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From The Trenches Radio for September: NATO involvement in Libya, Corporate Power and Corporate Laws

From The Trenches is the monthly radio program of the Chicago Independent Media Center.
ON THE SHOW IN SEPTEMBER 2011:

* NATO EXPANSION AND INVOLVEMENT IN LIBYA

We'll hear about the expansion of NATO and its connection to the recent bombing campaign in Libya in a Chicago presentation from one of America's premiere NATO analysts.

* FIGHT CORPORATE POWER BY CHANGING CORPORATE LAWS

And, we'll hear about an effort to combat corporate power by changing the legal structure that powers modern-day corporations.

* Plus, headlines from the worldwide Indymedia network.

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RECENT HEADLINES FROM THE GLOBAL INDYMEDIA NETWORK

Workers in Buenos Aires Bus Strike Face Physical Assault
Argentina Indymedia has been featuring developments in a dramatic strike of bus drivers in Buenos Aires. The Union of Automotive Transportation, abbreviated with the Spanish acronym "UTA", has called for a strike against the MONSA bus company, demanding fairer distribution of profits from a recent liquidation and a formal recognition of the union by the company. UTA striking bus drivers have faced physical retaliation, including the firebombing of a car of a union delegate, and attacks and physical threats from gangs, accompanied in at least one case by a bus company delegate. The strike, involving the Line 60 bus route, has enormous potential to paralyze the city of Buenos Aires, as it affects more than a quarter-million people.
argentina.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php

Efforts To Block Execution of Death Row Prisoner Troy Davis Sweep America
Indymedia.us compiled some of the grassroots protests nationwide seeking to block the execution of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis. Atlanta Indymedia reported several thousand people marched from Woodruf Park in downtown Atlanta to Ebenezer Baptist Church. Indybay reported a rally of supporters in Oakland, California, outside the Federal Building in Oakland. DC Indymedia reported a rally by a student group on the campus of Howard University. Boston Indymedia featured photos from a rally at the Park Street T station. Troy Davis, who served on death row for 22 years, was executed on September 21st, despite a last-second appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the absence of physical evidence accusing him to the crime to which he was convicted. Seven of the nine witnesses who testified against Davis have since recanted their testimony, many of whom claim that they were pressured to testify by police.
indymedia.us/en/2011/09/47215.shtml
atlanta.indymedia.org/local/march-solidarity-troy-davis-9162011
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/18/18690684.php
dc.indymedia.org/feature/display/132452/index.php
boston.indymedia.org/feature/display/213631/index.php

Occupy Wall Street Protests Challenge Status Quo
New York City Indymedia has been providing on-the-ground coverage of the dramatic Occupy Wall Street protests. Quoting from one feature: "On Saturday, the 17th of September, thousands of protesters swarmed into Wall Street with the intention of occupying it indefinitely. Although a march on the New York Stock exchange was blocked by police barricades and cops protecting the immediate area, protesters swarmed the surrounding area." The protest, an effort organized initially by the Canadian magazine Adbusters in July, but taken up by many grassroots activists in New York and nationwide, draws as inspiration from the protests in Egypt and the Arab Spring, and seeks to occupy Wall Street, condemning the stranglehold big business holds on popular democracy and the disparity of power and wealth in contemporary America. A "test run" of the protest on September 1st was interrupted by police; nine people were detained at this test run, including one activist held overnight. The tactics held against activists were evocative of the detentions held against activists at the 2004 Republican National Convention, also held in New York City. The website of Occupy Wall Street, at occupywallst.org, reported solidarity protests in sixteen cities.
nyc.indymedia.org/or/2011/09/115967.html
nyc.indymedia.org/or/2011/09/116119.html

Chicago "Vulture Capitalist" Focus of California Apartment Sale Protest
Indybay featured a protest against a Chicago-based venture capitalist over affordable housing. Quoting from the feature: ""Don’t Sell To Zell!” shouted East Palo Alto tenants and supporters, as they rallied on August 22nd in front of a Wells Fargo branch in downtown Palo Alto, California. The demonstrators protested Wells Fargo’s pending arrangement with investment group Equity Residential, of which Sam Zell is the founder and chairman. The proposed sale would transfer ownership of more than half of the rent-controlled housing in East Palo Alto. East Palo Alto is one of the few affordable communities on the San Francisco Peninsula and is home to many people of color. Sam Zell [a Chicago-area-based capitalist and the chair of the Chicago-based Tribune Company] is a well-known opponent of rent control, and has jokingly called himself a "vulture capitalist". His company, Equity LifeStyle, has sued multiple California cities to invalidate local rent control laws, and funded a statewide ballot measure to end rent control in California. Wells Fargo made a stated commitment to involve the community in transitioning the property to new ownership. Protesters accused the bank of breaking their promise to East Palo Alto tenants."
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/08/28/18688928.php

Chicago to host Midwest Regional March for Peace and Justice
Chicago Indymedia has featured the upcoming Midwest Regional March for Peace, scheduled for October 8th. Activists under the banner Chicago Mass Action are organizing a rally and march at the intersection of Michigan and Congress on October 8th, 2011, starting at Noon. The protest marks ten years since the launch of the U.S. war and occupation in Afghanistan, launched in the wake of 9/11; some 800 activists marched in protest in downtown Chicago in October 2001 when the war in Afghanistan was announced. A number of events building up to the march on October 8th across the Chicago area are listed at the website chicagomassaction.org
chicago.indymedia.org/feature/display/70458/index.php

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