Announcement

Help us to update the directory from the next libertarian agenda book:
This year the “Center of d’Estudis Josep Ester Borràs” and “l’Ateneu Anarquista Columna Terra i Llibertat” (Berga, Barcelona) are in charge of the proyect to publish the yearly “Libertarian Agenda Book”

Rhetoric for Radicals:
A Handbook for Twenty-First Century Activists
By Jason Del Gandio

Link: http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/4019

Radicals have important messages to deliver but are too often caught up in the passion of their causes that they lose sight of effective communication—which is their biggest tool. Crucial to the cause is the ability to speak with clarity and intelligence and not to underestimate the challenge of breaking new ground and winning new converts.

**** WHEN THE INNOCENT ARE ABANDONED BY THE GUILTY ****

The prison experts have reported that there are 100,000 innocent Americans currently being falsely imprisoned along with the 2,300,000 total US prison population nationwide.

Since our US Congress has never afforded poor prison inmates federal appeal legal counsel for their federal retrials,they have effectively closed the doors on these tens of thousands of innocent citizens ever being capable of possibly exonerating themselves to regain their freedom through being granted new retrials.

We will be giving our response to the current Police Department scandal--in which officers and the Chief’s daughter benefited from the private use of impounded vehicles. Police Commissioners have tried to cover up the inappropriate nature of the relationship between the Department and the Towing company. We need your show of support! Let the City
know that we need Local Control to hold this Department accountable.

More info:
Civilian Oversight Board Campaign
capcr_cob@hotmail.com

For the past year, we have inhabited an occupied space in conflict with the prevailing logic of capitalism: everything that can be desired is for sale (nothing escapes the realm of the commodity); in order to survive one must exchange commodities for their representation in the form of currency; one’s daily experience, the sum of life itself, is nothing more than a good to be sold on the open market. That space and the lives we have come to know and to love are being directly threatened by those who have chosen to base their livelihoods on exploitation, fear, and the destruction of life.

Dr. Keshavarz is an Iranian-American who has taught as Washington University since 1990. She spoke at the "Women in Global Action" forum held by the Gateway Greens earlier this year. about what the blanket bombing of Iran would mean to someone born in that country.

We should definitely protest! If anyone is planning something, please let me know. Perhaps we can have a nice coalition of groups.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain will return to the St. Louis area on July 15 for a fundraiser and a separate public event, a spokesman for state McCain chairman Jack Jackson said tonight.

The fundraiser will be at Hunter Farms, the estate of Hunter Engineering executive Stephen Brauer and his wife, Kimmy Brauer, that has been a popular GOP fundraising locale for more than a decade.

A panel discussion will include:

* Yasmine Ruiz-Smith, Green Party of St. Louis [moderator]

* Dr. Rosa Kincaid, Kincaid Medical Associates

* Linda McClerklin, Community Health Director, A Better World

* Afua Bromley, LAC, Universal Holistic Health Care

Food sold in supermarkets contributes to sickness. But are children being fed nutritious meals in schools?

Could food actually be interfering with children’s learning? Could it be contributing to behavior problems and delinquency?

Monday, September 1, will be a day of civil disobedience and direct action to shut down the opening of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) will join these actions in opposition to a two-party system incapable of meeting basic human needs that is bankrupting and decimating our communities through a culture of war and fear.

In this issue:

- letter from the editors about media/independent media
-breaking news stories about
• the tree sit eviction,
• Bloomington torch march,
• retaliatory actions across Indiana,
-action reports on:
• home demos,
• solidarity demos,
-updates on
• the nature walks on the route,
• the community barbq,
-opinion pieces about
• the flooding in Indiana,
• a response to allegations of violence in office demos.
-I-69 Listening project interview
-Critical thought piece on the future of the ‘anti-globalization movement.