Shaw residents are putting out the call to pack the Board of Library Trustees meeting on July 23, 2008.

"Approximately 20 people attended the meeting at the Electrik Maid activist center in Takoma Park. …After the meeting, [blacked out] set up a covert e-mail account, was accepted on the Maryland Campaign to End the Death Penalty Yahoo List Server and also contacted a man who attended the Takoma Park meeting about attending future meetings."

- Supplement to Intelligence Report (pdf) initiated by Analyst Sparwasser (Undercover Maryland State Police Homeland Security and Intelligence Division)

BALTIMORE – The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland today made public what it called "shocking" documents obtained through a Maryland Public Information Act (MPIA) lawsuit, revealing that the Maryland State Police (MSP) engaged in covert surveillance of local peace and anti-death penalty groups for over a year from 2005-2006. The organization expressed alarm at the incomprehensible spying revealed in 43 pages of summaries and computer logs, none of which refer to criminal or even potentially criminal acts, other than a few isolated references to plans for completely nonviolent civil disobedience.

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MANILA, Philippines — This year’s G8 summit in Japan, gathering the world’s most advanced industrial economies is happening amidst a global crisis on oil, food, poverty, and environment – a problem unequaled since the first G8 summit in 1973 concerning the oil crisis and the subsequent global recession.

The Longest Walk 2 having started from as far away as Alcatraz Island off the coast of California calling for the protection of sacred sites and mother earth and the respect of all human rights, arrived an Malcolm X park around 7 AM Friday July 11th, passed the White House mid-day, and in the afternoon, near the Capitol, got the support of hundreds of people and Congressman Conyers who declared: [ Harry Belafonte, John Conyers, the entire Congressional Black Caucus of 43 men and women […] the Progressive Caucus in the House of Representative, the Hispanic Caucus, the Asian Pacific Caucus, all of us come together to join hands for one simple obvious reason that we’ve learned, your cause is our cause!].

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This week, Native Americans arrive in Washington, DC. They have completed the Longest Walk 2 which began on February 11, 2008 when they left San Francisco. Traveling along a Northern and Southern route (total of 8,000 miles), they collected 8,000 bags of garbage and testimonies. This is a call for action to bring to fruition the message that "All Life is Sacred, Protect Mother Earth".
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Today on the intersection of Connecticut Avenue and R Street NW there was a memorial and press conference held by the Washington Area Bicyclist Association. It was to remember a bicyclist that was killed just yesterday. Her name was Alice Swanson and she was just twenty two years old

Steelworkers confront import safety summit with Toxic Trader puppet, street theater, rally, and banner drop at Hyatt Hotel summit site.