Movement building

Events are building for a more energetic than usual Martin Luther King day this January 16th.

http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/441-occupy/9281-black-church...

By Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News

05 January 12

"Money can pass through your hands like water but the land is forever" "What are we going to leave for our children if we don't stand up and fight? This is a fight for survival!"

Thursday, September 15, 7:30pm
A Feminist's Place is in the Union Struggle

Thursday, August 4, 7:00 pm

Revolutionary Feminist Planning Meeting

Come and find out how Radical Women plans, organizes and makes decisions. Everyone is invited to participate. Dinner is served at 6:30pm for a $7.50 donation.

4 blocks south of S. Alaska at the Hudson stop of the #7 busline.

New Freeway Hall
5018 Rainier Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98118

www.RadicalWomen.org
RWseattle@mindspring.com

206-722-6057

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

Published on Friday, July 1, 2011 by CommonDreams.org
by Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap

In the year and a half since the Citizens United decision, Americans from all walks of life have become concerned about corporate dominance of our government and our society as a whole. In Citizens United v. FEC, the U.S. Supreme Court (in an act of outrageous “judicial activism) gutted existing campaign finance laws by ruling that corporations, wealthy individuals, and other entities can spend unlimited amounts of money on political campaigns.

Throughout the country people have responded by organizing against “corporate personhood,” a court-created precedent that illegitimately gives corporations rights that were intended for human beings.

Here's the meeting notes as taken. Really, I think this is about how our meeting went:

"everything that every human does, we're all in this together... even secret people guys from the military, or weird secret society groups, the only way we're going to ave any solidary is by realizing we're all in this together. I love every single thing that you guys are doing, but i love you guys i love y ou i love you i love you, i love you more than i love myself. I love you I...(trails off into distance)"

Arland --"Bottom baseline is now a phone line!"

Keeping the content as Public Service and Community Billboard oriented

Monitors

Keeping the Sound down to combat noise complaints

Construction

We don't have fast enough editing equiptment

Here's the link:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/03/photos-long-walk-3-northern-route....

HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12494

The Japanese people are now paying a horrific price for the impossible dream of the "Peaceful Atom." For a half-century they have been told that what's happening now at Fukushima would never occur.

Our hearts and souls must first and foremost go out to them. As fellow humans, we must do everything in our power to ease their wounds, their terrible losses and their unimaginable grief.
We are also obliged---for all our sakes---to make sure this never happens again.

By MARK WEISBROT

Haiti's infamous dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier, returned to his country this week, while the country's first elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is kept out. These two facts really say everything about Washington's policy toward Haiti and our government's respect for democracy in that country and in the region.

Asked about the return of Duvalier, who had thousands tortured and murdered under his dictatorship, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said, "this is a matter for the Government of Haiti and the people of Haiti."

But when asked about Aristide returning, he said, "Haiti does not need, at this point, any more burdens."

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 21, 2011

CONTACT: Margaret Viggiani, 206-722-6057 (office) or 206-883-3053 (cell)

SISTERS ORGANIZE FOR SURVIVAL (SOS) ANNOUNCES CAMPAIGN TO
“FLIP THE FUNDING” TO BALANCE THE BUDGET

As politicians in Olympia strive to balance an “all-cuts” budget, Sisters Organize for Survival (SOS), a campaign of Radical Women, kicks off a joint labor and community based campaign to Flip the Funding to balance the budget. Flip the Funding refers to a shift in the way funds are garnered and spent.

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

“Dear Afghanistan:” A New Year’s Call for Peace

While the US may be the world's single super power in military terms, it faces another super power: the voices of war-weary millions who detest violence and killing. In Afghanistan, in the United States, and among the populations of countries whose governments have joined the NATO coalition, millions of people are calling for an end to war in Afghanistan.

This FRIDAY DECEMBER 31 and SATURDAY JANUARY 1 we have a special opportunity to talk with peace-oriented people in Afghanistan by telephone wherever you are – AND ALSO by a computer link that will be set up at Traditions Café (5th & Water in downtown Olympia).

Dear friends of No More Deaths,

Please share this email and information with anyone you think might be interested.

We are finalizing our plans for the No More Deaths 2011 Spring Break program and hope that you will be able to participate.
Spring Break 2011 announcement and sign-up form (http://tinyurl.com/nmdspringbreak2011)
Your help in alleviating death and suffering in the desert is needed more now than ever. More bodies of undocumented people have been found this year than have ever before been recorded and the recent elections have put increasingly hateful legislation on the table, jeopardizing the everyday lives of many people living in the United States. The defeat of the DREAM Act and of comprehensive reform requires dramatic action.