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  • Flyovers put APPO on alert
    3 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    OAXACA CITY - Protesters in Oaxaca City were on full alert Saturday after two Navy helicopters conducted several flyovers over the besieged state capital.
    When the helicopters were spotted, members of the Oaxaca People’s Assembly (APPO) set off signal rockets from the Zócalo to alert supporters who were manning barricades throughout the city.
    APPO quickly began broadcasting on Radio La Ley - one of the radio transmitters in the city that they have taken over - preaching calm, but at the (…)

  • World can’t wait, massive demonstrations set for October 5
    30 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    check this site after you read the statement
    http://www.worldcantwait.net
    YOUR GOVERNMENT, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.
    YOUR GOVERNMENT is openly torturing people, and justifying it.
    YOUR GOVERNMENT puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.
    YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving each day (…)

  • Protester Arrested at U.S. Capitol Asks: What About the First Amendment?
    27 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “The times are ominous!” - The late Phil Berrigan, Dissenter Emeritus, in his final public appearance, March 19, 2002. (1)
    Washington, D.C. - A rally against the Iraqi War at the U.S. Capitol, on Tuesday, September 26, 2006, led to the arrests of 71 protesters by the police, according to a spokesperson for one of the organizers. The passionate demonstration was co-promoted by the “National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance” (NCNR) and the “Declaration of Peace” organizations. These (…)

  • Anti-war protests in Manchester
    25 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Up to 20,000 demonstrators have marched through the northern English city of Manchester to protest the presence of British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    The protests on Saturday took place on the eve of the governing Labour Party’s annual gathering.
    Protesters packed Manchester’s central Albert Square on Saturday before setting off on a march around the conference centre where delegates will meet.
    The five-day Labour meeting begins on Sunday.
    A few hundred metres from a hotel where (…)

  • Worldwide Annual Anti McDonald’s Day Oct 15
    15 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Worldwide Annual Anti McDonald’s Day Oct 15
    info@vegancampaigns.org.uk
    http://www.vegancampaigns.org.uk http://www.mcspotlight.org http://www.pcrm.org http://www.meatout.org
    Chicken’s Head found in fast food order 11/30/2000 WVEC.com This fried chicken’s head was discovered in an order of chicken wings. A customer at a McDonald’s restaurant in Newport News got more than she bargained for when she received her order. Katherine Ortega said she found a fried chicken’s head in the box (…)

  • BREAKTHROUGH RALLY, Ground Zero 9/11/06 (pictures) Part 2
    15 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BREAKTHROUGH RALLY, Ground Zero 9/11/06 (pictures) Part 2
    by Jonathon Vreeland 9/14/06
    These photographs are free to use for non-profit and educational purposes.
    Use the contact page on the authors website to request high resolution originals.
    (http://www.spork.nyc.ny.us/About.html)
    Also see Part 1
    http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=13522

  • BREAKTHROUGH RALLY, Ground Zero 9/11/06 (pictures)
    15 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BREAKTHROUGH RALLY, Ground Zero 9/11/06 (pictures) by Jonathon Vreeland 9/14/06
    This year, 2006, the 9/11 memorial day at the World Trade Center site was unlike any seen before. Hundreds and hundreds of 9/11 Truth Activists came out to show their numbers and take part in a protest action that shows the way for successful direct action. It was truly an amazing day.
    Wearing black t-shirts to show solidarity and strength in numbers worked beyond expectation. Even though many independent (…)

  • Banned in Washington - Where’s the Free Speech?
    14 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ann Wright
    So much for free speech in the nation’s capital and capitol. On July, 11, 2006 I was arrested for offering a citizen’s voice in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing against the nomination of one of the Bush administration’s architects of torture, William Haynes, former Department of Defense General Counsel (chief civilian lawyer) for a life-time appointment to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
    Yesterday, September 7, I appeared in the Criminal Division of the Superior (…)

  • Latino Leaders Convene First National Latino Congress in a Generation
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Aaron Glantz
    SAN FRANCISCO. Thousands of Latino community leaders from across the country convened in Los Angeles Wednesday for what organizers say is the first massive gathering of Latino community leaders, organizations, and elected officials since 1977.
    "The Latino Congresso is deigned to do something that the Congress in Washington is not doing—paying attention to issues of importance to the Latino community," explained John Trasvina, who heads up the Mexican American Legal (…)

  • Oaxaca’s Social Movement Develops Radical Vision for a National Government of the People
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Oaxaca’s Social Movement Develops Radical Vision for a National Government of the People
    Despite Fatigue, Marchers Once Again Fill the Streets of the State Capital, as Social Leaders from Other States Visit to Learn from Oaxaca’s Example
    By Nancy Davies Commentary from Oaxaca
    September 3, 2006
    The fifth Oaxaca Mega-March called by the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO in its Spanish initials) for Friday, September 1, passed a fixed point for an hour and a half, with a (…)