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 [...]

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 [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

From NY Times
Op-Ed Columnist - Nicholas D. Kristof

I’d like to thank the makers of the “Kony 2012” video for goading me to write about Joseph Kony. With about 100 million views, it is now one of the most viral videos of all time.
My starting point is a “bravo” for film-makers for galvanizing young Americans to look up [...]

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 [...]

From NY Times - Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof
A GREAT humanitarian catastrophe and vicious ethnic cleansing is unfolding here in the remote and impoverished region where Sudan and South Sudan come together.
For some in the Nuba Mountains, living in thatch huts far from electricity or paved roads, the sharpest acquaintance they are making with 21st-century technology [...]

The upcoming documentary film, “Wind Chases the Sun” covering the case of Leonard Peltier continues to make progress thriving to help Peltier in his fight for freedom. The film’s Producer and Director, Preston Randolph has recently joined forces with Joslyn Barnes and Danny Glover of Louverture Films. “Wind Chases the Sun” has a powerful crew [...]