(Photo: 1970 Kent State Massacre)

On This Anniversary of the Kent State Massacre

By STEVEN ARGUE

Thirty eight years ago today, on May 4, 1970, at Ohio’s Kent State University, the National Guard opened fire on students protesting the US war in Vietnam. The students were shot from distances of 275 to 400 feet, giving lie to claims that the students posed a threat to the Guardsmen. Four students were murdered and nine were injured. Nobody ever did time for those murders.

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Food Wars
[col. writ. 4/21/08] (c) '08 Mumia Abu-Jamal


Like a shadowy echo out of history, angry throngs massed at the Big House in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. But this time, they were not clamoring for freedom.

Or, if they were, it was for freedom from hunger.

Their protests shook the government, and forced the Prime Minister, Jacques-Edourd Alexis, to step down.

Several years ago, we saw massive protests in Oaxaca, Mexico, against exorbitant hikes in corn prices,... read more

(Photo: California, Grand Lake Theater Extolling ILWU Strike Against The War)

Labor's First Strike Against the War Gains Momentum

Vermont Union offers strong endorsement of West Coast longshoremen's action.

The Executive Board of the Vermont AFL-CIO, representing thousands of workers in countless sectors across Vermont, have unanimously passed an historic resolution expressing their "unequivocal" support for the first US labor strike against the war in Iraq.

Montpelier, VT -The Ex... read more

For a larger version of the poster and event times and places see:
www.labornet.org/news/0000/nopaz.htm

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008 (SF Chronicle)
Longshoremen to close ports on West Coast to protest war
by Jack Heyman
(Jack Heyman is a longshoreman who works on the Oakland docks.)


While millions of people worldwide have marched against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and last week's New York Times/CBS News poll indicated that 81 percent believe the country is he... read more

Solidarity Statement for Mumia from Leonard Peltier


April 18, 2008

To Mumia Abu-Jamal -- my brother in this Struggle; and your family, friends, and supporters.

I offer you my warmest greetings. How appropriate, after so many years, that I now send you word from a cage housed in the very same state as yours.

Perhaps it is destiny that we would find ourselves incarcerated so near, under similar circumstance, by similar forces, using similar excuses, for a similar love of... read more