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Tuesday, August 31, 4 pm The Official Republican National Convention FOX NEWS "SHUT-UP-A-THON" 1211 Ave. of Americas (btwn. 47th & 48th) New York, NY...
Posted: Sun, Aug 22, 2004 9:46am PDT
Indymedia has rented the gigantic artspace...
Posted: Sun, Aug 22, 2004 12:45am PDT
Be aware. In the name of "our interests", this report is setting you up for complicity in the terrible crimes now being committed by this so-called "war on terrorism," and worse ones yet that are on the drawing boards....
Posted: Sun, Aug 22, 2004 12:20am PDT
The Republican National Convention (RNC) is set to begin in less than two weeks and preparations have reached a fevered pitch. Dozens of activist groups have planned protests. Indymedia will be there to bring you comprehensive coverage, in-depth analysis, and
up-to-the-minute reports....
Posted: Sat, Aug 21, 2004 8:20pm PDT
The RNC Delegates Working Group would like to announce the launch of RNCdelegates.com! On this website, people mobilizing against the RNC will find the names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of many of the delegates going to the Republican National Convention later this month....
Posted: Sat, Aug 21, 2004 5:56pm PDT
Of the dungeons there had been strange things narrated—fables, I had always
deemed them—but yet strange, and too ghastly to repeat, save in a whisper.
—Edgar Allan Poe, “The Pit and the Pendulum”...
Posted: Sat, Aug 21, 2004 12:27am PDT
Join the DNC2RNC march as they arrive in Manhattan on August 26th....
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 7:56pm PDT
"The situation for Bush is really precarious if one considers the increasing signals that the economic system is much weaker than assumed.. Ultra-conservatives are worried about the great global instability.."...
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 5:41pm PDT
"True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality...and through this death a rebirth, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer." —R. D. Laing Ronnie Laing's profound dictum leaves us with many poignant questions regarding the true nature of the psychic lives of so-called ordinary Americans and our ability to function in this corrupt and crumbling empire. In sho...
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 2:43pm PDT
First of the week-long Counter RNC Mobilization in New York City
No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights! No To Sweatshops! End The Racism On The Community!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 1:14pm PDT
It remains to be seen if activists involved in other causes will truly understand the indictment of the SHAC 7 in its broadest social and historical context, thereby showing solidarity with the myriad of SHACtivists and other direct action militants on the front lines of protest, making sure that their voices are anything but a whisper. Meanwhile, the animal liberation cause continues to grow throughout the world, establishing itself as both an heir of the great human liberation movements and...
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 12:45pm PDT
CALL FOR A REVOLUTIONARY ZAPATISTA CONTINGENT
at the Protests against the Republican National Convention in New York City*
as part of the Latin America and Caribbean Solidarity Bloc
(http://www.LASolidarity.org)
on SUNDAY, AUGUST 29
and at the Still We Rise Coalition Rally and March
(http://www.StillWeRise.org)
on MONDAY, AUGUST 30 -...
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 12:13am PDT
It is likely that if you're protesting in front of
an
RNC event, there will be cops, firefighters and teachers protesting next
to you....
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 11:53pm PDT
Marking the second anniversary
of its Announcing Equality Project, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced today that the number of U.S.
newspapers that accept same-sex wedding or union announcements has
climbed to 504, a more than seven-fold increase in just two years....
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 11:31pm PDT
As part of United For Peace and Justice in New York on August 29th, the
newly formed radical Tejas Bloc is forming a feeder march to join the
larger UFPJ march. We will meet at the southeast corner (West 4th and
Washington Square Park) of Washington Square park meet at 10 am. We will
march at 11 am and rally with the greater march by noon. We will rally
behind the 2 following banners --the picture of Texas with a dove flying
out, and messaged with "We don't want him either"...
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 11:28pm PDT
It's called the Long Range Acoustic Device, developed for the military and capable of blasting warnings, orders or anything else at an ear-splitting 150 decibels.
Still, Bill Dobbs of United for Peace and Justice, which has planned a massive anti-war demonstration on the eve of the convention, called the sound system "a potential Big Brother nightmare."...
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 2:28pm PDT
Ralph Nader's Ohio supporters on Wednesday turned in petitions with 14,473 signatures to Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, nearly three times the 5,000 signatures needed to get Nader on the state's Nov. 2 presidential ballot as an independent....
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 2:10pm PDT
According to ABC News, the NYPD is planning to follow 56 "primary anarchists" from around the country, starting before the RNC. 6 cops and a supervisor will be assigned to each protester, who will be monitored 24 hours a day....
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 9:59am PDT
"If Bush wins again, the attack is the best defense delusion threatens and the realization of the self-fulfilling prophecy of the American rightwing that sees a coming clash of civilizations between Islam and the West."...
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 9:55am PDT