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Do something good while eating brunch! Fundraiser to send delegates to El Salvador
The Maiden
639 SE Morrison Street
11:30-2:30

Today, activists from the Sea Lion Defense Brigade and In Defense of Animals, along with several autonomous individuals, crashed a press conference held by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) at Bonneville Dam. The press conference was being held to pre-emptively curb public revulsion over the agencies' plans to kill sea lions on the river beginning next week. They did not announce the conference publically, and they made it clear that "press ID will be required" in order to attend. Nevertheless, activists and some independent media representatives managed to skirt the crack security out there (yes, the same crack security that allowed six sea lions to be mysteriously trapped and killed last year...), and infiltrate the conference. They actually gave us all hard hats and ID badges.

Why do Americans continue to play this game with big bankers and corporations?

A national veterans' organization today objected to calling President Obama's announcement on Iraq a "withdrawal," adding that keeping troops there and Afghanistan will "put the nail in the coffin of America's economy."

Veterans For Peace, referring to several published reports that the Obama plan will leave 50,000 or more troops in Iraq, and pointing to the buildup already underway in Afghanistan, warned that such policies will have the same effect on the new President as the Vietnam War did on Lyndon Johnson's plans for the Great Society.

RNC civil rights suits filed

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

It is with sadness that we report the passing of our brother and friend Bob Robideau to the Spirit World. Many people talk about what it is to be a "warrior," and what it is to fight for the freedom of indigenous people -- Bob Robideau lived it. Bob was a great role model for AIM members everywhere. He epitomized what it was to be a member of AIM, not through posturing, not through rhetoric, but in action. He put his life on the line, and he was relentless in his defense of Indian people everywhere. He will be very deeply missed, and will always remembered

Direct Action

One Reason is that The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, Employee Freedom Action Committee, Chamber of Commerce, Alliance For Worker Freedom, Workforce Fairness Institute, Americans For Job Security, Save Our Secret Ballot, Union Busting Consultants, and other Corporate Front Groups all want you to.

For the Answer:

http://efcanow.blogspot.com/2009/02/just-say-no-to-employee-free-choice-act.html

"The present crisis cannot be overcome without a regulation of the financial markets.. When banks are given billions through the so-called bank bailout and these billions disappear somewhere, that is a misapropriation or embezzlement of tax funds.."

Our globalized food system is a complete failure and has served to benefit multinational corporations, at the expense of small independent farmers. As a result of NAFTA and the WTO, a small number of multinational corporations control much of our food production in North America. NAFTA has been devastating for many farmers and nowhere is this more evident than in Mexico where globalization and urbanization have further fueled social unrest and coupled with the rise in drug violence, it appears as if Mexico could be on the verge of total collapse.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has suspended review of the air and water discharge permits requested by the Bradwood Landing LNG terminal because of two important victories by LNG opponents. DEQ cannot review permit applications if the project is violates local land use laws.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals just denied an extension of the stay of execution for the sea lions of the Columbia river. This means that on Monday, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife can legally begin killing the sea lions of the Columbia river.

Some more info on the dire employment and jobs situation in the US

Puppy mills are breeding facilities that mass-produce puppies for sale in pet stores, over the Internet, and directly to the public. The conditions at these facilities are overcrowded and cruel.

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.

This talk features a critical look at the role of direct action in the animal liberation movement with veteran activist Peter Young. Exploring the nuances of direct action through case studies, Young will discuss the value of high impact action such as the only successful tactic to drive vivisectors out of the profession and why targeting a "weak link" can be more effective than a "soft target." Learn how to effectively value the risk of action and why breaking a window carries more risk than releasing 1,000 animals.

Commissioner Leonard directed the Water Bureau to attempt to obtain a variance to the treatment portion of the rule from the federal EPA.

Are you sick of hearing the same talk radio blowhards and cookie-cutter music on the radio in Portland?
By passing one bill, we can open the radio dial to thousands of stations with fresh new voices and alternative music, ending decades of radio domination by Big Media and their mouthpieces.

sale of Debord's archives to Yale University voided by the French State.

sale of Debord's archives to Yale University voided by the French State.

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twentythirdseminar@gmail.com

In July 2001 the European Parliament compiled a report on the existence of a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system) (2001/2098(INI). The report concluded that a global system for intercepting communications exists and that what is important, is that its purpose is to intercept private and commercial communications, and not military communications.

Palestinian farmers, accompanied by international Human Rights Workers (HRWs), were fired upon by Israeli forces in the village of Khoza'a, near Khan Younis, this morning. The farmers and HRWs were attempting to work on land around 300m from the 'Green Line'.

As financial meltdown hits Europe, a business ethicist tells swissinfo why a "radical change in fundamental economic doctrines" is necessary.

Analysis of the current situation in the Salvadoran presidential election.

