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Chicago; March May 1st- Marcha Primero de Mayo
For the Rights of Immigrants and All Workers
MARCH MAY FIRST - MARCHA PRIMERO DE MAYO
For the Rights of Immigrants and All Workers
We Demand:
May 1st, 2008
International Workers Day
Día Internacional de los Trabajadores
MO-CPR press release: Arnold, MO Voters Say No to Eminent Domain Abuse
*Proposed Constitutional Amendments Will Protect Citizens Statewide*
Press Release: April 11, 2008
*St. Louis, Mo.* — This week, voters in Arnold, Mo., replaced
incumbent politicians with candidates who share one characteristic:
a pledge to end eminent domain for private use. The City held its
election on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, weeks after the Supreme Court of
Missouri ruled against dentist Homer Tourkakis, a longtime Arnold
resident whose office city officials seek to condemn and hand over
to a private developer.
In Ward 2, anti-eminent domain abuse challenger Jerel Poor defeated
incumbent John Brazeal by a margin of 67% to 33%. In Ward 1, Matthew
Hay—who has publicly opposed private-to-private transfers of land
through eminent domain— won with 78% of the vote.
“The election results in Arnold and other jurisdictions around the
state emphasize that Missourians are fed up with eminent domain
abuse,” said Ron Calzone, chairman of Missouri Citizens for Property
Rights. “It's important to understand, though, that most of these
National BDS Conference in Chicago, May 9-11 to taget Israeli Apaartheid
A National Conference on Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions will take place in Chicago (Illinois) from May 9-11. The purpose of the conference is to develop the strategies and tactics of a coordinated, national BDS campaign; not to debate whether a national BDS campaign should be adopted. Accordingly, every representative of an attending organization must have the authority to vote on these matters and bind his/her organization to the resulting decision. The national conference is being organized by Chicagoans Against Apartheid in Palestine (CAAP).
Press Release
For Immediate Release: April 10, 2008
National BDS Conference in Chicago, May 9-11
Anti-Authoritarian People of Color at Bash Back! Convergence
Calling All Anti-Authoritarian / Anarchist People of Color (APOC) to caucus, network and organize at the Bash Back! Convergence.
On, Saturday, April 5th at the Bash Back! Convergence in Chicago, IL there will be a People of Color caucus. The proposed starting time for the caucus is at 11:00AM (during lunch).
Calling All Anti-Authoritarian / Anarchist People of Color (APOC) to caucus, network and organize at the Bash Back! Convergence.
On, Saturday, April 5th at the Bash Back! Convergence in Chicago, IL there will be a People of Color caucus. The proposed starting time for the caucus is at 11:00AM (during lunch).
Affirmative action foe Ward Connerly takes barbs at Truman State
KIRKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) Affirmative action foe Ward Connerly on Thursday brought his long-running campaign to Truman State University, where an overflow crowd alternately mocked and cheered his efforts in support of a November ballot initiative that would ban consideration of race in public hiring and college admissions.
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Connerly drew his biggest applause of the night after briefly losing his composure responding to an audience member's interruption.
''Lady, would you please just shut up?'' he said.
Publisher:
KMOX - APOn the Picket Line at American Axle - Google Video
Scenes, interviews from ongoing autoworkers picket line at American Axle in Three Rivers, MI. Google Video info and dvd ordering information.
On the Picket Line at American Axle
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4515114673518964920&hl=en
14 min 25 sec - Mar 24, 2008
3,600 members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union at the five plants of American Axle and Manufacturing (AAM) went on strike February 26, 2008. This auto parts company was spun off from General Motors (GM) in 1994, and they’ve been expanding their international operations ever since.
Frank Moore Gathers Presidential Electors Nationwide For Groundbreaking Write-In Campaign
"The response of people on the street to our platform is overwhelming," said 2008 Write-In Presidential candidate Frank Moore this week in an interview with Radar Online*. Now Moore has turned to both his supporters and the general public from California to Maine in order to line up citizens nationwide who would be willing to stand for him in the Electoral College as Presidential Electors in what has become possibly the most interesting news story of this political season.
Moore, a world-renowned performance artist based in Berkeley, California, has put forth a comprehensive platform rivaling the major party candidates under the title, “The Just Makes Sense Party”. See: http://www.frankmooreforpresident08.com/
Moore’s grassroots campaign promises radical changes to the current system of politics and government in the U.S., bringing in what he calls, “a webwork of caring.” He writes that “is it all about caring and choice,” and proposes a guaranteed minimum income (GMI) for every U.S. citizen.
Levi Leipheimer bicycle @ Bicycle Day at the Capitol
Missouri Bicyclists,
Some really great things are coming together for Bicycle Day at the Capitol next Tuesday.
The most exciting (for me anyway ;-) is that I just heard from Jeff Chattin, the Trek rep for Missouri, and Trek has sent the bike Levi Leipheimer rode in the Tour of Missouri for display at Bicycle Day.
James Allen of Springfield will be there with a couple of interesting antique bicycles and some other items to display.
Date:
02/26/2008 - 12:00am - 02/26/2008 - 11:59pmMidwest Queers/Transfolk Converge April 5th and 6th
Transfolk and queers will converge in Chicago the weekend of April 5th to
bash back against the RNC and DNC.
In 2004 the party conventions were nothing more than disempowering for
queers and transfolk. Boston turned out a large, festive, yet nearly
invisible queer kiss-in. The Gays Against Bush Contingent of the UFPJ
march in NYC was hurried to the cattle pens and filled its place at the
very end of a 500,000+ person march. Queer Fist's Queer Kiss-in saw
extreme police brutality and the arrests of nearly everyone involved. If
radical Trans-Folk, Queers and Allies are to confront the oppression we
face on a daily basis in the streets of St. Paul and Denver we must learn
Sic Semper Tyrannis
The end result of state enforced racism.
The media at large has attempted to condemn the recent events in Kirkwood as an "inexcusable" act of a madman.
Questions how ever arise when we hear when reporters that can't even manage to prod a condemning statement out of the neighbors of the late Charles "Cookie" Thornton.
Many were the cries of racism against the city council, it is obvious to those with open minds that the events of February 7th are simply a case of "chickens came home to roost" so to speak.
