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Fair Trade advocates Protest Trump's NAFTA renegotiation talks

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 10/11/2017 - 23:01

On the 11th of October, the 4th round of NAFTA renegotiation talks opened at the Pentagon City Sheraton in Virginia. Outside, protesters demanded NAFTA be scrapped instead, and a banner across the street read "Fix it or Nix it. Similar posters appeared all over Capitol Hill and around the IMF and World Bank, which meet Oct 13-15.

Video from protest both outside and inside the Sheraton

Globalization/Anti-globalization

A protester gets inside the Sheraton where the 4th round of NAFTA renegotiation talks are being held(photo by Flush the TPP)

DC Police escort Nazis to vans for torchlit return to Charlottesville

Submitted by Luke on Sun, 10/08/2017 - 21:46

On the 7th of October, Richard Spencer's crew of neo-Nazis assembled at the Jefferson Memorial in DC before boarding what were reported as "four white Enterprise rental vans" for a return trip to Charlottesville, VA-and another torchlight march. Tourists heckled the Nazis at the Jefferson Memorial. DC Police (MPD) escorted the Nazis all the way to their vans here in DC.

Video clips from Richard Spencer's own Periscope clearly show MPD escorting the Nazis

Police/Legal/Prisons
Right Wing

Code Pink protests Yemen war at Saudi Embassy

Submitted by Luke on Thu, 10/05/2017 - 23:16

On Oct 5, Code Pink protested outside the Embassy of Saudi Arabia. A year ago on the same date, 140 people were killed and 500 wounded by the Saudis when they bombed a funeral in Yemen.

Anti-War/Peace
Foreign Policy/Imperialism

Photo by Code Pink

The Shortwave Report 10/06/17 Listen Globally!

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/05/2017 - 19:19

Dear Radio Friend,             The latest Shortwave Report (October 6) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml  in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (160kb)(33MB), broadcast quality (13MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom   (If you have access to Audioport there is a highest quality version posted up there {33MB} h

Anti-War/Peace
Civil Liberites/Constitution
Elections/Legislation/Government
Environment/Food/Health
Foreign Policy/Imperialism
Media
Military/Weapons
World Uprisings

Immigrants and supporters March from ICE to Wilson Buildng demanding Mayor Bowser block further raids

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 10/04/2017 - 20:32

In the last week of September, ICE and Trump brazenly declared war on sanctuary cites such as DC, sending ICE to raid homes and detain over 450 people. Fourteen were taken by these terrorists here in DC. On Oct 4, immigrants and supporters marched from ICE headquarters to the Wilson Building to demand that Mayor Bowser take action to prevent further raids. So far she has been silent on this assault immigrant communities.

Video including the march and the four demands

Immigration

Assembling in front of ICE to protest Trump's so-called "safe city" raids and terror

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