On the Line
On the Line On October 7, more than one hundred activists in Portero, California, demonstrated at the proposed site of a new Blackwater training facility near San Diego. The protesters were...
...The first group was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1980 by anti-nuclear activists...
...The Southwest Workers Union and other community-based groups organized protests against the wall being built on the U.S.-Mexico border...
...Montanez (below) was the first person charged under the city's new ordinance that limits the number of homeless people who can be fed at one time...
...Food Not Bombs Eric Montanez, an activist with Food Not Bombs, was found not guilty in Orlando, Florida, for feeding the homeless...
...The protesters were concerned about the local environmental impact and outraged by the company's killing of Iraqis in Nisour Square on September 16...
...Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to nonviolent social change...
...Peace Rallies On Saturday, October 27, tens of thousands of people participated in eleven regional demonstrations against the Iraq War...
...Food Not Bombs held a three-day "Ladle Fest" to celebrate Montanez's court victory...
...Scores of other protests took place across the country...
...Bring Blackwater to Justice A Message to Dingell Greenpeace hung a huge banner on the office of Representative John Dingell, Democrat of Michigan, to protest his stance on auto mileage standards and global warming...
...It shares free vegetarian food with hungry people...
Vol. 71 • December 2007 • No. 12