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Iraq Moratorium : Americans Saying "NO!"
Almost 40 people turned out on Iraq Moratorium Day #8 in Hayward Wisconsin at a Vigil for Peace sponsored by Peace North and Veterans for Peace Chapter 153.From Dennis O’Neil / April 27, 2008 Dear Friends, Reports from Moratorium Day … Continue reading
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What Better Time for a New Social Movement?
Hunger Plagues Haiti and the WorldBy Stephen Lendman / April 23, 2008 Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world’s poorest ones people are starving. The reason – soaring food prices, and it’s triggered riots around … Continue reading
10,000 Smoke Pot on Colorado Quad
Students pack Norlin Quad on the University of Colorado campus to smoke marijuana and celebrate “4-20” on April 20, 2008. Every year, students gather to smoke, despite past attempts by police to control the crowds. Photo By Kasia Broussalian.CU’s 4/20 … Continue reading
New York SDS : Agit-Prop Against the Business of Torture
SDSers die-in at L3 Corporation / Photo by Thomas Good / NLN.SDS Die-In At L3 CorporationBy Thomas Good / April 19, 2008 NEW YORK — “Is that real blood?” a woman passing the SDS die-in at L3 Corporation said. “Where’s … Continue reading
Manning Marable : African American Peacemakers
Dr. Manning Marable.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and the Struggle against Racism, Inequality and Warby Manning Marable [The following was first delivered as a speech at the University of Illinois at Chicago, sponsored by the Great Cities Institute … Continue reading
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The Fog of Big Money Causes Loss of Sight
The Sierra Club Sells Out to Clorox: Lost in the FumesBy Karyn Strickler / April 9, 2008 In 2004 I was recruited by grassroots activists to run, as a reform candidate, for a spot on the national Sierra Club Board … Continue reading
Group Protests Autonomous Military Robots
SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems) robots are equipped with either the M249, machine gun which fires 5.56-millimeter rounds at 750 rounds per minute or the M240, which fires 7.62-millimeter rounds at up to 1,000 per minute.Anti-landmine campaigners to … Continue reading
Portland High School Students Protest Recruitment
Some remarkable local protests last week targeted miliary recruiting. High school students in Portland, OR left school and marched on City Hall, demanding answers from the Mayor. Why are recruiters all over the high schools? Grandmothers for Peace went to … Continue reading
Sara Paretsky on Feminism, Social Action and Detective Fiction
Sara Paretsky on her work and her politics.By Matthew Rothschild [This interview with mystery writer/social activist Sara Paretsky first ran in the March issue of The Progressive. The Rag Blog.] I’m not a voracious reader of detective novels, but I … Continue reading
Stay the Same – Get Left Behind
Blogger Michael Lewis. “Getting Free”From Michael Lewis’ Hayduke Blogs. I’m reading a book, by James Herod, called Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods. You can read it, and others online, download a .pdf copy or send the … Continue reading
Brian Kelly and the New SDS
“Violence doesn’t change society,” said Brian Kelly. What does, he says, is consciousness-raising, demonstrations, face-to-face meetings and radical Web sites. Photo by Michael Nagle, New York Times.To the Ramparts (Gently)By Ben Gibberd / New York Times /March 23, 2008 One … Continue reading
