tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42225847612264097862012-02-10T15:37:07.839-01:00<strong>Caleb T. Maupin is a resident New York City. He is an activist in Workers World Party and Fight Imperialism - Stand Together. He writes for Workers World Newspaper, and various other publications. </strong>Cleveland FISThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227164158306464675noreply@blogger.comBlogger17581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4222584761226409786.post-27824062465261834812012-02-07T06:57:00.000-01:002012-02-07T06:58:42.087-01:00

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By Abayomi AzikiweEditor, Pan-African News WirePublished Feb 5, 2012 10:27 PMA series of attacks have been launched against the U.S.- and NATO-installed National Transitional Council in Libya. The most significant events occurred on Jan. 23 when local forces still loyal to the former government of slain leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi retook the city of Bani Walid, located 120 miles southeast of

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By Heather CottinPublished Feb 5, 2012 10:23 PMWhen the New York Times publishes an op-ed piece stating that Honduras is “descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss” and adds that this is “in good part the State Department’s making,” something is changing. (Jan. 26)Since the U.S. government-sponsored military coup on June 28, 2009, the State Department has spread a smokescreen to

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From: New York TimesBill Mardo, a sportswriter for the Communist Party newspaper The Daily Worker who fought major league baseball’s color barrier in the 1940s when the mainstream American news media was largely silent on the subject, died Friday in Manhattan. He was 88.The cause was complications of Parkinson’s disease, his companion, Ruth Ost, said.In the years before the Brooklyn Dodgers

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It is a tragic mistake when the people's movement falls into the illusion that one section of the 1% (read: capitalist class) is "progressive" or "democratic." The only hope for the working class is political independence. OWS, the Wisconsin Uprising, are all examples of the working class writing is own agenda, and telling the entire 1%, both liberals and conservatives to shove it. CLASS AGAINST

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By John CatalinottoPublished Jan 21, 2012 4:29 PMA broad spectrum of U.S.-based anti-imperialist and anti-war organizations agreed on a Jan. 17 conference call to hold coordinated protests across the country on Saturday, Feb. 4. The demands will be: “No war, no sanctions, no intervention, no assassinations against Iran.”The ad-hoc group that took part in the call decided that although there are

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Thousands of demonstrators came out Jan. 20 to “Occupy Wall Street West” to mark the second anniversary of the Supreme Court Citizens United decision. This ruling called anonymous campaign contributions “free speech” and claimed corporations were “people,” thus increasing the already overwhelming power of the rich over politicians.In response, the Occupy movement around the country demonstrated

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By Abayomi AzikiweEditor, Pan-African News WirePublished Jan 21, 2012 4:15 PMIn the aftermath of the general strike, the government of President Goodluck Jonathan has deployed troops to the country’s commercial capital of Lagos. The leadership of the Nigerian Labor Congress and the Trade Union Congress declared the strike over on the evening of Jan. 15 after the administration reduced the amount

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By Stephen MilliesPublished Jan 21, 2012 3:45 PMIs there another country more demonized by the U.S. government and corporate media than the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, also known as north Korea?The 1% need to lie about oppressed countries and peoples to justify wars and massacres.The lies told about John Africa and the MOVE organization paved the way for the May 13, 1985, holocaust in

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By Sara FloundersPublished Jan 18, 2012 8:48 PMThere is growing apprehension that through miscalculation, deliberate provocation or a staged false flag operation, a U.S. war with Iran is imminent.The dangerous combination of top U.S. officials’ public threats, the Pentagon’s massive military deployment, continued drone flights and industrial sabotage against Iran provides an ominous warning. The

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By LeiLani DowellNew YorkPublished Jan 19, 2012 9:19 PM Several hundred spirited and militant activists held a series of people’s occupations around New York City’s Union Square in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan. 16. Six organizers with the newly formed Occupy 4 Jobs were arrested as occupations were held at banks, supermarkets and a drugstore.The day began with a rally in Union

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By Gerry ScoppettuoloBostonPublished Jan 19, 2012 8:47 PMOccupy4Boston sent an express mail message to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe for Martin Luther King Day: “Hands off our post office and our community!” Hundreds of community and labor activists picketed and rallied in the very heart of Boston’s Black community on Jan. 14 at the Grove Hall Post Office in Roxbury. It is slated for

