On Oct 11, ACLU attorney David Rocah appeared at a Washington Peace Center sponsored panel discussion on the MD State Police(MSP) spy scandal and the letters. He advised people who received the letters NOT to accept the MSP's offer to appear in person to "review" files but receive no copies.

Kate St. John, an a.r. activist working with the Humane League of Baltimore, was arrested on bogus disorderly conduct charges while leafleting outside an event at Ram's Head Live in Baltimore last night.
The police pepper sprayed St. John and tackled another activist who was attempting to assist her. They broke her camera, as well. St. John is
being held at Baltimore Central Processing and being denied access to the commissioner(meaning she's not being arraigned), as well as being denied access to vegan food. At this time, St. John has already been in police custody for over twelve hours.

In the global economy the competition is not only in business, it is in education also. Did you know that most of the so-called progressive developed nation's college education is FREE? In American education levels are used to deliberately screen out its citizens in socioeconomic competition! It is used to keep some citizens down!!

EveryOne Group has sent an urgent appeal to His Majesty King Juan Carlos I; to the President of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero; and to the Ministers and Spanish Members of Parliament, asking them to provide – by way of exception and given the gravity of the situation – humanitarian protection on Spanish soil for a small community of Romanian Roma...

So here is the deal: if you want the US to support ideologically driven secret wars abroad, with no regard to political mandate, human rights records, or international law, then John McCain is your man.

Call to oppose plans for 1,000 bed private prison for immigrants.

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

Late afternoon on Oct 10,about 50 people descended on the 425 I st headquarters of ICE to protest the massive raids of recent months.

Download Raw audio-almost entire protest:
dc.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/7/ice_protest_oct10.mp3

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

* This Editorial from El Libertario (#54, September-October 2008, Venezuela) examines – from the current Venezuelan perspective – how authoritarian power builds its own security upon the destruction of collective security.