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The New Rome and the RNC
Be aware. In the name of "our interests", this report is setting you up for complicity in the terrible crimes now being committed by this so-called "war on terrorism," and worse ones yet that are on the drawing boards....
Posted: Sun, Aug 22, 2004 12:20am PDT
Getting Ready for RNC
The Republican National Convention (RNC) is set to begin in less than two weeks and preparations have reached a fevered pitch. Dozens of activist groups have planned protests. Indymedia will be there to bring you comprehensive coverage, in-depth analysis, and
up-to-the-minute reports....
Posted: Sat, Aug 21, 2004 8:20pm PDT
RNCdelegates.com launched!
The RNC Delegates Working Group would like to announce the launch of RNCdelegates.com! On this website, people mobilizing against the RNC will find the names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of many of the delegates going to the Republican National Convention later this month....
Posted: Sat, Aug 21, 2004 5:56pm PDT
Important Voter Registration Info
In California, "Independent" is a confising term. AMost non-affiliated voters probbaly mean "decline to state". Those registerign voters swhould be aware of this. Also those registering voters should probably consider signing up new voters as "permanent absentee"
- Larry in San Jose Califirnia...
Posted: Sat, Aug 21, 2004 2:25pm PDT
Is Despair Spreading in the Bush Camp?
"The situation for Bush is really precarious if one considers the increasing signals that the economic system is much weaker than assumed.. Ultra-conservatives are worried about the great global instability.."...
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 5:41pm PDT
Zapatista Contingent at the RNC Protests in NYC - August 29/30, 2004
CALL FOR A REVOLUTIONARY ZAPATISTA CONTINGENT
at the Protests against the Republican National Convention in New York City*
as part of the Latin America and Caribbean Solidarity Bloc
(http://www.LASolidarity.org)
on SUNDAY, AUGUST 29
and at the Still We Rise Coalition Rally and March
(http://www.StillWeRise.org)
on MONDAY, AUGUST 30 -...
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 12:13am PDT
Welcome to NYC orientation
It is likely that if you're protesting in front of
an
RNC event, there will be cops, firefighters and teachers protesting next
to you....
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 11:53pm PDT
Call for a Radical Tejas Feeder March as part of the August 29 UFPJ March
As part of United For Peace and Justice in New York on August 29th, the
newly formed radical Tejas Bloc is forming a feeder march to join the
larger UFPJ march. We will meet at the southeast corner (West 4th and
Washington Square Park) of Washington Square park meet at 10 am. We will
march at 11 am and rally with the greater march by noon. We will rally
behind the 2 following banners --the picture of Texas with a dove flying
out, and messaged with "We don't want him either"...
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 11:28pm PDT
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
He's no Hugo Chávez . . .
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....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 3:32pm 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
jeb bush BOTTOM FEEDER
see jeb the mutts real business (Other than selling coke and smack which has been his familys business for 100+ years--http://wwwluxefaire.com/politics.htm) no coincidence TX and FL biggest import states for coke...when you think of afghanistan, think of opium...
Posted: Mon, Aug 16, 2004 11:21am PDT