Financial jugglers speculating with food, oil and other raw materials caused double-digit inflation and made staple foods like rice and wheat into luxury items for millions. Neoliberalism with one blow managed to drive nation states to the defensive.

Meet in Baltimore, Tuesday November 18th at 4pm, at the War Memorial Plaza (Holiday & E. Lexington)in front of City Hall.

Contact: Unite Here! Mid-Atlantic Region

410-659-2191 ext. 12

Their is an uprising going on at UGSOA as 710 Security Police Professionals working for the State Department in Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland, Colorado, Kentucky, New Orleans, Connecticut, California, South Carolina, Arizona and New York voted to DUMP UGSOA as their collective bargaining agent on 9/10/08.

The money must be taken from those who profited from the past financial system. Thus a tax reform must be on the agenda. A state investment programs is also urgently necessary. The past growth model of global capitalism is in a structural crisis. A new economy must go beyond the profit logic.

Meet in Baltimore, Tuesday November 18th at 4pm, at the War Memorial Plaza (Holiday & E. Lexington)in front of City Hall.

Contact: Unite Here! Mid-Atlantic Region

410-659-2191 ext. 12

Philippine social movements hit G-20 summit’s exclusivity, call for a new and democratic world order

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Nov. 21-23, 2008: Converge on Fort Benning, GA

The annual November vigil to close the School of the Americas at the gates of Fort Benning will follow the election of President Barack Obama by two weeks. It will be an opportunity for the progressive movement to push for the closure of the SOA/WHINSEC and to set an agenda against oppressive U.S. foreign policy, whatever the result of that election will be.

Relegating the world’s future to the hands of same leaders who created the current global economic crisis is a recipe to further disaster, according to Partido ng Manggagawa (Workers Party), a militant labor party in the country which joined hundreds of other protesters in a march to the US embassy this morning in time for the G20 Summit in Washington DC.

Students attacked on Berkeley campus for expressing pro-Israel sentiment