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  • Dear peace activists
    11 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The struggle against the new U.S. military base in Vicenza, Italy continues. Another national demonstration will be held on February 17. Our group, U.S. Citizens for Peace & Justice, has endorsed this march and will participate, together with U.S. Citizens Against War in Florence.
    National Demonstration: "Defend Our Land Against Bases of War" Vicenza, Italy
    Vicenza is already home to several U.S. military installations, including Camp Ederle. The new base would occupy an area (…)

  • Photos - Hundreds protest against Munich security meeting - 10/02/2007
    11 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    10.02.2007
    Several hundred people on Saturday took to the streets of downtown Munich amid tight security to protest against the three-day Munich Security Conference which opened in the Bavarian capital on Friday evening.
    Holding anti-US and pro-peace signs, radical leftists, anarchists and peace activists marched near the bastion-like conference site as hundreds of policemen kept a watchful eye on the peaceful crowd.
    Protest organizers expected to see around 5,000 people for the (…)

  • Carol Korreck: A Soldier’s Mother Challenges Anyone Who Will Listen
    7 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    You can call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard toll-free: (800) 828-0498, 459-1887 or 614-2803; 24/7!
    Carol Korreck: A Soldier’s Mother Challenges Anyone Who Will Listen Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 02/06/2007 - 2:39pm. Reader Contribution A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION by Carol Korreck
    President Bush keeps insisting America needs to "support the troops." What exactly is it that shows support?
    Extending tours of duty? Sending soldiers into battle without the proper training and (…)

  • Benevolent Fascisme?
    4 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    so is it benevolent? fascisme "Say “fascism” to anyone you meet, and you will conjure images of coal-scuttle helmets, of Nazi boot-heels clicking in terrible unison down Berlin streets during dark days that only a few remaining among the living remember. Each day, members of the generation that heard those heels for themselves go into the ground, taking with them whispered words of warning. I saw it for myself, they whisper before they pass. See this tattooed number? See this scar? It (…)

  • Tens of thousands march in Mexico City to protest tortilla prices
    1 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ioan Grillo ASSOCIATED PRESS
    8:30 p.m. January 31, 2007
    MEXICO CITY – About 75,000 trade unionists, farmers and leftists marched through downtown Mexico City on Wednesday to protest price increases for basic foods like tortillas – the staple of Mexico’s poor – and to demand a change in economic policy.
    The march represented a challenge to President Felipe Calderón’s market-oriented policies and one banner read “Calderón stole the elections, and now he’s stealing the tortillas!” (…)

  • America Rising Up in Historic Protest: "What Part of ’Bush Lied’ Don’t You Understand?" PHOTOLOG
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Celebrities, Troops, Families Protest War Flag-Covered Coffins Symbolized War Dead
    AP January 27, 2007
    WASHINGTON — Convinced this is their moment, tens of thousands marched Saturday in an anti-war demonstration linking military families, ordinary people and an icon of the Vietnam protest movement in a spirited call to get out of Iraq.
    Celebrities, a half-dozen lawmakers and protesters from distant states rallied in the capital under a sunny sky, seizing an opportunity to press their (…)

  • Education based in truth and Reality is helpful in determining correct course of action
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Siete B d’Venezia
    Given the amount of stupid and insane behaviors that people participate and support both knowingly and unknowingly as a result of being ignorant it is amazing that we have not already destroyed the earth and any possible useful future we could have out of our sheer in ability to act in our own best interest.
    We continue to fall into the trap of following those that control the financial systems and the disbursement of monies and credit. I find it totally odd after (…)

  • March on the Pentagon SATURDAY March 17 2007
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    March on the Pentagon Saturday, March 17, 2007
    40th anniversary of the historic 1967 march on the Pentagon
    _ 4th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war
    On March 17, 2007, the 4th anniversary of the start of the criminal invasion of Iraq, tens of thousands of people from around the country will descend on the Pentagon in a mass demonstration to demand: U.S. Out of Iraq Now! 2007 is the 40th anniversary of the historic 1967 anti-war march to the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. The (…)

  • California : Thousands protest Iraq War on Oct. 28
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thousands protest Iraq War on Oct. 28
    On Oct. 28, thousands of people in the United States protested the Iraq War in a day of action initiated by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). Militant protests happened in numerous cities and towns across the country with more than 5,000 people demonstrating in Los Angeles, 2,500 in San Francisco, 1,000 in Seattle, many hundreds in Minneapolis, and hundreds more in Chicago, New York, New Haven, Conn., New Paltz, N.Y., Miami, (…)

  • Corporate Media Downplays Washington Anti-War Rally
    30 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Wayne Madsen – Wayne Madsen Report January 28, 2007
    Corporate media and DC law enforcement collude once again in shaving anti-war march numbers. On a postcard perfect weather day in Washington, in excess of 150,000 people gathered on the Washington Mall, west of the US Capitol, to hear members of Congress and Hollywood celebrities call for the Bush administration to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. However, as with past anti-war demonstrations in Washington, the corporate media, largely (…)