Category: Reposts

Visual Report Back from October 9th Global Wave of Action (Against Education Cutbacks)

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Here’s a little video that has showed up on the International Student Movement website that chronicles a whole slew of actions against the privatization of education by students around the world. Portland State University is featured at the beginning. Big ups to the peeps in the streets!

Some more subMedia.

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This week on Its The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine we have a number of things goin’ on round town. Of particular interest is the case of Alex Hundert, an organizer of Toronto’s G20 protest, who is has been arrested (again!) for uhh… speaking… at a conference at Read more about Some more subMedia.[…]

Women Occupy Vancouver Police Station to Demand an Investigation into Missing and Murdered Women

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Three women are arrested after they occupy a downtown Vancouver Police Department station to bring attention to missing and murdered women. Ashley Machisknic, a 22 year old was found brutally murdered on September 15th, 2010. Her death is the latest to plague Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, one of the poorest postal codes in Canada. As with Read more about Women Occupy Vancouver Police Station to Demand an Investigation into Missing and Murdered Women[…]

Coup Attempt in Ecuador Is a Result of Sec. Clinton’s Cowardice in Honduras

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Oh, crap. Another year, another coup in Latin America. And while today’s attempt by police forces in Ecuador went so far as to fire tear gas at elected president Rafael Correa, the military brass in the South American country have sided with the democratic order – its top general is on TV right now strongly backing the elected government – and this one isn’t likely to go as well for the anti-democracy forces as last year’s did in Honduras.

The Stimulator Strikes Again

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Former Fugee for Prezident?!? Melting Ice Caps?!? Flooding in Pakistan?!? Doomed Food Chain?!? In this sEdition, our friend the Stimulator covers: 1. Asian floods 2. Ice Ice Baby 3. Hot pockets 4. Bread ban 5. Phytoplankton apocalypse 6. Intergalactic pimp 7. Under Pressure 8. If I was president

subMedia strikes again!

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Some may be shocked. Some may be awed. Some just won’t care. Things get hot in this episode as the Stimulator brings us news and views from around the world with a slightly different perspective than CNN. It might be prudent to warn those that are feint of heart to plug your ears and look Read more about subMedia strikes again![…]

Paramilitaries kill human rights activists in Oaxaca

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Jyri Antero Jaakkola (February 11, 1977 – April 27, 2010 Oaxaca, Mexico) was a Finnish human-rights activist. He was on his way to San Juan Copala, a village of Trique indigenous people that has declared itself autonomous, as a human-rights observer when he was shot dead by UBISORT, a paramilitary organization connected to Institutional Revolutionary Party. In the attack died also Alberta Cariño, an activist for the local organization CACTUS, and more than ten people were wounded.