While in Olympia talking about the significance of the Olympia Food Coop’s decision to join the international boycott of Israeli goods in light of the country’s continued attack on the Palestinian People, Ali Abunimah spoke to B Media about the importance of independent media.
On June 27th, community members, activists and environmentalists joined together to march against Covanta and the City of Detroit’s continued use of a toxic trash incinerator in residential areas. Highlights of the day included great street theater, a marching band, sun flowers and tree planting at Go Lightly Elementary school just blocks from the plant.
Democracy Now! provides and on the street look at the protests against the G20 summit in Toronto.
The Allied Media Conference took place from June 17-June 21. Over 700 media activists gathered from around the country for the 12th annual event. The conference consisted of a series of workshops organized around tracks ranging from technical skill shares, to policy discussions. There were lots of opportuniteis to meet people doing amazing work, share Read more about Allied Media Conference[…]
Miles traveled: 600 Number of computers on bus checking facebook or subversive websites: 10 Number of instruments on bus: 8 6 am –We are actually up and out of Fargo on time! After a lovely, but quick, sleep on the dewey lawn of our hosts from the Unitarian church, we were on the road….and it Read more about Day 4: Fargo, ND – Milwaukee, WI[…]
by Amanda Eckerson They kill 1500 buffalo a year in Yellowstone. They come at them with helicopters, shoot them for stepping outside the bounds of the park, bounds that were placed around the last living pure breed of buffalo in the United States. The Caravan stopped at the Buffalo Field Campaign campsite on our way Read more about America’s Buffalo are a Metaphor for the Times[…]
The Portland Chapter of the Cascadia Freedom Caravan’s last fun-raiser before hitting the road to the Allied Media Conference and US Social Forum in Detroit. Rummage, Raffle, Art, Food, Music and People. Awesome.
Thank you for showing interest in our fledgling project as it begins to take shape and grow into a life of its own.
B Media hooked up with Paulie Think, Nuestro, and The Dapper Cadavers to host a fundraiser/film screening/live music event for the Olympia 29 at the Red and Black hosted by Oregon Jericho on Saturday, May 22. Jeff Free spoke at the event in solidarity with the cause. The Olympia 29 were arrested during an anti-police Read more about Jericho Movement hosts Olympia 29 at Red and Black[…]
Jyri Antero Jaakkola (February 11, 1977 – April 27, 2010 Oaxaca, Mexico) was a Finnish human-rights activist. He was on his way to San Juan Copala, a village of Trique indigenous people that has declared itself autonomous, as a human-rights observer when he was shot dead by UBISORT, a paramilitary organization connected to Institutional Revolutionary Party. In the attack died also Alberta Cariño, an activist for the local organization CACTUS, and more than ten people were wounded.