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Published Jan 19, 2012 9:00 PMBy Andre PowellBaltimore-to-Washington, D.C.Protesters scored a number of victories on the 40-mile March for Jobs & Justice to Washington, D.C. They began the Civil Rights march on Jan. 14 in Baltimore and were greeted by Occupy Washington, D.C., when they arrived on Jan. 16. Representatives of the group will remain for an Occupy Congress event on the National Mall,

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By Joseph PiettePhiladelphiaPublished Jan 19, 2012 9:54 PMPennsylvania has declared war on the poor. During the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression, two recent state decisions have made it more difficult to qualify for programs that benefit the working poor and those without jobs.On Jan. 10, the Department of Public Welfare announced that people under 60 with more than $2,000

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By Dolores CoxPublished Jan 13, 2012 2:43 AMThe history of economic depressions and joblessness in the U.S. can be traced back to the 19th century. Tens of thousands of people rallied in 1837, 1857, 1873, 1884 and 1893 to demand a public jobs program from the federal government. They opposed high food and rent costs, and big business.Protests in local communities originated in sporadic street

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Guns and Butter - The Unknown Cultural Revolution - January 13, 2010 at 1:00pmClick to listen (or download)

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By Fred GoldsteinPublished Jan 11, 2012 10:29 PMThe pitiful December jobs and employment numbers are a bitter reminder, four years after the present crisis officially began in December 2007, that capitalism is at a dead end.There have now been four years of mass unemployment; the foreclosure and eviction nightmare continues for millions; poverty and hunger are growing at record levels. For those

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By Abayomi AzikiweEditor, Pan-African News WirePublished Jan 11, 2012 9:49 PMThe Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 83 years old on Jan. 15. In honor of this iconic civil rights, anti-war and social justice activist, the federal government and other public agencies close every year on the Monday following his birthday. King was martyred in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968.This year

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Lamont LillyPublished Jan 5, 2012 7:50 PMHere in the U.S., our “land of the free,” there are approximately 130,000 inmates now housed in privately owned prisons. It‘s a foul stench within a justice system that leads the world in number of people incarcerated within a state, federal or private institution. The latest tally of 2 million equals 25 percent of the globe’s incarcerated population.This

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By Terri KayOakland, Calif.Published Jan 4, 2012 8:55 PMJan. 2 — International Longshore and Warehouse Union rank-and-file members and the Occupy movements in Longview, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; Seattle; Oakland, Calif.; Los Angeles and other West Coast cities are organizing to blockade a grain ship arriving in Longview sometime in January. This ship is supposed to be loaded by a non-ILWU crew with

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By Caleb T. MaupinPublished Jan 4, 2012 8:37 PMThe “libertarian” movement has never been friendly to the 99%. Its members are not apologetic about wanting to abolish all social programs that aid the people, from Medicaid to food stamps. They want to shut down every government department that in any way limits the excesses of the 1%. These include the Departments of Labor, Education, Energy,

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The ongoing human rights violations in the US, as detailed in a report recently released by the Russian foreign ministry, have led to great friction between the different classes in America.Click Here For VideoPress TV has conducted an interview with Caleb Maupin, an activist from International Action Center, to further discuss US human rights violations.The video offers the opinions of two

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From: Workers WorldPublished Dec 23, 2011 8:26 PMThey — the Pentagon, the administration, the U.S. ruling class — fear and hate the truth. How else can you explain their passion for persecuting Pvt. Bradley Manning, who has already spent 570-plus days of his 24 years in military prisons, most of them isolated from any contact with his many friends and supporters, and most of that time in

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By Salvatore Cipriano and Jordan NicholsonDetroitIn a time of vicious attacks throughout the United States on students, teachers and working people’s unions alike, the teachers of an unlikely school, a small charter school outside of Detroit, have taken their rights into their own hands and have become unionized. The teachers at Arts Academy in the Woods in Frasier, Mich., with a vote of 20 to 1,

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By Paul TeitelbaumTucson, Ariz.Published Dec 23, 2011 8:43 PMOn Dec. 15, the U.S. Department of Justice released a report confirming the criminal practices of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his racist department. The report lists the findings of a Civil Rights investigation that began in June 2008 and concludes that the entire Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office violates not only Title VI of the

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By New YorkPublished Dec 21, 2011 10:50 PMThousands of Occupy Wall Street activists, whom the police have prevented from camping in Zuccotti Square, tried to claim new space owned by Trinity Church in downtown Manhattan on Dec. 17. Police arrested about 50 of the activists, the rest of whom then marched uptown to Times Square. Workers World’s Caleb Maupin interviewed Tim Barker, a young musician

