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Ralph Nader and Patti Smith Come to Buffalo to Work for "Peace on Earth Week"

Buffalo is the fourteenth stop of Nader’s nationwide tour beginning in 2001 in Portland, Oregon, and has since packed venues from San Francisco to Cleveland and Wall St. to Tampa.

Farmworkers March to Albany

10 day march to Albany in support of the Farmworkers Fair Labor Act.

West Side Stop the Wars holds First Gathering

West Side Stop the Wars held its first gathering Tuesday night.

Angela Davis to Speak at SUNY Brockport

Angela Davis to Speak at SUNY Brockport

Metro Justice Update on Pataki's Planned Cuts

Article suggests action items to counter Pataki's planned cuts. Discusses how corporations evade paying taxes in NY State

Farmworkers March to Demand Just Working Conditions

10 Day March will converge on Albany on April 30.

Visions of Peace Concert Sunday

A concert for peace will be presented by Eastman School students and faculty on Sunday, April 27, 2003, 7:00 pm at the Reformation Lutheran Church, 111 North Chestnut Street downtown.

Money for Education not Occupation

Recap of Fridays Demonstration at Liberty Pole

Money for Education

From 4-18 demo

WHAM 1180's Rally 'Round America

Lets intervene creatively

Money for Education not Occupation

April 18, 2003
 

 
[Rochester, NY] Weekly Rallies and Speak outs against US aggression continued today at the downtown Liberty Pole. Despite the illusion created by the Pentagon and the mainstream media that this war is over, people all around the world are continuing to voice strong opposition to the continued attacks on Middle Eastern Sovereignty. With RCAN (Rochester Campus Action Network) taking the lead, about one hundred demonstrators converged at 4pm Friday afternoon, to oppose the US occupation of Iraq and astronomical military expenditures. Speakers at the Rally demanded that our tax money be used for social programs, and especially for public education instead of for military purposes.



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Welcome to the New Site!

We've just change code bases because the old site had several problems. Hopefully, you'll like the new site better. Personally, I think it is awesome. Posting images works now, and you can post movies too. Also, you can give any author name you want when posting, no more having to register a username/password. Plus we've got a sharp new banner. If you have any questions/comments post them here

Operation Info-Scrub

From guerrillanews.com
 

 
Operation Info-Scrub
 
Bill Berkowitz, April 3, 2003
 

 

 
In another example of the administration's predilection for secrecy, President Bush recently signed an executive order to "delay the release of millions of historical documents for more than three years and make it easier to reclassify information considered damaging to national security," the Associated Press reported.



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Rochester Teacher in Jordan- Tom's Report from the Middle east

By Tom Little-Moore
 

 
The people returning from Baghdad say that the bombing was increasingly involving civilian targets. Busses and cars were targets on the highway. Cluster bombs were used in a market place near where they stayed. The human shield people have been effective apparently because so far as I have heard not one of the 70 around the city were hit, all remain in Baghdad. As for the CPT they are all but one I think, out of the city.



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Ice storm does not deter peace activists

Despite cold winds and falling ice, more than 50 anti-war demonstrators gathered at the Liberty pole downtown to continue to voice opposition to the genocidal invasion into Iraq. Although the planned march to the War Memorial and planned speakers, veterans against the war, were canceled due to severe ice conditions, the presence of so many people under the circumstances shows the strength of the opposition to this war.



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Ongoing Commentary on Local media coverage of Protests, etc.

The following is a link to some ongoing commentary on how the local media is treating anti-war demonstrations and other news related to the war in Iraq.
 

 
There are also quite a few photos of the demonstrations in Rochester:
 

 
http://www.bcampbell.org/news.htm

Blood Money

Reposted from www.truthout.org
 

 

 
Blood Money
 
By William Rivers Pitt
 
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
 
Thursday 27 February 2003
 
"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.

Candidate for School Board Calls for RCSD to Join Fairport

Candidate for School Board Calls for RCSD to Join Fairport Effort
 

 
On March 27, 2003 local educator and candidate for the Rochester City School Board, David Atias, applauded in the following press release the Fairport School District for delaying its budget vote until the State approves its budget. "This is exactly the type of action I have been calling for from the City School District.



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Religious Leaders Arrested in Federal Building Appear in Court

By Elaine Russell, still on RPD watchlist
 

 
(April 3, 2003) The thirteen religious leaders arrested in Federal Building on March 5 during the Ash Wednesday civil disobedience appeared before Judge Ann Pfeifer this morning to receive a plea bargain offer from the DA. They were accompanied by about 100 supporters from the community wearing strips of bandages to show solidarity with the dead and wounded in the U.S.-led attack on Iraq.



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