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  • Shut Down The Guantanamo Penal Colony, Now!
    12 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “A stain on the character of the United States.” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in speaking of the U.S. gulag at Guantanamo, Cuba
    Washington, D.C. - If there is any one thing that reflects the utter evil that is the collective psyche of the Bush-Cheney Gang, it’s the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo). Torture and humiliation of detainees has been the norm there, as well as holding prisoners indefinitely without charges or trial. The U.S. Constitution is regularly shredded there and (…)

  • Protesters outside White House demand troop pullout from Iraq - Thu Jan 11
    11 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Protesters rally in front of the White House. About 40 protesters staged a noisy protest outside the White House demanding withdrawal of US troops from Iraq as President George W. Bush unveiled a plan that would add 20,000 more (Photo: Brendan Smialowski) WASHINGTON - About 40 protesters staged a noisy protest outside the White House demanding withdrawal of US troops from Iraq as President George W. Bush unveiled a plan that would add 20,000 more.
    "Stop the war! Troops home now!" the (…)

  • Code Pink in Cuba & American Citizenry Say: Shut the Bush Regime Down!
    10 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Defiant activists in march to shut down Guantanamo Havana January 8, 2007
    ANTI-WAR activist Cindy Sheehan has defied a US ban on travel to Cuba, flying to Havana to join protesters demanding the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for terrorism suspects.
    Ms Sheehan will join a march to the US naval base in eastern Cuba where about 395 suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are being held.
    The march is part of planned international protests against the prison camp on Thursday, (…)

  • Anti-USA demonstration in Manila - January 3, 2007
    3 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Philippines court, minister back transfer of US marine rapist
    Anti-US demonstrators burn copies of the US flag near the US embassy in Manila, 02 January 2007, to protest against the transfer of US Marine Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, convicted of rape, from a Manila jail to the US embassy. Philippine international credibility was restored when Manila turned over Smith, despite unpopularity at home.
    Philippine international credibility was restored when Manila turned over a US marine (…)

  • Cop Assaults Activist at Lockheed Martin Protest
    23 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “We’re not disturbing the peace. We’re disturbing the war.” - Activist Patrick J. Elder
    Montgomery County, Maryland - A protest action was held on Friday morning, Dec. 22, 2006, in front of and along the sidewalk of a huge complex of office buildings, housing the national headquarters of Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s largest producers of cluster bombs. Over a million of these lethal weapons were used by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the recent war this past summer in (…)

  • Did Bush administration attack peace movement with military grade biological bacteria?
    22 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    What do we make of the Saturday, October 1 Washington Post headline “Poison Found in Air During Anti-War Protest”?
    Washington D.C. Public Health Director Greg A. Pane posed the right question in the Post article, “Why that day? That’s what is not explained.” Pane pointed that it was “just this 24-hour period and none since.”
    The Post noted that Pane found “. . . it was puzzling that the finding was from a day when the mall was packed with people.”
    Puzzling? Indeed. Biohazard sensors (…)

  • Bioterrorist attack in Washington, D.C. at last UFPJ Rally
    22 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    On September 24, six bioweapons air sensors around the Mall in Washington, D.C., registered positive for airborne traces of francisella tularensis, bacteria with flu-like symptoms that can be deadly if untreated. At the same time, 300,000 people were on the Mall protesting the Iraq war. So far as anyone can tell, nobody died. Was it a terrorist attack gone wrong, the government running some kind of test, or something else?
    First, what we do know.
    On Sep. 24, a large anti-war protest took (…)

  • Outrage against police brutality comes to Wall Street
    22 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Protestors march toward Wall street Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006 in New York. Several hundred people demonstrated near Wall Street on Thursday to protest the shooting of an unarmed black man by police officers in Queens. The march in Manhattan’s financial district was the latest in a series of protests over the death of Sean Bell, who was killed last month by a fusillade of police bullets as he left a Queens nightclub hours before he was to be married.
    A demonstrator holds his fist aloft while (…)

  • Violent protests in Copenhagen
    17 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sunday December 17 More than 300 demonstrators were arrested in the Danish capital on Saturday after violent clashes between police and youths who were protesting against the planned closure of a youth centre in the city. "Ungdomshuset-The Youth House Stays"
    1 - Protestors throw stones at police vans in a Copenhagen street December 16, 2006. Riots broke out when hundreds of young people started an unannounced demonstration to avoid eviction from Ungdomshuset (youth house). The use of the (…)

  • Rome - The aboriginal people mapuche they contest Benetton
    7 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ROME, Piazza di Spagna - 6/12/2006
    The first escapes of shopping christmas, to the center of Rome, have had Wednesday 6 Decembers an unscheduled program. Two representatives of the aboriginal people mapuche, Rogelio Fermin and Dina Huincaleo, arrive to you from the Argentine, have contested the Italian multinational Benetton, with an action in front of the store of the company, to Public square of Spain. The photos are of Simona Granati.
    http://www.carta.org (…)