan Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan 2008-07-17 8:36 PM
On Monday, July 14, Daniel appeared in federal court in the Western District of Wisconsin (Madison) before Judge Barbara Crabb and was found in civil contempt for his refusal to answer questions before a grand jury. (text/plain)

What Will It Take to Defeat the War? Internationalist Group 2008-07-17 5:50 PM
On June 28-29, an “Open National Antiwar Conference” was held in Cleveland, called by a newly minted National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation. Over objections from the conference organizers, centrally Socialist Action, the assembly voted to change the name to include reference to the war on Afghanistan, and to emphasize the connection with U.S. backing for the Zionist occupation of Palestine. (The sponsors of the confab were so right-wing that they feared losing “unity” with Democratic Party supporters of Israel and the Afghanistan war!) What did not change at all was the popular-front character of the new outfit, tying it to the bourgeois parties despite the fig leaf of electoral “independence.” Making this utterly clear, it was decided not to call a national antiwar mobilization prior to the November elections explicitly in order to court those forces who wish to aid the Democrats (and therefore want to avoid making problems for the presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama). Here is the leaflet issued by the Internationalist Group at the conference. (text/html)

Dispatch from a Midwestern City @ 2008-07-17 4:57 PM
Dispatch from a Midwestern City To anyone who has ever dreamt of a world beyond the boundaries imposed upon the one we currently inhabit. To all who cringe with disgust at the thought of another month’s work to pay for another month’s rent. To anyone who has dared to notice the glaring inadequacy of this walking death sold to us as life: These words are for you. (text/plain)

ALB interviews the Cuban Libertarian Movement Movimiento Libertario Cubano 2008-07-16 5:08 PM

* During mid-June 2008 the Iberian counter-information collective A Las Barricadas www.alasbarricadas.org posed several questions to the MLC www.mlc.acultura.org.ve, an affinity group of Cuban anarchism abroad. The complete text of this interview follows. (image/jpeg)

Call For Anarchist Solidarity Actions With Immigrants July 21 ia 2008-07-16 9:11 AM
Take Nationally-Coordinated Action To Show Solidarity And Fight ICE on July 21st! We have begun the attack by spraypainting an ICE van with many anti-Migra(ICE) slogans. May our spark spread into a wildfire. (text/plain)

RNC Welcoming Committee July Update RNC-WC 2008-07-15 5:06 PM
Our apologies to all who have been trying to keep up with our busy RNC-filled lives while we’ve been running behind on our newsletter. There are a lot of things that have happened already this summer and more to come. As the clock continues to tick down to September 1st, here are some items for your perusal as you carefully articulate your plans to get dangerous: (text/plain)

I-69 Protestors Shut Down Asphalt Plant Again! no more roads 2008-07-15 5:46 AM
Monday morning, over 20 citizens opposed to the construction of Interstate 69 shut down work at the Haubstadt Asphalt Yard belonging to Gohmann Asphalt & Construction, Inc. With construction slated to begin this week, opponents are demanding that Gohmann immediately drop their contract for work on I-69. (text/plain)

PHILIPPINES: Ban Endosulfan! EcoWaste Coalition 2008-07-14 2:16 PM

Citizens Press for Total Ban on Endosulfan to Put Off “Toxic Time Bomb” (image/jpeg)

End G8 Domination! Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC), Philippine 2008-07-12 1:04 PM

Joint Statement on the 34th G8 Summit in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan (image/jpeg)

BTL:Colombia Hostage Rescue Weakens Rebel Group, Could Initiate Peace Talks Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2008-07-12 9:25 AM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

16 Ways Newspapers Harm Animals O Anna Niemus 2008-07-11 2:13 PM
habitat destruction, advertising fur, rodeos, circuses, 'livestock', 'outdoors' editors, 'science' writers etc (text/plain)

