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Mar 12 2010
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Compete with the Northeast Clusterfuck at the Anticap Games, IMF/WB Summit, DC, April 23-25 |
The Northeast Clusterfuck is stoked to descend on DC again this April! We’re all out in our cities and rural towns across the northeast US of Amerika, picking teams and spray painting our running shoes black, ready to bust ass in the Anticapitalathon Games against our most bitter of rivals, the International Murder Fund and the slimy World Bank. Get yer affinity team in training and we will see YOU on the streets of Washington, DC from April 23rd to 25th.
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Feb 04 2010
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AID to Haiti! Not armed intervention! |
The combination of an imperialist and racist mindset with defense of capitalist-imperialist material interests has led to refusal to save many thousands of dying people who could have been saved. It’s murder.
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Feb 04 2010
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VIDEO: Naomi Klein on Haiti |
Journalist and author Naomi Klein spoke in New York last night and addressed the crisis in Haiti: "We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy—which is part natural, part unnatural—must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest of our corporations. This is not conspiracy theory. They have done it again and again." read more | Watch on Youtube
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Feb 04 2010
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Haiti: Canada's New Imperialism? (Haiti Reconstruction Conference in Montreal) |
On Monday, the world's political and financial powerhouses met in Montreal, Canada to deliberate the future of Haiti. It was a six hour meeting between the United States (Haiti's most recent military intervener), France (Haiti's colonial ruler), and the IMF and World Bank (Haiti's financial creditors/despots). The United Nations, which is now the official security force, was also in the room, to referee the proceedings, while Canada played the role of a cordial and humanitarian host (that couldn't happen directly in the U.S.). Meanwhile... Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua boycotted the meeting along with Fidel Castro, who condemned it and accused the United States of turning the humanitarian effort into a military invasion of Haiti by the United States.
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Jan 05 2010
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BLAST FROM YER PAST: A16 "Coming Out Party", April 08 2000 |
PUPPET PARADE BUSTS OUT OF CONVERGENCE SPACE, MARCHES TO MALCOLM X PARK Time once again to fire up the old IMC TARDIS, and check out this blissful early spring afternoon of pre-Bush antiglob reverie, back in the days when The Movement™ wasn't gun-shy about protesting against a Democratic Party administration. Check out some fun footage of the A16 convergence space, and the puppet parade to Malcolm X Park. Video by Mike Flugennock, streaming out of YouTube, 07:44
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Oct 30 2009
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PMR Vigil |
PMR Vigil at Percival Landing. People are complicit in acts of aggression when the military uses their municipal ports for shipping. Long live the Resistance. No to imperialism.
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Oct 25 2009
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Armies of Gods: Peaceful Coups Are Our Business |
If you do not believe the U.S.-weapons Israel deploys to hold down Palestinian resistance is an act of a declared war; if you do not believe the U.S.-trained Honduras military now surrounding the Brazilian embassy where the democratically-elected Honduras President Manuel Zalaya and his supporters are under threat of death is an act of a declared war; and if you do not believe the 900 U.S. military facilities in 46 countries and territories, according to Global Policy Forum, July 2009, is an expansion of the U.S. Empire and, therefore, an act of a declared war, then you, indeed, are deluded.
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Sep 01 2009
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Commemorates One Year After RNC Resistance |
This week marks the first year anniversary of RNC resistance in St. Paul. One year after the biggest police mobilization and one of the largest days of protest, civil disobedience and direction action in Minnesota history, the work of resisting the RNC and accompanying state repression continues.On Friday, RNC 8 supporters picketed prosecutor Susan Gaertner's planned appearance at a gubernatorial candidate forum, a day after performing outside her no-show state fair booth. Also that day, the large anniversary critical mass ride visited the occupation of Rosemary Williams' home on Clinton Avenue. Then on Saturday, participants in Re:Activism Twin Cities met at the Black Dog Cafe in St. Paul before visiting historic sites throughout downtown and completing street theater, protest, and consciousness-raising challenges about the RNC and local history (see photos by Alan).
