Food Not Bombs groups have a lot of varying approaches, but here’s a somewhat different tactic employed by Spanish activists. “Unemployed activists and union members stormed into two supermarkets, one in Sevilla and one in Cadiz to fill up trolleys with basic food supplies in order to feed the disadvantaged. This act was organized...
Before entering the meeting room there was a table with a sign-in sheet and a researcher who was conducting a survey. The survey asked questions regarding how much general information the participant had about GM mosquitoes, their opinion about when, if ever GM mosquitoes should be...
Prohíben en EEUU la solidaridad con los pobres y los sin hogar In the midst of the economic crisis in which thousands of Americans are struggling to survive, the local authorities in the United States. UU. do not feel satisfied with the controversial HR 347 federal law that penalizes the protests...
How long has Moscow ABC been in operation, and what does it do? There were previous anti-repression groups, but first incarnation under label of ABC-Moscow was...
(reposted from ZCommunications.org with permission from the author…thanks Sandy! Also if you liked the toons, check out TedRall.com) When the Obama administration took office in 2009, it was confronted with an extraordinary problem: what to do about the crimes of the previous administration, in particular its illegal global campaign of kidnapping, torture, and...
Everyone has forgotten your name. You pace endless streets in tattered shoes with soaked clothes against the skin of your back. The only place to sleep is a bus shelter, where you become invisible in a frenzied world of strangers. Worse, no one can sense your hunger pains as they grow stronger every day....
Nizhny Novgorod anti-fascists need your solidarity and support! Food Not Bombs activist Artyom Bystrov arrested in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia A call for coordinated actions around the world on March 16–18, 2012 http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20120215172010899 Nizhny Novgorod anti-fascists need your solidarity and support! Wednesday, February 15 2012 @ 05:20 PM CST We, the anti-fascists and anarchists of...
For years the communities of Palm Beach county, along with many determined environmental activists, have stood in front of many of South Florida’s worst developmental excesses. This has included campaigns against the expansion of nuclear and natural gas plants and overreach into the Everglades that have gone on for a decade or more. If...
For some reason, the weekend of October 15th was the weekend all the cool kids decided to Occupy stuff in Florida. It didn’t seem to rely on this new “direct democracy” or on people’s actual ideas on how to change the system, everyone just kind of knew it had to happen. Almost as soon...
