12 Step Programs Free Me From Addiction (tags)
My Name is Freedom
Man Kills Girlfriend At National Chicken Fast Food Outlet For Taking Chicken Leg Off His P (tags)
Because a woman took a chicken leg off her boyfriend's plate at a national fast food outlet, he stabbed her to death.
A Tribute to Filipino Labor Leader Romy Castillo (tags)
Who was labor leader Romy Castillo to this young activist?
The Food Stamp Solution (tags)
Let's all get on food stamps.
Identity of Rogue Police Officer At A Santa Ana Youth Conference Revealed (tags)
Identity of Rogue Police Officer At A Santa Ana Youth Conference Revealed. The man who was seen behaving in a strange manner and recording audio at a CopWatch Santa Ana (CWSA) “Know Your Rights” workshop at a youth conference, turned out to be a SAUSD PD Sargent.
Olympiad Readiness: Militarized London Total Policing (tags)
police state
Homeless 'Anonymous' Attack on Anti-Camping Laws (tags)
TPM reports on
March 26 Labor Solidarity March Photos (tags)
Photo copyright 2011 David Sachs / SEIU. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution, Noncommercial, Share Alike.
March 26 Labor Solidarity March Photos (tags)
Photos by Chris Valle.
March 26 Labor Solidarity March Photos (tags)
Photos by joiseyboyy on flickr.
March 26 Labor Solidarity March Photos (tags)
Photos by Slobodan Dimitrov.
Waging War on American Workers (tags)
targeting the middle class
Franklin Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights (tags)
his economic bill of rights
Back to the Future in Massachusetts: A Post Script – Brown Snubs Palin (tags)
So there you have it, the first major political figure to ride to victory partly on the back of the Tea Party Movement has decided to quickly distance himself from it rather than risk having it torpedo his hopes for reelection two years from now. Scott Brown wants to continue to be seen as a mainstream moderate New England Republican, anyone surprised by that?
This is what Haaretz thinks of you. They must be Anti-Semitic.
CRASS, WHERE STIFF FINGERS (tags)
In December 14, last 2003, some of the people here in this country took charge of a review about the 90’s scene and the Movement’s outlook were third world. They were graduating but late and friends were youth but boring.
Pacifica is the basis of KPFK, and there are concerns about WBAI...more (tags)
Actions and decisions made within Pacifica affect all the KPFK people here too, even if it is New York's WBAI's main issue. We too must be concerned and informed and give input to what happens...anywhere our money goes too...
DOD proposes new giant spy airship-or is it already here? (tags)
Hundreds of Phoenix citizens reported seeing a lighted triangular shaped airship appearing to be two or three football-fields in size, flying slow and silently over the city a few years back. Airline pilots have also reported seeing giant similar airships.
Video: Here's how to Effectively Promote Peace at a Parade (tags)
How to outreach the "peace" message to a crowd along a parade route.
JFAV ACTIVIST CONTINUE PROTEST ACTIVITIES (tags)
JFAV activists here continue their unrelenting advocacy in support of various causes and in protest of other issues even as the community savors Christmas and the advent of a new year. The Filipino Veterans Support Bill, or SB 3689 that passed the Senate hearings last November 17 remains as the foremost concern of the Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV). Despite failing energy, living FilVets and their young advocates stay active on the road, making their presence felt in mass actions and community gatherings, and taking the opportunity to speak their minds.
ACTIVIST CONTINUE PROTESTS THROUGHOUT CHRISTMAS (tags)
Activists here continue their unrelenting advocacy in support of various causes and in protest of other issues even as the community savors Christmas and the advent of a new year. The Filipino Veterans Support Bill, or SB 3689, remains as the foremost concern of the Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV). Despite failing energy, living FilVets stay active on the road, making their presence felt in mass actions and community gatherings, and taking the opportunity to speak their minds. On December 8, JFAV announced the formation of a partner organization, the Association of Widows, Advocates and Relatives for Equality (Aware) at a meeting held at the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center (HPMC) here. In San Francisco, FilVets Gomer Bondad and Reggie Nacua, with activists Ago Pedalizo and Violy Reyes, discussed the seemingly unresolved impasse on the lump sum clause of SB 36879, now pending in the US Congress, at a community meeting held at the ABS-CBN studio in Redwood City last December 10
Lurching Toward Gomorrah: More Signs of An Unstoppable Economic Meltdown (tags)
a deepening economic crisis
VOTE PSL in 2008: Put Human Needs Over Profits (tags)
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is fielding a slate of candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections: Gloria La Riva for President and Eugene Puryear for Vice President. The campaign is rooted in the struggle for socialism. We believe a better world is possible and together we can make it happen.
F. William Engdahl's "A Century of War" (tags)
An epic work on the importance of oil.
Winter AntiMall (photos/report) (tags)
Near the entrance of the AntiMall was a list of the "Artivists" (“artists who are also activists”) and what they do for their communities. For example, a qualified vendor may “mentor a child, volunteer at a community garden, [or] donate art pieces to social justice organizations,” Palomares said.