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By Fred GoldsteinPublished Dec 21, 2011 10:59 PMThe number of people in the U.S. who are officially poor or “near poor” has become a matter of controversy.The Census Bureau has changed the method by which it measures official poverty. Now, regional differences are taken into account when calculating the costs of maintaining a family, as well as adding any government assistance — like food stamps

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By Sara FloundersPublished Dec 23, 2011 8:47 PMDangerous provisions inserted into the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 (NDAA-2012) have created great alarm among civil liberties organizations, Muslim organizations, groups that defend anti-war activists and many activists of the Occupy Wall Street movement who have recently been targeted across the country.The wording in the defense

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Click Here For VideoA new Gallup survey records just 11 percent approval for the US Congress, the lowest single rating in Gallup's history of asking this question since 1974.The rating, which was conducted from December 15 to18, comes at a time when Congress is wrangling once again at the last minute over extensions of a payroll tax holiday, unemployment benefits and higher pay for Medicare

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Have no fear! I am still alive!

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Published Dec 3, 2011 10:39 AMTaken from a Nov. 13, 2011, audio column at www.prisonradio.org.The shocking child sex scandal rocking Penn State University in State College, Pa., is an explosion of almost nuclear proportions.It has all the elements designed to produce a media firestorm: fame, money, illicit sex, deception and yes, betrayal.But the core of it is betrayal of the country’s deepest

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By Dave WelshOakland, Calif.Published Dec 3, 2011 10:31 AMOrganizing is under way for a coordinated mass blockade of West Coast ports on Monday, Dec. 12, targeting “Wall Street on the waterfront” — the major companies owned and controlled by “the 1 percent” ruling elite.Initiated by Occupy Oakland, the Dec. 12­ West Coast port shutdown is being jointly organized by Occupy movements in Los Angeles

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Published Dec 3, 2011 10:06 AMA dialogue between a capitalist banker (CB) and an unemployed youth (UY) by Caleb Maupin.CB: Thank you! Thank you!UY: Why are you thanking me?CB: Because you are unemployed, and that helps me a lot. Unemployment is a great thing.UY: Why is that?CB: For lots of reasons! It lowers wages. People who are desperate for work will accept much lower pay. I can even force the

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By John CatalinottoPublished Nov 22, 2011 9:43 PMNov. 21 — The masses have opened a new chapter in the Egyptian revolution. They have stood strong in Tahrir Square for nearly four days against bullets and gas demanding that the military regime, which succeeded President Hosni Mubarak last Feb. 12, step down.As the day ended in Egypt, the Health ministry reported that 23 people had been killed and

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Service Employees Local 721, Occupy LA participants and community organizations marched to Bank of America Plaza in downtown Los Angeles Nov. 17. Police arrested 27 activists at a morning blockdown and 46 more in the afternoon. We interviewed one of those arrested, John Parker, who has been representing Workers World Party at the occupation at City Hall.WW: Why did you participate in this action?

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From: Xinhua News AgencySANAA, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- When North and South Yemen reunified in 1990, Yemen became a democratic republic enjoying political pluralism. At the beginning, about 60 parties were formed and the number decreased to 23 officially recognized parties in 2003. Most of these parties have no representation in the parliament.Here are the major political forces: the General People's

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Excerpts taken from a talk given by Workers World Party Secretariat member, Monica Moorehead, at the WWP Oct. 8-9 National Conference in New York City.For those of us who have been in Workers World Party for 25 years and more, Sam Marcy has left an indelible impact on our lives as communist organizers. What has kept many of us in the Party has been the revolutionary vision and optimism of Sam

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Excerpts taken from a talk by Steve Millies, railway worker and Workers World writer, at the Oct. 8-9 Workers World Party National Conference.The billionaire class has been on an offensive against workers and oppressed people for over 30 years. These parasites were finally able to overthrow the Soviet Union in 1991, a terrible defeat for every poor person on the planet.This political reaction has

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By Dee KnightBronx, N.Y.Published Nov 19, 2011 10:54 AM“Bury Racism, Not Workers!” was a main chant as close to 200 unionists and community activists picketed Woodlawn Cemetery here on Nov. 12, making life uncomfortable for the plantation-like managers of the sprawling burial ground.Strong delegations came from city administration workers in Communication Workers union Local 1180; Sotheby’s

