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  • UNITED POLICE STATES OF AMERICA II
    5 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    UNITED POLICE STATES OF AMERICA II
    Tasers, K-9’s used at Counter-Recruitment Demonstration
    This is the longer version of the “unnecessary taser use” video that dononeg posted. August 20, 2005: young woman is held to the ground and tasered at a counter-recruitment demonstration in Pittsburgh, PA. An older woman is bitten by a police dog and then arrested. Two small children are pepper-sprayed and an M.S. patient is toppled in his motorized scooter. See http://www.organizepittsburgh.org/ (…)

  • Unrest and alternative goverment in mexico?
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    With 2.4 million mobilising in mexico city last sunday the biggest march in its history and a 10km long permanent tent city established until ALL the votes are recounted from the July 2 elections, mexico is becoming a very interesting place. In one region, the movement seems to have take a tentative step forward..... Oaxaca Initiates Alternative Government Popular Assembly Reclaims Government Palace for the People
    By Nancy Davies Commentary from Oaxaca
    July 7, 2006
    The Popular Assembly (…)

  • Mexican workers want a recount
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David Bacon
    Huge national demonstrations in Mexico are now demanding a recount of the votes cast in the presidential election, tainted by allegations of vote fraud.
    Mexico’s wealthiest families have a lot to lose. All benefited from Mexico’s conservative economic reforms, which the leading candidate, Felipe Calderon of the conservative National Action Party, vows to continue. The Villareals’ Grupo Villacero, for instance, was virtually given the huge Sicartsa steel mill by the (…)

  • One Minute a Day to Create Peace
    16 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The amount of violence in the world is threatening all of us. It is time we use our power to create Peace. How can we do this? By taking one minute a day to generate feelings of Peace within ourselves and then focusing that energy upward and outward, we will cause a shift to move us from violence and conflict to Peace.
    Why would this work? Science has shown us that we are all producing spurts of energy all the time through our emotions and thoughts. This energy, though we do not (…)

  • Nurses protest move to narrow union roles
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sandy Kleffman
    More than 400 nurses rallied Tuesday in downtown Oakland, hoping to prevent a legal decision they said could sharply restrict union membership and limit the power of the influential California Nurses Association and other labor groups.
    This is a fight we’re going to win — they’re not going to bust our union,’’ Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the nurse’s union, told the crowd.
    The noon event mirrored a rally in downtown Los Angeles that also drew several hundred (…)

  • Black Civic Groups Having D.C. Vigil Urging Vote to Renew Voting Rights Act
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By: Michael H. Cottman
    A broad coalition of civil rights groups will gather Wednesday evening on Capitol Hill for an "urgent call to action" to pressure the U.S. Congress to stop stalling and vote on the renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
    Black leaders say because congressional lawmakers have delayed voting on the re-authorization of the Voting Rights Act, many black Americans could find their right to vote in jeopardy.
    "We are urging Congress to take action now," Melanie Campbell, (…)

  • Join Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey 2 in Washington DC
    6 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cindy Sheehan is on a hunger strike at the mall in Washington DC and she needs company!
    Look at this beautiful park. Doesn’t this look like the perfect place for an extended protest?
    "I often get told that I should "love America, or leave it." This is ridiculous logic and empty rhetoric. I love the country that I was born in and I love Americans. I am an American and so are my children. Casey was born and died a fine American who was abused by the same leaders that are abusing the (…)

  • Not in Our Name: Vietnam, Iraq and the Voter’s Pledge
    5 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Please Forward Everywhere...
    Not In Our Name: Vietnam, Iraq and the Voters’ Pledge
    By Dan Ellsberg
    According to recent opinion polls, most Iraqis don’t believe that we’re making things better or safer in their country. What does that say about the legitimacy of prolonged occupation, much less permanent American bases in Iraq? What does it mean for continued American armored patrols such as the one last November in Haditha, which, we now learn, led to the deaths of a Marine and 24 (…)

  • We all know the unspeakable acts that ocurr during wars. Help end all forms of military sexual abuse
    5 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear people of common sense and reason ... I honor all who continue to spread words of hope that we can all live peaceably on this planet called Earth. While we are working to end the violence of country against country, religion against religion, and neighbor against neighbor, I hope that you will see the universal value of supporting The Suzanne Swift Petition. Many cruel and inhumane acts come out of war. Some more atrocious than others but all inflicting various degrees of harm (…)

  • We Stand with the Teachers of Oaxaca
    25 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the early morning hours of June 14, armed federal and state police accompanied by helicopters dropping tear-gas grenades attacked an encampment of teachers in the center of Oaxaca, Mexico. According to news reports, after first being driven out of the town center, teachers armed themselves with rocks and sticks and fought back against the ferocious police assault. Conflicting reports of casualties range from 3 to 11 persons dead, including one child, with many injured or detained. About (…)