WASHINGTON - January 26 - On Monday, January 26, 2009, six human rights advocates will begin federal trials for carrying the protest against the School of the Americas onto the Fort Benning military base in Georgia. This school, re-named the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, is a controversial U.S. Army training school for Latin American soldiers. Each person faces up to six months in prison and a $5,000 fine for this act of nonviolent civil disobedience.

COLUMBUS, Ga. - November 21 - Thousands will gather this weekend, November 21-23, at the gates of Fort Benning, GA for what organizers hope may be the last mass protest to close the controversial School of the Americas, renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (SOA/WHINSEC).

WASHINGTON - November 17 - Americans facing foreclosure and homelessness will install a temporary dwelling on Congress' doorstep Tuesday to highlight their plight and protest the bailout of bankers and the auto industry.  At 9 a.m., they will brief the media on their demands for equitable relief for families facing foreclosure. Speakers include Gael Murphy, a co-founder of CODEPINK Women for Peace,  the Rev. Graylan Hagler from the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), Michael Stoops from the National Coalition for the Homeless, and Steven Smith of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

SAN FRANCISCO - November 14 - Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has recruited thousands of activists in more than 50 cities across the U.S. to protest Citi and Bank of America's coal investments in a mass demonstration against coal and coal finance that will take place Nov. 14-15.

RAN and the thousands of citizens who plan to participate in the Day of Action are demanding that the top financiers of the coal industry, Citi and Bank of America, lead the transition to a 21st-century clean energy economy that will put people to work and avert catastrophic climate change.

SAN FRANCISCO - November 13 - Two members of the women's peace group CODEPINK were arrested today at a financial convention in San Francisco when they took the stage along Karl Rove and staged a citizen's arrest on charges of war crimes.