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  • March 19: Momentum Builds Across the Country
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    San Francisco, Los Angeles, Fayetteville, New York City, Chicago, New Paltz, your city!
    San Francisco
    The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition demonstration in San Francisco has gained growing support in the recent days and weeks. Tens of thousands will march.
    The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 has called “stop work meetings” to shut down Bay Area and other West Coast ports in solidarity with the International Day of Protests. Labor will be sponsoring a pre-march rally (…)

  • Women worldwide face effects of Bush’s gag rule
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dian Harrison
    Tuesday is International Women’s Day, a worldwide celebration of women’s fight for equality and human rights. In light of this commemoration, it is especially disappointing that the Bush administration is working so hard to restrict women’s rights.
    Ten years ago, a landmark U.N. conference in Beijing adopted a platform seeking to establish global equality for women. Along with recommendations on issues such as domestic violence and education, the platform states women (…)

  • March 19 Global Day of Action
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Quote of the Week from George Bush on the incompatability of foreign occupation and the holding of free and democratic elections: Bush insisted in his March 5 Radio Address: "that Lebanon’s sovereignty be respected and that all foreign forces be withdrawn, and that free and fair elections be conducted without foreign influence."
    Seven weeks ago tens of thousands of people demonstrated on the very first day of Bush’s second term of office. The Counter Inaugural protests in Washington D.C., (…)

  • A.N.S.W.E.R. : Actions in solidarity with Haiti in NYC, SF & LA
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition urges participation in actions in New York & San Francisco & Los Angeles and elsewhere in solidarity with the Haitian people on the first anniversary of the US coup and kidnapping of democratically elected Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
    IN NEW YORK Indoor Rally in Brooklyn to Premiere New Video of Haiti Coup
    On the 1st anniversary of Haiti’s latest coup d’état and for the first time in New York, the Haiti Support Network (HSN) and the (…)

  • Oil brokers trade blows with eco-warriors
    18 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By James Sturke
    Greenpeace campaigners, not a group of people unaccustomed to flying in the face of danger, were forced into a tactical retreat yesterday after feeling the wrath of angry oil traders.
    On the day the Kyoto Protocol came into force, 35 eco-warriors stormed the Interna- tional Petroleum Exchange [IPE] in the City. Armed with fog horns, rape alarms and whistles they tried to stall business by creating a deafening noise that made it impossible for the traders to work. But the (…)

  • Bush Inauguration Protest Video
    29 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Check Point "Dubya" is a clip from "Mandate?" a half hour documentary of the 2005 Inauguration protests.
    Check Point "Dubya" focuses on constitutional violations by security forces and the brutal over use of pepper spray at the 14th & Penn. parade route check point.
    – http://fluxview.com/v/Fluxview-News...
    "MANDATE?" PREMIERES AT THE TIME’S UP BIKE SPACE
    On Thursday, February 3rd at 7 PM, "Mandate" will make its New York City
    premiere at the Time’s Up Bike Space at 49 East (…)

  • Officer Threatens To Arrest Woman For Anti-Bush Sticker
    27 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.thejacksonchannel.com/ne...
    Officer Threatens To Arrest Woman For Anti-Bush Sticker
    January 25, 2005
    DENVER — Some people are angry when they see Shasta Bates’ derogatory bumper sticker about President George W. Bush — but she didn’t think she’d be threatened with arrest because of it.
    The Denver Police Department is investigating a sergeant who allegedly threatened to arrest the 26-year-old for displaying the bumper sticker.
    Bates said she was told by the sergeant (…)

  • Thousands March in Growing French Protests
    24 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Timothy Heritage
    PARIS - Some 210,000 public sector workers marched through French cities on Thursday in widening protests over pay, reforms and job cuts that have sent a sharp warning to President Jacques Chirac’s conservative government.
    On the third day of protests, some schools closed because of a one-day strike by teachers, and a stoppage by air traffic controllers grounded flights at Bordeaux in western France.
    The protests followed a warning strike by rail workers that (…)

  • Police Hunt Poo Protesters
    23 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.ananova.com/news/story/s...
    Police Hunt Poo Protesters
    January 22, 2005
    Police in Germany are hunting pranksters who have been sticking miniature US flags into piles of dog poo in public parks.
    Josef Oettl, parks administrator for Bayreuth, said: "This has been going on for about a year now, and there must be 2,000 to 3,000 piles of excrement that have been claimed during that time."
    The series of incidents was originally thought to be some sort of protest against the (…)

  • The Inaugural Police State
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Inaugural Police State by Jim
    Of the people who continued on the march to protest Bush’s inauguration the vast majority did not make it through the 14th Street checkpoint on time. I joined the march from Malcolm X park after attending the "Cost of War" gathering at the United Methodist Church. The march split at a park along the way and some people stayed for the Left.org Ball. Of the people who continued on the march to protest Bush’s inauguration the vast majority did not make it (…)