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Seattle Activists Target JP Morgan Chase

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:07:29 +0000

Activists in Seattle have been busy lately targeting their local JP Morgan Chase branches. Here’s a description of last Saturday’s protest from Chad in Seattle: “It was another fun filled day of protest at Chase Bank. A lot of people stopped and chatted with us and a lot of info was handed out to the [...]

(en) Canada, Vancouver, Media, During the Olympics, two young activists learn the finer points of militant action, , Printer-Friendly Version

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:22:10 +0000

In monumental buildings in Vancouver, people gathered to bear witness to the strength of the human body and the spectacle of the recent Olympic games. On the streets, thousands gathered to mourn and protest to its current and future cost: the mountains and trees removed to build lodges and ski trails on un-ceded indigenous territory; the eviction of low-income people from homes designated for Olympics inspired renovation and demolition; the homelessness beyond “Project Civil City,” an initiative that criminalized aggressive panhandling and sleeping outdoors. ---- Beneath the surveillance cameras recently installed on public streets, two Seattle residents, Michelle Woo and Stephen Clark, raised their voices in protest. ---- When did you decide to go and why? ---- Michelle: We decided a month or two before the Olympics, but I had been thinking about it for a long ...

IPS: Community fears World Cup will cause homelessness

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:45:23 +0000

http://www.afrika.no/Detailed/19456.html South Africa: Community fears World Cup will cause homelessness Inter Press Service (IPS) / Monday, 08 March 2010 Cape Town (South Africa) - While South African parliamentarians attended a swanky pre-International Women’s Day celebration at Cape Town’s International Convention Centre, a group of destitute women in decaying Kewtown, just seven miles away, worried about looming homelessness. The women were notified by the municipality that their homes will be bulldozed to make way for an extended parking lot for Cape Town's Athlone Training Stadium, while others were asked to vacate their flats for renovations. But residents fear their flats, situated in a prime location for the Soccer World Cup in June, will be rented out to soccer fans. read more

Media: Community fears World Cup will cause homelessness

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:16:53 +0000

Inter Press Service (IPS) / Monday, 08 March 2010 Cape Town (South Africa) – While South African parliamentarians attended a swanky pre-International Women’s Day celebration at Cape Town’s International Convention Centre, a group of destitute women in decaying Kewtown, just seven miles away, worried about looming homelessness. The women were notified by the municipality that their homes [...]

Communiqué from The One ‘R’ Posse! re: Recycle Bin Tip Over

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:01:56 +0000

Operation Knock Over Recycle Bin and Strew The Contents All Over The Street! Just say no to Recycling! If you Reduce and Reuse, there is no need to Recycle. Recycling is just a way for capitalism to ride the back of environmentally conscious people with out ever having to actually change their fundamental system. In Seattle during the anti-WTO convergence, in 1999, we set a dumpster of cardboard recycling on fire. This action was widely misconstrued as a bunch of hooligan police provocateurs attempting to besmirch the good name of respectable protesters and rioters alike. Our goal in Operation Set Cardboard Dumpster On Fire was to prevent the recycling trucks from coming to pick it up, using fossil fuels and ever increasing road networks to bring it to the recycling depot, process it then transport it in more trucks to factories to manufacture it into goods consumers would drive their cars to malls to yet again purchase, starting this whole ‘recycling’ charade all over again. How many times can one recycled box be recycled before the recycling process itself becomes just another toxic pollutant! read more

(en) US, AnarchistCommon Action (Seattle) - Event: 15th Annual Candlelight Vigil

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:08:36 +0000

Thursday, March 4, 2010 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. King County Courthouse Lawn 3rd Avenue and Yesler Seattle, WA ---- On March 2, 1995, Susana Remerata Blackwell, Phoebe Dizon, Veronica Laureta, and Baby Kristine, Ms. Blackwell's unborn child, were murdered by Susana's estranged husband in the King County Courthouse. It is important to remember these women and others, as we work diligently to educate and prevent the creation of more violence. On March 4, 2010 the 15th Annual Candlelight Vigil will be held for this purpose. ---- Since this tragic event, http://www.apiwfsc.org/ The Asian & Pacific Islander Women & Family Safety Center has been committed to holding an annual vigil to remember these women and others whose lives were destroyed by violence before and since this event. APIWFSC http://www.apiwfsc.org/ believes that community education and outreach can help end ...

Some photos of slogans and of a banner from the antifascist action at Larisa on 21/2

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:47:00 +0000

And We’re Off!

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:17:15 +0000

We're packing up now to hop on the plane and we thought we'd send a quick note before we took off! We'll be landing in Seattle tonight and will cross the border tomorrow morning into Vancouver. Speaking of borders, the repression in Vancouver seems to have already started as a reporter has been denied access [...]