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8/14, NYC: No Permits, No Peace!
n solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of people coming to New
York City to protest against the Republican National Convention and
the many organizations calling for organized demonstrations during the
week, we will rally across from Madison Square Garden, site of the
2004 RNC on Saturday, August 14, at 1 pm to demand that Bloomberg and
Bush end their attempts at suppressing free speech and assembly....
Posted: Fri, Aug 13, 2004 7:05pm PDT
Letter from a soldier's wife
Another medically unfit soldier was sent back to Iraq, and his wife sent this letter to Traveling Soldier, an antiwar GI newsletter...
Posted: Fri, Aug 13, 2004 7:01pm PDT
Rev Billy to Debut Song at Ground Zero
Hear the song that Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir will perform at Ground Zero at www.revbilly.com...
Posted: Fri, Aug 13, 2004 4:02pm PDT
McProtests R US
It is a new breed of subversive who skips Boston and heads straight to NYC to act out their radicalism theatrically, demanding stylistic obedience from all others involved. Not only do todays anti-war type skip their chance to dis the Dems in Boston but they in turn get dissed hard by the Dems for tarnishing their image of responsible opposition to George Bush by trying to challenge Republicans at the RNC. Its like Medea Benjamin(Global Exchange) who leads the selling of the Green vote to...
Posted: Fri, Aug 13, 2004 2:20pm PDT
Gays Against Bush- Why Protest?
We feel it is our duty as a community to oust the reactionary, conservative and anti-gay officials currently in power and hope that you will join us....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 11:54pm PDT
New Jersey Gov. Being Blackmailed By Gay Lover Sources Say
New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey's stunning announcement Thursday that he is gay and had an affair was prompted by the threat of blackmail two high-ranking officials in the governor's administration say.
Speaking to the Associated Press, on the condition of anonymity, the officials both identified the man involved in the affair as Golan Cipel, an Israeli poet who worked briefly for the governor as a homeland security adviser despite having no security experience....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 11:48pm PDT
New Jersey Governor Resigns Over Gay Affair
New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey announced Thursday that he is gay and had an affair with another man and that he was resigning from office....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 11:47pm PDT
RNC 2004 Protesters Map
map of events and resources in nyc during the RNC...
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 10:38pm PDT
Non Profit Health Care For All ~ A DNC protest @ Liberty Mutual Insurance (video/x-pn-realvideo 41.6MB)
A Small Rally & March for a very Large Cause during the Democratic National Convention. ~ 18 min ~ broadband version...
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 2:46pm PDT
Radical Cheerlbloc CALL TO ACTION during the RNC
A Call to action to oust Republicans from New York City.. a large convergence of Red and Black during the marches at the RNC...
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 5:46am PDT
Voting for Empire
That hunger is becoming a driving force in the upcoming elections, and is
being expressed in a way that can best be summed up: 'Anybody But Bush.'...
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 12:18am PDT
8/30 in NYC: A Call to the Peace Movement
We will march from New York City's United Nations at 45th
and
1st Avenue at 4pm through downtown Manhattan to the site of the RNC at Madison
Square Garden, with or without a permit....
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 12:09am PDT
Porter Goss the New CIA Head Linked to Funding 911 Terror Attacks
Porter Goss Republican congressman Porter Goss the new CIA director are linked to the moneyman that funded 911 terror attack....
Posted: Wed, Aug 11, 2004 3:13pm PDT
Federal lawsuit to be filed demanding demonstrators’ access to Central Park
The National Council of Arab Americans (NCA) and the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) are filing a major lawsuit in Federal District Court in New York City to support the right of assembly in the Great Lawn of Central Park for all those who are expressing political opposition to the domestic program and war policies of the Bush administration in the days before and during the Republican National Convention....
Posted: Wed, Aug 11, 2004 9:37am PDT
City Denies Anti-War Group Second Protest Permit
United for Peace and Justice is likely to take the matter before a federal judge rather than tell demonstrators to rally without a permit, leaders say....
Posted: Wed, Aug 11, 2004 9:36am PDT
Call for a Green Bloc at the RNC
Events that the Green Bloc is focused on participating in: critical mass
on 8/27, mass gardening support on 8/28, the “more than a million” day on
8/29 and the True Security call as part of the “Shout Heard Round
the World” mass non-violent civil disobedience on A31. Our goal for the
31st is to create an open, welcoming space for people to plug into the
actions that will be happening that day that offer not just a critique of
the capitalist system that’s gotten us into this mess, but a...
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2004 11:48pm PDT
UFPJ Says No to the West Side Highway
WE ARE MARCHING! On August 29, United for Peace and Justice will hold a massive, impassioned, peaceful, and legal march past Madison Square Garden, the site of the Republican Convention, to protest the Bush Administration’s deceit and destruction.
But we will NOT be rallying afterwards on the West Side Highway....
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2004 10:24pm PDT
DNC photo essay
A candid glimpse of the mad spectacle surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Boston....
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2004 2:45pm PDT
Behind the Scenes of Power
"There is no free media any more in the showplace of western values. The octopus of censorship, intimidation, manipulation and the smear campign against discoverers of truth has seized all the areas of the media in the US.."...
Posted: Tue, Aug 10, 2004 6:57am PDT