By James Lane Over 3,000 people gathered at Liberty Plaza in the pre-dawn hours yesterday morning to defend the peaceful Occupation near Wall Street. The crowd cheered at the news that multinational real estate firm Brookfield Properties will postpone its so-called “cleanup” of the park and that Mayor Bloomberg has told the NYPD to...
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By James Lane At 1:30 this morning hundreds of police in full riot gear brutally attacked Occupy Boston, which had peacefully gathered on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. The Boston Police Department made no distinction between protesters, medics, or legal observers, arresting legal observer Urszula Masny-Latos, who serves as the Executive Director for the National...
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By James Lane Dozens of women were reportedly injured in Yemen’s second-largest city Sunday after government supporters attacked an anti-government rally celebrating Yemeni activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman. According to reports, pro-government “thugs” threw stones at women who were taking part in a peaceful women’s march in the south-western city of...
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By James Lane Green Parties in several states are co-sponsoring and hosting a ‘No Nukes Tour’ of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida from Monday, October 3, to Saturday, October 8. The No Nukes Tour, with the slogan “Organize the South!”, will feature Green activist and candidate Howie Hawkins. Mr. Hawkins has...
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By James Lane Organization Reports A Surge in New Anti-Death Penalty Activists Outraged Over Davis Execution Amnesty International is urging supporters worldwide who are outraged over the execution of Troy Davis to observe Saturday, October 1 – the day of his funeral — as a “Day of Remembrance.” The organization said it has seen...
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Greens call for an end to the Bush-Obama post-9/11 decade of wars without end, bloated military budgets, skyrocketing hate crimes against Muslims in the US, torture and other abuses of power The Green Party of the United States has endorsed the “October 2011″ protests and other events marking the tenth anniversary of the invasion...
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By James Lane What/Who is Occupy Wall Street? Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing they all have in common is that they share the mantra “We Are The 99%” that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the...
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The Green Party of the United States is mourning the passing of Dr. Wangari Maathai and celebrating the life of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Mazingira Green Party and the Green Belt Movement (http://www.greenbeltmovement.org) in Kenya. In 2002, Dr. Maathai was elected to the Kenyan Parliament on the Green...
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All Repressive Laws Against Women Must Change, Rights Group Asserts Granting women in Saudi Arabia the right to vote is a welcome step, Amnesty International said yesterday, but authorities must take the much larger step toward dismantling the entire system in place to repress and discriminate against women. “It is a welcome, albeit limited,...
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