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  • Mexico: Students arrested – urgent solidarity needed!
    13 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday August 6th, a force of nearly 1000 police officers attacked a peaceful sit-in demonstration of students who were demanding access to university. The protest had been organised by the Movement of Non-Admitted Students, a campaign launched by the Committee in Defence of State Education - Committee of Student Struggle (CEDEP-CLEP http://cedep.militante.org ).
    As a result of this brutal action by the authorities of the Federal District, eight students were arrested, four of them (…)

  • September 15 ANTI WAR March on Washington DC
    26 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Organizations Unite Around September 15 March on Washington and Plan "Days of Action"
    A broad spectrum of national groups have united to mobilize for a massive fall anti-war mobilization called the Days of Action. September 15-21 will be a major showdown in Washington, DC at the very moment that the Petraeus Report is released and Congress takes up spending over $100 billion to prolong the war. Launched with a huge March on Washington on September 15, led by veterans who have returned from (…)

  • Impeach Cheney Video
    9 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear activists, colleagues and friends,
    That’s right, we said the "I" word. And you should be saying it too — to your family, your friends, your neighbors, your pets and the hearty 26% of Americans who somehow still believe the Bush/Cheney team more worthy of sitting in the Oval Office than an undisclosed location stripped of all authority to further damage the country we love.
    You’ll want to say it even more after watching our video with the evidence for impeachment right there: (…)

  • SEPTEMBER 15 — Turn Up the Heat in Washington DC! Calendar of upcoming anti-war events (ANSWER)
    1 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    September 15 — Turn Up the Heat in Washington DC! Calendar of upcoming anti-war events
    We want to thank the thousands of people and many organizations that have responded to ANSWER’s May 31 Proposal to the Anti-War Movement. The essence of the proposal is for all the anti-war coalitions and organizations to come together to mobilize the largest single mass march on Washington DC under the demand End the War Now! Most anti-war activists support this idea. At the national level some (…)

  • June 27th : BLAIR’S LAST DAY: JOIN MILITARY FAMILIES AGAINST THE WAR PROTEST IN DOWNING STREET
    26 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    BLAIR’S LAST DAY: JOIN MILITARY FAMILIES AGAINST THE WAR PROTEST IN DOWNING STREET WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 10AM – 12 NOON
    Military Families Against the War, representing families who have lost relatives in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, will be in Downing Street on Tony Blair’s last day in office, Wednesday 27 June. They will be holding pictures of their loved ones who have died as a result of Tony Blair’s war crimes. The Military Families are inviting everyone who is able to join them (…)

  • Troops Out Now! Put the Antiwar Movement Back on the Streets September 29 - March on Washington DC
    15 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Draft Proposal from the Troops Out Now Coalition— From Protest to Resistance
    Troops Out Now! Put the Antiwar Movement Back on the Streets
    September 29 — March on Washington D.C. Assemble at the Capitol — March on the White House
    September 22 – 29 —Encampment in Washington D.C.
    Stop the War Abroad and at Home
    In the spirit of unity, and for the purposes of taking the movement away from politicians and putting it back into the streets, the Troops Out Now Coalition submits this (…)

  • Photos - Protesters target ASEM summit in Hamburg - 28.05.2007
    29 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thousands of anti-globalisation demonstrators have marched through the centre of the north German city of Hamburg protesting against a meeting of EU and Asian ministers.
    The protesters erected barricades and police responded with water cannon and baton charges after being pelted with bottles and stones.
    Police said that 24 people had been arrested. The protests took place on the first day of a two-day conference between foreign ministers from the EU and Asian countries.
    Topics slated (…)

  • Mothers For Peace Arrested on Capitol Hill
    15 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Failure is impossible!” - Susan B. Anthony, a leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
    Washington, DC - On May 14, 2007, under a sunny sky, anti-war activists launched a “SWARM on Congress” campaign to end the Iraqi conflict and to bring the troops home. An estimated 250 peace activists, led by Cindy Sheehan, first assembled at Lafayette Park, opposite the White House, for a spirited noon time rally. After about two hours of speechmaking, they formed a procession, entitled, “Mother of a (…)

  • Who is Newport Chamber of Commerce Loyal To? Not Veterans
    10 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Letter to Newport Chamber of Commerce in response to the exclusion of VFP and others from their Loyalty Day Parade, May 5, 2007 Gordon
    To Whom it May Concern:
    I have read several reports about your recent "Loyalty Day" parade and the exclusion of the Veterans for Peace and other groups with messages calling for an end to war. There is video tape of parade organizer, Patty Louisiana saying that the peace message, even from combat veterans, "doesn’t support the spirit of our community". Is (…)

  • Sit In Underway at Pelosi’s Office in DC
    31 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David Swanson
    Nancy Pelosi is on her way to Lebanon, but her staff may want to get her on the phone. Or then again, maybe not. There is a sit-in underway in her Capitol Hill office today, Friday, March 30th, with military families and Iraq vets requesting to schedule an appointment to talk to her.
    They’ve been asking for four months now for her to agree to meet with gold star and military families, veterans for peace, Iraq vets, and active duty troops. Pelosi proposed a meeting with (…)