Los Angeles Declares “Hands Up!” in Peaceful Protest of LAPD Murder of Ezell Ford (tags)
One thousand people took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles on the afternoon of Sunday, August 17, 2014 to protest police murder of innocent civilians, including the deaths of Ezell Ford (August 11, 2014), Omar Abrego (August 2, 2014), and Damon Jackson (August 3, 2014) at the hands of the LAPD.
Save the Che: Letter from Zack de la Rocha (tags)
Save the Che Cafe! Letter of solidarity from Zack de la Rocha
Rage Against the System: Why It Matters (tags)
police state
Chicago Militarized for NATO (tags)
anti-war
Tom Morello talks with Bill Moyers May 18 PBS, notice this ! (tags)
Watch and SEE it on this weekend of May 18, 2012 - Musician and activist Tom Morello talks with Bill Moyers about the “two Americas,” and his solidarity with “the voiceless, the poor, the wretched” across the whole globe-world. [He also has a program on KPFK too.] Moyers’ website and schedule is below for your use and enlivenment. Learn More !!
"We are all Greeks. We are all subjects whose subjectivity is simply being flattened by the steamroller of a history determined by the movement of the money markets. Or so it seems and so they would have it."
Trio of Performing Artists Follow Lead of America’s Greats - (tags)
Three musical groups produce songs to help in the funding of the search for a missing college student, Lauren Spierer.
Rage Against the System (tags)
American inhumanity
The Road to World War III - The Global Banking Cartel Has One Card Left to Play (tags)
"The global elite have consistently used a strategy of arming and funding both sides of armed conflicts. While opposing populations kill each other off, they make off with their natural resources. When they confront a government that cannot be bribed or provoked into civil or regional war, they fund brutal death squads, attempt military coups and intimidate them by giving weapons to undemocratic neighboring regimes. If all that doesn’t work, they are declared a threat to national security and the US military, private contractors and NATO forces invade and occupy the country. These terrorist strategies are not limited to the Middle East and Africa, just ask our neighbors throughout Latin America about the School of the Americas. Contrary to popular belief, the horrendous torture techniques inflicted upon people in Abu Ghraib, Iraq were not an isolated incident. Many of those brutal torture techniques were developed over years by torturing innocent civilians throughout Latin America."
The mainstream band RATM others like them are workers (tags)
The mainstream band RATM others like them are workers
Darrel Wood, Jr.: Queer Little Rock ’n’ Roller (tags)
Darrel Wood, Jr. is a 17-year-old high school senior in the conservative San Diego suburb of Santee, but the openly Queer rock musician has already been on two CD's with a former band and is about to release a new one by his current group, The Elephant Project. He's also headlining at the North Park Arts Festival in San Diego Sunday, May 17. In this interview, to which his mother accompanied him and also participated, he discusses his musical influences and the role of his sexuality in his life.
March to Stop the Hate- Phoenix, Arizona (tags)
Thousands attend the "March to Stop the Hate" in downtown Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday February 28, 2009
Benefit Concert for International Women's Day 2009 (tags)
Benefit Concert for International Women's Day
The Ground Noise and the Static: A Chronicle of the Battle of Saint Paul (Illustrated) (tags)
“Please, please, my friends, my dear friends, please, please don’t be diverted by the ground noise and the static”—John McCain, on being interrupted just before he can accept the GOP’s nomination, 9/4/08
Fascistic New Normal in St. Paul (tags)
August 29, St. Paul, Minnesota. Police in full riot gear raided the “RNC Welcoming Committee” (which described itself as “an anarchist/anti-authoritarian organizing body preparing for the 2008 Republican National Convention”) This raid, referred to in the media as a “pre-emptive strike,” marked the beginning of a weekend of terror and intimidation brought down by the state on activists, organizers, protestors, and journalists throughout the four-day span of the Republican National Convention.
Cell phone photos of IVAW/Rage march in Denver (tags)
Some cell phone photo txt msg to LA-IMC newsroom today from the Iraq vets against the war march
(Almost) Live Coverage of Anti-War Protest in Denver (tags)
Be the media.
Letter from US Artists and Scholars in support of Cultural Relations with CUBA (tags)
More than 500 U.S. artists and academics demand an end to the blockade...
Film Night at Flor y Canto: March 2003-September 2005 (Part 1 of 2) (tags)
To mark the five-year anniversary of the Eagle Rock Peace Vigil, here is a list of films shown at Flor y Canto over a two-and-a-half year period. These almost-weekly screenings were an outgrowth of the Eagle Rock Vigil. (A link to the rest of this list can be found below in "comments.")
