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Bronx Iranian Solidarity Rally at UN: Images Stanley W. Rogouski | About 300 people gathered at the UN to show their solidarity for the anti-government protesters in Iran. more... 1 Comments Take Back WBAI rally- photos on facebook and audio, incl. Lynne Stewart Team Fun | Photos and Audio of the Take Back WBAI rally, June 17, 2009 more... 12 Comments NOAM CHOMSKY ADDRESSES THOUSANDS AT RIVERSIDE CHURCH Jacquie Simone | Renowned leftist intellectual, linguist and author Noam Chomsky discussed democracy, the economy and global crises June 12 at Riverside Church in Harlem. more... 7 Comments Chronicle of the Second NYC Encuentro for Dignity & Against Displacement
Movement for Justice in El Barrio | This past Sunday, June 7th, 2009 in zapatista East Harlem known as El Barrio, the Second New York City Encuentro for Dignity and Against Displacement, with the participation of 38 organizations representing the resistance against neoliberalism in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. This second encuentro, just as the first one – held two years ago -, was inspired by the encuentros of the Zapatistas in Mexico from below and to the left, in order to get know each other and recognize one another in our struggles for a world where many worlds fit and against neoliberal exclusion. Lockdown at Schumer's office protests "free trade massacre" in Peru Press release by activists (photos by Jb) | Activists charge Schumer with complicity in the murder of dozens of indigenous Peruvians killed over the weekend in a wave of repression against indigenous people engaged in nonviolent protest against the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement. Peruvian President Alan Garcia has used the FTA as a pretext to institute new laws that usher in an unprecedented wave of extractive industries – expanding logging, oil and gas drilling, mining, and destructive agriculture into the Amazon Rainforest. more... 4 Comments Councilmember Gennaro Protested for supporting Gas Drilling
Wanda Rivera | As the controversy about whether or not the State and Federal governments would allow unconventional gas drilling in upstate rural areas heats up, dozens of environmental activists rallied outside of City Hall on Wednesday in an animated protest to urge Councilmember Gennaro - the Council's Environmental Protection Committee Chair - to follow through on his declared opposition to gas drilling statewide. Meanwhile, Congressman Hinchey on the federal level introduced similar gas drilling friendly legislation that would leave the state's food and water supplies vulnerable to devastation. Outrage at NYPD homophobia-driven Violence in Crown Heights Jessica Aguirre | As New York prepares for LGBTQ pride celebrations, a new case of homophobia-driven police brutality has sobered the city. more... 3 Comments Crisis Brewing at Manhattan’s Community Access TV Station Lyell Davies | May 28, 2009—Community television producers and a former Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) staffer assembled outside MNN to charge that the station is failing in its mission of providing media services to community organizations and is cracking down on staffers opposed to the organization’s present direction. more... 0 Comments New Video Exposé: The Loan Shark in Your Living Room - Rent-a-Center
IndyVideo | An exposé of one of the biggest scammers in the rent-to-own industry - Rent-A-Center. Community leaders Taharka Robinson and Kirstin Foy lead a New York City-based movement to regulate an industry that has taken advantage of low-income, minority consumers for decades. Find out what it's going to take to put this predatory renter from preying on our neighborhoods. Press Release: Socialists Call for Swift Action to Combat Swine Flu Outbreak Socialist Party USA, NYC Local | “Access to healthcare is no problem for a billionaire like Michael Bloomberg,” says Billy Wharton, Chairperson of the Socialist Party of New York State, “for the rest of us hospital visits mean facing medical bills and debt." more... 0 Comments Bernard White of WBAI Speaks Out! VIDEO ft. White & Rosa Clemente Emma | Bernard White contextualizes his firing as Program Director of WBAI in the larger struggle for the direction of the Pacifica Network. Details financial interests in the station and divisive tactics used against him. Other members of the WBAI community make comments denouncing the firing and supporting the station. more... 18 Comments New York Activists to Leonard Cohen: "Don't Play Apartheid; Don’t Play Israel!" Adalah-NY | New York activists gathered in front of Radio City Music Hall Sunday night during a Leonard Cohen concert to call upon the singer/songwriter to cancel his scheduled September concert in Israel. The protesters sang songs, chanted, handed out leaflets to concert attendees and produced sidewalk art. The call comes in support of earlier calls by Jews, Palestinians, Israeli citizens and residents of the UK, and coincides with the publication of an open letter by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) calling for protests throughout the cities Cohen is touring. more... 15 Comments Re: Committee to Investigate the April 10th Occupation of the New School
New School for Endless Occupation | To help push along the inquiry into the facts concerning the occupation of 65 Fifth Avenue on April 10th 2009, we are offering clear and direct responses to all the questions that the New School Investigation Committee is seeking to answer. We do hope this clears some things up. Vassar College May Day 2009 Statement Royce Drake | On Friday, May 1st, a group of staff, students, and faculty held two rallies at Vassar College. We were loud. We were disruptive. For the first time in years students and faculty at Vassar are standing in solidarity with staff with more than just words. more... 0 Comments THIS IS WHAT SOLIDARITY LOOKS LIKE?
