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  • Video: Rep. Kucinich: “Healthcare is a Civil and Human Right!”
    1 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Wednesday afternoon, September 30, 2009, the “Mad as Hell Doctors” rallied in front of the White House, in Lafayette Park. The group supports a Single Payer Healthcare System. Two of their slogans are: “Everybody In! Nobody Out!” and “Single Payer or Bust!” The doctors have been on a nationwide tour promoting their cause. One of the speakers at the spirited event was Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH). He is one of the key champions in the House of Representatives of HR 676, a Single Payer (…)

  • Video: Leo Burroughs: “Gov. O’Malley is the Biggest Phony!”
    26 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    At a press conference, on Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, activists demanded that the Baltimore Gas & Electric Company (BGE), roll back its electric rates to 2006 levels and for it to grant “immediate rate relief.” BGE is a subsidiary of Constellation Energy, (CE). The event was held in front of the office of the Public Service Commission, a state regulatory agency located in Baltimore, MD. The “Maryland Coalition for BGE Reregulation” sponsored the press conference. Leo Burroughs is one of its (…)

  • Video: Peace Breaks Out in Carroll County, Maryland!
    21 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Peace” was celebrated on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009, on a sprawling farm located in the rolling hills of Carroll County, Maryland, near Westminster. What a breath of fresh air! If only the churches, synagogues and mosques would stop making their lame excuses and follow suit. The event honored the “International Day of Peace.” The organizers labeled it: “The 1st Annual World Peace Party.” One of the ways the occasion was marked was by a dedication of a “Peace Pole.” That ceremony also included (…)

  • Video: CodePink Protest Products Made-in-Occupied Territories
    20 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Saturday, at noon, on Sept. 19, 2009, activists from CodePink, a women-initiated Peace and Justice Movement, staged a protest action inside of and also in front of an upscale shop located in Union Station, in Washington, DC. The store, according to CodePink, carries products of Ahava, “Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories,” an Israeli company. CodePink charged in its press release, that it is time “to expose the dirty truth” about Ahava’s products, which are made in the “Occupied West Bank,” and (…)

  • Video: Activists Disrupt Karl Rove’s Speech at Goucher College
    17 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On the evening of Sept. 16, 2009, a protest action was staged at Goucher College in Towson, MD, just north of Baltimore City, with respect to the appearance of Karl Rove on campus, as a guest speaker. Rove, aka “Dubya’s Brain,” was a senior advisor, (2001-07), to then President, George W. Bush. He is suspected of participating in a White House-based cabal, (WHIG), which helped to launch the immoral and illegal Iraq War. Just as Rove was being introduced, at least three activists stood up in (…)

  • Protest Toronto Film Festival Collusion with Israeli Regime
    17 September 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Organizers at a protest against the Toronto International Film Festival spotlight on Tel Aviv held a press conference Monday afternoon at Ryerson University to explain their purposes and reply to attacks by pro-Israeli forces. One of the more scurrilous attacks was launched by Canadian film producer and fervent pro-Zionist Robert Lantos..
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  • NATIONAL MARCH FOR JOBS IN PITTSBURGH SUNDAY SEPT. 20 at G-20 Summit
    24 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    NATIONAL MARCH FOR JOBS IN PITTSBURGH SUNDAY SEPT. 20 at G-20 Summit
    A Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed JOBS OR INCOME NOW
    September 20 - 25
    (During the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh)
    Yes to Jobs & Human Needs; No to War & Wall Street Greed
    • Sunday, September 20 - Rally & March for a Real Jobs Program • Building a Tent City in Pittsburgh for the Unemployed & Supporters the weekend before the G-20 Summit • Organizing Caravans of Unemployed People (…)

  • Icelanders march against Icesave deal
    18 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Icelanders march against Icesave deal
    Published: 14 August 2009 16:27 | Changed: 14 August 2009 17:19
    By our news staff About 3,000 Icelanders took to the streets on Thursday to protest against a proposal to repay the losses sustained by Dutch and British investors in the Icesave bankruptcy. The legislative proposal has been stuck in the Icelandic parliament for months, where it is being blocked by a majority of members of parliament.
    The Icesave law is a promise to repay (…)

  • Video: A Photo Essay on Activism (Slideshow)
    13 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The photos in this video cover a wide range of political activism. They run the gamut from antiwar; to stopping torture; to fighting against utility rate hikes; to the struggle for a “Free Palestine;” to exposing the scheme to privatize Iraq’s oil, to championing a Single Payer Healthcare system. Also included are pictures which represent the cause of justice for the “Cuban Five” and for a “Free Burma;” abolishing the Death Penalty; ending “The Fed,;” showing solidarity with the (…)

  • On the Road to Tegucigalpa with Father Andrés Tamayo
    12 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Honduras Anti-Coup Marchers Defy Media Conviction that They Do Not Exist
    By Belén Fernández
    AUGUST 10, 2009, CATACAMAS-TEGUCIGALPA HIGHWAY, HONDURAS: Myriad anti-coup marches en route from different parts of Honduras have merged into eight and are set to converge tomorrow, August 11, on the cities of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula.
    Catholic priest and environmental leader Father Andrés Tamayo counted with government protection prior to the June 28 coup d’etat in Honduras. Now he walks (…)