Events - East Coast USA

[Fawkes]

Anyone else planning on going to this? Also, does anyone have any information on the possibility of a bloc?
http://www.answerct.org/pdfs/M23natl1.pdf

[Fawkes]

Bump.

[farleft]

Post upcoming events from the East Coast of the USA.

[OneBrickOneVoice]

Dick Cheney Will Be Speaking At West Point
SATURDAY, MAY 26

Join The World Can’t Wait Drive Out the Bush Regime and many others in demonstrating against this world-class war criminal:

March and Rally: 8:30 am Saturday, May 26

Demand:

STOP THE WAR NOW!
Impeach Bush and Cheney for War Crimes
Assemble in Veteran's Park, Highland Falls, NY AT 8:30 AM

March to West Point


Dick Cheney is one of the principal architects of the Bush Regime’s blood-soaked agenda of war, torture, empire, and repression. His commencement speech at West Point, the home of the United States Military Academy, comes at a time when the regime is—through its opposition to any timetable for withdrawal from Iraq and its heightened threats against Iran— attempting to forge this global agenda into a permanent and unchallenged reality.

We must come out en masse on May 26 in order to forcefully repudiate not only the fascist behind the microphone, but the fascist program he is trying to convert into a new normalcy.


World Can’t Wait is organizing car pool to demonstration from New York City:
Gather at 6:00 AM (sharp) on 32nd Street, just west of 5th Avenue, Manhattan.

If you have a car and provide seats for others, call us with information on how many people you can bring, etc. 347-678-5905

If you want a ride, please call 347-678-5905 to RSVP, so we know how many people.

Riders: please bring an extra $15.00 to help pay for gas, tolls and possibly parking fees.

Those we can not provide rides for, can go by Metro North, leaving at 6:20 AM from Grand Central Station to Peekskill Station. (Round trip $17.50). Protest organizers are providing a shuttle bus from Peekskill Station to Veteran’s Park, and ask that people call ahead to make a reservation at: 914-682-4690.

For those coming from other areas, call 914-682-4690 or visit www.westpointrally.org for more information.


Sponsoring organizations:

After Downing Street

American-Iranian Friendship Committee

ANSWER Coalition

Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace

Caribbean and Latin America Support Project

Citizen Action of New York

Citizens for Impeachment of Bush and Cheney

Code Pink Women for Peace Hudson Valley

Code Pink Westchester

Connie Hogarth Center for Social Action

Democrats.com

Democratic Alliance of Orange County

Dutchess Greens

Dutchess Peace Coalition

Grandmothers Against The War

Green Party of the United States

Hudson Valley Activist Newsletter

Hudson Valley ANSWER

Hudson Valley Libertarian Party

ImpeachBush.org

Iraq Veterans Against the War

Phillipstown for Democracy

Military Families Speak Out/Gold Star Families

Military Families Speak Out Boston

New Paltz Green Party

New York State Green Party

Northeast Citizens for Responsible Media

Northeast Peace and Justice Action Coalition

NoWar Westchester

Orange County Peace and Justice

Real Majority Project

Rockland Coalition for Peace and Justice

Saugerties Committee for Peace and Social

Justice

Sullivan County Peace and Justice

The Flames of Discontent

United For Peace and Justice

Veterans for Peace

Veteran's for Peace/ Viet Nam Veterans Against the War

War Resisters League

WESPAC Foundation

West Point 8 Organizing Committee

Westchester Progressive Democrats

World Can't Wait

Women in Black

[OneBrickOneVoice]

In 2004, Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party gave a revolutionary talk called Revolution: Why its Necessary, Why its Possible, What Its all about. As the title says, it's basically about why we need revolution in the USA and around the world

-- hundreds of thousands dead in bloody wars for imperialism
-- massive inequality in wealth
-- Police terrorism on Black and Chicano communities

and many other reasons. Why its possible

-- Our class has done it before
-- There is a plan of action

And What its all about

-- What a revolutionary society will look like ie
-- the emancipation of woman and oppressed nationalities
-- education, housing, healthcare, food, and necessities for all human beings
-- a government which engages with the people and is built out of us.

and so much more.

On June 12th, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York City located on 135th Street and Malcolm X boulevard, (take the B or C train) Revolution Books will be sponsoring a special evening featuring presentations from such radicals as Chuck D and Father Barrios and others as well as a showing and disscussion of the a film of the Revolution talk

Come check it out.

[OneBrickOneVoice]

Forum on New Orleans with the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
June 8th, 7pm, 2295 Adam Clayton Powel (NYC-ANSWER office), on 135th st.
Take the B,C,2,3 trains

people's organizing vs. government's racism and neglect.

Basically this is a public forum with presentations from eyewitness activists who have been helping with the rebuilding effort of New Orleans that the US government is NOT doing. Millions of Working class people are left with nothing. Come here a political analysis of this and take part in the disscussion.

[arielle]

Rally for Peace, Staten Island!

Saturday, June 30 from 12 Noon to 1:30 PM

Tappen Park in Stapleton - Bay Street & Water Street

*Speakers / Music / Street Theater (including Rev. Billy!) *

* U.S . Out Of Iraq
* Bring the Troops Home Now
* No Blood for Oil
* Spend Money for Education not Occupation
* Fossella:- Talk to the people not to the money

*The U.S. Occupation of Iraq has meant: *

* 3,457+ U.S. service members have died in Iraq.
* Almost 700,000 Iraqis have died including 122, 000 children under
5 years old.

* 1.2 million Iraqis are refugees because their communities have
been destroyed since the war started.

*R.S.V.P. to 718-989-2881 or **pasi.eblast @ gmail.com **. Make this the
biggest Peace Rally ever on Staten Island. *

*_Directions from the Staten Island Ferry Terminal:_*

*By car or walking: Take Bay Street South 1 mile to Water Street. Turn
right at Water Street into the park.*

*By bus: Take the S51, which goes along Bay Street. Get off at Water
Street. Turn right into park. (18 minutes)*

Contact Peace Action of Staten Island to help us organize and reach
others: 718.989.2881 , P.O. Box 201, St. George Station., Staten Island,
NY 10301 or visit *www.panys.org/SI/ * or email us at
*pasi.eblast @ gmail.com.*

[OneBrickOneVoice]

On Tuesday, U.S. undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns stated, as though he had proof, that Iran is arming the Taliban…. He offered zero evidence. The day before, Joe Lieberman said the U.S. should be “prepared to take aggressive military action against Iran.” Leading presidential candidates of both parties have said nuclear war against Iran is an option. For the past few months, the U.S. has insisted that Iran is trying to acquire nuclear weapons… Again, offering zero evidence.


