During the recent trial of the Ghosts of the Iraq War it came to light that a private e-mail between anti-war protesters was intercepted by the police. In a November 7th hearing related to five of the 10 defendants, Eric Orsini with the National Capitol Police testified.

Klaus Offe, a left thinker, once proposed Offe's paradox, the idea that "while capitalism cannot coexist with, neither can it exist without the welfare state. Canada has done better than some countries in protecting social welfare
The welfare state is not dead; what is dead is people's economic security. Viva la Causa!

A Call to Anarchists: NO SURRENDER – NO RETREAT
WE WANT IT ALL: REAL HOPE MEANS TAKING ACTION!
January 20th, 2009

Ex-slave and Abolitionist Fredrick Douglas famously observed that power cedes nothing without struggle. The history of civil rights movements in this country also demonstrate that even the most fundamental democratic gains are temporary at best without vigilant struggle that can potentially challenge the power of the rulers against the ruled. Nothing has ever been gained and secured by simply relying on the institutions of the state and its politicians. Any implementation of progressive measures on their part has only been the product of independent mass mobilizations that have kept their forces in the streets until the sought after gains were won.

We have again been reminded of this by the recent passage of Proposition 8 in California, a bigoted mean-spirited ballot measure aimed at denying gays and lesbians the fundamental democratic right to marry whom they wish. Last June, after decades of constant organizing, educating, and protesting on the part of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) people and their supporters, the California Supreme Court was compelled to legalize same sex marriages. The purpose of Proposition 8 was to overturn this gain, leaving 18,000 same sex marriages performed in California since June in question. However, social movements aren't like films that can be run backwards and then replayed in the exact same way. The narrow victory of Proposition 8 (52% against, 48% opposed) has resulted in the opposite of its intended effect. It has re-energized the struggle for LGBT rights to a major degree, so that many are calling this movement “Stonewall II” after that inaugural rebellious act of the modern U.S. gay rights movement fighting for their rights in 1969.

It is time for the workers and the poor in the Philippines to prepare for the worse the moment its government keeps on repeating the mantra that the economic fundamentals remain good and thus there is little to worry about effects of the global recessionary trend. The world found itself in the present mess precisely because of such blind faith in neoliberal fundamentalism.

The Environmental Defense Fund has settled their appeal of the lawsuit against construction of the Inter-County Connector superhighway. They settled the lawsuit for-get this-about $2,000,000 worth of emission control upgrades to MD school buses and some monitoring equipment!

continued genocide against our Native peoples.

They were 2, then 4, then 20, on Howard University campus rallying, and asking all to sign on to a request for appeal and a re-trial for Troy Anthony Davis. Davis was finally granted oral arguments before a 3 panel judges from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on December 9th at 1pm. Open to Public… here are some of the photos of that day. Some nearly got arrested for practicing their free speech on campus.

Friends, this is Diane Bukowski, who has published articles since 2000 in The Michigan Citizen regarding police brutality, killings by police, and the failure of Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy to pursue charges against Detroit police officers who kill, among numerous other issues. I am now seeking your support. I am being arraigned Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 1:30 p.m. in 36th District Court on FIVE FELONY COUNTS of assaulting, resisting and obstructing police officers while I was doing my job. Needless to say, these charges are completely FALSE.