Direct Action

Maximum Federal Prison Sentences for Direct Action Opposing the School of the Americas

Human Rights Advocates Given Maximum
Federal Prison Sentences of Six Months for Direct Action Opposing the
School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC)

Judge Finds SOA Watch Activists
Guilty for Carrying Protest against the SOA/WHINSEC onto Fort Benning,
Issues Arrest Warrant for Michael Walli for Refusing to Appear for the
Trial.  read more »

BOOK 'EM DANNO

From today's Oread Daily http://oreaddaily.blogspot.com/

Somebody has to do it.

Thousands of persons from far and wide will be converging on Washington D.C. to arrest health insurance executives. the health insurance lobbying group - will be at the Ritz-Carlton hotel
in Washington, DC for its annual policy conference on March 9th and 10th - figuring out more and better ways to make super profits off the backs of the sick.

It's a strange industry, huh, but let's face it, that is exactly what the private health insurance industry is all about. They sure as hell aren't doing anyone any favors. But then, isn't that what capitalism is all about. Well, yeah, so maybe we just ought to march on Washington and get rid of capitalism itself.

Well, maybe later.  read more »

Join the IFCO/Pastors for Peace Caravan to Honduras! April 2010

The
Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)/Pastors for
Peace is organizing an historic solidarity and humanitarian aid caravan
to Honduras. It will be in support of communities and grassroots
organizations that are addressing issues of health and poverty.

En
route to delivering urgently needed material aid, the caravan will
visit cities throughout the US and Canada to inform about projects of  read more »

Haiti Relief

Dear friend of IFCO/Pastors for Peace,

In response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, IFCO/Pastors for
Peace is supporting Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees (HWHR), Lakou
New  York, and Movement of Dominican Haitian Women (MUDHA) in rapidly
delivering humanitarian aid to the people of Haiti.  read more »

Come meet and share with Bill Bischel and other members of the DISARM NOW TRIDENT PLOWSHARES

Traditions Fair Trade and Café, (5th & Water, Downtown Olympia) Saturday November 14th 7:00 PM  read more »

UK protestors say "No Deportations to Iraq!"

No Deportations to Iraq
Release the Hunger Strikers Now

Demonstrate at the Home Office
2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF
Nearest tubes: Westminster, Victoria

Monday, 26th Oct, 4:30-6:30pm

Iraqi refugees locked up in Brook House and Colnbrook detention centres are on hunger strike since Monday, 19th  October, to protest against their inhumane treatment and  demand their immediate release. The hunger strikers include some of those who were forcibly deported to Baghdad in the first mass deportation to southern Iraq last week but were returned to the UK after the Iraqi authorities refused to accept them, as well as some who have just been given 'removal directions' to Iraqi Kurdistan (northern  read more »

Govt Threatens Tar Sands Activists with Anti-Terror Laws

by Chris Arsenault

VANCOUVER - The provincial
government in Alberta, Canada is threatening to unleash its
counterterrorism plan if activists continue using civil disobedience to
protest the tar sands, Canada's fastest source of greenhouse gas
emissions.  read more »

Violence "Inevitable" in W. Virginia Moutaintop Removal Resistance, Please Help!


reposted from mountaintopremovalroadshow@lists.riseup.net
 
Friends of the Appalachian Mountains:
 
Our friends in the West Virginia coalfields are in danger, and they need your help.  Please call Gov.  read more »

Protesters are blocking Stryker Vehicles bound for the Port of Tacoma

May 3, 2009

Protesters are resisting the US Military surge in Afghanistan by
blocking Stryker Vehicles bound for the Port of Tacoma for shipment
overseas.
Tacoma, WA – Activists staged a series of successful direct actions in several locations on the night of May 2, blocking striker vehicles bound for the Port of Tacoma from Fort Lewis. Blockades halted strikers at several points along Interstate 5, and 11 activists were arrested.  Demonstrators have pledged to continue resisting the use of the port for war shipments.  read more »

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