100 Years of Balfour Declaration and Continuing (tags)
The focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza by the indomitable power of Zionistan (see http://tinyurl.com/Israels-Barbarianism ) is missing the real prime-movers of this genocide of Palestinians. Of course the Western World that obligatorily moans the Jews' Shoah TM in World War II has not just turned a blind eye to the Jewish Shoah visited upon the Palestinians, but is openly aiding and abetting it, squelching even the verbal opposition to Israel's premeditated Barbarianism in its mainstream presses and officially sanctioned narratives.
Struggles in the Shadow of the Pandemic (tags)
For Trump, wealth, privilege, and power was even license to invent reality as he saw fit. Thus any divergence from his worldview and interests were ‘fake news’. Trump ensured the plutocratic wealthy were no longer in the political shadows but now in the mainstream.
November 2020 Honduras Coup, Hurricanes and Pandemic Update (tags)
Not only do Hondurans continue to suffer the repression and impoverishment of living under the JOH dictatorship for years following previous coup regimes, and suffer through the pandemic while the regime redirects resources meant for health care and public health to the pockets of politicians and big business; Hondurans are now additionally suffering from two hurricanes that have devastated them. The regime and politicians - who just a week before were visiting communities with their political campaigns - not only are largely absent in rescue, refuge and rebuilding efforts, but actively impeded Hondurans who autonomously organised to help with rescue and food, and equally impeded the entry of donations and rescue volunteers from neighbouring countries. Hurricane Eta arrived in Honduras on 4 November 2020, and Hurricane Iota followed in on 16 November 2020. Amidst the disasters, flooding, and heavy winds that ravaged the people and land and crops, political persecution did not rest in this time; hitmen made an attempt on the life of CNTC (National Confederation of Campesino Workers) treasurer of the Santa Barbara branch, only to five days later assassinate the son of an organiser of the same branch of CNTC. Also in November, ex political prisoner Raúl Alvarez was stabbed by attackers, having been released on bail in August 2019 after imprisonment for 18 months together with Edwin Espinal and towards the end with Rommel. Meanwhile, there have been some absolute heroes this month within communities in Honduras with their autonomous actions of solidarity in both rescue and sharing what they can. All this and more: https://sydneywithhonduras.wordpress.com/2021/01/13/november-2020-honduras-coup-hurricanes-and-pandemic-update/
September 2019 Honduras coup update (tags)
This September 2019, at least three indigenous defenders in social and environmental struggles were assassinated, two were Tolupans, and one was Garífuna. Repression continued also against students and teachers in struggle, and against environmentalists of Guapinol who became political prisoners this September 2019, and heavy repression was ordered against communities who fought against the luxury apartment buildings and other buildings for the high life that would take away their water source and destroy the environment in La Tigra national park - the communities' struggle had been especially firm and unbendable. Read on about this and other news from September 2019 in Honduras https://sydneywithhonduras.wordpress.com/2019/10/26/september-2019-honduras-coup-update/
Lanterman Regional Center Employees Strike (tags)
Union Employees Engage in Warning Strike to compel arrogant management team at Lanterman Regional Center to settle a fair labor contract.
I wanted to open a discussion about the soda tax and other ways to try and discourage drinking sugary drinks.
September 2018 Honduras coup update (tags)
This September 2018 in Honduras. There has been heavy repressions against school students, students and others protesting the celebrating of 'independence' day since independence is not seen or felt, and more attacks against Rio Blanco by DESA hydroelectricity company only within a week or two from when DESA has been in court on trial for its members being assassins of indigenous activist Berta Caceres...
State Investments and the Public Sector (tags)
The public infrastructure is something positive, even from a business perspective. it is a kind of advance concession, increases the entrepreneurial production potential and lowers the production costs. If state investments are trifling, this will have negative long-term effects
Religious Groups Call for Aid and Debt Relief for Puerto Rico and Dominica (tags)
More than 130 faith communities across the United States are praying and acting for hurricane victims during religious services this weekend.
Importance Of Emergency Volunteers (tags)
in reality during times of great emergencies and disasters trained Volunteers become the most available and therefore the most important...
RELATIONS STILL STRAINED BETWEEN SOUTH LOS ANGELES RESIDENTS AND THE POLICE (tags)
February 2017 Honduras coup update (tags)
https://sydneywithhonduras.wordpress.com/ In February 2017, another indigenous Tolupán activist was murdered, attacks against Copinh and supporters in the calls for justice continue, uni students were attacked again by uni administration, and for asking questions about it a week later, a journalist was attacked. Meanwhile, workers are feeling the squeeze with more dismissed public service workers than ever before, and mining workers fighting for bearable work conditions and pay
What is the future of freedom? What does a free world look like? Anarchism is the best way to guarantee the freedom of humans and animals, now and in the future. Anarchists want to eliminate government and other forms of hierarchy.
Honduras coup update December 2016 (tags)
In December 2016, the uni students of the national agricultural university continue to suffer attacks including stabbings as they continue the campus occupation, in Tegucigalpa, military raided cultural centre Paradiso. A fake letter is published to manipulate how people see the human rights organisation Cofadeh, just as in Bajo Aguan and Garífuna indigenous black communities up north, distraction and confusion tactics are used against the communities that continue to fight for justice and land rights.
An Uncertain Future for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (tags)
The future of a federal consumer watchdog agency is uncertain amidst pledges to reduce the agency.
How Cities Can Protect People Threatened By Trumpism (tags)
Copied from Common Dreams
Problems with Measure M (tags)
I'm probably voting for M, but there are some problems.
Report Questions Florida Payday Lending Rules (tags)
A new report by the Center for Responsible Lending says “payday” lending fees cost Florida residents $2.5 billion over the past decade.
Mindanao, Philippines: Stop ‘Lumad’ killings, harassment - UN (tags)
Killings and harassment of the Lumad, or the indigenous people (IP), should stop and those accountable should be brought to justice, according to Ola Almgren, the UN country representative and humanitarian coordinator.
Porter Ranch methane leak doesn't bode well for climate (tags)
Porter Ranch methane leak poses serious risk for climate. New infrared footage exposes the extent of the leak.
Philippines: Lumads to AFP, NPA: Leave us alone (tags)
MANILA, Philippines — A group claiming to represent 33 lumad (indigenous people) tribes in Mindanao on Friday urged the military and the rebel group New People's Army (NPA) to stop dragging them into their conflict and to respect their human rights and ancestral domain.
A master-plan is needed to support renter protections in Northern California, & elsewhere (tags)
Oakland has the second fastest-rising rents in the nation, passing the pace of San Francisco’s rent increases, and coming in second behind the rent increases occurring in Denver. The rents in Oakland have climbed over 12.1 percent since 2014. Slumlords, greedy landlords, profiteers, speculators, and nefarious realtors reign supreme in Oakland, who are protected by local and state politicians that are in the pockets, of big money!
Disbandment of militias key to Peace in Mindanao, Philippines (tags)
Akbayan Partylist supports the investigation of the killing of lumads particularly in the CARAGA region and bringing the perpetrators to justice. There is no place for impunity in our shared pursuit of just and lasting peace in Mindanao.
Protesters Enact Symbolic "Die In" to Unwelcome Narendra Modi to Silicon Valley (tags)
Over 2000 vibrant protesters from many different Indian American communities joined together outside the SAP Center in San Jose to counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of "Digital India" and Hindutva. They raised many issues with Modi's leadership, ranging from forced conversions to Hinduism, Internet surveillance, arrest of political bloggers, harassment of human rights activists, blind eye to rapes, dispossession of small farmers, rewriting of Indian history, and the 2002 Gujarat massacre.
Israel Detonates Dirty Bombs Near Palestinian Bedouin Communities (tags)
Israel
L.A. Stands in Solidarity with Australian Aborigines (tags)
“The Aboriginal people are the custodians of their land and have a responsibility to their ancestors to maintain sovereign ties to their land—which is far deeper than a 'lifestyle choice,' which you're probably aware that the prime minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, so disgracefully described the connection to land.” – Jess Harlen
Dr. Jill Stein for President (tags)
Imagine a presidential candidate not stuffing her pockets and legitimating the status quo of lobbyists writing laws, unending wars, tax evasion by corporations in the Cayman Islands and exploding inequality! Alternatives of community centers and reduced working hours are possible!
Pominent Rabbi Wants Jews Given Special Permission to Carry Guns (tags)
guns
police state
Philippines: One Year after Typhoon Haiyan (tags)
Statement of Akbayan Chairperson Risa Hontiveros
Philippine activists start 1,000-km march for climate justice (tags)
MANILA, Philippines-- Climate change advocates from various sectors urged world governments to “walk their climate talk” as they launched the Climate Walk, dubbed as “A People’s Walk for Climate Justice.”
August 2014 Honduras Coup Update (tags)
A monthly update of the political persecution and plunder in Honduras - see archives here: http://sydneywithhonduras.wordpress.com/monthly-news-summaries/
Philippines: Shield Yolanda rehab efforts from 'disaster capitalism' (tags)
Amid allegations of overpriced and substandard temporary shelters constructed for survivors of Typhoon Yolanda, Akbayan Partylist urged the government to shield the rehabilitation efforts from possible “disaster capitalism.”
Global Protests Against Bedouin Ethnic Cleansing (tags)
Israel
Nestle: Global Water Predator (tags)
water
Echo Park Community issues an "Injunction" against City of LA (tags)
[This is a report by Vik from a demonstration against the gang injunction in the Echo Park area. It was originally posted to facebook. Some background information is appended at the bottom if you need to learn about what a gang injunction is, and the gentrification in the area.]
Israeli Forces Attack EU Diplomats (tags)
Israel
Portland's Austerity Resistance Movement Sparks Changes to City (tags)
On June 20, Oregon’s Portland City Council unanimously voted to approve a budget that had been one of the most grassroots-contested examples of austerity in recent memory.
Our Proposal for Changing the System and not the Climate (tags)
The capitalist system has exploited and abused nature, pushing the planet to its limits, so much so that the system has accelerated dangerous and fundamental changes in the climate.
May Day 2013 National Immigrant Workers Rights March! (tags)
We are calling A national day of multi-ethnic unity with youth, labor, peace and justice communities in solidarity with immigrant workers and building new immigrant rights & civil rights movement! Wear White T-Shirt; organize local actions to support immigrant worker rights!