The growing threats of nuclear war against Iran represents one window into the future we may have if we don’t act now. And while we must do everything in our power to stop horrors such as an attack on Iran, we also need to be prepared to act immediately if an attack happens.

We will gather at Times Square’s Military recruiting center (43rd and Broadway) at 5pm the day of any attack on Iran. If an attack happens at night, we will gather the following day.

[OneBrickOneVoice]

Monday, June 25th, 6:30 PM @ the Society For Ethical Culture @ 64th and Central Park West

Come to a Townmeeting for a People's Impeachment Trial of the Bush Regime with the intention that 2008 is too late, the Bush Regime can do all kinds of horrible shit before then like Bombing Iran, appointing a new supreme court justice, and etc...

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[Rawthentic]

I am now wondering why the WCW doesn't talk about the Bush-Pelosi regime since, as we have shown in our publications, they have now become one and the same, shown by their latest "compromises."

The Democrats need to be thrown out.

[OneBrickOneVoice]

true that. The RCP has run a bunch of stuff on that recently. Last week for example, in regard to the immigration bill.

In the World Can't Wait's call it says "there will be no savior found in the democrat party" or something like that. I think why it doesn't call it the Bush-Pelosi Regime is because Pelosi isn't the president, she doesn't have shit like vetoing power.

This isn't the thread to talk about that though. You should've quoted my post and made a new thread.

[Iron]

Troops Out Now! call to action september 29th march from Capitol to the White House


It's time to move from Protest to Resistance:

http://troopsoutnow.org/sept2207call.html

[OneBrickOneVoice]

Two years since Hurricane Katrina... Two years - since the world watched in horror as bodies floated in the streets of New Orleans....Two years – since the Bush Regime allowed tens of thousands of people – overwhelmingly Black people – to suffer, starve, dehydrate and die in the unbearable heat and humidity and toxic sludge of a flooded city.

Two years since the Bush Regime committed a massive crime against humanity for which it is yet to be punished.

This Orange Friday, August 31--at the south end of Union Square at 5:30 pm-- we will be marking the two-year anniversary of Katrina. We have a sound permit for speakers.

And we have several ideas for the rally, for which we need your help:

* We want to feature "sights and sounds of Katrina," by enlarging powerful images that capture the devastation and abandonment of New Orleans during and after the levees broke... and by playing excerpts of interviews recorded during and after the hurricane.

Help locate powerful photos to enlarge, and help mount them on posters in order to capture the magnitude of the disaster and the Bush Regime's criminal response.

Also, help track down excerpts of interviews with New Orleans residents recorded during the time of Katrina, to be played on a PA system in Union Square.

*Contact local musicians who could lead a New Orleans funeral procession through the park

* Help contact speakers from organizations who address the Bush Regime's crimes during and after Katrina, and who demand the Bush Regime be held accountable for these crimes.

If you can help in any of these ways, including by getting word out to people and organizations, please call Bruce at 347-678-5905.

To read the full text of the powerful statement "Two Years After Katrina" from our Web site, go to www.worldcantwait.net

[OneBrickOneVoice]

ALL OUT!!! SUPPORT NATIONAL DAYS OF PROTEST TO FREE THE JENA 6!!!

"THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!”

“THIS IS APPALLING IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD.”

“THIS SHOULD NOT BE TOLERATED…ANY LONGER!”

“THIS INJUSTICE, INEQUALITY AND RACISM INFURIATES ME.”

“THESE YOUNG MEN GOTTA BE FREED!”

“WHAT CAN I DO?”

This is what people SAY when they hear about the case of the Jena 6.

AND NOW THIS MASS SENTIMENT MUST BECOME A MATERIAL POLITICAL FORCE TO STOP A GREAT INJUSTICE.

The “Jena 6” are six Black students in Jena, Louisiana, who could go to prison for decades because they stood up against deeply entrenched racism.

This all started on September 1, 2006. Black students at Jena High sat under what had been, in 2006(!), a “WHITE ONLY TREE.”

The next day, racist students hung three NOOSES from the tree.

For all to see, a straight-up racist threat: KKK. Lynching. Black bodies at the bottom of the river.

Dozens of Black students stand together under the tree in a courageous, defiant protest. A school assembly is called where a white district attorney tells the Black students to keep their mouths shut about the nooses. Then he threatens them: “I can take away your lives with a stroke of my pen.” When racist white students jump a Black student walking into a party in Jena, one white student gets probation. Later, when a Jena white threatens a Black student with a gun, and the Black student disarms him, it’s the African-American who is arrested. And then when a fight breaks out that sends a white student to the hospital for an hour, the law comes down on six Black students, charging them with attempted murder.

16-year-old Mychal Bell has already been convicted—by an all-white jury, without a single witness being called on his behalf—of second-degree battery and conspiracy to commit second-degree battery. He faces up to 22 years in prison. And the system continues to threaten to ruin the lives of the other five youth who still face serious charges.

The railroading and persecution of these young Black men doesn’t have anything to do with who did what to whom in a schoolyard fight—they are being punished because they, and the other Black students in Jena, dared to stand up against outrageous discrimination!

Up Against A System

The case of the Jena 6 concentrates the situation that still exists throughout this country—where racism and segregation is the status quo and white supremacy is enforced in unofficial but also OFFICIAL ways this whole system operates. School officials, police, courts, authorities, and government officials have worked together to persecute the Jena 6. And this was approved from the highest authorities in the land when a representative of the US Justice Department came to Jena and said they could find no violation in the way Jena High authorities have handled things and that in fact “all of their procedures were ‘regular’ and not ‘irregular.’”

No real punishment for white students who hang lynch nooses on a schoolyard tree: REGULAR. Threatening Black students who protest this racist threat: REGULAR. Giving a slap on the hand to white students who attack Black students: REGULAR. Black students facing decades of prison time for fighting with white students: REGULAR.

This is the REGULAR workings of a white supremacist system. A system whose very foundations are deeply entwined with the outright slavery and oppression of Black people.

A system which has no future for the masses of Black youth—for millions and millions of Black youth, what they can expect is a future of low-wage jobs at best, along with incarceration, police murder, demonization, and full-out criminalization. And for those who do “make it out,” there is still the continual battle against discrimination and oppression at every turn.

Time to ACT!

It is not enough for many people to just know about the Jena 6. It is not enough for people to just be outraged about this case. It is not enough for people to read about it, or for a few well-known people to “shine a light” on it. It will take a truly mass struggle by the people to FREE THE JENA 6. A struggle that is broad, diverse, and determined. And every person of conscience must ask: WHAT AM I DOING TO STOP THIS GREAT INJUSTICE?

