Last year, we helped lead a successful campaign against Facebook's privacy invading beacon program. When Facebook refused to drop Beacon, we got their advertisers to drop them. When Facebook said they dropped Beacon, we showed that they lied.
Read more »Thanks to the bivouac and Uptake. Iraq war veterans challenge war-mongerer McCain:
Associated Press captured one of the first major protests:
Read more »This article was acquired from Green Left Weekly.
Capitalism, agribusiness and the food sovereignty alternative
Ian Angus
21 June 2008
Below is part two of a special feature on the global food crisis. Green Left Weekly published the first part in #750. Both parts are reprinted from http://socialistvoice.ca. The author edits http://climateandcapitalism.com.
“Nowhere in the world, in no act of [...]
Considerations on a Revolutionary Situation in the U.S.: Likely Triggering Factors, Potential Political Contours
by M. Upshaw
Let’s explore and debate the conceptual framework and scenarios of this little-known article. It suggests a number of hypothetical scenarios that could trigger deep political and social crisis in the U.S. — and that could open the way toward a [...]
Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal examines the Obama candidacy from a Black nationalist perspective. (the “ours” in his title refers to African American people. Posting a point of view does not imply Kasama’s endorsement of those views. (Thanks to Iris for suggesting this post.)
by Mumia Abu-Jamal
With the attainment of the required delegates to claim the [...]
Media, culture and news of this society have never been so tightly controlled and commodified (and effectively censored) . Ah but then, on another level, there emerges channels of information and exchange that are very hard to control.
whaddawegonnadoaboudit?
Some remain fixated on getting onto TV — on “that plane of the superstructure” — while ignoring the [...]
By Mike Ely
I’d like to share some experiences around the collision between revolutionary communist work and fundamentalist religion in the coalfields during the high-tide of wildcat strikes there in the 1970s. Some earlier discussion of communist work in the mines is in other posts on this site.
I was working in a large mostly Black mine [...]
"Es puro terrorismo", dijo Álvaro Uribe, al referirse a las manifestaciones y confrontaciones con unidades antidisturbios que los estudiantes de la Universidad Pedagógica de Bogotá protagonizaron.
Read more »The following article appeared in the Washington Post exposing large-scale involuntary drugging and other outrageous mistreatment of immigrants being deported.
Some Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation: Immigrants Sedated Without Medical Reason
by Amy Goldstein and Dana Priest | Washington Post Staff Writers
The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against [...]
Al Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj has hit out at the treatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison where he was held for nearly six and a half years.
Read more »INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE OF MAY DAY EVENTS
Across the day, Kasama will be covering May Day events around the country and world, with reports, photos, and videos from across the globe in celebration of the holiday that celebrates the struggle for the emancipation of humanity. Watch this site across the day for exciting coverage of International Workers [...]
Haymarket 1886 and the “Troublesome Element”
By Mike Ely
During 1885 a circular passed hand to hand through the ranks of the proletariat in the United States. With the following words it called for class-wide action on May 1, 1886:
“One day of revolt – not rest! A day not ordained by the [...]
Sin ninguna duda, la nacionalización de Sidor anunciada por el Vicepresidente es el resultado de la lucha y la movilización tenaz que los trabajadores han venido desarrollando desde hace más de año y medio".
Read more »At least 100,000 Serbs have gathered in central Belgrade in a protest against Kosovo's declaration of independence, raising fears of street violence. The state railway company made free trains available to bring protesters to Thursday's rally, which was organised after Kosovo unilaterally decided to secede from Belgrade on Sunday. As the demonstration became more violent, rioters broke into the US embassy and set fire to the facade.
Read more »El comandante Raúl Reyes aseguró que el gobierno español y la Iglesia Católica de Colombia se autoexcluyeron como posibles mediadores en el canje de prisioneros, al tomar partido a favor del narcogobierno de Álvaro Uribe.
Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) descartaron la participación de España y de la iglesia en un eventual mecanismo mediador hacia el canje humanitario en declaraciones a Prensa Latina vía Internet.
300 troquer@s based in South Gate and Mira Loma went on strike against HUDD et al.
These workers were mostly young latino migrants with a very visible participation of women truck drivers. Most of them had been in the harbor about 5 years with maybe as few as 10% going back to the CWA days of 1996 and only a handful that were present during the 1980s.
Democratic Process Not So Easy For Minor Party Candidate Moore---Several Miles from New Hampshire Border Where Major Party Candidates Campaign Effortlessly
Brattleboro, VT, Monday, January 7, 2008, — Socialist Party USA Presidential Nominee Brian Moore was threatened with arrest Sunday afternoon by Brattleboro (Vermont) Police officers for petitioning in a supermarket parking lot to qualify on the presidential primary ballot of the Liberty Union Party of Vermont. The primary is scheduled for March 5th
Read more »Los resultados políticos a 30 meses de gestión gubernamental (enero 2006 agosto 2007) muestran una aceptación y crecimiento electoral jamás visto hasta ahora en nuestra historia
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