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  • A day without all-stars?
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Dave Zirin, DAVE ZIRIN is the author of "What’s My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States" and a columnist for Slam magazine.
    MAY DAY 2006 is being called the "Great American Boycott" or "A Day Without Latinos."
    Across the country, Latinos and their allies say they will neither work nor shop Monday to protest what they consider anti-immigrant legislation before Congress.
    Although many industries and work sites may be affected, one multibillion-dollar enterprise (…)

  • 350,000 March for Peace, Justice, Justice and Democracy in New York City
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    United for Peace and Justice
    Largest antiwar labor turnout in US history.
    Oscar Winners Susan Sarandon, Mercedes Ruehl and Jonathan Demme, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Reverend Al Sharpton, Hurricane Survivors, Iraq War Veterans, Military Families, Immigrant Rights Activists, Religious Leaders and Labor Unions Join Together to Call for New Priorities
    29 April 2006, New York, New York: The streets of New York City echoed today with the chants, songs and shouts of at least 350,000 (…)

  • INT’L LABOUR DAY: Migrants Flex Muscle With National Boycott
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Haider Rizvi
    NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - In more than 100 years, people in the United States have not seen what they are likely to witness this May Day, with massive rallies and protests against the treatment of undocumented workers expected to take place all over the country.
    "No work, no school, no buying, no selling," vow posters in cities and towns across the U.S., as campaigners for immigrant rights plan to hold a nationwide strike on Monday, May 1.
    Every year on May 1, workers (…)

  • MANHATTAN : Tens of Thousands in New York March Against the War in Iraq
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Desmond Butler The Associated Press
    Sunday 30 April 2006
    New York - Tens of thousands of antiwar protesters marched yesterday through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad - the 70th US fighter killed in that country this month.
    "End this war, bring the troops home," read one of the many signs held by protesters during the march more than three years after the war in (…)

  • NEW-YORK CITY : 300,000 March in Manhattan at Anti-War Protest
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the Associated Press 300,000 March in Manhattan at Anti-War Protest by Desmond Butler
    NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters marched Saturday through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad - the 70th U.S. fighter killed in that country this month.
    "End this war, bring the troops home," read one of the many signs lifted by (…)

  • USA : Join in the May 1st Boycott and Day of Action for Immigrant Rights!
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Monday, May 1, International Workers Day, we will all be participating in one of the most momentous political events as millions of immigrant workers and students, and hopefully a large number of their allies, participate in the Great May 1st Boycott. Initiated from within the immigrant workers movement itself, the call for the May 1 Boycott has received the active support of organizations throughout the country.
    For the last six weeks ANSWER chapters, organizers and volunteers have (…)

  • National March: Hands Off Venezuela, Hands Off Cuba : May 20, 2006: Washington, D.C.
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    May 20, 2006: Washington, D.C.
    National March: Hands Off Venezuela, Hands Off Cuba
    DETAILS :
    http://www.internationalanswer.org/

  • IRAN : International Campaign Launched to Stop Attack on Iran : sign the pétition !
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    International Campaign Launched to Stop Attack on Iran 250,000 Petitions say "Stop War On Iran"
    April 12, 2006—In response to the growing threat of a U.S. attack on Iran, an international campaign, initiated by clergy, academics, and activists, has drawn world-wide support.
    Since the online campaign was launched, nearly 250,000 petitions have been sent to President Bush, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, and the Board of Directors of Halliburton calling for "an immediate end to (…)

  • THE PYRES OF AUTUMN
    24 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The torching of the French banlieues as both sequel to the No vote of May 2005 and symptom of a wider Western malaise. Rejection of official pieties of integration, and flames of revolt against an automated Europe.
    by JEAN BAUDRILLARD
    Fifteen hundred cars had to burn in a single night and then, on a descending scale, nine hundred, five hundred, two hundred, for the daily ‘norm’ to be reached again, and people to realize that ninety cars on average are torched every night in this gentle (…)

  • PETITION TO RE-INSTATE EU AND US AID TO PALESTINE
    24 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    This petition is to Re-instate EU and US aid to Palestine and to end the economic boycott of Palestine. Please sign this and circulate it to others who might sign To: The European Union, the US congress and the Israeli Government
    We condemn the actions taken by the US, the EU and Israel to exert penal economic pressure upon the Palestinian people. The withdrawal of economic aid by the US and the EU and the criminal withholding of internationally agreed custom duties by Israel will lead (…)