Philippine climate activists expose risks of dirty coal. (tags)
300-strong climate activists and anti-coal advocates stormed the Department of Energy to voice out their opposition to coal mines and coal-fired power plants promoted by the government and to launch the group’s Campaign Against Dirty Energy and for People’s Access to Safe, Renewable and Democratic Energy Alternatives.
Opposition Grows Fierce to Austerity Cuts in Portland (tags)
On April 11 over 400 people packed the third public Portland Budget Hearing, which was organized by the City of Portland and which left many spilling out beyond the room where the hearing took place. More importantly, for the City Council there was an unexpected critical outpouring from the vast majority who attended. For the first time, the City Council and Mayor Charlie Hales began to lose control over their attempts to sell austerity.
Paradise Lost: The Flip Side of Boracay Island, Philippines (tags)
“We’re following the due process. And yet this due process is giving advantage to the rich claimants who continue to occupy and build structures inside the Ancestral Land of the Atis in Boracay. We might end up without a land of our own.” – Delsa Justo, Chief of Boracay Ati Tribal Organization BATO)
Human Rights Get Short Shrift in Israel (tags)
police state
PLP protects and defends rapists (tags)
Publicizing an admitted rapist in the activist community and the organization that is defending him
Do not Use the Filipino Children in 'Humanizing' the War Machinery – Rep. Emmi De Jesus (tags)
“The exposure of children to high-powered American war machines is a subtle way of inculcating into their young minds the culture of war,” said GWP Rep. Emmi De Jesus in reaction to the PDI banner photo of a smiling US marine letting a boy peek into his gun scope during the on-going 10-day Philippine-US Amphibious Landing Exercise (Philblex) 2013.
banking
Assad’s fall will renew the Arab spring (tags)
As this phase of Syria's revolution closes, the debate about the future of this part of the world should also enter a new phase. Much of the debate about Syria, in the US at least, characterised the Syrian campaign as “liberal interventionism”. So people argued about that, based on what they already thought about the notion. Though fed by some of the rhetoric, especially from the US government, that framing of the argument was misconceived. As I argued earlier this year, it was – and is – a mistake to see the Syrian case as a generic case for or against liberal interventionism.
Assad’s fall will renew the Arab spring (tags)
As this phase of Syria's revolution closes, the debate about the future of this part of the world should also enter a new phase. Much of the debate about Syria, in the US at least, characterised the Syrian campaign as “liberal interventionism”. So people argued about that, based on what they already thought about the notion. Though fed by some of the rhetoric, especially from the US government, that framing of the argument was misconceived. As I argued earlier this year, it was – and is – a mistake to see the Syrian case as a generic case for or against liberal interventionism.
Israel Uses Palestinians for Target Practice (tags)
Israel
GLP Expands Safety Net from Soc Sec & Public Assistance in Times of Economic Uncertainty (tags)
While the establishment Republicans and Democrats are dependent on corporations for lobbyist funding and thus return the favor by rewarding corporations with taxpayer subsidies, the Green Liberty Party is immune to the disease of corporate dependency.
PHILIPPINES: Appeal for Flood Victims (tags)
In scenes reminiscent of the large scale destruction wrought by Typhoon Ondoy (international name Ketsana) in late 2009 in which 400 died, torrential rains brought widespread flooding in the capital Metro Manila and nearby provinces. Almost a million people are affected and some 250,000 forced to evacuate, majority of whom are workers and poor, with 15 deaths already reported.
Discrimination Against Arab Communities in Israel (tags)
Israel
FCC Decision Opens Radio Airwaves Nationwide (tags)
AJLPP CONDEMN THE FASCIST BRUTALITIES VS URBAN SETTLERS IN METRO MANILA (tags)
The Alliance Philippines vehemently condemn in the strongest terms the violent dispersal of informal settlers and urban poor communities in Paranaque by the Philippine National Police (PNP) last April 23. The violent dispersal of April 23 is characterized by violent fascist police tactics and deadly shooting is a carry-over of the fascist policies of dictator Marcos and GMA that cause the death of one person and the wounding of more than 30 others. Scores of people who resisted the brutal suppression were arrested by the PNP.
May Day 2012: National Mobilization For Immigrant Workers Rights! (tags)
We are calling A national day of multi-ethnic unity with youth, labor, peace and justice communities in solidarity with immigrant workers and building new immigrant rights & civil rights movement! Wear White T-Shirt; organize local actions to support immigrant worker rights!
2012 Mountain Justice Summer Action Camp May 18-25 (tags)
Come to Appalachia and become part of the movement to end MTR Coal Mining, protect communities and the environment, and build a sustainable new economy.
The Truth about Proposition 39 Colocations (tags)
A look at the divisiveness caused by Prop 39 which allows corporate charters to occupy public schools.
Even Local Businesses Support Efforts to Save LAUSD Adult Education (tags)
A week remains to save LAUSD Adult Education, a lifeline for immigrant families, impoverished communities, and students of color. Several local business have helped in the effort to save the program.
Social Justice Schools Conference by CEJ and PEAC February 2012 (tags)
What does real school transformation look like? How will we win? Real transformation is rooted in the communities that schools serve, respect the rights of all school employees, and is fully funded.
Denying Palestinians Fair Access to Water (tags)
Palestine
100 Mayors Oppose Keystone XL Pipeline (tags)
20% of the earth's people are using up 80% of the earth's resources. Time for resource-sparing lifestyles and work sharing! Will the US make the transition from empire to republic and from excess to access? Like capitalism, the Keystone XL pipeline is full of contradictions.
Unify for Occupy Oakland (tags)
To build the 99%, we must find unity across the economic and social strata, or the Occupation movement will be correctly derided as a quasi-elitist middle class project.
Democracy Now! Co-Host Gonzalez Speaks in San Diego (tags)
"Democracy Now!" co-host Juan Gonzalez spoke in San Diego October 24 as part of a whirlwind tour in support of his new book, "News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media." He made two main points in his talk: that there are three "strains" of American media — the corporate mainstream, the white alternative or "rebel" press, and media owned and controlled by people of color; and that since the 1840's the U.S. government has regulated every technological change in the media in a way that favors the interests of giant corporations over ordinary people.
Chabil Utzaj, economic momentum with social responsibility (tags)
The reactivation of Chabil Utzaj, as a sustainable sugar project, is a great opportunity for Valle de Polochic not only because it constitutes an important pole of development for a rural area with high poverty rates in Guatemala, but also because of its respect for the fundamental rights of the inhabitants of the area, its commitment to the protection of the environment and compliance with the legal framework of the country.
The Coalition Against Insecure Communities calls on all communities in Los Angeles to mobilize on September 26, 2011 to demand that President Obama immediately end the "Insecure Communites" program.
Activists Host "Radio Summer" in San Diego August 29 (tags)
Members of San Diego's activist community gathered together at the Media Arts Center in North Park on August 29 to hear about how low-power FM (LPFM) radio can create new opportunities for progressive media and break the Right-wing stranglehold on the local airwaves. The attendees heard a presentation via Skype from Philadelphia-based Ian Smith of the Prometheus Radio Project, which was instrumental in lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the LPFM opportunity in the first place, and also heard from representatives of the World Beat Center, Media Rights Coalition and Activist San Diego.
With PPP, Public Treasuries are Plundered (tags)
According to the neoliberal myth, higher profits lead to increased investments and more jobs. In truth, investments have declined in this decade. Corporations used their profits to speculate on foreign currencies and buy back their own stock. Crises are chances to rethink private and public.
Israeli Home Demolition Terrorism (tags)
state terror
Communique from the Communal Autnomous Council of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, Mexico (tags)
Communique from the Communal Autnomous Council of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, Mexico
LAUSD's Deasy Disrespects Echo Park Moms 4 Education, but the struggle continues (tags)
Please join Echo Park Moms 4 Education in the fight to keep the Advisory Vote, the only democratic portion of LAUSD's deceptively named Public School Choice motion which gives away public schools.
Mountain Justice Training Camp May 20-27 Letcher County, Kentucky www.mountainjustice.org (tags)
Mountain Justice has been honing a skill set that we have effectively used to work against the coal industry here in Appalachia and many of these tactics apply to all surface and underground coal mines.
May Day 2011 Call to Action! (tags)
We are calling A national day of multi-ethnic unity with youth, labor, peace and justice communities in solidarity with immigrant workers and building new immigrant rights & civil rights movement! Wear White T-Shirt; organize local actions to support immigrant worker rights!
Clean Air, Healthy Communities Citizens Hearing (tags)
Health, science and academic experts and private citizens defend clean air
Tata Noah chief of Indigenous communities (tags)
My grandfather walked with a very long stick adorned with many allegories. Tata Noah told me long ago that it represented our true nation, which was all unknown, because many of those living in the village had given in to the viciousness of the white people and did not follow the customs of our fathers. That hurt my Tata, so when I arrived, he ever and ever told me many things and stories of our nation...
Injustice for All: Obama's Immigration Agenda (tags)
immigration lawlessness
Banning Methane Mining - A Review of Gasland (tags)
An incisive critique of the movie Gasland.
Banning Methane Mining A Review of the movie, Gasland (tags)
A very revealing examination about how corporate environmental organizations (NRDC) facilitate polluting industry and dupe an 'artist' into promoting them and the corrupt politicians they cover for. Although there was a New York City premiere of the movie about a month ago, the film continues to tour and premiere in cities across the country and is a likely candidate for a Best Documentary Oscar. Here's where an earlier incarnation was published: http://www.counterpunch.org/jereski09172010.html The full article below includes significant rewrites (and key hyperlinks that were omitted in the earlier publication).
Our Commons Future is Already Here: Maude Barlow (tags)
For I too am a steward, did you not know?”_ —J.R.R. Tolkien
Foundation for Change Honors Local “Changemakers” Sept. 26 (tags)
The San Diego Foundation for Change held its annual “Changemaker Celebration” Sunday, September 26 on the Prado patio in Balboa Park. Part outdoor picnic, part bazaar of social-change organizations, part fundraiser and part short commemoration, the event honored longtime local activists Larry Baza of the San Diego Democratic Club, Victor Clark-Alfaro of Tijuana’s Bi-National Center for Human Rights, and the Environmental Health Coalition and its longtime director, Diane Takvorian.
Gulf alert: Entire La. communities where vomiting blood (tags)
The weapon of mass destruction unleashed on Americans is an act of war. People of the Gulf Coast are pleading for support. Thus far, the WikiLeaks modified limited hangout has distracted the anti-war and truth movements from a war being waged on millions of Americans needing their solidarity.
