Karl Marx was born May 5, 1818, so Communist Voice is featuring the first half of Karl Marx: the Scholar, the Revolutionary, and the Man this month. The time is also moving, to Tuesday evenings at 8 on The Peoples Channel and 6pm on Tuesdays on Durham Community Media (but the Life of Vladimir Lenin will continue a week or two into May on the Durham station).
Sunday, May 01, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Events this week
In honor of the great Russian communist leader VI Lenin's birthday, April 22, 1870, this month's episode of Communist Voice is the Soviet film The Life of Vladimir Lenin, more for its unique archival footage than for its political clarity. Communist Voice is available on cable Mondays 4-4:30pm on The Peoples Channel in Orange County and parts of Chatham County and on Durham Community Media.
April 22 is also Earth Day and the 25th annual Pilgrimage for Peace and Justice is this week, and stops in the Triangle area April 21-22 (see www.ncjustice.org/?q=node/793#thu for the schedule).
Please let me know if you know of events planned for International Workers' Day/May Day. The annual marijuana legalization rally will probably happen May 1st at the State Capitol, but I am not aware of any labor events planned in the area.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
France and other imperialists launch war with Libya
Below is a message from the International Action Center (www.iacenter.org/anti-war/stop_the_us_war_on_libya_and_bahrain/) exposing the hypocrisy of the Obama administration and the other imperialists, who have started a war with Libya to aid the opposition, but stand by or encourage the bloody crackdown in Bahrain, and prevent UN action against Israel whenever it attacks its neighbors and targets civilians. Bush is unpopular and many Americans now see that he is a warmonger, but now the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is supporting a new unjustified war in the Arab world the day before the anniversary of the start of the Iraq War.
STOP THE U.S. WAR ON LIBYA AND BAHRAIN!
The International Action Center calls on all anti-war and social justice activists to call Emergency Response STOP THE U.S. WAR AGAINST LIBYA AND BAHRAIN actions in their areas on Friday, March 18 or Saturday, Marcy 19, or to mobilize support for any already existing anti-war demonstrations called to mark the anniversary of the Iraq War, with this statement and signs to STOP THE U.S. WAR AGAINST LIBYA AND BAHRAIN, as well as to intensify the mobilization for the April 9th and 10th Anti-War demonstrations in New York and San Francisco called by the United National Antiwar Committee.
On March 17, 2011, Washington showed its true intentions by pushing through a U.N. Security Council resolution that amounts to a declaration of war on the government and people of Libya.
A U.S. attack is the worst possible thing that could happen to the people of Libya. It also puts the unfolding Arab revolutions, which have inspired people across North Africa and Western Asia, in the gravest danger.
The resolution goes beyond a no-fly zone. It includes language saying U.N. member states could "take all necessary measures" ... "by halting attacks by air, land and sea forces under the control of the Gadhafi regime."(CNN.com, Mar 17)
The new resolution not only calls for attacks on Libyan aircraft and air defenses, but authorizes the strafing and bombing of ground forces as well. The U.S. and French governments immediately announced that they were ready to go. Britain and Italy are aiding. In essence the former colonial powers have begun an armed attack on the Libyan government and its people, backing one side of a civil war.
No matter how one feels about Libya today and the role of the Gadhafi government; regardless of how one evaluates the Libyan opposition, a U.S.-led war or intervention in Libya is a disaster for the Libyan people, and for peace and progress around the world.
The U.S. and its allies are repeating over and over the lie that they are trying to "prevent attacks on civilians" and are acting from humanitarian motives. But nobody should be fooled. Consider these "humanitarians" and how they react to Bahrain.
The U.S. Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain, which is an absolute monarchy. Its people have been valiantly trying to change their government for weeks. They had some initial success. The king responded with deadly repression and later with hints at reform.
On March 14, however, hours after Secretary of Defense Gates visited Bahrain, the Bahraini government commenced a brutal crackdown, backed up by Saudi Arabian troops. Helicopters, tear gas, rubber bullets, and live ammunition were used, killing and injuring many people. Nearly all of Bahrain's security forces are foreign mercenaries.
Unlike the Libyan rebels, the Bahraini people have absolutely no arms. But there has been no talk of a no-fly zone over Bahrain, let alone attacks on the murderous Bahraini and Saudi armies.
This is because the real motivation for the U.S. and its allies in both Bahrain and Libya, and indeed the whole region, is to control the OIL! It is Washington's main strategic interest and a primary financial interest for U.S. big business.
This is true even though the U.S. is not directly dependent on imported oil from Libya. Oil is a worldwide commodity, and any country which imports oil must deal with a world market, no matter from which individual country or countries they import the oil.
Of even more importance to the U.S. and Europeans is who controls the flow of oil. A military presence or a reliable puppet in Libya would give Washington --and to a lesser extent the European imperialists -- control of the oil spigot to Europe and also establish a military presence in North Africa from which to influence or prevent the development of the revolutions, especially in Egypt and Tunisia.
Meanwhile the corporate media has ignored a resolution by the African Union, representing 53 countries, which adamantly rejected a no-fly zone or other intervention.
The U. S. blocked any UN action, even a toothless resolution, during the massive Israeli bombardment of Gaza in 2008 and also during the Israeli bombing and attempted invasion of Lebanon in 2006, as well as the continued bombardment of Gaza as recently as this week!.
It is important that peace-loving and progressive people around the world develop a consistent approach opposing ALL U.S. intervention. This is the only way to avoid becoming just an echo of the U.S. State Department and Pentagon.
U.S., French, British, Italian hands off Libya!
NO to the U.S. supported attack on the people's movement of Bahrain!
U.S. Out of Arab and African Lands!
On March 17, 2011, Washington showed its true intentions by pushing through a U.N. Security Council resolution that amounts to a declaration of war on the government and people of Libya.
A U.S. attack is the worst possible thing that could happen to the people of Libya. It also puts the unfolding Arab revolutions, which have inspired people across North Africa and Western Asia, in the gravest danger.
The resolution goes beyond a no-fly zone. It includes language saying U.N. member states could "take all necessary measures" ... "by halting attacks by air, land and sea forces under the control of the Gadhafi regime."(CNN.com, Mar 17)
The new resolution not only calls for attacks on Libyan aircraft and air defenses, but authorizes the strafing and bombing of ground forces as well. The U.S. and French governments immediately announced that they were ready to go. Britain and Italy are aiding. In essence the former colonial powers have begun an armed attack on the Libyan government and its people, backing one side of a civil war.
No matter how one feels about Libya today and the role of the Gadhafi government; regardless of how one evaluates the Libyan opposition, a U.S.-led war or intervention in Libya is a disaster for the Libyan people, and for peace and progress around the world.
