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Despite the bitter cold (at least by Pacific NW standards), hundreds rallied and marched in downtown Portland on Friday.

http://socialistworker.org/2011/02/23/release-zimbabwean-socialists
STATEMENT
Release the Zimbabwean socialists

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THIS is being put to the community, details are being left out at this time for safety reasons. In coming weeks more information may become available, an investigation is ongoing at the moment.
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Rally held in Salem Oregon in support of the protests by labor unions and their supporters in Wisconsin. About 800 people showed up at the state capital as part of a nationally organized event taking place in all state capitals nationwide.

Salem Oregon Solidarity Rally with Wisconsin

Western media pans Iraq oppression of protests

WikiLeaks documentation shows clearly that the "senior American legislators and officials" who connived with the Bank of America include the leadership of the Federal Reserve, top Congressional leaders (mostly Republican) and even senior members of the White House staff, both in the Bush and Obama administrations.

Gutless U.N. fails to impose no-fly zone. Tripoli will be liberated anyway, but Gaddafi continues to bomb randomly and use artilary randomly

U.S. and China dragging feet on no-fly zone out of fear world could turn on them should domestic issues escalate.

Hope the link works...otherwise just copy it and put it in address bar. Check out really great protest signs!!!!

We are going to fill up Pioneer Square next Saturday at 2 PM in a show of solidarity with our friends, sisters, and brothers in the Middle East and North Africa as they continue to struggle for democracy and dignity and human rights. Please join us.

There were Solidarity with Wisconsin rally's across the country today....

WEARE - For the second time in less than a year, Weare police have charged someone with felony wiretapping for recording police activity.

Good to remember positive change during these times of 'unrest'
Here's a good example

Just minutes after a charter flight left Tripoli carrying the last Americans who wanted to leave Libya, officials markedly toughened the administration's words and actions against Colonel Qaddafi, announcing that high-ranking Libyan officials who supported or participated in his violent crackdown would also see their assets frozen and might, along with Colonel Qaddafi, be subject to war crimes prosecution.

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Portland Human Right Commission Meeting on 2.23.11
This public meeting covered two topics. It was held in NE Portland.

(1) The discussion and vote as to whether the Human Rights Commission supported the Portland Police joining the JTTF (Joint Terrorism Task Force) with the FBI
(2) The discussion with City Councilwoman Amanda Fritz regarding the new announcement of having a department in the city called the Equity Department.

Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice announces Wisconsin Solidarity

Portland anarchists contribute Avaaz for mobile satellite phones for liberated towns.

A simple minded anarchist or vulgar Hegelian thinks only in bindary logic -- but to be successful a revolt needs to exploit contraditions within the rulers and with the oligarchs enforcement wing, the cops. So here you see the cops are unionized. And not all cops are willing to be scabs. Don't believe it? Check out the cops of Benghazi or Madison.

The 10th North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress is taking place in New York from Feb 25-27. Under the theme "Models for Social Transformation," the US Basic Income Guarantee (USBIG) network and Basic Income Canada conference will survey the basic income debate in Anglo-Saxon countries and the question whether the Alaskan Permanent Fund could be a model.

Except for longer piece available at his website Counterpunch.

Tripoli is last major city in fascist hands (in Libya, not counting U.S.A.). Libyans don't want foriegn intervention, but need U.N. to impose no-fly zone to keep Gaddafi warplanes from continuing Bombing throughout Libya. Benghazi, city of 3/4 million, is self organized with people's committees, no looting.

Now that's what i'm talking about!

We Would like to collect and share some stories of workers in Wisconsin
Portland Oregon and IWW stand in solidarity!

someone call the alienspaceshjp for help

unless you mean acid test, in which case
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koolaid man
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Hope Cops who moniter indymedia watch these before supper time.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY: TUESDAY, MARCH 8TH 8-10 PM
at The Vera Project, 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA 98109

The struggle continues...

On the morning of Saturday, February 26th, we will station ourselves at the Bank of America on 11th St to draw attention to the fact that BofA received $45 billion in government bailout funds while funneling its tax dollars into 115 offshore tax havens.

the untold billion$ in stolen american tarp bailout funding that will continue to be sent into these secret 501c4 karl rove style political slu$h account$, will continue playing havoc with fair little americans future election$....

