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  • MAY DAY : A Call To Action
    1 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David Swanson
    May 1st is shaping up to be quite a day of resistance, with strikes by the ILWU and other unions, plus immigrant rights rallies, and peace and impeachment activities. It’s Mission Accomplished Day (5 Years!) It’s Downing Street Minutes Day (3 Years!) It’s Impeachment Off the Table Day (2 Years!) It’s May Day, the original Labor Day (122 Years!)
    If you care about the future of our republic, we encourage you to visit your congress member’s nearest office at high noon, (…)

  • Sen. Mikulski’s Warmongering Exposed by Peace Activist
    30 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “I am here [at this demonstration] as a ‘personal’ witness!” Activist, poet and Vietnam War veteran, Ms. Madeleine Mysko
    Baltimore, MD - On April 24, 2008, a spirited antiwar protest was held in this city in the downtown area. It was sponsored by MoveOn.org and Progressive Maryland. One of the activists participating was Ms. Madeleine Mysko, a registered nurse and a veteran of the Vietnam War. She ripped into Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), who has consistently voted to fund the Iraq War to (…)

  • A teamsters’ blockade in the United States
    15 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    A teamsters’ blockade in the United States
    Great article below and great coverage of the recent U.S. independent trucker action. However it is inaccurate to translate "camionero" as "teamsters" since in the U.s. "teamsters" would be taken and "Teamsters’ Union". the truckers wert NOT members of the Teamsters Union and actually the Teamsters Union OPPOSED the independent trucker action.
    And much. much bigger independent trucker actions are planned for May Day 2008, of course.
    Will any (…)

  • ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports May 1 to Protest War
    3 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports May 1 to Protest War
    In a major step for the U.S. labor movement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced that it will shut down West Coast ports on May 1, to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East.
    In a February 22 letter to AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, ILWU International president Robert McEllrath reported that at a recent (…)

  • BEAR STEARNS PROTEST WEDNESDAY: THE PRESS RELEASE
    26 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BEAR STEARNS PROTEST WEDNESDAY: THE PRESS RELEASE
    HOMEOWNERS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST TAXPAYER BAILOUT OF WALL STREET WHILE THE GOVERNMENT ABANDONS AT-RISK HOMEOWNERS
    (Jamaica Plain, MA)
    On Wednesday March 26th at 12:00 noon in front of JPMorgan Chase and Bear Stearns corporate offices at 47th and Park Avenue, hundreds of homeowners will take to the streets of New York. The demonstration organized by the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA) will protest the taxpayer bailout (…)

  • Greeks stage third nationwide general strike since December
    20 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Associated Press Wednesday, March 19, 2008
    ATHENS, Greece: Riot police fired tear gas at demonstrators throwing rocks and firebombs in central Athens during a nationwide general strike Wednesday by millions of Greeks protesting government pension reforms.
    An estimated 100,000 people marched in downtown Athens, and when the demonstration ended, groups of anarchists fought running battles with riot police in the capital. Clouds of tear gas hung over Exarhia Square and cafe customers (…)

  • CLASS WAR’S OPEN LETTER TO THE STOP THE WAR COALITION
    16 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    This Saturday sees a large anti-war march in central London, with the Stop The War Coalition marking five years since the largest demonstration in British history - against invading Iraq.
    Below is Class War’s open letter to the STWC leadership:
    Five Years On - Why Are We Still Marching
    IF MARCHING CHANGED ANYTHING THEY’D ABOLISH IT
    Back in 2003 the Stop the War Coalition had two tactics to prevent war in Iraq: marching from A to B and then going home, and marching from B to A and (…)

  • Video: Former SAS soldier Ben Griffin speech to World Against War rally
    14 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stop the War Admin
    "As of 1940hrs 29/02/08 I have been placed under an injunction preventing me from speaking publicly and publishing material gained as a result of my service in UKSF (SAS).
    I will be continuing to collect evidence and opinion on British Involvement in extraordinary rendition, torture, secret detentions, extra judicial detention, use of evidence gained through torture, breaches of the Geneva Conventions, breaches of International Law and failure to abide by our (…)

  • Iraq Invasion 5th Anniversary - UK writer Tariq Ali PROTESTS Iraqi Genocide
    14 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Outstanding South Asian UK writer, historian, journalist and film-maker Tariq Ali (author of “Clash of Fundamentalisms” and many other books: ) has written a powerful statement on the ongoing Iraqi genocide on the occasion of the approaching 5th anniversary of the war criminal UK, US and Australian invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003: .
    This is the statement to the World by outstanding South Asian-British writer Tariq Ali:
    QUOTE: “Now we know the exact costs of war and occupation. It (…)

  • IRAQ : Join the global protests - demonstrate 15 March (Invasion 5th Anniversary
    13 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Join the global protests - demonstrate 15 March
    Assemble 12 noon, Trafalgar Square, London
    Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan Don’t attack Iran End the siege of Gaza
    "I really hope that on 15 March people will join the demonstration in Trafalgar Square at 12. To march against the war and march against the continued occupation which has come from this war. It had a rotten basis and nothing good will come of it." Nick Broomfield, Documentary film maker
    On his recent trip to the (…)