Indymedia-Quebec (CMAQ) - Politics

What Will It Take to Defeat the War?

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:56:07 -0400

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On June 28-29, an “Open National Antiwar Conference” was held in Cleveland, called by a newly minted National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation. Over objections from the conference organizers, centrally Socialist Action, the assembly voted to change the name to include reference to the war on Afghanistan, and to emphasize the connection with U.S. backing for the Zionist occupation of Palestine. (The sponsors of the confab were so right-wing that they feared losing “unity” with Democratic Party supporters of Israel and the Afghanistan war!) What did not change at all was the popular-front character of the new outfit, tying it to the bourgeois parties despite the fig leaf of electoral “independence.” Making this utterly clear, it was decided not to call a national antiwar mobilization prior to the November elections explicitly in order to court those forces who wish to aid the Democrats (and therefore want to avoid making problems for the presumptive Democratic nominee, Barack Obama). Here is the leaflet issued by the Internationalist Group at the conference.

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www.internationalist.org

ALB interviews the Cuban Libertarian Movement

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:31:41 -0400

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* During mid-June 2008 the Iberian counter-information collective A Las Barricadas www.alasbarricadas.org posed several questions to the MLC www.mlc.acultura.org.ve, an affinity group of Cuban anarchism abroad. The complete text of this interview follows.

The Odds of Change: A Statistical Look at Our Democrat’s Voting Records

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:17:09 -0400

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We want change. Obama says he will deliver change, as did the Democrats in '06. Yet nothing could be farther from the truth. Even the statistics prove the Democrats have failed us.

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www.takebackwashington.com

HR 6304 Sets New Referendum; Fire all the Traitors!

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:12:09 -0400

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Our representatives have turned on us. It is very clear, with the passage of HR6304 in the House of Representatives, that it will be up to us to make a difference in this country.

Suggested link:
www.takebackwashington.com

Cuba: Interview Porno Para Ricardo

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:09:05 -0400

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* The Cuban Libertarian Movement (MLC) interviewed via internet a punk musical group active in Havana for over 10 years who are today a significant reference in a counter cultural scene that merits recognition and solidarity.

Prestigious Breckenridge Film Fest Hosts World Premiere of “Washington, You’re Fired”

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:09:12 -0400

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High drama, suspense and political intrigue drew audiences from the four corners of the nation for the World Premiere of Washington, You’re Fired at this year’s 28th annual Breckenridge Festival of Film.

Suggested link:
www.takebackwashington.com

US Congress has thousands of GED lawyers who never leave American prisons!

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:40:19 -0400

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WHEN GOD'S FACE BECAME VERY RED !

It appears that the US Supreme Court way back in 1984 knew the injustice of our federal appeal retrial review process really only being available for affluent Americans to get benefit from.

theREALnews: Congressman and Veterans For Peace calls for Bush Impeachment!

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:20:38 -0400

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June 6, 2008, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, supported by Florida Congressman Robert Wexler, is calling for the impeachment of President Bush. The former presidential candidate and Ohio congressman accuses the president of misleading the American public into the Iraq war. The resolution contains thirty-five articles, including: Creating a secret propaganda campaign to manufacture a false cause for war against Iraq, providing immunity for criminal contractors in Iraq, imprisoning children, creating secret laws, and spying on American citizens without a court ordered warrant in violation of the law and the 4th amendment. The House voted to refer the matter to the House Judiciary Committee. [ Kucinich's original speech without commentary: part I part 2 ]

Veterans For Peace presented 22,000 signatures calling for Bush impeachment to Rep. Conyers (D-MI)

Burma, Victim of the “War on Terror” - John Pilger

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:48:28 -0400

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Pilger continues to be one of those rare journalists with words that resonate for international activists and humanists. In this article, he recalls the moral courage of Dennis Halliday and Hans von Sponeck, assistant secretary-generals of the UN, who actively denounced, loud and clear, the sanctions against Iraq as a crime against humanity.

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www.zcommunications.org/zspace/johnpilger

Executive Signing Statements: Pharaoh Bush - Let My People Go

Thu, 29 May 2008 19:43:50 -0400

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In a refreshing investigative series in the Boston Globe from 2006, journalist Charlie Savage dropped a bombshell on the Bush administration. Reporting on Bush’s use of signing statements, Savage highlighted the president’s long-standing contempt for legislative authority.

An answer to the leftist action of May First

Thu, 29 May 2008 09:58:41 -0400

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The communist ideas, the communist prospect, are diffused only while working in the rows of the proletariat and not while being isolated in groups from the left or in line with capitalism. Alliance with these groups, whose policies are clearly opposed to the interests of the proletariat, can only lead to one opportunist cul-de-sac which in the final analysis serves only the intentions of the bourgeoisie by sowing confusion within our class.

Storms and Quakes -- Weapons of War?

Sun, 25 May 2008 18:57:58 -0400

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Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, takes a look at the disturbing possibility that the incredible spike in killer earthquakes and super-storms during the Bush administration is not coincidental.

situs & queers: "The Social Plague" (1972-1974)

Thu, 22 May 2008 14:29:55 -0400

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First English translation of piece showing the influence of the Situationist International on the homosexual rights movement in France in the 1970s

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www.notbored.org/patrick-cardon.html

Chhattisgarh, India: Free Binayak Sen, T.G. Ajay and other political prisoners!

Wed, 21 May 2008 15:35:01 -0400

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19 May 2008. A World to Win News Service. A worldwide campaign is emerging to demand the freedom of Dr Binayak Sen, a public health doctor and human rights campaigner in the impoverished Indian state of Chhattisgarh who has now spent a year in prison, accused of aiding the rural rebellion led by the Communist Party of India (Maoist). The paediatrician distanced himself from the politics of armed revolution, but refused to stop exposing and denouncing the oppression and injustice practiced against the adivasis (tribal people). He has been particularly vocal against the authorities' attempts to unleash counterrevolutionary terror in the countryside through the state-sponsored paramilitaries called the Salwa Judum.

The cyclone disaster in Myanmar and the human tragedy of global capitalism

Wed, 21 May 2008 15:32:11 -0400

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19 May 2008. A World to Win News Service. The following article signed by Li Onesto is from the issue dated 25 May of Revolution, newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.