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Warning: You may find this boring. There’s no violence in it, so of course the corporate media would not be interested in publishing it. My Story, A Report from the No NATO protest in Chicago on May 20, 2012 By Sue Ann Martinson with Mary Beaudoin May 22, 2012 I have been reading a [...]
Battleground Chicago Chicago cops beat NATO protesters. By Stephen Lendman (about the author) May 22, 2012 opednews.com Chicago police have an odious reputation for brutality. It’s well deserved. On Sunday, it showed up forcefully. The whole world watched. Baton-wielding cops confronted protesters violently. Official policy is swing first, ask questions later, and blame victims for [...]
The March WAMM at the Rally and March Some of the Minnesota groups participating besides WAMM (specifically members of the Middle East Committee with other WAMM members) and the Anti-war Committee—who together organized the trip—were representatives from the Welfare Rights Committee, Freedom Road, Committee to Stop FBI repression, Students for a Democratic Society, TC Peace [...]
Published on May 2, 2012 by democracynow DemocracyNow.org – Hundreds of thousands of people across the world marked May Day on Tuesday by filling the streets and demanding better working conditions, greater job security and improved quality of life. May Day, also known as International Worker’s Day, resonated with protesters from Spain to Bangladesh to Iraq and throughout [...]
When I Join You January 22, 2012 AliceWalkersGarden When I join you in the effort for peace I give myself over. There and not there. Marching with you alongside the many who have died it is as if we are marching across the Universe and just ahead of us if only in another galaxy [...]
Occupy May Day: Not Your Usual General Strike Based on a talk by Jeremy Brecher to Occupy University, Zuccotti Park By Jeremy Brecher Common Dreams March 26, 2012 October2011 Last December, Occupy Los Angeles proposed a General Strike on May 1 “for migrant rights, jobs for all, a moratorium on foreclosures, and peace – [...]
Uploaded by WAMMMall on Apr 9, 2012 April 7 was Re-Occupy Day in Minneapolis — Occupiers gathered in Peavey Plaza and Loring Park. After being evicted from Peavey at 1:30 am, they peacefully marched down the street and were brutally attacked by the police. Videos at www.occupyminneapolis.mn show the police pulling several people off public sidewalks and violently slamming a [...]
Uploaded by StopCitizensUnited on Apr 2, 2012 Hundreds of Angelenos unite to oppose “Citizens United vs FEC” – the 2010 Supreme Court decision that allowed corporations to make unlimited/undisclosed political contributions. Join our call for real campaign finance reform. Please share this video and Like “Stop Citizens United” on fb to help spread the word: http://facebook.com/StopCitizensUnited Join Us! Subscribe [...]
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