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November 25, 2008 GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala - Guatemalan women's organizations commemorated International Day Against Violence Against Women with a five-kilometer march from the Palacio de Justicia to the city's central plaza. Up to 2,000 women, men, and children from over twenty women's and human rights organizations participated, including a solidary group from Los Angeles.

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Ni una muerta más - International Day Against Violence Against Women in Guatemala by Rockero

The conservative student at Cal State Long Beach invited Jim Gilchrist, founder of the anti-immigrant Minutemen, and Ted Hayes, homeless advocate-turned anti-immigrant opportunist, to speak on campus during immigration awareness week. The good people of CSULB ignored them, and the racists went away, proving that regardless of the strategies chosen, solidarity is the key in winning our struggles.
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Solidarity destroys fascism: LB activists unite to ignore racists by Rockero

LOS ANGELES - El Jueves 20 de Noviembre del 2008, Transgeneros Unidas de Bienestar por primera vez en la historia de Los Angeles cordialmente tuvo un evento en Espanol, llamado Recordando a La Comunidad Transgénero, especialmente recordar a las mujeres transgéneros Latina que han muerto por crímenes de odio. Este evento comenzo a las 5:30pm en el centro de Hollywood de donde una procesión tomo rumbo a la iglesia de la Comunidad Metropolitana de Los Ángeles. Durante la ceremonia hubo una remembranza de las mujeres transgénero que murieron por crímenes de odio a lo igual se dio un mensaje positivo hacia esta comunidad que siempre es oprimida, marginilizada, y discriminadad. Mas con fotos: Transgeneros Unidas | | More photos, video and English text: Transgender Day of Remembrance by SCHA-LA

LOS ANGELES, November 18, 2008 – All was going nicely at this Sunday’s opening night event for an alternative community art center, dubbed the TOW space, until some uninvited city employees ruined the party. Claiming to be in search of a shoplifting suspect police forced a group of about 50 people out of the space and into street for a line up. Everyone was searched and forced to line up for close to 30 minutes while police went down the line. Six people in all were arrested. At least 25 police officers took part in the raid with a police helicopter circling above and it seemed to those there to be a rather excessive response to a shoplifting incident. The shoplifting claim is widely believed to be a cover story for a police raid that appeared to many to be planned in advance. Speculation is that the space is being targeted by the LAPD for the political affiliations of some of the participants in the event last Sunday night. There are reports that two of those arrested are members of the Black Riders Liberation Party.
Reports and eye witness accounts: LAPD suppresses radical art space by tu_kuñ(A)'o | | Police Raid of Anarchist Event by johnaimani | | Anarchist bookfair meeting raided by LAPD by josh | | Media from raid on anarchists by witness | | Video: X-Vandals Benefit Show in LA Gets Raided by LAPD by Puerto Rican Alliance

[Opt. Ed. Special Feature] Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008 – Two weeks ago Stephen Lendman in his article Obama Mania wrote: “On November 4, the world exhaled. The age of George Bush ended, and a new one under Barack Obama began. With high hopes he'll reverse the toxic legacy of the past eight years. Adopt socially progressive policies. End foreign wars. Govern the nation responsibly, democratically for all its people. Show his supporters that their faith in him was justified.” In the past two weeks the LA-IMC newswire has seen a wide range of reaction and commentary to Obama’s victory. Compiled here are some selected articles from the newswire. (Views expressed in the articles are those of the authors only and not necessarily those of the LA Indymedia collective) Selected articles from the newswire:
Obama Mania by Stephen Lendman
Obama Sweeps Presidential Election by H. Nelson Goodson
Election Night In Hollywood by Anna Kunkin
Obama and the Crisis of Expectation Workers Action
Barack Obama, new mouthpiece of ruling class interests PCInt
Obama Nation by Dylecsic goD
Not "Fascism or Obama": Fascism and Obama by DG
Obama and the Deep State: Is there Hope? by redpill8
HEY, BARACK! by df
Jeremy Scahill: 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House by Jeremy Scahill