Across the country people are beginning to organize protests demanding Free the Jena 6. We are calling for people to support these protests, including two NATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION TO FREE THE JENA 6 ON SEPTEMBER 12 AND 20 —DETERMINED, DEFIANT ACTION THAT SAYS:

NO TO WHITE SUPREMACY. WE DEMAND: FREE THE JENA 6. WE WILL KEEP ON FIGHTING UNTIL ALL THE CHARGES ARE DROPPED. THIS SYSTEM OWES THESE YOUTH AN APOLOGY!

Wherever people are: high schools, colleges, workplaces, in parks and on street corners, in cities and suburbs—boldly, defiantly, and creatively demand: FREE THE JENA 6!!! Organize speak-outs, demonstrations, and marches. Wear t-shirts. Pass out stickers, armbands, wristbands, bandanas. Make banners, put posters in windows. Mobilize, organize, and make plans to go to Jena on September 20. Find ways to express and manifest that: WE are NOT going to stop until all the charges are dropped.

SEPTEMBER 20 —The day Mychal Bell is scheduled to be sentenced: Join with and build the broad call that has gone out for people to COME TO JENA! PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE, OF ALL NATIONALITIES—CHARTER BUSES, CAR POOL, BUY A PLANE TICKET, AND COME TO JENA FOR A MASS PROTEST. People all over the country and the world: find ways to boldly and in a mass way manifest and stand in solidarity with the struggle in Jena.

FOR ALL PEOPLE IN THE NYC AREA, THERE WILL BE A RALLY AT 125TH STREET AND 2ND AVENUE FROM ABOUT 4-7 PM! COME JOIN IF YOU HATE RACISM AND WISH TO SEE A MUCH BETTER WORLD FREE OF THIS RACIST SYSTEM

Statement by the Revolutionary Communist Party in Revolution Newspaper (http://revcom.us/a/100/jena-edit-en.html)

[tothebarricadesx]

For Folks in the NYC area:


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3 NYC area antifas were arrested in Morristown, NJ while countering an anti-immigrant rally attended by Stormfront Members. These 3 antifas were arrested for allegedly defending themselves against Erick Weigel, a violent white supremacist armed with a knife and baseball bat.

Following this event at Morristown, White Supremacists began gathering information on people in local ARA chapters and posting very public threats to their lives.

The Morristown 3, as they're now known, need help raising money for lawyers. This will be one of many benefit shows to come.


If you're in the area, please come out! It's guaranteed to be a fun time.

-NYC ARA

[OneBrickOneVoice]

FUCK! Why the 15th!! That's a really bad day!! There's a major anti-war demo in D.C.

I'm glad to here NYC ARA is back up though. PM me with some info, I'd love to join comrade

[Revolutionary Souljah]

The People's Movement for Organization will be sending a small contingent to the S15 march. Look for the Camo flag with the clenched fist. Thats us. We also have two seats left in our carpool from Greensboro, NC. If anyone needs a ride and is on the way well be welcome to stop. There will hopefully be a large bloc this go around...I remember S24 had a big one but we didn't end up doing anything.

PM me for details...

[OneBrickOneVoice]

Party for Socialism and Liberation NYC Public Meeting:
Eyewitness report from Jena, Louisiana

This Friday, October 5, 7pm
2295 Adam Clayton Powell at 135th St.
(2/3 or B/C to 135th)

An Eyewitness Report from Jena, Louisiana
Free the Jena 6! Drop all charges!

On Sept. 20, tens of thousands of people marched in Jena, La. to demand immediate freedom for Mychal Bell and the Jena 6. The case of the Jena 6 has garnered international attention, and shone a spotlight on the racist nature of this country's criminal "injustice" system. Come hear Eugene Puryear, a PSL member and Howard University student organizer, give an eyewitness account of the protest in Jena, and speak about the way we can build nationwide support for the Jena 6.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation is participating in the Jena 6 petitioning campaign announced yesterday by the ANSWER Coalition. This is part of the broader national campaign to build the movement in the streets to free the Jena Six. For more information on the New York City petitioning campaign, click on this link or contact us at 212-694-8762.

Stop the threats against Jose Maria Sison!

Prof. Jose Maria Sison was wrongly arrested on August 27, 2007 in the Netherlands. We join hundreds of progressive organizations around the world in demanding an end to the threats against Prof. Jose Maria Sison and an end to abusive treatmenty.

Come hear a presentation on the life of a revolutionary and the movement building to support him during his struggle.

For more information on the meeting and the PSL, contact us at 212-694-8762 or [email protected]

Don't forget to check PSLweb.org every day for recent news, analysis, and event listings.

[Red_Hooligan]

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Red & Anarchist Skinheads (RASH) Philly would like to extend invitations to ANY comrades in the northeast to come and enjoy a fun night of music and partying! Mark your calendars, December 15th!!!! WE ARE EXPECTING A HUGE TURNOUT FOR THIS EVENT, ALREADY PEOPLE FROM NYC, NJ, AND DE ARE COMING!

[dirgenightingale]

Originally posted by [email protected] 23, 2007 03:34 pm
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Red & Anarchist Skinheads (RASH) Philly would like to extend invitations to ANY comrades in the northeast to come and enjoy a fun night of music and partying! Mark your calendars, December 15th!!!! WE ARE EXPECTING A HUGE TURNOUT FOR THIS EVENT, ALREADY PEOPLE FROM NYC, NJ, AND DE ARE COMING!
is there any ride share organized for this event?

[Red_Hooligan]

I shot you a PM about that, nightingale.

This Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD

[Guest]

http://boston.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/6/large/080103_amber_abreu_protest_lflt_ld-thumb.jpg
Outrage! Teenager Faces Prison for Attempted Abortion

Protest: Thursday Jan. 3
9 a.m. Salem Superior Court
34 Federal Street, Salem MA


Defend Amber Abreu!
Drop All the Charges Now!

On 6 January 2007, 18-year-old Amber Abreu went to the hospital in Lawrence, Massachusetts after trying to terminate a pregnancy by taking a drug that is a component of the abortion pill RU-486. The result was a miscarriage. The police went after Amber using an archaic law dating back to the 1840s to charge her with “procuring a miscarriage.” Cops dragged Abreu into court in shackles and then held her in Framingham maximum security prison for days until friends and relatives could come up with $15,000 bail. The young woman, a recent immigrant from the Dominican Republic, faces seven years in prison on this outrageous charge.