Audience Pepper Sprayed during Rage Against Machine Concert (tags)
On Saturday, Aug. 11, during the last performance of the night of the all-day Rock the Bells hip hop concert at the Hyundai Pavillion in San Bernadino, the audience was pepper sprayed as Rage Against the Machine played their encore. Luckily, the audience did not become overly panicked, as this might have caused many injuries as audience members hurriedly escaped from the venue, coughing and confused.
LAPD tries to crush immigrant rights movement (tags)
Major Mobilization for Farmworker Justice - Three weeks to go! (tags)
In just a few short weeks, farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and their allies will travel from Immokalee, FL – home of one of the largest farmworker communities in the country – to Chicago, IL, home of the world’s largest restaurant chain, McDonald’s. The "2007 Truth Tour: Behind the Golden Arches” will culminate in two national days of action on April 13th and 14th in the Chicago area marking a new phase in the Campaign for Fair Food. Now is the time to finalize plans to join us for these historic actions!
1,000s Expected at Antiwar Protests this Weekend (tags)
SAT 1/27: Thousands expected at Antiwar Protests this Weekend
Rage Against the Machine (tags)
Rage Against the Machine!
How the Weekly Brews a Tempest in a Teapot (tags)
Let me be clear that I know nothing more about the internal workings of the South Central Farm than the L.A. Weekly reported in its March 15 muckraking article, "Bushel of Complaints" by Daniel Hernandez. So I've borrowed those facts and added a somewhat different spin. Here's my version.
Why the Farmers Must Win (tags)
In its Saturday editorial, the Los Angeles Times reduced virtually all the civic concerns of the historically neglected South Central to “niceties” and condemned a swath of the district to being a “concrete-and-asphalt” wasteland,“ "a seemingly endless sweep” of “industrial warehouses, packing plants, and junkyards.” It proclaimed that developer Ralph Horowitz must triumph, and the South Central Farm must be razed. The Times was wrong.
Community pressure moves the Farmers cause forward step by step.
Videoclip: Anti McDonalds cartoons and Rage Against the Machine (tags)
Copyleft artworks by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff. "Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against The Machine.
Dec. 2 Activists Vow Downtown “Tent City” Will Now Battle Against LA’s Newest Evictions (tags)
Ongoing tent city --starting at LA's City Hall lawn on Dec 2 --to now up the protest ante against LA's new, and raging, low-income evictions.
South Central Farmers Phone Tree (tags)
The South Central Farmers are asking members of the progressive community to establish phone trees to mobilize activists across the city to defend their beloved and family-sustaining 14-acre farm at 41st and Long Beach Ave. For the last 13 years, these working class Latino families have tilled what was once an abandoned, garbage- and rat-infested lot into a inspirational garden that feeds and sustains over 360 families!
Concert to Support the South Central Farmers (tags)
Zack de la Rocha, members of Ozomatli, Quetzal, and others perform to support the struggle of the South Central Farmers
Concert for the South Central Farm (tags)
Zach de la Rocha, Members of Ozomatli, Quetzal and others join 350 Families in South L.A. to Defend Community Farm Concert to save the community farm @ 41st & Alameda. Nov. 22nd event will mobilize the community in Support of the South Central Farmers
Zapatista Festival & Community Building Event (tags)
Join us in a community that is said to have had one of the strongest Brown Beret units in all of Aztlan, is infamous for its resistance to the police and struggles to be recognized in the city of Riverside
zapatista night RIVERSIDE (tags)
FILM SHOWING ABOUT ZAPATISTA UPRISING, ACTEAL MASSACRE, FREE FOOD, HIGH SCHOOL TEENS SOLITICED FOR THIS EVENT
Voodoo Verbotten!, SS Save GWB from Terrorist's Voodoo Threat (tags)
Punk Band Plays: Masters of War, by Bob Dylan; Adds Worst Wishes to GB; Gets a Visit from the SS
As for Iraq, if Kerry has a problem with Bush, it's that he didn't drag France, Germany and Russia into the war, preferring to strike a grabby, it's all mine, pose, rather than the "let's divide up the loot" approach the Democrats favor. Apparently, a gang rape is better than a rape carried out by a lone assailant, which, I gather, would make a gang rapist a rapist-lite, and therefore more worthy of our backing than a rapist who goes it alone. But, for the record, Washington hasn't gone it alone in Iraq, managing to cobble together a coalition, though one lacking France, Germany and Russia, whose backing, in some perverted twist of reasoning, is supposed to have invested the rape of Iraq with legitimacy. Apparently, if you can lure other renowned rapists into a gang rape, it gives the whole sordid affair moral weight.
