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Jennifer Weppler and Tiffany Schwabacher, Student Organizers at the College of Staten Island
New York, NY - April 30, 2007. Student organizers at various schools are organizing fasts and other events as part of a week of action against the Iraq War. Events will run from April 30 through May 4th.
As the new Congress works […]

At the end of June, something amazing is happening. It’s going to be the largest gathering of U.S. based grassroots social movements and organizations in recent history. It’s called the US Social Forum (www.ussf2007.org). USSF organizing is being led by people of color, women, queer, and poor folks. Over 10,000 participants will come to Atlanta […]

(Photo Montage: www.billayers.org)
Chicago, IL - from www.billayers.org
DEFEND WARD CHURCHILLDear Colleagues,In Brecht’s play Galileo the great astronomer sets forth into a world dominated by a mighty church and an authoritarian power: “The cities are narrow and so are the brains,” he declares recklessly. “Superstition and plague. But now the word is: since […]

New York, NY - April 18, 2007. Elaine Brower, Tom Good, Sally Jones, Ben Maurer and Barbara Walker were arrested on March 23, 2007 in Congressman Vito Fossella’s office. Their crime? Reading the names of the (US) war dead aloud and demanding a meeting with their representative so they might discuss […]

[written by the ucf sds journalistic anti-collective] 
Orlando, FL — April 11, 2007.  On April 11th 2007, SDS at UCF along with the Walk Out Now Coalition staged a mass student, faculty and staff walk out against the war in Iraq.  A banner encouraging students to walk out of their bomb factory, a.k.a. their university, was […]

Members of Peace Action in a candlelight procession
(Photo: Thomas Good / Next Left Notes)
Staten Island, NY - April 12, 2007. Peace Action Staten Island assembled at pro-war Congressman Vito Fossella’s office last night and from there processed north on Amboy Road in a visually stunning candlelight procession - eventually arriving at Fossella’s […]

The Department of Justice plans to build power plants on the sacred Natural Medicine Lake Highlands near Mt. Shasta. These are spiritual places for the Native peoples of California, and are just another instance of the colonialism and genocide that continues to this day against Indigenous people in the U.S. and beyond.
Could you imagine if […]

Letter to The Nation, regarding Christopher Phelps’ “The New SDS” (April 16, 2007). Reprinted from the Monthly Review: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/dohrn050407.html
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The Nation
Chicago
Christopher Phelps has written a timely but ultimately disappointing
article about the vibrant and growing student movement. He transforms the
tough challenges of movement-building into a set of tepid formulas about
what not to do. The new […]

ORLANDO, Fl. - April 5, 2007. Orlando activist and Food Not Bombs participant Eric Montanez was arresteded for violating Orlando’s “large group feedings” ordinance. This ordinance was passed last summer and bans the public distribution of food to a number of 25 or more individuals in over 40 parks in […]

Providence, RI - April 6, 2007. MDSers have announced a “Port of Providence” Conference to be held on April 15th, 2007 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Radical historian and MDS Inc, Board member Paul Buhle, who is a senior lecturer at Brown, said: “A relaxed discussion will follow two […]