The Real Operation to "Rescue" Ingrid Betancourt and US Mercenaries Concerned citizens of irc.indymedia.org 2008-07-05 4:39 AM
In order to understand the "rescue operation" of Ingrid Betancourt and the Northrop Grumman Corporation mercenaries who were released with her, it is necessary to piece together articles published in the media, filter the content and out of this is formed a true understanding of the facts of what happened here. (text/html)

Global Day of Action Will Protest Starbucks’ Anti-Union Terminations GRSBUXUNION 2008-06-30 10:24 PM
Coordinated Actions Across the U.S., Europe, and Latin America Could Be Largest Ever Against Coffee Chain (text/plain)

Lebanon: Cleaning Up Nahr al-Bared Camp (Video) a-films 2008-06-28 9:59 PM
The anarchist film collective 'a-films' announces another short film from Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in North Lebanon. (text/plain)

Anti-Authoritarian People of Color at the Earth First! Rondy anonymouse 2008-06-28 6:32 PM
Shout out to Anti-Authoritarian People of Color for a caucus or two at the Earth First! Summer Rendevous! All Anti-Authoritarian People of Color (APOC) are invited to attend two proposed caucuses at the Earth First! Summer Rendevous in Athens, OH. The first proposed APOC caucus is for Friday, July 4th starting at 12 PM noon (during lunch) and the second on Saturday, July 5th (during lunch). (text/plain + 10 comments)

G8 Japan "Way to Hokkaido 1 - Landing and IRA" Accion Global Anticapitalista 2008-06-27 11:11 PM
The G8 counter-summit is about to start. The anti-capitalist group Global Action is in Japan to participate and report on the evolution of resistance. (text/html)

Bob Packer's Gonna "Fix Your Face"!.. 6/25 Bobby Meade 2008-06-26 3:21 PM
..if you mess with this Gad damn article! He's gonna make your mother wish she never had you! GHW Bush says that they are paying queer sh*theads at IMCs or other sites to disable the sites or block posts such as mine. 6/25 One Man Army's gonna save these sh*theads whether they want to be saved or not! (text/plain)

WILL US CONGRESS SUPPORT THE INNOCENT ? Lawyers For Poor Americans 2008-06-25 7:06 PM
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM. (text/plain)

Entrevista al Movimiento Libertario Cubano Movimiento Libertario Cubano 2008-06-25 12:01 AM

* A mediados de junio de 2008 desde el colectivo que lleva la web contrainformativa ibérica alasbarricadas.org se propusieron diversas interrogantes al M.L.C. movimientolibertariocubano@gmail.com, grupo de afinidad del anarquismo cubano en el exterior. He aquí el texto completo de ese intercambio. (image/jpeg)

Application of Islamic Shari'a in US Courts Gabriel Sawma 2008-06-21 2:53 PM
In 2004 a crash of Blackwater Flight 61 occurred in the rugged mountains of central Afghanistan, killing three soldiers and three-man crew. The widows of the soldiers sued Presidential Airways, Blackwater’s sister company, which was under contract with the U.S. military to fly cargo and personnel around Afghanistan. Lawyers for the company has asked a federal court to decide the case using provisions from the Islamic Shari’a, not the U.S. laws. They argue that the Shari’a “does not hold a company responsible for the actions of employees performed within the course of their work.” http://www.newsobserver.com/917/story/1113022.html (text/plain)

Cuba: Interview Porno Para Ricardo Movimiento Libertario Cubano 2008-06-19 12:37 AM

* The Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC) interviewed via internet a punk musical group active in Havana for over 10 years who are today a significant reference in a counter cultural scene that merits recognition and solidarity. (image/jpeg)

Austrian police' fascist treatment of antifur activists boycotting Kleider Bauer Austrian Vegan Soc and Others 2008-06-17 9:04 PM
Austrian police' fascist treatment of antifur activists boycotting Kleider Bauer Ten animal rights campaigners have been held since the 21st of May after police raided twenty-three homes and offices in Austria (text/plain)

Tuesday, June 17th - Call-in for Bashir Hameed Anarchist Black Cross 2008-06-15 6:56 PM
There will be a 'Call in' on Tuesday June 17th between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight time (7-10am pacific time) in support of political prisoner Bashir Hameed. (text/html)