Sept. 18, March to Support Manuel Jamines (tags)
Manuel Jamines was murdered in cold blood by an LAPD officer; and today several hundred people from many established Los Angeles activist groups came together in support of justice, and in protest against a police culture which has long supported brutality and killing of members of vulnerable communities and communities of color.
BoCa En BoCa September 2010 issue released (tags)
BoCa En BoCa is an independent magazine. Its objectives are: to disseminate what happens in the organized indigenous communities of Chiapas through news summaries or excerpts from their communiqués, to denounce the government’s strategy, and to promote solidarity among the communities. In the long term, the goal is to distribute the magazine within the indigenous communities in their own language. Its September 2010 issue is now available in both English and Spanish.
Katrina's Destructive Aftermath (tags)
willfully inflicted harm on many thousands
Prison Abolition In Practice --Part two of an interview with Criminal Injustice Kos (tags)
Let’s get rid of prison rape. Let’s reinstitute rehabilitation. Let’s repeal certain draconian sentencing laws. All good and essential ideas. But very little – in some cases, nothing - will fundamentally change unless those ideas, and more, are advanced within a strategic framework of abolition.
LA People's Campaign Kick-off Sat 8-7-0 (tags)
Kick-off Campaign to run working-class candidates for public office in LA.
CALIFORNIA SAFE SCHOOLS, GREEN SCHOOL CHAMPION NOMINATED FOR 2010 NAU AWARD (tags)
NAU supporting those who instigate lasting, positive change in their communities
Key US City Acts to Avoid 'Dirty' Tar Sands Fuel (tags)
Press Release
Santa Barbara Residents to Protest Anti-Immigrant Arizona Law (tags)
Protesters will be demanding that the local city council take action by divesting from Arizona. Several will conduct a peaceful Civil Disobedience
OCCUPATION OF BORDER PATROL HEADQUATERS DAVIS-MONTHAN AIRFORCE BASE, TUCSON, AZ (tags)
OCCUPATION OF BORDER PATROL HEADQUATERS DAVIS-MONTHAN AIRFORCE BASE, TUCSON, AZ 1st NATION AND MIGRANTS OPPOSE SB1070 DEMAND DIGNITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND END TO BORDER MILITARIZATION
Someone is on the right track on the Gulf disaster (tags)
“It is this writer’s opinion that our government should seize all the assets of BP in this country and put this capital to work to rebuild and restore our communities.”
March and Rally to DHS Secretary Napolitano's Speech at Pomona College Graduation (tags)
Together with the Coalition of Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, and the Latina/o Roundtable of Pomona and San Gabriel Valley, we are organizing a march and rally on Sunday, May 16th to denounce the harsh immigration enforcement policies of the Department of Homeland Security during DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano's speech at the Pomona College graduation ceremony. We will begin the march at the Claremont Greyhound Station, the site of numerous Border Patrol raids in the last year, and end with a rally at a park near the graduation site.
Julio freed.
We need to support the release of Julio, who was arrested during the anti-Nazi protests.
6th Annual Mountain Justice Training Camp May 27- June 6, 2010 Kentucky (tags)
Mountain Justice Training Camp Location: Wiley’s Last Resort in Letcher County, Kentucky May 27th through June 6, 2010
Emergency Vigil in Support of Haiti (tags)
An emergency vigil was held asking people "to donate money to go to grassroots women and their families, and therefore communities, rather than to thieving elites and their corrupt NGOs."
Pomona anti-checkpoint action (tags)
Students and community members take direct action to negate the racist anti-immigrant police checkpoints in Pomona.
BTL:Coal Industry Plagues Appalachian Communities with Health Hazards (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
Conscious Forces Will Bring Us Certain Victory (tags)
How, in the coming period of intensified class struggle, activists will use open communities and information war to win ever-increasing attention and support and create the conscious forces that will bring us certain victory
Military supremacy leading to human rights violations in Eastern Visayas (tags)
PESANTE NEWS learned today that the the National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas charged the 8th Infantry Division today of pushing its Oplan Bantay Laya campaign by intimidating the public and dominating the civilian government in the region. "The military is intimidating the public by coming out with an order of battle or liquidation list, and then going into schools and communities to conduct witch hunts and commit other human rights violations," said NDF-EV spokesperson Fr. Santiago Salas.
STP Typhoon Relief Operation Gains Support in Key US Cities, Relief Drive Extended (tags)
The Sagip Tulong sa Pilipinas (STP) campaign gained massive support among different communities in the US . As of October 16, organizers have collected and sorted out an equivalent of 170 boxes of clothing, canned goods, shoes, bottled water and other materials. This is on top of around 250 boxes that People’s CORE facilitated to send to the Philippines through another organization in LA. The GABNET Los Angeles has sent 52 Boxes to the GWP group in the Philippines. Pledges, cash and check donations totaled around $ 10,000—meant mainly to purchase medicines and supplies in the Philippines for medical missions. STP collection centers like DAMAYAN Migrant Workers in New York and People’s CORE in Los Angeles have been flooded with material donations and phone calls throughout the day from ordinary people who were willing to help in any way.
Costa Rica: Popular March for Dignity in the South (tags)
Indigenous people, peasants, agri-industrial workers, and radical environmentalists all struggle in the South... the power of Capital and Government weave a complex and tragic mesh of destruction, but people still hold on to their Dignity and put on a network that articulates their struggles: An expression of this was the Popular March for Dignity in the South
Behind the Coup Regime Curtain (tags)
"Providing an example of what else these citizens in civil resistance are up against, the pro-coup media then takes the demonstrators’ attempt to remain within the coup decree’s 20-person limit on public assemblies, and portrays it as a sign that the resistance has lost steam. The daily Heraldo, for example, covered that same demonstration with these dishonest words: “The security lines remain, and an important number of national and international journalists, and, of course, demonstrations, which are already almost insignificant for the number of participants."
Film Night: Venezuelan Autonomous Social Movements (tags)
FILM NIGHT!!! VENEZUELAN AUTONOMOUS SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Thursday, Oct. 1st, 2009 7:30 PM KIWA 3471 W 8th St. K-Town 90005
Amazing Organizing in Honduras (tags)
“Who led the march?” he asked, then answering: “The young people, and also children and senior citizens did. We went into the streets with our drums. Our drums have accompanied this process since the beginning. Last night at this event’s inauguration the energy was high because our culture was here with us, and with us the voices of the ancestors, as we go forward constructing the new nation, the new community. A better future for the community depends on each one of you.”
W.Va. Treesit Update, Bail Funds Needed! (tags)
One treesitter descends after week of defending people from blasting
CA Safe Schools Nominated for NAU Grant for Change Award (tags)
NAU supporting those who instigate lasting, positive change in their communities
GENTRIFICATION: IS IT URBAN RENEWAL OR URBAN REMOVAL (tags)
et city leaders, banks, and big developers know that we will not be forced out of our neighborhoods! With massive tax breaks and generous loans granted by big banks and the city administration, big developers are pushing forward in their attempt to remove poor and working families from the vibrant and colorful neighborhoods around Los Angeles. Signs of gentrification are everywhere. Rents are increased to drive families out of their homes, to be replaced with luxury apartments. Big national mega-stores are replacing local mom and papa businesses. As residents are forced out, stable communities are torn apart. Immigrant working families, who have lived and worked here for generations, are being pushed out by a profit-driven campaign of racist gentrification
The Hidden Theft at KPFK and the Ongoing Firings, Purges and Bannings: You're Next???? (tags)
An analysis of why KPFK sounds different, and why it's losing listeners (and money).
Revolutionary Autonomous Communities' Food Program (tags)
The Revolutionary Autonomous Communities (RAC), has created a food program where we are empowering ourselves and others to become self-sustainable.
Appalachia and Colombia: The People Behind the Coal --an interview with Aviva Chomsky (tags)
Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and Latin American Studies at Salem State College in Massachusetts, and is a founder of the North Shore Colombia Solidarity Committee, which has been working since 2002 with Colombian labor and popular movements, especially those affected by the foreign-owned mining sector. She just returned from a Witness for Peace delegation (May 28 – June 6) that traveled to two regions devastated by coal mining: the state of Kentucky and to northern Colombia.
Solidarity with the Struggle of the Amazonian Peoples of Peru! (tags)
International Libertarian Declaration We ask our libertarian comrades to organise mobilisations and demonstrations outside Peruvian embassies in every country, in coordination with other sectors in struggle, in order to denounce the actions of the State and the multinationals in this country. Español http://www.anarkismo.net/article/13365
New standards for growing soy will destroy forests, livelihoods and the climate (tags)
New standards for growing soy will destroy forests, livelihoods and the climate
Protect the City AIDS Coordinator's Office & Human Relations Commission (tags)
The City Council (Budget and Finance Committee) is going to vote on vital services and HIV.AIDS and the Human Relations Commission (among others) are at risk!
Santa Cruz Anarchsit Convergence Workshop Descriptions (tags)
The Anarchists are Coming! There will be almost 40 workshops and discussions at the Santa Cruz Anarchist Convergence from May 7-11th. Here are times and descriptions of all of them! Also: flyers, dates, times, and descriptions of several events surrounding the convergence. Check it out!
Fighting Foreclosure in South Africa: An Open Letter to US Activists (tags)
As the worldwide economic meltdown continues, it's becoming clear that the fight against foreclosures is not simply an American issue. As US activists come to terms with the human consequences of the crisis, there is much to be learned from activists elsewhere. This is a letter of support and solidarity from a group of South African activists with considerable experience fighting evictions.
Take Action: Community Activists in Chiapas Face Harassment and Intimidation (tags)
Human rights and community leaders in Mexico continue to experience threats - including death threats. They ask for help from global activists to protect their lives and their community work.
Philippines: Urban poor strongly represented in new socialist party (tags)
Bulacan, Philippines, February 1, 2009 – “We are the bat people, the people who live under bridges in Manila”, explained urban poor organiser Ka Lisa as she took a small group of international observers around a section of an urban poor relocation settlement in Bulacan, about 60 kilometres north of Manila.
Light at the End of the Tunnel: Communities Must Stand Together for Change (tags)
Diverse communities in the U.S. have been standing together to bring about social change at the grassroots level in an unprecedented wave of euphoria set off by the inauguration of Barack Obama. Whether in public meetings, workshops, or protests the unity of purpose and momentum is palpable. What will it take to translate that human energy into real change?
