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gradmother bitten by police dog mena 2005-08-23 2:39 PM

Grandmother bitten by an out of control police dog while following police orders to disperse, following an overreaction by the police to an incident between a dissident protester and a cameraman at an anti-military recruitment rally in Oakand. (image/jpeg + 27 comments)

Take action against the makers of Tasers Ban Tasers Now 2005-08-23 2:20 PM

Ban Tasers Now (image/jpeg)

POG Shuts Down Military-Recruitment Station in Pittsburgh Jenny 2005-08-20 6:28 PM

Police attack blockade with tasers, dogs, and chemical weapons. Six arrested, two hospitalized, many injured. Urgent solidarity and help needed! (image/jpeg + 106 comments)

pgh police fire tasers at recruiting protest mt 2005-08-20 2:27 PM

On Saturday August 20 2005 in Oakland, on Forbes Avenue in broad daylight just before noon, Pittsburgh police used tasers on protestors at a counter-recruting protest. (image/jpeg + 205 comments)

Fox Email Campaign Media Activist 2005-08-19 10:32 PM

News reported (Diane Walker) threatens fellow media activist for objecting to poor news coverage. (image/jpeg)

More A6 Hiroshima Day photos marie 2005-08-11 4:06 PM

More photos from the August 6 Hiroshima Day event at SEI. (image/jpeg)

(photo) pittsburgh: hiroshima day, ash pouring at SEI vincent / blast furnace radio 2005-08-08 5:06 PM

REMEMBERING HIROSHIMA Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute in Oakland to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima. Protesters poured several hundred pounds of ashes on the steps of the building SEI as university police looked on. ashes were symbolic of the people incinerated in Hiroshima. (image/jpeg + 3 comments)

Counter-Recruitment in Oakland gwen 2005-08-06 9:45 PM

On August 6th, 2005, Pittsburgh Organizing Group organized a successful counter-recruitment rally and march in Oakland. The military recruitment office was shut down for the day as a result of the event. (image/jpeg)

Counter Military Recruitment Rally on August 6 P 2005-08-06 8:39 PM

Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) continued to escalate their counter-military recruitment campaign today as 175 protesters gathered to protest the city’s main recruiting center. (image/jpeg + 19 comments)

World Tribunal on Iraq : Final Declaration of the Jury of Conscience AmigaPhil 2005-08-01 6:43 PM

The World Tribunal on Iraq met in Istanbul from 24-26 June 2005. The principal objective of the WTI is to tell and disseminate the truth about the Iraq War, underscoring the accountability of those responsible and underlining the significance of justice for the Iraqi people. Here is the final declaration of the jury of conscience : (image/jpeg)

KARL ROVE, MICHAEL LEDEEN SPIES PROCURED FORGED NIGER DOCUMENTS Clayton Hallmark 2005-07-31 12:04 AM

Karl Rove's only full-time foreign-policy advisor is Michael Ledeen, a rabid anti-Arab, pro-Israel activist. The FBI is investigating Ledeen for procuring forged documents (shown here) on nonexistent WMD, which George Bush used to justify his war on Iraq. When Joseph Wilson exposed the farce, Rove helped "out" Wilson's CIA wife. Did Ledeen procure the documents for Rove, and how might he have done that? The story includes multinational stool pigeon Rocco Martino, Italian spy Francesco Pazienza, wanted CIA spy Robert Seldon Lady, and Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, who's under charges of giving US secrets to Israel. http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7256 (image/jpeg)

Literature Project Works Adriana Varella 2005-07-30 5:35 AM

a small effort to help those in prison to read and to think (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

CAT Kills CAT 2005-07-29 1:27 PM

Danger! Destruction Area. Caterpillar kills and bulldozes and destroys Palestinian property and people. Support an international boycott now! (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

The million-dollar woman, Cuba refuses to hand over Assata Shakur Merle Woo / Steven Argue 2005-07-28 12:00 AM

Not a terrorist but a target. (image/jpeg)

Carfree Day 2005 Photos matt 2005-07-24 10:24 AM

Photos from Car Free Day, 2005, on Penn Ave. (image/jpeg)

Condoleezza Rice Makes Surprise Visit to Lebanon Mark dameli 2005-07-22 3:26 PM

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to volatile Lebanon under heavy guard Friday to encourage a new democratic government outside Syrian control. (image/jpeg)

Karl Rove Getting Leaked On -- By Grand Jury! Clayton Hallmark 2005-07-21 1:42 PM

