by Debra Sweet Yesterday, Occupy Oakland was evicted, again, from Oscar Grant Park at Oakland City Hall, after the unprecedented general strike on November 2. See Occupy Oakland: Police Tear Down Camp…
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Statements From Susan Sarandon, Nawal El Saadawi, and Others in Support of Hunger Strikers
This article originally appeared on the site Revolution At the July 14 emergency meeting at Revolution Books in New York City on the Pelican Bay hunger strike, participants discussed the need to…
WikiLeaks and the 22 Children of Guantánamo
By Andy Worthington In May 2008, in a submission to the 48th Session of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (PDF), the Pentagon claimed that it had only held…
San Francisco Bay Area War Criminal Protests
Condoleeza Rice to appear at Stanford University tomorrow, Friday, as the keynote speaker on the "rule of law in China." SF Bay Area World Can’t Wait writes: Decades of bombing, invasion, occupation…
Not thinking like “Americans”
By Debra Sweet Recently the message "stop thinking like Americans and start thinking like a human being" was posted on World Can’t Wait’s Facebook page. The post got a large number of…
From Vermont: Arrest Bush and Cheney
This article is from Reuters By Andy Sullivan Voters in two Vermont towns on Tuesday approved a measure that would instruct police to arrest President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick…
Andy Worthington Visits the US to Campaign for the Closure of Guantánamo on the 9th Anniverary of the Prison’s Opening, January 6-12
by Andy Worthington The 9th anniversary of the opening of the “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay is on January 11, and, in the hope of raising awareness of the need…
US Military Pushes for ‘Routine’ Ground Raids into Pakistan
by Jason Ditz Though officials were quick to point out that it had not yet been formally approved, top US commanders are pressing the Obama Administration to allow the massive escalation of…
US Military Pushes for ‘Routine’ Ground Raids into Pakistan
by Jason Ditz Though officials were quick to point out that it had not yet been formally approved, top US commanders are pressing the Obama Administration to allow the massive escalation…
WikiLeaks Founder Released as Supporters Put Up 200,000 Pounds by Jason Ditz British judge Howard Riddle reversed course today, freeing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on 200,000 pounds (about $360,000) bail after refusing to grant him bail at a hearing
by: Robert Naiman Since E.D. Hirsch failed in his noble jihad to enforce Cultural Literacy, I can’t assume readers are familiar with the scene in "Annie Hall" in which Woody Allen stops…