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Memo to Rep. Cummings: “Stop Funding the War!” from William Hughes on Vimeo.
Peace and Justice activists, on May 19, 2010, staged a protest action in front of Rep. Elijah Cummings’ office in midtown Baltimore, MD. They urged him to oppose the proposed $33 billion supplemental funding Bill for the war in Afghanistan, which is currently pending in the U.S. Congress. Speaking on camera are: Max Obuszewski, Maria Allwine, Emiko Ortega, Cindy Farquhar and David Schott. The action was sponsored (…)

The Group of 8 Leaders and the Group of 20 Leaders are meeting in Ontario from June 25-27, 2010. Toronto-based organizations of women, people of colour, indigenous peoples, the poor, the working class, queer and trans people and disabled people are organizing a Peoples Convergence. Join US
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/node/135

Global systemic crisis – From « Eurozone coup d’Etat » to the tragic solitude of the United Kingdom, the pace of global geopolitical dislocation accelerates Public announcement GEAB N°45 (May 16, 2010) -
Just as anticipated by LEAP/E2020 in issues N°40 (December 2009) and N°42 (February 2010), spring 2010 really marks a tipping point of the global systemic crisis, characterized by a sudden expansion due to the intolerable size of public deficits (see issue N° 39, November 2009) and the (…)

Labor Demands: “Make the Banks Pay!” from William Hughes on Vimeo.
On Monday, May 17, 2010, a spirited rally and march was held in a steady rain, in Washington, D.C. Labor organizations and their allies in the activist community put the event together. The powerful Wall Street Banks, and the influence-peddling “K” Street Lobbyists, were the primary targets of the protesters. Speaking on camera were: Ernie Grecco, President Metropolitan Baltimore Council AFL-CIO Unions; Mary Kay Henry, (…)

Labor Takes on the Banksters: Sights and Scenes from the Rally from William Hughes on Vimeo.
On Monday, May 17, 2010, a spirited rally and march was held in a steady rain, in Washington, D.C. Labor organizations and their allies in the activist community put the event together. The powerful Wall Street Banks, and the influence-peddling “K” Street Lobbyists, were the primary targets of the protesters. The Banksters were condemned for causing the economic collapse, the “Meltdown of 2008,” (…)

The industrial revolution has been driven for the past two centuries by the burning of hydrocarbons, first by coal in the Age of Steam, and then by oil and natural gas in the Age of Petroleum; however, as the flow of these fossil fuels slows down as demand goes up, ever-more-intrusive and massive extraction efforts increasingly threaten the progress of industrialization and the civilization it has produced.
The catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the latest (…)

Protesting BP in Baltimore, MD from William Hughes on Vimeo.
On Sunday afternoon, May 16, 2010, an ad hoc group of concerned activists picketed a BP, (British Petroleum), gas station, located at the intersection of 33rd Street and Greenmount Ave, in Baltimore, MD. They expressed their outrage at BP for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, lax government regulations of the industry, and strongly opposed allowing any more off-shore drilling permits. For some background on the (…)

On May 4, 1970 the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students protesting America´s invasion of Cambodia. Four students were killed and nine were wounded. The incident triggered national outrage in a country already divided over the Vietnam War. In the days that followed more than four million students rose up in dissent across 900 campuses, generating the only nationwide student protest in U.S. history. Fearing civil unrest, President Nixon was taken to Camp David for his (…)

Deborah Rudacille Reads from her book, “Roots of Steel” from William Hughes on Vimeo.
On May 15, 2010, author Deborah Rudacille read from her new book, “Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town.” It’s the saga of the Sparrows Point plant. The event, a 510 Readings, took place at Minas Gallery, in Hampden, in Baltimore, MD. Michael Kimball served as the moderator and introduced Ms. Rudacille. “Kirkus Reviews” said of Ms. Rudacille’s tome, “An affecting portrait of decaying (…)

Trotsky, “The Lacuna” & Murdochracy Q&A: pro-Zionist Australia ignores Israeli and US state terrorism, Western holocaust denial and the ongoing Palestinian Genocide, Iraqi Genocide, Afghan Genocide and Climate Crisis (10 billion people are predicted to die in the worsening Climate Genocide but none of these Genocide terms are part of Australian public discourse).
The Australian taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (Australia’s equivalent of the British BBC) is (…)