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By Sue DavisPublished Nov 19, 2011 11:12 AMInitiative 26 was trounced 58-42 percent by voters in Mississippi on Nov. 8. It would have outlawed all abortions, many forms of birth control, fertility treatments and stem-cell research and possibly have criminalized women who had ectopic pregnancies or miscarriages.Known as the “egg-as-personhood” referendum, its defeat is an unexpected victory for

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Excerpts taken from a talk given by John Parker, of the Los Angeles Workers World branch, at the Workers World Party National Conference in New York City on Oct. 8-9.California is waging a war on the working class and is targeting public sector unions, blaming them for the economic crisis because they “greedily” want to hold on to decent health care and don’t want to lose a month’s pay. Also,

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Click Here for VideoA political analyst says Wall Street elites are major initiator of US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and financially supporting the occupying regime of Israel.Press TV has conducted an interview with Caleb Maupin from International Action Center to further discuss the US occupy movement.The following is a rush transcription of the interview:Press TV: Caleb Maupin, we have

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Bulletin: As this paper goes to press, on Nov. 7, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed the execution of Hank Skinner pending the results of his legal challenges for DNA testing. The case was sent back to the trial court for further review. WW will provide an update. Hank Skinner has been on Texas death row since 1995 for a 1993 murder he steadfastly has said he did not commit, and is now

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By James WrennRocky Mount, N.C.A North Carolina Highway Historical Marker recognizing the 1946 tobacco leaf house workers union campaign was unveiled in Rocky Mount by the Phoenix Historical Society on Sept. 3. The United Electrical Workers union, Local 150 co-sponsored the event.Entitled “Operation Dixie,” the marker stands on N. Franklin Street at the corner of McDonald Street, across from the

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A public memorial and cultural tribute was held for Consuela Lee — an African-American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and teacher — at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem in New York City on Oct. 29. Lee passed away from a long illness associated with Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 83 on Dec. 26, 2009, in Atlanta.Despite an unexpected snowstorm, world-renowned jazz artists,

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By Cheryl LaBashPublished Nov 5, 2011 2:41 PMWhere is the electrifying Occupy Wall Street movement headed?From capitalist media pundits to the Occupy Wall Street encampments struggling to hold public space in countless cities and towns across the U.S., this question is bubbling underneath the daily actions and police repression.An opportunity to discuss the experience of other such movements will

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By Deirdre GriswoldPublished Nov 2, 2011 10:26 PMNov. 1 — Like a force of nature that astonishes everyone with its power, Occupy Oakland has inspired bold actions by youth and workers across the United States, electrifying the political climate and forcing city officials and police authorities to constantly revise their plans for dealing with this broad-based people’s movement.Just a week ago,

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By Teresa GutierrezPublished Nov 3, 2011 10:15 PM On Oct. 18 the Obama administration announced that it had deported almost 400,000 undocumented immigrants during the 2011 fiscal year. “All told, this administration has deported nearly 1.2 million people, leaving a wake of devastation in Latino communities across the nation,” said the American Civil Liberties Union in a press release.The Latino/a

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By Caleb T. MaupinNew YorkPublished Nov 2, 2011 10:08 PMOccupy Wall Street, the 24/7 encampment of thousands of people in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, most of them youth, has become a center of countless acts of resistance to capitalism and its crimes.As Workers World Party First Secretary Larry Holmes put it in a recent speech: “It’s like a neon sign has been put up proclaiming to the people

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Click Here to Watch the ClipA prominent political analyst says Wall Street bankers and big businesses are using the police to crackdown on peaceful protesters during the “Occupy Wall Street” movements.Press TV has interviewed Caleb Maupin with International Action Center to ask his opinion on this issue.The following is a transcript of the interview.Press TV: Last week's clashes often were the

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Declaration on the Elections to the Constituent AssemblyOn the evening of October 27, 2011, the Superior Independent Election Commission (ISIE) published the provisional results of the elections to the Constituent Assembly. The Ennahdha movement came out on top, followed respectively by the Congress for the Republic (CPR), the Democratic Forum for Labor and Liberties (FDTL), the People's Petition

