Direct Action / Civil Disobedience

SUE THE BASTARDS!

The Community RNC Arrestee Support Structure (CRASS)'s campaign for civil litigation is up and moving! Workshops, actions, and deadlines are rapidly approaching, so look below for important information.

Resistance and Recovery Tour

REPUBLIC WINDOWS & DOORS VICTORY TOUR!

In December, 260 workers at Chicago 's Republic Windows occupied their plant for six days, a sit-in strike launched in response to the closing of their plant with only 3 days notice.

LAWYERS FOR POOR AMERICANS HAS BEGUN TO FEATURE CURRENT LEGAL STORIES THAT ARE DIRECTLY RELATED TO
MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS INABILITY TO PROPERLY BE REPRESENTED BY LEGAL COUNSEL IN CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LEGAL CASES ALL ACROSS THE USA .

On Feb. 6, 2009 U of R SDS had a Gaza solidarity sit in.

Friends of Peace,

Today, Friday February 6, University of Rochester students and staff, along with other Rochester community members, with be occupying a building at the University of Rochester river campus to express our longings for peace and our solidarity with the Palestinians.

Members of the University of Rochester Administration,

The recent war and horrifying atrocities sponsored by the United States in the Palestinian territories has upset us to our core. The war on Gaza has devastated Gaza’s entire society, taken hundreds of innocent lives, destroyed much of the infrastructure including the University facilities, and only escalated their grave humanitarian crisis.

In light of the recent university occupations taking place in Britain to protest the bombing and invasion of Gaza, the University of Rochester SDS has decided to occupy a university building in solidarity with these actions, and with the people of Gaza. The occupation will begin Friday afternoon, and will continue until the U of R administration enters negotiations and reaches a favorable resolution with the students.

Article by Carl Dix

The police killing of Oscar Grant on New Years Day in Oakland, California was an outrage. These murdering pigs took Oscar off a Bay Area Rapid Transit train. While cops kneeled on his back and punched him, another pig pulled out his gun and shot Oscar in the back. What can you call what they did to this brother but murder, execution style?

Marie Zwicker, West Palm Beach, Fla.
By now some of you may have already heard about the travesty of justice that occurred Tuesday at the sentencing of seven environmental activists in the courtroom of Judge Laura Johnson in West Palm Beach. Shock and disbelief are words which would describe how those of us who were present in the courtroom felt at the sentencing. What was done today, if unchallenged, sets a very dangerous precedent for what activists can expect from some in the "justice" system. This should be of very great concern to all those who believe in and speak out for human rights, social justice, environmental protection, Indigenous sovereignty, labor rights, animal rights, peace, or any of the issues that we hold so dear.

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