President Bush now says he will fire for convictions, not mere leaks. The consensus of lawyers is that Karl Rove will be indicted by the grand jury now in session in Washington, DC, in the Valerie Plame outing case -- and not for what you think. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald appears to have a slam-dunk case under Title 18, Sec. 641, USC (which is NOT about outing a covert agent) just as the DOJ did for leaker Jonathan Randel, who got a year in prison. Karl Rove was abandoned by both of his parents -- the man he called Dad left home, Rove found out "Dad" wasn't his father after all (his aunt and uncle "outed" this at the dinner table), and his mother committed suicide. (image/jpeg)

Rustbelt TV: New Episode, Summer 2005 Pittsburgh IMC Video Working Group 2005-07-16 11:08 PM

The Pittsburgh Independent Media Center is pleased to present a new episode of Rustbelt Television. Rustbelt TV brings news from the grassroots, news from outside of the corporate media to a new audience. It is based upon Rustbelt Radio, the weekly radio show that airs every Monday at 6pm on WRCT-FM 88.3 Pittsburgh and on Saturdays on WVJW-FM 94.1 Benwood in the Wheeling, West Virginia area. (image/jpeg)

Border Crisis Jonathan Morse 2005-07-14 12:35 PM

Weekly Cartoon from Dirt Worshiping Heathens Sketchbook... http://home.comcast.net/~shajon/index.html (image/jpeg)

Minister survives Beirut car explosion Mark dameli 2005-07-12 6:40 PM

A powerful bomb blast wounded pro-Syrian caretaker Defence Minister Elias Al-Murr and killed two people north of Beirut on Tuesday, security officials said. (image/jpeg)

Atlanta Hosts Competeing Convergences spooners_ghost 2005-07-11 9:48 PM

Anarchists, anti-capitalists and anti-authoritarians gather in Atlanta for two "separate but equal" convergences: (image/jpeg)

ENMOD: Cornerstone To Climate Change and Behaviour Modification soyld 2005-07-08 10:57 AM

Prime Comp: Global Warming a carefully crafted propaganda buildup for intentional melting of the icecaps with tesla tech and particulate plasma technologies, to get at the oil and other natural resources beneath. England and America made the Deal With Russia in the 80' s. Bush and most like them, especially the whacko xtian cultists like in AZ, are NOT Americans. (image/jpeg)

White Washing War Crimes, by Mumia Abu-Jamal Mumia Abu-Jamal 2005-07-03 9:02 PM

Who will solve these war crimes? (image/jpeg)

Killer Coke's deadly policies exposed Bryan G. Pfeifer 2005-07-03 2:50 PM

The Student Coalition to Cut the Coca-Cola Contract—with over 20 organizations representing 5,000 students at the University of Michigan—dealt the latest blow to the multi-billion dollar corporation... (image/jpeg)

What Pittsburgh Needs quinten 2005-07-02 9:01 PM

What happens in a country with bike lanes (image/jpeg + 2 comments)

Rally to Raise the Minimum Wage Shannon Tibbetts 2005-07-01 4:53 PM

On June 22, 2005, people from all over Pennsylvania gathered in Harrisburg to support pending legislation to raise the minimum wage. (image/jpeg + 4 comments)

Bring Stonewall to Santorum gwen 2005-06-27 1:48 PM

On Saturday June 25th, between two and three dozen activists said "No" to Santorum on a variety of issues, including his bigotted attitudes towards gays and people of color and his maintaining private offices which are closed to the public. (image/jpeg + 7 comments)

Se agrava salud de presos políticos en huelga de hambre tras 43 dias,,libertad ahora siemprefrio@chile.com 2005-06-27 2:01 AM