London to Geneva Peace Walk, May 2008 peacehq 2008-06-14 4:00 PM
We have been in France for 28 days, and over a month since the walk began. We have had huge support from not just local people but globally the walk has been joined by people from Japan, Canada, German, France, Italy, Australia, Sweden, Scotland, England, Niger & the United States of America. (text/plain)

27 Reasons To Dump Time Warner Free Air Waves 2008-06-12 4:06 PM
promotion of war, advertising of the pieces of murdered animals, destruction of habitat, pricegouging, cancellation of free tv, interference with municipal offersings of free internet etc. (text/plain)

Daniel McGowan Transfered - Threat of Madison Grand Jury Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan 2008-06-12 3:09 AM

Daniel McGowan has been moved to the Columbia County Jail in Portage, Wisconsin. The reasoning for his move is unknown, but could be related to an as yet to be convened grand jury in nearby Madison. (image/jpeg)

Starbucks Fires Michigan Barista for Union Activity Grand Rapids Starbucks Unioin 2008-06-09 5:20 AM

Grand Rapids firing comes in the midst of Unfair Labor Practice charges being investigated by the NLRB against Starbucks. (image/jpeg)

Fountainhead e-Letter, Berlin Germany Fountainhead 2008-06-08 1:30 AM
An overview of intercultural undertakings in Berlin Germany. (video/x-ms-wmv + 2 comments)

Feminist Self-defense: No God! No Master! No Sexist Aggressions! El Libertario, Venezuela 2008-06-05 10:58 PM

* El Libertario published in its 51st edition (Venezuela, Novermber - Dicember 2007) a text compilation that expresses important aspects of what anarchism proposes may be done to face the growing problem of gender violence. (image/gif)

Indiana: Call Out For Tree Siters mom 2008-06-05 9:43 PM
Its been over two weeks since tree sits were set up along the I-69 route in Southern Indiana, and they've been going strong ever since. The reactions of farmers in the area has been overwhelmingly positive, and momentum is continuing to grow. (text/plain)

2 Million PETA members win with KFC Canada.. Help KFC US Cave Chicken Rights 2008-06-04 12:31 PM

With 2 million members and 12,000 pickets against KFC around the world, KFC Canada has acceded to requests for less brutal slaughterhouse methods. It's time to build pressure on KFC in the US. (image/jpeg)

Workers walk off MGM Mirage Dubai World CityCenter Site in Protest MGM Mirage Dubai World CityCenter Constructio 2008-06-03 11:45 PM

Union leaders: We’ll picket until contractor meets demands for increased safety (image/jpeg)

Letter from Ivan and Bruno from the prisons of Fresnes and Villepinte @ 2008-06-01 11:48 PM

Greetings to all friends, to all those who are not resigned to the situation in which we live: police occupation of the streets, of the cities, raids, deportations, arrests, daily difficulties, the dispossession of our lives; the situation that pushes us to cede a major part of our lives to the bosses of every genre, to those who preside over our destinies, to power. If we've taken the road of revolt, it's for all these reasons, to retake the power over our lives, for the freedom to live. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Solidarity week against repression in France at June, 9-16 solidarity 2008-05-31 6:45 AM

Ivan, Bruno and Damien got arrested on January 19, 2008 on the way to the demonstration against the detention centre of Vincennes (near Paris). They were carrying home made smoke powder and bent nails (to slash tyres). At the police station, they refused the finger print identification and DNA taking. Ivan and Bruno are jailed, Damien is under judiciary control. (image/jpeg)

Executive Signing Statements Ann Ikemann 2008-05-29 10:15 PM

Pharaoh Bush - Let My People Go (image/jpeg)

Unconventional East Coast Convergence Schedule and Registration Available DC Unconventional Action 2008-05-26 4:39 PM
Schedule and online registration now available! (text/html)

