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Join the Solidarity Caravan to Longview, WA to Defend ILWU Workers
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Billboard Company Cancels: EQUAL RIGHTS FOR PALESTINIANS
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SOLIDARITY WITH LEONARD PELTIER NW REGIONAL MARCH AND RALLY TACOMA
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Nuclear Resisters Arrested Honoring Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday
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EQUALITY FOR PALESTINIANS Billboards are Up in Seattle
Join the Solidarity Caravan to Longview, WA to Defend ILWU Workers
The seattle occupy caravan signup: seattleportsolidarity@gmail.com Working with occupy... read more
Billboard Company Cancels: EQUAL RIGHTS FOR PALESTINIANS
BILLBOARD COMPANY CANCELS "EQUAL RIGHTS FOR PALESTINIANS" Efforts by the Seattle Mideast Awareness... read more
SOLIDARITY WITH LEONARD PELTIER NW REGIONAL MARCH AND RALLY TACOMA
[img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-we7bABSCI8o/TcJbxFrx_CI/AAAAAAAAADY/1WkL1FGLKmA/s400/peltier_flier.jpg... read more
Nuclear Resisters Arrested Honoring Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday
Poulsbo, Washington, Saturday, January 15, 2011 - The Seattle Raging Grannies set the mood for... read more
EQUALITY FOR PALESTINIANS Billboards are Up in Seattle
Local billboard campaign and protest event demand equal rights for Palestinians... Local human-rights... read more
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Water-Threats and Possibilities, a Multimedia Presentation Held Recently
CAPOW! (Citizens Act to Protect Our Water) presented a Multi-Media Event, "Water – Threats and Possibilities," on Saturday, January 21, 2012 at MultiKulti, 1000 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago.
The event was designed to call attention to key water issues, including water quality and pollution, the Keystone XL pipeline controversy, nuclear contamination of our water supply and the undesirable consequences of privatization of the water system.
The event featured a group art exhibit, a speakers forum, videos, open discussion, networking time, refreshments and entertainment.
The program...
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Posted on ICJPE by CAPOW! Citizens Act to Protect Our Water
M-PAC warns against LD 1707: More prison beds...Negative Consequences
M-PAC warns against LD 1707: More prison beds for so-called gang members would bring excessive costs, negative consequences
ELLSWORTH – Jim Bergin, co-coordinator of Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition (M-PAC) said today that advocates are deeply concerned about the severity of sending someone to prison for up to forty years (a Class A crime) if convicted of asking a peer to join a "criminal street gang."
Despite volumes of research data showing that "enhanced sentencing;" upgrading classifications for crimes; adding new crimes; and mandatory sentencing for judges does...
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Posted on MPJEN by Maine Prison Advocacy Coalition (M-PAC)
EU on verge of abandoning hope for a viable Palestinian state
Unlike our government, some European governments are publicly expressing in strong terms their displeasure and deep concern with the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Last Monday (1/16/12) the UK's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg accused Israel of carrying out "deliberate vandalism" by continuing to build settlements on Palestinian land. A recent unpublished internal European report documented the settlement expansion in Area C of the West Bank (which is under direct Israeli control) and its impact on the prospects of a two state solution. This report which was seen ...
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Posted on MAPM by Middle East Peace Now
Orange Jumpsuited Torture Protestors March to St. Thomas Law School
The Uptake News item by Bill Sorem, Jan. 12, 2012.
Why were people in orange jumpsuits silently filing through the Minneapolis skyways? The answer may be ten years old, but those in the jumpsuits will tell you the problem is not in the past, but is a current one.
January 9, 2012 was the 10th anniversary of the memo that gave President George Bush the right to ignore the Geneva Conventions and authorize torture. Authors of the memo were Robert Delahunty, now a St. Thomas Law School professor and John Yoo, now a University of California at Berkeley law professor. Local peace activists have...
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Posted on MAPM by Women Against Military Madness
Longtime peace activist Marv Davidov dies at 80
See Twin Cities Public Television "Portrait" interview with Marv Davidov which can be viewed via the MN Video Vault at: http://www.mnvideovault.org/search_results.php?q=davidov
And see Star Tribune News Obituary:
Longtime peace activist Marv Davidov dies at 80
Article by: RANDY FURST, Star Tribune, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
Updated: January 14, 2012 - 3:11 PM
He was nationally known for demonstrations in Minneapolis against Honeywell, which once made cluster bombs.
Marv Davidov, an iconic figure of the Minnesota peace movement who founded and led the Honeywell Project...
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Posted on MAPM by A Million Copies Initiative
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