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  • “Scheherazade” Painting, Arundhati Roy, Taslima Nasrin, Heroines, US Alliance War Crimes & Women’s Rights
    22 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The most fundamental of women’s rights is the right to life and for a mother the right to life of her children. Yet the US Alliance is engaged in a bloody assault on the women and children who represent three quarters of the population of the Muslim world.
    Post-invasion violent deaths and non-violent avoidable deaths from deprivation in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan territories total 0.3 million, 3.5 million and 4.5 million, respectively, and post-invasion under-5 infant (…)

  • Video: Arrests at U. S. Capitol, re: Closing Gitmo/Torture
    21 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Jan. 21, 2010, just after noon, about 30 protesters were arrested on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, east side, for failure to obey a police order to disburse. The protesters are part of the “Witness Against Torture” group, which demonstrated earlier today in front of both the White House and U.S. Supreme Court. To find out all about the moral and legal issues that they are raising; exactly how many anti-torture activists were arrested; and the exact charges placed against each, please go (…)

  • Video: Are the War-Loving Obama and the Dems Neglecting the Poor?
    21 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Wed., Jan. 20, 2010, a press conference/demonstration was held in front of the White House. Its purpose was to assess the “one year presidency of Barack Obama.” One of the speakers was Linda Leaks of Empower D.C. Medea Benjamin served as the M.C. of the event, which was sponsored by seven organizations

  • Video: Cavanagh Raps Obama for His Casino-like Wall Street Policies
    21 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Wed., Jan. 20, 2010, a press conference/demonstration was held in front of the White House. Its purpose was to assess the “one year presidency of Barack Obama.” One of the speakers was John Cavanagh, Director of the Institute for Policies Studies. Medea Benjamin of Code Pink served as the M.C. of the event, which was sponsored by seven organizations.

  • Video: Greenpeace Exec Rips Obama for Caving into Corporate Interests
    21 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Wed., Jan. 20, 2010, a press conference/demonstration was held in front of the White House. Its purpose was to assess the “one year presidency of Barack Obama.” One of the speakers was Phil Radford, Executive Director of Greenpeace. Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, served as the M.C. of the event, which was sponsored by seven organizations.

  • Video: Daloisio Assails Obama on his Failure to Act, re: Gitmo/Torture
    21 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Wed., Jan. 20, 2010, a press conference/demonstration was held in front of the White House. Its purpose was to assess the “one year presidency of Barack Obama.” One of the speakers was Matt Daloisio of Witness Against Torture. Medea Benjamin served as the M.C. of the event, which was sponsored by seven organizations.

  • Mumia’s Life in Danger - Sign the Petition !
    19 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.iacenter.org/mumiapetition/
    Mumia Abu-Jamal (*) was born on April 24, 1954. At the age of fourteen, Mumia is arrested and molested for protesting against a meeting of the ultra-racist candidate George Wallace, in Philadelphia. Very soon, he is registered by the FBI after trying to name his high school after Malcolm X.
    In 1969,the young man is in charge of information at the local branch of the Black Panther Party. FBI regards him as one of the persons “to watch and lock up in (…)

  • Why Martha Lost
    19 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    While US Democrats are shocked at the surprising vulnerablity of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat—the Liberal Lion of the Senate—US observer Daniel Patrick Welch, who lives in and writes from Kennedy’s home state, is underwhelmed. Democrats have foolishly ceded the populist impulse to the right, and are now reaping what they have sown.
    Why Martha Lost
    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    I’m sick of waiting for the post-election analysis where bobbling heads pick over the bones of what they already knew (…)

  • The Intelligence Factory
    19 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    By PETRA BARTOSIEWICZ
    Editors’ Note: This week the trial of one of the most wanted women in the war on terrorism begins in a federal courtroom in Manhattan. The defendant, Aafia Siddiqui, is a 37-year-old, MIT-educated neuroscientist and suspected Al Qaeda operative. Siddiqui lived in the U.S. for ten years before mysteriously vanishing from her hometown in Karachi in 2003, along with her three children, two of whom are American born. By some accounts she is Al Qaeda royalty, having (…)

  • Video: Baltimore’s MLK Jr. Parade and a 30-Second Police Chase
    18 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Jan. 18, 2010, Baltimore City celebrated the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with its annual parade. Under sunny skies, Maryland’s Governor, Martin O’Malley, aka Marty O’Gov, made an appearance; as did the current Mayor, Sheila Dixon. The President of the City Council, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, was also there. She will succeed Dixon in the office of Mayor, on Feb. 4, 2010. Suddenly, the festivities were interrupted by a 30-Second police chase. Oh well, Hon, it’s Baltimore City! Why the (…)