San Francisco Bay Area & ... (tags)
Indian Bar Association Sues WHO Scientist for the Murder of Indian Citizens by Misleading them about Ivermectin.
Corporate Tax Avoidance in the First Year of the Trump Tax Law (tags)
The tax breaks identified in this report are highly concentrated among a few very large corporations. Just 25 companies claimed $37.1 billion in tax breaks in 2018. That’s almost exactly half the $73.9 billion in tax subsidies claimed by all 379 companies in our study.
Neoliberal Indoctrination (tags)
Neoliberalism tells the poor and weak that they are responsible for their misery. The true extent of social poverty barely reaches the public. A re-feudalization bomb rages and investors seek privatizing the public education system. People are atomized. Fragmentation is intentional.
Obama Abandons Scheme to Train Nonexistent Syrian Moderates (tags)
Syria
Oligarchy and Democracy (tags)
Jeffrey A. Winters is professor of political science at Northwestern University and author of Oligarchy, published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.
Health Care Bill Provision Ranks as One of the Dumbest Political Moves of All Time (tags)
Obamacare contains a time bomb that blows up five weeks before election day.
Unions and Patients Demonstrate to Denounce Schwarzenegger Cut Proposals (tags)
Caregivers and the Cared For Gather to Protest in Downtown L.A.
Solidarity destroys fascism: LB activists unite to ignore racists (tags)
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.
Boycott US Israel Statement (tags)
MAHATMA GHANDI "Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any code of conduct. The Mandates have no sanction but that of the last War. Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home. I am not defending the Arab excesses. I wish they had chosen the way of non-violence in resisting what they rightly regarded as an unwarranted encroachment upon their country. But according to the accepted canons of right and wrong, nothing can be said against the Arab resistance in the face of overwhelming odds." .Albert Einstein;" It is however certain that these generations to come will have lessons to learn from the extraordinary life of Mohandas Gandhi"
The march, die-in was very effective, putting a Face on War. More are needed to protest this government, the lack of Democracy, the invasion of our Constitution, this governments unwillingness to heed the voices of We the People.
it was delivered by Hoyer
They say that the torture is effective (tags)
7/12/2006 - They say that the torture is effective. But it has been applied massively to hundred of migliaia of persons in Algeria, Vietnam, Latin America, and it has not prevented neither the defeat of the French colonial power, neither the umiliazione of the North American imperial power, neither the fall of the Latin American military dictatorships.
(2) Boycott Bulgarian Officials Making Worse Animal Protection Legislation (tags)
Few weeks before Bulgarian accession to EU we are still witness to worsening the animal protection legislation taken by the Government.
EFFECTIVE PROTEST TO FARM EVICTION (tags)
Instead of traditional picket, make use of more effective means of forcing public to confront wrong eviction of South Central Farmers.
World Bank / IMF Protests Scenario Outline (tags)
We are not mobilizing for this year’s World Bank / IMF meetings? What?! You will not find a rally and a march from one part to another filled with speeches and empty platitudes. BUT, YOU WILL FIND LOTS OF ACTION! Don’t come to Washington, DC, April 21 – 23 if all you intend to do is march. However, if you want to take effective action, you can march and do a whole lot more!
Revolutionary Options in a Non-revolutionary Country (tags)
Before It's Too Late...
Whoever Doesn't Really Try, Consents. (tags)
Mass symbolic, sanctioned marches that do nothing to actually change the status quo serve as painless absolution rituals, that allow the participants to “bear witness”, to “speak truth to power” and to “wash their hands of the blood of empire.” Marches, with their biting satire and snazzy costumes, do not provide a real means for stopping the carnage they deplore. A “functioning” democracy needs some form of sanctioned, orderly protest to stimulate discussion, and if the current regime were really “that bad” they wouldn’t allow big demonstrations, right? Ineffective activism, like regulated marches, actually provides a façade of healthy interchange and is welcomed by the status quo. The majority of demonstrators are aware well in advance that their actions will likely have no tangible effect on the negative of the empire, but they go to a huge rally and can sleep better at night having chanted out their guilt. Just as it can be said qui tacet consentive videtu (whoever is silent consents) it can also be said “whoever doesn’t really try, consents.”