The Internationalist Group and a growing defense campaign insist: Amber Abreu is innocent! The proceedings against her are a sinister frame-up aimed at ruining the life of a working class immigrant with few resources to defend herself. The state of Massachusetts, in the hands of as Democratic Party governor and attorney general, is attacking her, further eroding the legal right to abortion. Her persecution is an indictment of the “justice” system as a racist apparatus designed to enforce the oppression of working class women, racial minorities and immigrants. We have no faith in a “fair trial” from the bourgeois courts. To defend Amber Abreu and the right to abortion, we look to mobilize militant mass action backed by the power of organized labor independent of the Democrats and Republicans, the twin capitalist parties of imperialist war and anti-women attacks.

Free Abortion on Demand!

To contact the Internationalist Group, write to:
Internationalist Group
Box 3321, Church Street Station
New York, NY, 10008
(212) 460-0983
internationalistgroup (at) msn.com
www.internationalist.org

PDF leaflet for printing here. (http://boston.indymedia.org/usermedia/application/8/080103_amber_abreu_protest_lflt_ld.pdf)

[blackstone]

March to Save St. James Hospital
Saturday
January 19, 2008
10am
Meet at St. James Church (143 Madison St.)

THE SALE IS NOT COMPLETE.
There is still hope to save st. james hospital. Please come to find out more information about the sale.
When we were in most need, the medical staff took care of us,
NOW we must give St. James Hospital our full support.
If you have questions, please call 973. 204. 0145

Supported by Newark United to Save St. James Hospital

VAMOS MARCHAR PARA SALVAR O HOSPITAL ST. JAMES!
No sábado, dia 19 de Janeiro de 2008
Ponto de encontro às 10 horas da manhã na St. James Church (143 Madison St.)

A ANUNCIADA VENDA DO HOSPITAL NÃO É FINAL
Ainda temos esperança de salvar o St. James Hospital!
Junte-se a nós no sábado para saber mais pormenores.

Quando a comunidade mais precisou, foi o quadro hospitalar do St. James quem nos deu a mão.
AGORA é a nossa vez de os apoiar incondicionalmente.


Para mais informações, contacte o número de telefone (973) 204-0145.


Com o apoio de: Newark United to Save St. James Hospital

! Ayuden a mantener el Hospital de St. James abierto!
Marchemos juntos el Sábado Enero 19, 2008
La marcha comenzara en la iglesia de St. James (143 Madison St.)
a las 10:00 AM

El hospital de St. James todavía no se ha vendido
Todavía hay esperanza de salvar el hospital
No dejen que cierren su hospital
La comunidad tiene el poder de ayudar

El hospital da muchos servicios a la comunidad
Ahora el hospital necesita nuestro apoyo
Si tiene preguntas llame al (973) 204-0145

Este anuncio es del comité: Newark United to Save St. James Hospital

[blackstone]

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“AN EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED”

Also Entertainment by NAILAH the Poet

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[rebelworker]

Building a Popular Anarchism

Worcester MA -Feb 20th 7pm
Stone Soup, 4 King st
Providence RI - Feb 21st, 7:30
DARE, 340 Lockwood street
Boston - Saturday, February 23rd - 7pm, Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave., 5th Floor, Chinatown (www.encuentro5.org (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.encuentro5.org/))
Portland, ME, Feb 25th, Meg Perry Centre, 644 Congress St
Amherst, MA, Feb 27th or 28th, Food for Thought books, 106 N Pleasant Street
Hartford, CT, March 2nd, 1:30pm, East Hartford Public Library, 840 Main Street (basement mtg room)
Baltimore, MD, March 7th, 7:30 PM, Red Emmas (www.redemmas.org (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.redemmas.org/)), 800 St. Paul St
Dates for NYC, Philly, DC, Richmond, Fredricksburg, Harresburg, Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo to follow.
A decade ago the active anarchist movement in Ireland consisted of
little more than a dozen people in two small organizations. Today
hundreds of people are active and one banned libertarian demonstration in 2004 saw 5,000 people take part. Anarchists are increasingly replacing Irish republicans as the bogeyman of the mainstream media.
This talk explains how this breakthrough happened and details the various struggles anarchists have been involved in.
About the speaker:
Andrew is an active anarchist organizer and writer, with twenty years experience in Ireland, most of that time as a member of the Workers Solidarity Movement. More recently, he has been become a member of NEFAC and is a founder member of Common Cause, Ontario. His publishing record includes well over one hundred articles, translated into over nine languages, chapters published in three books, and articles in seven English language anti-authoritarian magazines and newspapers. As well as numerous events in Ireland he has been the speaker at meetings in Britain, Italy, Canada, the Czech Republic and the USA and attended conferences in the Netherlands, France, Spain and Mexico.
A partial archive of Andrew's writings, radio interviews and
translations can be found at
http://www.struggle.ws/andrew.html (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.struggle.ws/andrew.html)
More info on NEFAC: http://www.nefac.net (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.nefac.net/)

__________________

[tanuki_time]

If anyone is in South Florida during June 28th, please join us for a video/discussion group where we will watch a documentary about world food production and distribution. If anyone has any questions as to location etc, please pm me.

[beltov]

post moved to the West Coast (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=1166453&postcount=19) ;)

[professorchaos]

It's been a while since I've looked at a map, but I believe California is on the west coast.

[beltov]

Doh! You're quite right. Must have been tired. Will move it... :blushing:

[chegitz guevara]

SOUTH FLORIDA - SUNDAY NIGHT SOCIALISM

At the last meeting of the Socialist Organizing Committee, it was decided to adopt a twice monthly meeting on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month. The first meeting of the month is to be a "business" meeting, where we will discuss organizing and political activity, as well as select the content of the second meeting.

The second meeting will consist of a brief presentation by anyone on *ANY* topic they choose: opera, LINUX, the Hungarian Uprising of 1956,the Burgess Shale, anything. This portion will be followed by a brief Q&A. The main part of the meeting will revolve around a reading, which comrades will be expected to have read and be ready to discuss. Take notes, have questions.

The meetings start at 6:30pm and will go as long as comrades want to continue. For this meeting, we will be at the Denny's in Hollywood, *immediately* west of I-95 on the Sheridan St. exit. 2800 N. 28th Terrace. If you go over the bridge over the railroad tracks, you've gone too far.

This coming Sunday, Jim Sanders will present on the pamphlet, "The Two Souls of Socialism," by Hal Draper. Draper was an important writer on the democratic, revolutionary socialist left. I highly recommend just about everything he wrote.

The Sunday Night Socialism study group's first book will be, "The Principles of Communism," by Friedrich Engels. This is an extremely short FAQ of the beliefs of Marx and Engels written in 1847. It was dropped in favor of writing "The Communist Manifesto." This is an excellent, and unusually easy to understand explanation of the scientific socialist view point, and explains many terms which will be present in later study.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm

Please feel free to invite anyone you think might be interested. It's open to any socialist, communist, or anarchist or anyone interested in socialism, communism, or anarchism. If you are in organization, please feel free to bring and distribute your organization's literature.

