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+ Northwest Winter Soldier: Iraq Veterans Speak Out + On May 31st, over 600 people listened to Iraq War Veterans speak about what it is like to be a soldier in Bush's endless war. The [...] Kenton and Elliot Stoller Related: Winter Soldier/IVAW to Thank Canada | Big Victory for U.S. War Resisters in Canada!

+ Los Angeles School Teachers Stage One Hour Walkout Strike + LOS ANGELES, June 6, 2008 – Teachers with the Los Angeles Unified School District staged a one hour micro-strike today. Walking out [...] 1 Hour Walkout | 6/6 Los Angeles Teachers Strike; General Strike Needed | Teachers Strike In LA by Echo Park Community Coalition

+ Activists Confront Corporate Fatcats in Downtown Dallas + Exxon Enough! " Won't you help us stand against the monster? " — Jefferson Airplane ... They came to [...] purses. They came in their stretched cars whose voracious appetites provide ever more lucre for the monster off of whom they all feed.

+ Peer 2 Peer Youth Enterprises Launches Hunger Strike + On a sunny afternoon in Downtown Baltimore, the Inner Harbor was bustling with seasonal tourists, happy hour enthusiasts, and Friday's [...] City Restore Funding to Peer2Peer Educational Programs | Youth takeover City Hall!! | Update: Police End peer2peer Camp-Out

+ E-Z Supply Ordered to Pay IWWs $1 Million + Legal action is one of the many tools the IWW uses to put pressure on the boss. Several favorable rulings have recently come [...] One issue at every shop has been the employer’s failure to comply with wage and hour laws... Read Full Report by Stephanie Basile

+ 5 Years Later, Official Reveals US Targeted Hotel Palestine in Baghdad Prior to Killing of Two Journalists + Last month marked the fifth anniversary of the US military shelling of the Hotel Palestine in Baghdad. The attack killed two [...] (3/23/2005) | Hotel Palestine: Killing the Witness–Documentary Exposes the Truth Behind the Attack (3/23/2005) | Wounded Spa

+ Prisoners take direct action against surveillance cameras in Navasota TX + On or about March 13 2008, three groups of prisoners carried out a joint and coordinated direct action at the Luther unit Texas [...] of rebellion continues and grows. [ read full story ] Related: Six Surveillance Cameras Destroyed at UC Santa Cruz

+ Gitmo CD participants march in hoods, give detainee names at trial + Early AM on May 27, 35 defendants from the January Supreme Court/Gitmo CD marched in orange jumpsuits and black hoods from the Supreme [...] Audio-entire press conference | download WSQT Broadcast audio UPDATE: Guantanamo Protesters Sentenced by Felton Davis

+ "Right to the City" March on the Mayors Conference, June 20 - 24 in Miami + The nation’s mayors will gather in Miami from June 20-24 for the 76th Annual Meeting of The United States Conference of Mayors [...] with Alliance Member Organizations and local activist groups to assert our rights to live, work, play, pray, and govern over the city.

+ Texas to Resume Executions June 3 + Derrick Sonnier is scheduled to be executed in Texas on June 3. He was sentenced to death in 1993 for the murder of his neighbor and [...] Stories: Capital X Walk for Life Tour in Houston May 30 | Death Row Inmates React to Latest Supreme Court Ruling

+ TOHONO O'ODHAM CHAIRMAN: GRAVES DESTROYED IN BORDER CONSTRUCTION + Chairman testifies that border wall construction violates federal law, destroyed graves BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS -- Tohono [...] Norris' testimony on Houston IMC | | | Photo, Video, and Audio Coverage of the Brownsville Congressional Hearings from Houston IMC

+ Evergreen Student Sit-In Reaches 100 Hours + A student sit-in at the Evergreen State College (TESC) has now surpassed its 100th hour and is heading into its fifth day. The sit-in [...] | Past Coverage: Evergreen Occupation: Day 2 | Dispatch from the Sit-in At Evergreen | Occupation at Evergreen State College

+ Tree Sit Erected on I-69 Construction Site + In the waning hours of Sunday May 18th, dedicated community members in resistance to I-69 set up a defensive encampment high in the [...] | coverage on WFHB Community Radio (Bloomington, IN) | Root Force report | pics from stopi69 blog | roundup of media coverage

+ Utah Phillips has left the stage + Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who performed extensively and tirelessly for audiences on two continents for 38 [...] IMC Feature | Indymedia.Org Feature with official obituatry | "My Spring Break with Utah Phillips" from Rogue Valley IMC

+ State Limits for Possession and Cultivation of Medical Cannabis Ruled Unconstitutional + California Court Says that Since Voters Didn't Determine Limits, Section of Law Not Legal On May 22nd in Los Angeles, the [...] wrote, ""The prosecutor's argument was improper... because the CUA [Compassionate Use Act] can only be amended with voters' approval."

+ Bay Area Janitors Go On Strike + On May 15th, after months of negotiations, contract talks for more than 6,000 janitors collapsed, as the Bay Area’s largest cleaning [...] could be interrupted. Read More>> Related: 20,000 University of California Workers Vote to STRIKE June 4th and 5th

+ New York State March for Peace Report Back + "New York State Marches for Peace" was more than a ten-day peace walk through Upstate. The project aimed to strengthen bridges [...] Rochester, Ithaca and Utica heading north to Fort Drum. Spontaneous participation from community residents was amazing and inspiring.

+ More May Day 2008 Coverage + Coverage of the revival of May Day organizing in the US continues to flow on the indymedia wires. Here are several overview pieces [...] Photo: "Santo Romero, Against All Injustice" from El Pueblo Unido: Images of May Day 2008 by Michael Gould-Wartofsky

+ Mid East Peace Activists cast a Shadow of Mourning over “Israel at 60” Celebration + As supporters of how Israel was created, were celebrating down the Ben Franklin Parkway, Palestinians and solidarity activists sent a [...] Hours of Al-Nabka from Boston Indymedia | The Establishment of Israel: The Part of the Story You Have Not Heard from Rochester IMC

+ Berkeley Protests Against John Yoo + On May 17th, Act Against Torture , World Cant Wait, Code Pink, and Vet’s for Peace participated in a demonstration at the UC [...] thrown in a dungeon somewhere in the world, and tortured, with no right to a lawyer and no habeas corpus. Read More & Photos