Dr. Emma Pérez Speaks at CSUN (tags)
Dr. Emma Pérez, Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and author of The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas Into History, and Gulf Dreams, gave a lecture titled “Decolonial Queer Theory” at California State University, Northridge, on Thursday, March 17.
Killers without Borders (tags)
This probably disqualifies most of america, but this article is for smoeone with the intelligence to grasp its meaning...
Buy Nothing Day ~ TARGET WAL-MART (tags)
Ideas about how to impede conspicuous consumption.
G.W. Bush to Future Alzheimer’s Patients of America: “Let Them Have Teddy Bear (tags)
(Satire)
Congress to Hear Blackout-Bomb Threatens Existence of Civil Society (tags)
On July 22, the Graham Commission, or EMP Commission, gives its long-awaited report to the House Armed Services Committee, and an advance briefing shows that it says the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) bomb, or E-bomb, can threaten the continued existence of civil society in the United States.
An interesting article, considering the upcoming protests (tags)
A very interesting perspective on contemporary protesting.
Medical Racism, Bush Bans Chinese Herb (tags)
With the banning of Ma Huang (Ephedra) a Traditional Chinese Medicinal herb without any real medical evidence of harm to the public and against the recommendations of an independent medical and scientific body, the Bush administration is committing an act of medical racism against the Chinese American community that relies on Ma Huang as a part of highly effective medical patent herbal remedies.
The Regimes "tactical perception-management campaigns" (tags)
New DOD/Regime project seeks "...to establish a "road map for creating an effective D.O.D. capability to design and conduct effective strategic influence and operational and tactical perception-management campaigns."
Stop Occupations!
Public health as a public good (tags)
Infectious diseases, though they manifest themselves in individuals, really are a public issue. We are no healthier than the health of our community, which itself has an ever-increasing scope.
It's better to ignore KOBE than to respond to KOBE. (tags)
How to deal with KOBE harassment of LA IndyMedia.
Let's hit them where it hurts - their pocketbooks. Non-violent protests that don't require thousands to take the streets are going to be more effective with this president. Go a weekend without buying things.
An idea for nonviolent protest
Job Posting: AFL-CIO Media Outreach Internship (tags)
AFL-CIO Media Outreach Internship
Portland Indymedia Reports on FBI Frame Up (tags)
Portland Indymedia Center is reporting on the apparent frameup of an activist. Tre Arrow was becoming increasingly more effective until the FBI stopped him with indictments that many local activists believe are a set up. http://portland.indymedia.org
General Strike on MLK Day (tags)
An effective way to stop the war.
Liberal L.A. Civil Servants Beware! (tags)
Psychological operations and disability are the tools used for decades to remove effective liberal workers and whistleblowers.
Gandhi and the (establishment-supported) Myth of Effective Nonviolence (tags)
Gandhi's life was history's longest experiment in nonviolent political action. The result of the experiment is fairly clear: An exploitative class structure cannot be broken without violence somewhere along the way. Property rights, defended by state violence, have never yielded to the peaceful pressure of the exploited class. Put in other terms, no exploiting class has ever left the stage of history without being pushed.
The Axis of Evil in Indymedia (tags)
A coalition of right wingers, conservatives and pro-capitalists, working together to divide and conquer the effectiveness of indymedia through disinformation and psychological warfare as counterinsurgency (Stay tuned for updates).
After Genoa: Diversity and Solidarity (tags)
Why We Need to Stay in the Streets: "Our large scale actions have been extraordinarily effective. In fact they have, they have significantly changed the agendas and the propaganda issuing forth. In any case, the actual policies of these institutions will be the last thing to change…. Our purpose is to undercut their legitimacy, to point a spotlight at their programs and policies, and to raise the social costs of their existence until they become insupportable. Contesting the summits has delegitimized these institutions in a way no local organizing possibly can."