A Police Provocateur's Dream, HR 1955 & S.1959 (tags)
"The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act"
Vandalizing or trespassing at a city water pump is now a Federal crime! (tags)
Vandalizing or trespassing at a city water pump is now a Federal crime! Most likely because of the Patriot Act, which should be called the “Police State Act”.
The police, the fire department and the crime-scene investigators who arrive at a crime scene perform crucial tasks in the aftermath of a violent death.
Government and business mock labor's day.
Three New Solar Tech Breakthroughs Now (tags)
1) Research scientists at Rice University have devised a new way to make solar panels out of quantum dots. They use cetyltrimethylammonium bromide instead of the standard alkylphosphonic acid compounds which makes the process safer and much cheaper.
First man down
Olmert tried to make off with the cash. We could expect no better from Israel which has disintegrated into a gangster state.
The Gulag Has Got Mary Tormey (tags)
A young woman has been stripped of her rights and sent to a mental institution following an assault by an officer of the law.
PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT REJECTS MILF DEMANDS (tags)
The Philippine government (GRP) on Wednesday rejected demands by Muslim rebels for control over vast swaths of land as peace talks remained at a standstill. Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita conceded that the talks with the Muslim separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) “are at a stalemate right now on the issue of territory.”
Children die in convoy attack as Israel widens Lebanon assault (tags)
'" Dear friends and colleagues ,You will all have to excuse me for sending this. It's pictures of the bodies of babies killed by the Israelis in South Lebanon. They are all burnt. I need your help. I am almost certain these pictures won't be published in the West, although they are Associated Press pictures. I need your help exposing them if you can..."
Cheney and Rumsfeld knew.
February Protests - Calls for Impeachment Rising (tags)
State Senator Alan Bates of Oregon and the San Francisco Rules Committee are recommending impeachment of the Bush Administration.
Democrats in Congress Show Why They are so Useless (tags)
The supposed party of opposition is all worked up and ready to do battle over the silliest of things, while the whole country goes to hell.
"Do It for the Children" (tags)
Dolores Huerta welcomes the Caravan for Migrants to Los Angeles, on its way to demanding humane immigration policies in Sacramento, Washington, and points in between.
Cindy Sheehan: “Bush’s Presidency Is Illegitimate!” (tags)
Cindy Sheehan is back in Washington, D.C. She appeared at a Forum, on Jan. 30, 2006, proposing the impeachment of both President George W. Bush and his vice-president-in-mayhem, Dick Cheney. Sheehan believes Bush’s election in 2000, by the Supreme Court was illegitimate and that his abrogating to himself Congress’s war making powers to invade Iraq was unconstitutional. Congress won’t do anything, Sheehan said, “unless we make them” do it.
COMMUNITY OBJECTS TO L.A. ANTI-IMMIGRANT CONFERENCE (tags)
A crucial demo to stop the mainstreaming of the Minutemen on Friday, August 26 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel at 9500 Wilshire Blvd in Beverly Hills.
Laguna Beach police allegedly asked Joe Turner if he posts on Stormfront (tags)
According to a message posted on the "Save Our State" website, Joe Turner apparently got incredibly angry when Laguna Beach police officer Andy Peck allegedly asked him at last Saturday's anti-day laborer center demonstration what "username" he used on the Stormfront White Nationalist Community website, a nationwide bulletin board service on the internet run by an ex-Ku Klux Klan leader. But what are the Laguna Beach police supposed to think when Turner shows up at a protest in their city and suddenly decides to spend some quality time hanging out with Robert Floyd (aka, "Baldy"), an avowed "white nationalist" who was tackled to the ground a couple weeks earlier for allegedly trying to assault Naui Huitzilopochtli, a counterdemonstrator, at a previous demo?
Rational Debate With A MM supporter (tags)
Winning over one person at a time.
Mickel tells jury he shot officer (tags)
Good old Andy is in the news again. Looks like the trial is on and old Andy-boy is gonna get the chair. I wonder whatt nessie, Sheepdog, and the indymedia leftists have to say about this? Old Andy is the posterchild for leftist thought. So much for that...
Two Vicious Iraqi Collaborators Fallujahed As They Leave US Base (tags)
Cleansing Iraq of the Foreign Filth--One Righteous Deed at a Time!
All we can feel about our selves is that we are experiencing "the present time" on and on throughout our lifetime. Could all this possibly be a result of the fact that the basic matter that forms the contents of the universe is "always present" and that all it experiences is but a change of position?
Transgender Group Wants Schwarzenegger's Belittling Comments Repudiated (tags)
Gender rights group demands repudiation of California's substitute-governor for his "girly-man" insult.
U.S. helicopter kills 40 terrorists in Iraq (tags)
"This was a wedding and the (U.S.) planes came and attacked the people at a house. Is this the democracy and freedom that (President) Bush has brought us?" said a man on the videotape, Dahham Harraj. "There was no reason."