BAHRAIN EXPOSES THE LIE ABOUT "PREVENTING ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS"
The U.S. and its allies are repeating over and over the lie that they are trying to "prevent attacks on civilians" and are acting from humanitarian motives. But nobody should be fooled. Consider these "humanitarians" and how they react to Bahrain.
The U.S. Fifth Fleet is based in Bahrain, which is an absolute monarchy. Its people have been valiantly trying to change their government for weeks. They had some initial success. The king responded with deadly repression and later with hints at reform.
On March 14, however, hours after Secretary of Defense Gates visited Bahrain, the Bahraini government commenced a brutal crackdown, backed up by Saudi Arabian troops. Helicopters, tear gas, rubber bullets, and live ammunition were used, killing and injuring many people. Nearly all of Bahrain's security forces are foreign mercenaries.
Unlike the Libyan rebels, the Bahraini people have absolutely no arms. But there has been no talk of a no-fly zone over Bahrain, let alone attacks on the murderous Bahraini and Saudi armies.
NO BLOOD FOR OIL
This is because the real motivation for the U.S. and its allies in both Bahrain and Libya, and indeed the whole region, is to control the OIL! It is Washington's main strategic interest and a primary financial interest for U.S. big business.
This is true even though the U.S. is not directly dependent on imported oil from Libya. Oil is a worldwide commodity, and any country which imports oil must deal with a world market, no matter from which individual country or countries they import the oil.
Of even more importance to the U.S. and Europeans is who controls the flow of oil. A military presence or a reliable puppet in Libya would give Washington --and to a lesser extent the European imperialists -- control of the oil spigot to Europe and also establish a military presence in North Africa from which to influence or prevent the development of the revolutions, especially in Egypt and Tunisia.
ARAB LEAGUE "VOTE" FRAUD
Not only a demonization campaign against the Libyan leader, but every form of fraud and propaganda is being used to push for this intervention, including a supposed "vote" by the Arab League supporting the latest U.N. resolution. Left unsaid is the fact that only 11 of the 22 members of the League even attended the meeting, which was held behind closed doors. Two of these 11 attending members, Syria and Algeria, made clear that they were completely opposed to military intervention in Libya.Meanwhile the corporate media has ignored a resolution by the African Union, representing 53 countries, which adamantly rejected a no-fly zone or other intervention.
WHAT ABOUT GAZA?
The U. S. blocked any UN action, even a toothless resolution, during the massive Israeli bombardment of Gaza in 2008 and also during the Israeli bombing and attempted invasion of Lebanon in 2006, as well as the continued bombardment of Gaza as recently as this week!.
It is important that peace-loving and progressive people around the world develop a consistent approach opposing ALL U.S. intervention. This is the only way to avoid becoming just an echo of the U.S. State Department and Pentagon.
U.S., French, British, Italian hands off Libya!
NO to the U.S. supported attack on the people's movement of Bahrain!
U.S. Out of Arab and African Lands!
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Some events this month
The annual Durham Creek Week is March 19-26; see http://www.durhamcreekweek.org/ for a calendar of events. There will be trash cleanups throughout Durham on the Saturday and the 26th, hikes, kayak excursions, workshops, and storytime events throughout the week, a panel discussion at the Hayti Heritage Center on the 24th, etc.
The first Friday after March 15th is also Arbor Day in North Carolina.
March 20th is the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003, though murderous sanctions and bombings had been going on for over a decade. Lots of events in the USA and elsewhere are listed at warisacrime.org/content/upcoming-events, but nothing in North Carolina. [ Actually, a rally March 26th in Fayetteville is listed by ANSWER: www.answercoalition.org/national/news/march-19-day-of-action.html ]. NC Peace Action's Spring Lobby Weekend is this weekend in Washington. The weekly peace vigil in Chapel Hill continues on Fridays at Village Plaza, and is probably on the summer 5-6pm schedule starting Friday, instead of 4:30-5:30. There is also a monthly vigil, 12-1 on first Wednesdays at the Raleigh Post Office, 300 Fayetteville Street. The Durham peace vigil might still continue 12-1 on Saturdays at Brightleaf.
I believe "humanitarian interventionism" in Iraq and possibly soon in Libya (but not in Bahrain or Yemen or any other Arab country) only masks imperialist aims, and now the Arab people are carrying out their bourgeois democratic revolutions without the US having to invade and devastate their countries. The Arab revolutionaries should be wary of imperialists trying to subvert their revolutions, and halt them at the overthrow of authoritarian leaders, before they can go deeper.
The 100th anniversary of International Women's Day was March 8th, and the media here was praising women leaders like Hillary Clinton and Condolezza Rice. According to Wikipedia, International Women's Day began with American socialists, the Second International, and later the USSR, and it is only a legend that it originated in an 1857 demonstration by female textile workers in New York. Whatever the truth about its origins, I did not hear about any local commemorations for peace, socialism, or economic justice to post about.
The first Friday after March 15th is also Arbor Day in North Carolina.
March 20th is the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003, though murderous sanctions and bombings had been going on for over a decade. Lots of events in the USA and elsewhere are listed at warisacrime.org/content/upcoming-events, but nothing in North Carolina. [ Actually, a rally March 26th in Fayetteville is listed by ANSWER: www.answercoalition.org/national/news/march-19-day-of-action.html ]. NC Peace Action's Spring Lobby Weekend is this weekend in Washington. The weekly peace vigil in Chapel Hill continues on Fridays at Village Plaza, and is probably on the summer 5-6pm schedule starting Friday, instead of 4:30-5:30. There is also a monthly vigil, 12-1 on first Wednesdays at the Raleigh Post Office, 300 Fayetteville Street. The Durham peace vigil might still continue 12-1 on Saturdays at Brightleaf.
I believe "humanitarian interventionism" in Iraq and possibly soon in Libya (but not in Bahrain or Yemen or any other Arab country) only masks imperialist aims, and now the Arab people are carrying out their bourgeois democratic revolutions without the US having to invade and devastate their countries. The Arab revolutionaries should be wary of imperialists trying to subvert their revolutions, and halt them at the overthrow of authoritarian leaders, before they can go deeper.
The 100th anniversary of International Women's Day was March 8th, and the media here was praising women leaders like Hillary Clinton and Condolezza Rice. According to Wikipedia, International Women's Day began with American socialists, the Second International, and later the USSR, and it is only a legend that it originated in an 1857 demonstration by female textile workers in New York. Whatever the truth about its origins, I did not hear about any local commemorations for peace, socialism, or economic justice to post about.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Khrushchev Lied
I recently came across a so-called museum of communism online, with a board of directors including Grover Norquist, and a national anti-communist monument planned under Clinton. The website has a hall of heroes, but strangely enough, they left out such great anti-communists as Franco, Hitler, Syngman Rhee, Suharto, Augusto Pinochet, the Colombian AUC paramilitaries, Gulbuddin Hektmatyar, Osama bin Laden, and Luis Posada Carriles. They also left out Khrushchev, who damaged the communist cause on a global scale with his lies and social imperialist policies.