MADISON, Wisconsin -- Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly took the first significant action on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers, abruptly passing the measure early Friday morning before sleep-deprived Democrats realized what was happening.

We are presently seeking submissions for a new project that aims to explore the ineluctable connections between ecology and anarchy.

From Chile in the 1970s onward, she suggested, right-wing ideologues have exploited crises to push through an agenda that has nothing to do with resolving those crises, and everything to do with imposing their vision of a harsher, more unequal, less democratic society.

One of the best bang-for-the-buck internationalist sites seems to be Avaaz, whose latest email is here attached. Would be nice if local groups who understand that the chain of repressive empire and corporate capital power breaks first at the weakest international links in their chain.

hopefully the decline will happen quicker than predicted, but one thing is sure: The US economy tanking.

david bowie was here

Last week, in the face of protest demonstrations against Wisconsin's new union-busting governor, Scott Walker � demonstrations that continued through the weekend, with huge crowds on Saturday � Representative Paul Ryan made an unintentionally apt comparison: "It's like Cairo has moved to Madison."
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Gaddafi will kill own citizens with warplanes... various interventions and no-fly zone discussed.

http://english.aljazeera.net/

The horse must be before the cart. The horse is economic recovery. Once jobs are created (and tax havens are dried up), the deficit will gradually be reduced (Robert Kuttner). Federal revenue sharing is the alternative to eliminating firefighters and teachers.

Its almost not even worth the time it takes to mention. So lets add some spice to the mix.

On February 24th, Berkeley, California resident Tanya Dennis broke back into her home, seized by Wells Fargo, and remained in possession. Dennis says that she has a forensic loan audit establishing that Wells Fargo is not the holder of her note, and that she lost an unlawful detainer action on process rather than pleading. She also said that Wells Fargo was able to win an unlawful detainer action against her because she is a Pro se litigant, i.e., she is acting as her own lawyer, and Wells Fargo has better attorneys,

As America Fails In Iraq, the Iraqi People Hit the Streets.

BMedia will be partnering with Oregon Jericho and Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER) to show and discuss this classic yet very timely film.

Portland Animal Defense League is holding a second Rally and Procession to mourn the deaths of OHSU's experiment victims in solidarity with the OHSU 5. On June 28, 2010, Five activist held a road block lockdown at the entrance of Oregon Health & Science University's National Primate Research Center.

Obama claimed on Feb. 15 Mr. Davis had diplomatic immunity -- but he was outed as a Blackwater contractor, and not a diplomat, by The Guardian of London. Obama is no longer talking about this case. Obama himself worked in 1983 for Business International Company, a small C.I.A. front group.

MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 24, 2011 (Reuters) � Wisconsin Republicans dispatched police to the homes of absent Democratic senators on Thursday to try to round them up for a vote on a plan to strip public sector unions of most collective bargaining rights.

Young activist native to Vieques will be in Eugene, Oregon for the Environmental Law Conference talking about all the horrendous impacts that The US Navy had on Vieques , Puerto Rico and the struggle that still continues

Still, liberated cities know that Gaddafi is still killing hundreds in western Libya using warplanes, tanks, and Sudan tested mercenaries.

Demonic "possession" is not necessarily a phenomenon that must be based on Christian beliefs in the supernatural; because to be "possessed" is to be unduly "influenced" by that which is not in the self's best interest. If you believe in deliberately created lies fed to you by a secretly funded think tank, and you vote for someone who misrepresents his real aims�then technically you are "possessed" by influences inimical to your best interests. Plenty of people are potentially possessed of false beliefs. And therefore exorcism is not some lost and outdated art. It is in need more than ever, and not by the Catholic Church so much, as by the body politic at large.

The human, animal and environmental costs of
the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan are
incalculable. Below are the fiscal costs, about
which corporate war profiteer media and the
USG's spokespersons remain silent

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I wish to congratulate the brave people of Wisconsin for standing up to the tyrant and are now engaged in a fight of their life.