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ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports May 1 Demanding End to War in Iraq, Afghanistan Internationalist Group 2008-03-02 12:06 AM
In a major step for the U.S. labor movement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced that it will shut down West Coast ports on May 1, to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East. This is the first time in decades that an American union has decided to undertake industrial action against a U.S. war. The action announced by the powerful West Coast dock workers union, to stop work to stop the war, should be taken up by unions and labor organizations throughout the United States and internationally. And the purpose of such actions should be not to beg the bourgeois politicians whose hands are covered with blood, having voted for every war budget for six and a half years, but a show of strength of the working people who make this country run, and who can shut it down! (text/html + 2 comments)

Do not Work for the Department of Defense me 2008-02-15 4:16 AM
Be smart, don't work for the Department of Defense. (text/html)

The Republican Candidate posted by F Espinoza 2008-02-14 1:30 PM

In that already famous Super Tuesday, a day of the week when a number of States of the Union were selecting the candidate of their choice for the presidency of the United States from among a group of contenders, one of the likely candidates to replace George W. Bush was John McCain... (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Proto-Fascist Update: FBI Deputizes Business 'Security' Front Repost by CarlD 2008-02-10 5:52 PM

Note from CarlD: While a defacto practice since the FBI was founded, officially creating this quasi-independent private police 'nonprofit' tied to 'homeland security' should raise any number of danger signs. . (image/jpeg)

War is Coming Home peacehq 2008-02-10 2:33 PM
War is the disease of which PTSD and other mental illnesses that plague our soldiers and veterans are merely symptoms. (text/plain)

Operation Desert Slaughter: Thoughts on Holocaust Memorial Day GRC 2008-02-09 9:21 PM
It is seventeen years since America and Britain embarked on their 'Final Solution' for the population of Iraq.Having, as James Baker boasted they would, reduced 'Iraq to a pre-industrial age', the country was denied all normality : trade, aid, telecommunications, power, sanitation, water repairs, seeds, foods, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment. (text/plain)

No to French Military Intervention in Chad! ICP 2008-02-07 7:09 PM

While the devastating rebel offensive marks time, the French government is showing its teeth. (image/jpeg)

Hillary Clinton was silent when her husband esecuted a retarded man and 3 others S.N.S. 2008-02-03 5:43 PM

Hillary Clinton was silent when her husband esecuted 4.. was silent when her client WalMart gave a glass ceiling to women, when they unionbusted, when she invested in cattle futures (those cows had no future), when she helped Don Tyson become the nation's biggest butcher.. his corporation skinning animals alive in Washington State See also her appalling record on animal rights http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/390560.html (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

We Need a Nonviolent Revolution: Resist in March WPC 2008-02-01 7:52 AM
There is a great need to increase resistance to the war crimes committed by our government and war profiteers. March 12th and 19th will be focused on nonviolent direct action in D.C. (text/plain)

Think Peace DVD pumpkinhead 2008-01-27 3:03 AM

Where were you on February 15, 2003? New film looks at modern day Peace Movement. (image/jpeg)

Communist Party of the Philippines pursues a violent course against its left opponents M Cornish 2008-01-25 3:11 AM

In the Philippines, one of the poorest countries in Asia, 40 percent of the people live in poverty. Conditions there have sparked a large radical movement, heavily repressed by the government. (image/jpeg)

VOTE PSL in 2008: Reparations Now! votepsl 2008-01-24 8:00 PM

The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is fielding a slate of candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections: Gloria La Riva for President and Eugene Puryear for Vice President. La Riva/Puryear demand that the Black community be compensated fully, with interest, for the historical racism and wrongs forced upon them by capitalism. (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

BTL: Despite Reduction in Violence, Iraq Remains Dangerously Volatile Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2008-01-19 3:52 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

COLOMBIA: GUERRA Y SANGRE EN LA HÚMEDA ESPESURA DE LA SELVA (Nota de PUMHA) Ramon Godoy 2008-01-19 5:52 AM
Parece ser que el territorio de lo que actualmente es la República de Colombia ya estaba habitado por pueblos nómades, que posteriormente se hicieron sedentarios, unos 4.000 años antes de Cristo, que mantuvieron su presencia allí, sin mayores problemas, durante varios milenios... (text/plain)

A friend of CUBA passes away… posted by F Espinoza 2008-01-10 11:39 AM

On the evening of Monday, January 7, Philip B. Agee passed away in Havana. The US citizen was a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official until he broke with the agency in 1968 for ethical reasons. (image/jpeg)

The Ron Paul “Revolution”, an Extreme Rightwing Threat STEVEN ARGUE 2008-01-09 7:40 PM

