The fossil fools ain’t no joke – but that doesn’t mean we can’t fight them with one! The Fossil Fuel Empire is real and it’s here. The stakes couldn’t be higher: destabilization of the global climate, communities from Alaska to Alberta to Appalachia being destroyed by dirty energy extraction and combustion, devastating super hurricanes, droughts, flooding, the list goes on…

Can a small simple cardboard robot succeed where reporters, world leaders, activists and educators have not?

By Carlito Pablo - March 8, 2010

The activist group No One Is Illegal-Vancouver is preparing to confront what it says is a neo-Nazi rally being planned for March 21, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...“It seems like the voices that may have been quieter before are now feeling like...they can come out and really publicly say things that we would consider completely atrocious and despicable...”

Jamie Scott, 38, is suffering from kidney failure. She has received no indication that a kidney transplant is being considered as an option, though her sister is a willing donor. At the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF) in Pearl, where Jamie and her sister Gladys are incarcerated, medical services are provided by a private contractor called Wexford, which has been the subject of lawsuits and legislative investigations in several states over inadequate treatment of the inmates in its care.

March 5, 2010

The Olympics are over but the struggle continues! Vancouver's political community is still being targeted by the police with substantial surveillance and intimidation, unlawful arrests and detentions, unnecessary violence, police provocateurs, and unjust charges requiring legal defence. Nearly 10 people in your community face legal battles and need your support.

The first few days at the Olympic Tent Village have gone strongly and smoothly, thanks to the community effort to support and defend it. Hundreds have gathered during the evening and through the night, especially Downtown Eastside residents, homeless people, and youth...Over the next week, we are calling on all supporters to continue to defend the Olympic Tent Village and to support the residents.

Day 2 at the Olympic Tent Village went strongly and smoothly, thanks to the community effort to support and defend it. Hundreds gathered during the evening and through the night. During the day, there were a few minor police altercations, including the identification of two undercover police officers and another incident when the [Vancouver Police Department] attempted to barge into the Tent Village.

The call has gone out. On March 4th, students, workers and teachers throughout the nation and across the globe will strike.

It is crucial to support the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement...To paraphrase Chicago community organizer Saul Alinsky, the way to beat organized oppression is with organized boycotts against Israeli companies and global corporate giants allied with its government's war machine.

"A Conservative government will stand up for full and fair compensation to persons exposed to defoliant spraying during the period from 1956 to 1984."

- Stephen Harper

The Olympic Resistance Network is seeking support and supplies! In addition to building ongoing educational and resistance efforts, the Olympics Resistance Network is hosting and coordinating logistics for an Anti-2010 Convergence, between February 10th-15th 2010...A list of contacts for information and updates regarding housing, legal info, flyers and outreach materials, etc. follows.

In a dangerous decision and a break with its own precedent, the U.S. Supreme Court, on Jan. 15, opened the door wide to Pennsylvania prosecutors’ efforts to execute the innocent political prisoner, murder frame-up victim, award-winning journalist, and world-renowned “Voice of the Voiceless,” Mumia Abu-Jamal.

From February 10th-15th the VMC (Vancouver Media Co-op) will be cranking out daily reports from the streets of resistance...If you are a video ninja, photo bug, radio geek, crack writer or are fast on your feet, we need your help to cover the days of resistance during the Vancouver Olympics.

By The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal - January 19, 2010

Mumia Abu-Jamal...now faces an immediate new threat to his life from the US Supreme Court. The Court ruled last year on Mumia's appeal, by summarily refusing to even consider a reversal of his unjust 1982 murder conviction in a blatantly racist court. And last week, the Supreme Court discussed a cross-appeal by the State of Pennsylvania to reinstate Mumia's death sentence...A ruling could be announced as early as Tuesday this week.

Whale sounds and Maori chants were blasted through loudspeakers as a rallying cry for the almost 1000 whales doomed to be illegally slaughtered by Japanese poachers in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, as sanctioned by the Japanese government.