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On the Philippine Congress Bombing (and Glorietta Mall blast) Akbayan & Anak Mindanao Partylists 2007-11-17 3:18 AM

Akbayan & Anak Mindanao Partylists condemn Batasan bombing (image/jpeg)

Pakistani Member of Parliament Arrested Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign 2007-11-16 5:55 PM

Manzoor Ahmed was arrested on a demonstration this morning, after leading many demonstrations throughout the Punjab region of Pakistan. Manzoor Ahmed is Marxist Member of Parliament and is also president of the Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign. Labor Organizations are urged to protest his arrest and press for his freedom. (image/jpeg)

Venezuela: Interview with an indigenous activist El Libertario, Venezuela 2007-11-15 11:05 PM
* As part of the 2.300 delegates in the second Zapatista and indigenous community’s international reunion, which took place last July in Mexico, members of the wayuu community delivered a truly important message: Venezuelan indigenous community’s situation is very different than the declared by the government people in Caracas. El Libertario talked about the experience with Jorge Montiel, member of the Maikiralasa’lii. (text/plain)

INSURGENTES against Venezuela´s constitutional reform Espacio INSURGENTES 2007-11-15 11:03 PM
* Various organizations and individuals within Venezuela, each with a history of social struggle and each bringing with them diverse proposals from the anti-authoritarian and critical left, have assembled in the space of INSURGENTES (INSURGENTS) to forge a position against the proposed constitutional “reform” offered by the republic’s President, Hugo Chavez Frias. (text/plain)

video from 2004 RNC, New York City email 2007-11-15 2:22 AM
2 days in New York City (text/plain)

Journalist attacked in Acapulco, Mexico. Guillermo Ramirez 2007-11-13 8:46 PM

The assailant had in his hands a knife to kill the journalist and justice is protecting the criminal. (image/jpeg)

Activists to travel to the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia for massive anti-militarization SOA Watch 2007-11-13 3:29 PM
Join activists at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia at the vigil and nonviolent direct action to close the SOA and to change U.S. foreign policy. (text/html)

Pittsburgh activists to head to Fort Benning, Georgia for anti-militarization mobilization http://www.soaw.org 2007-11-13 1:47 AM
Join Pittsburgh area activists at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia at the vigil and nonviolent direct action to close the SOA and to change U.S. foreign policy. (text/html)

Venezuela: Reforms take away what is gained through the struggle El Libertario, Venezuela 2007-11-11 11:22 PM

*This is the editorial of the latest edition of El Libertario (Venezuela, #51, November 2007, now available -in spanish- in www.nodo50.org/ellibertario) in which this mouthpiece of Venezuelan Anarchism set outs its position with regard to the Constitutional Reforms which the current Government seeks to impose on this country. (image/jpeg)

NYC Indymedia Totally Bans My Articles from Publication Lloyd Hart 2007-11-10 7:26 PM
In the quiet secrecy of what seems to be a conspiratorial siege mentality NYC Indymedia has unofficially but secretly banned my writing from being published on the Open News Wire entirely. (text/plain)

NEW VIDEOS: Tom Morello for Mumia, McMahon Training Video on Racist Jury Selection, and... Journalists for Mumia 2007-11-09 9:09 AM
We have just started our own <a href="http://youtube.com/profile?user=journalists4mumia">Journalists for Mumia You Tube Page </a>, are releasing two new videos, and have created a VIDEO section at Abu-Jamal-News.com, which features films about Mumia, COINTELPRO, The Black Panther Party, militarism, media censorship, and more. <a href="http://www.abu-jamal-news.com">CHECK IT OUT!</a> (video/x-msvideo)

The May 13, 1985 MOVE Bombing: Suicide or State-sanctioned Murder? Kevin Price / Abu-Jamal-News.com 2007-11-07 9:59 AM

"If you look close enough you can see history altered before your eyes. Pick up the latest Guinness Book of World Records, flip to page 123 and you will see what I mean. Under the section 'Cults, Fans and Followers' the police bombing of the MOVE Organization in 1985 is listed as the sixth most deadly mass suicide in recent history…. Yes, you did read that correctly. A deliberate massacre, in which police dropped a bomb on a house, intentionally allowed the fire to burn and shot at those that dared attempt an escape, was labeled as mass suicide," writes MOVE supporter Kevin Price in his recent essay <a href="http://phillyimc.org/en/2007/11/43165.shtml">"MOVE's Battle With Guinness."</a> <p> Price's essay follows a recent <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein/inqlings/20071101_Inqlings___MOVEs_Guinness_record_riles_survivor.html">Philadelphia Inquirer interview</a> with Ramona Africa, <a href="http://prisonradio.org/RamonaAfrica.htm">the sole adult survivor</a> of the May 13, 1985 police assault. <a href="http://onamove.com/">MOVE</a> has confronted Guinness and is asking people to <a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/OnaMove">sign a petition</a> in protest. <p> Past Philly IMC coverage has documented the <a href="http://www.phillyimc.org/en/2007/05/39473.shtml">long history of media bias</a> towards MOVE, the upcoming <a href="http://insubordination.blogspot.com/2007/07/attention-move-this-is-america.html">Parole Hearings for the remaing MOVE prisoners</a>, interviews with Ramona Africa in <a href="http://www.publicenemy.com/pb/viewtopic.php?t=21398&sid=1">2002</a> & <a href="http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=7">2003</a>, and demonstrations in Philadelphia(<a href="http://www.phillyimc.org/en/2007/05/39534.shtml">1</a>, <a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/08/08/17585141.php">2</a>). A recent documentary about MOVE (narrated by Howard Zinn) can be <a href="http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=428944249&channel=219646953">viewed online</a>, as well as <a href="http://www.nbc10.com/news/4482630/detail.html">NBC 10 archival footage</a>. (image/gif)

