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Lucy Parsons on the Origins of May Day 
“I have made some enemies. My enemies in the southern states consisted of those who oppressed the black slave. My enemies in the north are among those who would perpetuate the slavery of the wage workers” -Albert Parsons, Martyr of Haymarket hanged by the State of Illinois in November 1887....
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2014 5:57am PDT
Albert Woodfox Speaks About Living in Solitary Confinement Now, all these years later, the hearing on the civil case related to our long-term solitary confinement is approaching. So they sent this psychiatrist to question me. What he was doing, of course, was to try to get me to say that forty years in solitary confinement hasn't really been all that bad. "You seem quite well adjusted," he said. I told him that unless he sits in a cell 23 hours a day for forty years, he has no idea what he's talking about. I said, you want to know what I'm afraid of?...
Posted: Tue, Apr 29, 2014 12:52pm PDT
Julian Assange get visit from EU Minister Eva Joly 
(Excerpted from Paris Match) Friday 28 March. The Ecuadorean Embassy in London. Behind him: a green screen, in front of which he films for Skype and the social networks. Threatened by the United States, the founder of WikiLeaks has been confined for two years to a room at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. He was visited by Eva Joly who is working on breaking the deadlock....
Posted: Mon, Apr 28, 2014 7:41pm PDT
Hearing Set in Animal Legal Defense Fund’s Horse-Drawn Carriage Case 
NEW YORK — On Monday, April 28, the New York Supreme Court will hold a hearing in the national nonprofit Animal Legal Defense Fund’s (ALDF) case against the New York Police Department (NYPD) for refusing to turn over public records regarding the city’s controversial horse-carriage industry....
Posted: Sun, Apr 27, 2014 10:49am PDT
NLG Releases Report on Government Spying on Legal Profession, Launches FBI FOIA Project 
NEW YORK -- A new report by the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), Breach of Privilege: Spying on Lawyers in the United States (see PDF), brings to light the government’s long history of covert surveillance of attorneys and their activist clients. The release also marks the launch of a new NLG Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) project that seeks to recover FBI files on individual Guild members as exposed by the 1977 case, National Lawyers Guild v. Attorney General of the United States....
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 9:28am PDT
Happy 60th Birthday Mumia Abu-Jamal On April 24, 2014, we celebrate the 60th birthday of former President of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the most famous political prisoner in the US, falsely accused of killing a cop in 1981, framed by Democrat district attorney Ed Rendell who later became chair of the national Democratic Party, imprisoned after a racist farce of a trial where all of the many civil rights violations have not convinced the Democrat Obama’s “Justice” Department to overturn t...
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 7:35am PDT
Anti-Fascist prisoner, Cody Lee Sutherlin is getting out! Cody Lee Sutherlin is one of 5 anti-racist activists who took part in emphatically stopping a meeting of white supremacists at a restaurant in Tinley Park, IL. He is now getting out after spending over 2 years in an Illinois state prison. Help us secure a release fund for Cody Lee Sutherlin....
Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2014 1:13pm PDT
Appeals Court Orders Release of Targeted Killing Memo 
NEW YORK – For the first time, a federal appeals court has ordered the government to release a crucial legal memo relating to U.S. targeted killing operations, reversing a lower court decision that upheld the government’s secrecy claims despite characterizing them as the stuff of “Alice in Wonderland.”...
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2014 3:16pm PDT
Cody Lee Sutherlin is getting out! Cody Lee Sutherlin is one of 5 anti-racist activists who took part in emphatically stopping a meeting of white supremacists at a restaurant in Tinley Park, IL. He is now getting out after spending over 2 years in an Illinois state prison. Help us secure a release fund for Cody Lee Sutherlin....
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2014 1:28pm PDT
Defend the Territory: Tactics & Techniques for Countering Police Assaults on Indigenous Co 
Tactics and Techniques for Countering Police Assaults on Indigenous Communities...
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2014 11:34pm PDT
SB 1388-First, They Came for the Johns..... Although SB1338 is supposedly intended to target those who purchase commercial sex, it is sex workers who will likely pay the higher price if it becomes law in its current form... The bill gives law enforcement a direct and inappropriate incentive to entrap people ... [and] only makes sense if one believes that the best way to “protect” sex workers is to make their jobs as dangerous as possible in an attempt to deter them from the path they have chosen....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2014 2:57pm PDT
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