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VIDEO: Police in SEATTLE threatening people with arrest if they do not leave Westlake park

VIDEO: BOSTON Police arresting VFP members for exercising their right to peacefully assemble

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Journalist Luke Rudkowski was attacked by police Wednesday night while trying to document the Occupy Wall Street arrests in NY. NYPD used pepper spray, batons, and brute force to move protesters away from the entrance to Wall Street after many tried to push through police barricades. Rumors immediately circulated that police provocateurs dressed as protesters were to blame for the incident.

Direct link: Luke Rudkowski Attacked by Police, Baton to the Gut at Occupy Wall Street Arrests

http://www.trickleupfilms.org/challenging-power/

Ruling represents second historic victory for Prometheus Radio Project this year

PHILADELPHIA – On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued its long-awaited verdict in Prometheus Radio Project v. the Federal Communications Commission, rejecting the FCC’s attempt to further deregulate media ownership. The Court threw out FCC rules that would have allowed one company to own a newspaper and broadcast stations in the same market. The Court also upheld the FCC’s other limits on local broadcast ownership, and agreed with Prometheus and other public interest groups that the FCC failed to consider the impact of its rules on women and people of color.

This wikileaks stuff on Afghanistan is hard evidence that the US presence has led to a incredibly corrupt situation. Were it not for widespread public denial of the degree of badness of US "intelligence" agencies a huge amount of global evil could be avoided.
I recieved this by way of a listserve from Tacoma- Peaople For Peace, Justice and Healing: http://www.tacomapjh.org/
-Rick

[In its Friday edition, the *New York Times* series based on secret
U.S. diplomatic cables leaked to Wikileaks focused on Afghanistan. --
Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti, and Dexter Filkins reported that they
show that Afghanistan is "a looking-glass land where bribery,
extortion, and embezzlement are the norm and the honest official is a
distinct outlier."[1] -- While corruption in Afghanistan is no news,

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WAR IS (S)IN

Bruce and Gene

June 19 - 28, 2011

This delegation will focus on examining the US role in Nicaragua's November 2011 elections for President and for members of the National Assembly.

A similar delegation in 2006 found substantial US intervention which Nicaraguans who met with the delegation felt had gone well beyond what was appropriate or correct. A representative of the International Republican Institute in Nicaragua equated the relationship between Nicaragua and the US to that of a son to a father. "Children should not argue with their parents," she said.

At a time when foreign funding in US elections has raised an outcry, it is important to expose the US role of US funding in other countries elections.

This really is a pretty good film. Icky but pertinent stuff folks should know. -Rick 

http://metanoia-films.org/watchonline.php

Come out to Fertile Ground Guest House (311 9th Ave, next to Oly Timberland Library) on July 31 to celebrate Works in Progress 20th year anniversary with a pizza party.

The event costs $10 (discounted at $5 for WIP subscribers, $8 for WIP Facebook friends) at a gathering that will last from 6-9 p.m. Stay posted for speaker and performance updates on our Facebook page. New WIP t-shirts and merch will be available for purchase. Announcement space will also be available to all who attend.

The free community monthly newspaper released its 20th anniversary edition this May and will have fundraising events throughout the year.

Feel free to come earlier in the day to help Fertile Ground and WIP re-paint the mandala located on the nearby intersection of 8th & Adams at 5 p.m.

Here is the link to the caravan website:

http://freedomcaravan.wordpress.com/

From Tomdispatch.com:

Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Afghanistan as a Drug War
Posted by Alfred McCoy at 4:10pm, March 30, 2010.

December 16, 2009

Washington,
DC – The Local Community Radio Act passed the House of Representatives
Wednesday evening with a resounding voice vote and now moves to the
Senate. The bill will open the airwaves for hundreds of new
non-commercial stations across the country, bringing low power radio to
urban areas for the first time.

Please Check the Americas Program website for urgent fundraising appeal. -Rick

Available in translation: "Elecciones en Honduras", una parodia de democracia

Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)

The conservative reaction to President Obama's election is turning downright Faustian.

As the rhetoric on the right has grown increasingly shrill, a few conservatives have raised their voices in alarm, counseling their ideological kin to step back from the abyss. Former Bush speechwriter David Frum wrote in August that "the increasingly angry tone of incitement being heard from right-of-center broadcasters" is likely to lead to politically motivated violence. Not two weeks ago, conservative blogger Charles Johnson articulated the reasons behind his departure from the right, citing conservative support for "anti-science bad craziness" and "[h]atred for President Obama that goes far beyond simply criticizing his policies."