Oct 07 2011
Surviving The Longest War: Ten Years of Occupation in Afghanistan
On October 7th at 7 pm join in on a live interview with an underground activist named Reena, a member of Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), hosted by Uprising’s Sonali Kolhatkar, at Creveling Lounge, CC Building, Pasadena City College. The event will be a live webcast at www.afghanwomensmission.org and www.kpfk.org. There will also be a simultaneous screening of the live webcast for USC students and others at USC, Taper Hall Room 121, at 7 pm. …
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Ten years ago today, and less than a month after the September 11th terrorist attacks, US forces began bombing one of the poorest, most war-torn countries in the world – Afghanistan. Ruled by the heavily oppressive and fundamentalist Pakistan-sponsored Taliban regime, Afghanistan was targeted for harboring Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. As the bombs rained down, the US supported …
On Wednesday* Rose Gudiel, facing imminent eviction from her home by Fannie Mae and One West bank, was arrested for protesting outside of a Fannie Mae office in Pasadena. Yesterday, in a crowd of 2000 protestors in downtown LA, she announced that Fannie Mae was halting the foreclosure process, and would give her an opportunity to modify her loan. …
A number of large corporations are promising Congress that they will create jobs in exchange for a “tax holiday” on their outsourced profits. There are funds of over $1.4 trillion belonging to corporations like Google, Apple, Pfizer, and General Electric which have been stored in offshore accounts, out of reach of the federal government. The companies now want to bring …
To mark ten years of war hundreds of Afghans protested today against the US/NATO occupation of their country. Reuters reports that Afghans marched through Kabul with signs demanding an end to the Western troops, and depicting the civilian casualties of war. Friday marks the 10th year anniversary of the US/NATO campaign in Afghanistan dubbed Operation Enduring Freedom. A decade after …
Senate Democrats have just announced a plan to add a 5% surtax on American millionaires to fund President Obama’s American Jobs Act. A surtax is an additional tax upon existing taxes. Obama’s proposal involved taxing those making $250,000 or more but Democratic Senators, saying there is less Congressional party support for it, are aiming at higher incomes. According to the …
After much internal criticism that the Occupy Wall Street protests were run by largely white activists, ignorant of the differences in economic oppression facing minorities, a new People of Color working group has been formed. According to a public statement put out by the group calling on people of color to join Occupy Wall Street, “[t]he economic crisis did not …
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