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Can Congress Stop the Burning of the American Flag? Kenneth J. Theisen 2006-06-08 2:26 PM
Sometime between now and the 2006 elections in November, the U.S. Senate will debate one of the most pressing questions facing the American people. No, they will not debate the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and possible U.S. withdrawal. They will not take up the Bush regime’s preparations for war, possibly even nuclear war, against Iran. They will not seriously talk about global warming, the degradation of the environment, preparations for the coming hurricane season, or the Bush regime’s massive spying on the American people, or any other pressing issues. Instead they will debate whether or not to amend the constitution to allow Congress to ban the burning of the American flag. (text/plain)

A GLOBAL CALL FOR NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE ACTIONS ON AUGUST 6-9 -- NOW MORE THAN EVER! Danny Malec 2006-06-07 4:38 PM
This year, as we prepare to commemorate the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and 9), it is imperative that the global peace movement show the links between that genocide and the slaughter of innocent civilians carried out by the U.S. military in its "conventional" war in Haditha, Fallujah and throughout Iraq. (text/plain)

THERE IS NO "WAR ON TERROR" LARRY EVEREST 2006-06-06 4:08 PM
There is no "war on terror." The invasion and occupation of Iraq are not part of a "war on terror." Neither are the current threats and war preparations against Iran. The "war on terror" doesn't exist—no matter how many times the Bush administration cites it to justify its aggressions, no matter how often Republicans and Democrats debate how to best carry it out, and no matter how frequently it's referenced in the U.S. bourgeois media. (text/plain)

Voices of People's History Monique_dols@hotmail.com 2006-06-03 5:14 PM
Don't miss this NYC reading and conference at the end of June. (text/plain)

Sunsara Taylor: Drive Out the Bush Regime repost 2006-06-02 10:13 PM
I know everyone hates plot-spoilers, but the story line is overplayed and the ending is worse than lousy, so I’ll say it now: The will of the people will not be expressed in the 2006 election. (text/plain)

Confident U.S. generals commit war crimes Bob Nichols 2006-06-02 4:41 PM

A force multiplier is a technological method to multiply the aggressiveness and lethality of an armed force. (image/jpeg)

Ranger Claims Found to Be a Lie Jared McLaughlin 2006-05-24 2:00 AM
Recent video of Jessie Macbeth, who claims to be be a veteran of the Iraq War and a Ranger, found to be a lie. (text/plain + 1 comment)

SOLIDARITY FROM OAKTOWN, CA TO OAKLAND, PA! David S 2006-05-18 3:46 AM
SHUT DOWN MILITARY RECRUITING! Honor All Who Object to War & Empire! Photos at: http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/05/1823410.php http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/05/1823560_comment.php#1823594 (text/plain)

Director of Project Censored To Speak at 9/11 Truth Education/Strategy Conference 911truth.org 2006-05-18 3:01 AM
Peter Phillips, an associate professor of sociology at Sonoma State University and the distinguished Director of Project Censored, will be a featured presenter during a weekend of exposition and strategy aimed at challenging the official version of the 9-11 attacks, and raising public awareness of their full scope. (text/plain)

Letter to comrade Edward (The Road to Information War) Ben Seattle 2006-05-14 3:25 PM
A longer-term view of the tasks of building anti-imperialist and revolutionary organization in the U.S. in the early 21st century: (1) Work to build an open community of activists (2) Develop national reach via the internet (indymedia newswires, email lists, etc) (3) Develop theoretical tools that will allow us to think about and talk about our long-term goal (text/plain)

Why I Cannot Support The Troops In Iraq populist 2006-05-11 6:22 PM
...it is absolutely necessary that I ask who, in fact, should be held responsible for the ongoing destruction of a such a substantial portion of the infrastructure of Iraq, the death of half a million children during an earlier embargo, the killing of as many as 100,000 innocent Iraqis, the deaths of 2,500 American soldiers, and the horrible injury of at least 25,000.... (text/html)

BALOCHISTAN nationalists harassed by Pakistani Millitary Rajesh 2006-05-07 8:51 PM
Following are the copies of official letters (scanned below) sent to Baloch politicans and Parliamentarians, putting their names on Exist control List. In addition their homes phones and websites have been banned. (text/html)

Build the Left, Fight the Right: Socialism 2006 Socialism 2006 2006-05-05 4:02 PM
Socialism 2006 provides a place where activists from today's fights against the Right can come together to discuss how we can rebuild the Left and win a world where ordinary people will decide the priorities of our society. Join us in New York for a weekend of nearly 100 meetings, plus a book fair, activists' tables, parties, and entertainment! (text/plain + 1 comment)

Virtual Sit-in against Mexican president Fox for EZLN Red Alert FLOODNET 2006-05-05 1:39 AM
NO TO THE VIOLENCE IN TEXCOCO, MEXICO and YES TO THE ZAPATISTA CAMPAIGN FOR DEMOCRACY IN MEXICO! ALL OF CINCO DE MAYO! (text/plain)

Ricin Wesley Conroy 2006-04-24 9:33 PM
Research on the toxic agent, "ricin" and it's role in biological warfare. Inspired while on a recent road trip, passing by a military chemical testing/research facility. (text/plain)

Class Action for Chicago Anti-war lawsuit Chicago Anti-war Legal Team 2006-04-20 6:23 PM
After more than 10,000 anti-war protestors marched on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago on March 20, 2003, police detained and arrested hundreds of demonstrators and bystanders. A lawsuit brought on behalf of over 800 people who were unlawfully held that night has recently been granted class action status. (text/plain)