Pakistan Labor Activists Arrested--Action Needed Now! Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign 2007-11-07 2:59 AM

Update on repression in Pakistan! (image/jpeg)

Anti-Authoritarian People of Color caucus at the School of the Americas (SOA) protest Anonymous 2007-11-05 5:25 PM
CALLING ALL ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN / ANARCHIST PEOPLE OF COLOR (APOC) for an Anti-Authoritarian People of Color caucus at the convergence to Shut Down the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC). (text/plain)

BETH ROCKWELL – GREEN POLITICAL PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE Tim Reim, Chair – Green Party of Erie Count 2007-11-04 9:41 PM
On Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Beth Rockwell and five other peace protesters from Erie County were sentenced to prison on contempt charges. The “Erie Six” were sentenced to serve five days in jail for refusing to pay fines stemming from their blocking, on March 20th, the doors to the downtown Erie Federal Courthouse. Their protest was intended to serve as a symbolic representation of citizens’ effort to shut-down our governments' illegal and immoral war on Iraq. (text/plain)

BTL:Washington Intensifies Verbal Attack on Iran Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2007-11-04 1:40 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

North East Anarchist Network assembly Nov 17-18th Amherst, MA Make Total Destroy 2007-11-02 8:12 AM
The Northeast Anarchist Network is a horizontal network linking those in the Northeast region of North America committed to anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, and anti-oppressive struggles. (text/plain)

Crushing Defeat of US blockade of CUBA at UN General Assembly! posted by F Espinoza 2007-10-31 8:46 AM

For the sixteen consecutive time, United Nations members voted against the US economic, financial and commercial blockade of Cuba. The resolution presented by the island received 184 votes in favor, one more than in 2006, four against and one abstention. (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

The Blue Book Campaign to Remember New Orleans Lyn LeJeune 2007-10-29 9:14 PM
Everyone carry The Blue Book, The Beatitudes, in memory of New Orleans and the importance of public libraries. (text/plain)

Call for the release of the Cuban Five posted by F Espinoza 2007-10-29 8:49 PM

The Cuban chapter of the Defense of Humanity Network announced in Havana a new call for the release of the five anti-terrorist Cubans incarcerated for nine years with heavy sentences hanging over them. (image/jpeg)

BTL:Congress Battles over Government Wiretap Bill Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2007-10-28 1:13 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

End hunger - letter writing campaign Windel Schmidt 2007-10-26 11:41 AM
End hunger letter writing campaign. - Links to ending hunger, child education, child health, training for women, sustainable technology training, organic gardening-farming, recycling, reducing water usage and good books to read. (text/plain)

The Myth of “Co-Management” in Venezuela: Reflections on Alcasa and Invepal El Libertario, Venezuela 2007-10-25 11:27 PM
* With a lot of rhetoric and propaganda the Chavez administration has advanced different examples of co-management which, they claim, demonstrate their desire to transform Venezuela’s relations of production. A compañero from Europe visited us recently and got to know two of the most celebrated cases: Alcasa and Invepal. Here is the report he prepared for El Libertario # 51 about the actual working conditions in the country’s most “important” co-managed businesses. (text/plain)

CUBA responds to Bush posted by F Espinoza 2007-10-25 9:43 PM

REPLYING to three spurious initiatives for Cuba proposed by George Bush in Washington on October 24, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque set out 12 points “covering what the U.S. president should propose as aid” to the island. (image/jpeg)

The Battle of Georgetown NorthEast Anarchist Network Media Committee 2007-10-25 6:12 PM
IMF/World Bank Protestors Bring the Fight to DC’s Richest Neighborhood (text/plain)

BTL:Bush-Sponsored Middle East Peace Talks Likely to Fail Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2007-10-21 5:33 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

The FBI's War on Black Liberation: COINTELPRO and the Panthers Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch.com 2007-10-21 8:03 AM

While also spotlighting the cases of The SF 8, Veronza Bowers, Jr., and Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown), Ron Jacobs writes that the new Mumia Abu-Jamal crime scene photos in German author Michael Schiffmann's book: "cast more doubt on the state's case by apparently disproving the prosecution's statements that Mumia stood over Officer Faulkner and fired at him several times. The photos show no marks from the bullets that were supposedly fired in this fashion. In fact, the sidewalk was not damaged in any way. Schiffmann goes on to write: 'it is thus no question anymore whether the scenario presented by the prosecution at Abu-Jamal's trial is true. It is clearly not, because it is physically and ballistically impossible.' (p. 205) The remainder of the photos show a scenario that constantly contradicts the testimony of officers and witnesses (apparently coerced) and the nature of the scene they described in Mumia's original trial." SEE PHOTO BELOW: The official police crime scene photo (not taken by Pedro Polakoff) also supports Schiffmann's "missing bullet divots" observation. (image/jpeg + 4 comments)

Punish The Poor. The new government of social insecurity. Marc Jambers 2007-10-18 10:05 AM

The criminal justice policy (in the US, reluctantly followed by the EU) has turned out in more punishing. See the attached video. (image/jpeg)

2007 Midwest Socialist Conference: Building a Revolutionary Alternative Midwest Socialist Conference 2007-10-16 2:38 PM
The 2007 Midwest Socialist Conference, “Building a Revolutionary Alternative” is a two-day event in early November that will bring together socialists and other activists involved in struggles across the region... (text/plain)

BTL:Press Report Reveals White House Never Ended Torture Program Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2007-10-13 12:55 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

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