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Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: Accountability, Torture, and the Obama Administration

Witness Against Torture’s 100 Days Campaign to Close Guantanamo and End Torture began in the heady days following President Obama’s Executive Orders, signed on day one, promising the closure of the detention camp at Guantanamo within a year and ending the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” program. Years of protest-- including a 2005 demonstration at the detention camp itself, arrest actions in Washington, D.C., and a resulting trial in which we condemned Guantanamo in the name of the detainees-- had paid off.

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Activists Serve Blackwater With 'Statement of Foreclosure for Moral Bankruptcy'

This weekend, I addressed a conference on Blackwater/Xe and other private armies in Stockton, Illinois, about 2 hours west of Chicago, where Blackwater has established a facility in Jo Daviess County (Here is some local media coverage). The conference was co-sponsored by the citizens’ group Clearwater and the Catholic Worker Movement.

Posted in blackwater/Xe, protest

Non-Violent Protests Against West Bank Barrier Turn Increasingly Dangerous

BIL'IN - It began calmly enough with a march down the high street after midday prayers at the mosque. Palestinian villagers were surrounded by dozens of foreigners singing and waving flags. They turned and headed out to the olive-tree fields and up towards the broad path of Israel's West Bank barrier. There, behind a concrete hilltop bunker, the Israeli soldiers looked down on them.

Posted in protest, Israel/Palestine

Nationalize, Reorganize, Decentralize

Two days ago I wrote about introducing a new kind of scale-based antitrust. Before exploring some other structural reforms, I want to encourage people to join a nationwide demonstration of support for some basic principles of structural change in the banking sector.

Posted in Activism, green economy, protest, wall street

Anti-US Demo Six Years After Saddam Statue Toppled

$An Iraqi supporter of Shiite radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr flashs a paper reading \"No No America\" in Baghdad. Thousands of supporters of the anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr protested the occupation of Iraq, six years after the toppling of a Saddam Hussein statue symbolised the fall of his regime. (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)$

BAGHDAD - Thousands of supporters of the anti-US cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday protested the occupation of Iraq, six years after the toppling of a Saddam Hussein statue symbolised the fall of his regime.

Crowds lined the streets leading to Firdos Square in Baghdad, where Saddam's giant bronze sculpture was wrestled to the ground with the help of US Marines in 2003, an iconic image that signalled the end of his dictatorial rule.

Posted in iraq occupation, protest, Iraq

London Man Who Died at G20 Protest Attacked by Police, Video Shows

Britain's police watchdog is to remove the police from the investigation into the death of Ian Tomlinson during last week's G20 protests and carry out its own independent inquiry, the Guardian has learned.

Earlier this week the Independent Police Complaints Commission appointed the City of London force to investigate the incident, despite its officers having been involved in policing the protest, instead of using its own investigators.

Posted in Equality/Justice, G20, protest

A New Way Forward: Protesting Against the Wall Street Bailouts

What seems most immediately alarming about the bailouts and the $787 billion stimulus, write Leo Hindery and Donald Riegle in the April 20 issue of The Nation, are the countless indications that the rescue packages still fall woefully short of what is needed to confront the emergency economic conditions we face.

Posted in Activism, bailout, protest, wall street

Resist or Become Serfs

America is devolving into a third-world nation. And if we do not immediately halt our elite's rapacious looting of the public treasury we will be left with trillions in debts, which can never be repaid, and widespread human misery which we will be helpless to ameliorate. Our anemic democracy will be replaced with a robust national police state. The elite will withdraw into heavily guarded gated communities where they will have access to security, goods and services that cannot be afforded by the rest of us.

Posted in Activism, bailout, direct action, financial crisis, protest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 3, 2009
2:27 PM

CONTACT: California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC)
CNA: Chuck Idelson 510-273-2246 or 415-559-8991
CSEA: Carolyn Constantino 408-821-9545

Hundreds of Healthcare Activists to Rally in Los Angeles Outside White House Forum on Healthcare, April 6

Healthcare Grassroots Wants a Place at the Table for Single-Payer/Universal Healthcare Reforms

WASHINGTON - April 3 -
WHAT: Hundreds of nurses, physicians, school employees, clergy, seniors, patients, and healthcare activists will rally on Monday outside the Los Angeles White House Forum on Healthcare Reform to strongly urge a real debate over single-payer/universal healthcare and any proposed bailouts of private health insurance corporations.

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The California Nurses Association, and its national arm, the National Nurses Organizing Committee, is one of the nation's premiere nurses' organizations and health care unions. One of the fastest growing health care organizations in the U.S., CNA/NNOC presently has 80,000 members in 50 states, representing nurses at scores of hospitals, clinics, and home health agencies.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) Links:

Posted in Activism, protest, singlepayer

Why We Should Listen to the Protesters

When this hinge-point in human history is remembered, there will be far more sympathy for the people who took to the streets and rioted than for the people who stayed silently in their homes. Two global crises have collided, and we have a chance here, now, to solve them both with one mighty heave - but our leaders are letting this opportunity for greatness leach away. The protesters here in London were trying to sound an alarm now, at five minutes to ecological midnight.

Posted in Activism, climate change, direct action, protest