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BTL:West Virgina Activist Battles Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining

West Virgina Activist Battles Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining

Talk by Larry Gibson, activist, recorded and produced by Melinda Tuhus

Harris County commissioners court approves 287g agreement

We want to thank all the folks that came out on Tuesday to show opposition to racial profiling by Houston law enforcement and stand up for immigrant communities. Despite packing the meeting room with opponents of the program, and the vast majority of speakers opposing the program, the commisioners voted 4 to 1 to join this program. Judge Ed Emmet, Jerry Eversol, Steve Radack, and El Franco Lee (who as commissioner for precinct 1 represents the University of Houston) voted in favor of the program. Only Sylvia Garcia voted against the program.

New Comic Strip Series re Organized Stalking

Eleanor White, long time activist working to fully expose the crime of organized stalking, which in recent times has also included electronic harassment, has begun a new comic strip about "Targ the target" of organized stalking and electronic harassment.

Please visit the following link for a page with clickable links to this new series:

http://www.multistalkervictims.org/targ.htm

Many thanks to all who visit!

Eleanor White
Ontario, Canada

 

Thousands Converge in Chicago to Oppose Major Bankers' Conference

The U.S. economy has been brought to the brink of collapse thanks to the failure of shoddy and dubious financial instruments, and kept afloat only thanks to major infusions of taxpayer cash. The major banking institutions, who have been raked over the coals of public opinion, saw their main public lobby, the American Bankers Association, assemble in Chicago, only to face the wrath of organized public outrage.

Polar Bear Disrupts Business-As-Usual

Squad cars and police from Seattle and Homeland Security surrounded the federal building in Seattle on Saturday, responding to a protest against cap-and-trade by Climate SOS and One Earth Climate Action group. Read More, Pics & VIDEO