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  • A march of 2,000 people took place last night, in San Francisco...
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear friends:
    A march of 2,000 people took place last night, in San Francisco, against the genocidal attack on Fallujah, and in solidarity with 4,000 hotel workers who are locked out of their jobs by major hotel chains.
    The action was sponsored by International ANSWER and endorsed by the San Francisco Labor Council, and all other anti-war groups.
    Very militant, the marchers were in support of Iraqi people’s resistance and for US out of Iraq immediately.
    Another ANSWER action, in Los (…)

  • Petition Congress For An Open Hearing On Vote Fraud In The 2004 Election
    9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.petitiononline.com/uselect/petition.html
    To: United States Congress
    TO: All members of the Congress of the United States of America; all Senators and Members of the House of Representatives
    A Petition to immediately and without delay open a joint investigation into potential wrongdoing in the Presidential Election of 2004, specifically to investigate the potential of voting machine manipulation or purposeful malfunction, especially electronic voting machines manufactured (…)

  • World Wide Petition against the Escalation in Iraq: An initiative of the BRussells tribunal endorsed
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Prof. Jean Bricmont, a Belgian scientist, specialist in theoretical physics, and author on politics, who was member of the prosecution at the BRussells Tribunal, has written a short but strong statement "Stop the escalation" (see the text after this message, in English, French and Dutch). It has been signed already by several distinguished people (see underneath).
    We feel that we can’t wait any longer to do something. We hope that you and/or your organisation will sign this letter, giving (…)

  • Tucson Police use violence against marchers
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ARIZONA-USA
    Tucson Police use violence against marchers by Emrys Wednesday November 03, 2004 at 11:35 PM
    TPD arrests 6 and shoots marchers with pepper bullets
    Tucson Police reacted with unwarranted violence against protestors in Tucson for committing the crime of walking in the street. About 200 people joined the “Don’t just vote, take action” march organized by several activist groups in Tucson, spearheaded by the National Lawyers Guild.
    Police arrested a total of 6 people during (…)

  • Outrage in Ohio:Angry residents storm State House in response 2 massive voter suppression & corrupt
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Outrage in Ohio: Angry residents storm State House in response to massive voter suppression and corruption
    by David Solnit
    November 3 - Toledo, Ohio Hundreds of angry Ohio residents marched through the streets of Columbus-Ohio’s Capital-this evening and stormed the Ohio State House, defying orders and arrest threats from Ohio State Troopers. "O-H-I-O ! suppressed democracy has got to go,"they chanted. After troopers pushed and scuffled with people, nearly a hundred people took over the (…)

  • Converge on Columbus
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Toledo League of Pissed Off Voters People from across Northwest Ohio are invited hit the streets of the Capital-Columbus this Wednesday to protest disenfranchisement and prevent another stolen election. The November 3 Columbus demonstration is planned for noon at the Columbus Statehouse and at 5p.m. at the Columbus Federal Building.
    Join with NW Ohio Groups to demand “Democracy Not Disenfranchisement” in Ohio.
    November 3 events are being planned in dozens of cities across the (…)

  • The Long March...and the Million Worker March
    2 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JOANN WYPIJEWSKI
    History and its symbols having been central in conceptualizing the demonstration for jobs, peace and human needs that took place at the Lincoln Memorial on a crisp afternoon this past October 17, it is worth casting the mind back a bit before proceeding with our story of that event, recalling first the organizational finesse and political discipline of this latest demonstration’s most famous forebear (depicted on its fliers and literature), the 1963 March on Washington (…)

  • Hawking to lead anti-war protest on election day
    2 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andy McSmith
    Stephen Hawking, Britain’s most eminent scientist, has become the latest prominent opponent of the Iraq war by agreeing to take the lead role in a ceremonial protest to coincide with the United States presidential election.
    Peace protesters will gather in Trafalgar Square at 5pm on Tuesday, where they will read out the names of 5,000 Iraqi men, women and children known to have died in the conflict.
    The full death toll was put last week as high as 100,000.
    Playwrights (…)

  • Beyond Voting ... And We Will Continue to Protest
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Azita Ebrahimi November 2 - To the Polls! November 4 - To the Streets! PROTEST AGAINST WAR IN IRAQ on Thursday November 4! PLEASE JOIN US!
    Democracy Not Disenfranchisement! Education Not Occupation! Health Care Not Warfare!
    November 3 (in Atlanta Nov. 4), on the day after the presidential election, no matter what the outcome is, people from all walks of life across America are mobilizing in their communities to go beyond voting and demonstrate visions for a truly democratic (…)

  • 9th-16th of November - International Week against the Apartheid Wall
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear participants at the Conference of the International anti-war and anti-globalization movement in Beirut,
    by Maren Karlitzky
    As Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign we would like to thank all participants of the Conference for the great amount of solidarity shown with our struggle against the Wall and Israeli Apartheid and Occupation.
    Our struggle is continuing in daily resistance to Israeli destruction, humiliation and assassinations. Marches, local initiatives and soon the (…)