Some crazy shit has been going down over the weekend and yesterday in Minnesota. The police (and the FBI, and who knows who else) have been arresting protesters (and anyone else swept up) en masse; even more ominously, they've been targeting people there to document their excesses. Over the weekend, they conducted preemptive raids and seizures of ( Read more... )

I'll say this for the Bush administration: by attacking and dismantling the Constitution at every turn, they've turned me into a total Constitution fangirl.

Now they want to give retroactive immunity to the telecoms who've been knowingly, illegally spying on Americans for the past six years - since before 9-11. Glenn Greenwald explained how ( Read more... )

Funniest shit I've seen in awhile.

I suppose Oilant Green would have been too obvious.

How is/was everyone's Fourth?

First, the war news:

These are the coffins Bush doesn't want you to see, obtained by the Memory Hole's Freedom of Information Act request.

Soliders in Iraq are openly wondering why they're there:

The pivotal moment came, [Staff Sergeant David Safstrom] says, this past February when soldiers killed a man setting a roadside bomb. When they ( Read more... )

Nepal protests restore democracy. The king is restoring parliament, and opposition protests have turned into an opposition celebration. And we didn't even have to invade.

Of couse, the Maoists are opposing this deal.

But the Maoists said in agreeing the deal with the king, the opposition had betrayed an agreement it made with them in November, ( Read more... )

Today, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets for immigrant rights, and in protest of the draconian "immigration reform" bills being argued in the House & Senate. ( Articles & pics of a few events )

Rosa Parks


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luna_k and I are going to the anti-war protests in DC tomorrow. This has propelled me to research protests and protesting tips. We were there in January for the Counter-Inaugural, but I feel that there is always more to learn. Feel free to add any tips and/or links that you find helpful.

( Protest Tips and Resources )