This SUNDAY at 3:00 at lafayette park (The white house) come stand against racist, bigots and other anti immigrant folks coming to town for the Hold Their Feet to the Fire confrence

These drills have been used in the past to cover intelligence angencies blowing people up and then blaming terrorists!

Organisers from the Philippines’ biggest left trade union centre, Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP — Solidarity of Filipino Workers) spoke to Green Left Weekly’s Sue Bolton about the repression that they encounter from the state and their efforts to unify left-wing trade unions.

Similarities to Iraqi protests of American destruction of their land exist in Western cultures.

The Campaign to Stop Funding Hate announces the launch of our new report on the Hindu Students Council (HSC): Lying Religiously: The Hindu Students Council and the Politics of Deception . The report brings together evidence from multiple sources to demonstrate a web of connections between the HSC and the violent, ultra-right Sangh family (the RSS family of organizations, also referred to as the Sangh Parivar), and exposes the deliberate efforts of the HSC leadership to conceal its links with the Sangh family in order to deceive Hindu-American college students. The report provides the first comprehensive documentation of the origins, methods and practices of the HSC.

After the success of the last gathering in Tavertet, we are calling for a new one this year. It will take place the 8, 9, 10 and 11 of September.

an email from the Edwards

We all know the terrifying statistics: a million species extinct by 2050, 19 of the 20 hottest years on record since 1980, Greenland and Antarctica melting, droughts, floods, famines … the G8 have had over 30 years to address climate change and only succeeded in providing trillions in subsidies to the very industries that are destroying our planet and our future.

Endless partitioning and subdivisons of major portions of European soil, invariably leave a vacuum and potential platforms of some (yet un-named) future terror are born. It could be Jihad, it could be something else.

Larry Kloze is a master gardener who has worked on many community gardens in Baltimore City. Indymedia met with Mr. Kloze at his home in April 2007. Note: Look for Indypendent Reader Spring 2007, a special issue on food and poverty.