Community groups oppose a private corporation's plans to build a 1,000 bed immigrant prison in Farmville, VA.

On the night of October 9th, 2008, several homeless men including myself witnessed police brutality at the 801 East (MLK, Jr.) Homeless Shelter.

In the noontime hours of Friday, Oct 10, protesters from Oil Change International showed up in front of the World Bank. Empty oil drums were set up, along with buckets of coal. As the press watched, "bankers" painted the fossil fuels green.

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The MD State Police spy scandal has exploded onto the front page of the Washington Post. The scandal has mushroomed, with 54 activsts, many NOT connected with the groups the MD State Police admitted to spying on receiving the attached letters.

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Dear friends and allies of NCOR,

The current organizing collective of the National Conference on Organized Resistance, together with ex-collective members, have decided to close the conference indefinitely, following the unavoidable reality that no AU students have volunteered to be part of the next organizing collective.

There will be no NCOR 2009. Our strong hope is that other nonsectarian spaces emerge to support the intellectual development of the organized US Left. It is in the spirit of that desire that we write this statement, to communicate to the thousands of activists who have supported the conference since its inception to explain the reasons for its closing, remind ourselves of why it was important, and support efforts to create new radical intellectual conference spaces. But first…

On Monday, Oct.6, in a ruling unrelated to death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal's upcoming appeal of the recent Third Circuit decision denying a new guilt-phase trial, the US Supreme Court rejected his Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) appeal, which was asking the courts to hear newly discovered testimony from Kenneth Pate and Yvette Williams.

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Washington DC- Today at 12 noon FARM staff and volunteers provided a much-needed voice for chickens and other animals slaughtered for food in the nation's capital on World Farm Animals Day (Gandhi's birthday).

We gathered in protest of the National Chicken Council's 54th annual conference at the Fairmont Hotel in Washington DC, which brings together the most heinous chicken industry leaders.

This included the heads of the three largest chicken killing operations: Clint Rivers of Pilgrim's Pride, Dick Bond of Tyson's Foods, and Jim Perdue of Perdue Farms.

On Oct 6 a little after 6 PM, a bus chartered by One DC unloaded maybe 40 protesters at Mayor Fenty's 4712 17th st home. More were already waiting there. Former Franklin Shelter residents joined in the demo, originally called by One DC over the Parcel 42 housing issue.

Download raw Audio of much of the protest:
dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/8/onedc_fenty_home_demo_raw.mp3";

Since closing Franklin, the DC government has been using an overloaded van to move people between downtown jobs and the 801 East shelter. This is after a rollover disables a full size bus-and riders fear another crash!