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Nov 27 2009
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Ten Years Later: Still No to the WTO! |
In late November and early December, a series of events will be held across the US commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the historic protests against the WTO in Seattle in 1999, and opposing the upcoming round of WTO meetings in Geneva, Switzerland. These talks are scheduled to take place November 30th through December 2nd — ten years to the day after the Seattle gathering. At these talks, government officials and corporate lobbyists will be promoting the expansion of business-as-usual trade policies as a solution to, rather than a cause of, the global economic and environmental crises. The commemoration also coincides with an international day of action on Nov 30 in advance of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change taking place in Copenhagen Dec. 7–28. From the Newswire: Northwest still says No to the WTO | D5 in Portland | Southern Oregonians are Heading to Portland | Seattle WTO Anniversary Events | MN Week of Action! | N30 — International Day of Action for Climate Justice See Also: seattleplus10.org | What I Learned At The WTO Protests | N30: It Still Matters | New Poster Art: "Spirit Of '99" | From climate denialism to activist alliances in memory of Seattle
N30 Action Reports: Reports pouring in from n30 day of climate justice action! Compilation here! | Global Day of Action on Climate Crisis on November 30 | NRDC Protested For Greenwashing and Support of Carbon Trading and Coal! | "Melted glaciers" dumped at DC offices of lobbyists bound for Copenhagen
Commemorations: Ten Years Since Seattle, Ten Years of Indymedia--Another World is Still Possible | UC-IMC Celebrates 10 Years of Indymedia Since Founding at “Battle in Seattle” | The Hint of a New World at RTS
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Jul 30 2010
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THIS WAS NO ACCIDENT: The BP Oil Spill, Nigerian Rebels, The Meaning of Sustainability... |
Like a mine explosion, an outbreak of smallpox, or a chestnut blight, BP's oil spill looked like just another disaster, a tragic mistake made by benevolent capitalists. But like those past tragedies, this oil spill is a predictable consequence of an industrial civilization where risks are not calculated by those who will face the consequences should something go wrong.
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Jul 29 2010
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Gaza Blockade Halts Kindergarten |
Kate Gould has called Jackson County home for the last 15 years. She will be speaking about her 8 months living and working in the Occupied Palestinian Territories from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 28, at the Gresham Room of the Ashland Public Library.
The following editorial was written by Kate...
"Just got back from Gaza, where I saw first hand the effects of a blockade that continues to deny Gazans the ability to rebuild their war-torn society--including the right to build this much dreamed of kindergarten."
The following editorial was written by Kate...
"Just got back from Gaza, where I saw first hand the effects of a blockade that continues to deny Gazans the ability to rebuild their war-torn society--including the right to build this much dreamed of kindergarten."
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Jul 20 2010
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Teach-in on Gaza in Santa Cruz |
On Thursday July 22nd at 6pm at the Louden Nelson Center in Santa Cruz, the Resource Center for Nonviolence & the Palestine Israel Action Committee, will host a Gaza teach-in to discuss solidarity with Palestine, including what happened during the Peace Flotilla. Paul Larudee, a co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement to break the Israeli siege of Gaza, will be one of the featured speakers.
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Jul 20 2010
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Interruption as Intervention: Why I Fucked with Chuck (Schumer) |
Schumer was the special guest at a hipster romp [last] Sunday. I heckled him off the stage.From Jews Against Israeli Chutzpah: [Last week], as I found myself deep in a sea of Williamsburg hipsters awaiting a "Pool Party" concert at East River State Park, a rather unexpected "special guest" was announced by an entirely too enthusiastic emcee for the artfully apathetic aesthetes who dared not display any sentiment beyond irony. I assumed maybe we'd be graced by some luminary of the scene (spending the last five years in Binghamton, NY prevents me from naming whom that might be)...
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Jul 18 2010
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Houston sends a bus to Cuba with Pastors for Peace Caravan |
by John H. published to the open publishing newswire: Houstonians raised the money to buy a bus and send it with the Pastors for Peace 21st Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba. Local folks gathered to decorate a school bus that will be taken to Cuba by the Pastors For Peace. Local supporters have been raising supplies, along with the school bus, that will very soon be presented to the Cuban people. By the time the bus leaves Houston, it will be full of much needed medical supplies, as well as school supplies. Local artist, Emaniah, laid out the design for the painting. Photos
Earlier, folks came out to help raise money for the Pastors for Peace, caravan to Cuba, which will come through Houston next week. Photos
Earlier, folks came out to help raise money for the Pastors for Peace, caravan to Cuba, which will come through Houston next week. Photos
From IFCO/Pastors for Peace: Many of us hoped that President Obama's election would bring about some changes in many aspects of US policy -- including the ending of the illegal, immoral, and internationally condemned US economic blockade against Cuba...But Cuba is still deemed an 'enemy' under the Trading with the Enemies Act. Sales of US products to Cuba are still severely restricted, and sales of Cuban products to the US are absolutely forbidden. Banks and businesses in other countries are still harassed for doing business with Cuba. The travel ban on US citizens visiting Cuba remains. [read full release]
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Jul 06 2010
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Pastors for Peace Cuban Caravan Coming to Ashland |
On Friday July 9 the Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan arrives in Ashland, as part of the 13 routes touring 130 cities in the US and Canada, en route to Havana! This annual project is a challenge to the US government's blockade and travel ban aimed at undermining the Cuban government. Caravan members extend the hand of friendship and solidarity to the Cuban people, as ambassadors for a "people-to-people" foreign policy based on mutual respect.