Coming up on Monday, the trial of Christina Vana and Karen Meissner begins in Ramsey County court; the two are accused of aiding and abetting assault last September 1 and are asking for court solidarity. On Tuesday, a press conference will be held at 12:30 at the site of the Shepard Road mass arrest last Labor Day, in which over 200 people were corralled along the Mississippi. Lawyers there will announce the filing of a class-action civil rights lawsuit. Also that day, the RNC 8 Defense Committee has organized a national call-in to Gaertner's county and campaign offices before her appearance at a gubernatorial debate at the fair that evening. Related: CRASS: 1-Year Anniversary Media Packet PDF (Excerpted Below) w/ Updates, Video Links, and More | RNC08Report: A Citizen's Archive | TCIMC: All stories tagged RNC | Terrorizing Dissent: download the documentary | And it goes on... September 22-25: Resist the G20 in Pittsburgh
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Aug 04 2009
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BAAM #24 |
The BAAM Newsletter is the monthly publication of the Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement, a general union of Boston anarchists. Our publication aims to spread anti-authoritarian ideas and practices, and to report on the social struggles of workers, tenants, students, radicals, and others resisting the repression of the state, bosses, landlords and banks. Inside this issue: -Garment Workers Revolt: Bangladesh on Fire, Pg 2, by Adrienne -Papercut in Peril, Pg 3, by Maggie Bond -Crotch Crisis, Pg 4 -Obama: War is Peace, Pg 5, by Sublett -The Greek Anarchists, Pg 7, by Jake Carman -Sacco and Vanzetti: 82-year-old Skeletons in a 19-year-old’s Closet, Pg 8, by Dave -Worker-run TJ’s Vegan Pizza Closes, Pg 9, by Matt Carroll
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Aug 01 2009
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Obama-Have You Ever Heard the Story about the First Democratically-Elected President of the Congo? |
Admit it: You, Mr. Barrack Obama, a capitalist, are proposing a continuation of imperialist policies in Africa, your father’s home land. You are selling Africa, the mother of all of us, to the highest bidder!
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Jul 31 2009
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Southern California Anarchist Conference This Saturday |
LOS ANGELES – This weekend anarchists and their allies will be gathering at the second annual Southern California Anarchist Conference and Cultural Fair. The conference opens this Saturday, August 1st, at the Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research and concludes Sunday at the UCLA Downtown Labor Center.
Organizers describe the conference as, “a weekend long conference centered on the political philosophy of Anarchy and Anarchism [that] brings together anarchist ideas and practice, through speakers, panels, workshops, images, music, theater and film to represent everyday struggles for justice, dignity and collective liberation. Throughout history, freedom-loving peoples have found ways to liberate themselves from the grasp of authoritarianism. It is these collective strategies that we as anarchists of the 21st century now seek to re-implement in a more efficient way.” For details see: Southern California Anarchist Conference
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Jul 22 2009
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Banner Drop |
Activists with United Students Against Sweatshops drop a banner across from Lanny Davis - Lobbyist for Orrick, friend of the Clintons - who is working on behalf of Coup supporters in Honduras. Rally and press conference, White House. South side of Lafayette Park (Pennsylvania Avenue NW) 11:00 AM, Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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Jul 22 2009
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Open Letter to UFPJ re: Iran; July 18, 2009 |
REACTION and SERIOUS CONCERNS regarding UFPJ Action Alert of 7/9/09 asking that people join the “United 4 Iran ” Global Day of Action on July 25: Is UFPJ confident that the leaders and proponents of this action are not being financed by the National Endowment for Democracy and other “pro-democracy” fronts awash with some of the $400 million that the U.S. Congress has provided to the NED, the CIA, the USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) and others for the explicit purpose of subversion, acts of sabotage, financing, equipping and training upper echelon Iranian-Americans who are ready to serve the U.S. foreign policy objectives of infiltrating and penetrating the security spheres of the Iranian nation…? Thierry Meyssan claims to know how the CIA did it.
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Jul 19 2009
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Honduran prosecutors family attacked after he denounces military coup on CNN |
The family of Honduran public prosecutor Jari Dixon Herrera were attacked by police on Tuesday shortly after he made statements to CNN en Español and other international media in Washington denouncing the recent military coup in Honduras. Dixon's mother’s house, located in the town of Talanga, was first shot at repeatedly by police agents with automatic weapons. The agents then broke the door of the house down and entered the residence, beat Dixon’s mother and arrested and took away his brother.
Jari Dixon is currently in Washington, DC, as part of a delegation of Hondurans that has been meeting with members of Congress, representatives of the World Bank, the State Department and human rights organizations to discuss the rights abuses committed by the Honduran de facto authorities.
Jari Dixon is currently in Washington, DC, as part of a delegation of Hondurans that has been meeting with members of Congress, representatives of the World Bank, the State Department and human rights organizations to discuss the rights abuses committed by the Honduran de facto authorities.
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Jul 18 2009
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Seattle Billboards Corrected |
Starbucks and McDonalds billboards in the Ballard neighborhood were corrected, to provide the public with more accurate nutritional information.
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