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| Protest Warriors Incite Violence in New York | | 10 Jul 2006 | | In a shocking public gathering right wing zealots called for the bombing of the New York Times building on West 43rd Street from a protest directly across the street. New anti-terror measures were not invoked. Counter protesters were scarce.|| Additional Coverage and Photos |
| State Department Harasses Protesters at Salvadoran Consulate | | 10 Jul 2006 | | On Monday, July 10, 2006, New Yorkers gathered outside the Salvadoran Consulate on Park Avenue between 36th & 37th streets to protest the recent wave of repression in El Salvador, particularly the airforce attacks on students and administrators and subsequent police occupation of the National University. Activists denounced the repression and the US State Department’s support for the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA). ILEA has been condemned by human rights activists in El Salvador and elsewhere for its controversial refusal to prohibit US military instructors from teaching civilian law enforcement policy, strictly prohibited in the Peace Accords signed by El Salvador and the US government in 1992. |
| New York Haitians and Dominicans Take the Dominican Consulate | | 10 Jul 2006 | | On Thursday a handful of activits took the streets in protest of what is occuring on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola and the United States involvement. Although their numbers were small, their voices drew attention to a situation gravely neglected by the American press. |
| Book Review: Journey to the Ends of Anarchy (Indypendent) | | 10 Jul 2006 | | From the squats of Berlin to life as a deckhand on a Central American banana boat to the perilous mountains of rebel Kurdistan to an exhausted, mud-soaked slice of Zapatista utopia, Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile is a rollicking travelogue. Ryan knows the traveler’s secret of being open to the moment and trusting whatever it brings. His poignant tales of defeat, desolation, betrayal and lingering hope are told with both humor and a canny insight into the human spirit. |
| Visual Resistance Previews July 27 / 28 Benefit Show For Daniel McGowan | | 08 Jul 2006 | | The show will feature some of the most respected and prolific street artists working today, including the Barnstormer´s David Ellis, Banksy, Swoon, Borf, Chris Stain, Arofish, Kelly Burns, GoreB, Josh MacPhee, and MOMO, as well as veterans of the landmark political comics journal World War 3 Illustrated, including Eric Drooker, Seth Tobocman, Peter Kuper, Nicole Schulman, and Christopher Cardinale, as well as dozens of other participating artists. |
| Gay Marriage and the Legislature | | 07 Jul 2006 | In yesterday's ruling upholding New York's ban on gay marriage, the State's highest court noted that its holding did not preclude the Legislature from extending "marriage or all or some of its benefits to same-sex couples."
But getting the State Legislature to act on this issue is highly unlikely, noted Chief Judge Judith Kaye in her dissent -- regardless of how a majority of New Yorkers may feel about the issue. [Read More] |
| Issue #89: Sex Workers in the City of Joy | | 06 Jul 2006 | | The new issue of The Indypendent features great on-the-ground reporting from India and Pakistan by Sarah Stuteville. Also, A.K. Gupta looks at the U.S. push for war in Iran, Zalmay Khalildad takes us inside the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and Neela Ghoshal looks at the difficult reconciliation process in the war-torn African nation of Burundi. Closer to home, legal columnist Ann Schneider looks at the latest assault on the 4th Amendment, Amy Wolf explores the inner meaning of the Mermaid Parade and John Tarleton reviews Ramor Ryan’s anarcho-travel tales + much, much more.|| www.indypendent.org Sex Workers in the City of Joy || Walking Out of Slavery || Undeterred, the War-for-Oil Machine Rolls Toward Iran || All’s Well in Baghdad || Burundi: A Fragile Peace || Scalia Knocks Me Out || Afro-Punks Invade Brooklyn || Getting Wet with Dykes and Mermaids || Book Review: Journey to the Ends of Anarchy || Movie Review: The Boy Bombers || Book Review: Pleasure in Pride || Movie Review: Gitmo Rage || Book Review: Dissent to Barbarism |
| Impeachment Comes to Main Street USA | | 05 Jul 2006 | | The boos from the crowd in Willimantic, CT were reserved for Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, who may find himself a man without a party come August 8 for his ardent support for President Bush and the War in Iraq. |
| (In-the-Pen)dence Day | | 04 Jul 2006 | Speaking of liberty, though, how will America's over two million prisoners celebrate July 4th? In addition to those declared truths we hold to be self evident, it is equally evident that 2,085,620 people will be imagining a spectacular fireworks show from within their prison cells. How ironic --- and depressing --- that the country reputed for its love of liberty (symbolized by the Statue of Liberty and the Liberty Bell) "de-liberates" a greater percentage of its population than any other country in the world. [Read More] |
