We all, at least many, speak of the need for better movement organization, more effective
focus, sharper actions, wider reach, participatory democracy, bottom up process,
horizontal connections, greater transparency, etc. ---- The United States Social Forum is
a major movement event, June 22-26 in Detroit, MI. It is not to be missed. 17,000
activists are already registered, a month out.

An exhibition of photographic images and mixed media works by artist Nick Baldas to create an awareness of World Environment Day and explore the devastating effects of urbanisation on the natural wilderness. Customs House Library, Level 1, 31 Alfred St, Circular Quay, city.

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Saturday, May 29, 3:30pm - 6pm: Co-op Radio programmer policy training.

Lori Berenson, an American citizen who has served 15 years in a Peruvian prison for aiding leftist rebels, has been freed on parole.

Ms Berenson, 40, was arrested in 1995 for her alleged role in a plot to attack the Peruvian Congress.

WASHINGTON - The Senate rejected a proposal on Thursday to require President Barack Obama to submit a timetable for pulling U.S.

Five protesters were arrested in Houston on Wednesday at the annual shareholders meeting of the oil giant Chevron. The True Cost of Chevron Network says it organized the protest to call attention to Chevron's human rights and environmental record.