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G8 Japan "Way to Hokkaido 1 - Landing and IRA" Accion Global Anticapitalista 2008-06-27 11:11 PM
The G8 counter-summit is about to start. The anti-capitalist group Global Action is in Japan to participate and report on the evolution of resistance. (text/html)

Government Revoked Muslim Nuclear Physicist's Security Clearance To Retaliate For Criticis ACLU of Pennsylvania 2008-06-26 5:44 PM
ACLU of PA is suing the government after it revoked the security clearance of a Muslim nuclear physicist who has been an outspoken critic of US policy. Contrary to its own policy, the government is refusing to allow the scientist to contest the revocation, citing "national security." (text/plain)

Bob Packer's Gonna "Fix Your Face"!.. 6/25 Bobby Meade 2008-06-26 3:21 PM
..if you mess with this Gad damn article! He's gonna make your mother wish she never had you! GHW Bush says that they are paying queer sh*theads at IMCs or other sites to disable the sites or block posts such as mine. 6/25 One Man Army's gonna save these sh*theads whether they want to be saved or not! (text/plain)

WILL US CONGRESS SUPPORT THE INNOCENT ? Lawyers For Poor Americans 2008-06-25 7:06 PM
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM. (text/plain)

Application of Islamic Shari'a in US Courts Gabriel Sawma 2008-06-21 2:53 PM
In 2004 a crash of Blackwater Flight 61 occurred in the rugged mountains of central Afghanistan, killing three soldiers and three-man crew. The widows of the soldiers sued Presidential Airways, Blackwater’s sister company, which was under contract with the U.S. military to fly cargo and personnel around Afghanistan. Lawyers for the company has asked a federal court to decide the case using provisions from the Islamic Shari’a, not the U.S. laws. They argue that the Shari’a “does not hold a company responsible for the actions of employees performed within the course of their work.” http://www.newsobserver.com/917/story/1113022.html (text/plain)

Austrian police' fascist treatment of antifur activists boycotting Kleider Bauer Austrian Vegan Soc and Others 2008-06-17 9:04 PM
Austrian police' fascist treatment of antifur activists boycotting Kleider Bauer Ten animal rights campaigners have been held since the 21st of May after police raided twenty-three homes and offices in Austria (text/plain)

Tuesday, June 17th - Call-in for Bashir Hameed Anarchist Black Cross 2008-06-15 6:56 PM
There will be a 'Call in' on Tuesday June 17th between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight time (7-10am pacific time) in support of political prisoner Bashir Hameed. (text/html)

London to Geneva Peace Walk, May 2008 peacehq 2008-06-14 4:00 PM
We have been in France for 28 days, and over a month since the walk began. We have had huge support from not just local people but globally the walk has been joined by people from Japan, Canada, German, France, Italy, Australia, Sweden, Scotland, England, Niger & the United States of America. (text/plain)

Ontario's proposed nuclear waste dump threatens Pennsylvania Great Lakes United Nuclear-Free/Green Energy 2008-06-13 3:20 AM
Since the proposed nuclear waste dump is only 50 miles from Michigan across Lake Huron, leakage of radioactivity from the dump could directly affect tens of millions of residents in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, and contaminate the drinking water in Port Huron, Sarnia, Detroit, Windsor, Toledo, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo, Toronto ... (text/plain)

27 Reasons To Dump Time Warner Free Air Waves 2008-06-12 4:06 PM
promotion of war, advertising of the pieces of murdered animals, destruction of habitat, pricegouging, cancellation of free tv, interference with municipal offersings of free internet etc. (text/plain)

Indiana: Call Out For Tree Siters mom 2008-06-05 9:43 PM
Its been over two weeks since tree sits were set up along the I-69 route in Southern Indiana, and they've been going strong ever since. The reactions of farmers in the area has been overwhelmingly positive, and momentum is continuing to grow. (text/plain)

Free with 84 Lumber Wood Products: Controversy From Chile Tim Kingston 2008-06-05 12:26 AM
JUNE 5 Concert. One of Pittsburgh’s best known corporate citizens, 84 Lumber Company, is entangled in a furor over plans to dam two spectacular rivers in Patagonia. Satirical country singer Dana Lyons will bring the international campaign to stop the dams to 84 Lumber’s hometown with a concert at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the North Hills in Pittsburgh. (text/plain)

Muslim Nuclear Physicist Loses Job, Denied Due Process Haroon Al-Qahtani 2008-06-01 8:00 PM
Dr. Moniem El-Ganayni, a nuclear physicist and Muslim prison chaplain, has lost his battle with the Department of Energy to get back his security clearance and his job at the Bettis Laboratory in Pittsburgh. He never even got a chance to tell his side of the story. The reason: unspecified grounds of national security. (text/plain)

Unconventional East Coast Convergence Schedule and Registration Available DC Unconventional Action 2008-05-26 4:39 PM
Schedule and online registration now available! (text/html)

Some Favorite Poems Poem Classics 2008-05-25 9:17 PM
poetry of Emily Dickinson, Yeats, Millay, Wilbur, Dove, Tagore, Rumi, Lao Tsu, Mary Shelley and others (text/plain)