Revolutionary Autonomous Communities / Comunidades Autonomas Revolucionarias Zine #1 (tags)
1st Zine of the Revolutionary Autonomous Communities Primera Revista Zine de las Comunidades Autonomas Revolucionarias
AUTO-NOMOS: BREAKING THE EGGSHELL OF EMPIRE (tags)
Thousands of “build rather than plead” organizations, collectives and communities are already emerging all over the planet and as they rise against subjugation and greed they strengthen and multiply. It the Zapatistas in Mexico and the Sans-Papiers (Sin Papeles) in Europe, it is the farmers in Brazil (Movemiento Sin Tierra) and the Basques in Catalonia, it is the indigenous people in Ecuador and the Palestinians in Gaza, it is the squatters in London, and the Mapuche in Chile, it is Via Campesina in Central America and In Our Hearts in New York City, it is Indy Media in Los Angeles and the Red Ponchos in Bolivia… It is a global movement that is not loyal to any authority, ruler, nation or religion, but rather to the calling of the heart. And don’t let the corporate media make you think that we are few, small and powerless. This global movement is 2.5 billion strong and rising fast.
*NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION* BREAK UP WITH BANK OF AMERICA ON VALENTINES DAY (tags)
*NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION* BREAK UP WITH BANK OF AMERICA ON VALENTINES DAY FEB 14th, 2009: MASS DAY OF ACCOUNT CLOSURES STOP ALL EVICTIONS AND FORECLOSURES! STOP FINANCING COAL AND CLIMATE CHANGE! Contact: valentinesday@risingtideboston.org This Valentine's Day, February 14th, 2009, join Rising Tide Boston (RTB) in demanding that Bank of America stop its funding of the dirty and deadly coal industry and demanding, in solidarity with City Life/Vide Urbana, that the Bank stop its unjust foreclosures and evictions of working families. Closing your account with Bank of America (BOA) is an important step in bringing closure to this unhealthy relationship. In Boston, we are planning a day of coordinated bank account closures in at least two locations, and encourage people in other places to organize something similar.
California Safe Schools "Your Life is Now" 2008 Environmental Event of the Year (tags)
Declaration of Independence Displayed & World Leaders Gather to Celebrate California Safe Schools 10th Anniversary, Environmental Victories & Future Actions to Save Our Planet.
". . . So the purpose is to support those communities in their struggles and not support things like Walmart and Target in our neighborhoods but really invest back into social change .” -- Laura Palomares
Obama’s Labor Sec Solis Supported Frame-up of Mumia Abu-Jamal (tags)
Millionaire, Warmonger, Death penalty supporter, Democrat Barack Obama finally got around to what should have been his first appointment, that of Labor Secretary, and appointed Cal Congressperson Hilda Solis, one of the many Democrats who supported the frame up of journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal in her support of House Resolution 1082, passed in the Roll Call Vote 527 of December 6, 2006.
First Annual Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair: A Beginning Marker of Resistence (tags)
Saturday, December 13, 2008 LOS ANGELES - The organizers of the first annual Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair sent out a call for "dreamers, fighters, organizers, and rebels to come, meet, strategize, learn from each other, get books, attend workshops, participate, and join the movement." And despite the state's efforts to squelch our efforts, come they did--more than 700 people, mostly from the greater Los Angeles area, although some came from as far as San Diego, the Bay Area, Oregon, New York, and even Canada, to participate in this herstory-making event.
Alexander Wants Jobs for Local Communities, Construction Industry (tags)
Once again Stewart A. Alexander is rejecting the continuous flow of U.S. dollars to bailout banks and corporate America; instead, Alexander says any public funds should go to local communities to help working people, creating jobs in the building and construction industry. Alexander says the U.S. government should establish a $1 trillion fund to make available low interest loans for home improvements; this would create jobs across America and benefit local communities.
X-Vandals Benefit Show in LA Gets Raided by LAPD (tags)
Evidence of Political State Repression and Oppression by the LAPD (Pigs) LA County Sheriffs here on You Tube community Social Justice Workers/Political Justice workers working to support the Poor and State Oppress/Repress.
October 22 Demonstration Attracts Young to Anti-Police Terror Movement (tags)
October 22, 2008 LOS ANGELES - The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation has been organizing nationwide demonstrations since 1996. The Los Angeles actions have gained a reputation for being among the city's most lively and most youth-oriented marches whose participants tend to be from the very communities targeted by police. With some thirty police murders logged since the beginning of year, protestors had plenty to be angry about.
After DNC/RNC, fight ICE and support immigrant rights struggle: a call to action (tags)
please read, forward widely, discuss with others, and ACT!
U.S./Mexico Border Wall Risks Endangered Species Extinctions from Gene Isolation (tags)
Risks of the U.S./Mexico border wall on native species of ocelots and other mammals include extinction from genetic isolation of disconnected populations.
Call for Screenings of Film: "We're Still Here! We NeverLeft " (tags)
The Revolutionary Autonomous Communities is putting out a call for their film, "We're Still Here, We Never Left" to be screened at your university, community center, church and anywhere else.
Interview with Cop Watch LA Member Joaquin Cienfuegos for the Affinity Project (tags)
This interview was done in the summer of 2006. Joaquin is currently working with the Revolutionary Autonomous Communities (which at the time of the interview was in the process of being created) and the Guerrilla Chapter of Cop Watch Los Angeles.
An Open Letter Regarding the LA Social Forum and Leftist Organizing (tags)
I didn't attend the LASF, but Michael (Novick) seems justified in his disappointment about the makeup of the forum. All movements are helped by the central participation and prioritization of the grass-roots, front-line community defense movements.
"Outreach" or Alliance Building? (tags)
At the end of June, I participated in the "Los Angeles Social Forum," an attempt to hold a unifying gathering of people from many different movements and organizations in Los Angeles (and other parts of southern California) on the model of the World Social Forum and the first US Social Forum held last year in Atlanta.
The Expo Line will kill the poor but not the rich.
Checking the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (tags)
Checking the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Help break the cycle of mass destruction (tags)
Footprints for Peace (Australia), with the active support of the French network for nuclear phase-out, will walk from London to Geneva (April 26 - July 18) via France for a nuclear-free world.
Review of a book by National Anarchist thinker Troy Southgate.
Food Not Bombs National Gathering reportback (tags)
By nearly all accounts the Food Not Bombs National Gathering was a smashing success: Activists of all types and ages from FNB chapters all over the country were brought together in Nashville, TN for a Critical Mass bike ride, no-pants dance party, a day of workshops, a group meeting, scavenger hunt, huge food sharing downtown and a march through the streets.
Women Say Fund Caregiving Not War & Occupation (tags)
In Los Angeles, for the 9th Global Women’s Strike on International Women’s Day, March 8, women along with men supporters gathered at a town hall meeting entitled ‘Fund Caregiving Not War and Occupation!’ at the Southern California Library in South LA. On and around every March 8 since 2000, women in 60 countries have taken part in the Global Women’s Strike under the theme Invest in Caring not Killing. Women who are working to reclaim the money and other resources for crucial survival needs for themselves and their communities, told their stories and shared their struggles and victories.
Press Conference Tomorrow: Free the Black Riders (tags)
Press Conference Tomorrow: Free the Black Riders **FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**
Demonstrations nation-wide Against Turkish Invasion of Iraq on Friday, Feb 29th (tags)
This week, several Kurdish-American communities and supporters across the United States are expected to demonstrate again in several cities in response to the recent invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan by the Turkish military. Kurdish-American communities in each city have coordinated with one another to launch demonstrations during the same week in order to express a unified opposition to months of bombings by the Turkish military and the recent invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan.
United Communities of America Declare Autonomy (tags)
We have been: Penned Cattle prodded Poisoned Lied to Spied on Bulldozed Robbed and Assassinated Long Enough. It's over.
International peace walk - London to Geneva through France (tags)
The nuclear industry threatens us all. Today there is an urgent call for global action to break the cycle of mass destruction.
Hundreds flee Army, NPA war in remote areas nationwide (tags)
The ceasefire declared by the military isn’t holding as hundreds of villagers fled remote communities in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao that have turned into battlegrounds between communist guerrillas and government soldiers. The flight of residents afraid of getting caught in the crossfire has created temporary communities in shelters where the civilians were brought for safety.
Film Night at Flor y Canto: March 2003-September 2005 (Part 2 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. (Links to the rest of this list can be found below in "comments.")
Mllitary Operations in Mindanao (tags)
Nearly 3,000 tribespeople have fled their mountain homes in the southern Philippines as the military stepped up an offensive against insurgents of the communist New People's Army (NPA), officials and church leaders said on Monday. Modesto Villasanta, a Roman Catholic priest and leader of a local human rights group, said he feared a humanitarian crisis if military operations continue to displace Manobo tribes from 11 communities in a province on Mindanao island.
11/20/07 Transgender Day of Remembrance (tags)
We encourage activists, community members, and people who are opposed to violence based on any physical characteristics to join us.
Message to George Bush from a San Diego Evacuee (tags)
Neither the Border Patrol nor George Bush is welcome in San Diego! We’ve Suffered Enough! Message to George Bush, I believe… 1. Nature caused these fires 2. Global Warming, the most dangerous side effect of Capitalism, made them worse. 3. The lack of resources to fight these fires and which are currently being used in the imperialist war in Iraq prevented most of these fires from being extinguished expeditiously.
Democracy is Fleeting in America (tags)
Liberty Quarry and the Iraq War are testing democracy in America. Will the people in Southern California get a quarry they do not want or will the fate of several communities be left in the hands of five Riverside County Supervisors? On the bigger issue of Iraq, will the Democrats and Republicans have the resolve to end the Iraq War and bring our troops home, or will our fate as a nation be left in the hands of one man?
"Unrecognized" Palestinians (tags)
How Israel discriminates against its non-Jewish citizens.
Press Conference to launch the Western Union boycott
Researchers Believe Wastewater Analysis Tool Could Improve Drug Surveillance (tags)
“It’s like a very diluted urine sample collected from an entire community,” Field said....A team of researchers has developed an automated monitoring method that makes it possible to detect traces of drugs – from cocaine to caffeine – in municipal wastewater.
