[Ed. Comment: Obama's victory offers opportunities for organizing with grassroots activists for real change. The Obama organization, meanwhile, is planning to continue to organize Obama's followers using their massive private web networks and databases. We may see something we have not seen before where the President has his own private system of communicating and organizing [...]

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Arrests for War Resistance Increase Again
By Bill Quigley.
“We can never forget that everything that Hitler did in Germany was ‘legal,’ and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did was ‘illegal.’ It was ‘illegal’ to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany, but I am sure that if I lived in Germany during that time I [...]

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Please sign petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/DefRU3/
To: Rutgers University Administration and the New Brunswick Police Department
Defend the Rutgers 3!
On March 27, hundreds of Rutgers students and supporters participated in the Rutgers Walkout against the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Students walked out of classes, rallied on campus, marched through downtown New Brunswick, and spontaneously walked on to Route [...]

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Daniel Ellsberg 26Jan08
A Coup has occurred
Program 59:43 27.3 meg
Additional comments 2:18:23 . 55.4meg
The American Civil Liberties Union Massachusetts Chapter Held a Membership Conference Titled: Reclaiming Our Civil Liberties
Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers, was the keynote speaker who opened the event. He stated that a coup has taken place in the United States, and [...]

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From Socialist Worker
ALAN MAASS reports on the successful struggle to save Kenneth Foster.
IN AN inspiring victory for the anti-death penalty struggle, Kenneth Foster Jr. won clemency August 30, hours before he was scheduled to be executed in Texas’ death chamber.
For more than 10 years, politicians, prosecutors and judges at every level failed Kenneth. They all [...]

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RANGEL SHUTS THE DOOR ON KENNETH FOSTER
by Ben Davis
August 28, 2008
Barring a miracle – and miracles are in short order on Texas’ death row – Kenneth Foster is likely to die Thursday. The battle around his case has been a heroic one. Kenneth’s horrifying story of being condemned to death on a misapplication of an [...]

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