5 Days of Direct Action and Economic Sabotage
anonymous,

Callout for 5 days of decentralized direct action and economic sabotage
Across Turtle Island (North America)
August 17-21, to culminate August 20 & 21,
The days of the SPP meetings in Montebello, Québec.
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Marjorie Cohn Speaks on Bush's Legal Abuses
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

National Lawyers' Guild president and Thomas Jefferson School of Law professor Marjorie Cohn gave a talk to Progressive Democrats of San Diego July 19 on the long train of legal abuses and usurpations perpetrated by the Bush administration, from lying their way into Congressional and public approval for an illegal war against Iraq to torture, targeted assassinations and "extraordinary renditions" abroad, indiscriminate killings of civilians, surveillance at home and flouting the authority of Congress.
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Black Thursday
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Two things that happened on Thursday, June 28 were so dire in their portents for America’s political future that the day may well go down in history as “Black Thursday.” First, the U.S. Supreme Court threw out two attempts to integrate public schools in Seattle and Louisville on the ground that school districts can’t make race a factor in assigning children to schools even to undo the effects of over a century of past discrimination against students of color. Then, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly killed a bad immigration “reform” bill because of organized political pressure from talk-radio hosts and other members of the rabid Right because it wasn’t punitive enough against so-called “illegal” immigrants. These events are a wake-up call to people still naïve enough to think the results of the 2006 election are the beginning of a progressive revival.
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The brain drain
posted by F Espinoza,

Our world order appears to have been designed to foster the egoism, individualism and dehumanization of humanity...
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Letter to the Philippine President
Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL),

Letter to the Philippine President on widespread violations of human, democratic, workers' and trade union rights


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Convergence for Climate Action - August 8-14
Rising Tide North America,

COME CO-CREATE AN ALTERNATIVE TO AN ENERGY-DEPENDENT WORLD!

Just under a month from now -- August 8-14th -- regional North American Convergences for Climate Action will bring hundreds of social justice and environmental activists together to fight the fossil fuel empire and create truly sustainable, bio-regionally appropriate and community-based responses to climate change. The events on the West Coast and in the Southeast are modeled after the inspiring 2006 Climate Camp in the UK, which will reemerge this year at Heathrow Airport from August 14th-21st.

Part networking and activist skills training, part community sustainability demonstration site, the Convergences aim to invigorate the Climate Movement by pulling together communities of resistance. We aim to inject an anti-oppression, justice-focused agenda, and to demonstrate examples of truly sustainable, less energy-intensive lives that don't depend on the oppression, thievery, and destruction attached to fossil fuel extraction.


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NIFC Statement regarding the Twelfth
National Irish Freedom Committee,

For over three centuries, the nationalist/republican community has dreaded The Twelfth as the high noon of fury. The annual terror onslaught of countless acts of intimidation including murder, burnings of homes and forced relocations (ethnic cleansings) under British rule
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Tom Tancredos Ties to Mexican Drug Dealers
snoot,

The Police State and Its Maintenance
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Femicides in Guatemala
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As femicides continue in Juarez, Iraq and elsewhere, and corporate media ignores them, further reports of the pervasive nature of atrocities against women continue to accumulate. A report on femicides in Guatemala by Parenti and Munoz:

"While these murders may seem like little more than random thrill killings to some observers, in fact they serve a function of social control much as would any form of state terrorism. The violence perpetrated against individuals creates a pervasive climate of fear and horror within the victimized families and communities, thereby discouraging social protest and popular resistance. Instead of organizing around any number of crucial politico-economic issues, many of the demoralized and traumatized families cower in stunned silence." (Parenti and Munoz)

 http://www.miamericas.info

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Help to break media silence on the Cuban Five
posted by F Espinoza,

Cuba Solidarity Campaign in Great Britain (and everywhere) helps to break media silence on Miami 5...
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Venezuela 2007: corrupción, hipocresía y ...
Colectivo Editor de El Libertario, Venezuela,

* Las tres notas que siguen dan buena idea del clima de fingimiento y dolo dominante en Venezuela tras 8 años y medio de fraudulento "socialismo bolivariano", enumerando hechos y personajes que son representativos de los resultados concretos de un régimen donde se han desatado por igual la verborrea demagógica y el afán de saquear las arcas estatales.
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Encuentro Anark@galactico en Oventik
Comision de San Cristobal de las Casas...,

