October 2014

The Shortwave Report 10/17/14 Listen Globally!

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/16/2014 - 20:12

Dear Radio Friend,             The latest Shortwave Report (October 17) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml  in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (128kb)(27MB), broadcast quality (16MB), 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 {35MB} 

Anti-War/Peace
Elections/Legislation/Government
Environment/Food/Health
Iraq/Afghanistan
Media

Labor activists march on Walton Foundation, blockade K st; 16 arrested

Submitted by Luke on Thu, 10/16/2014 - 17:07

On the 16th of October, labor activists and Wal-Mart "associated" gathered in front of the AFL-CIO building at 16th and H sts. From there they marched on the offices of the Walton Foundation, where a sign bearing a petition for $15 an hour and full time hours for Wal-Mart workers was refused. The Walton Foundation sent building management to negotiate with protesters who entered the building, claiming the Walton Foundation office was closed and empty. This was a lie, people were sighted inside. With the petition refused, activists moved just north to the intersection of 18th st and K street and blocked the intersection for the next hour and a half. Eventually cops moved in, arresting 16 particpants in the civil disobediance.

Video of the march, Walton Foundation action, and K st blockade

Labor/Economics/Business

The view from inside the building housing the Walton Foundation's offices

Maccabe Haifi vs Washington Wizards basketball game draws pro-Palestine protest

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 10/15/2014 - 23:22

On the 15th of October, the Israeli basketball team Macabee Haifi was defeated 105-95 by the Washington Wizards at the Verizon Center. Both inside and outside, protesters denounced Israel's aggression against the people of Palestine. One protester re-used the former name of the Wizards, calling Macabee Haifi the "Israeli Bullets." This protest was part of the cultural boycott of Israel. That boycott, in turn, is part of the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions campaign inspired by the sucessful campaign that overthrew apartheid in South Africa.

50 sec video of the protest

Anti-War/Peace
Foreign Policy/Imperialism
World Uprisings

Protesters march around World Bank after Civil Society walkout

Submitted by Luke on Sat, 10/11/2014 - 16:06

On the 11th of October, opponents of the World Bank's roles as a global loan shark to predatory governments and corporations rallied in Murrow Park and marched all the way around the Fall meetings. This came after civil society groups from Ethiopia walked out of a meeting with the World Bank due to their reversal on a promise to strengthen environmental protections.
Video of the march

Globalization/Anti-globalization

Marching around the Fall meetings of the IMF and World Bank as the World Bank meets in their HQ

Rev Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping lead march on World Bank

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 19:41

On the 10th of October, Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir led a funeral march on the Fall Meetings of the IMF and World Bank, The march went to a delegate entrance checkpoint to the World Bank, where a mock funeral for the Bank was staged as people from South Asia and Africa reminded those inside just how much damage the Bank's programs had done to their countries.

Video Highlights of World Vs Bank march and street theater

Globalization/Anti-globalization

Rev Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir

Pa residents challenge EPA officials to drink fracked well water, bags searched at Metro in response

Submitted by Luke on Fri, 10/10/2014 - 13:39

On the 10th of October, anti-fracking activists and a resident of Dimock county in Pennsylvania challenged EPA officials to drink from either of two samples of discolored, contaminated well water from a fracking-damaged well. The response they got was the expected and understood refusal to drink the water, and an acceptance by an EPA official of their petitions. Meanwhile, the EPA building behind them was guarded by a counted 20+ cops-and bag searches at the Metro station entrance there. As soon as the protest ended, the DHS bag search checkpoint was withdrawn from the Metro station.

Video-offering the "frackwater challenge" to drink the contaminated well water

Environment/Food/Health
Police/Legal/Prisons

Offering a drink of fracked well water to an EPA official

The Shortwave Report 10/10/14 Listen Globally!

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/09/2014 - 20:44

Dear Radio Friend,             The latest Shortwave Report (October 10) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml  in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (128kb)(27MB), broadcast quality (16MB), 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 {35MB} 

Media

Hundreds ride in October DC Bike Party

Submitted by Luke on Wed, 10/08/2014 - 23:43

On the 8th of October, the usual several hundred riders (600+ is average) took to the streets of DC for the monthly bike party. A just past full moon was in the sky as the streets swarmed with cyclists, some in a Halloween theme.

Video Highlights of the Ride

Environment/Food/Health

Video from the DC Ferguson Georgetown March

Submitted by a l c h y m e d i a on Wed, 10/08/2014 - 11:10

A rally by the DC Ferguson coalition demanding justice for Mike Brown and protesting police terrorism. Speakers include PJ from the National Black United Front, Salim Adolfo from Black is Back, and Eugene Puryear from the ANSWER Coalition.

 

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Civil Rights/Equal Rights
Human Rights
Police/Legal/Prisons
Race/Racism

Call-out for international solidarity with social center De Vloek

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/08/2014 - 09:36

The city government of The Hague, The Netherlands wants to evict social center De Vloek on January 5, 2015 to make room for a sailing center. Located in the harbor of Scheveningen, De Vloek was squatted 12.5 years ago and meanwhile has grown to be an essential social space in the harbor. There is already enough space for sport sailing in the harbor, but De Vloek must nevertheless move aside for the latest prestigious real estate project which nobody is looking forward to.On Monday October 13, the city council will make a final decision about whether or not De Vloek must disappear.

Housing/urban Issues/Gentrification

DC Homeless Civil Rights Challenge to Shelter Closings Update

Submitted by repost on Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:41

Prior to the closing of La Casa Shelter, and as part of an ongoing pattern of displacement, the District closed Franklin Shelter, another low barrier shelter in Northwest, Washington, D.C.[vi] Between the two closures, the District removed all available shelter space in District operated facilities in the Northwest quadrant of the city and reduced its available shelter space for men by over thirty percent (30%).

The pattern of targeting and removal of the largely minority homeless population exhibited by the District defendants and of record includes: i) a clear and undisputed pattern of closing all low barrier public shelter services in largely Caucasian Wards 1 and 2 and relegating the remaining public shelters to Wards 5, 7 and 8, with highest minority populations....

Housing/urban Issues/Gentrification
Human Rights
Poverty

Gitmo force-feeding protested outside rare Federal court hearing

Submitted by Luke on Tue, 10/07/2014 - 16:18

Early morning on the 6th of October, Witness Against Torture and Code Pink held a protest against the forced-feeding of hunger strikers at Guantanimo Bay. Inside, a rare Federal court hearing on behalf of Guantanimo detainee Abu Wa'el Dhiab challenged the US military's force-feeding practices as constituting torture.

Animal Rights
Foreign Policy/Imperialism
Human Rights
Police/Legal/Prisons

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