Some Favorite Poems Poem Classics 2008-05-25 9:17 PM
poetry of Emily Dickinson, Yeats, Millay, Wilbur, Dove, Tagore, Rumi, Lao Tsu, Mary Shelley and others (text/plain)

Lebanon: Writings on the Walls of Nahr al-Bared Camp a-films 2008-05-25 8:38 PM
The anarchist film collective 'a-films' has just published another short film from North Lebanon. It documents many racist, sexist, humiliating and insulting graffiti that Lebanese soldiers had written on the walls of the houses in the destroyed Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared. (text/plain)

Dick Cheney Made Millions with Saddam Hussein Martin A. Lee 2008-05-24 5:12 AM
Here's a whopper of a story you may have missed amid the cacophony of campaign ads and stump speeches in the run- up to the elections. (text/plain)

River City Animal Defense League Joins the Fight Against I-69 anonymouse 2008-05-21 3:34 PM
On the evening of Monday, May 19th, the newly formed River City Animal Defense League (ADL) and friends made our public debut. We took to the neighborhoods, and more specifically the houses of executives and contractors of Gohmann Asphalt and Construction, Inc. Gohmann Asphalt and Construction, Inc. is a disgusting company that has decided to proceed with business in the construction of Interstate-69 (I-69) which is the North American Free Trade Agreement's (NAFTA) superhighway. (text/plain)

BTL:Group Demands Answers on Bush Surveillance of Guantanamo Attorneys Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2008-05-19 2:06 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

another police coverup on "the crooked mile" jim zender 2008-05-15 12:30 AM

the other day i wrote a story about a huge adult who i witnessed beating the crap out of a teen, who thanks to the star beacon i now know his age, he was only 16. i broke up the fight filed a report at the scene, came home before it was even over and wrote coverup will follow. the next morning cops @ my door trying to give me the shaft as they have been doing for years. right then and there i re reported the incident to them as well butt i was sure hear again, the blind eye of american justice would sirface. so i wrote a letter to and even got so frustrated i posted my first i report. i sent the letter to the following people. letter to council sent to: Mayor Francis Cervas 4688 Fairway dr. Village administrator Edward Somppi village hall Mike Baker council president 4703 taylor dr Zoning Inspector/Code enforcement officer officer Joseph Masianka village hall Council woman Wilma Reppert 4873 presidential dr 5.12.08 jim zender (image/jpeg)

Conscientious Objector Status—Who Should Decide? Kenneth Clairmont 2008-05-11 10:51 PM
It is a fallacious and legalistic straw man ploy for any society or organization (such as the Department of Defense) to arrogate, as definition, that an individual must oppose “all” war on religious or ethical grounds to be considered a “conscientious objector”. Simply to be “conscientious” means to act from one’s “own” conscience—not from the collective hearsay of any particular group or on legalistic grounds of some corporate presumption. The individual conscience is the moral compass of conscientious authority. (text/plain)

Two New Publications From Infoshop Chuck Munson 2008-05-08 6:58 PM
Infoshop.org and the Alternative Media Project are pleased to announce the availability of two new digital publications. The first issue of our bi-monthly newsletter titled "Revolution" is available as a PDF file that can be read online or printed out. (text/plain + 1 comment)

May 4th, 1970: Can it happen again? Akeeba 2008-05-06 9:30 AM

Maoist China foreign policy: 1970s and 1980s Nigel Harris 2008-05-05 12:51 PM

The Mandate of Heaven (Excerpt). A detailed account of Maoist Chinese foreign policy is beyond the scope of this article, but some examples will illustrate the central thesis: that China’s foreign policy is in no way different from that of other world powers. The Three-Worlds Theory was used to justify Chinese alliances with right-wing reactionary governments during the 1970s and 1980s. (image/jpeg)