CONVOCATORIA ENCUENTRO ANARK@GALACTICO DEL 15 AL 18 DE JULIO 2007
JOVEL (san cristóbal de las casas) CHIAPAS
Durante el Primer Encuentro entre Pueblos Zapatistas y Pueblos del Mundo, celebrado en Oventik del 30 de diciembre de 2006 al 2 de enero de 2007 cerca de una centena de anarquistas nos reunimos para encontrar puntos en común que promuevan una relación mas estrecha y dinámica entre los colectivos y compañer@s de distintas partes del mundo. En estas reuniones decidimos formar una red global anarquista, compuesta por una lista de correos, una página web y una publicación bilingüe con el fin de apoyarnos mutuamente, compartir y aprender de nuestras experiencias.Con la esperanza que esta red pueda servir como una herramienta práctica para comunicarnos, pero sobre todo, para organizarnos buscando medios para globalizar la resistencia y combatir las miserias de los estados, del capitalismo y del patriarcado y para resistir la represión ejercida contra los movimientos sociales y específicamente contra l@s anarquistas.

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Anark@galactic Conference in Oventic,Chiapas
Translated by Luis Tellez,

CALL TO THE ANARK@GALACTIC ENCOUNTER
JULY 15-18 2007
JOVEL (san cristóbal de las casas), CHIAPAS

During the First Encounter between the Zapatista Peoples and the Peoples of the World held in Oventik from December 30, 2006, to January 2, 2007, about a hundred anarchists met to find common ground for bringing about a closer, more dynamic relationship between collectives and comrades in different parts of the world. At our meetings we decided to form a global anarchist network consisting of a mailing list, a web page and a bilingual publication
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The killing machine...
posted by F Espinoza,

It was announced that the CIA would be declassifying hundreds of pages on illegal actions that included plans to eliminate the leaders of foreign governments. Suddenly the publication is halted and it is delayed one day. No coherent explanation was given. Perhaps someone in the White House looked over the material...
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El Libertario # 50: alérgicos a la rutina...
Colectivo Editor de El Libertario, Venezuela,

* Ya es accesible vía Internet el nuevo número (julio-agosto 2007) del vocero ácrata de ideas y propuestas para la acción, que llega al medio centenar de ediciones reiterando el compromiso con sus objetivos de dar voz a la crítica radical, a la acción social autónoma y al ideal anarquista.
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The Good Lord Protected Me From Bush...
posted by F Espinoza,

"The Good Lord Protected Me From Bush," said President Fidel Castro referring to recent statements by the US statesman, who predicted that "one day, the Good Lord will take Fidel Castro away."
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Murciélagos, papagayos y otros bichos...
posted by F Espinoza,

Aunque se busque con lupa y detenimiento en la página web de presentación de la Casa de América de Madrid, o en su agenda correspondiente al mes de Julio 2007, alguna información sobre el evento a realizarse en la sede el próximo 4 de Julio, denominado: “Un encuentro por la democracia y la libertad en Europa y las Américas”, o "IV Foro Atlántico"...
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TAGUMPAY ANG MARTS-RALI NG HUNYO 24 SA LA
AJLPP-USA,

-Tagumpay ang martsa at demonstrasyon nitong Linggo, Hunyo 24, 2007 sa Hollywood and Vine sa Los Angeles. May 15,000 imigrante at kanilang mga tagapagtaguyod ang aktibong lumahok sa martsa-rali na tinawag ng April 7 Coalition.Hermanidad at ANSWER-LA.

Bingo nila ang nais ng mga naghaharing uri na sila ang magdesisyon kung ano ang kapalaran ng 12 millyong migrante at man
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More than 15,000 Immigrants Marched in LA
Alliance for A Just and Lasting Peace (AJLPP),

More than 15,000 immigrants and advocates militantly but peacefully marched last Sunday, June 24 in Hollywood to express their sentiments on the ongoing immigrant rights bill in the U.S Congress.

Despite the oppressive heat and under the watchful eyes of hundreds of police and county deputies, the more than an hour immigrant rights march occupied more than six blocks from Sunset Street to the rally site at Highland Street in Los Angeles.

