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America will not stand for a Secretary of State who approved torture and then misled Congress. We call on the Presidential candidates to ask Secretary of State Rice to resign.
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Disneyland goes to war-torn Iraq, with a multi-million dollar entertainment complex, to be built on a 50 acre lot adjacent to the Green Zone. ("Fun park rises from ruins of Baghdad zoo", The Times, London, 24 April 2008)
Al Zawra park
The American-style amusement park will feature a skateboard park, rides, a concert theatre and a museum.
The occupation forces are of the opinion that Baghdad is "lacking in entertainment". General David Petraeus, is said to be a “big (…)

US dockworkers’ union holds eight-hour work stoppage to protest Iraq war
By Fred Williams 2 May 2008
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) carried out an eight-hour work stoppage at West Coast ports on May 1 to demand an end to the war in Iraq.
The work action halted activity at 29 ports from San Diego, California to Washington State. According to both the ILWU and the employers’ organization, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), 25,000 dockworkers represented by (…)

by David Swanson
May 1st is shaping up to be quite a day of resistance, with strikes by the ILWU and other unions, plus immigrant rights rallies, and peace and impeachment activities. It’s Mission Accomplished Day (5 Years!) It’s Downing Street Minutes Day (3 Years!) It’s Impeachment Off the Table Day (2 Years!) It’s May Day, the original Labor Day (122 Years!)
If you care about the future of our republic, we encourage you to visit your congress member’s nearest office at high noon, (…)

“I am here [at this demonstration] as a ‘personal’ witness!” Activist, poet and Vietnam War veteran, Ms. Madeleine Mysko
Baltimore, MD - On April 24, 2008, a spirited antiwar protest was held in this city in the downtown area. It was sponsored by MoveOn.org and Progressive Maryland. One of the activists participating was Ms. Madeleine Mysko, a registered nurse and a veteran of the Vietnam War. She ripped into Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), who has consistently voted to fund the Iraq War to (…)

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Special programming “Bolivia” on Radio Venezuela en Vivo
The local pro-opposition authorities in Santa Cruz, Bolivia have decided to hold a referendum on 4 May 2008: the question, should the region become autonomous
Now, according to Bolivan electoral authorities, this referéndum is illegal
What lies behind this demand for regional autonomy?
Is Bolivia en route to balkanisation? (…)

Food crisis hits local supermarkets
JJ Levine , THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 28, 2008
As worldwide rice prices are hitting record levels in fear of a shortage of rice, the knock-on effects are just beginning to be felt in Israeli supermarkets.
Shoppers at some branches of supermarket chains Supersol and Mega on Friday and Saturday were amazed to find signs limiting purchases to two kilograms of rice per customer.
In a statement released Sunday, Supersol explained that its policy was an (…)

Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say.
The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning.
But then some of them saw TV images of protesters holding the emblem and they alerted the authorities, according to Hong Kong’s Ming Pao newspaper.
The factory owner (…)

Solidarity is proud to offer our 100% support to the oil refinery workers at Grangemouth.
For the “crime” of refusing to accept the tearing up of their pension scheme they have been vilified by the Ineos management and sections of the press in Scotland. In a disgusting campaign the oil workers have been accused of “holding the country to ransom” and of being “hell bent on strike action.”
In reality it is the Ineos Company led by billionaire James Ratcliffe who are responsible for this (…)

Les criminologues ont reconnu depuis longtemps qu’un comportement sadique envers les animaux est un indicateur d’une tendance criminelle envers les hommes.
"La grandeur d’une nation et ses progrès en matière morale peuvent être jugés par la façon dont ses animaux sont traités "
Mohandas Gandhi
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