Let’s get One Million tweets for Oscar! (tags)
As Oscar López Rivera approaches his 73rd birthday on January 6, 2016 the National Puerto Rican Agenda and National Boricua Human Rights Network are launching a social media campaign (Twitter and Facebook) calling for his release.
Nuclear Bomb Pacific 1983, Executions Long Beach Naval Station (tags)
Nuclear bombs in the Pacific, attacks and counter attacks at sea, eye witness, Kurt Brown --Saint Ram Bone, USS Reid FFG 30 Quartermaster, former FDIC bank examiner, investigative journalist
Dylcia and Cisco on Panthers and Independista --SF8 Hearing on March 2 (tags)
This new episode of Freedom is a Constant Struggle (filmed by Angola 3 News) features Dylcia Pagan and Cisco Torres. Dylcia is a Puerto Rican freedom fighter, Independista, and former political prisoner. Cisco is the last member of the SF8 facing charges. He has an evidentiary hearing on March 2, 2011, and there is an 8 AM rally prior to the hearing, where supporters are urged to attend.
ANSWER conference to honor the Angola 3 and other political prisoners (tags)
ANSWER Coalition leaders and organizers will make presentations and receive awards at the upcoming National Conference on Socialism in Los Angeles. The Nov. 13 and 14 event will feature two days of speakers, panels, organizing sessions, discussion and entertainment at the University of Southern California campus. Hosted by the Party for Socialism and Liberation, hundreds of workers, students, organizers, anti-war activists and progressive people will come together from across the United States.
Free the "SOA6" - human rights activists sentenced to federal prison (tags)
Shut Down the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC)
Tent City residents being evicted Tomorrow, March 24, ACLU to try to intervene (tags)
The majority of Tent City or "Bushville" residents are being evicted tomorrow based on ties to Ontario. Please come out and make sure no police brutality ensues.
ANSWER's LA Office is Moving - Help Us Keep Growing (tags)
ANSWER is moving to a new, bigger office in LA. We need your help to make the move a success!
U.S. Ambassador Sam Fox:From Swift Boat War Fraud to Brussels,Belgium SWIFT Finance Fraud (tags)
Sam Fox would be an economic,political and social parasite by any other name but to place him as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium after the W Bush Regime's SWIFT financial spying scandal by ex Treasury Secretary John Snow and the U.S. CIA in Belgium is a lot like putting a fox in charge of the chicken coop.
O'Really, O'Reilly?? Pics of Protest (tags)
Eight Strong Protest O'Reilly at Nixon Library
The Activist Support Circle: Dealing with Activist Fatigue and Other Problems (tags)
Organizers and participants discuss this monthly gathering in Santa Monica.
IWW Victory for Taxi Drivers at LA Airport (tags)
By Ernesto Nevarez, Port of Aztlan, Portofaztlan@yahoogroups.com - Turning the Tide: Journal of Anti-Racist Action, Research & Education, Volume 19 Number 4, July-August 2006
Winograd Runs Against Harman (tags)
An announcement of a signature gathering party for 36th District Congressional Candidate Marcy Winograd, a peace activist challenging pro-war Congresswoman Jane Harman in the Democratic Party primary on June 6th, 2006. Marcy's candidate statement follows the invitation announcement. After the party tonight, the candidate statement could still be posted. Please! James did an audio interview with me last night.
November Again Month of Many Demonstrations (tags)
Last month had a very diverse mixture of demonstrations from the ever growing military recruiting stations, to the annual protest for the closing of the School of the Americas where an estimated 20,000 held an all day rally.
Gold Star Families to Join Arlington West Veterans Day Weekend (tags)
Veterans For Peace - LA Gears Up For Three-Day Veterans Day Weekend of Events at Arlington West in Santa Monica on Friday, November 11th thru Sunday, November 13th As Death Toll for US Troops Killed in Iraq Rises to 2,055 to Date Highlight of Weekend’s Event: Contingent of California Gold Star Families to Lead Procession of 100 Flag-Draped Coffins Through Streets of Santa Monica Noon on Saturday, November 12th
SAT 9/24: National Day of Anti-War Protests in LA (tags)
Thousands to Join the National Day of Anti-War Protests in Los Angeles on Saturday Calling to ‘End the War on Iraq, Bring the Troops Home Now, andmJustice for the Hurricane Survivors’
A Mom's FYI: Reality Bites (tags)
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SOS Must Be Opposed in Alhambra (tags)
On Saturday, the Ventura based SOS organization will be holding yet another anti-immigrant demonstration, this time in Alhambra (9am –Noon at Home Depot, 500 S. Marengo, Alhambra). The SOS likes to harass and intimidate day local day laborers. Passages from the SOS website portray a “massive illegal alien invasion” which turns “our communities into cesspools.”
Arlington West Memorial May 30-31 Santa Monica Beach (tags)
There will be over 800 crosses placed in the sand. Each cross represents an American soldier who has died in Iraq. The names, ages, hometowns and circumstances of their deaths are there for all to read on a plaque that is placed in front of this memorial. Another sign indicates that it would take the entire beach in order to recognize all of the Iraqi’s who have been killed in this war. The crosses are not meant to be used as a religious symbol.
Vietnam Vet Talks on Military Recruiting Practices (tags)
Veitnam Veteran Conrad Moore speaks at Pasadena church about the deceptive practices of the military in recruiting young people from low income communities into the lowest ranks of the military.
Banging Your Head Into Walls (The Evil Oligarchs Kill, and kill, and kill again) (tags)
John Chuckman is a Vietnam Veteran who now lives in Canada. "Not that there is no such thing as genuine terrorists. Of course, there are. Terrorism - from the Sons of Liberty and the Klu Klux Klan to black street gangs and camouflage-obsessed militia-nuts - is a rich part of American history. Please note that it has not been dealt with by blowing up whole neighborhoods of innocent people. "