SAME LAST NAME, A DIFFERENT ICE VICTIM (tags)
Vigil for another woman named "Arellano". This one transgender, died in ICE custody. Protest her murder tonite @ LA Fed. Bldg. 6-9 pm. Monday August 27 -: 6:00 to 9:00 PM 300 N. Los Angeles St
Political Crisis in El Salvador (tags)
A political crisis of explosive proportion is looming this week in El Salvador. In an apparent Effort to decapitate the leadership of one wing of the social movement, Salvadoran national police detained and imprisoned leaders of the Association of Rural Communities for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES), a social organization which has worked since the 1980’s with over three hundred organized communities to advocate for their rights. Along with 10 community members, the leaders were placed in “preventative detention” for up to three months pending trial by special tribunal on charges of terrorism.
ICE Takes no rest in Santa Ana--Only Prisoners (tags)
Meda and Enforcement Agencies want us to believe that they are taking only "criminal aliens". MENTIRAS! They are taking taking parents walking kids home from school, women walking home from grocery store, workers at bus stops, etc. Last week's raids was not the conclusion of sweps--THEY WERE ONLY THE BEGINNING. June 1st marked the begining of O.C.'s "enforcement team" (read 2nd article for more details below).
UCLA group carries torch for less advantaged API classmates (tags)
Activists of the Asian Pacific Coalition met the press Thursday at the Ackerman Viewpoint Conference Room, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) to urge public support on an ongoing campaign to enable Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) have own identities. According to the Count Me In campaign it is addressing educational inequalities within the AAPI community. It said that hidden by the “model minority myth”, AAPI continue to suffer severely from access to resources for higher education, adding, “The myth homogenizes the diverse make-up of AAPIs despite the fact that each group has its own unique history, language, culture, and experience.” There is a need to disaggregate the racial category of AAPIs into their specific communities “to ensure that public policy reflects the needs of diverse communities.”
My observations on May 1st (tags)
These are my observations from being a participant during the May 1st melee
OPERATION ETHNIC CLEANSING (tags)
Unless migrant communities resist, the US government, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will continue attacking and terrorizing migrant communities.
Statement of the Ecumenical Bishops Forum (tags)
The Ecumenical Bishops Forum (EBF), the fellowship of bishops from the United Church of Christ (UCCP), United Methodist (UMC), Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP), Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI) and the Roman Catholic Churches in the Philippines lament the deployment of elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in urban areas in the country. It is another nail hammered on the flailing limbs of freedom in this country. There is no justification for their presence in these areas at this time. The AFP is called to defend this country from aggression and armed rebellion. The police force should suffice for preserving the peace in our communities. No country claiming to be democratic alows its soldiers to roam around communities in full battle gear. No country claiming to be free allows its soldiers to engage in partisan politics. Even civic functions which military officials claim soldiers perform in these communities are best left in the hands of other government agencies and other non-government organizations.
Cop Watch LA Statement on May Day, 2007 (tags)
Collective statement from Cop Watch Los Angeles. Check out copwatchla.org for info regarding a press conference at the Youth Justice Coalition office on Monday, May 7th.
Latin American School of Medicine (tags)
In the midst of all the US-Cuban relations stories, primarily, the focus is on the imposed economic sanctions against Castro’s Cuba. But, there is a story of unity, progression, and humanitarian efforts lying within those pages written about Cuba. It is one that is hardly, if ever, told; a story that calls attention to the concern for human life above economic strife.
Schwarzenegger M.I.A. On Liberty Quarry (tags)
Today there is a battle that is being waged in Southwest Riverside County; an industry giant, Granite Construction, is attempting to obtain permits to quarry a 311 acre site to meet the growing need for aggregate in Southern California. The residents of several communities are committed to keeping the quarry from opening due to potential health risk, the traffic the quarry will bring to the area and the severe impact the quarry will have on the natural environment.
Report on Pastors for Peace Chiapas Caravan (tags)
Report from Rev. Walker, on the caravan's progress through Mexico
Economic Values and Impending Collapse (tags)
Foreboding has hit the ranks of private equity firms; try as they might to unload vast amounts of funds (monetary value is inextricably linked to the movement of those funds) they have been unable to spend/invest at a rate that would sustain value let alone increase real profits! The ‘healthy figures’ reflecting increased acquisitions/investments are on paper only – it ‘looks good’ at the moment!
Cop Watch Los Angeles Victory Statement (tags)
Cop Watch Los Angeles Victory Statement November 16, 2006 William Cardenas was released on November 15th, 2006
Protest Olmert @ Jewish General Assembly w 3000 (tags)
L.A. gets ready to be the center of Jewish universe 75th Annual General Assembly of the United Jewish Communities by Julie Gruenbaum Fax, Education Editor
Press Release: Police Brutality Caught on Video (tags)
On August 11th, 2006, William Cardenas, 24 from Hollywood, California was arrested and brutally beaten by the Hollywood Division of the Los Angeles Police Department. The cops would have gotten away with the beating if it wasn’t for a neighbor who video-taped the beating on her camera.
Police Brutality Caught on Video. (tags)
November 3, 2006 For Immediate Release: Police Brutality Caught on Video. SEE THE VIDEO AT www.copwatchla.org
Many communities restricting where churches can be located (tags)
In government there are only two important questions. Who are we going to shake down for the money? And who are we going to give the money to? This releates to the first question.
Call for October 22nd, 2006 in LA (tags)
Call for October 22, 2006: Eleventh Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
September 28th: End the Abuse of Immigrant Workers (tags)
250 immigrant workers, religious leaders, community members and students have already committed to risk arrest, call on others to join them
Taking the 7 Talks to the Proletariat and Building for October5 (tags)
The recent correspondence on taking out Bob Avakian’s 7 Talks, especially into proletarian communities, was very important (see Revolution #60 and #61 for articles on this). One thing that comes through: there is nothing else speaking to the how-to-live-and-die questions that are on people’s minds....
Ecoanarchists help reclaim southcentral farm (tags)
The destructive bulldozer raid by real estate developer Ralph HorowitzCo. & LA Sheriffs' on LA's southcentral community farm only resulted in strengthening the resistance and improved networking between sc campesino farmers, ecoanarchists and permaculture communities..
How Israel failed its Arab citizens before, during and after war (tags)
After the war, the Education Ministry hired extra psychologists to work with Jewish children and issued counsellors with special kits on how to identify and deal with post-traumatic disorders. The same services were not offered in Arab communities. The Ministry said it could not hire Arab psychologists because there were not enough qualified candidates among the Arab population.
Valley Park, PA enacts Joe Turner's/SOS law (tags)
Valley Park, Pensylvannia follows lead on illegal alien law; same law close to passage in several California cities
COPWATCH LOS ANGELES WEBSITE LAUNCHED! (tags)
CWLA has just launched it's website, come check us out!!!
Counter the G8 + 5 Climate Summit! October 3-4 in Mexico City: CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW! (tags)
On Tuesday, October 3 in Mexico City, the Energy and Environment Ministers from the "Group of Eight" (G8) industrialized countries are scheduled to begin negotiating a climate change deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. They will be joined by Energy and Environment Ministers from the five "emerging" countries of Brazil, India, China, South Africa and Mexico. All together, these "G8 + 5" countries represent 58% of the world's human population, 61% of oil consumption, 80% of coal consumption, and 73% of C02 emissions.
CUBA/USA Solidarity in action... (tags)
Cuban US and Honduran Doctors Work Together on Medical Brigades to Honduras...
Status of Human Rights on the US/Mexico Border (tags)
Shadow Report Submitted by Organized Border Communities to United Nations
Women, Autonomy & Creating a Caring Economy in Venezuela (tags)
Support for the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela continues to grow, including in Los Angeles where grassroots communities gathered June 24 for a public event on Women, Autonomy & Creating a Caring Economy in Venezuela.
Report Back from Mexico City and Toluca, Mexico 06-28-06, 06-29-06 (tags)
I stayed in Mexico until the 29th of June, and wanted to stay until the 3rd but was unable to change my flight (due to the lack of funds). This is the last report back. Now that Im back home in Los Angeles I will work on translating these into Spanish so that other communities and the people in Mexico that I met will have a chance to read them as well. A friend also talked about helping me turn the reports into a pamphlet. I like to think of the reports as a look into the struggles of Mexico right before the elections.
Joaquin Cienfuegos: Report from the Struggles in Mexico 06/16/06-06/29/06 (tags)
The following is a correspondence from joaquin Cienfuegos, traveling throughout Mexico reporting on the struggles on the streets, the anarchist movement, the Other Campaign, the Zapatista’s, and the over all radical climate that is building. More updates to come. All messages are free for broad distribution and will be sent across the net. Please forward, and let this be an inspiration to a growing movement in North America towards internationalism.
Joaquin Cienfuegos: Report from Mexico City 06/18 and Atenco 06/19/06 (tags)
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Joaquin Cienfuegos: Live from the Struggle in Mexico – Days 1 and 2 (tags)
The following is a correspondence from Joaquin Cienfuegos, traveling throughout Mexico reporting on the struggles on the streets, the anarchist movement, the Other Campaign, the Zapatista’s, and the over all radical climate that is building. More updates to come. All messages are free for broad distribution and will be sent across the net. Please forward, and let this be an inspiration to a growing movement in North America towards internationalism.
COP WATCH REPORT: Sheriffs Helicopters More Frequent Over South Central Farms! (tags)
Within the past few days Sheriff helicopters have been seen more frequently over the South Central Farms..
Spread the Word, Que Corre la Voz (tags)
SPREAD DA' WORD!!!" Youth & Student Conference 2006 SATURDAY, JUNE 10th 10am-5:30pm (registration begins @ 9am) ****this is a FREE event****
Los Angeles Sentinel Endorses Paparian for Congress in 29th (tags)
The largest and oldest black-owned newspaper on the west coast has endorsed a Green for Congress in the San Gabriel Valley, giving the nod to former Pasadena Mayor Bill Paparian over the Democrat incumbent.
San Francisco Labor Council on Immigrant Rights (tags)
Open World Conference of Workers >May 23, 2006
Cop Watch Report on the South Central Farm (tags)
Reports from the Vigil at Antonio Villaraigosa's house on Tuesday May 16th, 2006 and the benefit concert at the South Central Farm on Friday May 19th 2006. Police intimidate the community and Prepare to Attack.
Police State and Rebellion after March (tags)
Report back from Police State and Rebellion in Mc Arthur Park after Rally.
Black Brown Unity - Press Conferences (tags)
“Don’t just boycott – Shut it Down!”