POR LA LIBERTAD DE PABLO VARGAS, CLAUDIO MELGAREJO, HARDY PEÑA Y FEDOR SANCHEZ A 43 DIAS DE INICIADA HUELGA DE HAMBRE... CARTA ABIERTA ESCRITA CON LA ESPERANZA DE CONSTRUIR LA LIBERTAD. Esta mañana es muy fría en Santiago, la gripe me ha tomado prisionero y no se si hacerle un comunicado o un motín. En cualquier caso tengo la sensación que esta gripe, este dolor de articulaciones, esta peste,es una buena peste. Como voy a comparar el momentáneo bienestar de un día sin gripe en la cárcel a una vida con gripe en libertad. ¡Viva la gripe, viva el smog,viva el tráfago, viva la libertad!¡Que viva la libertad en todas las esquinas! es y ha sido en el último período nuestro grito y sincopado blues de combate. Así lo hemos escrito, cantado y parafraseado en nuestras interacciones libertarias.Pero la libertad no florece con la lluvia del invierno, necesita una primavera de voluntades y cuatro estaciones de inteligencia y buenos movimientos. Oportunos, audaces.Nuestra pequeña estrategia, articular gestión y denuncia, movilización y convocatoria de solidaridades correcta pero microscópica. Somos pocos, somos frágiles, somos un grano de arena en un mar de seres ciudadanos demandantes. Atomizados por el maleficio enemigo y por nuestro propio egocentrismo; somos, ensuma, un pueblo que como otros camina y aprende, y seca más de lo necesario. Hoy tenemos una tarea urgente, tarea dramáticamente urgente y tremendamente contenedora de todo lo que alguna vez dijimos y soñamos.Hoy la libertad, la palabra, el encuentro, la posibilidad utópica de dar a cada hombre y mujer unlugar y un pedacito de felicidad en la historia,tienen ahora nombres concretos. Seis nombres, seis vidas, varios de ellos hombres que dejaron de ver el sol cuando aún no cruzaban el umbral de la adultez,piden ahora un gesto nuestro. Quisiéramos pensar que es un último gesto, el rito final antes de sentarnos a la mesa como iguales. Antes de batir nuestras diferencias y nuestros conciertos cara a cara.El lunes 16 de mayo, los cuatro condenados a cadena perpetua por ley antiterrorista, mis hermanos, han comenzado una huelga de hambre indefinida. Esta no es una decisión fácil y menos arbitraria y se explica al constatar que, a casi un año de promulgada la ley deIndulto General, su situación aún no solución definitiva.Acaso todo el mundo ha olvidado el llamado quehiciera el ejecutivo, presionado por una huelga de hambre de más de 70 días, para votar aquel proyecto así como la decisión parlamentaria de aprobarlo y elcompromiso claro y explícito del Ministro del Interioren términos de que los prisioneros que no fueran beneficiados, serían objeto de medidas alternativas.Hoy parece que nadie recuerda que hay seis hombres condenados al olvido de por vida.Nuestros compañeros continúan presos y tras 14 años decautiverio, ponen una vez más, sus vidas como testimonio e instrumento de su decisión inquebrantablede ser libres. Hardy Peña Trujillo, Claudio Melgarejo Chávez, Fedor Sánchez Piderit y Pablo Vargas López exigen que las autoridades políticas cumplan supalabra. Demandan al Ejecutivo que otorgue sumaurgencia a un Proyecto de Ley que les permita, a lomenos, obtener la libertad condicional. Igualmentehacen un llamado urgente al Senado a votarfavorablemente este proyecto; tal como lo hizo el último 07 de junio la Cámara de Diputados.Frente a esta huelga sólo nos queda hacer realidadnuestras palabras, derrumbar los muros con solidaridad activa y dar palabra y cuerpo a nuestros amigos y hermanos prisioneros. Ellos han escrito, sus amigos y familiares, en los muros de esta ciudad su historia y nosotros hemos asumido la tareade dar a su palabra y experiencia eco y presencia másallá de esos muros. Llevarlos al mundo, al futuro, a la libertad. El gobierno de la indiferencia y el poderno podrán apagar sus voces. Mañana sus rostros, sus palabras, sus gritos rebeldes y honestos, su poesía profunda y sus trazos de gesto hondo, señalarán ladignidad y la miseria humana con una indagatoria espeluznante. Como podremos entonces escapar a la memoria. Como podremos entonces decir YO no sabía.Aprendí en la prisión que no es necesario trazar un mapa o imponer una estrategia para convocar humanidad.Hoy sobre la mesa de la urgencia pido tu mano y por tu intermedio la solidaridad crítica y libre de aquellos que como tú, han debido partir para poder vivir. Solo te pido que juntos demos a mis hermanos la misma oportunidad de caminar. No se que más decir, me apena,me avergüenza un poco tener que explicar porqué nopodemos dejar entregados a su terrible suerte a estos hombres que con el sacrificio de la carne, aspiran atener lo que muchos de nosotros despreciamos cada día.Ayúdanos amigo mío, así lo hiciste conmigo, seamos máslibres en su libertad. Pedro Rosas A. Santiago de Chile 24 de junio de 2005. Reenvía este mensaje a tus contactos SI APOYAS ESTA CAUSA cukacl@yahoo.com colectivolibertadpp@chile.com (image/jpeg)

Food Not Bombs Throws 25th Anniversary Gathering in Philly homefries 2005-06-26 3:44 PM

On June 16th and 17th -- days prior to the national "Biodemocracy" convergence against biotechnology -- people from around the U.S. and elsewhere gathered in Philadelphia to strategize and reflect on a free food project called Food Not Bombs. (image/gif)

Bikefest / June Critical Mass Matt Toups 2005-06-25 11:11 PM

June 24, 2005: the largest critical mass ever in Pittsburgh! Crowd counts ranged from 200-300. Bikefest a success! (image/jpeg + 4 comments)

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