This event is sponsored by the Socialist Party of Florida/Socialist Party USA, Solidarity, and the Kasama Project. Other sponsors and endorsers are welcome.

PLEASE RSVP!

http://sp-usa.org/
http://www.solidarity-us.org/obama
http://mikeely.wordpress.com/

Marc Luzietti
We are the ones we've been waiting for!

[Red_Hooligan]

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[Big Red]

Stand Up for Peace in the Middle East
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

On October 11, 2002 Congress approved the "Iraq War Resolution" granting the Bush administration authorization to invade Iraq. Six years later, 1 in 3 Iraqis have been killed, wounded, or displaced. Over 4000 U.S. soldiers have been killed with tens of thousands more seriously wounded. How many more billions will be looted from vital social needs such as jobs, education, healthcare, disaster relief or libraries, firehouses, childcare, or Social Security?

Join us to demand:



Stop the wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan

Money for jobs, education, healthcare and housing - not for war and occupation

No sanctions or attack on Iran

Stop the racist scapegoating of Arabs and Muslims

Stop the assault on human rights and civil liberties


WWW.OCT11.ORG

[Big Red]

**Please circulate this message widely!**

Mass Actions on the 6th Anniversary of the Iraq War -- March 21, 2009
Bring All the Troops Home Now -- End All Colonial Occupations!
Fund People's Needs, Not Militarism & Bank Bailouts!

Marking the sixth anniversary of the criminal invasion of Iraq, thousands will take to the streets of Washington D.C. and other cities across the U.S. and around the world in March 2009 to say, “Bring the Troops Home NOW!” We will also demand “End Colonial Occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Everywhere,” and “Fund Peoples’ Needs Not Militarism and Bank Bailouts.” We also insist on an end to the war threats and economic sanctions against Iran.

The ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) is organizing for unified mass marches and rallies in Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami and other cities on Saturday, March 21, 2009. Months ago we obtained permits for sixth anniversary demonstrations. ANSWER has been actively involved with other coalitions, organizations, and networks to organize unified anti-war demonstrations in the spring of 2009. ANSWER participated in the National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations that was held in Cleveland, Ohio on June 28th-29th and attended by 450 people, including many national and local anti-war coalitions. The National Assembly gathering agreed to promote national, unified anti-war demonstrations in the Spring of 2009.

The war in Iraq has killed, wounded or displaced nearly a third of Iraq’s 26 million people. Thousands of U.S. soldiers have been killed and hundreds of thousands more have suffered severe physical and psychological wounds. The cost of the war is now running at $700 million dollars per day, over $7,000 per second. The U.S. leaders who have initiated and conducted this criminal war should be tried and jailed for war crimes.

The war in Afghanistan is expanding, and both the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates and Congressional leaders have promised to send in more troops. Both have promised to increase the size of the U. S. military. Both have promised to increase military aid to Israel to continue its oppression of the Palestinian people, including the denial of the right of return.

While millions of families are losing their homes, jobs and healthcare, the real military budget next year will top one trillion dollars, $1,000,000,000,000. If used to meet people’s needs, that amount could create 10 million new jobs at $60,000 per year, provide healthcare for everyone who does not have it now, rebuild New Orleans and repair much of the damage done in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Federal bailouts of the biggest banks and investors many of whom have also made billions in profits from militarism, are already up to an astounding $2.5 trillion this year. None of that money is earmarked for keeping millions of foreclosed and evicted families in their homes.

Coming just two months after the inauguration of the next president, March 21, 2009 will be a critical opportunity to let the new administration in Washington hear the voice of the people demanding justice.

Click this link to endorse the March 21 Actions (http://answer.pephost.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=4580&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS)
If you're planning a local March 21 anti-war action, let us know by clicking this link. (http://answer.pephost.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=4581&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS)

[chegitz guevara]

JusticeFirst Florida

An initiative of Act Now to Stop War and End Racism/Florida

1005 S.R. 84, Ste 116, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315

http://www.answerfl.org (http://www.answerfl.org/) ◊ [email protected]



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



Contact:

Miami: Marc Luzietti 954/496-0162

Fort Lauderdale: John Peter Daly 954/707-0155

Orlando: Miguel Rodriguez 407/855-7054

Bail Out Workers—Not Banks! Stop Plants Closings!

Wednesday Protest to Support Republic Windows and Doors Workers in Chicago!

Location and Time:

Actions in support of the workers will begin at 5:00 PM at the
following locations:

Miami: 100 Southeast 2nd Street, Miami, FL

Fort Lauderdale: 3800 W. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL

Orlando: 4725 S Kirkman Rd, Orlando, FL

ANSWER Florida, Justice First, and the Miami May Day Alliance is
calling for actions against Bank of America to build solidarity with
the workers of Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago, who have staged
a sit-down strike to keep their jobs. This is an all-important
struggle; millions of workers are getting the shaft from their bosses,
who are using the economic crisis to steal their benefits and
pensions. These workers are fighting back.

Over 200 workers have occupied their workplace factory at Republic
Windows and Doors in Chicago, after the company shut down the plant,
claiming lack of funds to pay the workers their back pay, vacation and
other benefits, or to give 60 days' notice as required by federal law.

The plant closing was precipitated by Bank of America's refusal to
extend any more credit to the company, despite the fact that B of A
has received $25 billion in bailout funds. These billions were
supposed to help relieve credit shortages and help sustain jobs.
Instead, the banks are using taxpayer dollars to merge into larger
banks. Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase are the two banks that
invest in Republic Windows and Doors. The workers are owed an average
of 75 days' pay and vacation. Companies are bound by federal law to
either give 60 days' notice with pay, before a plant closing or layoff
of 50 or more workers.

It is reported that Republic Windows and Doors is planning to move its
plant to Iowa because of cheaper labor costs, and to get out of union
obligations with the United Electrical Workers Union. Workers across
the country are paying a heavy price for the bank's and corporations'
theft. It's time for the bankers and companies to pay, NOT THE
WORKERS!

