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  • SAN FRANCISCO : 61 arrests at protest over hotel labor talks
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Union called action; contract end date key
    by Glen Martin
    Most Bay Area residents may have celebrated Labor Day with prodigious quantities of beer and barbecue, but some marked it the old-fashioned way — by getting arrested.
    Sixty-one union members and sympathizers staged a sit-down at the Grand Hyatt Hotel at Union Square in San Francisco to call attention to a yearlong dispute with 14 hotels over new labor contracts.
    They were arrested, charged with misdemeanors for interfering (…)

  • 9-11 Memorial 2005: Demand Truth & Justice Now! Action List Pass On
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    END THE MEDIA BLACKOUT Demand the Truth of 9/11 Sunday September 11th, 2005 - March and Rally in NYC From Times Square to the United Nations
    1 pm @ NEW YORK TIMES 229 W 43rd St between 7/8th Aves (near Times Square)
    MARCH TO THE UNITED NATIONS With stops at FOX, CNN, NBC and CBS
    4 pm RALLY & CONCERT Dag Hammerskjold Plaza (E 47th St and 1st Ave.) Petition the International Criminal Court to investigate 9/11
    7 pm BENEFIT & SPEAKOUT At St. Mark’s Church, 10th Street & (…)

  • America Stripped Bare: Privilege vs. Survival (See Kanye)
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    4 comments

    Support the People of New Orleans: Sept. 7 National Day of Emergency Action
    Join a protest on September 7 see below for details of protests in Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle - or organize one in your community or on your campus. List your event on the A.N.S.W.E.R. website! www.pephost.org/Sept7localaction
    What is taking place today in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama is a crisis rarely seen in this country. It has provoked an outpouring of concern for the (…)

  • Mothers March on Washington to End War on Iraq: Join Up!
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Peace camp heads to White House
    by RICHARD LUSCOMBE IN MIAMI
    AN ANTI-IRAQ war protester who set up a peace camp outside the Texas ranch of the United States president, George Bush, takes her campaign on the road today as she pursues him back to Washington.
    Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son, Casey, was killed in an ambush in Sadr City in April 2004, will embark on a bus tour that will end with a 24-hour vigil and anti-war march in the American capital on 24 September.
    It promises to (…)

  • Support the People of New Orleans: Sept. 7 Nat’l Day of Emergency Action
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Call to Action from the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
    National Day of Emergency Action Support the People of New Orleans! Jobs/Income & Housing for All Displaced Families Real Relief - Yes! Racism - No!
    Wednesday, September 7
    Join a protest on September 7 see below for details of protests in Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle - or organize one in your community or on your campus. List your event on the A.N.S.W.E.R. website! (www.pephost.org/Sept7localaction)
    What is (…)

  • World Zero Eviction Days: from October 3rd 2005
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For the right to decent, secure housing
    Fifteen percent of the world population is under threat of eviction for a series of reasons: foreign investment in countries with heavy debts, privatizations of the housing sector, deregulation of rented accommodation, ethnic cleansing, wars and occupation, as well as commercial speculation of natural disasters. Although Target 11 of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 7 aims at improving the living conditions of at least 100 million (…)

  • Sept. 24 White House protest receives widespread media coverage
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Today (Thursday, September 1), representatives of two major anti-war coalitions - A.N.S.W.E.R./September 24 National Coalition and United for Peace and Justice - held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC to announce plans for a joint anti-war rally and march to take place at the White House on September 24.
    Local, national and international media packed the room. Press in attendance included CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, Fox, Associated Press, (…)

  • ADELAIDE : NATIONAL AUSTRALIAN CALL TO ACTION
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Be Alert! Be Alarmed!
    Condoleezza Rice is coming to Adelaide!
    Rumsfeld may come too!
    Fellow Australians, Come to Adelaide in November and protest against the presence of Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld, two central figures in the Bush Administration.
    The invasion of Iraq is a war crime
    Let’s show the world that Australians reject the US’ wars of empire; that we reject US militarism and unilateralism in world affairs because they undermine peace, justice and progress in the (…)

  • Sydney : protesters stopped from bringing down the house
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Les Kennedy, Samantha Selinger-Morris and Matt Wade
    Four protesters railing against a gathering of international business leaders were arrested last night after they breached the security barrier outside the entrance to the Opera House forecourt.
    Police quickly secured the gap as about 500 people converged on the Opera House protesting against the Forbes Global CEO Conference.
    Protest organisers had hoped to marshall thousands of supporters to disrupt the conference attended by the (…)

  • Anti-War Activists Plan Massive D.C. Rally
    2 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ELIZABETH WHITE
    WASHINGTON — Organizers are planning what they say will be the largest anti-war demonstration in the nation’s capital since the Iraq war began in March 2003.
    The ANSWER Coalition and United for Peace and Justice detailed their plans Thursday for the Sept. 24 protest. They plan to bus in people from across the country for a march past the White House. Other major protests are planned that day in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
    Cindy Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son, Army (…)