The website ends with Stalin in its list of Soviet villains, and no wonder, because under Stalin's leadership the USSR provided an attractive political and economic model to the international working class and had the diplomatic skill and economic and military might to protect the gains of the October Revolution and aid allied countries. Khrushchev's betrayal began the process of counterrevolution that ended with Gorbachev and Yeltsin, fractured the communist movement, and aided revisionists in taking control of most of the parties with state power.
Scholarship in the USA is dominated by anti-communists who accept nearly every allegation made by counterrevolutionaries from the former USSR, but a blow has been struck with the publication of Montclair State University professor Grover Furr's book Khrushchev Lied, first in Russia and now in the USA. It is time to challenge the anti-communists who control the history curriculum at UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, and the Durham Public Schools.
From the publisher, Erythros Press (www.erythrospress.com/store/furr.html):
Khrushchev Lied |
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Communist Voice premiering on Durham Community Media Monday
Starting next week, the Communist Voice series is coming to Durham Community Media (cable channel 18) at the same time it is on The Peoples Channel (channel 8 in Orange County and parts of Chatham, www.thepeopleschannel.org), Monday afternoons at 4. The new episode starting Monday, after being delayed by technical problems, is Part 1 of Felix Dzherzhinsky: Champion of the Revolution. Dzherzhinsky was a leader of a Polish-Lithuanian socialist party separate from the Bolsheviks and he led the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (the Cheka), which fought sabotage and counterrevolutionary plots in the early years after the Russian Revolution.
Let me know if you want to sponsor the series so it can be broadcast in Raleigh or elsewhere, or have an idea for future programming. Non-Soviet videos will probably start this fall.
US Friends of the Soviet People is seeking volunteers in the New York area and money and material contributions to digitize and distribute an archive of around 300 Soviet films in Russian with subtitles.
Let me know if you want to sponsor the series so it can be broadcast in Raleigh or elsewhere, or have an idea for future programming. Non-Soviet videos will probably start this fall.
US Friends of the Soviet People is seeking volunteers in the New York area and money and material contributions to digitize and distribute an archive of around 300 Soviet films in Russian with subtitles.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Vigils 2/1 in support of undocumented students in NC
A bill has been proposed in the General Assembly to bar the children of undocumented immigrants from the community colleges and the UNC system. There will be protests in Raleigh, Greensboro and other cities Tuesday evening. Below is the announcement:
MEDIA ADVISORY: Vigils set for Feb 1 in support of access to education
MEDIA ADVISORY: Vigils in support of access to education spring up around the state
This Tuesday, the Adelante Education Coalition [adelantenc.org/], the American Friends Service Committee and supporters will hold vigils in Raleigh, Greensboro, Charlotte, Greenville and Asheville
Who: Community members who support access to education
What: State-wide vigils in defense of Education
Where: Raleigh, Greensboro, Charlotte, Greenville, Asheville
When: Afternoon and Evening, Feb. 1, 2011
RALEIGH (Feb. 1, 2011) – On Tuesday, Feb. 1, the Adelante Education Coalition and supporters will join together to hold vigils across North Carolina in defense of access to higher education for all.
The key to creating jobs, stimulating the economy and reducing the state deficit is to invest in educating all people of North Carolina. Exclusion and re-segregation would cost North Carolina dearly now, at a time when it can least afford to do so.
The Adelante Education Coalition will join with supporters and community members on the anniversary of the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins by NC A&T students to stand together for education for all.
Vigils will be happening across the state, at the following locations:
* Raleigh, 7 p.m. in front of the NC General Assembly, Jones St.
Contact Bart Evans (919) 660-0704 or Nayely Perez-Huerta (919) 433-6055
Contact Bart Evans (919) 660-0704 or Nayely Perez-Huerta (919) 433-6055
* Greensboro, 7 p.m. at New Garden Friends Meeting, 801 New Garden Rd. (at Friendly Ave.)
Contact Eric Jonas (336) 379-0037, Lori Khamala (336) 491-0039 or Wooten Gough (336) 306-3252
Contact Eric Jonas (336) 379-0037, Lori Khamala (336) 491-0039 or Wooten Gough (336) 306-3252
* Charlotte, 6pm at Marshall Park MLK statue
Contact Lacey Williams (704) 879-1298
Contact Lacey Williams (704) 879-1298
* Greenville, 6pm at New Covenant Community Church, 1212 North Greene St.
Contact Juvencio Rocha Peralta (252) 258-9967 or Dani Martinez-Moore (919) 533-9203
Contact Juvencio Rocha Peralta (252) 258-9967 or Dani Martinez-Moore (919) 533-9203
* Asheville, 4pm at the Vance Memorial at Pack Square, Downtown
Contact Diego Lopéz (828) 460-8112 or Molly Hemstreet (828) 230-8937
Contact Diego Lopéz (828) 460-8112 or Molly Hemstreet (828) 230-8937
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Bart Evans (919) 660-0704, Nayely Perez-Huerta (919) 433-6055
Thursday, January 27, 2011
News from the Tunisian Revolution
Below is the founding platform of the 14th of January Front, translated from French by a comrade:
Tunisia: The 14th of January Front
On the 20th of January 2011 a number of Tunisian radical left organisations, notably the PCOT (Communist Party of the Workers of Tunisia ) and the PTPD (Patriotic and Democratic Labour Party), constituted a Front. This Front was named the «14th of January Front» in reference to the date of President Ben Ali's rout.The object of the 14th of January Front is to undertake the organisation of the resistance against the present transitional government, which still includes leaders of Ben Ali's party the RCD (Rassemblement constitutionnel démocratique), and to build a popular alternative based on the existing vigilante committees that have been constituted in a number of neighbourhoods in Tunisia with the aim to defend the inhabitants against the terror disseminated by RCD thugs and the presidential police. The call is addressed to all the progressive political, trade-union, associative forces, asking them to fulfil the objectives intended by popular Tunisian revolution.
Here is the founding text: (http://www.albadil.org/spip.php?article3675 ):
In asserting our commitment to the revolution of our people who has been fighting for its rights to freedom and to national dignity, and has made great sacrifices, dozens of martyrs, thousands of wounded and imprisoned, in his struggle to overcome internal and external enemies and to thwart aborted attempts to crush these sacrifices, we have constituted the "14 of January Front", a political framework «which will work for the advancement of the popular revolution for the realisation of its objectives and oppose the forces of counterrevolution. This framework consists of parties, progressive and democratic national organisations.