African-Americans, Economic Well-Being, and Immigration (tags)
...while the concern for African-American well-being is well placed, the source of the problem is not always correctly located...
A CALL TO ALL FILIPINOS AND IMMIGRANTS OF ALL NATIONALITIES TO UNITE TO DEFEND IMMIGRANT R (tags)
The Coalition to Defend Immigrant Rights (CDIR), a multi-ethnic alliance of immigrant rights advocates in Los Angeles, calls on the Filipino American community to march shoulder to shoulder with their Latino brothers and sisters and come out in force on May 1, 2006. Rallyists will assemble at Broadway and Olympic St at 12:00 PM and march to the City Hall and at 7th and Wilshire St. (MacArthur Park) to La Brea in Los Angeles.
For May Day and Beyond: White People Step Up for Immigrant Rights (tags)
Open Letter to White Communities.
Lucerne, Switzerland Becomes GATS-Free (tags)
Over 80 communities in Switzerland have insisted on stopping GATS-liberalization for social, ecological and democratic reasons.. In Europe, over 1000 communities have declared themselves GATS-free zones.
The 2006 Queer People Of Color Film Series (tags)
Are you or a friend(s) into filmmaking, and have finished or are in the process of making a film? Do you/they self-identify as a queer person of color?
Speak Now, or Never: Stopping Sensenbrenner (tags)
Tomorrow morning, anti-fascists and anti-racists join together in the streets.
URGENT- ACT NOW 4 BIG MOUNTAIN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES (tags)
Stop S. 1003, "The Navajo Hopi Land Settlement Act Amendments of 2005"
Call to Action by Dolores Mission (tags)
ECUMENICAL PRAYER SERVICE FOR COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM at La Placita Olvera (Our Lady Queen of Angels Parish) 10:00 am, Friday, February 24
Protest Telecom Rip-offs (tags)
CPUC Decision Leaves Consumers Unprotected, Community Representatives To Protest Upcoming Vote
THE ZAPATISTA APPROACH TO POLITICS (tags)
Mexico - The "Other Campaign" -An Interview with Sergio Rodriguez of the Zapatista magazine "Rebeldia" by Miguel Romero
Governor's Claims of Remorse Not Genuine (tags)
The Governor has contributed more to gang violence through his cuts to education and social services than Tookie Williams ever did by co-founding the Crips. It is a travesty that such a flawed person was allowed to sit in judgement of this valued member of our community.
Favela Rising: A Story of Self Actualization in a Marginalized Rio Community (tags)
Favela Rising, a documentary about a social movement in Rio favelas, won the IDA Best Feature this past week. The directors and community organizers hope to spread its message of self-actualization to marginalized communities in the United States, starting with Los Angeles.
USA is planning to test Dangerous Chemicals and Drugs on Orphans and innocent Children worldwide. Stop the cruel Atrocities on Defenseless children. Just say NO to the Bush Gestapo.
How many children will they kill? Stop the baby killers. (tags)
USA is planning to test Dangerous Chemicals and Drugs on Orphans and innocent Children worldwide. Stop the cruel Atrocities on Defenseless children. Just say NO to the blood sucking Bush Gestapo.
USA is planning to test Dangerous Chemicals and Drugs on Orphans and innocent Children worldwide. Stop the Brutal Attack on children.
Help Great Bear Campaign Achieve Victory! (tags)
The campaign to save the Great Bear Rainforest, the world's largest temperate rainforest located on the Central and North coasts of British Columbia, Canada, is very close to a huge victory -- so close that a historic agreement could be finalized within days -- but the provincial government of British Columbia needs to feel pressure from people all over the world right now to ensure that it takes one final step. PLEASE WRITE A LETTER TO THE GOVERNMENT through the website: www.savethegreatbear.org
Sub-Committee Hears Legislation That Could Dismantle Community Access TV. (tags)
House Subcommittee on Commerce hears legislation that could severely damage local community access TV. Community media advocates call for intensification, in the coming weeks, of efforts to defeat this legislation.
Protest Military Recruiters - Sat, Dec 10, 12 noon (tags)
Protest Military Recruiters - Sat, Dec 10, 12 noon Youth and students come out against war & military recruiters! Saturday, December 10, 12 noon 5051 Rodeo Road, Los Angeles At the Los Angeles Recruiting Battalion (Just east of La Brea, near MLK Blvd)
LA: Don't Just Protest, Organize! (tags)
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SWARM the Minutemen - Phone Jam NOW! (tags)
The Minutemen are really ramping up their media campaign, including a major rally in Sacramento to promote their California Border Patrol initiative, an attempt to further militarize the border and our communities at the cost of more people's lives. Recently, they testified before congress ( http://www.dakotavoice.com/200510/20051018_6.html ) to ask that congres declare a state of emergency along the entire border. Clearly, they want more policing of our lives and communities, they want unrestricted fascism on the border. Still, resistance to the Minutemen ( http://www.deletetheborder.org/ ) has been powerful and is still growing, all across North America.
Urgent Call for Relief: Guatemala (tags)
All over southern Mexico and Central American thousands have lost loved ones, homes and crops from Hurricane Stan's devastation. These communities may never recover.
First LA Cop Watch Meeting 10/24 (tags)
First meeting to begin planning for a Cop Watch in Los Angeles on Monday October 24 at 7pm at the YJC Center 253 W. Martin Luther King Blvd
Legislation in Washington Attacks Public Access TV (tags)
Three Bills now in the House and Senate could end public access TV in America.
URGENT Relief Needed for Native American Communities in Louisiana (tags)
CALL FOR URGENT RELIEF ACTION Hurricane Relief Needed in Native American Communities of Southern Louisiana
What is anarcho-primitivism? (tags)
Anarcho-primitivism (a.k.a. radical primitivism, anti-authoritarian primitivism, the anti-civilization movement, or just, primitivism) is a shorthand term for a radical current that critiques the totality of civilization from an anarchist perspective, and seeks to initiate a comprehensive transformation of human life.
Holy Land or Living Hell? Ecocide in Palestine (tags)
From the Jordan River valley and Dead Sea basin, through the central highlands comprising the West Bank's populated core, to the fertile western hills bordering Israel, recent reports from occupied Palestine reveal a worsening environmental crisis.
Beginning the Discussion on Goals and Strategy - SCAF (LA) (tags)
Beginning the discussion on Goals and Strategy [and structure] -- Southern California Anarchist Federation (Los Angeles Chapter)
Bringing Technology To The Poor (tags)
Poor People Need technology Too...
A.N.S.W.E.R. CONDEMNS THE LAPD KILLING OF SUZIE MARIE PEÑA (tags)
A.N.S.W.E.R. CONDEMNS THE LAPD KILLING OF SUZIE MARIE PEÑA Stop Racist Police Violence! Take Action Today!
!6th Annual Pastors for Peace Caravan Get's on The Road (tags)
The 16th Friendshipment to Cuba is underway, expected to arrive in Los Angeles July 12th!
The Principles of Socialism (tags)
It is very likely that the hour is late, that capitalism will soon perish. It will happen sooner or later and if it does happen sooner, we have to be prepared. We need to debate the principles of our coming revolution; the principles of socialism.
Report from Alhambra Anti-Racism Rally (tags)
I would like to first of all congratulate and thank all the organizations and individuals for responding to the call to mobilize and confront the nascent fascist organization "SOS" who tried to assert themselves here in Alhambra on June 18, 2005.
Statement on the result of the Alhambra resistance to SOS's demonstration.
Freedom Summer Palestine 2005 (tags)
Freedom Summer Palestine 2005 is a Palestinian non violent campaign against Israeli occupation — This summer, With the participation of international supporters, Palestinians will continue their long-standing mobilization for nonviolent direct action against the occupation and draw the world's attention to what is really happening in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Black High School Student slain in Corona (tags)
Racial Tensions STILL on the Rise; School Districts STILL Covering Up; Parents Furious at school's Lack of Response.
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
China's US Human Rights Report Is Ugly, But It's No "Caricature" (tags)
The New York Times was outraged that China, a human rights outlaw, would criticize America’s human rights record, but the Chinese report is in fact right on target, and should shame all Americans who care about the state of our own rights and freedoms.
Global Women's Strike/LA Action (tags)
On Thursday afternoon, March 10, a Global Women’s Strike action in Los Angeles brought together over 300 women and men, mostly young and mostly people of color demanding an "End to the Twin Terrors of Poverty and War."
If the plan for reform at the California Youth Authority goes through, it could become a model of community-based rehabilitation. The promise of such major transformation has some activists asking: Is it too good to be true?
ISRAEL'S 'NUREMBERG' LAWS: Apartheid Targets Palestinian Home-owners Inside Israel (tags)
You won't hear about the story of my Palestinian friend Ali Zbeidat and the threatened demolition of his "illegal" home, either from the hundreds of international correspondents in Jerusalem or from the Hebrew media - not even from those remarkable Israeli journalists Amira Hass and Gideon Levy, two lone beacons inside Israel in the campaign for justice for the Palestinians.
Mex/CA Cotton workers & cancer (tags)
Corporate cotton, rio agua theft, pesticide exposure and worker cancer, loss of indigenous culture in maquiladoras, Chiapas/Oaxaca impacts of NAFTA/WTO/PPP/etc..
A.N.S.W.E.R.-LA STATEMENT ON THE LAPD KILLING OF DEVIN BROWN (tags)
Stand against racism here and abroad! Stop police brutality! The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism), Los Angeles, condemns unconditionally the Los Angeles Police Department for the brutal murder of Devin Brown, and all acts of latent and racist brutality against the people of Los Angeles.
THIS FRIDAY (Today Feb 11) Tsunami Relief Benefit show! COME!!! (tags)
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This Friday Feb 11 TSUNAMI RELIEF BENEFIT SHOW! (tags)
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Tsunami Relief Benefit Show Flyer For this Fri Feb 11 !!!!!!!!!!!!! (tags)
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TSUNAMI RELIEF BENEFIT SHOW THIS FRI FEB 11!! (tags)
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Tsunami Relief Benefit Show @ Saddleback College Fri Feb. 11 (tags)
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Antelope Valley Radical Network (tags)
The Antelope Valley Radical Network is made up of groups and individuals actively engaged in creating a healthier and more sustainable Antelope Valley, based on the principles of autonomy, self organization, and mutual aid. The purpose of this network is for local projects to find common ground and to work together against the overall problems, which are threatening our community. From poverty to police brutality, urbanization to unemployment, the problems are rampant, yet we will work to defend our communities from this ongoing repression.