Gregory A. Butler, local 608 carpenter | Why are there two separate May Day rallies in New York City this Friday? Carl Davidson's Report for the Left Forum
Carl Davidson | New York City's annual 'Left Forum' this year was a solid success. Under the theme "Turning Points, it drew more than 2000 participants to Pace University April 17-19, to take part in some 200 panels featuring around 600 speakers. WBAI Local Station Board Secretly Does Snap "Evaluation" of Two Managers, Likely By a WBAI supporter | On Monday, April 20, the WBAI Local Station Board, meeting in secret session on four days' notice, voted over the strong objections of the Justice & Unity members to do an immediate snap "evaluation" at that meeting -- without any preparation or data collection -- of WBAI General Manager Tony Riddle and Program Director Bernard White. more... 48 Comments Conor Tomas Reed | Conor Tomás Reed explains why he's ready for an April 22 protest at City College of New York against a tuition increase and faculty cutbacks. more... 3 Comments What's the Matter with the Left Forum Steven Sherman | In its organizational structure and attitude, the Left Forum isolates itself from most social movements. But it also refuses to constitute itself as a living organization. Instead, the preference is to berate all existing forces and implore participants to somehow get their act together. Unless it shifts the way it does things, it risks irrelevance. more... 13 Comments Off the sidewalk, into the Future! New School Rocked Again
Negated Negation | HOLY SHITBALLS! What the fuck happened last night at the New School? Hundreds of people at the anti-police brutality rally at the 55 w13th st New School building, dozens in Bob Kerrey masks, speaker after speaker condeming the NYPD and the New School's violent response to the occupation, absurd revolutionaries challenging everyone to OCCUPY EVERYTHING! ABOLISH TIME! and NEGATE NEGATION. Black U.S. Delegation Attends Racism Conference to Demand Reparations
Amadi Ajamu | The follow up to the World Conference against Racism (WCAR) 2001 and the Durban Declaration dubbed "Durban Review" will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, April 20 - 24, 2009. The December 12th Movement International Secretariat, a non governmental organization (NGO) with consultative status to the United Nations, will lead the "Durban 400" delegation and defend Black peoples' right to reparations for slavery. Activists Win! Beat Shell/Broadwater. Toxic gas waning!
Kristy Kelopis | The effort to stop the extraction of all toxic "natural" gas grew in momentum as the U.S. Commerce Department said Monday it opposed a proposed massive floating liquefied natural gas terminal in Long Island Sound. New School Occupation: What The F*ck Happened Friday Morning? kilroy | Participants in the re-occupation of the New School have released a timeline of events that occurred Friday morning during the confrontation at 65 Fifth Ave. Many details directly contradict claims made by police and President Kerrey about the actions of police and protesters. more... 8 Comments New School Occupation. April 10, 2009 Ona Mirkinson | Early this morning a group of New School Students took over the 65 5th avenue building, unfurling banners off the roof onto the face that read, among other things, "New School Is Now Occupied." more... 0 Comments Photos: New School Occupation [New York, New York: Apr. 10, 2009] Andrew Hinderaker | Photos of the New School Student Occupation, April 10, 2009 more... 1 Comments Page 138 |
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