The Front's immediate urgent tasks are as follows:
1 – To overturn the present Ghannouchi government or any other government that adopts the old regime's symbols and its antinational, anti-popular policy that benefited the fallen president.
2 – To dissolve the RCD, confiscate its head-office, property, assets and funds, given that they all belong to the people.
3 - To form an interim government enjoying the trust of the people and the progressive militant political, associative, trade-union and youth forces.
4 – To dissolve the House of Representatives, the Senate, all fictitious organs as well as the High Magisterial Council. To dismantle the political structure of the old regime and to prepare the election of a Constituent Assembly, which within a year at the most, is to formulate a new democratic constitution and lay the foundations for a new juridical system covering public life, and guaranteeing political, economic and cultural rights to the people.
5 – To dissolve the political police and adopt a new security policy founded on the respect for human rights and the primacy of the law.
>6 – To bring to justice all those guilty of having stolen public funds, committed crimes against the people such as: repression, imprisonment, torture and humiliating treatment – from decision taking to execution –, and finally all those found guilty of corruption and embezzlement of public property.
7 – To dispossess the old ruling family, their kin, associates and all civil servants who misused their position to enrich themselves at the expense of the people.
8 – To provide jobs for the unemployed, urgently grant unemployment benefits, improve social care, increase the purchasing power of wage earners.
9 – To restructure the national economy so that it serves the people and ensure that the State supervises vital strategic sectors. To re-nationalise the institutions that have been privatised by the previous regime and to set an economic and social policy that will break away from capitalist liberal approach.
10 – To guarantee civil and individual liberties, particularly the freedoms to demonstrate, to organise, of expression, of the press, of information and thought, the release of prisoners and the promulgation of an amnesty law.
11 - The Front salutes the support of the Tunisian revolution by the popular masses and the progressive forces in the Arab countries and internationally, and invites them all to pursue their support by all possible means.
12 – The Front calls for resistance to the normalisation of relations with the Zionist entity and its penalisation, and the support of national liberation movements in the Arab countries as well as worldwide.
13 - The Front calls all popular masses and nationalist and progressive forces to pursue the mobilisation and the struggle in all legitimate forms, particularly in the streets, in order to achieve their objectives.
14 - The Front greets all committees, associations and forms of popular auto-organisation and invites them to enlarge their area of intervention in all that concerns the exercise of public affairs and other aspects of daily life.
Glory to the martyrs of the Intifada and Victory to the revolutionary masses of our people.
Tunisia, January 20th, 2011
** Ligue de la gauche travailliste [Left Labour League]
** Mouvement des unionistes nassériens [Nasserite Unionist Movement]
** Movement of the nationalists democrats (Al-Watad)[Nationalist Democratic Movement]
** Courant Baasiste [Baasist Current]
** Gauche Indépendante [Independent Left]
** Parti communiste des ouvriers de Tunisie [Communist Party of the Workers of Tunisia]
** Parti du Travail Patriotique et Démocratique [Patriotic and Democratic Labour Party).
Tunisia: The 14th of January Front
On the 20th of January 2011 a number of Tunisian radical left organisations, notably the PCOT (Communist Party of the Workers of Tunisia ) and the PTPD (Patriotic and Democratic Labour Party), constituted a Front. This Front was named the «14th of January Front» in reference to the date of President Ben Ali's rout.The object of the 14th of January Front is to undertake the organisation of the resistance against the present transitional government, which still includes leaders of Ben Ali's party the RCD (Rassemblement constitutionnel démocratique), and to build a popular alternative based on the existing vigilante committees that have been constituted in a number of neighbourhoods in Tunisia with the aim to defend the inhabitants against the terror disseminated by RCD thugs and the presidential police. The call is addressed to all the progressive political, trade-union, associative forces, asking them to fulfil the objectives intended by popular Tunisian revolution.
Here is the founding text: (http://www.albadil.org/spip.php?article3675 ):
In asserting our commitment to the revolution of our people who has been fighting for its rights to freedom and to national dignity, and has made great sacrifices, dozens of martyrs, thousands of wounded and imprisoned, in his struggle to overcome internal and external enemies and to thwart aborted attempts to crush these sacrifices, we have constituted the "14 of January Front", a political framework «which will work for the advancement of the popular revolution for the realisation of its objectives and oppose the forces of counterrevolution. This framework consists of parties, progressive and democratic national organisations.
The Front's immediate urgent tasks are as follows:
1 – To overturn the present Ghannouchi government or any other government that adopts the old regime's symbols and its antinational, anti-popular policy that benefited the fallen president.
2 – To dissolve the RCD, confiscate its head-office, property, assets and funds, given that they all belong to the people.
3 - To form an interim government enjoying the trust of the people and the progressive militant political, associative, trade-union and youth forces.
4 – To dissolve the House of Representatives, the Senate, all fictitious organs as well as the High Magisterial Council. To dismantle the political structure of the old regime and to prepare the election of a Constituent Assembly, which within a year at the most, is to formulate a new democratic constitution and lay the foundations for a new juridical system covering public life, and guaranteeing political, economic and cultural rights to the people.
5 – To dissolve the political police and adopt a new security policy founded on the respect for human rights and the primacy of the law.
>6 – To bring to justice all those guilty of having stolen public funds, committed crimes against the people such as: repression, imprisonment, torture and humiliating treatment – from decision taking to execution –, and finally all those found guilty of corruption and embezzlement of public property.
7 – To dispossess the old ruling family, their kin, associates and all civil servants who misused their position to enrich themselves at the expense of the people.
8 – To provide jobs for the unemployed, urgently grant unemployment benefits, improve social care, increase the purchasing power of wage earners.
9 – To restructure the national economy so that it serves the people and ensure that the State supervises vital strategic sectors. To re-nationalise the institutions that have been privatised by the previous regime and to set an economic and social policy that will break away from capitalist liberal approach.
10 – To guarantee civil and individual liberties, particularly the freedoms to demonstrate, to organise, of expression, of the press, of information and thought, the release of prisoners and the promulgation of an amnesty law.
11 - The Front salutes the support of the Tunisian revolution by the popular masses and the progressive forces in the Arab countries and internationally, and invites them all to pursue their support by all possible means.
12 – The Front calls for resistance to the normalisation of relations with the Zionist entity and its penalisation, and the support of national liberation movements in the Arab countries as well as worldwide.
13 - The Front calls all popular masses and nationalist and progressive forces to pursue the mobilisation and the struggle in all legitimate forms, particularly in the streets, in order to achieve their objectives.
