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Action Alert - Vote Solar Bradley Richard Ingram 2007-12-02 5:38 PM
Don’t Let Congress Pull the Plug on Solar Energy, Jobs and Economic Growth. Local Renewable Energy creates three times more jobs than fossil fuel or energy imported from other regions. Keep Our Country strong Like a Rock. (text/plain)

Jan 19-21, Binghamton, NY, Tentative dates for northeast Unconventional Action convergence Upstate Uprise Unconventional Action Faction 2007-12-02 10:04 AM
The only party we need is in the streets! (text/plain + 1 comment)

Iraq: 'Internationally Sponsored Genocide' Global Research 2007-11-28 6:08 PM
As you know, when I was here in April/May 1992, I thought things could get no worse. Yet in July this year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations note in a Report: '..with deep regret', all the: 'pre-famine indicators being in place'. Further that an appreciable proportion of the population now had less calorific intake than the most famine stricken parts of Africa. (text/plain)

New Films from South Lebanon a-films 2007-11-27 7:26 PM
The anarchist film collective "a-films" announces three new videos from South Lebanon. In October 2007, a-films did video workshops in Bourj ash-Shamali Refugee Camp and the village of Siddiqine. (text/plain)

The International Call to Stop The Gaza Siege Now International Solidarity for Palestine 2007-11-22 5:35 AM
Please take one minute to SIGN the petition: "The International Call to Stop The Gaza Siege Now" http://www.petitiononline.com/etgs1/petition.html But first, read the following "Open Letter to Sir John Holmes" about the genocidal siege on the 1.4 million people in Gaza, Occupied Palestine. (text/plain + 2 comments)

People Power: It’s time to stop the war ourselves By Aimee Allison and David Solnit 2007-11-22 4:11 AM
It’s time to stop the war ourselves. A new strategy is emerging from below to make it happen. It can be seen in the Pittsburgh Organizing Group’s “Troops Home Fast,” a month-long, around-the-clock vigil held in September 2007 outside Pittsburgh’s Recruitment Center. (text/plain + 14 comments)

Labor Union Education at Turnpike Rest Areas Kicks-off this Holiday "Working" Se Pittsburgh I.W.W. 2007-11-21 10:59 PM
ACLU Steps-in to Assure Citizens that Rest Areas are Public Space for First Amendment Activities (text/plain)

The young Iranian Makvan Moloudzadeh must live! Roberto Malini, Matteo Pegoraro - EveryOne 2007-11-21 9:17 AM
Sign the petition for Life in Iran: http://www.stopexecution.net Send fresh flowers: one white, one red to say yes to a respect for human rights, no to the death sentence. Choose a company that guarantees deliveries to Teheran (Iran), Interflora, for example. Send the two flowers to: - President Mahmud Ahmadinejad - Pasteur Ave - 13168-43311 Tehran - Iran. We suggest you also sign the petition and send an email to the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran: dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir - Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi - Ministry of Justice - Ministry of Justice Building, Panzdah-Khordad Square - Tehran - Iran. Email: info@dadgostary-tehran.ir (text/plain)

France: The workers must take the struggle into their own hands! ICP 2007-11-20 6:55 PM
Seldom has trade-union unity been so great in the country: almost all the trade unions, including the most collaborationist, call for an indefinite strike at the SNCF, because of the determination and combativeness of the workers! But what objective does this united leadership set for the struggle to come? In 1995 the objective was clear: total withdrawal of the Prime Minister Juppé plan against the pensions. Today what is the objective of this trade-union unity? Total withdrawal of the new attack against the pensions? (text/plain)

Local Community Radio Act Andalusia 2007-11-20 12:42 AM
An article about the importance of Low Power FM Radio. (text/plain)

Iran granted a pardon to the young homosexual Makvan Roberto Malini, Glegys Robinson 2007-11-17 3:03 PM
President Ahmadinejad and the Iranian judges have granted a pardon to the young homosexual Makvan Mouloodzadeh (text/plain)

An Open Letter to the Drink Tax "Astroturf" Arson Daily 2007-11-16 3:12 PM
An open letter to the fake grassroots organization, created by lobbyists and PR firms that is meant to appear local and spontaneous in its opposition to the propsed 10% drink tax (text/html + 7 comments)

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)

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)

Hill District Man Slain By Narco-Terrorists Yinsurrectionary Times 2007-11-12 6:32 PM
Aucy Andrews, 59, of the Hill District is the seventh person to be reported shot by uniformed-terrorists Pittsburgh Police, this year. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that one, of the at least five shots, reported by witnesses to the murder, was fatal. (text/html)

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)

Debating the Status of Detainees in the 'War On Terror' Pitt Law National Lawyers Guild 2007-11-06 1:59 AM
DEBATING THE STATUS OF DETAINEES IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR': A Review of the Khadr Case (text/plain)

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)

Latin American Documentary and Film Fest Amigos del Cine Latinoamericano 2007-11-02 5:00 PM
This First Short Film and Documentary Festival brings a number of films that emerge from social and cultural realities of some countries in the region (in particular Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, the U,S., and Canada). (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)

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)

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)

Pittsburgh Bikes and Peds on Satellite TV John Z Wetmore 2007-10-27 6:54 AM
On Tuesday, October 30, Pittsburgh Bicyclists and Pedestrians will be featured on the television series "Perils For Pedestrians". The half-hour program will be on The Universityhouse Channel (DISH Network 9411) at 9:30 PM EDT. (text/plain + 1 comment)

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)

register for Free The Planet & ForestEthics Midwest Summit Free The Planet OSU 2007-10-26 12:15 AM
With the victory from the Victoria’s Dirty Secret Campaign fresh in everyone’s mind, Forest Ethics announces its new target for the paper campaign: Sears Holding Co. (text/html)

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