Lebanon: Writings on the Walls of Nahr al-Bared Camp a-films 2008-05-25 8:38 PM
The anarchist film collective 'a-films' has just published another short film from North Lebanon. It documents many racist, sexist, humiliating and insulting graffiti that Lebanese soldiers had written on the walls of the houses in the destroyed Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared. (text/plain)

Dick Cheney Made Millions with Saddam Hussein Martin A. Lee 2008-05-24 5:12 AM
Here's a whopper of a story you may have missed amid the cacophony of campaign ads and stump speeches in the run- up to the elections. (text/plain)

River City Animal Defense League Joins the Fight Against I-69 anonymouse 2008-05-21 3:34 PM
On the evening of Monday, May 19th, the newly formed River City Animal Defense League (ADL) and friends made our public debut. We took to the neighborhoods, and more specifically the houses of executives and contractors of Gohmann Asphalt and Construction, Inc. Gohmann Asphalt and Construction, Inc. is a disgusting company that has decided to proceed with business in the construction of Interstate-69 (I-69) which is the North American Free Trade Agreement's (NAFTA) superhighway. (text/plain)

BTL:Group Demands Answers on Bush Surveillance of Guantanamo Attorneys Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2008-05-19 2:06 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

Conscientious Objector Status—Who Should Decide? Kenneth Clairmont 2008-05-11 10:51 PM
It is a fallacious and legalistic straw man ploy for any society or organization (such as the Department of Defense) to arrogate, as definition, that an individual must oppose “all” war on religious or ethical grounds to be considered a “conscientious objector”. Simply to be “conscientious” means to act from one’s “own” conscience—not from the collective hearsay of any particular group or on legalistic grounds of some corporate presumption. The individual conscience is the moral compass of conscientious authority. (text/plain)

Two New Publications From Infoshop Chuck Munson 2008-05-08 6:58 PM
Infoshop.org and the Alternative Media Project are pleased to announce the availability of two new digital publications. The first issue of our bi-monthly newsletter titled "Revolution" is available as a PDF file that can be read online or printed out. (text/plain + 1 comment)

May Day Strike Against the War Shuts Down All U.S. West Coast Ports Internationalist Group 2008-05-05 3:47 AM
On May 1, every port on the West Coast of the United States was shut down to demand an end to the U.S. war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The historic May Day walkout by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is the first time ever that an American union has struck against a U.S. war. The union ranks defied the rulings of an arbitrator, who twice ordered them to go to work. They overcame the capitulations of the ILWU leadership, which didn't want the work stoppage in the first place, tried to water it down and cowered before the threats of legal action while waving the flag. The employers' Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) declared the May 1 port shutdown an "illegal strike." But after all the huffing and puffing from the bosses' mouthpieces, the dock workers pointed the way to defeating the imperialist war by mobilizing working-class power. In the end, it was more than a work stoppage. The dock workers' May Day strike against the war was a first step, a show of what it will take to bring down the warmongers in Washington. Their "symbolic" action was felt all the way to Iraq, where dock workers in two ports stopped work in solidarity with the ILWU. But it was only a beginning. What is needed is not only industrial action but a political offensive against the Democrats and Republicans, the partner parties of American imperialism, to build a class-struggle workers party. (text/html)

Year 1870: Mothers Day Proclamation Anna Howe 2008-05-05 12:19 AM
A copy of the Original Mothers Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe - (text/plain)

“The End of America” is Thomas Paine Reborn Daniel Debut 2008-05-04 9:58 PM
“The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot” by Naomi Wolf (Chelsea Green Publishing 2007) is the Thomas Paine hue and cry to The Peoples’ nation suffocating from tyranny. This concise booklet, of 155 pages of text, is an absolute must read for “every” American who cares about liberty—irrespective of political affiliation. (text/plain)

Las andanzas de Rockefeller en Paraguay Luis Agüero Wagner 2008-05-04 8:55 AM
Poco antes de las elecciones generales en Paraguay en las que resultó electo el obispo Fernando Lugo, el heredero del imperio petrolero fundado por John Davison Rockefeller en 1870, la Standard Oil Company, realizó una enigmática visita a Asunción. (text/plain)

New video from Nahr al-Bared Camp a-films 2008-05-03 8:55 PM
The anarchist video collective "a-films" announces its latest short film (10 min.) from the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in Lebanon called "Traces of Collective Dispossession". (text/plain)

BTL:Pentagon War Propaganda Operation Exposed Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2008-05-02 3:39 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary (text/plain)

“50 Shots Equals Murder!” John Tarleton 2008-04-30 8:03 AM
Sean Bell Supporters Take It to the Streets on Friday (text/plain)

The San Angelo Witch Hunts sd 2008-04-29 3:22 AM
Why you should care about the raid on the FLDS ranch. (text/html)

Thoughts on Working America and Jenn Jannon? Philip Shropshire 2008-04-27 2:56 PM
I'm curious about this community's experiences with Working America. (text/plain + 4 comments)

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