Activist News Protesters in Denver made sure the Democrats couldn't ignore demands for an end to the Iraq war and legalization of undocumented workers.
August 29, 2008 Activists gathered in San Francisco to march to the ICE headquarters to demand an end to attacks on immigrant communities.
August 29, 2008 Immigrant rights activists are coming together to prevent the deportations of workers from the French Gourmet Bakery.
August 27, 2008 Los Angeles activists protested on August 13 to demand that the government free Dr. Sami Al-Arian.
August 21, 2008 More than 120 people spilled into the halls of a packed forum against U.S. war plans against Iran held in Providence.
August 21, 2008 : Roger Dyer The attack on San Francisco's sanctuary city status for immigrants is coming from a number of sources--the racist Minutemen, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the mayor.
August 19, 2008 A military court sentenced James Burmeister--a soldier who fled to Canada last year rather than return to Iraq and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder--to six months in prison.
August 15, 2008 Providence, R.I., activists gathered to commemorate the one-year anniversary of a savage police attack.
August 15, 2008 A small but spirited group of protesters turned out in Boston to demonstrate against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
August 15, 2008 Some 200 antiwar activists turned out to protest in Boston on August 2--successfully shutting down the Armed Forces Career Center before the protest even began.
August 13, 2008 A thousand demonstrators turned out in New York City's Times Square with the message "Stop War on Iran."
August 13, 2008 Supporters of single-payer health care take their message to Democratic National Committee headquarters.
August 13, 2008 Immigrant rights activists picketed City Hall as hearings were held on Chicago police collaboration with federal immigration authorities.
August 12, 2008 Hundreds of immigrant rights supporters mobilized on a day’s notice to send a message to the racist Minutemen that immigrants are welcome here.
August 12, 2008 Dozens of labor unionists and young progressives gathered outside the Zimbabwean embassy on July 21 to protest the illegitimate government of Robert Mugabe.
August 12, 2008 : Christian Wright As the Democratic National Convention approaches, Denver activists are organizing for a week of protest, teach-ins and concerts.
August 8, 2008 Over 80 Vermonters turned out to hear a firsthand account of the atrocious acts committed by the U.S. against Arabs and Muslims.
August 1, 2008 A successful fundraiser was the latest event in the growing campaign for a group of Bay Area immigrant workers victimized by ICE.
August 1, 2008 In the face of a court decision ruling against a new hearing, activists are making plans for the next step in the struggle for justice for political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
August 1, 2008 The U.S. government is continuing its campaign against the environmental movement with an attack on nonviolent protesters in Eugene, Ore.
July 30, 2008 More than 1,000 people turned out to Postville, Iowa, in defense of immigrant rights after a raid last May at the AgriProcessors meatpacking plant.
July 29, 2008 Some 100 people gathered in Baltimore to speak out against a Maryland State Police spy operation against activists.
July 25, 2008 : Orlando Sepúlveda Chicago police and Cook County sheriff's deputies have teamed up with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement to harass immigrants.
July 24, 2008 More than 150 people turned out within hours to protest an immigration raid in Rhode Island.
July 23, 2008 Protesters gathered in front of Canadian consulates in 14 U.S. cities to protest planned deportations of U.S. war resisters currently seeking refuge in Canada.
July 16, 2008 Over 100 people joined a spirited march through downtown Portland to protest a string of police raids on homeless encampments.
July 16, 2008 Some 400 antiwar activists gathered in Cleveland on June 28 and 29 for the National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation.
July 11, 2008 A rash of police-involved shootings that has left five people dead in Chicago in the past two weeks sparked a small, but resolute, protest.
July 3, 2008 The Houston immigrant rights community isn't allowing ICE to conduct raids on local workplaces without a response.
July 3, 2008 Some 1,000 activists turned out to Socialism 2008 for a weekend of revolutionary politics, debate and entertainment.
June 24, 2008 A crowd of hundreds met the first same-sex couples to be married in California after their ceremonies with shouts of joy.
June 24, 2008 Hundreds of people joined the first-ever New England Transgender Pride march on June 7 in Northampton, Mass.
June 18, 2008 Activists in Burlington, Vt., are organizing to stop a local telecommunications company from shutting down the broadcast of Al-Jazeera English television.
June 18, 2008 After the people of Portrero, Calif., blocked Blackwater from coming to their town, activists are turning to the border, where the mercenaries plan to build a new base.
June 18, 2008 Activists for health care reform turned out for the first public hearing on proposed legislation to create a statewide single-payer system.
June 13, 2008 Two leading voices of opposition to U.S. war in the Middle East, Cindy Sheehan and Dahr Jamail spoke out in Seattle in early June.
June 13, 2008 A Seattle Community College student was attacked by police in front of a crowd of 100 people--but fellow students are organizing against this injustice.
June 9, 2008 Antiwar veterans and activists gathered in Chicago and in other cities to honor the fallen and call for an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
June 4, 2008 Federal immigration officials are continuing a series of raids in the Bay Area, but their actions have sparked anger and protest.
May 30, 2008 Activists in San Diego are organizing after federal immigration agents raided the French Gourmet and arrested 18 workers.
May 26, 2008 Student antiwar activists are finding an audience of people who want to talk about what it would take to end the war.
May 26, 2008 Fellow students, teachers, family members and activists marched to demand justice for José Luis Buenrostro-Gonzalez.