Military recruiters-predators hunting your youth! WSQT Guerilla Radio 87.9 in DC 2006-04-20 3:01 PM
In this segment, DC radio pirate WSQT compares military recruiters to sex predators who hunt young people. Considering recent recruiter sex and rape scandals, we do hope they can take the heat! (audio/mpeg)

T minus 4 days to the World Bank and IMF Spring meetings The Farragut Squares Collective 2006-04-18 1:42 AM

It's T minus 4 days to the World Bank and IMF Spring meetings and the Farragut Squares Collective has been busy little elves finalizing a schedule of counter Bank and Fund events. What follows is the fruits of our labor. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Operation Refuse War Center on Conscience & War 2006-04-17 9:34 PM

Through workshops, actions, and an international conference, Operation Refuse War will highlight the difficulties that current conscientious objectors face as well as help build relationships and connections between the various communities within the anti-war movement. The focus of the events is on supporting contemporary American conscientious objectors and their families, as well as examining the current potential of conscientious objection (in its various forms) as a strategy for building an anti-war movement. In addition, Operation Refuse War will bring together international and American conscientious objectors to share their experiences and ideas. (image/jpeg)

Immigration Policy: Send Us Your Poor, They Will Wind Up in Iraq D. Burbeck 2006-04-17 3:57 PM
They are coming by the millions from all over the world. Let them come here. Let them find that there are not enough jobs. They will find the military to be the last resort when their welfare is cut off. And let them acquire Gulf War Syndrom (radiation sickness from uranium munitions).! It works just fine in the minds of the neo-cons. (text/plain)

THE CHOMSKY/BLANKFORT POLEMIC - Interview Silvia Cattori 2006-04-16 11:44 AM
Tel-Aviv and Washington are linked in the Middle East. That's a fact. But the importance of this link in Washington's colonial politics is being debated in the anti-imperialist movement. For the US, Jewish, anti-Zionist journalist Jeffrey Blankfort, Israeli influence is central to US policy and the anti-war movement has failed because of its inability to understand the importance of this lobby. Having developed a radical approach to this question, going so far as to deny the energy factor in the war in Iraq, Mr. Blankfort nonetheless opens interesting paths on Zionist influence in the United States. We reproduce an interview he gave to journalist Silvia Cattori. (text/plain)

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh - The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary Paddy-bo 2006-04-14 9:56 PM
"In a very real sense, Ruairí Ó Bradáigh can . . . be said to be the last, or one of the last Irish Republicans. Studies of the Provisional movement to date have invariably focused more on the Northerners and the role of people like Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. But an understanding of them is not possible without appreciating where they came from and from what tradition they have broken. Ruairí Ó Bradáigh is that tradition and that is why this account of his life and politics is so important." —from the foreword by Ed Moloney, author of A Secret History of the IRA (text/plain)

World Bank/IMF Actions Farragut Squares Collective 2006-04-12 3:33 PM
Come on down to D.C. against the WB/IMF (text/plain)

Is there anything at all now,that an American President can be "Impeached" over? Frank T 2006-04-05 10:13 PM
Nouveau Noblese Oblige? (text/plain + 3 comments)

Huge Month of Demonstrations D. Burbeck 2006-04-04 12:11 PM
Not to mention the immigration bill protests, March saw massive demonstrations all over the world. Two international action days - International Woman's Day, and the Iraq War anniversary - brought hundreds of thousands out protesting the war and the Bush Administration. (text/plain)

PEACE HAS NO BORDERS-A FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCE: June 16 & 17 Jenny Peshut 2006-03-27 5:39 PM
The Western New York War Resisters League [WNYWRL], Veterans for Peace Chapter 128 [VFP] and the War Resisters Support Campaign (CANADA) [WRSC], calls on you to turn your back on U.S. war and imperialism and unite in solidarity to stop the illegal war in Iraq. The International Peace Bridge located between Buffalo, N.Y. and Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada will be where we, the people of the U.S., Canada and the world, take the courage to march and demand an end to the Iraq war. We will tell the U.S., "hands off Iraq, hands off U.S. soldiers," and tell Canada to act by letting them stay, by granting these soldiers asylum in Canada because they refuse to fight in the illegal war in Iraq. (text/plain)

Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe Bob Nichols, Project Censored Award Winner 2006-03-25 12:49 PM

The average radioactive dose, according to official government index based calculations, was about 23 million radioactive particles for the average adult male in Britain and Europe. (image/jpeg)

ORGANIZING BEGINS FOR A22-A23 WORLD BANK-IMF PROTESTS Farragut Squares Collective 2006-03-24 4:13 PM

A place, date, and time has been decided for the begining of organizing for the World Bank-IMF. The meeting will take place on at 3PM April 2, 2006 at the Flemming Center, 1426 9th Street NW Washington DC. (image/jpeg)

BRILLIANT ACTIVISTS TAKING IT TO CONGRESSIONAL OFFICIAL'S DOORSTEPS D. Burbeck 2006-03-21 2:45 PM
This past weekend saw demonstrations all around the world with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets to protest the third anniversary of the War in Iraq. But something new is happening. (text/plain)

Global Nonviolent Resistance Marks Third Anniversary Danny Målec 2006-03-21 12:44 PM
Marking the third anniversary of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, thousands of activists from all parts of the globe engaged in nonviolent demonstrations and direct action focusing on disrupting business as usual at some of the symbolic “Pillars of the War in Iraq” – US government installations, military bases, congressional offices, recruitment centers and war profiteers. Actions took place in cities around the world, including Atlanta, Belfast, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Madrid, Managua, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Rome, San Francisco, San Salvador and Washington, DC. These actions demonstrate increasing boldness to challenge the mechanisms of the war in Iraq through coordinated, global nonviolent resistance. (text/plain)

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