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UhuruNews | 07.27.2008
What: Protest Demonstration and Press Conference When: Monday, July 28 at Noon Where: The Clothespin, 15th and Market, Philadelphia, PA Contact: Harris Daniels, 857-233-7508  Uhuru Summer Against State Terror July 28 Demonstration to Launch posted by: Uhuru Solidarity Movement begins: Jun 18, 7:30 pm ends: Jun 18, 9:00 pm location: 1st Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St, Center City The Real Issues Obama Won't Talk About!
Community Forum:
The Real Crime in Philly: Poverty and Oppression!
Support Economic Development , NOT Police Containment!
Wednesday, June 18th • 7:30pm
1st Unitarian Church • 2125 Chestnut St • Center City, Philadelphia
The Real Issues Obama Won't Talk About!
A recent report prepared by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization identified 22 nations that are threaten by the global food crisis; riots, due to food shortages are now occurring in most of these poor countries. To prevent the escalation of the present world food crisis, Stewart Alexander, Vice Presidential Nominee for Socialist Party USA, wants a freeze or a roll back on U.S. ethanol production to the levels prior to December 2007.
Stewart A. Alexander posted by: Q begins: Apr 11, 8:00 pm ends: Apr 11, 11:30 pm location: Welcome Park - 2nd Street between Walnut and Chestnut, Philadelphia We need to talk…
Check out this Al Jazeera feature on KWRU!
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is fielding a slate of candidates in the 2008 U.S. presidential elections: Gloria La Riva for President and Eugene Puryear for Vice President. The campaign is rooted in the struggle for socialism. We believe a better world is possible and together we can make it happen.
VOTE PSL in 2008! http://www.VotePSL.org
Since September 3rd, 2007, Henry Okah, a respected youth leader and so called “silent player” in the Niger Delta struggle was arrested in Angola on his way back to Nigeria from South Africa. The Angolan government, likely at the behest of the Nigerian government and the multi-national oil companies operating in Nigeria, detained Mr. Okah and his fellow traveler (Capt. Edward Atatah), under dubious pretexts. These included the possession of “incriminating literature”, gunrunning and the sponsoring of a coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea. Due to the absurdity of the manufactured cases, the charges were eventually thrown out of Angolan court.
Past Reporting on MEND: Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta Declares War
After 5 grueling months in Angolan prison, where the two were beaten and denied access to counsel, it is believed that the prisoners were secretly and illegally extradited to Nigeria on February 14
New evidence of corruption has emerged in federal probes of HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson's connections with companies awarded lucrative contracts related to New Orleans public housing projects slated for demolition.
Greed is defined as an excessive or uncontrolled desire for or pursuit of money, wealth, food, or other possessions especially when this denies the same goods to others. It is reprehensible acquisitiveness, an insatiable longing for power, and supremacy in order to advance individual interests at the cost of other's well being.
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