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  • June 27th : BLAIR’S LAST DAY: JOIN MILITARY FAMILIES AGAINST THE WAR PROTEST IN DOWNING STREET
    26 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    BLAIR’S LAST DAY: JOIN MILITARY FAMILIES AGAINST THE WAR PROTEST IN DOWNING STREET WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 10AM – 12 NOON
    Military Families Against the War, representing families who have lost relatives in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, will be in Downing Street on Tony Blair’s last day in office, Wednesday 27 June. They will be holding pictures of their loved ones who have died as a result of Tony Blair’s war crimes. The Military Families are inviting everyone who is able to join them (…)

  • How Cindy Sheehan Unmasked the Democrats By SUSAN ROSENTHAL
    18 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    How Cindy Sheehan Unmasked the Democrats
    By SUSAN ROSENTHAL, M.D.
    Cindy Sheehan is the Founder and President of Gold Star Families for Peace. When her son Casey was killed in Iraq in the spring of 2004, she threw herself into the campaign to end the war.
    Sheehan became a thorn in the side of President Bush, following him wherever he went. She camped outside the White House and established "Camp Casey" next to the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas. Her challenge to the president was simple (…)

  • Troops Out Now! Put the Antiwar Movement Back on the Streets September 29 - March on Washington DC
    15 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Draft Proposal from the Troops Out Now Coalition— From Protest to Resistance
    Troops Out Now! Put the Antiwar Movement Back on the Streets
    September 29 — March on Washington D.C. Assemble at the Capitol — March on the White House
    September 22 – 29 —Encampment in Washington D.C.
    Stop the War Abroad and at Home
    In the spirit of unity, and for the purposes of taking the movement away from politicians and putting it back into the streets, the Troops Out Now Coalition submits this (…)

  • Why the Current Antiwar Movement is So Impotent by Ralph Nader (COMMONDREAMS)
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Saturday, May 19, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
    Why the Current Antiwar Movement is So Impotent
    by Ralph Nader
    The current issue of the UTNE Reader (May - June ‘07) carried a short but sensibly provocative article protesting the stagnation and the cul-de-sac nature of street protests that involve nonviolent civil disobedience.Joseph Hart, the author, asks why the current antiwar movement is so impotent, despite “a staggering 67 percent disapproval of President Bush’s handling (…)

  • Italian Protest of Proposed New US Base Confronts Prime Minister
    12 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was confronted by a hostile audience this week at an event in Trento, Italy, where he spoke at a conference on economics. The "No Dal Molin" movement from Vicenza, Italy, which is opposing the construction of a new U.S. military base protested outside the event and inside.
    In an attempt to satisfy the audience, the moderator permitted the citizen activist leader Cinzia Bottene to come on stage with Prodi and address him. She did so, and the people (…)

  • "Good Riddance Attention Whore"
    30 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan
    I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called "Face" of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs" as the Democratic Underground. Being called an "attention whore" and being told "good riddance" are some of the more milder rebukes.
    I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial (…)

  • Compensation for roughed-up farmer
    24 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Diet Simon
    A German farmer has been awarded 3,000 euros compensation for being roughed up by police during a transport of nuclear waste half a kilometre from his farm.
    In November 2004 the farmer was working with his forklift near the railway line on which caskets containing the highly radioactive waste were to run to a dump in Gorleben, northern Germany.
    Police yanked him brutally from his tractor and threatened him with a pistol. He was led off in handcuffs and taken to a detainee (…)

  • Mothers For Peace Arrested on Capitol Hill
    15 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Failure is impossible!” - Susan B. Anthony, a leader of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
    Washington, DC - On May 14, 2007, under a sunny sky, anti-war activists launched a “SWARM on Congress” campaign to end the Iraqi conflict and to bring the troops home. An estimated 250 peace activists, led by Cindy Sheehan, first assembled at Lafayette Park, opposite the White House, for a spirited noon time rally. After about two hours of speechmaking, they formed a procession, entitled, “Mother of a (…)

  • Christiania - Danish police clash with protesters at hippie enclave
    15 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Monday, May 14 2007
    COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Police fired tear gas on Monday in clashes with rock-throwing rioters protesting the demolition of a decrepit building in Copenhagen’s hippie enclave. At least 16 people were arrested, police said, while one police officer and one protester were injured.
    COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Police fired tear gas on Monday in clashes with rock-throwing rioters protesting the demolition of a decrepit building in Copenhagen’s hippie enclave.
    At least 16 people (…)

  • Police raids in Germany
    13 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    According to mainstream media, over 800 policemen were involved in raiding 40 left-wing political objects with the support of 20 public prosecutors.
    Whilst German television channels reported live from the razzias in the big cities, according to the populist press farms in Schleswig-Holstein, Brandenburg and Niedersachsen were also affected.
    Several reasons were given so far for the raids, which nevertheless seemed to centre on and affect mainly infrastructure and logistics around the (…)