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By Deirdre GriswoldPublished Oct 26, 2011 6:50 PMDespite all the nice words by U.S. officials in world forums about their support for “peaceful” protests, despite all the sympathy expressed by politicians, from President Barack Obama on down, regarding the dire conditions that have sparked the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, despite all the efforts by many demonstrators to show good will to

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Published Oct 27, 2011 8:06 PMWorkers World contributor Dante Strobino interviewed Meghna Sukumar, a young organizer with the Women’s Workers Union, Garment and Fashion Workers section, on Sept. 24, the opening day of the United Electrical Workers union 72nd National Convention in Pittsburgh. Her union is part of the New Trade Union Initiative of India (NTUI). Sukumar was participating in the UE

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By Deirdre GriswoldPublished Oct 27, 2011 8:49 PMResearchers in Zurich, Switzerland, have used a powerful computer database to analyze which transnational companies dominate the world economy. Their findings, called “The network of global corporate control,” appeared this summer at arxiv.org, an online publisher of scientific material.Using information from the financial database ORBIS, which

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No bourgeois republic, however democratic, ever was or could have been anything but a machine for the suppression of the working people by capital, an instrument of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the political rule of capital. The democratic bourgeois republic promised and proclaimed majority rule, but it could never put this into effect as long as private ownership of the land and other

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By Frank NeisserBostonPublished Oct 24, 2011 9:44 PMDr. Tarek Mehanna is a 28-year-old Muslim, an Egyptian-American and a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He has been held in solitary confinement 23 hours a day since his arrest in 2009.Mehanna’s trial begins with jury selection on Oct. 24 at the Moakley Federal Court House in Boston. The Free Tarek Mahanna

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By Caleb T. MaupinPublished Oct 23, 2011 10:42 AMThe billionaire mayor of this city, Michael Bloomberg, is still refusing to sign a “living wage bill” currently before the New York City Council, despite revisions that watered it down somewhat. This bill would require some businesses that receive city funds to pay not just the minimum wage, but either a “living wage” of $10 per hour plus benefits

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By John CatalinottoNew YorkPublished Oct 20, 2011 10:10 PMThe first confrontation between the Occupation Wall Street demonstrators and billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the New York cops ended in victory for OWS in the early morning hours of Friday, Oct. 14.A wave of euphoria swept the 2,000 people filling Zuccotti Park when word came shortly before 7 a.m. that the park’s owners had

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Published Oct 21, 2011 12:36 PMFrom: Workers WorldNews spread around the world on Oct. 20-21 that NATO planes had struck a car caravan leaving Sirte in Libya, wounding Moammar Gadhafi, and that the Libyan leader was captured alive and subsequently killed. The details of his death are sketchy and may be purposely distorted or obscured by his killers. This main fact stands out: It took the

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Letter to the Occupy Wall Street MovementPublished Oct 19, 2011 10:37 PMThese are hard times. There doesn’t appear to be any respite coming soon. The political atmosphere has shifted in response to the greatest economic calamity since the Great Depression. This crisis, because of how the changes in technology, communication and production have made the world smaller, is global in its

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Published Oct 17, 2011 8:23 PMFrom: Workers WorldWhile demonstrations against austerity were going on in so many places, an unusual thing happened at the United Nations on Oct. 4. Both Russia and China cast vetoes against a resolution introduced by the governments of four European imperialist countries — Britain, France, Germany and Portugal — that would have opened the door to economic sanctions

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By Abayomi AzikiweEditor, Pan-African News WireDetroitPublished Oct 14, 2011 10:28 PMAiyana Stanley Jones, a 7-year-old African-American girl, was shot to death during a police raid on a home on Detroit’s east side on May 16, 2010. The killing sparked outrage throughout the city of Detroit and around the country.Some 16 months after the shooting and a subsequent Michigan State Police

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By Masao Suzuki |October 16, 2011From: Fight Back! NewsAcross the country, the movement sparked by Occupy Wall Street has caught fire. This movement, identified by the slogan, “We are the 99%” targets the 1% of rich and powerful who are running the country for their interests and profit, at the expense of the rest of us who face high unemployment, lower wages, soaring tuition costs, home

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Published Oct 13, 2011 8:45 PMFrom: Workers WorldWashington’s slanderous campaign against Iran for an alleged assassination plot lacks evidence and fails every test of logic. Many people have raised questions as to its truth. But there’s an even more important question to ask: Why is the U.S. government desperate to use an unbelievable pretext to begin a campaign of sanctions and possible war

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