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  • Toppling a Coup, Part II: The Honduras Regime Is Like an Onion
    9 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Toppling a Coup, Part II: The Honduras Regime Is Like an Onion
    Posted by Al Giordano - August 8, 2009 at 11:39 am
    By Al Giordano
    In three decades of organizing or reporting on social movements, one develops a very good memory of which of them won their battles, which were defeated, and what made the difference between those that won and those that lost.
    If it could be boiled down to a single factor it would be this: In victorious struggles, a critical mass of the organizers arm (…)

  • Toppling a Coup, Part I: Dilemmas for the Honduras Regime
    9 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Al Giordano
    Last Saturday, at a hastily called public meeting in Tegucigalpa, more than one hundred rank and file participants in the Honduran civil resistance and some of its known leaders came out to speak with Ivan Marovich, the Serbian resistance veteran who had been invited by local and national anti-coup organizations to share his experiences.
    It was one of three such sessions, and the only public meeting of the three. Almost immediately upon the completion of the screening of (…)

  • Petition for the Basque Country
    2 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://4715.lapetition.be/
    EUSKARA / BREZHONEG / VLAAMS / ESPAÑOL / FRANCAIS / ENGLISH
    Euskal herriaren aldeko petizioa Euskal herriaren aurkako gerla zikinari Ez !
    Euskal kataskaren aterabidearen giltza autodeterminazio eskubideran onarpenean dago. Aldariketa hau zabalki onartua dago. Bainan, Estadu frances eta espainolaren erantzun bakarra da euskal militanteen kontrako erreprezioa, torturak segituz, fisikoak eta sikologikoak, terrorismoa, Euskal herriaren banaketa (lurralde (…)

  • Video : Obama’s ex-Doctor Knocks Obamacare
    31 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Thursday, July 30, 2009, advocates for a Single Payer Healthcare system (Medicare Expanded for All) stormed Capitol HIll, in Washington, D.C. This date marks the 44th birthday of the Medicare program. Taxis circled Capitol Hill with “Single Payer” signs hanging from their windows; cup cakes and birthday cards were delivered by activists to each Congressional office; and rousing speech making took place at the Upper Senate Park, just south of the U.S. Capitol.
    One of the speakers at the (…)

  • Venezuela: El Libertario warns of possible sentence to the 14 Sidor workers
    25 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    In 05 September 2006 a group of workers and union leaders staged a protest against the carrier Camila, a contractor to SIDOR (Siderúrgic of the Orinoco), the principal steel core business located in Puerto Ordaz, Bolivar state, in Venezuela. The workers were protesting the failure to pay wages, and maintain health and safety, as well as the lack of tools to accomplish their work. The protest was endorsed by Readers of the “Sindicato Único de Trabajadores Siderúrgicos y Similares (Sutiss)”, (…)

  • Cars Burned During Violent Clashes In France (video)
    15 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    – Photos and video from Bellaciao
    Manif Montreuil contre les violences policières 13/07/09 HD
    French protesters burned 317 cars and wounded 13 police officers during street violence on the eve of the Bastille Day national holiday, officials have said.
    As French troops made last-minute preparations for the July 14 parade on the Champs Elysees in Paris, the suburbs of major cities were contemplating another clean-up operation.
    By 4am GMT, police headquarters in Paris had recorded 317 (…)

  • Video: Mara Verheyden-Hilliard Demands Accountability on Torture
    10 July 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Thursday, June 25, 2009, a spirited rally was held in John Marshall Park, in Washington, D.C. Its purpose: To demand that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appoint a “Special Prosecutor for Torture,” who will hold accountable to the supremacy of the Law, certain members of the Bush-Cheney Gang, including ex-President George W. Bush, Jr. and his Vice-President, Dick Cheney. They are suspected of authorizing torture on numerous detainees, in violation of the Geneva Convention, International (…)

  • Video: Enver Masud: 9/11, Waterboarding, a Confession and the Iraq War
    28 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Enver Masud was one of the speakers at a “Demand Accountability for Torture” rally, on June 25, 2009, in John Marshall Park, in Washington, D.C. He questioned how Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was “waterboarded 183 times” by the CIA, and then confessed to being the “mastermind of 9/11,” can get a “fair trial” in this country. Mr. Masud connected the dots between 9/11, the waterboarding of a detainee, a so-called “confession,” and the Iraq War. Mr. Masud is the founder and CEO of “The Wisdom (…)

  • Video: Marcus Raskin: Hold President Obama to Account on Torture Issue!
    28 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    One of the speakers at a “Demand Accountability for Torture” rally, on June 25, 2009, in John Marshall Park, in Washington, D.C. was Marcus Raskin. He is an author and the cofounder of the Institute for Policy Studies. Check out: http://www.ips-dc.org/staff/marcus Mr. Raskin was introduced by David Swanson of afterdowningstreet.org. Mr. Raskin underscored: “The President [Barack Obama]...says he is ‘against torture.’ So, if that is the case, then he should be held to account...When do we (…)

  • Video: Union Station Rally for Single Payer (A Slideshow)
    27 June 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Sights and scenes from the rally, on Friday evening, June 26, 2009, in front of historic Union Station, in Washington, D.C., in support of a Single Payer Healthcare System. For background on Single Payer, see: http://www.healthcare-now.org and http://singlepayeraction.org and http://md.pnhp.org and http://www.prosperityagenda.us/ and http://freshaircleanpolitics.net and http://www.calnurses.org/ and http://www.pdamerica.org/