CSFH Warns Against Hate Groups Exploiting Tsunami Crisis (tags)
Stay clear of sectarian groups such as India Development and Relief Fund (IDRF), Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS), Sewa International and Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America (VHPA).
No Prospect for Improvement (tags)
The world cannot expect any impulses for a better world from the new president. The world must adjust to a superpower armed to the teeth whose political and economic elites are hardly concerned with the well-being of humanity.
The ACTS Retirement Life Communities Inc. of Philadelphia Fires Lutheran Pastor. Why??? (tags)
The ACTS Retirement Life Communities, Inc. of Philadelphia is the largest consortium of Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs) in America, with $850 million in assets. Recently, they fired evangelical Lutheran pastor Mark Dankof as a Chaplain in an extraordinary move largely left unexplained. SARTRE of the New York based Breaking All the Rules web site examines the evidence, and the disturbing questions that remain.
Notes on What to Be Done (tags)
Some thoughts on the tasks of revolutionary social movements Notes on What is to Be Done
9/11: HEALING JOURNEYS. . . forlocal and global justice (tags)
Interfaith Activists to Offer “Healing Journeys” on Saturday, September 11th. Tw o peace marches culminating in in MacArthur Park for an interfaith, intergenerational memorial service/rally/celebration/call to action
Can the Militarist See Outside the Box? (tags)
Liberation theology and the theology of hope can give us strength against fundamentalism intolerance and jingoism generated by hyper-materialism. False consciousness can be replaced by exchanging roles and egalitarian passion.
North American Anarchist Convergence (tags)
Join us in the beautiful foothills of Appalachia to network, brainstorm, and discuss social change through building a positive movement toward a free and responsible society. We will focus on practical alternatives to problems associated with power-based governments, institutions, and internalized systems of oppression.
biased insurance investigations (tags)
This is about the state of California and FBI trying to influence lawsuit reform and help large corporations get out of regulations.
voluneer needed to help edit video on Afro-Mexican communities. ColorLines Project. call 323-936-5417
Building Bridges Radio - National Edition: Walls or Bridges?- From Palestine to N.Y.C. (tags)
Building Bridges Radio presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON LA INDYMEDIA AUDIO LINK
ANSWER PROTESTS or STREET CORNER GATHERINGS? (tags)
I WOULD LIKE TO OPEN A DISCUSSION ON COMMUNITY PROTESTS vs. ANSWER DEMO'S. WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS!
Bored With Third Party Politics (tags)
Where Our Focus Should Lie
Send off for MS books, Friday May 28th
With Wallmart Rejected???? (tags)
The best thing to ever happen to a city is to have Wall Mart rejected.
Who Owns the Sky? Reviving the Commons (tags)
"Not since the Golden Age of the 1890s has so much public wealth been shoveled into private hands with such brazen efficiency. Timber companies, corporate ranchers and foreign mining companies.. are plundering our national patrimony.."
The problem with Nader 2004 (tags)
It's a waste of time...
Self-Serve Website Matches Intentional Communities with Seekers (tags)
February, 2004; The Intentional Community Database (ICDB) (www.icdb.org) is available to the public today, offering the world's first searchable listing of intentional communities around the planet.
Let's Build Liberation: A Conversation with Chris Crass (tags)
An interview with Chris Crass about anti-racism, anarchism, feminism and movement building
We Can Do This: Direct Action against Global Capitalism and US Imperialism (tags)
Ingrid Chapman has been involved in direct action organizing for the past 4 years. At 23, she has helped pull off successful mass actions, worked with thousands of activists around the country and bases her work in the question, "How do we build broad based movements capable of challenging global capitalism and US imperialism?" While it is easy to get depressed about the state of the world these days, those in power would also like us to forget that the largest anti-war movement in history was mobilized this past year and that global movements for justice are standing up against capitalism. Ingrid Chapman is one of the many younger generation radicals developing visionary politics and strategic practice to build our movements.
Racial Profiling Proven in Mass. (tags)
The Globe reported last January that blacks and Hispanics statewide were 50 percent more likely than whites to be searched during a traffic stop, although whites were more likely, once searched, to be found with drugs.
Finding Colours of Resistance (tags)
What lessons have we learned since the anti-WTO actions in Seattle? Can those lessons be applied to anti-war organizing? Can local struggles challenge global capitalism? How do we build movement for global justice that is anti-racist, multiracial and feminist? Pauline Hwang and Helen Luu have not only been asking these hard questions, they have worked to open up movement wide discussions about these issues in Canada and the United States. Pauline and Helen's activist work, writing and ability to connect people through the Colours of Resistance network have all helped to keep the hard issues on the table. And, as they argue, these are issues we must face if we're serious about collective liberation.
Ritt Goldstein: A Police State Rising? (tags)
Investigative journalist Ritt Goldstein's chronicle on the rise and ramifications of police power...from both journalistic and deeply personal perspectives.
submission call- Journal of Aeshtetics & Protest iss.#3 (tags)
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November 9th: Popular Mobilization throughout Palestine to Mark Day (tags)
Throughout Palestine, communities affected by the Apartheid Wall--local councils, civil society organizations, political parties, youth groups, schools and universities, and the population at large--are coordinating a momentous week of activities beginning on November 9th for opposing the Israeli Apartheid Wall.
South Cal Fire NOT A Wildfire - 'Just' Another Arson (tags)
What I am saying, in short, is that there is a team of arsonists throughout the country that have for some time escaped recognition by most of the media as the major networks, instead spin it into a wildfire debate (Sierra Club included).
peacecoup.us - American voices for peace (tags)
please forward
WHISTLEBLOWER UNDER HEAVY CYBERATTACK (tags)
Yahoo, willing puppet to the U.S. intelligence communities, is to be considered suspect and even boycotted. I should know. The information in question regards the connections between September 11, 2001 and a company known as Booz, Allen, and Hamilton.
Draft Proposal for An Anarchist People of Color United Front (tags)
A Proposal by the Black Autonomy Network of Community Organizers (BANCO) for the creation of an Anarchist People of Color United Front
Anarchy in black and white (tags)
Inevitably, some black radical groups work on issues that many anarchists are opposed to. For instance, most anarchists are just as opposed to black capitalism as they are to white capitalism. Most anarcho-activists recognize the danger of entering different communities and evangelizing there. This is elitist and can also be interpreted as being racist, since so many anarchists are white.
Mexico-The Zapatista Army and the Caracoles-A Marxist Analysis (tags)
Mexico
peacecoup.us - We will elad (tags)
please forward
CKUT Radio: Confronting the WTO Ministerial in Cancun Mexico (tags)
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Examining the Impact of Globablization on Women Around the World (tags)
In the unprecedented expansion of world markets that began more than two decades ago, women play crucial roles. Some have been called beneficiaries of this globalization; but many more are its losers. NOW sheds light on how globalization has affected women's lives worldwide.
peacecoup.us to defeat war of all against all (tags)
please forward
Affirmative Action for Whites? (tags)
Do our white American brothers and sisters really want to end Affirmative Action (for them)? As this author reassesses his life in comparison to an African-American colleague, one might gleam that while reaping the benefits of racism has entered its most insidious stage whites must ask themselves "Might I actually be racist?"
"Stop GATS!" Against Privatization of Services (tags)
"The `Washington Consensus' from the 80s promised that a neoliberal policy - liberalization and deregulation - would be good for eveyrone. In fact, local structures are destroyed, human lives are annihilated through hunger and poverty.."Trans fr German
Grocery Stores In Poor, Black Areas Of LA Offer Fewer Healthy Foods (tags)
Study Reveals Lack Of Availability of Fresh Foods
SCHA-LA pickets the LA Times for their coverage of the Supreme Court sodomy ruling, and their biased coverage of queers and transgendered people overall.
A Day Hopeful and Radiant: The Miami Call to Action (final draft) (tags)
This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. She that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast her neighbours, And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:' Then will she strip her sleeve and show her scars. And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Anarchist People of Color Conference in October (tags)
conference news and info
Picket Line at LA Times (tags)
July 8th: PICKET LINE AT THE LA TIMES IN RESPONSE TO 6/27 HEADLINE LINKING OVERTURN OF SODOMY LAW WITH "MOLESTATION"
Come out for ArroyoFest
A proposed new policy to put knowledge in the hands of communities and improve Los Angeles’ economic development process.
Miwon - Points of Unity (tags)
May 1, 2003 MIWON – multi –ethnic immigrant workers organizing network (Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Garment Workers Center (GWC), Korean Immigrant Workers Center (KIWA), Pilipino Workers’ Center (PWC)
Marcha For Social Justice In Our Communities (tags)
MARCH FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND AGAINST WAR
The Anti War Movement: Why, How and Where (tags)
Constructive Criticism of the Anti War Movement: To a movement that is based on ideals of democracy, and that has constantly attacked the current administration for not listening to dissenting voices – to the voices of people – I am sure that such criticism will be welcomed. I present this criticism with the hope that it will lead to the evolution of stronger democracies within communities, of greater involvement by the citizens of USA in issues of equality, peace and justice.
DID THE ''PEACE MOVEMENT'' FAIL? (tags)
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YOUTH MARCH AGAINST WAR, MARCH 16! (tags)
YOUTH TAKE THE STREETS!
YOUTH MARCH AGAINST WAR! M16! (tags)
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march 16th!! protest downtown la (tags)
take back!
Colombia: U'wa people reject oil explotation in Kera Chikara (tags)
COMMUNIQUÉ TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN RESPONSE TO THE DISCOVERY OF PETROLEUM IN OUR ANCESTRAL TERRITORY KERA CHIKARA
North East LA Weekly Peace Demo (tags)
NORTH EAST LOS ANGELES PEACE DEMONSTRATION – EVERY SATURDAY Glassell Park/Eagle Rock corner of Eagle Rock Blvd. and Verdugo/Avenue 40 (1:00 to 3:00).
Youth March Against War, March 16, 2003! (tags)
March and Rally against War
GRASSROOTS PEOPLE OF COLOR ANTI-WAR NETWORK IN ORANGE COUNTY! (tags)
ocrc@mail.com
Text of Zapatista speeches, January 1st, 2003 (tags)
On January 1st, 2003 the EZLN Comandancia (General Command) addressed a crowd in the plaza of the cathedral in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, breaking nearly 2 years of silence.
