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  • Video: Voices Raised in Protest at White House Rally, Re: Israeli Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
    2 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Voices Raised in Protest at White House Rally, Re: Israeli Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla from William Hughes on Vimeo.
    The recent attack by Israeli Military Forces on a humanitarian six-boat flotilla, in international waters, in the Mediterranean Sea, carrying 10,000 tons of supplies to Occupied Gaza has caused outrage around the globe At least nine civilians were killed by the Israelis and another 60 or so wounded. On Tuesday, June 1, 2010, a demonstration was held in front of the (…)

  • Video: ANSWER Coaltion’s Sarah Sloan: “Cut Off All U.S. Aid to Israel!”
    2 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The recent attack by Israeli Military Forces on a humanitarian six-boat flotilla, in international waters, in the Mediterranean Sea, carrying 10,000 tons of supplies to Occupied Gaza has caused outrage around the globe At least nine civilians were killed by the Israelis and another 60 or so wounded. On Tuesday, June 1, 2010, a demonstration was held in front of the White House to protest Israel’s conduct. One of the speakers was Sarah Sloan, National Staff Coordinator for the ANSWER (…)

  • Video: CODEPINK’s Medea Benjamin Rips Israel, re: Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
    1 June 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The recent attack by Israeli Military Forces on a humanitarian six-boat flotilla, in international waters, in the Mediterranean Sea, carrying 10,000 tons of supplies to Occupied Gaza has caused outrage around the globe At least nine civilians were killed by the Israelis and another 60 or so wounded. On Tuesday, June 1, 2010, a demonstration was held in front of the White House to protest Israel’s conduct. One of the speakers was CODEPINK cofounder, Medea Benjamin. For background, see, “The (…)

  • Obama and the west countries
    28 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Western states obliged to help the United States! The U.S. public debt scary, almost 13 trillion dollars, which will add tens of trillions of dollars in other obligations. A portion of U.S. public debt is financed by foreign states, by buying U.S. Treasury bonds.
    At the end of March 2010, the foreign countries holding U.S. bonds totaling 3884.60000000000 dollars, according to the latest data published last May 17 (1).
    The figure is steadily increasing, although this amount was 3.071 (…)

  • Rudacille’s Tome: A Must-Read for Labor Buffs (Review)
    25 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    “You are a little harder when you come out of a steel mill than when you went in.” - Austin McLelland (1)
    In “Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town,” Deborah Rudacille vividly recreates the lives of the workers who lived in the company town of Sparrows Point, aka the “Point,” and the surrounding community of Dundalk, Maryland. During WWII, as many as 36,000 were employed at the sprawling facility, then owned by the Bethlehem Steel Co. and located on the water’s edge, just (…)

  • U.S. Lifts Sanctions Linked to Iran
    23 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    23 May 2010 AP WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s administration has removed sanctions against three Russian organizations that the United States had previously accused of assisting Iran’s effort to develop nuclear weapons. Penalties against a fourth Russian entity previously accused of illicit arms sales to Syria were also lifted.
    The timing of the decisions, published in Friday’s Federal Register but not otherwise announced by the State Department, suggested the possibility of a (…)

  • Video: Memo to Rep. Cummings: “Stop Funding the War!”
    19 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Memo to Rep. Cummings: “Stop Funding the War!” from William Hughes on Vimeo.
    Peace and Justice activists, on May 19, 2010, staged a protest action in front of Rep. Elijah Cummings’ office in midtown Baltimore, MD. They urged him to oppose the proposed $33 billion supplemental funding Bill for the war in Afghanistan, which is currently pending in the U.S. Congress. Speaking on camera are: Max Obuszewski, Maria Allwine, Emiko Ortega, Cindy Farquhar and David Schott. The action was sponsored (…)

  • Video: Labor Demands: “Make the Banks Pay!”
    18 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Labor Demands: “Make the Banks Pay!” from William Hughes on Vimeo.
    On Monday, May 17, 2010, a spirited rally and march was held in a steady rain, in Washington, D.C. Labor organizations and their allies in the activist community put the event together. The powerful Wall Street Banks, and the influence-peddling “K” Street Lobbyists, were the primary targets of the protesters. Speaking on camera were: Ernie Grecco, President Metropolitan Baltimore Council AFL-CIO Unions; Mary Kay Henry, (…)

  • Video: Labor Takes on the Banksters: Sights and Scenes from the Rally
    18 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Labor Takes on the Banksters: Sights and Scenes from the Rally from William Hughes on Vimeo.
    On Monday, May 17, 2010, a spirited rally and march was held in a steady rain, in Washington, D.C. Labor organizations and their allies in the activist community put the event together. The powerful Wall Street Banks, and the influence-peddling “K” Street Lobbyists, were the primary targets of the protesters. The Banksters were condemned for causing the economic collapse, the “Meltdown of 2008,” (…)

  • The Age of Space-Solar Energy: Innovation in the Public Interest
    17 May 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The industrial revolution has been driven for the past two centuries by the burning of hydrocarbons, first by coal in the Age of Steam, and then by oil and natural gas in the Age of Petroleum; however, as the flow of these fossil fuels slows down as demand goes up, ever-more-intrusive and massive extraction efforts increasingly threaten the progress of industrialization and the civilization it has produced.
    The catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the latest (…)