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Rallying in Central Park is a right, not a privilege! United for Peace and Justice filed a lawsuit today in New York State Supreme Court over New York City's denial of the use of Central Park for a rally on August 29, after our legal, permitted march past Madison Square Garden. We are seeking a court order to allow the rally to proceed....

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...

"Bush's famous speech of January 2002 where he described Iraq, Iran and North Korea as the axis of evil was written by David Frum,. a neoconservative ally of Perle. The neoconservatives were the chief authors of Bush's war on terrorism since September 11, 2001."...

This month he did something no other US politician has dared to do, and took on the Anti-Defamation League, the organization which smears opponents of Israeli policy as anti-semites. He won't be elected in November, of course, but that's not the point. The point is that if you want to change a system, you have to start now, rather than in some endlessly deferred future. And the better Nader does, the faster the campaign for change will grow....

40 Oregon Forest Defenders Occuppied Senator Wyden's Office; Protestors disrupt business; Aide sneaks out back; Unconfirmed 2 arrests...

Corporations often repress falling purchasing power and the weak domestic economy by takeovers, foreign investments and exports. The neoliberal myth that increased profits lead to more investments and more jobs must be cleared away....

US Government's COINTELPRO - Still Undead The stinking corpse of the FBI's infamous "Counter-Intelligence Program", or COINTELPRO, which was used from the 1940s through the 1970s against Communists, Anarchists, Civil Rights Activists and sundry other decent working-class militants, and which was "allegedly" discontinued in 1971, is fully risen from the grave once again....

Margarethe von Trotta's new film Rosenstrasse tells a little known story of the 1943 protest of thousands of non-Jewish German women who had resisted the Nazi pressures on them to divorce their Jewish husbands, demonstrated when their husbands were finally rounded up, and, most importantly, succeeded in securing their release....

"The US press is not playing along this time. The general amnesty at the end was not missed by the Washington Post and the New York Times. They railed against an unacceptable whitewash." Top military and politicians were released....

Press conferences nationwide will be held to announce details of the campaign for a permit to rally on the Great Lawn in Central Park. A press conference will be held Monday August 16th, in San Francisco at 2 p.m. on the steps of City Hall....