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Jun 29 2010
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Stand with Honduras |
- Photos of Solidarity At the Solidarity Action in Washington, DC One year anniversary street theater action at the Capitol South Metro station
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Jun 26 2010
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CIMC reporters denied Canadian entry as government steps up massive repression at Toronto G20 protests |
World leaders have gathered for the G8 and G20 meetings in Toronto amidst a massive security crackdown that will mark the most expensive three days in Canadian history. Large swaths of Toronto’s downtown core have the appearance of a police state, with an estimated deployment of over 19,000 security personnel—nearly five times the number at the G20 in Pittsburgh last year. The security price tag is around $1 billion, and some predict the total summit cost will surpass $2 billion. More from Democracy Now! Independent journalists and activists [1 | 2 ] seeking to cross the border have been routinely denied entry, including two Chicago Indymedia journalists who were given the option to either turn back or spend 'weeks' in a Canadian prison.
On June 2nd, 2010, the Ontario provincial government cabinet met secretly to pass a regulation which allows the police to arrest anyone who refuses to identify themselves or agree to a police search within five metres of the G20 security zone in Toronto.
Related Links: G20 ALT Media Center | G8/20 Toronto Community Mobilization Network | Photos from G20 Protests | | | Coverage from Buffalo IMC: 2010 Peoples Summit in Toronto: A report & our aspirations | G20 Summit and Toronto Media Co-op
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Jun 23 2010
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A Campaign To Divest From Mideast Apartheid |
Last week, the group Jewish Voice For Peace kicked off a campaign to divest from Israel's Occupation of the Palestinian territories. Their goal is to convince TIAA-CREF to stop investing in companies that profit from the Occupation, such as Motorola and Caterpillar. Like the South African anti-apartheid divestment campaign on the 1980s, supporters of this recent movement believe that public pressure is an effective way to stop the human rights abuses and bring peace to the Mideast. Read More | Originally published in BlackCommentator.com.Related: Labor and Community Picket Israeli Zim Line Ship (pictured) | Chicagoan gives chilling eyewitness account of Israeli assault on Gaza aid flotilla
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Jun 20 2010
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Labor and Community Picket of an Israeli Zim Line Ship |
Unions, labor federations and other organizations around the world have condemned Israel's deadly attack against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on May 31. In response on June 20th, a labor and community picket of an Israeli Zim Lines ship was called for the Port of Oakland. The picket has already succeeded in shutting down the port for the morning shift, after the ILWU refused to cross the picket line. Activists have promised to return today at 4:30pm to stop the next shift from unloading the Zim lines ship.
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Jun 15 2010
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Col Wright Demands Sherman Arrest Her, For Surviving Israeli Attack on Flotilla |
Col. Wright challenges Representative Sherman, who called for executions of humanitarian activists who survived the Israeli attack on the Gaza aid flotilla."What Congressman Sherman said was wrong," declared former career army officer and ambassador Colonel Ann Wright (US Army ret.). The colonel, who resigned from the foreign service in protest on the eve of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was one of 700 humanitarian activists forcibly removed by Israeli commandos from the Mavi Marmara one of the Turkish aid ships making up the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Read More | Video | Related: Al-Awda Responds to Politicians' Attempt to Silence Gaza Flotilla Survivors
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Jun 15 2010
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Al-Awda Responds to Politicians' Attempt to Silence Gaza Flotilla Survivors |
Words of truth strike fear into the hearts of certain hate-filled New York politicians who have voted time and again to turn U.S. taxpayers' dollars into missiles and bombs for Israel's war machine.
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Jun 10 2010
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Tristan Anderson Returns to California |
After more than a year in a Tel Aviv hospital, Bay Area activist and photo-journalist Tristan Anderson has returned home to California. Tristan was critically injured when he was shot in the head at close range with a metal high-velocity tear gas canister at the Israeli Separation Wall on March 13, 2009, while taking photos following a demonstration against the apartheid wall in the West Bank village of Ni'lin.
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Jun 08 2010
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Candle Light Vigil for Freedom Flotilla is met by Counter Protest |
The Houston Israeli Consulate is in a very nondescript gray metallic office building at the corner of Weslayan and highway 59. While it is a weird location to host a protest in that it is totally unclear that the office building contains a consulate, it at least is in a high traffic area, as Weslayan is a major north/south streets on the west side of town, and because one block north of the office building is an Edwards Movie Theater with 24 screens. I had seen hints on facebook that right wing and pro-Israel groups were aware of the candlelight vigil planned by the Houston Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine (HCJPP), and were planning to be there as well. When I walked down Weslayan to the consulate I was pleased to see probably 20 or 25 people were there, I was also sort of surprised that there were a dozen or so folks with Israeli flags on the west side of Weslayan. [Full article with photos] More Solidarity Coverage: Twin Cities | Chicago | Boston | Portland | June 6 Roundup | May 30 Roundup
Related: Gaza On My Mind: A Middle-Aged Mom's Unlikely Journey From Apathy to Action
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Jun 07 2010
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Two chain themselves to White House fence over oil and murder in Peru |
On the first of June, as President Obama met with Peruvian President Alan Garcia, two women chained themselves to the White House fence, one covered in what appeared to be OIL, calling out Peruvian President Alan Garcia for murdering indigenous people to seize their land for oil exploration. Read More & Pics | Video of the protest across from the lockdown
from the open publishing newswire...
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- Oaxaca Radio APPO under heavy attack! 11/02/2006
- Thousands to Rally to Demand Close of the SOA 10/19/2006
- SOA WATCH FOIA REQUEST DENIED BY THE PENTAGON 10/06/2006