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

The 2011 London Riots

The riots continue in London and surrounding areas for a third night.

"Fires, riots and looting spread across London." -- BBC

Large Sony distribution center burning out of control

Source: London indymedia "Tumbles"

By Amy Phan

Friday, August 5, 2011

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/aug/05/jackie-hudson-nun-who-fought-f...

See Also:
https://picasaweb.google.com/subversivepeacemaking/TributeToJackieHudson...

POULSBO — Jackie Hudson, a Poulsbo-based Dominican nun who spent decades demonstrating in support of nuclear disarmament, died at Harrison Medical Center on Wednesday. She was 76.

Hudson died from a type of blood cancer, according to the Kitsap County Coroner's Office.

She was diagnosed in June, said Sue Ablao, who has demonstrated in favor of nuclear disarmament with Hudson since the 1990s.

From Cincinnati to Olympia, Caitlin Roberts and Matt Fu will be traveling via Greyhound buses to promote the audio documentary “This Weapon Has Heart,” or “Este Arma Tiene Corazón,” about Honduran community radio. During this tour, they will be playing politically charged electro-acoustic music, as autococoon and 1985, as well as organizing with community radio networks.

THIS WEAPON HAS HEART // ESTE ARMA TIENE CORAZÔN

On the morning of June 28th, around 200 people gathered a few miles away from the entrance to Palmerola Air Base, which is located in Honduras but used by the United States Air Force. The marchers proceeded towards the main gate to denounce the US military base due to the US's military presence and its role in the overthrow of Honduras' democratically elected government on June 28th, 2009. The plane that sent Honduras' president Manuel Zelaya into exile on that day flew from the capital Tegucigalpa to Palmerola Air Base before continuing in the opposite direction to Costa Rica.

Check it out! Brendan Dunn in the Nation and on youtube. -Rick

http://www.thenation.com/video/161355/why-military-infiltrating-peace-ac...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeHnZQmhIEk&feature=player_embedded

When a group of Washington state peace activists discovered that one of their fellow organizers was in fact a military informant, they decided to take their case to the courts. The activists, part of the Port Militarization Resistance movement that attempted to stop military shipments from operating out of the state's public ports in Olympia and Tacoma, uncovered the informant after he had infiltrated their group for over two years. Many considered the informant to be a close friend.

Counterpunch is worth watching. -Rick
http://www.counterpunch.org/zadeh06172011.html

By ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH

In light of the brutal death and destruction wrought on Libya by the relentless US/NATO bombardment, the professed claims of "humanitarian concerns" as grounds for intervention can readily be dismissed as a blatantly specious imperialist ploy in pursuit of "regime change" in that country.

14 Countries have movements to shut down School of the Americas. The recent maximum prison sentences in federal court in Georgia (for sweet people who challenge the legitimacy of SOA by crossing a line)
demonstrate denial in action. The US so dislikes talking about the badness of these folks.
Check out this cool video!:

http://soaw.org/component/content/article/3564

by Gerardo Torres Zelaya (Español abajo.)
Secretary General, Los Necios Political Organization (OPLN)
International Committee, National Front for Popular Resistance (FNRP)

The beginning of a year always brings with it a series of promises and illusions and of course 2011 is no different. When the boundry of 12 midnight was crossed, Honduras began a new year in the middle of what can become the most important moment in its political history and at the same time left an unforgettable decade.

Michael Moore: I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail.

Furthermore, I am publicly offering the assistance of my website, my servers, my domain names and anything else I can do to keep WikiLeaks alive and thriving.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/why-im-posting-bail-...

This is from AlterNet -Rick

By Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet
Posted on November 11, 2010, Printed on December 4, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/148818/

Veterans Day, which Americans celebrate on November 11, was originally called Armistice Day, to commemorate the cessation of fighting in the Great War of 1914-1918. In the United States, the idea that this was “the war to end all wars,” (a phrase coined by H.G. Wells in a pamphlet of that name and echoed by Woodrow Wilson with equal earnestness) was challenged by an outspoken and persecuted peace movement, including poor farmers and black Americans conscripted at disproportionate rates.

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WAR IS (S)IN

Bruce and Gene

Recession Schmecession!
"45,000 Troops Ready to Shop!"

Does this make you feel better about society and the economy, or not?

This is from Inter Press Service: -Rick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS7HiZlbBxM

On September 14, Karl Rove was speaking in Washington DC at a luncheon
for the American College of Cardiology. When Rove started his speech,
CODEPINK burst into the luncheon room. With handcuffs raised, they
called for a citizen's arrest and read the charges against him.