"This is a lone demonstrator. The leaflet does not request contributions or break Capitol Police Regulations. The applicant has an application on file with Special Events. Any Questions should be directed to Special Events; US Capitol Police."

It is time for the workers and the poor in the Philippines to prepare for the worse the moment its government keeps on repeating the mantra that the economic fundamentals remain good and thus there is little to worry about effects of the global recessionary trend. The world found itself in the present mess precisely because of such blind faith in neoliberal fundamentalism.

Continued genocide against our Native peoples.

When Barack Obama makes that dramatic walk from his Inauguration Day speech at the Capitol building to the White House, the streets need to be lined with protestors holding up signs calling for an immediate end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Urgent

Check out this week's interview with author J. Patrick O'Connor on the 'Prison Pipeline' show on Portland, OR radio station KBOO:

http://kboo.fm/node/10500

See the top 20 Ecoterrorists in the United States at
http://www.elfpressoffice.org/ecoterrorists.html

A report on a recent "No Coal" protest in Philadelphia. The event was one of 50 around the country that protested major banking institutions (such as Bank of America & Citi) involvement in financing construction of new coal plants and coal mining.

Israel and America share this policy.

Why are we continuing to let the government bail out a failing business that is misusing taxpayer money? Surely there are independently owned businesses, and even individuals, that could put that money to far better use.