That bailout Congre$$ passed last week hasn't stopped Wall Street's decline. Today, Tuesday Oct 7, the Dow dropped another 508 points. This is starting to get routine-and THAT's the stuff bank failures are made of!

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It has been another bloody weekend of bombs and shooting in Iraq. US troops were responsible for the worst incident, where a family of 11 was killed as U$ troops raided their home, but there wer many others.

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Jericho 10/10 Weekend of Resistance

"One of the first steps we are going to become involved in as an Organization of Afro-American Unity will be to work with every leader and other organization in this country interested in a program designed to bring your and my problem before the United Nations . . . We must take it out of the hands of the United States government."
– Malcolm X, Speech at Founding Rally of the OAAU, 28 June 1964

This survey seeks the input of DC residents living or working in the broader Shaw neighborhood which extends from Ward 2 into 5 and also 1. The questions address the remaining concerns about amenities and services in the new Shaw Library.

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.

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.

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Novartis Knock Down Day is a call for actions against Novartis on Monday, October 27th for being one of Huntingdon Life Sciences’ (HLS’s) largest customers. Without customers of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) there simply would be no Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS). The customers pay Huntingdon to test products and carry out research. If Huntingdon lost all their customers then they would have no income and be forced to close. There are only ten companies which give Huntingdon Life Sciences 45% of their income; these include Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Monday, October 27th is Novartis’ day.

Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca - Thursday, September 25 Brother and sisters, Our hearts are full of sadness and rage because our sister Sali was brutally raped and murdered 20 minutes from San Jose del Pacifico and up to this moment the Oaxacan Attorney General's Office, as is its custom, is not doing anything regarding the fact that there exist witnesses who have information to identify those responsible.