EPCC Supports Immigrant Rights Campaign
Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC),

The Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC) Council held its annual meeting last May 30 held at the Manila Terrace Social Hall, 2328 W. Temple St, Los Angeles and unanimously passed a resolution that will commit the EPCC to support the current immigrant rights campaign of the Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP) and the April 7th Coalition, The EPCC decided to mobilize for the upcoming June 24 March and Rally in Los Angeles to demand for full rights for all immigrants. The April 7 Coalition including Latino Movement USA, Herman dad Mexican National, the ANSWER Coalition is leading this march rally on Sunday, June 24 at 12:00 noon at Hollywood and Vine in Hollywood.
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FOR TOTAL FREEDOM // Anti-G8 News Podcast
dj lotu5,

On this week's episode of Desiring (Incendiary Devices) Machines, I summarize the recent news about the resistance to the G8 in Germany including the recent actions in Hamburg (burning cop cars and over a thousand person black bloc! not bad for a first action...), the demonstration ban, the partial lifting of the demonstration ban and the refugee caravan to the G8...

Listen here:
 http://radioactiveradio.org/node/339

Subscribe to my podcast here:
 http://feeds.feedburner.com/didm

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Lebanon and the Planned US Airbase at Kleiaat
counterpunch,

Sharon's Bastille Day Dream Materializes

Bibnin Akkar, Lebanon, site of proposed US Airbase
Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee Camp

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G8: More demo bans lifted
repost from Germany Indymedia,

Administrative court ruling allows G8 protests at the Rostock airport on the 6 June.

The Administrative court in Schwerin today overturned a ban on upcoming protests surrounding the military airport in Rostock, where G8 delegates will be landing. Other planned protests in Laage-Kronskamp, Weitendorf, Strießdorf and Friedrichshof can also now take place.
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The G-8 Meeting...
posted by F Espinoza,

Perhaps someone with one of those new computer programs developed by Bill Gates could calculate the resources being used for war expenses at the cost of education, healthcare and culture for humanity...
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Preparing for Martial Law, Part 2
redpill8,

Whelp folks, I hate to be the pallbearer at our country's funeral, but I am here to inform you, in case you missed it on Fox News, that the apparatus for martial law is being quietly, but steadily, implemented. If one has been paying attention to the laws that are getting passed over the last few years we can see the telltale signs that we are getting closer and closer to such a scenario. Not only is this government setting up the legal framework for martial law, but they are also setting up the policing apparatus and infrastructure to carry it out.
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6th @ Penn’s Human Rights Plays
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

The 6th @ Penn Theatre, 3704 Sixth Avenue in Hillcrest, is currently mounting a festival called "Resilience of the Spirit," showcasing plays dealing with human rights. A brilliant double bill called "The Last Class," in which a retiring classics professor gives a final lecture that spills over into shocking revelations about her private life, and "A Hundred Birds," in which victims of a child molester reunite as adults and kidnap their victimizer, alternates with "Lemkin's House," a fantasy in which Raphael Lemkin — a Polish Jew who fled his country when the Nazis conquered it and later coined the term "genocide" in his analysis of Nazi occupation — survives his actual death in 1959 and responds to more recent genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur.
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Why I am Ashamed to be an American
Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D.,

An article explaining to the American people why I, a college professor/ psychologist, am ashamed to be an American.
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Ideas cannot be killed.
posted by F Espinoza,

More than 600,000 people have lost their lives in Iraq and more than 2 million have been forced to emigrate since the American invasion began...
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WHO ARE THE TERRORISTS
Rosemarie Jackowski,

The most important question in the United States today!
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A Neocon War-Planning Vacation to the Bahamas
LobeLog.com ,

"Neo-Cons To Plot Iran Strategy Amid Caribbean Luxury"

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G8: Courts Grant Appeal: Star March Happening
repost from the Star March Coalition,

Star March Coalition

Press Release
May 25th 2007

*G8 2007 Protests in Germany*

*Courts Grant Appeal: Star March Can Happen*
The Star March Intends to go all the Way to the Kempinski Hotel
‘State of Emergency’ Does Not Justify a General Ban

The urgent appeal of the Star March Coalition lodged at the Schwerin
Court has been successful. The Coalition had lodged a law suit against
the general demonstration ban issued by the police department. A general
injunction over a 40 square kilometer area had been designated as a
demonstration free zone. Such an injunction would have been
unprecedented in the history of Germany.

