A seemingly all-powerful military, police and media apparatus,
that has had the support of the U.S. superpower for decades, is crumbling before the even greater strength of a united people who
have first conquered fear and may now push the dictator's regime into the dustbin of history.
This struggle began in Tunisia in December when a young street vender chose to burn himself rather than face humiliation.
It has spread to Algeria, to Yemen, to Jordan and now to the largest and most central state in the Arab world, Egypt. This country,
with its rich ancient history and its impoverished population -- with more than 80 million people it is the largest of the North
African states -- is now finding its way back into center stage of world events.
Read the Entire IAC Statement
National Tour to Build PEOPLES POWER
In Los Angeles Sun, March 18, 2012 at 4 pm. Call for location!
Help Fight for a Moratorium to Stop Foreclosures!
Bail Out the People Movement demonstrated at this L.A. County auction of foreclosed homes in Norwalk, along with Hermandad Mexicana Transnacional, Buen Hogar Foundation, the Latino Caucus of SEIU Local 721 and other groups and individuals
Gov. Brown we demand that you call a State of Emergency, that you impose a two-year moratorium that prohibits foreclosures, and that you enact a REAL jobs program!
CALL 323 306-6240 TO GET INVOLVED
IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST FORECLOSURES!
Long Live the Egyptian People's Freedom Struggle
A seemingly all-powerful military, police and media apparatus,
that has had the support of the U.S. superpower for decades, is crumbling before the even greater strength of a united people who
have first conquered fear and may now push the dictator's regime into the dustbin of history.
This struggle began in Tunisia in December when a young street vender chose to burn himself rather than face humiliation.
It has spread to Algeria, to Yemen, to Jordan and now to the largest and most central state in the Arab world, Egypt. This country,
with its rich ancient history and its impoverished population -- with more than 80 million people it is the largest of the North
African states -- is now finding its way back into center stage of world events.
Read the Entire IAC Statement
Emergency Alert: ACUTE DANGER OF WAR OVER KOREA
Emergency actions at 5 p.m. should fighting break out
In Los Angeles go to corner of Western Ave and Wilshire Blvd
SIGN the ongoing ONLINE PETITION to the Obama Administration and s. Korean Govt.
at http://www.iacenter.org/korea/stopattackondprk NOW!
(join with thousands who have already signed on)
The right-wing government in South Korea is once again threatening live-fire war exercises from an island right off the coast of north Korea (the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea). The DPRK has made it very clear that this would be an act of war to which it would respond vigorously. A huge crisis is in the making. The U.S., which over the last month has been conducting joint naval exercises in the area with both Japan and South Korea, could tell its client state in Seoul to cancel these provocative military maneuvers. But instead, the U.S. again blocked any agreement to resolve the crisis during a day-long meeting of the Security Council at U.N. headquarters on Dec. 19. The anti-war movement must prepare to respond immediately to any military action by South Korea, the U.S. and/or Japan against the DPRK. With tens if not hundreds of thousands of U.S., Japanese and South Korean troops mobilized in the area -- on land and on hundreds of warships and aircraft carriers -- the danger of a general war is acute. China and Russia have also made it clear that these provocations from the south are very dangerous. A look at the background shows why this aggression is so dangerous for world peace: - The U.S. still has tens of thousands of troops occupying South Korea and Japan, which have been there since the end of World War II -- 65 years ago. - Washington still refuses to sign a permanent peace with the DPRK. - This island and the waters in question are north of the Demilitarized Zone and only eight miles from the coast of the DPRK. - The U.S. deployment of thousands of troops, 50 to 70 ships, and hundreds of aircraft to the area while South Korea is firing thousands of rounds of live ammunition and missiles is an enormously dangerous provocation, not only to the DPRK but to China. It is important that antiwar and social justice organizations begin to make plans now for emergency response actions all across the country should the crisis break out in fighting. The United National Antiwar Committee, www.NationalPeaceConference.org is also circulating a call for Emergency Response Demonstrations in the event of an attack. Many groups are sending out Emergency Alerts and circulating calls for Day After Actions. Together we can make our voices strong and unified.
SIGN ONLINE AT http://www.iacenter.org/korea/stopattackondprk NOW!
