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+ Police Terrorize Mobile Home Park in Pomona: Community Demands Justice + POMONA, June 17, 2009 – Residents of the Woodlawn Mobile Home Park in Pomona are demanding an explanation for a June 11 police raid [...] home park & Audio testimony of eyewitnesses: Despite police abuse, mobile home park community pursues redress by Rockero

+ Appalachia and Colombia: The People Behind the Coal --an interview with Aviva Chomsky + Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and Latin American Studies at Salem State College in Massachusetts, and is a founder of the [...] delegation (May 28 – June 6) that traveled to two regions devastated by coal mining: the state of Kentucky and to northern Colombia.

+ WAMM Walk Against Weapons Goes On Despite the Rain + 90 people walked raising awareness "drop by drop" June 10, 2009 — The rains came... and so did the walkers! After [...] headquarters. Thousands of suburbanites witnessed this year's WALK AGAINST WEAPONS. Read More & Photos | WAMM Online

+ Students and Community Picket Robert Gates at UW Graduation + Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ keynote address at the University of Washington met resistance, as students and community members [...] the commencement speech. Read More & Pics | VIDEO Related: UW Custodians Continue to Fight On-Campus Abuse

+ Noam Chomsky Addresses Thousands at Riverside Church + Renowned leftist intellectual, linguist and author Noam Chomsky discussed democracy, the economy and global crises June 12 at [...] policies over the past few decades and encouraged the audience to challenge neoliberalism, military intervention and capitalism.

+ Queers, anarchists march for free speech, against "Corporate Pride" + Friday, June 12 was the second scheduled Free Speech march demanding an end to the recent wave of police dispersals(by force) [...] on: Going back to go Forward The Childhood of the Revolution | Remembering the Stonewall Rebellion in this week's Socialist WebZine

+ Filipino Activists Protest US-Philippines Charter Change + LOS ANGELES – June 9, 2009 - Scores of Filipino American activists rallied in front of the Philippine Consulate in Los Angeles in [...] C. Grava Related from Indybay: Melissa C. Roxas Abducted and Tortured by Suspected Elements of Philippine Armed Forces

+ Lockdown at Schumer's office protests "free trade massacre" in Peru + Three young men were arrested protesting Senator Schumer's support for "free trade" agreements Activists charge Schumer with [...] Read More & Pics | Related from Los Angeles: Local Peruvians and Environmentalists Protest at LA Peruvian Consulate

+ Social Divides Widen Amid America's DTV Conversion + On Friday, June 12, all high-power analog television broadcasting in the United States ends , to be replaced by digital television. [...] of Americans (roughly 12 million people) that use analog TV, down from perhaps twenty percent (about 50 million) in recent years.

+ Seattle Homeless Camp Faces Eviction + Early Saturday morning the homeless residents of Nicklesville left Renton. Shortly after 5 AM in the morning, they arrived at a place [...] IMC: A Call To Action: Standing Up For Tenants Facing Eviction When Landlords Fail To Pay Utilities | CU TENT COMMUNITY!

+ Human Rights Activists Present Letter to Consul General of Peru + On 6/10/09, three human rights activists representing Friends of Brad Will , Houston Indymedia , and Houston Food Not Bombs met [...] aqui . Ver una video: parte 1 , y parte 2 . More Indymedia Coverage: Peru Indymedia | Global Indymedia Feature

+ Members of the so-called "Wolf Pack" Gang Proclaiming Innocence + June 5, 2009—On Monday, April 27, 2009 Rochester Police Department (RPD) arrested a group of residents of the Beechwood [...] there is no such organization called the Chain Gang or the Wolf Pack. Read More | VIDEO | Past Coverage: RICO LAWS? PROVE IT!!

+ Shell Forced to Pay $15.5M for Complicity in Execution of Activist Ken Saro-wiwa + After legal battles lasting nearly fourteen years, oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has been forced to pay a $15.5 million out-of-court [...] in favor of the plaintiffs. The settlement includes establishment of a $5 million trust to benefit local communities in Ogoni.

+ UH Students for Fair Trade house protest for Aramark wages + On Saturday morning June 6, 2009 the University of Houston Students for Fair Trade (SFT) did a house protest at Emily Messa's house [...] the City of Houston 2008 contract with its 13,000 employees. See: article from AFSCME.org | full article with photos and video

+ Luis Gutierrez Shot in the Back by Undercover Cops in Broad Daylight + On June 6th, a candlelight vigil and march for Luis Gutierrez Navarro, a farm worker killed by undercover Yolo County Sheriff's [...] License test when he was approached by three undercover gang suppression officers who shot six bullets, killing him in broad daylight.

+ Dr. Tiller Memorial at Federal Courthouse in Urbana + On Saturday, June 6 at 10 a.m., a memorial was held at the federal courthouse in Urbana to correspond with the funeral of Dr. George [...] More Coverage: Philadelphia (pictured) | San Francisco | San Diego | | | RELATED: Racist Radio Host Hal Turner Arrested

+ Fall Creek Timber Project Tree-sits Deployed + Do you remember the days of Fall Creek, Warner Creek, the first Cascadia Summers? Do you remember the lands that were saved by the [...] and it is within that greater tradition of non-violent forest defense that we now come to you proclaiming that a resurgence has begun.

+ Dozens Testify at City Council Hearing to Support Saving Public Property for Public Use + Last Friday, May 29th over 50 people testified at a hearing of the Council’s Committee on Government Operations & the [...] Many more submitted written testimony in support of the legislation. The committee is chaired by Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh.

+ Los Angeles Teachers Enter Ninth Day of Hunger Strike + LOS ANGELES, June 4, 2009 - A combination hunger strike and protest campout has been occurring in downtown Los Angeles for the last [...] From the Newswire: L.A.Hunger Strikers on Ninth Day of Fast by Robert Stuart Lowden | Video Statement From Sean Leys

+ Hunger Strike organizer Rama Cary Assaulted in detention prior to visit by Amnesty International + International Human Rights group, Amnesty International, met with Rama Carty yesterday. Carty is an outspoken detainee at the [...] he was beaten by facility guards and “taken away”. DHS/ICE is illegally being transferred to Louisiana to be deported to Haiti.