More info here:  http://dissentnetwork.org
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Art of War : Veterans
Larmee,

Veterans
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Democrats Retreat before Bush
Stewart A. Alexander,

America and the troops were hoping that Democrats would fulfill the commitment they made to voters in 2006 to end the Iraq War; however on Thursday the Democrats in Congress help the Bush Administration get a blank check to pursue this criminal war. Senate and Congressional Democratic leaders helped facilitate a continued bloodbath in Iraq making this a bi-partisan imperial war.
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Forty Years of Occupation
Stephen Lendman,

Israel's repressive 40 year occupation of Palestine.
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War with Iran : the Correct Political Perspec
Brent Herbert,

Because of the bitterly partisan and rivalrous degeneration of the American political situation, which is the driving force behind the destruction of the Constitution among other things, I must ask readers to see if it might be possible to hear a person out when there position disagrees with your position, so that perhaps you might even have a chance to consider an issue thoughtfully before making up your mind, which would be a new development in American politics, and might even save the country from further turns towards Caesar, supported by many because of the onrushing disaster.
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War Profiteer shut down in the Port of Oaklan
Daniel Borgström,

Community picketers caught a war profiteer with three ships in a hurry to be unloaded and reloaded
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Schools and Teachers Should Not Be Missions
Dr RIch Gibson,

San Diego school workers are faced with demands that we become absolutely complicit in promoting lies about the empire's wars. We should reject that demand. It is right to rebel when only exploitation and violence guide the nation's rulers.
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Paglabag sa Karapatang Pantao,Lumulubha
AJLPP-USA,

Mariing konondena ngayon ng Alyansa Pilipinas (AJLPP) ang patuloy at papatinding paglabag sa mga karapatang pantao sa Pilipinas noong bago at matapos ang eleksyong Mayo 14.

Ayon sa mga nakalap na ulat ng AJLPP, tatlong myembro ng mga progresibong partido ang pinaslang kaugnay ng nakaraang eleksyon sa Camarines Norte at Iloilo. Apat naman mga myembro ng militanteng grupong magsasaka an pinatay sa Agusan del Sur at Negros Occidental Pinaslang din ng mga sundalo at sinalaula ang mg bangkay ng isang mag-ina sa Agusan del Sur.
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Cuba asks UN to circulate official protest.
Luiz Alvarez,

CUBA has asked the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council to circulate, as an official document among their members, a statement protesting the release in the United States of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.
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Longshore Workers Picket Stops War Cargo
The Internationalist,

This can be an important first step toward the mobilization of workers power to shut down the war machine, but that requires a sharp struggle against the bourgeois politics of the antiwar groups and union officialdom. The OEA calls for money for schools not for war, as if it were a matter of budget priorities, and the PAC poster made a social-patriotic pitch to “Bring the Troops Home Now, and give them the care they need.” Such “peace is patriotic” rhetoric is a staple of the UPFJ, but all the antiwar coalitions make similar appeals to garner support from Democratic Party liberals. Revolutionaries and class-conscious workers, in contrast, emphasize that this imperialist war must be opposed by class war.
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What's Posada Carriles hiding?
posted by F Espinoza,

Robert Kennedy's suspicions about the involvement of gangs of Cuban and Italian origin at the service of the CIA in his brother's assassination sheds new light on the Bush family protection of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles...
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"Support the Troops Week" at San Diego City Schools
Cynthia Oso,

How are we supposed to support our troops?

My English teacher shared an e-mail with me he received from the San Diego City Schools Information Office. It was about the “Support Our Troops Week” on campus.

Tuesday May 22 Show Your Support Day
“District employees who are former military members are encouraged to wear their uniforms; all other employees and students are encouraged to wear red, white and blue. Schools may elect to wear yellow (peace), if any of the above colors conflict with their dress code.”

Are you serious? --Read More--

Comment by Dash: YOu should organize a student protest that day, bring the troops home now. and why do they want students kissing military ass. We should start supporting the teachers instead of the troops. education instead of war. The society is all about supporting the troops. What, for being brainwashed? For killing innocent women, children, and men. Support the students, so they can discover truth.