[Sickle-A]

PROPOSAL FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE CONSULATE


Brothers and Sisters,

These are volatile times. As we all know, on December 6th one of our comrades was shot and killed in Greece. Our brothers and sisters in Athens, Thessaloníki, Dimitrios and all around the country that claims to be "the birthplace of democracy" have shown the Greek government and the governments of the world what they will get if they continue to ignore the needs of the worker and continue to show us where their true allegiances lie by bailing out their friends: the banks and the corporations. The entire world is covered in gasoline, Greece is only where the first match was struck.
Saturday, the 20th of December has been called as a day of solidarity straight from the burning streets of Athens. Numerous acts of solidarity have been performed already by our comrades from every corner of the world, from Warsaw to Melbourne to Pittsburgh. Here in New York, the Greek consulate has been vandalized. In cities like London and Berlin, the consulates and embassies of the murderers have been occupied and the black and red flags have been raised in place of that of the oppressor, and just this morning the GSEE building in Greece. This Saturday we propose that we finally bring the struggle here to the heart of the Empire, the United States of America, by doing the same. We propose the destruction of the State, because the Greeks are not the only ones murdered by capitalism. We call for direct action and solidarity throughout all of the cities of the US and of the world.
Here in New York, the anarchist presence has been overwhelmingly nonexistant. In the city where the capitalists both exercise their greed on Wall Street and flaunt it in Times Square, a coherent and positive statement must be made. That is why this Saturday, in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Greece, who are actively fighting the fascism of the State on their burning streets every day, we call for an attack on, and the liberation of, the Greek consulate. We call for all anarchists, communists, syndicalists, and likemided activists to fight against the fascism of the state and the collective hallucinations of property and capital. We call for a large contingent of anarchists from across the New York metro area to once and for all give the fascist police and politicians, who are simply puppets of the corporations and the corporatist state in which we are forced to live, a taste of their own medicine. There is certainly a time for peaceful protest, but we all know that the police, our enemy, will not be thinking about peace when they are preparing to suppress us. The capitalists kill every day, in the name of their God, the dollar bill. We must be ready. Know that this is the beginning of a revolution that will be bigger than all of us, and that we will all be a part of, in which we will all do our part. On Saturday we will meet at midday at 78th and Park. We will walk towards the consulate, against the will of the fascist cops and liberate it forcibly, with molotov cocktails and a thirst for freedom. We will take down and burn the flags of the Greek government and of the despicable bastion of free-trade, the European Union. We will replace them with the red and black flags of anarcho-communism. We will make the government "property" of a murderous State into a space for the community, similar to what has been done to the city halls of towns like Dimitrios and the embassies of London and Berlin, and institute true freedom and council democracy and decision making.
Please, if you are willing and able, come to the Greek consulate in New York City in solidarity with those fighting for freedom in Greece, and help us to do the same here in the Empire. We are not going to sit back and wait for the Revolution to happen, we are starting it now. This is the beginning, and we will fight until the end. And so it begins...
Comradely,
Bronx Anarcho-Communist Alliance

Saturday, December 20th, 2008
79th between Madison and Park Ave
Meet at 78th and Park at Noon


PLEASE COPY AND POST THIS WHEREVER YOU SEE FIT

[griffjam]

Washington D.C.: Protest the spring IMF/World Bank meetings, April 24-26, 2009


As the economic crisis deepens and US foreclosure and unemployment rates climb, wealthy bankers and finance ministers from around the world scramble to resuscitate the financial institutions which created the crisis in the first place. This April the global elite, global financial institutions, and wealthy governments will meet to plan out billions of dollars worth of new economic bailouts for themselves while the nation's poor, the poor of the world, and working people are left with only crumbs. Billions of dollars have already been handed over to CEOs and portfolio managers, while workers' benefits and wages get slashed simultaneously. This trend will continue so long as capitalist expansion is prioritized over democratic principles, as long as profit is more important than people.

A better world is possible, a world in which our means of providing for ourselves is not controlled by a wealthy elite. A global order is possible in which the dignity of human life is placed above greed, and the living earth is shared and respected, rather than commodified and sold.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are two institutions which enforce the hyper-capitalist status quo. Since 1980, these institutions have been forcing countries to adopt neoliberal structural adjustment policies of privatization, liberalization and budget cuts. These policies are directly to blame for much of the suffering in the current financial crisis and in its predecessors in Argentina, East Asia, Russia and elsewhere. Though the IMF itself is beginning to admit its mistakes – it recently recommended that countries abandon market fundamentalist policies to directly intervene in their economies – it’s understood that that advice only applies to the United States and European countries. Free markets for the poor and socialism for the rich is their mantra.

Neoliberal economics widens the sphere of imperialist capitalism, props up schemes of privatization, market liberalization and deregulation, and is ultimately to blame for this crisis. The World Bank and IMF are preeminent supranational institutions working to preserve the global financial order that puts profits, private gain, militarism, and gentrification over the needs of the people. Through their Structural Adjustment Programs - what they now refer to as “Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers” – these institutions have been destroying economies, local and global, for far too long. They must be stopped.

The World Bank and IMF will be holding their annual joint spring meetings April 24-26 in Washington DC. As they try to save themselves from global financial meltdown (or maybe just give themselves a few extra billion dollars) we all know better than to let them have all the fun without us. Join Global Justice Action to oppose these institutions, resist the dominant global order, and show that a better world is possible, free from neoliberalism, capitalism, and imperialism.

Global Justice Action embraces a diversity of tactics and will therefore be organizing a wide array of actions and events including coordinated direct actions and blockades, a mass permitted march, a people's forum, and a few other surprises! GJA will host community education events, arts workshops, trainings, and direct action meetings in the months leading up to April for the purposes of putting together a well coordinated, effective, inclusive weekend of actions that will hamper the plans of the ten thousand plus delegates.

[samofshs]

anybody planning on doing anything for the fourth of july this year? preferably near WPB florida. maybe boynton, boca raton or even miami at the farthest.

[Stand Your Ground]

ANNOUNCING THE 15TH ANNUAL ANTI-RACIST ACTION NETWORK CONFERENCE!
OCTOBER 9TH-12TH, 2009 IN PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA


During the weekend of October 9th-12th, the Anti-Racist Action Network
will be holding its 15th annual conference in Pittsburgh, PA. We are
inviting all members of Anti-Racist Action as well as all
anti-fascists who agree with our 4 Points of Unity (see the end).

The conference, taking place over 4 days, will include ARA's annual
plenary, caucuses and discussion on current issues facing
antifascists. Various workshops and several social events are also
planned. Organizations will be tabling all weekend as well.

Please note that only Network-affiliated chapters will be allowed to
attend the private sessions of the plenary. All registered attendees
may come to the public portions. If you are a part of a non-affiliated
chapter or collective that wants to become affiliated with ARA-NET,
please see the organizers as soon as you arrive. All friends of ARA
are welcome and encouraged to participate in the rest of the weekend.

We are envisioning this conference as a gathering of all dedicated
anti-fascists -whether in Anti-Racist Action or not - and would like
to see this year's conference include as many people and new ideas as
possible. The ARA Network has had a very interesting year, with member
collectives publishing multiple periodical publications, opening
social centers, organizing demonstrations, and combatting local
fascist groups. We hope that you will come and add to the momentum!

