It is our patriotic duty to defend the area of freedom that people’s power had carved out in the struggle against the Marcos dictatorship. The best way to defend freedom is to exercise it. Responsible citizens cannot watch in silence as the minions of Mrs. Arroyo make a mockery of our democratic rights.

Federal troops burst into Oaxaca massacring the people. The best of the working people of Oaxaca have risen up to face the troops of the murderous government

La iglesia expulsó a los maestros y miembros de la
Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca que habían pedido asilo para no ser reprimidos o encarcelados
por las autoridades estatales al mando del gobernador Ulises Ruiz y el Ejército mexicano.

Gaza: The winter rains have started and the temperatures are falling everyday. Unsealed roads are fast becoming muddy tracks. The heavens are weeping too, witness to the frightful events that are unfolding now in that devastated and forgotten strip of land that we call Gaza, home to 3 million Palestinians.

End of the Republican Era: Will the Democrats End the War?

These days a new indymedia-film concerning the situation of palestinian refugees in Lebanon was released.

The Empire and Inequality Report Volume I, no 1
Beating something awful with nothing wonderful.

Any time you hear the term bipartisan, check “your six” and check your wallet. It means the ruling class is united and on the move. Given the history of this term, I can’t imagine why it doesn’t send shudders down our collective spine. They call it bipartisanship; but it’s more like The Bipartisan Ship — the primary war vessel of the ultra-elite.

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In 1974, Elizabeth Holtzman, then a Congresswoman from New York City, served on the House’s Judiciary Committee, which drafted Impeachment charges against then-President, Richard M. Nixon. On Nov. 11, 2006, she appeared on a panel, in Philadelphia, PA. Holtzman believes George W. Bush has “subverted the Constitution” and that “the people are ahead of the politicians” and will bring Bush and Dick Cheney “to impeachment.”