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New British Film About Mumia Abu-Jamal Showing in NYC and Oakland 
For the first time since the film's US Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last January, "In Prison My Whole Life" will be shown to a US audience. This new film about the internationally renowned death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal will be shown this week at the Urbanworld Film Festival in New York City on Sept 11 and Sept 13. In Prison is also being shown at the CR10 Conference in Oakland, CA, on September 26.
Officially endorsed by Amnesty International, In Prison features interview...
Posted: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 4:19pm PDT
Stephanie Tang, facing up to one year in jail and a thousand dollars in fines On August 4, a partial hearing of Stephanie Tang took place in the Court of Alameda. Tang, a long time organizer for the World Can’t Wait, is facing up to one year in jail and a thousand dollars in fines, stemming from an ongoing effort by the WCW to shut down the Marine Recruiting Station in Berkeley....
Posted: Mon, Aug 11, 2008 11:50am PDT
Olmert to Resign Amid Corruption Investigations Ehud Olmert, Israel's Prime Minister, announced that he will resign his post once a new Party leader is chosen for his party-Kadima. This decision comes as a result of two investigation for corruption that is carried against Olmert. Olmert has been under many police investigations in recent years for corruption and bribery....
Posted: Fri, Aug 1, 2008 10:51am PDT
Trans/Queer/Womyn Housing @ RNC Trans/Queer/Womyn Housing Update...
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2008 11:26am PDT
Compare Provisions in “Hitler’s Laws” with FISA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008 Today The FISA AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2008 May be Passed by the U.S. Senate....
Posted: Tue, Jul 8, 2008 5:32am PDT
Tuesday, June 17th - Call-in for Bashir Hameed 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....
Posted: Sun, Jun 15, 2008 12:07pm PDT
Revised: Best 2008 Activist's People Search Resource Guide Welcome to the The Best 2008 Activist's People Search Resource Guide! (Revised edition) Seek and Yee Shall Find... When doing deep background research, make this is your web source for finding what your looking for... Enjoy... (LC)...
Posted: Fri, Jun 13, 2008 12:58pm PDT
Pol Brennan Update "Stop the Deportation" 
Irish Republican political refugee Pol Brennan is once again in prison after being stopped at a Border Patrol check point over 100 miles from the Mexican border. He is currently being held at a Los Fresno's jail in Texas....
Posted: Sun, Jun 8, 2008 11:56am PDT
Building Bridges Radio: Colombian May Day Brutality and West Coast Dockers Shut Ports WBAI's Building Bridges; Your Community and Labor Report
brings you this 28 minute radio program.
TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Sun, May 4, 2008 5:46pm PDT
Defying Employers, Anti-War Dockworkers Plan to Shut Down West Coast Ports Thursday, May 1, 2008 :The International Longshore and Warehouse Union has been organizing to shut down ports on the West Coast today - May Day - to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But yesterday an arbitrator ordered the union to tell its members that they must report to work today. We speak to Clarence Thomas, an executive Board member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 and a member of U.S. Labor Against the War....
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2008 8:09am PDT
SEIU CA Workers Speak Out On Crisis In SEIU: Part 1 & Part 2 The crisis wracking SEIU members is growing nationally. This forum was a presentation by the Labor Video Project to present the experiences of SEIU members throughout California about what is happening as a result of the mergers and other labor-management partnership deals supported by the SEIU International....
Posted: Sun, Apr 20, 2008 11:44am PDT
The Green Light: Attorney Philippe Sands Follows the Bush Administration Torture Trail Thursday, April 3, 2008 :A new exposé in Vanity Fair by British attorney Philippe Sands reveals new details about how attorney John Yoo and other high-ranking administration lawyers helped design and implement the interrogation policies seen at Guantanmo, Abu Ghraib and secret CIA prisons. According to Vanity Fair, then White House counsel Alberto Gonzalez and other top officials personally visited Guantanamo in 2002, discussed interrogation techniques and witnessed interrogations. Sands join...
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 8:34am PDT
PRISON SLAVERY ABOLITION UNITED FRONT PLATFORM OF 2008 From the 1911-1912 National Committee on Prison Labor Party Platform to the 2008 Committee to Abolish Prison Slavery's United Front Platform - this platform seeks to abolish convict/prison slavery, slavery as war, and slavery as poverty with the formation of a United Front....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 9:15pm PDT
Breaking Story: Corrupt HUD Secretary To Resign HUD Secretary Jackson Announces His Resignation!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 7:36am PDT
Slave Revolt Radio: Blue Screen Matrix: The 'Reality' of the Industrailized Worlds (audio/mpeg 41.2MB) SR-2/24/2008 (Ruins of Empire) 'Into the Blue Screen Matrix: The 'Reality' of the Industrialized Worlds Cyber spaced Make Believe'...
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2008 4:38pm PDT
2/29 Global Day of Action for Haiti- 56 actions in 47 cities on 4 continents (if you go to any of these events, please post a report! and remind organizers to post to this site or their events will be small)
See you at 7:30 a.m., Friday, Feb. 29th, 2008 - at the Marine Recruiting Station in Berkeley!...
Posted: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 12:33pm PST
Argentina: Action in solidarity with anarchist prisoners on hunger strike On the night of February 18, 2008, paint-bombs were thrown at a branch of the Itaú bank located at Corrientes and Mario Bravo in Buenos Aires, as an extension of the struggle of anarchist prisoners who are beginning a hunger strike in various countries....
Posted: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 12:04pm PST
RCP Swings Back at Maoist Critics The RCP's newspaper Revolution published its first response to Maoist critics who wrote the "9 Letters to Our Comrades."...
Posted: Mon, Feb 11, 2008 2:53pm PST
Dan Siegel & Pacifica Dan Siegel is now both interim Executive Director and General Counsel for Pacifica. He intervened in last fall's KPFA board election to help insure a victory by the Sherry Gendelman slate. Meanwhile, the board election at WBAI, the Pacifica sister station in New York, was even more blatantly corrupt than the one at KPFA, and it became the subject of a court case. In this letter, counsel for the plaintiffs tells the Pacifica National Board (PNB) that Dan Siegel is "an unreliable source of l...
Posted: Tue, Jan 29, 2008 11:37am PST
Elaine Brown Withdraws in Protest from Capitalist Green Party 
"In effect, the present Green Party leadership promotes a kinder, gentler capitalism, a moderated racism, an environmentally-sustainable globalism, which I cannot support." Elaine Brown...
Posted: Sun, Dec 30, 2007 10:39am PST
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