For Immediate Release. The Sound Strike is proud to have played an important role in the International Boycott of Arizona after the passage of SB 1070. It is clear that it was the economic boycott that forced the business community to begin to oppose additional laws by the Arizona legislature targeting migrants. The boycott of Arizona [...]
From Chicago Sun-Times: Throughout the fall of 2011, we heard the questions: “What do the Occupy Wall Street protestors want?” “What are their goals?” “Who speaks for them?” By year’s end, there was another question: “Where’s their music?” The two inquiries are inextricably related. One reason we’ve had trouble grasping why the Occupiers are Occupying is because [...]
Three young women are being detained by Russian authorities for allegedly performing a protest song in a cathedral as part of a feminist punk group “Pussy Riot”. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich were arrested in March 2012 and charged with “hooliganism”. If found guilty, they could be jailed for up to 7 years. The three [...]
24 April 2012
From ABC News: On the fourth Armenian Remembrance Day of his presidency, President Obama has for the fourth time in a row broken his promise to the Armenian community to use the word “genocide” in describing what happened at the hands of the Turks roughly a century ago. As a senator, and then as a presidential candidate, Barack [...]
24 April 2012
(Albany, Calif.), April 22, 2012 – Occupy the Farm, a coalition of local residents, farmers, students, researchers, and activists are planting over 15,000 seedlings at the Gill Tract, the last remaining 10 acres of Class I agricultural soil in the urbanized East Bay area. The Gill Tract is public land administered by the University of [...]
02 April 2012
Via Tom Morello: “Below was written by George Lynch, the great guitarist of Dokken, a friend, and one of my guitar heroes growing up. Check it out: JIM CROW CONTINUES TO DRAW THE THIN BLUE LINE The murdering of trayvon martin by Zimmerman is indicative of the larger problem that exists both in human nature and in the [...]
06 March 2012
CHICAGO 2012 May 18 -21, 2012 Occupt This/Occupy That! - An Open Invitation Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers The tiny fraternity of concentrated wealth and power that calls itself the Group of Eight (G8) is meeting in Chicago in mid-May, overlapping with representatives of history’s largest global military cohort, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), the gently [...]
05 January 2012
From The NY Times: By DAN BILEFSKY and SEBNEM ARSU ISTANBUL — A year ago, the journalist Nedim Sener was investigating a murky terrorist network that prosecutors maintain was plotting to overthrow Turkey’s Muslim-inspired government. Today, Mr. Sener stands accused of being part of that plot, jailed in what human rights groups call a political purge of the governing [...]
Added on 28 February 2011
Check out the video below that showcases the uprising in Wisconsin.
The future of labor in America is being decided on the streets of Madison.