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Alt Media Coverage of G20 in Toronto Molly M. 2010-06-27 4:34 AM
As the G20 leaders meet in Toronto, Canada, many of the same tactics to squash dissent and protest that were used in Pittsburgh are being repeated. An Alternative Media Centre has been established to allow independent journalists and videographers the space and capacity to report as events unfold. (text/plain)

Oil Is Not The Worst Part of British Petroleum's Gulf Gusher! Lloyd Hart 2010-06-23 1:09 PM
It is bad enough that British Petroleum (BP) doesn't want to attempt to use high explosives drilled deep down into the bed rock beside the pipe to bend it closed. (text/plain)

BTL:Gulf Oil Spill Disaster An Opportunity to Reinvent America's Broken Energy Infrastruct Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2010-06-21 1:29 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine (text/plain)

Primate Torture In Wisconsin, US, UK, China, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Netherlan Primate Protector 2010-06-20 6:24 PM
Recent deaths of primates subjected to freezing, baking to death, thirst, pain of all sorts have given momentum to the movement to end laboratory research on captive victims. (text/plain + 1 comment)

BTL:U.S. Supreme Court on Course to Tear Down Campaign Finance Reform Laws Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2010-06-19 1:14 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine (text/plain)

BTL:U.S. and Israeli Policies Strengthen Iranian Hardliners; Undermine Green Movement Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2010-06-18 12:13 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine (text/plain)

Federal Protective Service Building Security Agency's Workforce Plan Questioned Federal Protective Service FCGOA NEWS 2010-06-16 2:06 AM
The Federal Protective Service agency has an annual budget of roughly $1 billion, and employs 1,225 full-time workers and 15,000 contract security guards at more than 2,300 federal facilities nationwide (text/html)

MDS WORKSHOP-MEETING at the US SOCIAL FORUM Movement for a Democrtic Society (MDS) 2010-06-14 9:51 AM

Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) hosts workshop-meeting at the US Social Forum in Detroit, June 24th. (image/jpeg)

BTL:U.N. and Human Rights Groups Challenge U.S. Use of Drones in Targeted Assassinations Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2010-06-12 12:48 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine (text/plain)

Alphonse D’Amato to testify, DASNY Contract Procedure Violated After adding MOB Firm Stephen Thompson 2010-06-12 6:11 AM
Former Senator D’Amato is scheduled to testify next week, in NY State Supreme Court, June 15 -16, 2010 as to his alleged role as the lobbyist who influenced New York State officials to include a MOB related construction firm onto a list of qualified contractors after they had already been disqualified by the quality control people within the New York State Dormitory Authority (DASNY). Thomas Murphy, then Executive Director of DASNY, testified that Richard Nasti told him to add the Scalamadres onto the list of qualified contractors even though Joseph and Fred Scalamandre both pleaded guilty to paying off the MOB and stealing tens of millions of dollars from several government agencies. (text/plain)

State Terrorism and massacres: constant characteristics of the policy of the Israeli bourg PCInt 2010-06-11 10:02 PM
The Israeli attack on the “Freedom Flotilla” of pacifist organizations under the guidance of the Turkish NGO Insani Vafki Yardim, which wanted to break the blockade to bring medicine and food to the people of Gaza, starving and subjected to terrible imprisonment since June 16, 2007, is another demonstration of the military and repressive nature of the “only democratic country in the Middle East. (text/plain)

BTL:Palestinian Farmer Peacefully Struggles to Save his Family's Property from Israeli Tak Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http 2010-06-11 12:00 PM
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine (text/plain)

Solidarity with the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza STOP the War Coalition Philippines 2010-06-05 11:40 AM
STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY from the STOP the War Coalition Philippines (text/plain)

Cuba-Venezuela relationship: What can be said from an anarchist perspective? El Libertario, Venezuela 2010-05-30 5:52 PM

* This text appears in the June-July 2010 issue #59 of El Libertario, describing the position this voice of the Venezuelan anarchist movement takes regarding the close links between the governments of these two countries. (image/jpeg)

“FREE GAZA” FLOTILLA TO FACE “FREE GAZA FROM HAMAS” FLOTILLA Free Gaza From Hamas 2010-05-28 4:02 PM

Counter demostration at sea (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

UGSOA PRESIDENT JAMES CARNEY JUMPS SHIP. FCGOA is Ready to Take The Helm UGSOA NEWS 2010-03-31 10:24 PM
Federal Contract Guards of America FCGOA President Guy James stated "FCGOA is ready and able to represent the many UGSOA Security Police Professionals who wish to leave the United Government Security Officers of America UGSOA to join our organization FCGOA" (text/html)

Twin Cities Copwatch Interview Jessica McPherson 2010-03-30 3:57 AM
An interview with Michelle Gross, one of the founders of Communities United Against Police Brutality, a successful copwatch program in Minneapolis/St. Paul Minnesota. CUPB has been operating for over a decade. Unedited, 40 minutes. (audio/mpeg)