More Than 17 Years Later, Mumia Abu-Jamal Still Guilty (tags)
Somebody aked for a bit of the overwhelming evidence aginst Cooke. Here's just a very small bit of the Mountain of it.
Sherman Austin Benefit Show this Friday Aug 29! (tags)
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Clear Channel Is A Subsidiary Of Bush, Inc (tags)
t's no coincidence that Clear Channel executives Tom Hicks and L. Lowry Mays have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Bush's gubernatorial and presidential campaign coffers. Or that Clear Channel gave $119,370 in "soft money" to Republicans in 2001-2002, this on top of the $82,850 it gave in 2000. (Democrats, meanwhile, got $25,000 in soft money in that same three-year period.)
Clear Channel Bush INC. (tags)
Why the land of the brave is becoming the land of the slave.
Class Action Lawsuit: D2KLA-Rage Against The Machine Concert, August 2000 (tags)
Seeking plaintiffs who fit the description of the class described at d2kclassaction.org. Class-action lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for force used during the Democratic National Convention, on August 14, 2000, after the Rage Against the Machine concert. Sign up before the end of June!
Looking for DNC/D2K Plaintiffs (tags)
NLG has a law-suit
We are looking for plaintiffs who were shot with rubber bullets or hit with batons on August 14, 2000 by the LAPD after the Rage Against the Machine Concert at the Staples Center. We are trying to collect damages for people who were injured by the Police.
Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello at Dec. 7 Taco Bell Boycott Benefit (tags)
Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine will be at this event! Come early if you want to see him! And check out all the cool local artists who don't have the benefit of major commercial promotion, but still have very important things to say. Support Taco Bell's underpaid tomato pickers -- honor the hands that harvest the food you eat!
Big Turnout and Big Support for Forever 21 Picket (tags)
Over 150 people turned out to support a boycott against Forever 21 for garment worker abuses.
October 22 - The People's Day (tags)
October 22 was the people's day!
just got back from O22, some observations+opinon (tags)
A quickie take on the day.
New World Meaning of FASCIST. (tags)
Definition from the websters Dictionary for new world participants.
SECRET SERVICE INQUIRIES FORCE WEBSITE CLOSURE (tags)
WTC HYSTERIA FORCES CLOSURE OF WEBSITE AFTER "INFLAMATORY REMARKS" MADE ON RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE MESSAGE BOARD. WEBHOST INTIMIDATED BY SECRET SERVICE INQUIRIES.
We are the youth together resisting against governmental/corporate bullying. We are speaking out about the injustices and brutalization we face with police attacks and scare tactics used to weaken the youth's voice. The youth are the future we demand a better world. We will not be silenced...
August 14th FIRST ANNUAL YOUTH UNITY MARCH (tags)
THE YOUTH ARE THE FUTURE! WE DEMAND A BETTER WORLD!
Rage Against the Machine (tags)
There's another impediment to safeguarding vote-counting software against manipulation: The election companies consider their codes private property and are willing to go to court, citing intellectual property laws, to keep candidates or public officials from looking at it.
D2K Legal Struggles Continue, Join Broader Battles (tags)
Activists meet to continue organizing in support of those facing criminal charges from D2K and those brining civil lawsuits, and join together in the larger, ongoing battle for police accountability.
Cops during bottle throwing - Aug 14 (tags)
This was taken during the height of the bottle-throwing after the Rage Against the Machine concert Monday, August 14. Black bloc is to the right, in front of that small knot of cops. Illegal assembly was declared about five minutes after this.
Smoke bomb outside Staples - Aug 14 (tags)
This was thrown Monday August 14 about ten minutes after Rage Against the Machine finished playing. Black Bloc rushed the fence at this spot seconds later. Illegal assembly was declared about fifteen minutes later.
Patrick, an IMC reporter, interviews Zombies for Gore at the Rage Against the Machine concert.
The Battle of Los Angeles (tags)
The people , the music, the police -- the story of Rage Against the Machine and Ozomatli at the DNC
Protest Concert Rage Against the Machine 8-14 (tags)
Rage Against the Machine Concert, official protest zone Staples Center 8-14-00.
Jello Biafra-Camcorder Truth Jihad report 1 (tags)
Jello Biafra and the Camcorder Truth Jihad cover the Human Need Not Corporate Greed protest Monday from Pershing Square to the Pepsi Center Free Speech Pen. This is the first in a series of reports ending with the Rage Against the Machine concert and the Police Riot that followed.
Protest Concert Rage Against the Machine 8-14 (tags)
Rage against the Machine performance
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE FAN! (tags)
The latest fashion wear for demonstrations!
