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Living in an Election Year: a cartoon manifesto
comic against elections and capitalism...
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 4:09pm PDT
NY Police to bark orders at 150decibels from Humvees
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
Nader in Ohio: Go Bucks!
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
NYPD to Shadow 56 protesters
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
UFPJ Sues NYC for Central Park Rally
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....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 9:56pm PDT
8/26, NYC: War Crimes Tribunal on Iraq
Ramsey Clark, the former U.S. attorney general, has charged that
President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary
of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Attorney General John David Ashcroft
are guilty of "crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes."...
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 9:53pm PDT
No Bush, No Chicago '68
Beware Provocateurs II:
As thousands of Republicans gather to nominate Bush for re-election, and as many more protesters--perhaps fifty times more--gather to express themselves against the damage Bush is doing, Americans of all stripes will be watching. Fair-minded people can understand dignified opposition even when they disagree with it. Rage in the streets is something else altogether. Protesters who spell "Bush" with a swastika, who smash windows, fight the police or try to block M...
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 2:51pm PDT
Defense Contractors Wage War On Arab, Muslim and Anarchist Americans
First Draft:
Recent reports of FBI harassment of activists have gone national. The FBI has been visiting activists, their neighbors, families and employers in a bid to intimidate those planning on protesting the political conventions. These events are reaching the news now because these latest FBI actions are face to face and in person. Under such circumstances it is impossible for the FBI to hide themselves behind anonymity....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 9:44am PDT
What to Do if the FBI "Drops By" Your Home or Office
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....
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 8:45pm PDT
John Kerry's Statement on the Iraq War; Political Ecology 101
The Democratic Party needs to be transformed and that the only way to do this is to out-organize the corporate interests that now create the Party's internal and external political environments....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 5:03pm PDT
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
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
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
kerry's voting record
is this who you want in the white house?...
Posted: Thu, Aug 12, 2004 2:27pm 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