Emergency actions at 5 p.m. should fighting break out
In Los Angeles go to corner of Western Ave and Wilshire Blvd
Antiwar movement calls for Emergency response
NYC -- Times Square Washington, D.C. -- the White House
Los Angeles -- Western & Wilshire in Koreatown
In Many Cities - Federal Buildings on Day-of or Day-after
(join with thousands who have already signed on)
The right-wing government in South Korea is once again threatening live-fire war exercises from an island right off the coast of north Korea (the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea). The DPRK has made it very clear that this would be an act of war to which it would respond vigorously. A huge crisis is in the making. The U.S., which over the last month has been conducting joint naval exercises in the area with both Japan and South Korea, could tell its client state in Seoul to cancel these provocative military maneuvers. But instead, the U.S. again blocked any agreement to resolve the crisis during a day-long meeting of the Security Council at U.N. headquarters on Dec. 19. The anti-war movement must prepare to respond immediately to any military action by South Korea, the U.S. and/or Japan against the DPRK. With tens if not hundreds of thousands of U.S., Japanese and South Korean troops mobilized in the area -- on land and on hundreds of warships and aircraft carriers -- the danger of a general war is acute. China and Russia have also made it clear that these provocations from the south are very dangerous. A look at the background shows why this aggression is so dangerous for world peace: - The U.S. still has tens of thousands of troops occupying South Korea and Japan, which have been there since the end of World War II -- 65 years ago. - Washington still refuses to sign a permanent peace with the DPRK. - This island and the waters in question are north of the Demilitarized Zone and only eight miles from the coast of the DPRK. - The U.S. deployment of thousands of troops, 50 to 70 ships, and hundreds of aircraft to the area while South Korea is firing thousands of rounds of live ammunition and missiles is an enormously dangerous provocation, not only to the DPRK but to China. It is important that antiwar and social justice organizations begin to make plans now for emergency response actions all across the country should the crisis break out in fighting. The United National Antiwar Committee, www.NationalPeaceConference.org is also circulating a call for Emergency Response Demonstrations in the event of an attack. Many groups are sending out Emergency Alerts and circulating calls for Day After Actions. Together we can make our voices strong and unified.
Protest Against FBI Attacks on the Anti-War Movement
National Day of Action - Tue. October 5
L.A. Downtown Federal Building at 300 N Los Angeles St
National Day of Action - Tue. October 5
L.A. Downtown Federal Building at 300 N Los Angeles St
A call for action at Federal Buildings and FBI Offices: Please join us October 5, Tuesday 4:30 pm at the LA Federal Bldg. as part of the National Day of Action Against FBI Repression! October 5, is the first day that some anti war/solidarity activist have been ordered to appear in US Federal Court in Chicago to be questioned about their peace and solidarity activities. In LA we will be holding a picket line protest on the sidewalk of the LA Federal Bldg. starting at 4:30 pm, please join us. See the call for the Committee to Stop FBI Repression below, with web link for more details. Important Update from the Committee To Stop FBI Repression Chicago - The Committee Against Political Repression in Chicago is joining the national day of action on Tuesday, October 5th, in response to last week's FBI raids on the homes of anti-war and international solidarity activists. The goal is to put an end to the Grand Jury process and the government's attack on anti-war activists across the country. Supporters should look for breaking news on stopfbi.net as the legal developments may evolve rapidly. On September 24, the FBI raided seven Chicago and Minneapolis homes of well-known anti-war and solidarity activists. The FBI subpoenaed 14 activists in Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan to testify at a grand jury. According to the FBI, the goal of the raids was to show material support for terrorism charges. It is outrageous! The US government is trying to put people in jail for anti-war and international solidarity activism. These people have done nothing wrong. They have given money to no one; their freedom is at stake. A national day of action is Tuesday, Oct. 5th, with protests and vigils held at government buildings around the country.
Emergency Protest Against FBI Raids in Chicago and Minneapolis
Press Conference and Picket Line - 5 pm, Tue. Sept 28
L.A. Downtown Federal Building at 300 N Los Angeles St
Press Conference and Picket Line - 5 pm, Tue. Sept 28
L.A. Downtown Federal Building at 300 N Los Angeles St
A call for action at Federal Buildings and FBI Offices:
The FBI raided seven houses and an office in Chicago and Minneapolis on Friday, September 24, 2010.
They handed subpoenas to testify before a federal grand jury to eleven activists in Illinois, Minnesota, and Michigan. The FBI also attempted to intimidate activists in California and North Carolina. There were three more Grand Jury subpoenas in Minnesota on Monday.
This suppression of civil rights is aimed at those who dedicate their time and energy to supporting the struggles of the Palestinian and Colombian peoples against U.S. funded occupation and war. The grand jury is investigating the activists for possible material support of terrorism charges.
