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2 Million PETA members win with KFC Canada.. Help KFC US Cave Chicken Rights 2008-06-04 12:31 PM

With 2 million members and 12,000 pickets against KFC around the world, KFC Canada has acceded to requests for less brutal slaughterhouse methods. It's time to build pressure on KFC in the US. (image/jpeg)

Workers walk off MGM Mirage Dubai World CityCenter Site in Protest MGM Mirage Dubai World CityCenter Constructio 2008-06-03 11:45 PM

Union leaders: We’ll picket until contractor meets demands for increased safety (image/jpeg)

The Best of Rustbelt Radio for Winter and Spring 2008 (June 2, 2008) Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-06-03 6:22 PM
Welcome to this week's edition of Rustbelt Radio, the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center's weekly review of the news from the grassroots, news overlooked by the corporate media. This week, we will be presenting highlights of Rustbelt Radio stories from the Winter and Spring of 2008 including... * Word on the Street segments on teens & sex and anti-war protestors * Police Officers are found guilty in the Michael Ellerbee civil trial * Community Residents Defeat a Proposed Jail in the South Bronx * Affordable birth control for college students is under attack * Burger King spies on Student/Farmworker Alliance * The Revolution will Not Be funded- critiques of the non-profit model * and more highlights from the past season (audio/mpeg)

Letter from Ivan and Bruno from the prisons of Fresnes and Villepinte @ 2008-06-01 11:48 PM

Greetings to all friends, to all those who are not resigned to the situation in which we live: police occupation of the streets, of the cities, raids, deportations, arrests, daily difficulties, the dispossession of our lives; the situation that pushes us to cede a major part of our lives to the bosses of every genre, to those who preside over our destinies, to power. If we've taken the road of revolt, it's for all these reasons, to retake the power over our lives, for the freedom to live. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

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)

Solidarity week against repression in France at June, 9-16 solidarity 2008-05-31 6:45 AM

Ivan, Bruno and Damien got arrested on January 19, 2008 on the way to the demonstration against the detention centre of Vincennes (near Paris). They were carrying home made smoke powder and bent nails (to slash tyres). At the police station, they refused the finger print identification and DNA taking. Ivan and Bruno are jailed, Damien is under judiciary control. (image/jpeg)

Executive Signing Statements Ann Ikemann 2008-05-29 10:15 PM

Pharaoh Bush - Let My People Go (image/jpeg)

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)

Rustbelt Radio for May 19, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-05-20 3:14 AM
On this week's show... * Radio Free Palestine-- stories to commemorate 60 years of Palestinian Resistance to Israeli Occupation (audio/mpeg)

Hope Under Siege: Pittsburghers in Palestine, A Photo Show Jonas Moffat 2008-05-20 2:37 AM

Hope Under Siege: Pittsburghers in Palestine, a Photo Exhibit June 19 at the Shadow Lounge, 6-9PM Please join the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee as they reveal their photographs from Occupied Palestine. Hear eyewitness accounts from Palestinians and Pittsburghers who have seen and experienced life under the gun. View the scenes of hope and the images of despair. Share the truth with the world about 60 years of dispossession and a hope that refuses to perish. (image/jpeg)

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)

another police coverup on "the crooked mile" jim zender 2008-05-15 12:30 AM

the other day i wrote a story about a huge adult who i witnessed beating the crap out of a teen, who thanks to the star beacon i now know his age, he was only 16. i broke up the fight filed a report at the scene, came home before it was even over and wrote coverup will follow. the next morning cops @ my door trying to give me the shaft as they have been doing for years. right then and there i re reported the incident to them as well butt i was sure hear again, the blind eye of american justice would sirface. so i wrote a letter to and even got so frustrated i posted my first i report. i sent the letter to the following people. letter to council sent to: Mayor Francis Cervas 4688 Fairway dr. Village administrator Edward Somppi village hall Mike Baker council president 4703 taylor dr Zoning Inspector/Code enforcement officer officer Joseph Masianka village hall Council woman Wilma Reppert 4873 presidential dr 5.12.08 jim zender (image/jpeg)

Rustbelt Radio for May 12, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-05-13 2:01 AM
On this week's show... * An exploration into the roots of the global food crisis * Word on the Street asks local teens how they can reduce violence in Pittsburgh * News and analysis from the Mexico Solidarity Network * A radical history lesson for May 13th * And 2.3 million and rising- a weekly report on the prison industrial complex (audio/mpeg)

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 4th kent state killings remembered vincent / blast furnace radio 2008-05-07 3:22 AM
ron kovic answers questions after the showing of "born on the four of july" (audio/mpeg)

May 4th, 1970: Can it happen again? Akeeba 2008-05-06 9:30 AM

Rustbelt radio for May 5, 2008 Pittsburgh IMC: Rustbelt Radio collective 2008-05-06 1:36 AM
On this week's show... * An exploration of the roots of Labor Struggles and May Day in the US * Dahr Jamail on Iraq * Cheers and Jeers from Women's E-news * and the Radical Day in History (audio/mpeg)

Maoist China foreign policy: 1970s and 1980s Nigel Harris 2008-05-05 12:51 PM

The Mandate of Heaven (Excerpt). A detailed account of Maoist Chinese foreign policy is beyond the scope of this article, but some examples will illustrate the central thesis: that China’s foreign policy is in no way different from that of other world powers. The Three-Worlds Theory was used to justify Chinese alliances with right-wing reactionary governments during the 1970s and 1980s. (image/jpeg)

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)

Struggling for the autonomy of Venezuela’s social movements El Libertario, Venezuela 2008-05-04 5:20 PM

* This editorial comes from issue #53 (May-June 2008) of El Libertario, a Venezuelan anarchist voice of ideas and proposals for action. It confirms our commitment to autonomous social mobilization, which has already begun to express itself through concrete struggles from below, as in the recent steelworkers conflict. (image/gif)

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)

5th Anniversary of "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq Peter Stern 2008-05-02 8:04 PM

Happy 5th Anniversary, America! (image/jpeg)

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