Prison on Lockdown and Eric McDavid in the Hole After Alleged IED Found

Strike Hard Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Armed forces, torture, detention, massacres.

In 1989 Catherine Austin Fitts became Assistant Secretary for Housing in Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). She began to notice money was not properly tracked as it moved between different HUD departments and there was a lack of proper accounting mechanisms to deal with discrepancies in revenue indicated fraud at an alarming level. [28] She attempted to put in place some credible financial tracking mechanisms to identify where the money was going and to identify the responsible individuals and HUD departments, but after 18 months on the job she was suddenly fired by the Bush administration. Fitts was told the day after she left that her financial reforms through 'place-based financial accounting and statements' would also be terminated.

Prayer for the new Year.

information about a free reading of a new play developed and produced by the Department of Theater Arts at Portland State Univeristy

This article details our fight against severe school bullying and systemic judicial corruption in the Queensland justice system. And the failure by government to address my documented and corroborated allegations of judicial corruption and the complete breakdown of the rule of law.

Since the middle of the 1990s, the real economy only grew on account of the expansion of credit. All floodgates were opened after the dot.com crisis. In the following four years, the Fed brought more dollars in circulation than in the whole 200-year US history.

Another Test of the Unified Field Theory

What a bad, bad idea

Stop US Occupations and Torture for Empire; US Out of Iraq and Afghanistan! No Wars on Iran, Pakistan, Gaza! The World Can't Wait! Come out to the first national protest of the wars under President Obama. THURSDAY MARCH 19 leave work and school to PROTEST the 6th anniversary of the Iraq War. Then, on Saturday, March 21 at the Pentagon.

I am involved with a Solidarity group that is going to Venezuela this summer.
It is a media / anti war group.
It is a grass roots endeavour... and this is one of the fundraisers
Email me back if your interested in seeing the film "Sir! No Sir!" on 2.28.09

stop the genocidal enterprise

I went to an all day Peace Summit in Salem Oregon on 2.7.09
There was lots of good networking and information sharing.
Information by Leah Bolger on "Keep The Guard Home Campaign" in PART 1.
In PART 2 there is a good Power-Point presentation on a (new) Peace & Justice National Website.
There was a good size group at this meeting and they came from all over Oregon for most of the day.

This is a passage from the book of ISAIAH to have a
contemporary context.....

McCain Riots, we will not forgive or forget!

What "Nationalize the Banks" and the "Free Market" Really Mean in Today's Looking-Glass World

Obama's stimulus package includes billions for more police

As the revered godlike head of the Federal Reserve, Greenspan pursued a policy of cheap money. Whenever the financial markets began to correct their own madness, he opened the floodgates for more money.. The world stares so intensely at growth that it forgets distribution.

We are being told by the media that the current turmoil is an economic crisis. It is in fact a failure of the leaning tower of all our scientific pragmatically evolved systems of societal support. Injections of trillions is only impoverishing the middle class, enriching the upper class, and, this is doing absolutely nothing to address the real problem. The real problem has been evolving ever since the Enlightenment.

Oakland's NOFA building renovation process had been tainted by corrupt developers and City officials! Hundreds of low-income renters may be displaced as a result!

Sustain Ability Now, a design studio, is located on the second floor of City Repair 3125 e.burnside

Nation Wide Teach In On Civil and Human Rights
Violations in Maricopa County Arizona
Monday February 23rd 7pm
6025 E Burnside

Israeli Military Shoot Gaza Farmer - 18th February 2009 Israeli forces shot a twenty year-old Palestinian farmer as he worked his land in the village of Al-Faraheen, east of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip. International Human Rights Activists were accompanying the group of farmers

At 6 am this morning there was a small picket in response to the lay off of 850 agency workers, outside two gates of BMW's mini car plant in Cowley, Oxford. We were expecting a mass picket of laid off temp workers. These workers have been self-organising against their bosses and the corrupt union leaders who've essentially sold them out.

Call out for food activists and artists!

"France 24, BBC, RTE all say up to 100,000 protesters marched through Dublin. Every single cop I asked at the march said well over 100,000. The Irish Times has said up to 120,000 poeple or more..."

solidarity with the Bolivarian revolution

Neofascist organisations have taken to the streets of Rome calling for the expulsion of the entire Roma or gypsy population from Italy.

poll showed Americans were overwhelmingly against the $700 billion rescue package
Stimulus bill is Failing

The Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement- Denver and anti-racist comrades held an anti-racist picnic, taunt racist Minutemen and disrupt their meeting.

William Kleinknecht takes the gloves off in his new book,"The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America." He shows that the so-called "great communicator," was, in fact, the "great enabler of corporate greed." The Vulture Capitalists were set loose on the people by "Reaganism." I say: Take Reagan's name off that airport in D.C. Let his Fat Cat cronies pay for his memorials, not the taxpayers.

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