Sending Love and Resources to the People
A Benefit in Solidarity with Haiti
A Benefit in Solidarity with Haiti
SATURDAY FEB. 13th @ 1PM
Hosted and co-sponsored by SEIU Local 721 Latino Caucus; Global Women's Strike; BAYAN-USA; IAC/Bail Out the People Movement; Hermandad Mexicana Trans-Nacional; Harvard Blvd. Block Club
Where: 500 S. Virgil Ave, Los Angeles (near 6th and Virgil)
Contact: (323) 306-6240
Featured Speaker: Robert Roth, founding member of Haiti Action Committee
Demonstrate Against Racist Anti-Immigrant Sheriff Arpaio in Phoenix on January 16th
Ride with IAC activists leaving by van on Friday night and returning late Saturday night.
Be part of a Los Angeles delegation at this important demonstration!
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who boasts that it is an honor to be called a member of the KKK, has turned the clock back on human rights by fifty years with a revival of chain gangs.
Through a special arrangement with Homeland Security via bill 287(g) he uses his department to conduct illegal profiling and mass arrests of Latinos and other immigrants.
His Maricopa County Sheriffs recently forced a woman to give birth to her baby while shackled to a hospital bed!
But Joe Arpaio couldn?t get away with such high-profile,
repressive tactics if he did not have support from powerful people in Washington. Janet Napolitano, the current head of Homeland Security,
was the governor of Arizona during much of his reign of terror and did nothing to stop him.
Let?s help make this demonstration a message
that speaks loud and clear to the repressive agencies in Washington, and to the White House too. Let?s make it a message that says
?WE WANT JOBS AND SCHOOLS ? NOT ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS AND NOT RACIST PRISONS.
Call and reserve your space in the vans today. Call 323 306-6240.
Can?t go? Please consider contributing funds to help someone else participate. Thank you!
California Activists Organize Trip to Pittsburgh Jobs March During G20 Summit!
All over the world in September eyes will be on Pittsburgh, where the
G20 countries will meet to consider what to do about the biggest global
economic crisis since the 1930s. The heads of governments, finance
ministers and central bankers that will be in Pittsburgh for the summit
cater to the bankers and corporate executives all
the time. We must make them respond to the demands of the
millions who have lost jobs and homes because of
this crisis. We need your help filling the bus and sponsoring
unemployed activists who want to march in Pittsburgh. Would you or your
organization want to donate to sponsor unemployed workers or send a
delegation? Call us right away at (323) 306-6240.
Please contribute to help everyone participate who wants to.
VIVA PALESTINA AID CONVOY GETS THROUGH!
> Read John Parker's journal with video and pics!
> Read John Parker's journal with video and pics!
More than 200 solidarity activists delivered medical supplies and ambulances to the Palestinian people of Gaza!
This was the largest ever US humanitarian aid convoy to Palestine and was organized by British MP George Galloway and Vietnam Veteran and
anti-war activist Ron Kovic. It carried more than one million dollars in medical supplies for the people of Gaza, who have been forced to
live in prison-like conditions for years under blocade by the U.S. backed Israeli military.
The convoy's delegation of about 200 people left for Cairo, Egypt on July 4th from Brooklyn, NY. They waged a hard fought campaign to reach Gaza with New York City Councilman Charles Barron leading the
negotiations with the Egyptian authorities, and finally were able to reach their goal on Wednesday July 15th.
The participants include former Congressperson Cynthia McKinney, New York City Council Member Charles Barron, and members of CAIR,
Middle East Childrens Alliance, Cuba Coalition, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, MECHA, International Action Center,
International Socialist Organization, Workers World Party, Answer Coalition and many more.
Please consider making a donation to help cover the considerable costs of travel. All donations beyond the costs to IAC will be added to the general fund of Viva Palestina.
Weekly IAC Meetings and Filmshowings
Wednesday, June 10 at 7 pm
5274 W Pico Blvd, Room 205
FILM:The Angola 3:
Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
narrated by Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Wednesday, June 10 at 7 pm
5274 W Pico Blvd, Room 205
FILM:The Angola 3:
Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
narrated by Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Also, report from the Monday June 8th hearing of the San Francisco 8.
For more information please call (323) 306-6240.
Weekly IAC Meetings and Filmshowings
Wednesday, June 3 at 7 pm
5274 W Pico Blvd, Room 205
DPRK & the Right to Self Defense
Wednesday, June 3 at 7 pm
5274 W Pico Blvd, Room 205
DPRK & the Right to Self Defense
According to the corporate news media the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (North Korea) sole purpose for testing nuclear weapons is to threaten the world's security, especially the U.S., which (according to these sources) has done nothing to provoke or threaten the DPRK. Some political organizations have also joined in condemnation of the DPRK for being "reckless."
If you have doubts about the claims by corporate media and want further explanation on why the DPRK would test ...
Please come to a meeting to discuss the leading role U.S. imperialism now plays in historic threats and war against the DPRK and why the U.S. is unwilling to negotiate directly with the DPRK.
Also:
Hear a statement condemning the murder of the courageous abortion-rights doctor George Tiller.