May Day Strike Against the War Shuts Down All U.S. West Coast Ports Internationalist Group 2008-05-05 3:47 AM
On May 1, every port on the West Coast of the United States was shut down to demand an end to the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The historic May Day walkout by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is the first time ever that an American union has struck against a U.S. war. The union ranks defied the rulings of an arbitrator, who twice ordered them to go to work. They overcame the capitulations of the ILWU leadership, which didn't want the work stoppage in the first place, tried to water it down and cowered before the threats of legal action while waving the flag. The employers' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) declared the May 1 port shutdown an "illegal strike." But after all the huffing and puffing from the bosses' mouthpieces, the dock workers pointed the way to defeating the imperialist war by mobilizing working-class power. In the end, it was more than a work stoppage. The dock workers' May Day strike against the war was a first step, a show of what it will take to bring down the warmongers in Washington. Their "symbolic" action was felt all the way to Iraq, where dock workers in two ports stopped work in solidarity with the ILWU. But it was only a beginning. What is needed is not only industrial action but a political offensive against the Democrats and Republicans, the partner parties of American imperialism, to build a class-struggle workers party. (text/html)

Year 1870: Mothers Day Proclamation Anna Howe 2008-05-05 12:19 AM
A copy of the Original Mothers Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe - (text/plain)

“The End of America” is Thomas Paine Reborn Daniel Debut 2008-05-04 9:58 PM
“The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot” by Naomi Wolf (Chelsea Green Publishing 2007) is the Thomas Paine hue and cry to The Peoples’ nation suffocating from tyranny. This concise booklet, of 155 pages of text, is an absolute must read for “every” American who cares about liberty—irrespective of political affiliation. (text/plain)

Struggling for the autonomy of Venezuela’s social movements El Libertario, Venezuela 2008-05-04 5:20 PM

* This editorial comes from issue #53 (May-June 2008) of El Libertario, a Venezuelan anarchist voice of ideas and proposals for action. It confirms our commitment to autonomous social mobilization, which has already begun to express itself through concrete struggles from below, as in the recent steelworkers conflict. (image/gif)

Las andanzas de Rockefeller en Paraguay Luis Agüero Wagner 2008-05-04 8:55 AM
Poco antes de las elecciones generales en Paraguay en las que resultó electo el obispo Fernando Lugo, el heredero del imperio petrolero fundado por John Davison Rockefeller en 1870, la Standard Oil Company, realizó una enigmática visita a Asunción. (text/plain)

New video from Nahr al-Bared Camp a-films 2008-05-03 8:55 PM
The anarchist video collective "a-films" announces its latest short film (10 min.) from the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in Lebanon called "Traces of Collective Dispossession". (text/plain)

5th Anniversary of "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq Peter Stern 2008-05-02 8:04 PM

Happy 5th Anniversary, America! (image/jpeg)

BTL:Pentagon War Propaganda Operation Exposed Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2008-05-02 3:39 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

Northeastern Anarchist #13, Spring 2008 Out Now! NEFAC 2008-05-01 10:52 PM

Workers at Sanitarios Maracay Fight for Dignity Cleveland Militant Labor in the 40s Vermont Communes in the 60s Public Sector Strike in South Africa The Ecological Challenge and more... (image/jpeg)

Something smells different in Cuba Movimiento Libertario Cubano 2008-05-01 6:04 PM

ººº With respect to the situation in Cuba these past few weeks, the Cuban Libertarian Movement – MLC (affinity group of Cuban anarchists in exile) speaks up to answer the unknowns and the challenges facing Cuban society. Ours is the voice of uncompromising commitment to freedom, equality and solidarity that has always been the sound of the Cuban anarchists. (image/jpeg)

Rising Health Care Costs: the tsunami that never ends Peter Stern 2008-04-30 10:33 AM

The giant wave soon will engulf us all. People just can't afford the rising costs of health care! (image/jpeg)

“50 Shots Equals Murder!” John Tarleton 2008-04-30 8:03 AM
Sean Bell Supporters Take It to the Streets on Friday (text/plain)

MGM MIRAGE STOP THE UNION - BUSTING The United MGM MIRAGE Casino Security Guards 2008-04-29 9:36 AM

MGM MIRAGE NAMED AS LAS VEGAS UNION-BUSTER OF THE YEAR (image/jpeg)

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