direct action
R2K+10
Submitted by onion on Mon, 2010-07-12 16:44
This July 2010 marks 10 years since Philadelphia was the site of the 2000 Republican National Convention. The week of August 1, 2000, thousands of activists took to the streets of Center City Philadelphia for direct action against police brutality and the prison industrial complex.
Toronto Community Mobilization Network Organizes G8/G20 Protests in June
Submitted by onion on Sat, 2010-06-05 16:09
The Toronto Community Mobilization Network is a group of community-based organizers and allies, facilitating teach-ins, creative actions, rallies and demonstrations leading up to and during the G8/G20 Summits in Toronto, June 21-27, 2010.
Direct Action in Ottawa
Submitted by onion on Sat, 2010-06-05 15:49
by FFFC - Ottawa
On May 18th, the Royal Bank of Canada in Ottawa was firebombed. RBC was a major sponsor of the recently concluded 2010 Olympics on stolen indigenous land. This land was never legally ceded to colonial British Columbia. This hasn’t stopped the government from assuming full ownership of the land and its resources for the benefit of its corporate masters and to the detriment of aboriginal peoples, workers and the poor of the province. The 2010 Winter Olympics increased the homelessness crisis in Vancouver, especially the Downtown Eastside, Kanada’s poorest urban area. Since the Olympics bid, homelessness in Vancouver has nearly tripled while condominium development in the Downtown Eastside is outpacing social housing by a rate of 3:1. The further criminalization and displacement of those living in extreme poverty continues apace.
Poor Families Demand Change from Obama
Submitted by rosa on Mon, 2010-03-22 19:40
Protesters shut down street to call for a national freeze on foreclosures
On January 28th, the morning after President Obama’s first State of the Union address, over 50 people organized by the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC), most of them poor, shut down a busy stretch of Market Street to call for change.
What I Learned At The WTO Protests In Seattle...
Submitted by onion on Tue, 2009-11-24 17:59
by Pete Tridish
A Ruckus I Couldn’t Miss
I first heard about the Seattle Protests at a Ruckus Society training camp about 6 months before the WTO was scheduled to come to town. Ruckus is a group famous for the dramatic and daring banners they hang from cranes and buildings and towers; they focus on human rights and environmental issues. The speaker there representing the anti-WTO organizers, after making an eloquent case for the connections between all the globalization issues and for a coalition of activists of all stripes, said “We will lie down on the airstrips and stop the delegates planes from landing. If they get past that, we will block the highways leading from the airport to the city. If they get past that, we will block the hotels they are staying in, we will block the streets, and we will block the doors of the convention center and we will not let them make another another free trade deal that week in Seattle.” How could I not help with such a plan? In that moment I committed to go.
Taking Action for Healthcare
Submitted by onion on Tue, 2009-11-24 17:17
On Tuesday, October 16th people angered over the lack of progress in the national healthcare debate took their message to the health insurance company Cigna’s front doorstep in Center City.
While people rallied in support five people blocked the doors of Cigna in a ‘death pile’ to protest of the health insurance industries attempt to block any meaningful health care reform with it’s army of DC lobbyists.
Among those who put their bodies on the line for health care reform was Joan Kosloff whose son Eric Aycox died as a result of a treatable case of meningitis, because he was uninsured.
Every day in America, an estimated 120 people die as a result of being denied health care by an insurance company.
The Pennsylvania chapter of Health Care for America Now had this to say about their actions :
“We were arrested today because Joan Kosloff’s son died as a result of a treatable case of meningitis because he could not afford health insurance….
“We were arrested today because Dawn Smith is today fighting CIGNA for the treatment she needs. Dawn has a brain tumor. Doctors are ready to help her. But CIGNA has been blocking her from treatment."
Resisting the Coup Grassroots Style!
Submitted by onion on Tue, 2009-11-24 16:50
Honduran and American Activists Dispel U.S. Media Lies
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by Joanna Grim
In light of the overall absence of coverage by the mainstream news media, and the printing of misleading information concerning the situation in Honduras one month after a military coup ousted the democratically-elected President Manuel Zalaya in papers such as our own Philadelphia Inquirer – which prints deceptive articles such as Rick Santorum’s op-ed likening opposition of the coup to “going against democracy” and yet declines to print op-eds submitted by local activists and educators hoping to bring another perspective to the Inquirer’s readers – Philadelphians have to ask “What inquiries are being made?” “What story is being told?” “Whose interests are being served?”
