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  • Low income women tell Sen. Amy Klobuchar: ‘Undo the Food Stamp cuts!’

    Minneapolis, MN – Members of the Twin Cities-based Welfare Rights Committee held signs and banners during rush-hour, Nov. 12, in front of U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar’s office, telling her to undo the November Food Stamp/SNAP cuts, and to stop further cuts to Food Stamps.

    Senator Klobuchar sits on the Agriculture conference committee in Washington D.C. that will decide the fate of the Food Stamp (now known as SNAP) program. Both houses of Congress are proposing cuts to this basic survival program. Now, people across the country are reeling from November’s across the board cuts to Food Stamps (the result of an expiration of a part of the federal stimulus program).

    According to the Welfare Rights Committee’s Loretta VanPelt, “It seems that when budgets need to be ‘balanced’ it is balanced on the backs of the poor and working class, and we are the ones who have to pay the price for these budgets. We ask that Senator Klobuchar, as a member of the Ag Committee, to use her influence to undo all cuts to food stamps.”

  • Minneapolis protest demands: Drop the charges against Rasmea Odeh

    Minneapolis, MN – Chanting “Justice for Rasmea, drop the charges now,” about 35 protesters gathered in front of the Federal Building here, Nov. 13, to stand in solidarity with the widely respected Chicago Palestinian community leader Rasmea Odeh. The protest, which coincided with Odeh’s arraignment in Detroit’s federal court, was one of the solidarity actions held around the U.S. Odeh is facing a possible ten year sentence and deportation on a trumped up immigration charge.

    Meredith Aby of the Minnesota Committee to Stop FBI Repression told the crowd, “Today we stand with Rasmea Odeh, and against those who would silence and imprison her. This attack is another example of the continuing repression of Palestinians and people who stand in solidarity with them. Homeland Security, the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Attorney’s office are carrying out enforcement of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. We ask all those who have stood with us against the government attack on our organizing, to stand with us today to support Rasmea.” Aby is one of the anti-war and international solidarity activists whose homes were raided by the FBI in 2010.

    Anti-war activist Jess Sundin also spoke to protesters, urging them build the defense campaign for Rasmea Odeh in the coming months.

  • India: Lalgarh Movement: A critical view

     

    This article was originally published in a To a New Dawn and after reading it we took the view that the critical view taken in this article was to improve strategy of CPI Maoist in Largarth and not destroy it, so we have also decided to publish it.
     

      Self criticism is a vital part of revolutionary communist politics if we are to advance our revolutionary cause..

     

     

    The valiant

  • Philippines: Typhoon Haiyan Yolanda and Class Theft – Disaster Capitalism in the Philippines

    See Also:

    http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/phillippine-gov-misused-public-funds-as.html

    http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/philippines-ndfp-calls-for.html

  • Georges Abdallah – 30 years in prison -30 years of resistance

    See also:
    http://couppourcoup31.over-blog.com/
    Georges Abdallah : 30 ans de prison, 30 ans de… by coup-pour-coup

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Ibrahim_Abdallah
    http://liberonsgeorges.over-blog.com/

    Red Salute to Coup Pour Coup 31 for their creative campaigning for George Ibrahim Abdallah
    from Democracy and Class Struggle.

  • Georges Abdallah – 30 years in prison -30 years of resistance

    See also:
    http://couppourcoup31.over-blog.com/
    Georges Abdallah : 30 ans de prison, 30 ans de… by coup-pour-coup

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Ibrahim_Abdallah
    http://liberonsgeorges.over-blog.com/

    Red Salute to Coup Pour Coup 31 for their creative campaigning for George Ibrahim Abdallah
    from Democracy and Class Struggle.

  • NAPM statement on the complete annihilation of small farmers in World Agricultural Congress at Hyderabad

    National Alliance of People’s Movements Press Release 07th November 2013 Dubbed as “World Annihilation Forum”, long back, World Agricultural Forum (WAF) has lived up to that and again succeeded in annihilation of small and marginal farmers, their right to discuss issues of concern to them, and created a distance between them and the policy-makers elected […]

  • NAPM statement on the complete annihilation of small farmers in World Agricultural Congress at Hyderabad

    National Alliance of People’s Movements Press Release 07th November 2013 Dubbed as “World Annihilation Forum”, long back, World Agricultural Forum (WAF) has lived up to that and again succeeded in annihilation of small and marginal farmers, their right to discuss issues of concern to them, and created a distance between them and the policy-makers elected […]

  • The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today denounced the Aquino regime and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for making use of the Yolanda tragedy as a camouflage to carry out relentless offensive operations in Sorsogon province and elsewhere

    The armed encounter happened in the interior areas of Matnog, at least 3 km. away from the Maharlika Highway land route from Luzon to Samar island, and 5 km. away from the Matnog port… These AFP troops were on search and destroy operations.

    MEDIA RELEASEBy CPP Information Bureau13 November 2013

    AFP lying, encountered troops in Sorsogon not carrying Yolanda relief — CPP

    The Communist

  • Sri Lanka : Cameron and Hague exposed has Sri Lanka cracks down has the Commonwelath Summit starts in Colombo

    More than 100 Tamils whose family members disappeared during and after Sri Lanka’s civil war have been prevented from entering Colombo.

    UK’s Channel 4 News Team has been prevented from visiting former war zone in the North.

    Mr Callum Macrae Director of Channel 4’s award winning documentary No Fire Zone Sri Lanka’s killing fields was told he had to stay in Colombo by the Sri Lankan police.