14 - The Front greets all committees, associations and forms of popular auto-organisation and invites them to enlarge their area of intervention in all that concerns the exercise of public affairs and other aspects of daily life.
Glory to the martyrs of the Intifada and Victory to the revolutionary masses of our people.
Tunisia, January 20th, 2011
** Ligue de la gauche travailliste [Left Labour League]
** Mouvement des unionistes nassériens [Nasserite Unionist Movement]
** Movement of the nationalists democrats (Al-Watad)[Nationalist Democratic Movement]
** Courant Baasiste [Baasist Current]
** Gauche Indépendante [Independent Left]
** Parti communiste des ouvriers de Tunisie [Communist Party of the Workers of Tunisia]
** Parti du Travail Patriotique et Démocratique [Patriotic and Democratic Labour Party).
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Raleigh protest on National Day of Action Against FBI Repression, 1/25
An announcement from the Triangle Committee to Stop FBI Repression:
What: Protest on 1/25 to Stop FBI and Grand Jury Repression of Antiwar and Solidarity Activists
Where: Federal Building, 310 New Bern Ave, Raleigh, NC
When: Tuesday 1/25 at 9:00 AM.
RSVP: ncstopfbi at gmail dot com or Facebook
WE NEED YOUR HELP. Join us at 9:00 AM on January 25 for a protest in Raleigh to coincide with National Day of Action against FBI Repression
On September 24th, 2010, FBI Agents conducted coordinated raids on the homes of anti-war, labor, and international solidarity activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Fourteen activists were served with subpoenas that demanded they appear before a grand jury in Chicago. All fourteen refused to participate in the FBI's fishing expedition. In December 2010, under the direction of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the FBI delivered nine new subpoenas in Chicago to anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists. Patrick Fitzgerald’s office is ordering the nine to appear at a Grand Jury in Chicago on January 25.
On January 25, as anti-war activists who were resubpoenaed make their first appearance before the Grand Jury, demonstrations will be organized across the country to show solidarity with them, with all the activists whose homes were raided by the FBI, and to demand an end to FBI and Grand Jury repression of anti-war activists.
We'll be gathering in Raleigh at 9:00 AM for a press conference and rally at the Federal Building. Putting pressure on politicians and the FBI is essential to keeping these and other activists out of jail for activities--dissenting speech, travel and education--that are protected by the constitution and necessary to the democratic process. While initial media coverage of this issue was strong, continuing pressure requires action. WE NEED YOUR VOICES AND YOUR BODIES. Join us in taking the fight against the FBI's witch-hunt to the streets of Raleigh, in solidarity with those targeted and those fighting government repression in the United States and abroad.
For more info, please visit http://stopfbi.net/ or check us out on facebook, http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126101957455734
You can also contact us at ncstopfbi at gmail dot com. Please RSVP to let us know you plan to attend.
What: Protest on 1/25 to Stop FBI and Grand Jury Repression of Antiwar and Solidarity Activists
Where: Federal Building, 310 New Bern Ave, Raleigh, NC
When: Tuesday 1/25 at 9:00 AM.
RSVP: ncstopfbi at gmail dot com or Facebook
WE NEED YOUR HELP. Join us at 9:00 AM on January 25 for a protest in Raleigh to coincide with National Day of Action against FBI Repression
On September 24th, 2010, FBI Agents conducted coordinated raids on the homes of anti-war, labor, and international solidarity activists in Minneapolis and Chicago. Fourteen activists were served with subpoenas that demanded they appear before a grand jury in Chicago. All fourteen refused to participate in the FBI's fishing expedition. In December 2010, under the direction of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the FBI delivered nine new subpoenas in Chicago to anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists. Patrick Fitzgerald’s office is ordering the nine to appear at a Grand Jury in Chicago on January 25.
On January 25, as anti-war activists who were resubpoenaed make their first appearance before the Grand Jury, demonstrations will be organized across the country to show solidarity with them, with all the activists whose homes were raided by the FBI, and to demand an end to FBI and Grand Jury repression of anti-war activists.
We'll be gathering in Raleigh at 9:00 AM for a press conference and rally at the Federal Building. Putting pressure on politicians and the FBI is essential to keeping these and other activists out of jail for activities--dissenting speech, travel and education--that are protected by the constitution and necessary to the democratic process. While initial media coverage of this issue was strong, continuing pressure requires action. WE NEED YOUR VOICES AND YOUR BODIES. Join us in taking the fight against the FBI's witch-hunt to the streets of Raleigh, in solidarity with those targeted and those fighting government repression in the United States and abroad.
For more info, please visit http://stopfbi.net/ or check us out on facebook, http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126101957455734
You can also contact us at ncstopfbi at gmail dot com. Please RSVP to let us know you plan to attend.
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
An African statement on Cote D'Ivoire
I get suspicious when imperialists like the US, UK, and France (the former occupier of Cote D'Ivoire), and the UN they control interfere in the internal affairs of a small, but sovereign, country, even calling for a war to depose a leader. Consider this statement signed by several African leftist organizations:
NO TO FOREIGN MILITARY INTERVENTION:
NEITHER OF THE ECOWAS [Economic Community of West African States],
NOR THE UN NOR FRANCE!
FOREIGN TROOPS OUT OF THE IVORY COAST!
UNITY AND NATIONAL SOVEREIGN IVORIAN DEMOCRATIC AND PEACEFUL SOLUTION TO THE POST-ELECTION CRISIS!
After the barely veiled threats of Sarkozy and Obama on behalf of the so-called "international community" made up of France, England, Germany and the United States, now there is an ultimatum from the Heads of State of Cape Verde, Benin and Sierra Leone in the Ivory Coast.
As if there had been agreement on sharing roles, the Western powers pushed ECOWAS to take the decision on December 24 2010 for an armed intervention in the Ivory Coast to dislodge GBAGBO from power if he did not yield to the injunctions brought to him by a final mission of these three Presidents in the name of the ECOWAS.
Thus, the Western powers that cannot intervene directly worked behind the scenes to push their men in power in Africa to commit the infamies that they dare not take on publicly.
The USA, EU, the IMF, World Bank, the International Criminal Court, the same ones who carried out and funded the military coup that overthrew the legal and legitimate President of Honduras Zelaya, are using servile African puppets to kill and impose a criminal war on the Ivorian people.
The same imperialist powers and financial institutions lied to the whole world about the "weapons of mass destruction and complicity with Al Qaida" to attack, overthrow and occupy Iraq and murder its Head of State
This is why the signatory organizations affirm that the solutions to the post-election crisis in Ivorian society must come first and foremost from the Ivorian people themselves.