If you are new to anti-fascism, please come and learn from our
experience (and help us open our eyes to new possibilities);

If you are a former member, please come and get back in touch with us;

If you are an unaffiliated chapter - for whatever reason - come to the
conference, meet other antifascists and take the opportunity to learn
more about ARA-NET and what benefits there are
to being a part of the Network.

Over the next few weeks, we will be confirming the details of the
conference and will send out a registration form and more specific
details. For now, please mark the date on your calendar and plan to
join us in Pittsburgh for our annual conference!

Hope to see YOU there!

In solidarity,
The Anti-Racist Action Conference Planners
[email protected]


ANTI-RACIST ACTION NETWORK'S 4 POINTS OF UNITY:

1. We go where they go: Whenever fascists are organizing or active
in public, we're there. We don't believe in ignoring them or staying
away from them. Never let the nazis have the street!
2. We don't rely on the cops or courts to do our work for us: This
doesn't mean we never go to court. But we must rely on ourselves to
protect ourselves and stop the fascists.
3. Non-Sectarian defense of other Anti-Fascists: In ARA, we have
lots of different groups and individuals. We don't agree about
everything and we have a right to differ openly. But in this movement
an attack on one is an attack on us all. We stand behind each other.
4. We support abortion rights and reproductive freedom. ARA intends
to do the hard work necessary to build a broad, strong movement
against racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, discrimination
against the disabled, the oldest, the youngest and the most oppressed
people. We want a classless free society. WE INTEND TO WIN!

[Stand Your Ground]

Anyone who would like to come, me and my girlfriend are setting up a KFC protest for August 29, 2009. If you would like more info reply here or send a message to one of our contact points below. Come and help support us!

[ellipsis]

Anybody in Vermont interested in organizing a conference or other event in Vermont in the near future?

[Big Red]

September 23-25: Resist the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh

Join Thousands at a Three Day Convergence of Action, Resistance and Hope
Pittsburghers didn’t ask the G20 to come here, but it is our intention that the worldview the summit represents will die here.
This September 24-25 Pittsburgh will host the next summit of the G20, a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s largest economies who meet twice yearly to discuss and coordinate the international financial system. Around 1,500 delegates, including heads of state, will be here along with more than 2,000 members of the media, and thousands of police and security agents tasked with squelching dissent.
This summit, and the predecessor meetings this past April in London, occurs on the heels of the worldwide financial meltdown that has been severely impacting hundreds of millions around the world. Since its inception, the G20 has been a tool used to promote a world vision based on the ability of capital to move as it pleases, at the expense of labor, human rights and the environment.
Now that the system these leaders have forced on the world is in crisis they continue to operate as if they have the answer. We know that they do not. To save countries, they propose we turn to institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an entity that has historically imposed murderous structural adjustment programs on the world’s poor.
G20 summits, alongside other meetings of institutions such as the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization, have rightfully been targeted by hundreds of thousands of people around the world because they represent a global vision based on war-making, social and economic injustice, and corporate greed. Pittsburgh will take its place alongside people around the world who have protested and resisted such gatherings in their hometowns.
Pittsburgh was chosen as the host city because of its history, and because the President is looking to buttress his working class credentials. It is true that our city has much to offer the world in terms of progress, we just happen to disagree with the politicians on what these words mean or what others should take from our experience. Pittsburgh has experienced 50 years of population loss and industrial decline as well as more than 150 years of industrial class conflict. We have gained an instinctual knowledge that you get what you are willing to fight for. We celebrate that worker and community self-organization has often succeeded where government, bosses and the supposedly enlightened have failed.
What has carried us through the tough times has been our relationships, the tight knit nature of our mostly non-corporate dominated neighborhoods, a do-it-yourself ethic, the unpretentious manner in which people treat each other, and a sense of local pride that isn’t based on salary or one’s place in some hierarchy. Pittsburgh never died, and the currently-in-vogue talk of "rebirth" measures success, growth, and progress in terms of the number of corporations based here, the multi-national profits, or the success of our politicians at going from Mayors to County Executives to Governors.
For our measuring stick, we look to whether or not all have the resources needed to lead and pursue rewarding lives, and if we are meeting community needs without the involvement of the state. We look to the health of our environment and the treatment of other living things, the equality of educational opportunities, the degree to which we lessen our participation in the exploitation of others, and how successful we are in moving towards a new kind of society in which your success and ability to survive is not at the expense of others.
And in these respects, our city is making progress. We find inspiration and common cause in the efforts of the multitude of other projects and initiatives that are transforming Pittsburgh into a more just and sustainable place to live, efforts that are in a conflictual relationship with state power, and will be joining resistance to the G20. And truly, if the G20 were about anything besides state power and money it would be these efforts that other countries would be coming here to discuss and look at, because there is much that we have to offer in creating a better world.
Pittsburgh is not without its problems, and there is much that needs to be addressed. During the summit and its lead-up little will be said about the troubling grip the UPMC medical industrial complex and others hold over the region, the chronic illnesses caused by the extremely high levels of particulate matter in our air, the troubling ethical questions posed by the warfare robotics that are being pioneered here, the police violence and acts of unaccountable brutality against the public, a stacked deck against labor organizing, a depressingly inadequate public transit system, and a political process marked by a lack of ethical accountability and transparency.
We should be clear then, we love our city, and in so far as we see the G20 as a threat to our collective health and well-being we intend to be an obstacle to its ability to function. This is an unavoidable decision given what the summit is, and what it represents. The presence of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh will be a major - if short-lived - disruption to the city and the people who work and live here, with or without protests. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has acknowledged as much, stating the summit will result in "chaos" due to security cordons, increased traffic, etc.
The government has already staked out its position: the needs of 20 politicians justify whatever disruption and cost to our city, and the responsibility felt by thousands to participate in resistance to the G20 and to articulate an alternate vision for society is more than unimportant, it’s a threat.
Based on past summits the media will play the state game by focusing on whether protesters will be able to disrupt the ability of the summit to meet, using ominous and sensationalist stories with unsubstantiated claims of evil outsiders come to wreck havoc on the good people, because these stories, even if refuted and later disproved, serve to justify attacks on the public’s liberties and dignity. This must not, and will not, deter resistance. The stakes are too high.
The real value of this summit, to its participants and those resisting it, is not in the substance of the "leaders’" discussions. Our power is not in whether or not we have the ability to prevent a bunch of finance ministers and heads of state from talking. The real importance is in the way an undisrupted ceremony reinforces the dominant worldview. If that view is flawed, it must be rejected, and the spotlight such a gathering creates must be one in which people will manifest liberating social conflict.
We therefore believe that the necessary attempts of thousands to interfere with the summit are not an ends in and of themselves, they are a critical part of the means we can use to achieve the victory we are collectively organizing for in September: to heighten existing social resistance, and to present an alternative narrative of why our world is the way it is. We must make it clear that the world need not be this way, and talk about our vision for a movement towards a new society based not on profit and coercion but rooted in meeting collective needs for both material comfort and the freedom to pursue fulfilling lives of opportunity and dignity.
In this effort we invite and encourage your participation!
In Struggle,
Pittsburgh Organizing Group
www.organizepittsburgh.org (http://www.organizepittsburgh.org/)
If your group would like to endorse this call, let us know at [email protected]
Endorsed by:
Students for Justice in Palestine (Pittsburgh)
Harrisburg Area Anarchist Collective (Harrisburg, PA)
Workers Solidarity Alliance (North America)
Friendly Fire Collective (SF)
Ricanstruction Netwerk (NYC)
Unconventional Action (Frederick, MD)
Dirty Hands Collective (Durango, CO)
Silent City Distro (Ithaca, NY)
Unconventional Action In The Bay (Oakland/San Fran, CA)
Armchair Revolutionaries (West Chester, PA)
Wooden Shoe Books (Philadelphia, PA)