YOUNG REBELS RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE! (tags)
The beautiful faces of the young rebels who will alter their native land.
Communicating for Peace (tags)
Demonstrators & cops show that we as humans are stronger than corporate bullies.
Rage Against the Machine Gets a New Mosh Pit (tags)
Political Cartoon
Read Chief Parks' Account of Monday's Police Riot (tags)
LAPD Chief Bernard Parks's own words about the violence his men incited on Monday night.
Lone Sign at Rage Concert (tags)
Minutes before a Rage Against the Machine concert started in the protest pit Tuesday afternoon, a lone Mumia sign could be seen in the crowd.
Rage Against The Machine Live at Opening D2k Rally: "Guerrilla Radio" (tags)
Live footage of Rage Against The Machine playing at the opening day of the D2k march and rally.
concert crowd below Figuerra Hotel Mural (tags)
A peaceful crowd gathers on Monday, August 14th to listen to rock band Rage Against the Machine.
Victory in Philly and Onward to LA! (tags)
On aug. 1 thousand took to the streets to protest the criminal injustice system, and in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal. These actions were victorious. We pledge to continue the struggles at the Democratic National Convention in LA and beyond!
half hour IMC audio news from 8/15/00 (tags)
The IMC audio team's half hour news on August 16th, 2000. It includes coverage of arrests at the critical mass bike ride, the anti-fur protest and arrests, Monday's Rage Against the Machine Concert, police brutality, legal and medical reports, the youth and women's marches, education, environmental racism, and an interview with a Young Democrat.
BBC coverage of the protests and convention 16th and 15th August
half hour IMC audio news from 8/15/00 (tags)
The IMC audio team's half hour news on August 16th, 2000. It includes coverage of arrests at the critical mass bike ride, the anti-fur protest and arrests, Monday's Rage Against the Machine Concert, police brutality, legal and medical reports, the youth and women's marches, education, environmental racism, and an interview with a Young Democrat.
half hour IMC audio news from 8/15/00 (tags)
The IMC audio team's half hour news on August 16th, 2000. It includes coverage of arrests at the critical mass bike ride, the anti-fur protest and arrests, Monday's Rage Against the Machine Concert, police brutality, legal and medical reports, the youth and women's marches, education, environmental racism, and an interview with a Young Democrat.
KUCI Subversity show on D2K Protests (tags)
Realaudio file available of interview with civil rights attorney Carol Sobel on police overreaction after Rage Against the Machine concert Monday night (August 14, 2000); highlights from Mumia March on Sunday (August 13, 2000) including talks by Mumia's son; his lawyer Leonard Weinglass, and an interview with Weinglass.
Police Violence in LA, Aug. 14 (tags)
Police violence after Rage Against the Machine Concert on Aug. 14, 2000.
Police Intimidation Tactics Escalate (tags)
Police tactics during the first days of the convention.
Rage Against the Machine (tags)
Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine (tags)
A massive crowd turn up for the FREE Protest Show
Police after the Rage Against the Machine concert outside the Democratic Convention
This man was shot in the back with a rubber bullet by police after leaving the Rage Against the Machine concert outside the Democratic Convention
A rubber bullet recovered from outside Democratic Convention after police fired at people leaving Rage Against the Machine performance. (Quarter included for scale)
Group at Rage Against the Machine concert outside Democratic Convention
Marchers arrive at Rage concert (tags)
Marchers arriving at Rage Against the Machine concert outside Democratic Convention
Crowd during Rage performance (tags)
Crowd during Rage Against the Machine's performance outside the Democratic Convention
Saluting the Democratic Convention (tags)
Protestors at the Rage Against the Machine concert salute the convention
The kids who came to see Rage Against the Machine play outside the DNC may not have the most clearly articulated ideology, but they do have opinions about the two-party system.
Cops Attack after Rage Against the Machine (tags)
A whole new painful world of policing protesters is fully in effect in U.S. cities only months after it seemed so strange and brutal in Seattle.
MEDIA IGNORE POLICE BRUTALITY AT THE DNC (tags)
Corporate Media journalists stood onstage at the Rage Against the Machine concert with IMC journalists as the police ordered dispersal on a lively but still peaceful crowd. When the crowd refused to disperse, teargas and rubber bullets were fired. Riot Geared officers on horseback panicked the crowd who rushed the fence.
LAPD Bullies Protesters to Comfort Frightened Delegates (tags)
LAPD curtails right of free assembly for immigrants and youth; delegate disgust cited
Rage Against The Machine to play free gig as clinton sqauks (tags)
Rage Against The Machine will play a free concert to kick off the Battle of Los Angeles