This is why we denounce any foreign armed intervention in the Ivory Coast and demand the withdrawal of all foreign forces present on Ivorian territory, whether they are official (United Nations Mission to the Ivory Coast, 41st BIMA [Marine Infantry Battalion]) or unofficial (mercenaries).
Long live the sovereignty of the Ivorian people! Long live Pan-African and internationalist solidarity!
December 27, 2010
Signatories: Fernent/ Pan-African Workers Movement – Senegal (F/M.T.P-S), Yoonu Askan Wi Senegal, RTA [Union of African Workers] – Senegal, Revolutionary Communist Party of the Ivory Coast, Communist Party of Benin, Actus Prpe [Action for Unity and Socialism / Popular and Ecological Revolutionary Party] Chad, CP Togo, CP Tunisia, Democratic Road of Morocco, PADS [Party for Democracy and Socialism] Algeria, UP [Union of the Populations] Cameroun, Sanfin Mali, CP Congo
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Government targeting of anti-war movement continues
This is a 12/21 press release from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression (www.stopfbi.net).
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald Expands Witch Hunt --
FBI delivers subpoenas to four more anti-war, solidarity activists
The FBI came unannounced to knock on doors at two apartments in Chicago this morning. FBI agent Robert Parker, under orders from U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's office, delivered a subpoena to Maureen Murphy. Murphy, like several other individuals served subpoenas, is an organizer with the Palestine Solidarity Group-Chicago.
This continues the repression unleashed by Fitzgerald on the anti-war movement since September 24th, when fourteen subpoenas were delivered to anti-war, labor, and solidarity activists in coordinated raids involving more than 70 federal agents. Armed FBI agents raided homes, taking computers, phones, passports, documents, notebooks, and even children's artwork. A total of 23 subpoenas have been served to activists around the country.
Maureen Murphy said, "Along with several others, I am being summoned to appear before the Grand Jury on Tuesday, January 25th, in the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago. We are being targeted for the work we do to end U.S. funding of the Israeli occupation, ending the war in Afghanistan and ending the occupation of Iraq. What is at stake for all of us is our right to dissent and organize to change harmful US foreign policy." Ms. Murphy is also the Managing Editor of the widely-read website, The Electronic Intifada.
In addition, three women in Minneapolis - Tracy Molm, Anh Pham, and Sara Martin - are threatened with reactivated subpoenas by Fitzgerald's office and new Grand Jury dates. Tom Burke of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression explained, "It is likely the three individuals, like all the others so far, will continue to refuse to take part in Fitzgerald's witch hunt. Fitzgerald can then call for putting them in jail as long as he wants."
For more information: www.stopfbi.net
Maureen Murphy said, "Along with several others, I am being summoned to appear before the Grand Jury on Tuesday, January 25th, in the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago. We are being targeted for the work we do to end U.S. funding of the Israeli occupation, ending the war in Afghanistan and ending the occupation of Iraq. What is at stake for all of us is our right to dissent and organize to change harmful US foreign policy." Ms. Murphy is also the Managing Editor of the widely-read website, The Electronic Intifada.
In addition, three women in Minneapolis - Tracy Molm, Anh Pham, and Sara Martin - are threatened with reactivated subpoenas by Fitzgerald's office and new Grand Jury dates. Tom Burke of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression explained, "It is likely the three individuals, like all the others so far, will continue to refuse to take part in Fitzgerald's witch hunt. Fitzgerald can then call for putting them in jail as long as he wants."
For more information: www.stopfbi.net
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Defend Wikileaks!
I'm surprised some communists, such as the Progressive Labor Party, are attacking Wikileaks when the establishment is trying to silence its release of damaging information about world imperialism, by forcing Wikileaks off the Internet, attacking its funding, attacking Julian Assange in the judicial system and media and threatening to assassinate him, and changing laws to reduce free speech in the USA. Wikileaks has the right enemies, and to attack Wikileaks is to assist the criminals in the US and allied governments. The government alleges Wikileaks has blood on its hands, but it is no allegation that the Bush and Obama administrations are covered with real blood from their actions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Palestine, and elsewhere, and the actions of their proxies in Haiti, Georgia, Honduras, etc. If the US government attacks free speech over this incident, the problem is leaders like Obama and Senator Lieberman, not Wikileaks.
As an article on Global Research ( www.globalresearch.ca/index.phpcontext=va&aid=22389 ) shows, Wikileaks is a liberal organization originally focused on the same "oppressive regimes" targeted by the US, its allies, and the dominant media (with which Wikileaks is allied), though Wikileaks does not overlook leaks from the NATO countries. I doubt Julian Assange is actually a US operative, but Wikileaks could be used by the government to leak documents that aid imperialism, and the government and the New York Times used the documents against Iran. But the documents still reveal information embarassing to the imperialists (see Fairness and Accuracy in Journalism's article at www.fair.org/index.php?page=4215 ), and progressive people should critically use this information in the struggle to stop imperialism, whether it was leaked with good intentions or not.
Upcoming demonstrations around the world are listed at:
and
The only protest I have heard of in or near North Carolina is this:
Monday, December 20 · 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Corner of Friendly and Eugene St., Greensboro
Corner of Friendly and Eugene St., Greensboro
Defend whistleblowers and truth tellers...prosecute war criminals! Hands off Julian Assange!
The highest officials in the Bush administration committed war crimes by leading the US into war on false pretenses, ordering torture, using chemical weapons against civilian populations, and indiscriminately targeting civilians. These crimes have continued under Obama.
Over the past several months, Wikileaks has revealed the true extent ...and the depth of these crimes, and the complicity of the Obama administration in covering them up, and maintaining policies under which these crimes continue. Wikileaks has published nothing but the truth about the actions of your government!
Join the rising global protest in calling for the US government to back off Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange, and renew the call for prosecution of war criminals!
Sponsored by The World Can't Wait - NC Chapter and North Carolina Labor Against the War
Monday, December 13, 2010
Communist Voice on The Peoples Channel
Chronicles of October - 1917 has been showing since November, but the series overall now has a name and a Soviet program on the WWII liberation of what is now Belarus airs this month (Mondays, 4-4:30pm), starting this afternoon. This film uses archival footage, both Soviet and German, and unlike World War II in HD Colour, a European series currently airing on UNC TV, this obviously doesn't minimize the decisive role of the USSR in defeating the fascist powers, blame the USSR for the start of WWII in Europe and the Cold War, or attempt to equate fascist Germany and the USSR. A documentary on the Russian/Soviet writer and playwright Maxim Gorky will air in January, but it had to be cut slightly to fit the time slot.
