ACTIVATE is an anarchist and anti-authoritarian group organizing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Check out our points of unity for what we believe and what we're fighting for.
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Books
Anthony Arnove, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
Anthony Arnove, ed. Iraq Under Seige: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Guest of the Sheik: An Enthography of an Iraqi Village
Dahr Jamail, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq
Riverbend, Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq
Michael J. Sullivan, American Adventurism Abroad: 30 Invasions, Interventions, and Regime Changes Since WWII
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States
Aimee Alison and David Solnit, Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World
About me: ACTIVATE is an anarchist and anti-authoritarian group organizing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Check out our points of unity for what we believe and what we're fighting for.
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Why not just cut to the chase and trying him and his compatriots, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld, for murder?
Former LA Deputy District Attorney, who successfully prosecuted, dozens of murder cases, makes the case that George Bush is indictable for murder.
Any state or city that had a citizen killed in the course of the Iraq War is eligible for pressing charges and bringing these lying psychopaths to justice.
This is not a pipe dream and is based in sound legal reasoning.
The idea made it to a formal Judiciary Committee hearing.
Why would you attempt to stop these people from having their stupid convention. Free speech is free speech! When you physically stop people from having a peaceful gathering (no matter how warped the group is) it opens up the door for YOU to be stopped from gathering peacefully for YOUR reasons. Besides there will most likely be government provocateurs there to start a violent conflict with the police. This has happened over an over again in the past (do a little research into the WTO protest in Seattle). Please have some sense, don't fall into this trap.
The plan is to represent and HONOR the lives lost in Iraq, both American and Iraqi.
All you will need is a white shirt (that we can write a number on) and a desire to participate in something bigger than yourself, to use your voice and body to help show people what this war is all about, and why we MUST end it. This could be something that children could also be encouraged to participate in, as there are children dying in Iraq EVERYDAY as well.
So, now, we need bodies!
Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is and be a body for this demonstration? It’s pretty easy to lay down and play dead, what’s not easy is dealing with the fact that those who ARE dead aren’t playing.
We HAVE to be their voice.
Bodies Against The War Calder Plaza 300 Ottawa Ave NW Grand Rapids, MI 49503 Saturday, May 24, 2008 High Noon
Federal Court Reaffirms Frame-Up Conviction, Orders Life Behind Bars or Racist Legal Lynching
Ruling Against Mumia Shows: No Justice in the Capitalist Courts
Mobilize the Working Class to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!
On March 27, the U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia reaffirmed the frame-up conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther Party spokesman and world-renowned radical journalist who has been locked up on Pennsylvania’s death row for more than a quarter century. This latest ruling, like all those that preceded it, shows that the exploited and oppressed must have no faith in the racist injustice system. We call on the workers movement to mobilize its power to free Mumia now! Mobilize the Working Class to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! (28 March 2008)
If you want to distribute leaflets about Mumia, get in touch with us.
hey thanks again for helping me out of jail and supporting me my court date is the 24 of this month next monday at 8 30 in the morning, it means alot to me that your trying to help me out of this
ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports May 1 Demanding End to War in Iraq, Afghanistan
In a major step for the U.S. labor movement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced that it will shut down West Coast ports on May 1, to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East. This is the first time in decades that an American union has decided to undertake industrial action against a U.S. war. The action announced by the powerful West Coast dock workers union, to stop work to stop the war, should be taken up by unions and labor organizations throughout the United States and internationally. And the purpose of such actions should be not to beg the bourgeois politicians whose hands are covered with blood, having voted for every war budget for six and a half years, but a show of strength of the working people who make this country run, and who can shut it down! Read the full story...