More women accuse Governor Groper of sexual battery (tags)
Meanwhile, a new accusation surfaced from Escobar, a 41-year-old Los Angeles wife and mother and a waitress at a restaurant in the Fairmont Miramar hotel in Santa Monica. In an interview with The Times, she said Schwarzenegger had threatened to assault her when she was a teenager in the late 1970s.
The president's approval ratings soared following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. In recent weeks, those numbers have dropped to the lowest levels of his presidency, with approval ratings of 49 percent in an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll out Wednesday night and 50 percent in a CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll released Monday. HA HA HA!!!
An upbeat and well-attended public forum to spur grassroots fundraising and organizing against Proposition 54 was held a few hours ago at a church in the Wilshire district. This posting provides access to audio and pictures from the event.
Building Bridges Radio:DeUnionizing Federal Workers &EL Salvador at a Turning Point? (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 27 min 46 sec radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON INDYMEDIA LINK
Good news! George W. Bush's "free market" economic policies are working! (tags)
The biggest surge in defense spending since the Korean War era helped drive U.S. economic growth ahead at a surprisingly brisk 2.4 percent annual clip in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said on Thursday.
Give Lefty Money. See Lefty Whine. (tags)
You can't even give some people money without them complaining. Take these liberals for instance. Do you suppose they're crying because they're really upset, or is this just politics talking for them? I mean it's their money, right? Perhaps they should give the checks to charity? Perhaps they could endorse over their "ill gotten gains" to me? I'd be okay with that!
"GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!... er, I mean IRAQ!" (tags)
(Photo - A U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter patrols above the site where a U.S. Humvee vehicle was destroyed, in an explosion on Baghdad's airport road, July 8, 2003. Two soldiers were wounded in the attack. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber)
For Fourth, Bush Accentuates Military (tags)
Wrapping himself in the Flag, while wiping himself with the Constitution, the Coward-in-Chief hangues a Captive Military Audience, who dare not tell him what they thinky of the Sick Son of a Bitch, and attempts to tarnish the Founding Fathers by speaking of them out his vile orofice.
Pentagon Watching You: Latest Developments On Surveillance Front (tags)
All technologies developed can and most likely will be used on US citizens; DARPA's open bidding announcements are simply one way they have to periodically deal with the fact that the media eventually learns about what they are doing.
Diller and Turner Join Call for Media Re-Regulation (tags)
A decade of "thoughtless deregulation" has led to the five largest media companies owning channels that draw 70% of the prime-time TV audience.
A SALUTE TO WALTER SISULU (tags)
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans mourned the passing of anti-apartheid hero Walter Sisulu, who died peacefully on Monday at the age of 90 in the arms of his wife. Sisulu, a veteran of the struggle against white minority rule in South Africa and long-time friend and mentor to Nelson Mandela, had suffered from Parkinson's disease.
'I saw the heads of my two little girls come off' (tags)
From April 2, 2003 Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Australia
New improved Cointel pro/MOCKINGBIRD in progress. (tags)
Frenzied and pathetic attempt to disable LA IMC shows the effect of 'information flare'
Stickers cause delay at airports (tags)
Promoter/Organizer of politically oriented coffee house's detained for bumper stickers.
chavez says there is a new attempt at a coup (tags)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A nationwide strike escalated into angry street protests as Venezuelans riled by economic and political turmoil tried to force Hugo Chavez from the presidency of this polarized nation. Chavez said the strike won't drive him out.
oppose iraq war like gandhi (tags)
use civil disobedience strategies
Two revolutionary artists, Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera at a theatre near you (tags)
Two revolutionary artists, Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera at a theatre near you
PROTEST THE PROMISE KEEPERS! (tags)
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The California Department of Transportation is apparently conducting surveillance along certain highways. CA DOT is contacting motorists with a letter asking them if they were at a certain route at a certain time, and then asking them to answer a survey.
Bush urges Diamondbacks to take a dive for national unity (tags)
Bush reps met with AZ Diamondbacks manager Monday night, urging his team to throw the World Series in the 7th game, for the sake of national unity
CIW-Taco Bell Mini TruthTour arrives in Los Angeles (tags)
The Coalition of Immokalee Worker's "Mini-Tour" hits LA. The CIW delegation, shown here with student allies from UC-Berkeley at a demonstration in front of a Taco Bell on Friday, arrived in LA Sunday evening. Come out and join forces with the Taco Bell Boycott Monday at noon in Monterrey Park (near East LA) at the intersection of Atlantic and Cesar Chavez Blvds. for a lunchtime demo at a Taco Bell.
In what should be recognized as scandalous opportunism, the Bush Administration and the pro-free trade think tanks have been exploiting the political leverage they've gained in the wake of the S11 tragedies to try to win "Fast Track Trade Authority" for the pResident.
Police: Genoa Protester Who Was Shot Is Dead (tags)
A protester lies dead on the road after being shot by Italian police during rioting in central Genoa July 20, 2001. Police fired live rounds, tear gas and used water cannon in an attempt to disperse the thousands of protestors who are demonstrating against the G8 summit. Photo by Dylan Martinez