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
More on the candidates
For Sheriff, I gather that Worth Hill has been on the wrong side on immigrant issues and has a huge influence over Durham County's policies, though some initiatives are now moving forward, so I don't feel inclined to support him.
I have had helpful contacts with both of the Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisors, Ray Eurquhart and Robert Rosenthal, so I will vote for them again.
On the constitutional referendum to ban ex-felons from running for sheriff, I will vote no. I might have some concerns about a candidate with a criminal record, but they have served their time and I believe people can change, so it is a case by case decision whether to elect someone, and I would leave that to the voters. As recent letters to the News & Observer and the Independent Weekly point out, there are issues around felonies being defined differently by different states and the issue of people who are later found to be wrongly convicted. Drug crimes, which could be called political crimes (consider the role of the synthetic fiber industry's opposition to hemp and Nixon's use of drug laws against protesters in making marijuana illegal, and the difference in punishments for possession of cocaine versus crack, and who gets convicted for using it), are probably felonies, but using marijuana responsibly is no more of a threat to society than alcohol or tobacco, when used responsibly.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Soviet videos on The Peoples Channel
Monday afternoon (unless the tentative scheduling was changed) Chronicle of October - 1917, a dubbed half hour video on the Great October Socialist Revolution will be on The Peoples Channel. The anniversary of the beginning of the socialist stage of the Russian Revolution is November 7th (it was October 25th under the calendar Russia used at the time, thus the name). I'm working to arrange a dedicated slot on cable access in Orange and Durham counties to air historical and cultural documentaries donated by the US Friends of the Soviet People (www.northstarcompass.org/US_friends.html) and videos on current events, depending on technical issues and copyright, starting in November. This puts the communist view out there (though it should be noted that the views expressed aren't necessarily mine), and the videos have retro historical or ethnographic value. If you have a video that might fit, drop me a line.
If you are in New York City, the national USFSP branch is meeting November 6th, with guest speaker Thomas Kenny, who wrote Socialism Betrayed with Roger Keeran.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
The candidates for Congress and the General Assembly
US Senate
I voted for Elaine Marshall in the primaries and plan to vote for her in November. While the statements on her website (www.elainemarshall.com) condemn the occupation of Afghanistan on the grounds of costs and benefits instead of anti-imperialism, she still calls for ending the war and opposes so-called nationbuilding around the world. She wants to make Big Business live up to its responsibility for the economic crisis, retain and better pay teachers, increase renewable energy use (though I question the use of wind power when turbines may be killing a lot of wildlife, and we won't see the evidence if the turbines are offshore), end legal discrimination against LGBT people at the Federal level, opposes recent free trade agreements, and advocates other progressive and populist policies.
Her campaign was apparently weakened by having to go through a runoff to defeat the national Democratic Party's favored candidate, who ran to Marshall's right, another example of the Democratic Party working to sabotage its left wing.
North Carolinians don't hear much from Senator Burr (or Kay Hagan, for that matter), but judging by what Burr says during the elections, he is serving a very rightist agenda, without being as loud about it as Senator Jesse Helms was. I was surprised when someone from his office called me after I wrote to them, which hasn't happened when I have contacted any of our other members of Congress (or since then with Burr), but constituent services or Federal funding for NC projects are little compared to his reactionary platform.
US House of Representatives and NC General Assembly incumbents
I'm leaning to not voting for Representative David Price or the incumbent Democrats running for the General Assembly. On the other hand, the media is starting to get to me. I don't want to contribute to a Republican landslide, especially given their candidates for the General Assembly, but it could be a case of the Democrats fearmongering for votes. Even if there is a landslide, a bitterly gridlocked Congress with Republicans in control of only one house could tie the imperialists' hands at the Federal level, while a Republican Congress could still be limited by Obama's veto, unless they have enough votes to override it.
Representative Price has, or had a pretty safe and left leaning district, yet he isn't a left Democrat like Dennis Kucinich. Price can be counted on to endorse Israeli aggression, and he can't be counted on to do what he can to stop Obama from starting a war with Iran or the DPRK or further bombing Pakistan, Yemen, and who knows where else. Price did oppose the invasion of Iraq to some extent, no doubt galvanized by the occupation of his Chapel Hill office, but I think he has supported every war funding bill since. Republican BJ Lawson's website (www.lawsonforcongress.com) links to a March 10th vote on Kucinich's bill for withdrawal from Afghanistan in which every NC representative but Republican Walter Jones voted no. Price could have voted to investigate Bush's crimes, and it even might have helped him win votes, but now Obama is covering some up and legalizing others.
Lawson seems to be running further to the right this year and his website comes across as pretty rightist, though his ideas probably haven't really changed much. If he is really more anti-war than Price and can't do too much on the domestic front, he could be an improvement over Price, though Price is generally left of Lawson.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Long live Enver Hoxha!
Today is the anniversary of the birth in 1908 of Albanian communist Enver Hoxha, born in southern Albania when the nation was just gaining independence after centuries of foreign rule. Under his leadership, the anti-fascist Partisan guerrillas liberated Albania from Italian and German occupation during WWII, at a staggering cost in lives and property and relying on their own forces. The Partisans went on to liberate parts of Yugoslavia, while the other occupied countries in Europe had enough trouble driving the fascist forces from their own territory. Hoxha became First Secretary of the Party of Labor of Albania and held various government posts, leading Albania from the hardscrabble rural economy inherited from the Zog dictatorship to socialism, with an advanced industrial base and a drive for self-sufficiency. During this time the PLA also fended off take over attempts by the UK, USA, Greece, and Yugoslavia, and then, almost alone among the communist parties with state power, refused to follow the destructive revisionist road of the USSR after the 50's and denounced the revisionism of its Chinese ally in the 70's, despite the economic cost. Even Albanian counterrevolutionaries have to admit that Hoxha's policies defended Albanian sovereignty, liberated women, increased education and public health, encouraged study of Albanian history and culture, and modernized the economy. Of course there were also mistakes, and a counterrevolution succeeded, but socialist Albania's experience and Hoxha's many books should be studied by other communist parties, and Hoxha deserves a place among the great figures who fought for a socialist society in the 20th century and created a valuable legacy for those of us in the 21st.
Hoxha died April 11, 1985 and the PLA took a revisionist course, allowing a counterrevolution in the 90's, leading to the rule of the so-called Democratic Party of Albania. They made Albania a lackey of the EU and USA, and then they wonder why they were snubbed by the imperialists during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, despite the just demands of ethnic Albanians in the former Yugoslavia and the rights of Kosova under the Yugoslav constitution. Today the PLA has been reconstituted, under its original name, the Communist Party of Albania, and Hoxhaism remains influential in the international communist movement, including here in the USA.
