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San Diego, CA -- U.S. District Court Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz denied a defense today for James Stacy, a San Diego-area medical marijuana provider raided in September 2009 by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Stacy was raided by the DEA a month before the Justice Department issued a new policy on medical marijuana in October, deemphasizing federal enforcement in medical marijuana states. Despite the new policy, the Obama Administration is continuing its prosecution against Stacy, who...

Noam Chomsky calls for U.S. and France to pay reparations to Haiti. In this talk Chomsky shares his insights regarding the ongoing problems confronting the beleaguered nation of Haiti, particularly the US role minimizing and undermining their economic development, resulting in horrendous destruction and loss of at least 300,000 lives from the recent earthquake....

Dharamshala: Spread across 40 regions in 6 countries - India, Nepal, Switzerland, England, USA and Canada - the Tibetan Women's Association (TWA) held its first Prime Ministerial (Kalon Tripa) Mass Mock Election on July 6th, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama's 75th birthday, to train the Tibetan exile community in exercising their franchise for the third direct election of the Kalon Tripa, to be completed in 9 months time....

The earthquake that wrecked the capital of Haiti and surrounding areas on January 12 produced human tragedy of almost unfathomable proportions. It has been termed “the most destructive natural disaster in modern times.” Five months later, Haiti is no longer in the headlines or on the nightly TV news, but for the hard-hit Haitian population the scene has hardly changed. Now a new disaster is in the making as the hurricane season begins. This was a calamity made by capitalism: the earthquake wa...

The social and climate crisis which we are experiencing is a new challenge for humanity. The solutions that are based on principles of justice and freedom for all peoples require the maximum creativity of that we are capable of, resulting in actions of solidarity, and the use of new and existing technology with different motives than those that are used to drive the consumer market; as well as all those utopias that we use to tread our paths. So far many of the reductionist solutions seek ...

The Chicago Independent Media Center interviews Gaza Freedom Flotilla volunteer Fatima Mohammadi who gives an chilling eyewitness account of the Israeli attack on the Mavi Mamara:...

La XXI Caravana de la Amistad Estados Unidos-Cuba recorrerá más de 130 ciudades norteamericanas, canadienses y mexicanas entre el próximo 3 y 22 de julio....

Communiqué from the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala: We do not engage in party politics and, as of now, we will only speak through communiqués...

From switzerland, hemp activist Bernard Rappaz was condemned to 5 year and 8 month of prison, after an unfair trial, in which the charges mix cheerfully the violation of the federal drugs laws, money laundering, violation of the road traffic laws, etc etc. After 50 days of hunger strike to acquire a federal review of his trial, he was placed on probation, then re-incarcerated. He began a new hunger strike. The joint manager had only a suspended sentence and a light fine imposition. Did the He...