Month: Jan 2017

Chicago, January 20: Protest the Inauguration of Donald Trump! Say No to Racism!

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Friday, January 20, 5 p.m., Riverwalk at Wabash and E. Wacker Drive, Chicago

Protest the Inauguration of Donald Trump
Say No to Racism
Say No to the Trump Agenda

On the first day of the new administration, join thousands of Chicagoans to protest the Trump Agenda.

We’ll declare our determination to resist all attacks that Trump is bringing: on immigrants, Black people, Arabs and Muslims, workers, women, Native Americans, and the environment.

We’ll defend the 99% against the Trump cabinet of billionaires, generals, and racists that represent the 1%.

We’ll stand up along with massive protests that are occurring at the inauguration in Washington, DC, and in other cities across the country.

We’ll stand with college and high school students that are planning walkouts.

We’ll pledge to continue our resistance to the attacks coming from the likes of Illinois Governor…

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London women’s anti-Trump march, 21 January

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London women's anti-Trump march, 21 January

There will not only be anti-Donald Trump demonstrations on the day of his inauguration, 20 January, in Washington, DC, elsewhere in the USA, and, eg, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and in London, England.

There will not only be women’s anti-Donald Trump demonstrations on the day after his inauguration, 21 January, in Washington, DC; and, eg, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; also in London, England.

From British anti-nuclear weapons peace movement CND, on Twitter:

CND is proud to be joining the Women’s March in London on 21 January. We’re marching to say No to Trump’s Arms Race.

CND anti-Trump demonstration

See also here.

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Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning’s Sentence — but She won’t Be Freed till May!

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Chelsea Manning was jailed for exposing US state mass murder. She is a hero and should be released NOW,, not left to suffer 4 more months in solitary without even the chance of suicide.

Chelsea was not pardoned.. her sentence was only reduced.. no need for Assange to surrender

Obama was the president of permanent spreading war for profit, spilling millions of liters of human blood… now he hopes to be praised for an -act of clemency-,. And what about Peltier, Mumia, Shakur, Lopez Rivera and a host of other innocent political prisoners who need amnesty?.manning_sticker_dealWashington, D.C. – In a stunning move, President Barack Obama announced the commutation of the prison sentence of whistleblower and former Army private Chelsea Manning. With the announcement, Manning will now be released on May 17, 2017 — rather than in 2045 as originally sentenced.

Melbourne: Philippines consulate redecorated in protest against Duterte’s murderous war on drug users

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Received on 17.01.17:

In response to the call for action from drug users in the Philippines to highlight the dangerous situation they are facing under the murderous Duterte regime, we decided to pay a visit to the Philippines consulate in Melbourne.

On the night of 16.01.17 we redecorated the entrance of the consulate with red paint, flyers and syringes. The red paint is to symbolize the blood of the thousands of drug users that have been murdered during a brutal nationwide pogrom by police and Catholic ‘citizen’ vigilante groups since Duterte took power in May 2016. Each syringe represents 25 murdered drug users – around 20 drug users are killed each day in the Philippines. The flyers read ‘PINOY DRUG USERS JAB BACK!’, ‘SHOOT DUTERTE NOT DRUG USERS!’, ‘STOP DUTERTE’S WAR ON THE POOR – DEATH TO ALL FASCIST HEADS OF STATE!’ and ‘ONE SYRINGE = 25 KILLED –…

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No food, no medicine, no money, no world support: Yemenis faces mass death by starvation

 
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[ Ed. note – Official death toll now passed 10,000. Where’s Obama? Where’s John Kerry? Where are all the neocons who have been theatrically voicing their anguish over the people of Aleppo? How come we’re not hearing from them on the horrible situation in this Yemeni town? How come the Saudis are allowed to fire upon Yemeni fishermen when they try to take their boats to sea to catch fish, and Samantha Power has nothing to say about it at the UN?  How come despite all evidence the US and UK etc keep right on profiteering by selling arms and supporting the Saudis in their endless ethnic/religious bombing and blockading of their north Yemeni neighbours?!)
by Richard Edmondson   Nearly 19 million Yemenis are in need of humanitarian aid, according to the UN, but the worst of the civilian impact of the two-year civil war in the country has fallen on the district of Tuhayat on the Red Sea coast.

As RT’s Arabic-language crew visited the area, they witnessed scenes of chaos – as locals scrambled to acquire food – and quiet desperation, with many residents swollen with hunger, waiting for outside help, or resigned to their fate. Continue reading “No food, no medicine, no money, no world support: Yemenis faces mass death by starvation”

Melbourne: Graffiti at the Turkish consulate in solidarity with imprisoned members of Grup Yorum

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During the night of 16.01.17 some anarchists painted the slogan ‘Grup Yorum Cannot Be Silenced’ on the Turkish consulate in Melbourne, Australia.

Grup Yorum are a left-wing folk band from Turkey who have been active for over 30 years. Their music is highly critical of the Turkish state and its members support and participate in activism against the state. They have been systematically targeted for represession by the Turkish state for decades. Currently 7 members of the band have been imprisoned since November 2016 on ridiculous charges of ‘belonging to a terrorist organization’.

This action is in response to the call from our anarchist comrades in the South East Asia region demanding the immediate release of all imprisoned Grup Yorum members and for worldwide autonomous actions to highlight the fascist nature of the Turkish state.

Grup Yorum Cannot Be Silenced!

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Mumia Wins Federal Court Victory On Hep-C Treatment!

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denverabc's avatarDenver Anarchist Black Cross

From Indybay:

mumia-2On January 3rd, a federal court granted Mumia Abu-Jamal’s petition for immediate and effective treatment for his Hepatitis-C infection, which has hitherto been denied him. The judge struck down Pennsylvania’s protocols as “deliberate indifference to serious medical need,” said Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia.

Bret Grote, of the Abolitionist Law Center, and associate attorney Bob Boyle led the case in court. “This is the first case in the country in which a federal court has ordered prison officials to provide an incarcerated patient with the new [Hep-C] medications that came on the market in 2013,” said Grote.

This is a rare and important win for innocent political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal in a court system that has routinely subjected him to the “Mumia exception,” i.e., a refusal of justice despite court precedents in his favor. Thousands of Hep-C-infected prisoners throughout Pennsylvania and the US stand to benefit from…

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