Next Week's Video Showing:
The Angola 3, Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation - narrated by Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Also, report from the Monday June 8th hearing of the San Francisco 8.
For more information please call (323) 306-6240.
Weekly IAC Meetings and Filmshowings
Wednesday, May 20th at 7 pm
Birthday Commemoration of Malcolm X & Ho Chi Minh
5274 W Pico Blvd, Room 205
Wednesday, May 20th at 7 pm
Birthday Commemoration of Malcolm X & Ho Chi Minh
5274 W Pico Blvd, Room 205
Celebrate Lives Dedicated to National Liberation, International Solidarity
& the Fight Against U.S. Imperialism
Also:
Hear reportback on the national day of actions to stop the execution of Troy Davis.
For more information please call (323) 306-6240.
Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 6:30 pm
A film by Lee Wang
Someone Else's War is a film about the invisible low-wage workers of the war in Iraq, the so-called "third country nationals." Men and women, mostly from South and Southeast Asia, perform the invisible labor on U.S. miltiary bases of Iraq earning a fraction of what American contractors in Iraq do. Wang's film is the first documentary to examine the underclass of the workforce created by American warfare.
Sponsored by Habi Arts, Anakbayan LA, Critical Filipina/o Studies Collective, and International Action Center
Hollywood Youth & Family Center, Large Room, 607 N Vermont
(between Clinton & Melrose)
AUGUST 2 PERSHING SQUARE RALLY
(downtown Los Angeles)An Emergency Call to Action
LOS ANGELES EVENT:
1PM at PERSHING SQUARE!
for info or to volunteer call (310) 677-6407 Join us on August 2 in more than 50 local actions all across the country. Get in touch with friends, co workers, community and religious groups and students.
Together we can say - NO ATTACK ON IRAN!
- Troops Out of Iraq and Afghanistan!
- We support the Palestinian Right to Return - End the U.S./Israeli occupation!
- We need health care and education not endless war!
- Drop gas prices - not bombs!
Labor/Community Forum on Mortgage Foreclosures
Saturday, July 26th from 1pm to 5pm
at SEIU Local 721 Meeting Hall, 500 NORTH Virgil Ave, Los Angeles
Join us as we plan a fightback campaign to demand a halt to the
epidemic theft of people's homes by giant banks and mortgage companies!
Panelists Representing:
SEIU -Local 721 Latino & African American Committees, Michigan Moratorium Now Coalition to Stop
Foreclosures & Evictions, Harvard Boulevard Block Association, State Assemblymember Mike Davis,
International Action Center, May Day Unity Coalition for Immigrant Rights, BAYAN-USA,
and Housing LA
For more information call Rosie at 213.494.8314 or John at 310.677.6407
Public Meeting: Obama, Racism & Black/Brown Unity
Saturday, June 21 at 4 pm
4343 Leimert Blvd in Los Angeles (northeast end of Leimert Park)
Town Hall Meeting featuring Monica Moorehead, former presidential candidate and editor of groundbreaking book
"Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle."
Other speakers include Martha Rojas of the May Day Unity Coalition who will speak about solidarity between the
African-American struggle and the immigrant rights movement
and
John Parker, the West Coast Coordinator of the International Action Center who will give an update on how communities are
organizing against bank and mortgage foreclosures that affect us all. (see below)
Copies of "Marxism, Reparations & the Black Freedom Struggle" will be available for sale and signing.
For more information call Workers World Party at 310 677-8647
Get involved in the IAC Campaign to Stop Foreclosures & Evictions!
- Help Petition City Council for a Los Angeles Resolution Demanding Action from Schwarzeneger!
- Develop plans for a grassroots campaign led by people from the most affected communities!
- Help organize street meetings to spread the word and build a struggle against the banks and mortgage companies!
IAC Filmshowing in Inglewood (narrated by Danny Glover)
Framing an Execution - The Media and Mumia Abu-Jamal
On March 27th, 2008 the Third Circuit Court of Appeals failed in its supposed mission of providing justice by continuing the blatantly racist judicial decisions disallowing a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal. In addition, its decision enables the prosecution to push for the death penalty. The International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal are calling on everyone to put the pressure back in the streets demanding justice for Mumia, who has been in jail for 25 years for murder based on a police frame up and racist trial. Amongst other crimes, this trial excluded Black jurors, allowed falsified evidence and witnesses tampering by a Philadelphia police department federally indicted for corruption. Come see for yourself how the media has played a role in Mumia's frame up in the press and on television. Narrated by Danny Glover, this 49 minute dvd analyzes and critiques that media coverage. Join in the post-film discussion on the latest developments in the case and what action we need to take to increase the heat!