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  • SEND YOUR SIGNATURE TO NOVOX JAPAN
    17 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    To demonstrate solidarity with Brazilian homeless people threatened by expulsion in Curitiba(Parana State) and Sao Paulo, associations from the international network "No-vox" in France, Japan and Portugal have organized a peaceful demonstration yesterday (15 of June)with the MNLM organization (Movimento nacional de luta pela moradia), and the MSTC (Moviemento dos sin tetos do centro) organization.
    Delegations have been received by Brazilian embassies. In Tokyo, the Japanese police force (…)

  • VENEZUELA: Many Housing Plans, but Limited Resources
    9 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Humberto Márquez
    CARACAS, Jun 8 (IPS) - "Where’s the end of the line? Another queue; whatever it takes to get a house," said Ángela Rodríguez as she reached Panteón Plaza in the Venezuelan capital, where thousands of housing rights activists who support President Hugo Chávez gathered after a recent march through the central part of the capital.
    Seven or eight out of every 10 of the participants in Sunday’s march were women. Amidst the heat and the chaos in the plaza — there were no (…)

  • Bachelet fires riot squad chief who beat up students
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Merco Press (Falklands)
    Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced Wednesday the firing of the head of the riot police and severely condemned the ’excesses’ committed by over-zealous Carabineros during the violent repression Tuesday in Santiago of protesting students.
    "We will not accept condemnable acts such as those we saw yesterday" she said during a joint press conference at the presidential palace next to the head of the reporters’ guild, Alejandro Guillier.
    Several journalists (…)

  • Anti-War Protests Continue At Port Of Olympia
    4 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Tracy Vedder
    OLYMPIA - A protest became a melee on Olympia’s waterfront Tuesday as sheriff’s deputies arrested 22 people who stormed the port’s gate. And war protesters were back on the line Wednesday night — as are the deputies.
    The protesters hope to disrupt shipments of war supplies heading to Iraq.
    For more than a week, the two sides have held their ground on Olympia’s waterfront. The military transport ship Pomeroy continues to load cargo bound for Iraq, including Stryker (…)

  • NO to the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement! Protest Sunday, June 4th in Washington, DC!
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear A.N.S.W.E.R. friend,
    The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition is one of many organizations across the U.S. endorsing and mobilizing for the June 4-9 Week of Protests in Washington DC opposing the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement during negotiations that will be taking place throughout the week.
    It is of vital importance that the anti-war movement demonstrate its opposition to all of the tactics utilized by the U.S. government in pursuit of neocolonial domination, whether its war and occupation or (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan to Lead Delivery of Petition to White House
    23 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Contact David Swanson
    Ray McGovern to Lead March to Sec. Rumsfeld’s Home
    Delivery of petition to White House opposing attack on Iran
    When: 1-3 p.m., Thursday, May 18
    Where: Lafayette Square Park, in front of White House, Washington, D.C.
    March to Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld’s House
    When: Departing at 3 p.m., Thursday, May 18
    Where: Lafayette Square Park, in front of White House, Washington, D.C.
    A broad coalition of organizations has collected over 40,000 signatures on a (…)

  • Sheehan Labels Bush’s White House: “A Crime Scene!”
    19 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government...” - James Madison
    Washington, D.C. - On Thursday afternoon, May 18, 2006, over a hundred protesters, led by Cindy Sheehan, exercised a right older than the U.S. Constitution itself: the “Right of Petition.” The Right of Petition existed at Common Law and was re-declared in the “Assemble and Petition Clauses” of our First Amendment. Nevertheless, when the activists attempted to (…)

  • WASHINGTON : Solidarity Street Demonstrations To Demand US Keep Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba
    17 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Solidarity Street Demonstrations To Demand US Keep Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba
    By Stephen Lendman
    May 16, 2006
    Maybe it’s just a coincidence that just days before an international expression of solidarity demanding the US keep its hands off Venezuela and Cuba, Rep. Dan Burton (a right wing Republican in good standing) introduced an anti-Venezuelan resolution in the US House of Representatives. His resolution on May 11 was just another step along the way in the Bush administration’s (…)

  • Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba Demonstration in Washington, DC MAY 20, 2006
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba Demonstration in Washington, DC MAY 20, 2006
    WHEREAS, Washington, under the Bush Administration, with bipartisan support in the US Congress, has an open policy of overturning the Cuban government and destroying the Cuban Revolution. WHEREAS, the US government has openly allocated millions of dollars towards that end, including direct payments to its clients and agents inside Cuba, the so-called dissidents. WHEREAS, US citizens and legal residents continue to be (…)

  • LONDON : Hugo Chávez Addresses Mass Rally Organised by Hands Off Venezuela
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1728
    Hugo Chávez Addresses Mass Rally Organised by Hands Off Venezuela
    Sunday, May 14, 2006
    By: Hands Off Venezuela Chavez addresses enthusiastic crowd at Hands Off Venezuela event in Vienna, Austria.
    Last night at the Arena cultural centre in Vienna, President Chavez spoke to an audience of 5,000 enthusiastic young people in a mass meeting organised by Hands off Venezuela and Cuba, the Austrian section of the HOV international solidarity (…)