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  • Blind Faith in Bad Leaders is Not Patriotism
    31 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Salt Lake City Rally Protests Bush Admin and Congress
    Address by Mayor Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson
    Washington Square Salt Lake City, Utah August 30, 2006
    A patriot is a person who loves his or her country.
    Who among you loves your country so much that you have come here today to raise your voice out of deep concern for our nation - and for our world?
    And who among you loves your country so much that you insist that our nation’s leaders tell us the truth?
    Let’s hear it: "Give us the (…)

  • COURAGE AND RESISTANCE IN OAXACA AND MEXICO CITY
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Courage and Resistance in Oaxaca and Mexico City - by Stephen Lendman
    It began on May 15 this year when teachers belonging to the 70,000 strong National Union of Education Workers in Oaxaca, Mexico took to the streets for the first time to press their demands to the state government to address their long-neglected needs. They included restructuring teachers’ salaries, improving the deplorable educational infrastructure forcing teachers to conduct classes in laminated cardboard shacks, a (…)

  • Protest paralyzes Mexico’s Oaxaca
    23 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Protest paralyzes Mexico’s Oaxaca
    AP , OAXACA, MEXICO Wednesday, Aug 23, 2006,
    Normally vibrant and thronged with tourists, picturesque Oaxaca City has ground to a virtual halt as protesters armed with pipes, machetes and clubs roam the cobblestone streets — burning buses, seizing media outlets and blocking highways and bus stations.
    The three-month-old protest — now almost an insurrection against state Governor Ulises Ruiz — made many in Oaxaca afraid to leave their homes on (…)

  • Reservists: Officers stopped us attending protest against war
    21 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Reservists: Officers stopped us attending protest against war 20/08/06 By Nir Hasson
    Some 160 infantry reserve soldiers are accusing their commanders of preventing them from participating in a demonstration against the war in Lebanon, which they called a "debacle." The soldiers said they had been used as "sitting ducks."
    "I’ve been in the army and reserves for 26 years and what happened this time was not merely a fiasco, it was a complete debacle. We felt like tin soldiers in a game of (…)

  • Protest Tel Aviv : Women cannot be bought like shawarma
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Protest Tel Aviv : Women cannot be bought like shawarma
    During Tel Aviv demonstration, former MK Yael Dayan calls for end to women trafficking; ’it’s more than rape,’ she says. Haifa representative says prostitutes forced to look for customers in city’s streets during war, in spite of rockets Merav Crystal
    Women rights activists held a demonstration against women trafficking Wednesday, during which they chanted slogans such as "Police, women are not goods" and "Customers are rapists." (…)

  • 9/11 Truth Extends A Cordial Invitation -To Itself To Camp Democracy, Wash DC
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    9/11 Truth Extends A Cordial Invitation -To Itself To Camp Democracy in Washington, DC
    Cathy Garger
    The buzz throughout the Internet is that a sizable number of those who do not buy the “official 9/11 story” that’s been shoveled to America for the past five years are coming en masse to Washington, DC in September. Apparently, many who have done careful research regarding the disturbing events that took the lives of nearly 2,800 have a great deal of information to share.
    As anti-war (…)

  • Israeli Black Panthers support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Israeli Black Panthers support the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
    by Reuven Abarjel, introduction by Jeffrey Blankfort
    During the late ‘60s and into the ‘70s, the reputation of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, which had its start in Oakland in 1966, spread far and wide, not only throughout the United States, but around the world, where the party was considered the leading arm of the Black liberation struggle in AmeriKKKa.
    In Israel, the Black Panthers’ exploits (…)

  • Mexico poll protests turn violent
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mexico poll protests turn violent
    This is the first time force as been used on the election protesters Mexican riot police fired tear gas and used clubs to break up a protest by supporters of left-wing presidential challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
    Leftist lawmakers were among at least 30 people injured in the scuffles outside Congress in Mexico City.
    Mr Lopez Obrador’s supporters have been camped out in protest at the 2 July election they say was stolen by conservative rival (…)

  • 30,000 fill the streets around the White House
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The country’s largest protest against the U.S.-Israeli assault 30,000 fill the streets around the White House
    More then 30,000 demonstrators filled the streets around the White House today chanting, “Stop the US-Israeli war against Lebanon and Palestine.”
    The New York Times reported today that the demonstration’s “diverse crowd included many Arab-Americans and Muslims, college students and families, as well as veterans of prior demonstrations against the war in Iraq.” The NY Times goes (…)

  • Rogue Israeli State Protested at White House Rally
    13 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The evil that men do lives after them.” - William Shakespeare
    Washington, D.C. - As Israeli terror bombing of civilians continues relentlessly over Gaza and Lebanon, demonstrators took to the streets near the White House, on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, to protest. Led by Arab-American organizers, and supported by antiwar groups, like the ANSWER Coalition, they rallied, at noon, in Lafayette Park, which is directly across the way from the official residenc of President George W. Bush. The (…)