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Sean Bell Civil Disobedience Actions

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  • May 7, 2008

Joseph Guzman outside One Police Plaza, just before his arrest(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
NEW YORK — Civil Disobedience actions shutdown the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queensboro Bridges today during rush hour. The protests were called by Reverend Al Sharpton and his National Action Network as part of a campaign to force a Department of Justice investigation […]

SDS Issues Demands To New School Board Of Trustees

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  • May 6, 2008

New School SDS marching in an Iraq Moratorium action(Photo: Thomas Good / NLN)
NEW YORK — The New School chapter of Students for a Democratic Society rallied today, calling on students, staff, and faculty to support its campaign “for a socially just, responsible, and democratic university.” By the end of the protest SDS had convinced the […]

Chapel Hill DA Drops Charges Against Student Activist

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  • May 5, 2008

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Students for a Democratic Society member Tamara Tal and her attorney Al McSurely are declaring victory in a court battle for first amendment rights. On April 30 Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey L. Nieman sent a letter to McSurely stating that he had filed a voluntary dismissal in the case of State […]

Vito Fossella Arrested For DWI

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  • May 4, 2008

Vito Fossella’s DWI Mug Shot
Congressman Vito Fossella was arrested for driving while intoxicated on Thursday. Detained by Virginia police after running a red light, Fossella was subsequently charged with DWI. He has an initial hearing scheduled for May 12. If he is convicted of drunk driving, Fossella faces a mandatory 5 days in jail. […]

Columbia 1968 to 2008: The View From Texas

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  • May 3, 2008

Mark Rudd and Grace (Linda) LeClair at the Columbia 68-08 event.(Photo: Alice Embree / The Rag)
[Alice Embree is an Austin activist, writer and Ragblogger. She played a major role in Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the sixties and seventies, both in Austin and New York, and wrote for underground papers Rat and The […]

Hundreds March In Austin For Immigrant Rights

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  • May 2, 2008

(Photo: Alice Embree / MDS Austin)
AUSTIN, Texas — Activists in Austin filled several city blocks in a lively May Day march for immigrants rights on Thursday, May 1, International Workers Day.
An ethnically diverse crowd that grew to about 700 gathered at Austin City Hall for a rally at 4:30 p.m., then marched to the Travis […]