May 23, 2008 Brown University has announced that it will expel a student activist for the "crime" of throwing a pie at columnist Thomas Friedman.
May 22, 2008 Some 400 people protested Minutemen cofounder Chris Simcox in the biggest anti-Minutemen demonstration in Chicago in over three years.
May 21, 2008 Supporters of Palestinian rights are organizing events to protest 60 years of Israeli war and repression.
May 19, 2008 : Jessie Muldoon When ICE vans appeared in Oakland, sparking fears that agents might detain parents as they picked up their kids from school, activists responded quickly.
May 19, 2008 San Francisco State University students are linking the fight against state budget cuts with the struggle for immigrant rights.
May 13, 2008 Coordinated actions took place across New York May 7 over the not-guilty verdict for the police who killed Sean Bell.
May 8, 2008 The California Teachers Association is opposing proposed budget cuts affecting schools--and plans to link May 14 "Day of the Teacher" actions to the campaign.
May 8, 2008 Members of the Black Panther Party gathered in Seattle to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the chapter's founding.
May 8, 2008 Immigrant rights supporters organized an emergency mobilization after ICE raids at a Bay Area restaurant chain.
May 7, 2008 Rev. Al Sharpton has called for civil disobedience protests May 7 over the acquittal of the three NYPD officers who killed Sean Bell.
May 6, 2008 Supporters of immigrant rights celebrated May Day by taking to the streets for the third year in a row, in cities across the U.S.
May 5, 2008 Claiming they were after "criminals," ICE agents raided a taqueria chain in the Bay Area on the day after May Day marches for immigrant rights.
May 5, 2008 Members from over 20 chapters of the Campus Antiwar Network gathered in April for an East Coast conference.
May 1, 2008 An alternative piece of legislation has given abolitionists cause for optimism and continued struggle in Maryland.
May 1, 2008 Vowing not to be intimidated by a wave of raids, activists are mobilizing for May Day marches for immigrant and workers' rights.
April 25, 2008 Teachers were among the groups of people who marched twice in San Diego to protest Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget cuts.
April 25, 2008 Six student activists at Appalachian State University were arrested after a three-day sit-in at the administration building.
April 25, 2008 Some 800 people flooded downtown Philadelphia to protest the recent denial of a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
April 25, 2008 The family of José Luis Buenrostro-Gonzalez are continuing to demand justice for this victim of police violence in Oakland, Calif.
April 25, 2008 A leader of the group United Workers of Van Nuys talks about the struggle to defend victims of a February ICE raid.
April 11, 2008 West Coast longshore workers are gathering support for their decision to stop work May 1 to protest the U.S. war in Iraq.
April 11, 2008 Tope Awe's friends and activists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are determined to fight her deportation order.
April 11, 2008 A torrent of protest broke out in Rhode Island after the Republican governor issued an anti-immigrant executive order.
April 11, 2008 Reversing Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget cuts will require a united struggle of students and faculty, built from the grassroots up.
April 4, 2008 Protesting five years of war | Rhode Island budget cuts
March 28, 2008 To mark the fifth anniversary of the war on Iraq, activists held demonstrations and other events calling for an end to the war and occupation.
March 21, 2008 Protesting Rove in Iowa | Justice for Jason | Blackwater kept out of San Diego County
March 21, 2008 With California facing a budget deficit, lawmakers have decided ordinary people are going to have to pay. But students are organizing to push back.
March 14, 2008 The family of Sean Bell is finally seeing the New York City cops who shot their son stand trial.
March 7, 2008 Chicago public schools | Justice for Mumia | UMass-Amherst
March 7, 2008 Justice for Jason Vassell | Chicago police victims deserve new trials | Week of antiwar action at Fort Lewis | Protesting "Justice" John Roberts | NYC protest for Palestinian rights | D.C. Social Forum organizing
February 22, 2008 Busloads of Baltimore City youth and supporters staged a mock die-in at the Maryland statehouse to protest cuts in education funding.
February 22, 2008 Main Street in Danbury, Conn., was eerily quiet on February 6, with dark storefronts boasting pink fliers announcing they were closed for the day.
February 15, 2008 Univ. of Cincinnati antiwar forum | Oregon protest for same-sex civil rights
February 15, 2008 Beneath the towering double row of border fences, immigrant rights activists began the third Marcha Migrante from San Diego to the Canadian border.
February 8, 2008 Danbury, Conn., immigrant rights | Make Democrats debate the war | Winter Soldier at Fort Drum | Shut down the SOA | Protesting anti-choice bigots in S.F.
February 8, 2008 Protesting the siege of Gaza | Support war resisters | Defending immigrant workers
February 1, 2008 Racists march in Jena | Rights for immigrant detainees | NYC protest for Palestinian rights | Protesting CIGNA in Chicago
January 25, 2008 Shut down Guantánamo | Protesting repression in Puerto Rico | Building for Winter Soldier
January 18, 2008 More than 500 people came out in New York to show their support for eight former Black Panthers who are being retried for a 1971 murder.
January 11, 2008 Police and public officials in New Orleans responded with outrageous violence to protesters fighting for their right to public housing.
January 11, 2008 Justice for Kevin Cooper | Rochester, N.Y., antiwar forum | Palestinian rights protest in NYC | Ventura, Calif., antiwar carolers
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