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An International Day of Solidarity is being called for January 23, 2009, for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the Greek Anarchists and other anti-authoritarian activists in Greece. There are many overlaps between these two struggles, and those similarities are explored below. The date of the demonstration is to also commemorate the anniversary of the Riots in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, during the period of Nazi Germany (1943), where 70,000 Jewish people took this city back, and held i...

Interview with Fida Qishta, activist, community organizer, and photographer. She lives in southern Gaza, in Rafah....

Interview with Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the Electronic Intifada web page and is author of the book "One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse."...

Greece is calling for a International Day of Solidarity in response to recent uprisings after a police killing of teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos....

This was so much easier to write in my head than it is now that I’m here with pen and paper in my hand. Turning 30 is supposed to be this big milestone. I remember when both my older brothers turned 30 when I was still a teenager. I remember my older friends turning 30 when I was just hitting twenty. It was a big deal to them....

Those advocating this radical journalist's execution show a disturbing lack of concern about the undeniable problems of racism (and all documented police/DA/judicial misconduct) throughout this case. At the most fundamental level, the FOP-led 'Fry Mumia' campaign's lack of concern is racist....The FOP appeals to a racist lynch-mob mentality that has long infected the US, so calling this a 'legal lynching' is no exaggeration....

Americans inside US federal prisons have had no prospect of early release for decades thanks to the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, which abolished federal parole. Since the early 1980’s federal prisons have become increasingly crowded. No provision has been made to decrease the burden to the federal prison system and the expense to the American taxpayer, and there is no incentive for prisoners to work towards changing their behavior while they are incarcerated – no amount of rehabilitation o...

Crowd control? Over 2000 shoppers trample and kill Wal Mart employee Jdimytai Damour on "Black Friday"...

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....

During the morning hours of October 28 the main Chase bank headquarters in Bloomington IN. had it's back ATM smashed...