Dubbed the school of the assassins by its critics, the SOA has hosted some of
Latin America's most vilified despots as students, and the 15,000 people standing on the road outside the gate chanting on the Sunday before Thanksgiving see the SOA as a symbol of all that is wrong with American foreign policy as the US begins it's latest overseas military action.
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The Pacifica National Board agreed today to voluntarily dissolve, reconstitute itself as an interim board with new members, and then to implement a democratization process for the five-station network.
This surprising victory came just as Pacifica's efforts to suppress free speech reached a new e-front with Earthlink's recent cancellation of service for a website that helped people email a Pacifica Board member, claiming that it violated their "spam" policy.
[ Full Story | For more information | Pacifica/Earthlink Suppress Free Speech ]
Over 150 people turned out in Highland Park to support a boycott against Forever 21 for garment worker abuses. A chain of stores that started out in the working class neighborhoods of LA selling affordable clothes, it uses contractors that pay sub-minimum wages under deplorable working conditions. Demonstrations are scheduled every Saturday through Christmas.
In Westwood, about 250 people showed up to continue protesting the war at the beginning of Ramadan.
Radio IMC : Garment Worker's Center, the organization that called this picket.
[ Forever 21 Demo | Forever 21 Campaign | Anti-War Demo ]