Archive for December, 2012

Year-End Petition to Free the Cuban Five

Freeing the Cuban 5 is an important matter for working people around the world. You can take a small action to bring the issue of freedom for these five heroic men to the desk of President Obama. It may be a frustrating and complicated process to sign this petition, BUT remember the 14 years of [...]

NYC ABC New Year’s Eve Noise Demo

On the noisiest night of the year in New York City, come help us remind folks locked up that they are not alone. NYC Anarchist Black Cross, in response to an international call for noise demonstrations outside of prisons, is asking folks to join us outside of the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Manhattan. Come, [...]

Support the Freedom Archives [Saturday #Culture]

Your support has made this an international breakthrough year for the Freedom Archives! Many of you have sent in contributions, thanks! We are approaching our year-end goal, but need still your help. Our film, Cointelpro 101, made its way to England, Hawaii, South Africa and Puerto Rico as well as many communities and film festivals [...]

DC: Arc of Justice Parade Upcoming

We invite your organization to participate in the Arc of Justice Parade in Washington DC on Monday, January 21st , 2013. Set to coincide with the Presidential Inauguration Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and the third anniversary of the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling, the Arc of Justice rally and parade will be a [...]

January Delegation to Venezuela: Food Sovereignty, Human Rights, and Community Power

With Hugo Chavez’s historic win this October, the Venezuelan people have committed to carry forward the Bolivarian Revolution, with its advances in social equality, human rights, community power, and more. One of the focuses of this trip will be food sovereignty, or how both the government and the people are taking back control of the [...]

Black Riders Liberation Party Fund

This fund will help us to continue our serve the people programs and provide funds to guard against state repression! The Black Riders Liberation Party is the new generation 0f the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. The BRLP began in a Y.T.S. gang prison in California when General T.A.C.O. (Taking All Capitalists Out) and [...]

Just Released FBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy Monitoring

FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) pursuant to the PCJF’s Freedom of Information Act demands reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a potential criminal and terrorist threat even though the agency acknowledges in documents that organizers explicitly called for peaceful protest and did [...]

Phil Africa Hospitalized. Call SCI Dallas and the Hospital

William Phillips (Africa), who has been imprisoned at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas PA, was rushed to the Wilkes Barre General Hospital and is in intensive care. We need all of our supporters to call the prison (570 675-1101) and the hospital (570 829-8111) to inquire about Phil. We are very concerned because this [...]

Short Film Canada’s Immigration Detention System [Saturday #Culture]

On December 15, Canada’s Refugee Exclusion Act (Bill C-31, formally the “Protecting Canada’s Immigration System Act”) was fully implemented. Please watch, and share this video, of past and current immigration detainees and No One Is Illegal – Toronto organizers explaining the impacts of these new laws. [vimeo 55622758] Filmed by Liberation Cooperative Organization outside the [...]

Speech in Hamburg by Revolutionary Proletarian Feminist Movement [#Feminist Friday]

As women comrades of the Revolutionary Proletarian Feminist Movement, we salute with joy this conference in support of People’s War in India and bring also the warm greetings of women workers, precarious, unemployed, young people that struggle in the Italian cities where we are present. At the international level, we dedicated the 8 March of [...]

Peoples Survival Program Returns to Red Hook 12/23

Peoples Survival Program “Serve The People Day” returns to Brooklyn’s Red Hook Projects; Sunday, Dec. 23rd. “Free Meals, Clothes, Supplies, Health Screenings & Training For The People Project.” Sunday, December 23, 2012 1:00pm – 6:00pm On Columbia Street (between W.9th & Mill Street) We Need Folks @ Red Hook Site During Following Times To Help [...]

Tonight: Gaza, the Arab Spring and the New Middle East (NYC)

Israel’s November massacre in Gaza exposed not just the brutality of Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestine, but the potential of mass resistance to stop a ground invasion and wider war. Despite the horrific toll on Gaza’s people and infrastructure, Operation Pillar of Cloud is widely seen as a political defeat for Israel, the closest US [...]

Call on Los Angeles Board of Supervisors to Implement True Civilian Oversight

The Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in L.A. Jails, a grassroots multiracial organization, will hold a press conference on Tuesday, Dec. 18, @ 12:30 pm, on the steps of the Kenneth Hahn Building, 500 W. Temple Street, prior to attending the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors weekly meeting. The Board is scheduled to hear [...]

Tomorrow: Mercy Killers: Health Justice Theater [NYC]

Join New York activists Tuesday, December 18, 7:00 to 9:30 PM for theater, community and strategizing for the health justice movement Performance, Reception & Membership Meeting 7 PM Performance of Mercy Killers, one-man show written and performed by Broadway actor Michael Milligan Michael Milligan is a Juilliard-trained actor and playwright who has appeared on Broadway [...]

An Open Letter to Muslims in America Regarding Dr. Aafia Siddiqui

The word redemption is loaded with meaning. It encompasses the act of redeeming oneself, and/or the state of being redeemed. To redeem is to recover something of value by discharging an obligation. According to Webster, it also means “to ransom, free or rescue by paying a price.” It also signifies making good on a promise [...]

Via Campesina: UN Climate Talks Achieve Nothing, Promote False Capitalist Solutions

As the climate negotiations come to a close, the industrialized countries insist on inaction for the next decade, finding even more ways to escape their historical responsibility, create more carbon markets including one on agriculture and to keep business as usual of burning the planet. While governments continue to prioritize the interests of industry and [...]

Tonight: Vigil for Shantel Davis [#Feminist Friday]

Please join Shantel Davis’ family, friends, and their supporters on the six month anniversary of her passing. CANDLELIGHT VIGIL in honor of Shantel Davis Friday, December 14th at 6:30 pm at the corner of Church Ave and East 38th Street, Brooklyn On June 14th, 2012, Shantel Davis was murdered by NYPD Detective Phillip Atkins on [...]

Today: Prison Divestment Action

Join The National Private Prison Divestment Campaign, Families for Freedom, Enlace Int’l and others to protest companies that profit off the detention of immigrant communities. Matthew Sirovich and Jeremy Mindich’s Scopia Capital LLC, is one of the largest shareholder in the Geo Group (GEO), the largest company in our nation’s private prison industry. It also [...]

Cleveland, Ohio Police Killings Sparks Outrage

Over 150 Clevelanders packed into a public forum Thursday night to ask questions and denounce the police killing of two people last week. Unsatisfied with the answers they were receiving, people in the crowd accused the city officials of racism and murder. Malissa Williams, 30, and Timothy Russell, 43, were killed on November 29, when [...]

DC Abortion Fund Holiday Party

Please join the DC Abortion Fund (DCAF) for our annual Peace, Joy & Choice holiday party — enjoy great company and learn about what DCAF has been up to in the past year. DCAF Winter Holiday Party: Peace, Love, Joy, and Choice Tuesday, December 11, 6:00pm-9:00pm 1301 K St NW, Suite 103 Drink specials will [...]