I think the CPA's current website is www.pksh.org, but it could be a different group. An Albanian site dedicated to Enver Hoxha is at www.enverhoxha.info and some of his works are online at www.marx2mao.com, www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works-index.htm, and sites referenced on Wikipedia, and some WWII and early socialist Albanian history is referenced in the Kosova timeline at www.historycommons.org.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Bill Bland en Espanol
Thanks to a translation by Basque comrades, ML Review now has the beginnings of a Spanish language section (see La Vida Albanesa at ml-review.ca/bland/espanol/la-vida-albania.html).
William B Bland (1916-2001) was an influential British communist, the first anti-revisionist to point out and condemn Mao's revisionism, the founder of the Albanian Society of Britain, the Stalin Society, and a leader of the Communist League and International Struggle Marxist-Leninist, and a major theoretical influence on Alliance Marxist-Leninist and its successor, ML Review, on this side of the Atlantic (see ml-review.ca/bland/biography.html).
On the actions of the "Department of Justice" against the anti-war movement: One of the people questioned lives in Durham (see articles in the Herald-Sun and the News & Observer earlier in the week), so this touches very close to home. There is a long history of US government harassment and even murder of critics of its foreign policy, but this is one of the biggest attacks in recent years. If progressive people fail to stand in solidarity now, we have even less chance of stopping the next imperialist war than we had in 2003, and in the worst case, repression will grow if there is no resistance to the government's initial attacks on the speech of anti-war forces.
Check out the International Action Center's petition at iacenter.org/stopfbi
Sunday, September 26, 2010
FBI harassment of anti-war activists in NC, IL, MN, MI, and CA
Starting at 8am Friday, FBI agents raided 7 homes and an office in Chicago and Minneapolis, belonging to anti-war, pro-Palestine, and Colombian solidarity activists. Agents visited other activists in California and North Carolina, including people formerly active in the Triangle area, but were met with silence. Eleven people were subpoenaed to give evidence before a grand jury on October 5th. It is thought that the government is trying to tie people to groups in Colombia and Palestine, which could be related to the government's new power to equate speech with material support to so-called terrorist groups. Obama and Biden are carrying out the same imperialist agenda as Bush and Cheney, and are trying to silence domestic opponents of their occupations and proxy wars, but there will be many actions this week to resist the government's new intimidation campaign.
The targeted people are active in organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society, the Colombia Action Network, the Twin-Cities Anti-War Committee, the Palestine Solidarity Group, Freedom Road Socialist Organization [publishers of Fight Back!], and the National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera.
From the NC Committee to Stop FBI Harassment:
STOP HARASSING ACTIVISTS IN NORTH CAROLINA!
SUPPORT ANTI-WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY ACTIVISTS!
SUPPORT ANTI-WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY ACTIVISTS!
Take Action Now:
Durham Emergency Action Against FBI Harrassment of Anti-War Activists
Monday 9/27, 12 pm, Downtown Post Office, 323 E Chapel Hill St, Durham, NC 27701.
RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162954823719789
Raleigh Emergency Action Against FBI Harrassment of Anti-war Activists
Tuesday 9/28, 9 am, Federal Building, 310 New Bern Ave, Raleigh, NC
Rsvp on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162954823719789#!/event.php?eid=162954823719789&ref=mf
Call the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder at 202-353-1555 or write an email to: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov.
Sign the Petition to Stop FBI Harassment of our Activists! Ask your organization to endorse the statement:
http://bit.ly/ncstopfbi
North Carolina Statement in Support of Anti-War and International Solidarity Activists
We, the North Carolina Committee to Stop FBI Harassment, join with many groups across the US to denounce the Federal Bureau of Investigation harassment of anti-war and solidarity activists. The FBI raided seven houses and an office in Chicago and Minneapolison Friday, September 24, 2010. The FBI handed subpoenas to testify before a federal grand jury to eleven activists in Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan. The FBI also attempted to intimidate activists in California and North Carolina.
This suppression of civil rights is aimed at those who dedicate their time and energy to supporting the struggles of the Palestinian and Colombian peoples against U.S. funded occupation and war. The FBI has indicated that the grand jury is investigating the activists for possible material support of terrorism charges.
We ask people of conscience in North Carolina to join us in fighting this political repression, as we continue working to build the movements against US war and occupation.
We demand:
Stop the repression against anti-war and international solidarity activists.
Immediately return all confiscated materials: computers, cell phones, papers, documents, etc.
End the grand jury proceedings against anti-war activists.
For more information check out:
http://www.iacenter.org/actions/riads-activists092410/
http://antiwarcommittee.org/?q=node%2F534
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyG3dIUGQvQ&feature=player_embedded
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NC Committee to Stop FBI Harrassment - ncstopfbi@gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162954823719789#!/group.php?gid=133197803393928
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162954823719789#!/group.php?gid=133197803393928
More actions, from another source:
NYC, Tues. 4:30 to 6pm Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza [usually that means the corner of Broadway & Thomas St., nr. Worth St. & Duane St.; but if not, then check Foley Sq./Lafayette St. side of the bldg. too; map: http://is.gd/bsM8D-/ - t.]
www.antiwarcommittee.org
Minneapolis MN, Monday: 4:30, FBI Office Monday, 111 Washington Ave. S.
Chicago, IL, Monday: 4:30 FBI Building, 2111 W. Roosevelt Rd.
NYC, Tues. 4:30 to 6pm Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza,
Newark, NJ Tues 5 to 6pm Federal Building Broad Street
Washington DC, Tues 4:30 - 5:30 FBI Building 935 Pennsylvania Ave NW.
Detroit MI Tuesday 4:30 McNamara Federal Building
Buffalo, NY 4:30 at FBI Building - Corner of So. Elmwood Ave. & Niagara St.
Durham NC on Monday, 12 noon Federal Building, 323 E Chapel Hill St
Raleigh NC. Tuesday 9 am. Federal Building, 310 New Bern Ave
Asheville, NC Tuesday
Atlanta, GA, Tues Noon, FBI Building
Gainesville, FL on Monday, 4:30 PM at FBI Building
Salt Lake City, Utah, 9 AM on Monday at Federal Building
Saturday, July 10, 2010
New Alliance ML/ML Review website
The archives of the former Alliance ML site are once again available online. Restoration and improvement of the site is ongoing. Migration to our new domain resulted in broken links, aesthetic issues and other anomalies. We are aware of these issues and we sincerely hope any such problems will be rectified in due course as we continue to improve the organization and presentation of all respective documents.
The Alliance Subject Index is online at: ml-review.ca/aml/index/subject.html
If anyone wants an image for a link to our website, this one is available: www.erythrospress.com/sites/mlreview.jpg
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