"Paul is a white nationalist of the Stormfront type who has always kept his racial views and his views about world Judaism quiet because of his political position." American Nazi Party Commander, Bill White (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

The CPP-NPA-NDF “Hit List” - a preliminary report Pierre Rousset 2008-01-08 8:30 AM

It is essential to understand the real scope of the assassination policy of Left activists pursued, after the 1992 crisis, by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), its military arm, the New People’s Army (NPA) and its politico-diplomatic arm, the National Democratic Front (NDF). (image/jpeg)

BTL:Hugo Chavez and Supporters Reflect on Constitutional Referendum Loss Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2008-01-05 2:22 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

FYI: Michael Moore on Iowa Vote and the War Repost by CarlD 2008-01-04 8:23 PM

Looks like a good number of antiwar youth have entered the electoral arena whether folks here think it a waste of time or not. What's worth pondering is how one best forms an alliance with THEM for antiwar activity during and after the campaign. Hint: Not by denouncing their champion as a same-as-Bush advocate of war and them as fools and suckers. --CarlD (image/jpeg)

The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States, and the Struggle to Achieve It Steven Argue 2008-01-04 4:36 PM

The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee blasted insurance giant CIGNA for failing to approve a liver transplant one week earlier for 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan, who tragically died just hours after CIGNA relented and agreed to the procedure following a massive national outcry. “CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro called the final outcome ‘a horrific tragedy that demonstrates what is so fundamentally wrong with our health care system today. Insurance companies have a stranglehold on our health. Their first priority is to make profits for their shareholders – and the way they do that is by denying care." "It is simply not possible to organize major protests every time a multi-billion corporation like CIGNA denies care that has been recommended by a physician," DeMoro said. “Having insurance is not the same as receiving needed care. We need a fundamental change in our healthcare system that takes control away from the insurance giants and places it where it belongs – in the hands of the medical professionals, the patients, and their families." (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

C Span Is Controlled by the Neocon Cable Industry Kucinich Supporter 2008-01-02 5:33 PM
C Span is designed to amplify the propaganda of war profiteers while muzzling the voices of the poor (text/plain)

U.S. isolated on the Human Rights Issue in CUBA posted by F Espinoza 2007-12-19 12:34 PM

The recent Cuban decision to sign the International Pact on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Civil and Political Rights is a clear example of the island's conduct when it is not subjected to external pressures... (image/jpeg)

Proto-Fascist Update: Local Imam Under Fire by Feds Repost by CarlD 2007-12-18 2:47 AM

Seems like a worthy local cause for the Justice part of 'Peace & Justice. Is there a local area defense committee for this guy and his family? If you want to defend immigrant rights and take of the Patriot Act wackos, this seems a good place to start. . (image/jpeg)

BTL:Neoconservatives Attack Intelligence Finding on Iran Nuclear Weapons Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2007-12-16 8:22 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

Romney seeks to buy election by buying Clear Channel Populist Dem 2007-12-15 8:20 PM
Romney's Bain Capital is invested in Mormon factory farms, war, and is now bidding to buy the monopoly radio network Clear Channel (text/plain)

PHILIPPINES: Gloria Arroyo is a Human Rights Violator! Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates 2007-12-12 12:17 AM

Hers is a Morally Bankrupt Government with Distorted Human Rights Values! Malacañang’s (Presidential Palace) cash gifts, for whatever fabricated excuses and delayed explanations, has exposed the governance of Ms. Gloria Arroyo as morally bankrupt. (image/jpeg)

RNC Welcoming Committee NE Tour RNC-WC 2007-12-11 4:51 PM
The RNC Welcoming Committee, with some help and company from our comrades in Unconventional Action, will be touring the Northeast between the end of January and the (late-ish) middle of February. We’ll be spreading antiRNC fervor and gathering feedback, information and resources for next September. (text/plain)

Oprah vs War: What Does It Mean for Us? Repost by CarlD 2007-12-10 5:13 PM

[Note from CarlD: Interesting piece. I think it shows the potential for UFPJ and others to intervene in EVERY 2008 campaign--not to endorse anyone, but to make opposition to the war both 'legitimate' and the central focus. Time to start the planning to set up 'Peace and Justice Voters 2008' groups everywhere that don't belong to any party to get the job done.] . (image/jpeg)

Petition Opposing H.R. 1955/S. 1959 Cha-Cha Connor 2007-12-08 4:52 PM
Petition asking our U.S. Senate to refuse H.R. 1955/S. 1959 (text/plain)

BTL:U.S. Intelligence Report Challenges Bush's... Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2007-12-07 12:09 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

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