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  • Twenty Thousand Protest at Ft. Benning: Eleven Face Federal Criminal Trials
    22 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    11/19/07 "ICH" — — In what has become the nation’s largest annual gathering for peace and human rights, over twenty thousand people protested outside the gates of Fort Benning, GA on November 18, 2007. Eleven people were arrested on federal criminal charges and face up to six months in prison.
    By Bill Quigley
    Fort Benning is the site of the internationally notorious U.S. Army training school for Latin American military and security personnel. For decades it was called the School of the (…)

  • Mike Robertson Arrested As He Climbs The Eiffel Tower For Burma
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Filmed by a Bellaciao’s friend
    by Mick Ryan
    Mike Robertson (45) of Wareham, Dorset, the deep-water soloist, photographer and recent Banff award-winning author of Deep Water was arrested on Monday whilst climbing the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
    Mike was protesting against Total’s - the French oil company, based in Paris - continued involvement in Burma, despite the elected Prime Minister and leader of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar (Burma), Aung San Suu Kyi’s wishes that they (…)

  • CLUSTER BOMBS AND TEDDY BEARS by Bican Jagger
    6 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Published on Monday, November 5, 2007 by The Telegraph/UK
    This November 5 sees an international day of action to raise awareness of the human suffering caused by cluster bombs. Ten years after a treaty banning landmines, there is now an international process under way to ban cluster bombs.
    Like landmines, cluster bombs kill and injure civilians after conflict.
    The widespread use of these weapons in Lebanon last year drew the world’s attention to that once again. Like (…)

  • Oct. 27 Protests Throughout the United States (International ANSWER)
    28 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The October 27 demonstrations represented another important step forward for the anti-war movement in the United States.
    Oct 27 SF 2Over 100,000 people took to the streets in coordinated regional and local protests to demand an immediate end to the war in Iraq. The October 27 demonstrations took place just six weeks after the September 15 National March and Die-In in Washington, D.C. that was led by Iraq War Veterans and family members of soldiers and marines.
    We have included below a (…)

  • BOYCOTT OF COUNTRYWIDE - ANNOUNCEMENT AND FIRST ACTIONS
    12 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BOYCOTT OF COUNTRYWIDE - ANNOUNCEMENT AND FIRST ACTIONS
    (Jamaica Plain, MA) - On Thursday October 11th at 12:00 p.m. at NACA’s headquarters (3593 Washington Street, J.P, MA), a nationwide boycott of Countrywide Financial Corporation will begin. The boycott of the nation’s leading mortgage lender is being led nationally by the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (“NACA”) and locally by the Massachusetts Alliance to Stop Predatory Lenders. NACA is working with other local (…)

  • St Petersburg anti-uranium protests banned
    11 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Galina Stolyarova Staff Writer
    The police on Thursday disrupted an environmental picket outside the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, detaining more than 10 activists fromlocal and international ecological groups campaigning against theimport of spent nuclear fuel and depleted uranium hexafluoride. Thepicket was held in the wake of a hefty cargo of depleted uraniumarriving in the city.
    At 1 p.m., activists from the environmental groups Bellona, Ecodefence andGreenpeace and the (…)

  • LONDON : MONDAY 8 OCTOBER 2007: MARCH TO PARLIAMENT, IN DEFIANCE OF THE BAN
    4 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    MONDAY 8 OCTOBER 2007: MARCH TO PARLIAMENT, IN DEFIANCE OF THE BAN
    Tony Benn, Brian Eno, Mark Thomas, Walter Wolfgang, George Galloway and Ben Griffin (ex SAS trooper) will head the march to Parliament in defiance of the ban. Make sure you are there to demand troops out and in defence of our civil liberties. It is vital that we defy the ban. Don’t miss this demo.
    Assemble at 1.00PM in Trafalgar Square
    “If they are planning an Iranian attack they will have a public even more upset and (…)

  • STOP THE WAR COALITION : MARCH ON Monday 8 October from Trafalgar Square to Parliament
    28 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday 8 October the Stop the War Coalition will be marching from Trafalgar Square to Parliament calling for all troops in Iraq to be brought home immediately.
    After a series of relatively co-operative meetings, the police now say they have been instructed not to allow the march to take place and that all demonstrations are banned within a mile of Parliament whilst in session.
    This is a new development which threatens our democratic rights. When Gordon Brown became prime minister he (…)

  • Coverage of September 15th Anti-War Rally in DC (videos)
    22 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Manila Ryce
    Despite an unconstitutional federal ban being placed on the posting of promotional material for today’s September 15th Anti-War Rally, reports show that thousands have turned out to participate in the demonstration at the US Capitol.
    American citizens are marching on the White House, many arrests have already been made, and mass die-ins are also planned to represent the casualties of war and occupation. A number of prominent speakers are being heard at the rally in (…)

  • ANTIWAR MOVEMENT : War Opponents Launch Grassroots Campaign Aimed at Larger Numbers
    21 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Friday, September 21, 2007 by Associated Press War Opponents Launch Grassroots Campaign Aimed at Larger Numbers by John Christoffersen
    NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — Fed up with the Iraq war, the peace movement is trying its own surge.
    After years of large-scale national demonstrations in Washington, New York and other cities have failed to end the war, activists are embarking on a campaign that starts Friday with more than 100 local protests around the country.
    The protests (…)