Article by Rich: San Diego school workers are faced with demands that we become absolutely complicit in promoting lies about the empire's wars. We should reject that demand. It is right to rebel when only exploitation and violence guide the nation's rulers. Schools and Teachers Should Not Be Missions and Missionaries For Capital’s Wars. The San Diego City Schools are about to launch a massive outpouring of witless patriotism, centered on the notion. Yesterday, some teachers behaved otherwise. They helped shut down the Port of Oakland, demanding money for schools, not war...--Read More--

Comment from Mark Conlon: ...If we really want to "support our troops," we're going to have to redouble our efforts to secure global economic and social justice and to restore the American middle class so young people will have other ways of paying for college and working their way up than by becoming part of imperialism's armed forces. A real "support our troops" campaign would be one that builds public awareness of the links between corporate "globalization," the war on labor and the U.S.'s insatiable need for cannon fodder to fight its imperialist wars.

Comment from Cynthia: my friends and i were planning something and decided to call it off b/c no one on campus knew about support the troops week. if we were to have organized something, no one would have been able to understand what we were "whining" about. we've demonstrated before, and we don't get any responses...well except like the "go to hell" looks. but that's it. i didn't see anyone in uniform or wear red, white, and blue. it wasn't even mentioned in the bulletin.

Comment from john dear: I don't support your troops. No matter how hard you try to portray them as victims the truth is they are stone cold killers. The so-called "poverty draft" is a load of b.s. What about the millions of poor young people who do not join the military? The "Support Our Troops" slogan is indicative of an anti-war movement that cannot let go of its patriotism, its loyalty to US imperialism. You cannot support imperialist troops and be against imperialist wars at the same time. If you truly are against the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan then you need to stop supporting the US troops and start supporting the resistance.


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Picketing war profiteers on Armed Forces Day
Oakland Port Action,

Antiwar activists will picket war profiteers in the Port of Oakland on Saturday, May 19. Below are two press releases from the Port Action Committee
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MIRAKI: On the Brutal Butchering of Slow-Kill
Cathy Garger,

... After hanging up the phone, it occurred to me that what is actually going down in Afghanistan is, without any doubt, the greatest crime against humanity in perhaps all of US history.
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Wolfowitz to resign from World Bank
malaysia sun ,

"Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has caved in to overwhelming pressure, and is set to resign.

Sources close to the Bank say Bush administration officials and executive directors of the World Bank are now finalising the terms of his departure."


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Chalmers Johnson
email,

April 21, 2007 Whittier, CA
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IMMIGRATION DEBATES UP IN THE US SENATE
AJLPP-USA,

The US Senate, will finally begin debates this coming Wednesday, May 16, on the much-awaited comprehensive immigration reform bill. The new comprehensive immigration reform bill is supposed to decide the fate of more than 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

On the other hand, the immigrant rights movement led by advocates and immigrant organizations all over the country are gearing up for the passage of a real comprehensive immigrant reform law that will benefit them.


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FiLIPINO VETERANS/ JFAV CALLS VA NICHOLSON, R
Justice for FIlipino American Veterans (JFAV),

A Secretary Jim Nicholson, Resign Now!

Hundreds of Filipino World War II veterans, youth and students and their community supporters led by the Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV) and the ACFV in several U.S. cities rallied at the VA offices in Seattle, San Francisco ( May 7), Los Angeles ( May 8) and San Diego ( May 9) and called on Veterans Affair Secretary Jim Nicholson to resign.

The Veterans decision to ask for Nicholson resignation was made last May 6, during a nationwide teleconference held in Arlington Virginia on the 65 year anniversary of the fall of Corregidor Day. Key ACFV and JFAV leaders decided on a unanimous vote to call for Nicholson resignation.

This call came after the US Congressional leaders last May 3 demanded Nicholson to explain why he awarded 3.2 million is bonuses to senior VA officials in light of VA’s $ 2.B budget shortfalls. Nicholson is also under fire for management lapses in dealing with the backlog of cases, the Walter Reed Hospital fiasco and the theft of 26 million confidential veterans records.

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Bill Deagle speaks this Sunday, 5/13
Al uh looyah,

this Sunday night, May 13th - at 6:30pm at the Joyce Beers Community Center in Hillcrest, Dr. Bill Deagle MD will present new information regarding the 9/11 and Oklahoma City tragedies; and 'Natural Solutions to Wellness in a Toxic World'.


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