CPP-NPA Permit to Campaign Fees: Fundraising or Opportunism? Reihana Mohideen, Manila 2010-03-27 12:12 PM
The Philippine Left and the 2010 Elections The issue of the New Peoples Army collecting ‘permit to campaign fees’ (euphemistically named ‘revolutionary taxes’ by the Communist Party of the Philippines) from capitalist traditional politicians (trapo or rug) wanting to campaign in NPA strongholds has once again resurfaced in the lead-up to the May 2010 elections. The fees buy these trapo politicians a ‘permit to campaign’ in NPA areas. (text/plain)

Nuclear Power Plants Vulnerable to Attack, Former CIA Officer Says FCGOA Nuclear Security Officer News 2010-03-26 2:02 AM
One of the biggest problems is the fact that the union who presently represents these nuclear security officers the United Government Security Officers of America International Union UGSOA has failed to negotiate for better wages, benefits and a higher standard of training for these nuclear security officers stated FCGOA President Guy James. (text/html)

Barack Obama’s Health Care Plan Won’t Work Wendy Edwards 2010-03-24 7:20 AM
Barack Obama’s Health Care Plan Won’t Work (text/plain)

Why is there popular protest in Venezuela? El Libertario, Venezuela 2010-03-23 11:40 PM

* For the benefit of those who find themselves surprised or disconcerted by the generalised decline of conditions in Venezuela, as well as the increase in popular struggle (2,893 street demonstrations between October 2008-September 2009; compared with 1,763 in the same period in 2007-08) – either because they are unaware of the situation here, they are based abroad, or because they always accept the official version of events – we expound below on some factors which contribute to social conflicts here. (image/jpeg)

Rhetorical Militancy for a Rhetorical Mass Movement? If Only We Could Make Them Like Us... John Garvey 2010-03-23 5:41 PM

The main purpose of this article is to address the questions of strategy and tactics in the anarchist movement with specific reference to the roles the Black Block tactic, and militant direct action play in our movement. (image/jpeg)

Preventing the State’s infiltration of social movements El Libertario, Venezuela 2010-03-19 11:18 PM

*This article was originally published in El Libertario #58, March-April 2010. Although originally based on the actual experiences of Venezuela’s social struggles, it deals with situations and facts of interest to activists anywhere. (image/jpeg)

Lebanon: Checkpoints and more (Film) a-films 2010-03-15 2:34 PM

Nahr al-Bared refugee camp has still not recovered from the devastating war in 2007 during which it was destroyed. (image/jpeg)

FCGOA Pres calls For Tougher Background Checks After Terror Suspect Infiltrated Nuke Sites FCGOA Security Guard News 2010-03-14 5:18 PM
Guy James President of The International Union, Federal Contract Guards of America FCGOA, stated that “we must always be on the alert at nuclear facilities, federal buildings , airports and other high profile buildings where terrorist groups like Al-Qaida continue to target our infrastructure. The question we face each and everyday is not if a terrorist attack like 9/11 will happen again but when will it happen. That’s why our union FCGOA continues to call on our legislatures to strengthen stiffer background checks, better training standards and a higher standard of qualifications of all private security companies and security guards / security police professionals throughout the country”. (text/html)

Maternal Mortality in USA: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CALLING FOR URGENT ACTION! BE47 2010-03-13 7:01 PM
PREGNANT WOMEN ARE DYING EVERY DAY IN AMERICA. OVER HALF OF THESE DEATHS ARE EASILY PREVENTABLE. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL IS ASKING PEOPLE TO TAKE ACTION NOW! WOMEN SHOULD NOT BE 'DYING TO GIVE BIRTH!' REPORT ISSUED THIS WEEK BY AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: 'DEADLY DELIVERY: THE MATERNAL HEALTH CARE CRISIS IN THE USA' (text/plain)

Use of Private Federal Contract Security Guards at Gov Buildings Comes Under Scrutiny. FCGOA Security Guard News 2010-03-13 6:52 PM
Guy James President of the International Union, Federal Contract Guards of America FCGOA disagrees. The problem is not that these contract guards need to be federalized, the problem is better training". "There really are no federal standards for security guards," said James. "These individuals should be trained at the federal level since they are the first line of defense against a terrorist attack, just like federal police officers," he said. (text/html)

The U.S. is the Country of the Tonton Macoutes Bruno Lima Rocha, political scientist 2010-03-10 6:09 PM
It was proven that those that had nothing could have less on Tuesday January 12th.The earthquake in Haiti devastated the little reconstruction that was done by the U.N. forces which are still controlled by the regional power with global intentions: Brazil. (text/plain)

Canada moves to make baby Seal clubbing an Olympic Sport Mike Mills 2010-02-28 3:43 AM

Canada moves to make baby Seal clubbing an Olympic Sport (image/jpeg)

Greek fascist Goverment capture another journalist!!!!! antifascist 2010-02-25 11:48 AM
FREE to Savvas Chatziparaskeuas!!! Greek Fascist Govermet capture another journalist!!!!!! http://diaforetikimatia.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post_25.html (text/plain)

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