Join The Localization Lobby (tags)
Localization as the only means to take back our economy and our democracy.
A Left Wing New Years Resolution: Localization vs. Globalization (tags)
This is why it is good to get some union activist experience. You'll soon discover that people are mainly interested in how to improve their lives and the lives of their families first and foremost.
On Sat., Jan.11 at 11 am, Olympic and Broadway, Join the Coalition for World Peace, ANSWER, Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, and NION for a major L.A. demonstration and rally against the war on Iraq. Martin Sheen, Jerry Quickley.
Long Beach Cop Watch - GET INVOLVED! (tags)
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Community Defense Program , Meetings every WEDS! (tags)
Meetings every Weds @ 7pm, located at Long Beach REACH Center, 684 Redondo, Long Beach, CA 90814 - ALL WELCOME!
Long Beach Community Defense Program meetings every Weds @ 7PM! (tags)
Meetings every weds @ LB Reach Center, 684 Redondo, Long Beach, CA @ 7PM
Kichwa Community in Ecuador (tags)
Sarayacu, a native Kichwa Community in Ecuador
Help Establish a COMMUNITY DEFENSE PROGRAM! (tags)
Please come to general planning meeting, Weds, NOV 20th, 7pm @ LB REACH Center (aka Infoshoppe) located at 684 Redondo, Long Beach, CA 90814. ALL WELCOME!
Fight Police Terror, Nov 20 (tags)
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Help us stop POLICE TERROR! R.A.C.U.N Community Defense Program (tags)
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Harmful House Deal on Fire Logging Needs to be Stopped (tags)
An agreement has been reached between Rep. George Miller (D-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Rep. Scott McInnis (R-CO) that can best be described as a chainsaw massacre.
Globalizing Justice in the Peten Jungle of Guatemala (tags)
Speaker from Peter rainforest comes to LA to speak about Plan Puebla Panama on October 7th.
Voice4Change Changing Hearts and Minds http://www.voice4change.org September 16, 2002
Breaking the Chains - People of Color and the War on Drugs (tags)
Hyatt Regency Los Angeles at Macy's Plaza 711 South Hope Street · Los Angeles, CA
OAXACAN ANARCHISTS DEMAND JUSTICE (tags)
ANARCHISTS JUMP ON SCENE IN OAXACA, MEXICO TO DEMAND JUSTICE AND AN END TO INSTITUTIONAL PARAMILITARISM... CHECK GLOBAL LINK FOR UPDATES
Press release: March against police repression in Long Beach! (tags)
From Long Beach, to Compton, to Inglewood, Los Angeles communities will come together to say enough is enough!
New So-Cal Anarchist Art/Media/Theory Journal (tags)
Image of the 2002 Woman's Day March The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest has been a year in the making. Submissions, suggestions, ideas and comments are appreciated.
Breaking Free of the Protest Mentality (tags)
Protestors are in the classic role of "protestors", people with no real power over their lives so they must demand it from the ruling class. Demonstrations also point to a lack of creativity; the only thing we can come up with is playing the song and dance of our rulers. How much longer will these protests go on for? If we could only get a few more tens of thousands to protest, will we be successful in overthrowing capitalism, the state and wage-slavery? Why do the state, capitalism and wage-slavery exist, why do the governments of the U.S. and Israel do what they do, and what are we actually going to do about it?
Tag on LBPD cars and stations! (tags)
Guirella art ! Just do it!!
WAR AGAINST DISPLACED COMMUNITIES IN COLOMBIA (tags)
In the city of Medellin the paramilitaries have been burning the makeshift shacks and assassinating leaders of the displaced communities. In Bucaramanga and Barranquilla leaders have received death threats and in Neiva the police violently attacked and threatened 50 families.
Wlimington residents protests against the use of Hydrofluoric Acid at Refinerys (tags)
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Socialist Values and Culture (tags)
The micro-centers of socialist communities found within the MST cooperatives in Brazil, the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, in the demilitarized zones of Colombia provide important points of references for an eventual socialist society...
MAY DAY - Pacifica Matters - a culture for democracy (tags)
Does Pacifica Matter? What is going on at KPFK? What is all this talk abuot democratizing the network?
Sa-I-Gu was no revolution. All this inflated rhetoric about struggle is ignorant.
Hip Hop Conference in Madison, Wisconsin (tags)
From Madison, Wisconsin
The People's Summit on High-Level Nuclear Waste: Rethinking the Waste Crisis (tags)
The People’s Summit on High-Level Nuclear Waste is a gathering of people from impacted communities to discuss our country’s high-level waste crisis; to confront conflicts among us and develop consensus to unify ourselves and solidify our commitment to a waste policy inclusive of ordinary people’s needs.
PARAMILITARIES MURDER INDIGENOUS LEADER (tags)
In a March 5th communiqué from the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) - the traditional authority of indigenous communities in the department of Cauca, Colombia - the sad news of the assassination of Indian leader and activist Samuel Fernandez Dizu was announced.
Environmental Justice Workshop Saturday in Santa Cruz (tags)
REPORTERS ARE NEEDED TO COVER THIS GREAT EVENT!!! VIDEO, AUDIO, PHOTO, and PEN/PAPER are encouraged!!! Environmental Justice Workshop entitled Ethnic Communities, Social Justice, and the Environment: Making the Connection on Saturday March 2, 2002 at UCSC’s Oakes College room 105 starting at 11:30 until 3:30 pm.
Festival del Pueblo, Boston May 1-5, Update and Statement (tags)
After New York: Take the Struggle Back to the Communities and Workplaces! In May: Converge on Boston to Help Us Bring Together Communities in Struggle and Retake the Offensive!
Festival del Pueblo, Boston May 1-5, Update and Statement (tags)
After New York: Take the Struggle Back to the Communities and Workplaces! In May: Converge on Boston to Help Us Bring Together Communities in Struggle and Retake the Offensive!
MONDAY is 2nd PROGRESSIVE RADICALS AGAINST WAR MEETING (tags)
so you say you are an anti-authoritarian ?
Tired of the Sectarians? check out 2nd progressive Radcials Against War Meeting (tags)
come join us
Come to our 2nd Progressive Radicals Against War meeting this MONDAY! (tags)
Come join us
Revolutionary Graffiti Front! (tags)
Who is the Revolutionary Graffiti Front? We are engaged in form of Guerrilla Art, as a tactic to increase the political awareness of individuals and communities about the daily exploitation and injustice that exist within today's corporate capitalist society.
Tomorrow is our 1st Progressive Radicals Against War Meeting (tags)
come join us
1st Radical Progressives Against the War Meeting (tags)
are you an anarchist? are you against the war? come join us and tell us what YOU think.
1st RADICAL PROGRESSIVES AGAINST THE WAR MEETING THIS MONDAY DEC 10! (tags)
Come on down to the Long Beach Infoshop for our first meeting
Progressive/Radical Youth Against War FIRST MEETING!! (tags)
Come to our first meeting and help us build our new group. You are all invited.
NATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION: Taco Bell Boycott, Nov. 29 - Dec.1 (tags)
From Thursday, November 29, to Saturday, December 1, universities and communities across the country will be participating in a campaign of three days of action at Taco Bell restaurants.
Desktop Theatre online vigil<3rd screenshot> (tags)
This is the third screenshot of an online vigil against war that took place at several virtual communities. In these online communities, people at home chose a character (avatar) and wonder through virtual landscapes interacting with other avatars.
This Saturday! A Taste of Justice Conference (tags)
Come to the "A Taste of Justice" Conference this Saturday, Nov. 3rd. Diet related diseases such as diabetes and obesity are reaching epidemic proportions in low-income communities in Los Angeles. Come work together with other Los Angeles residents to solve this and other problems.
A Taste of Justice Conference- November 3rd (tags)
Register Now for the Taste of Justice Conference. This conference is especially important now with unemployment rising in the wake of 9/11, hunger will be more of an issue. It's imperative that we come up with just solutions to this rather than focusing only on crisis management.
AntiRacist Mobilization Against Columbus Day and Genocide in America (tags)
There will be a massive mobilization against Columbus day in Colorado - the state where columbus day originated. Christopher Columbus was directly responsible for the deaths of over 10 million people, and is symbolic of the ongoing genocide against indigenous peoples that has claimed an estimated 98-99 million lives, the largest Genocide in all of human history. It is absolutely essential that this mobilization - more than any other in recent memory - be a success!
Juan Gonzalez to Speak Aug. 25 (tags)
Activist and Journalist Juan Gonzalez to Address Groundbreaking Bilingual Gathering to Reclaim Community Access to KPFK-Pacifica.
Black Environmentalists Target "Pibby" - Put it in Blacks' Backyards (tags)
In the common view, black communities are roused only by matters involving economic discrimination, police activity, and the like. In fact, black communities have been in the vanguard in the struggle against "PIBBY" -- the siting of facilities that produce or threaten to produce toxic waste in blacks' backyards.
CALL TO ACTION: CONFRONTING THE BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ON ITS OWN TURF (tags)
The next mass mobilization is June 22-27 in San Diego against the Biotechnology Industry Organization. Will you be there?
Join San Diego Biojustice Action June 22-27! (tags)
CELEBRATE life and RESIST the biotechnology industry and genetically modified foods in San Diego June 22-27, 2001!
NGO Events in Honolulu 4-11 May (tags)
Honolulu is hosting the 2001 annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Listed are events planned from 4-11 May. For more about the ADB, what we're doing, and housing info, take advantage of the contact information at the bottom of the list.
LA Times turns it's back on local coverage (tags)
The L.A. Times has just ceased publication of Our Times sections covering neighborhood news in 14 Southland communities -- an all-too-typical example of how corporate media fail to serve real community needs. Activist and radio producer Karen Pomer is circulating the following open letter to the staff of Our Times Santa Monica, which IMC-LA is proud to reproduce.
Twelve Ways to Democratize the U.S. Political System: Eleventh (tags)
11. Make voting easy.
Landlord Crisis (coming soon to LA) (tags)
The SF IMC has put together this excellent overview of gentrification in the City. It's relevant to LA, insofar as many of the race and class dynamics described can happen here. Santa Monica, watch out!
Demands of Tuesday Justice for Youth March (tags)
The Justice for Youth March on Tuesday morning was part of continuing statewide efforts to fight for more Schools and less Jails in the State of California. The following were the 10 demands presented at the Ronald Reagan State Building where California Gov. Gray Davis' office is located: