One of the speakers at a Capitol Hill rally, on Wednesday, May 13, 2009, advocating for a Single Payer Healthcare System was actor Mike Farrell. Mr. Farrell is a long time champion of progressive causes and a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). The spirited event was organized by the California Nurses Assoc/NNOC. The healthcare activists are supporting HR 676 and S 703, now pending before the U.S. Congress. For background and any updates, see:
http://www.healthcare-now.org (…)
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Video: Actor Mike Farrell at Capitol Hill Rally for Single Payer Healthcare
14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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Video: Activists Champion Single Payer Cause
14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
On Wednesday, May 13, 2009, a rally was held on Capitol Hill advocating for a Single Payer Healthcare System. I talked with activists Dr. Carol E. Ritter, Adrienne Breidenstine, James Crawford, Adam Schneider and Medea Benjamin about the issue. The spirited event was organized by the California Nurses Assoc/NNOC. The healthcare activists are supporting HR 676 and S 703, now pending before the U.S. Congress. For background and any updates, see:
http://www.healthcare-now.org
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Video: Ashraf Protection Campaign: Rally at White House
9 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
On Friday, May 8, 2009, activists from the “Ashraf Protection Campaign” staged a rally in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House. This is the 100th day that they have done so. They are concerned about preventing a “looming humanitarian crisis in Camp Ashraf,” according to their press release. Camp Ashraf is located in the town of Khalis, in Iraq, nearly “50 miles from the Iranian border.” About 4000 men, women and children—all political refugees from Iran—currently reside in (…)
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Voice: Arrests on Capitol Hill over Single Payer Health Care Issue
5 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
On May 5, 2009, eight activists were arrested at a health care hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, in the Dirksen Office Building, Room 106. As soon as the Committee Chair, Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), opened the proceedings, the activists began in turns to stand and to make comments, like: “Why isn’t a single payer at the table?” They were immediately “escorted” out of the room by the Capitol Hill police and placed under arrest.
The demonstrators’ press release underscored “how 22,000 (…) -
Video: Springtime for AIPAC: Annual Confab in D.C. Draws Protest
5 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsIt’s Springtime for AIPAC! The mega-Israel Lobby convenes annually in Washington, D.C. at the convention center. AIPAC sucks out over $3 billion a year from our fast fading treasury for Israel with little or no dissent from the fakers in the U.S. Congress. If only the cities of Detroit, LA, Atlanta and Baltimore had such a puffed-up advocate in their corner. If you’re lucky, you can spot some of your Congressional low lifes crawling on all fours into the convention center to pay homage to (…)
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Video: Scenes from the Immigration Reform Rally at the White House
2 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
On May 1, 2009, a spirited rally, with a huge crowd in attendance, was held in late afternoon in Lafayette Park, just north of the White House. The demonstration called for “just and humane immigration reform;” an end to raids and deportation of immigrants by the “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement” (ICE) agents; a stop to “287g agreements,” which have resulted in police collaboration with ICE; and for the U.S. Congress to pass a “comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation in 2009.” (…)
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VIDEO: IMF / WOrld Bank Beat Down in A Sharp
1 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
Multiple simultaneous marches bring attention to the affairs of the World Bank & International Monetary Fund. It was all fun and games until somebody put an eye out. Includes critical visual analysis of why it turned so ugly so fast.
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Video: Over 50 Anti-Torture Activists Arrested at White House Protest
30 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
On Thursday, April 30, 2009, in a massive act of non-violent “Civil Resistance” over 50 activists were arrested at a protest action in front of the White House. The protesters refused to move from the sidewalk when ordered to so by the police. The activists were demanding that the administration of President Barack Obama uphold the supremacy of the Law and investigate and prosecute wrongdoers in the Bush-Cheney Gang responsible for “acts of torture.” The demonstration was sponsored by the (…)
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The University of Calgary must Cancel Condi Rice: a Petition
27 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsOn May 13, the University of Alberta plans to open their new School of Public Policy with an opening gala at which the guest of honour is Condoleezza Rice. Rice has emerged as a central figure in the developing US torture and war crimes scandal. "This is your baby. Go do it," Rice is reported to have said authorizing waterboarding by CIA.
Regrettably there has been little protest from the academic community in Canada, or the national student organizations who have been aware of Rice’s (…) -
Petition from the Friends of Lebanese Solidarity Committee for the freedom of the Cuban Five to the President Obama
18 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION
His Excellency Mr. President Barack Obama: The White House, Washington DC USA
Mr. President Obama,
The undersigned, based on your slogan “Yes We Can”, hasten to inform you, and the American people, our deep concern about the method you treat and develop the case of Cuban five prisoners and their families, especially in regard to the systematic and continuous refusal to grant temporary visas to Adriana Pérez, wife of Gerardo and Olga Salanueva, the wife of (…)