| Mexican Election Deadlocked: Actual Vote Count Begins Wednesday | | 02 Jul 2006 | | Both of the leading candidates in Mexico’s presidential election have claimed victory. Conservative free marketer Felipe Calderon holds a narrow one-point lead according to preliminary tallies of Sunday’s vote. The actual vote count doesn’t begin until Wednesday and could drag on for days. Supporters of leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador suspect he may be a victim of fraud after some exit polls showed him winning but they are taking a wait-and-see attitude until the final results are released. Election Cliffhanger Collins: Mexican Election in Limbo || Giordano: A Closer Look at Mexico’s Preliminary Election Results || Palast: Stealing It in Front of Your Eyes || Siegal: PAN Won Because It Got More Votes || Mailer & Pascarella: Election Day Journal || Oaxaca: The Day After the Election Election Analysis: Mexico on Edge || The Zapatistas Risk All w/Election Day Protests || Election Analysis “From Below and to the Left” || Bush Team Helps Floridize Mexican Election||Ominous Shadow of Stolen ‘88 Elections Hangs Over Mexican Presidential Vote || Mexico’s Left Turn || Baja California Sur Leaning Toward Lopez Obrador on Eve of Mexican Election || Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador || Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona Uprising in Oaxaca: Popular Government to Be Installed July 5 || A Teacher in Every Town || Oaxaca Uprising: How Far Can It Go? || Four Weeks That Shook Oaxaca || Oaxaca Teachers Repel 3,000 Police from City Center || Indymedia Roundup The Battle of Atenco: 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 For More Coverage: IMC-Chiapas || IMC-Mexico|| Radio Pacheco || Radio ke Huelga ||Narco News ||La Jornada |
| Afro-Punks Invade Brooklyn This Weekend | | 30 Jun 2006 | | Afro-Punk as a concept is embodied by Black people who openly embrace their identity and reject the status quo’s categorizations and stereotypes of Black people and culture.|www.indypedent.org | www.afropunk.com |www.bam.org| |
| Right-Wing Activists To Protest New York Times | | 29 Jun 2006 | 
From illegal immigrant anchor baby Michelle Malkin Maglalang and her terrorist pals at Free Republic comes this jewel: Protest the New York Times Revealing of U.S. Secrets, Monday, July 10, 5 p.m. [Read More] |
| Marine Recruiter Assaults Demonstrators With Baseball Bat | | 29 Jun 2006 | A baseball bat-wielding Marine recruiter engaged in an unprovoked assault on two demonstrators outside the recruiting center and then seized the cellphone belonging to another demonstrator who had witnessed and photographed the assault. There are plans for a rally and press conference outside the recruiting center for July 5 at 5PM.
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| Victoria's Dirty Secret protest photos | | 29 Jun 2006 | The Wetland Activism collective staged a protest and direct action at the Manhattan Mall to expose Victoria's Dirty Secret: Victoria's secret is destroying the forests for its catalogues. Victoria's Dirty Secret. At the protest, the Wetlands collective flyered, chopped up mock trees with its shopping cart monster, entered the mall with banners, were kicked out, not arrested, almost got a massive balloon banner into the store, got it out and hung it outside on 33rd and Brodway for all to see. After that, they headed over to the other Victoria's Secret on 34th and 6th and caused another ruckus inside . . .
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| RGB Final Hearing Shut Down For Four Hours By Tennant Protests | | 28 Jun 2006 | | A huge crowd of angry tenants chanted for no increases this year as the NYC Rent Guidelines Board held their final meeting tonight in the basement of the Cooper Union Meeting Hall. Fed up with the unfair manor in which the meeting was held, the activists slowly walked out of the auditorium, not caring what was being said anymore, but satisfied that at least they had made their voices heard. As for the RGB, it approved this city's [second] [correction -ed.] largest rent hikes in 15 years: 4.25% for one-year leases and 7.25% for two-year leases. || RGB: Rent Gouging Bastards || Home Rule Saves Homes |
| Guantanamo Protest: 25 People Arrested Monday at UN | | 26 Jun 2006 | | A demonstration to shut down Guantanamo was held in front of the United States Mission to the United Nations Monday morning. Today, June 26, is set aside as the U.N. Day in Support of Torture Victims and Survivors, and the demonstrators made clear that they stand in support of such a day. However, they do not stand in support of a hypocritical government that is celebrating this day while at the same time holding prisoners in extremely inhumane conditions at Guantanamo, Cuba. 25 members of the group sat down in front of the U.N. Mission, blocking its doors and saying they would stay until the international consensus against these illegal acts is respected, heard and acted upon.|| More Coverage || Movie Review: The Road to Guantanamo |
| NLG Panel On the Green Scare Monday | | 26 Jun 2006 | Date: June 26, 2006
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Cardozo Law School, Moot Court Room
Address: 55 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street)
New York, New York 10003
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| Getting Wet with Mermaids and Dykes | | 26 Jun 2006 | | On any summer weekend at Coney Island, it will smell like hot-dogs, but at the Mermaid Parade, it’s a bigger sausage-fest then usual. Persistent photographers jockeyed for the best shots in the waiting area before the parade. Here they swarmed around sultry sea goddesses and tripped over tails of those who didn’t peek their interest. All photos are taken by Bennett Baumer. The full article can also be accessed at: Getting Wet with Mermaids and Dykes |
| Antiwar leader Norma Becker dies | | 26 Jun 2006 | | Norma Becker, teacher, civil rights activist, and towering figure of the peace movement during the Vietnam War, died of lung cancer in her New York City home June 17. She was 76. |
| Photos Of Gay Pride | | 26 Jun 2006 | | The Radical Faeries, an international group that promotes distinct LGBT expression, culture and radical politics, marched from Tompkins Square to Stonewall last night. The crowd of roughtly 80 faeries sported their best glam and drag. The march is an annual tradition to kick off Pride weekend and commemorate the Stonewall Rebellion ||LGBTQ: On the Streets, In the Schools, Outside the System ||Trans March Goes On, Despite NY’s Refusal To Give A Permit || Images from the '06 Dyke March ||Images from the Trans Day of Action ||The Crusade and the Closet|| |
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