Although the march-rally was smaller than the earlier marches and rallies that saw police repression and threats of deportations, immigrants and their advocates marched in militant, peaceful and festive mood

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Hanging from the brush...
posted by F Espinoza,

"They are hanging from the brush and we took the stepladder"...
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Gracia Molina de Pick Speaks on Juárez
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Veteran local activist Gracia Molina de Pick and professor Ricardo Griswold del Castillo spoke to the San Diego Humanist Association June 17 about Benito Juárez, president of Mexico from 1859 to 1872 and a leader in the struggle for indigenous rights and a modern Mexico. Juárez fought the power of the Roman Catholic Church and was instrumental in drafting Mexico's progressive 1857 constitution, which guaranteed the separation of church and state. Molina de Pick also discussed her grandfather, Andrés Molina Esquivel, who wrote the first sympathetic Spanish-language biography of Juárez and also wrote "Los Grandes Problemas Nacionales," a 1909 exposé of the corruption of Mexico's dictator, Porfirio Díaz, which helped inspire the Mexican revolution the following year.
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Meet the North American Business Council
ER,

The North American Competitiveness Council, part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, was established by the American, Canadian and Mexican governments at the June 2006 trilateral meeting in Cancun, Mexico. Comprised of 30 senior private sector representatives, 10 from each country (though there are 13 U.S. members), the council is mandated to provide governments with recommendations on issues including border regulation and competitiveness in the automotive, transportation, manufacturing and services sectors. The council is expected to meet annually with security and prosperity ministers and will engage with senior government officials on an ongoing basis. They last met in February 2007 in Ottawa and are expected to meet again in Canada in August. The following is a brief list of the council members.

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a priest ridden people
x,

some history...
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Why your revolution is no liberation!
MAD Cologne,

During the recent weeks and months a spirited debate developed in different German left wing newspapers and groups about the sense or non-sense, the perspectives and the means and goals of the mobilisation against the G8 summit. Different German and Austrian anti-fascist groups started a campaign to criticise a wrong analysis of capitalism widely spread in the anti-globalisation movement. In the context of this campaign several public discussions and lectures were held, a special webpage was set up but above all reader was published that contains a set of basic texts referring to this problem. This reader is available in German and English and will soon also be published in French in order to spread the debate also across other countries. Check it out: www.no-liberation-reader.tk
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Venezuela:Manifiesto solidario anarquistas...
Internacional de Federaciones Anarquistas,

El periódico Tierra y Libertad -vocero de la Federación Anarquista Ibérica- publica en su # 227 de junio de 2007, este manifiesto de la Internacional de Federaciones Anarquistas en apoyo a quienes hoy en Venezuela enfrentan tanto al proyecto capitalista burocratico del chavismo como a sus oponentes socialdemócratas y de derechas.
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Se reúnen Fidel y Chávez
envia F Espinoza,

El presidente venezolano se encuentra en La Habana en una visita de trabajo y se reunió con su homólogo cubano durante seis horas en un ambiente de hermandad y solidaridad, donde reafirmaron las amplias y crecientes relaciones entre ambos países y pueblos...
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Arab-American Teach-in Explores U.S. Policy
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

Any resemblance between what the mainstream U.S. media say about American involvement in the Middle East and reality is, if not purely coincidental, at least far-fetched, said three speakers at a teach-in on Middle East issues May 31 at the Four Points Sheraton on Aero Drive. Sponsored by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), the Alternate Focus public-access cable-TV program on Middle Eastern issues, the San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice and the San Diego chapter of the National Lawyers’ Guild, the event showcased UCSD Iranian studies professor Babak Rahimi, UCSD history professor Michael Provence, and San Diego ADC president Nasser Barghouti, all of whom built their presentations around the contrast between what our media tell us about the Middle East and what’s really going on there.
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The Tyrant visits Tirana
posted by F Espinoza,

Bush is craving after affection. He fully enjoyed his reception without protests in Bulgaria...
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Life and Debt Film Night OBGO and ASD
Trish,

Life & Debt--a film by Stephanie Black (2006) focuses on individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas.


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Venezuela: The case of RCTV and the ...
El Libertario's editorial staff,

* The Collective of “El Libertario”, Venezuelan anarchist newspaper, makes public its reasoned out position in the debate generated by the case of RCTV, in where the current government imposes a solution where we pass from the meanness that the capitalistic private oligopoly of TV to the dreadful that could be the monopoly of a bureaucratic and authoritarian state.
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