www.resistg20.org





National Call For Action And Endorsements
at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, PA
Sept. 19 – 25

Endorsers: Iraq Veterans Against the War Chapter 61, Pittsburgh; PA State Senator Jim Ferlo; Veterans for Peace Chapter 047 – Pittsburgh, Chapter 140 – Meadville, PA; National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations; Thomas Merton Center Pittsburgh; Codepink Pgh Women for Peace; Bail Out The People; Green Party of Allegheny County; World Can’t Wait; ISO (International Socialist Organization); WILPF (Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom) Pgh; Socialist Action; Ohio Valley Peace; Bay Area United Against War; Coloradans For Peace; Radio Free Maine; Code Pink National; Voters For Peace; Community Organizing Center (Columbus, Ohio); Columbus Campaign for Arms Control; Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee; After Downing Street; Charlotte Action Center For Justice; Connecticut Students Against the War; Students For Peace, Duluth, Minnesota; Democratic Socialists of Central Ohio; Columbus Progressive Peace Coalition; Pgh Palestine Solidarity Committee; Pitt Students for Justice in Palestine; Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section; Rhode Island Mobilization Committee to Stop War and Occupation (RIMC); Socialist Party USA; National Radical Women; New England United; North Star Republic – ML; Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) – Ohio; AFSC PA Program; Peace and Freedom Party of California; Socialist Party of Connecticut; Wasatch Coalition for Peace and Justice of Salt Lake City; Global Justice Ecology Project; Socialist Organizer; Green Party of Ohio; Interfaith Council for Peace in the Middle East
Activists from Pittsburgh, the U.S., and across the globe will converge to protest the destructive policies of the G-20 – meeting in Pittsburgh this September 24-25.
We believe a better world is possible. We anticipate involvement and support from like-minded people and organizations across the country for projected actions from September 19-25:

People’s Summit – Sept. 19, 21-22 (Saturday, Monday, Tuesday)
A partnership of educators and social justice groups is organizing a People’s Summit to discuss global problems and seek solutions informed by genuine democracy and human dignity, also providing interactive workshop discussions.


Mass March on the G-20 – Friday, Sept. 25:
Money for human needs, not for war!

Gather at 12 noon, march to the City County Building downtown

A peaceful, legal march is being sponsored by the Thomas Merton Center, an umbrella organization that supports a wide variety of peace and justice member projects in Pittsburgh. We will hold a mass march to demand “Money for human needs, not for war!”.

WE SEEK THE BROADEST RANGE OF SUPPORT, PARTICIPATION, AND ENDORSEMENTS FOR THE MASS MARCH AND PEOPLE’S SUMMIT

To endorse, E-mail:[email protected]
Or contact: Thomas Merton Center AWC, 5125 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224

A number of other events are being planned by a wide variety of community and social justice groups in Pittsburgh.
For more information and updates please visit http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/g20action.htm

The Group of Twenty (G-20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors represents the world’s economic leaders, intimately connected to the most powerful multi-national corporations that dominate the global economy. Their neo-liberal policies have squandered billions on war, plunged economies into deep recessions, worsened social, economic and political inequality, and polluted the earth.

[Big Red]

More information can be found in the following places...

http://g20media.org/sites/g20media.org/files/g20_organizing.pdf
(list of events/protests)

http://www.g20media.org/sectors (media clearinghouse)


http://resistg20.org/ (organizing resistance)

http://www.organizepittsburgh.org/ (more info)

http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/ (information, and live coverage of the protests)

there you have it, active g20 resistance in Pittsburgh. See you at the Barricades!

[xnkx]

EDGE, Perspectives on drug free culture

WORLD PREMIERE this Saturday Oct. 3rd 8:PM

Helen Mills Theatre 137-139 West 26th Street NYC 10001
FOR TICKETS https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7928567

MORE INFO: http://www.theedgeprojectmovie.com/

28 years after the band Minor Threat released the song ‘Straight Edge’, the counterculture known as Straight Edge has become a worldwide phenomenon that unites individuals rejecting all forms of intoxication.
The most widely associated perception of Straight Edge involves abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and promiscuous sex. Since it’s origin in the early 1980’s these beliefs have spread all over the world, connected through the Punk and Hardcore music scenes.
Through interviews with musicians that directly shaped the idea of Straight Edge from its inception until today,EDGE – perspectives on drug free culture reveals that the abstinence from drugs was established as a youth counter culture rejecting a society dominated by substance abuse and hegemony.
Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi), Ray Cappo (Youth of Today, Shelter) and Karl Buechner (Earth Crisis, Freya) give witness to their perception of the history of Straight Edge, why it was so important to them and what it changed in their personal and professional careers. But they also address problems like violence, sexism and intolerance that emerged within Straight Edge, and how it changed the ’scene’ as well as its public image.
Furthermore, EDGE explores the lives of 9 individuals, that identify as Straight Edge. Their reasons range from negative experiences with drugs to maintaining a healthy lifestyle to political reasons. Through a very close and personal look into their daily lives, we see how their decision to live ‘poison free’ has changed the world for them.
But how do people discover Straight Edge? How do women experience Straight Edge subculture? What social backgrounds are shared by people new to the scene and what makes someone turn Straight Edge? How does mainstream culture perceive this movement?
EDGE is looking for answers to these questions on a roadtrip behind and beyond the scenes of the Straight Edge subculture.

XXX
:ninja:


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