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There can be no commonality of purpose, healing of divisions,
or coming together as one nation behind this new course.
To acquiesce further in silence is to be complicit.

- Refuse & Resist! Founding Statement

Alert From Friends of MOVE on Police Harrassment in Philly
Support the Baltimore Anti-Racist 28
Tule Lake Pilgrimage July 4-7, 2002: "...Tule Lake is at the heart of some painful decisions of what patriotism and loyalty means to Japanese Americans who were unjustly interned during World War II..."
Maryland's governor issues death penalty moratorium: "...Glendening stopped the execution of Wesley Eugene Baker, who was scheduled to die by lethal injection some time next week, and said he would stay any other executions that come before him..."
On the Road to Kananaskis: "...bring educational and activist attention to bear on the elitist "G8" meeting, to take place in Kananaskis Park, one hour west of Calgary, Alberta, June 26-27, 2002..."
The world needs us in the streets!: "...That was the message that echoed from the streets of New York as more than 20,000 people went to conferences and marches and vigils, partied, danced and demonstrated in the streets against the World Economic Forum..."
Phone call from jail: "Another World Is Possible!": "...We are here in solidarity with all victims of U.S. imperialism, those being bombed, those detained and targeted since September 11th, everyone in American prisons and all those who suffer from neo-liberal economic policies.."
"The World Needs Us in the Street! We Won't Back Down, We Won't Retreat!": "...thousands of people massed in New York City this weekend to voice their anger and outrage against the injustices of the current "world war without end" and the meeting of the World Economic Forum..."
Refuse and Resist! Condemns Police Conduct at WEF Protest: "...While some protesters were maced directly in the face by police, clouds of gas filled the air, affecting hundreds more. One youth described seeing a demonstrator on her knees, retching, blinded by the mace..."
Join the Refuse & Resist! contingent at the World Economic Forum: "...From January 31 - February 4, community activists, youth, environmentalists, union members, religious leaders, and everyday people will come to New York to talk about a future far different..."
NYC Newspapers Smear Activists Ahead of WEF Protests: "...It's hard to read such rhetoric as anything other than an attempt to manipulate New Yorkers' legitimate anger and grief over September 11 in order to whip up a backlash against dissent..."
Protest the World Economic Forum in New York City - January 31 - February 4: "...W.E.F. and similar institutions work to weaken environmental protections and worker rights, support repressive regimes, widen the gap between rich and poor and - in the wake of September 11th - upholds attacks on immigrants and dissent in the US and acts of war in Afghanistan..."
Brandeis Students Rally Against Acts of Hate and Prejudice on Campus: "...they will present specific demands to the administration, in order to prevents incidents of biased harassment for Asian American students, as well as all marginalized groups..."
25,000 Workers, Farmers, Students and Urban Poor Fill Up the Streets of Seoul: "...The rally brought together in solidarity, people from various social sectors, all angered by the neo-liberal policies of the Kim administration..."
Lori Berenson Begins 7th Year of Wrongful Incarceration: "...it marks the sixth anniversary of Lori's arrest on a public bus in downtown Lima. It is incredible to think that Lori has spent six full years - that is 2,193 days, practically one in every five of her life -- behind bars..."
Huntsville 8 Update - Pack the Courtroom!: "...the Huntsville 8 have now received a trial date for one of the defendants, Ben Browning..."
National Day Of Solidarity With Democracy Now!: "...Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now! team have been suspended without pay for insisting on violence-free workplace. And Democracy Now!, which is being produced from a safe site in lower Manhattan and not Pacifica station WBAI, has been yanked off the air..."
"No more prisons!": "...A two hour long march snaked through downtown Philadelphia finding its start at the infamous Roundhouse where just a year earlier hundreds of RNC protestors were held and forced to undergo inhumane conditions..."
Justice Demanded For The Huntsville 8 - Drop All Charges Now!: "...We, the undersigned, demand justice for the Huntsville 8, who were arrested for protesting the execution of Shaka Sankofa, formerly known as Gary Graham, on June 22, 2000..."
Death Penalty Protesters Go to Court in Hunstville, Texas: "...The group has relied upon supporters to pack the courtroom each time they make a court appearance as a way of using this case to expose the state's Death Machine...."
Support Amy Goodman - Rally at WBAI: "...She has not yet been fired, but it appears that Pacifica management has told her she will not be on the air again until she returns to the station..."
Students Succeed: For-Profit-Prison Conglomerate Kicked Off Campus: "...In the latest of a series of successful student campaigns to kick private prison profiteers off campus has prevailed at American University..."
Resolution on the Battle at Pacifica and WBAI: "...We further call on all progressive people to actively oppose these firings, bannings and censorship..."
J20 - "Jail to the Thief": "...This was a day of protest in which people found allies among strangers. A Black Block group surrounded by police at the NOW (National Organization for Women) demonstration site was released by the vociferous arrival of thousands of merging protesters from very different marches..."
J20 - "You guys don't know how big you are right now": "...I could see all these placards stretching about three blocks down - their signs said "Hail to the Thief," stuff like that - so I zoomed really far down and I was like "Oh my god, they're coming to get us!" As they approached, people on the other side of the road started to chant "free them, free them, free them."..."
J20 - Al Sharpton's Rally and a View from the Bleachers: "...Dan Rather claimed the protests were a failure. The media, barely noticing J20, flashed shots of the few conflicts that ensued between protesters and cops. However it was acknowledged that this was the largest inaugural protest since Nixon..."
January 20, 2001 - Counter the Inauguration: "...On that day thousands will stand together to repudiate the new administration as soon as it begins. There will be no 'honeymoon'. There will be no business as usual..."
Urgent! 1000 Letters to the Walker County D.A. before January 10th 2001: "...Between January 1st and 10th 2001 The Huntsville 8 Defense Committee is asking for 1000 individuals to write and/or fax Walker County District Attorney, David P. Weeks, and presiding Judge Barbara Hale..."
The Huntsville 8 vs. the Texas Death Machine: Who are the Real Criminals?: "...When nine people were arrested for protesting the murder of Shaka Sankofa on June 22, 2000, they expressed the outrage of the masses of people who are fed up with this (In) Justice System..."
School of the Americas In a University of Repression: "...U.S. military strategy is not just about armed confrontation with other governments around the world. The core curriculum of the SOA is organized terror aimed at non-combatant populations..."
Political prisoners in Turkey to begin hunger strike on October 20: "...For some time the government has been trying to put prisoners, especially the nearly 10,000 political prisoners, into isolation cells..."
Beating the Drums for an Internet Crackdown: "...The Lovebug Virus escapade is only the latest in a growing series of "Internet sabotage" stories promulgated by the mainstream media and (another shocker) the US government - and always accompanied by calls for better control, law enforcement, and 'protection'..."
Build a Movement of Resistance!: "...Today, organizations are discovering common ground with groups they have never worked with before - and becoming increasingly multi-generational and multi-ethnic. People are uniting in their different ways because they see the need and possibility for a different future!..."
Stop The Attacks On The Seattle WTO Protestors!: "...R&R! condemns the attacks on the Seattle protestors and calls on every one to speak out against this attempted silencing of dissent..."
Refuse & Resist! Now More Than Ever!: report from Robert Rockwell, National Secretary, at the R&R! National Counmcil Meeting, June 19, 1999.
June 5th Protests Against US/Nato War On The Balkans: "...summary of protests held in Washington DC, San Francisco and Aviano Air Base in Italy ... submitted by ... Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist..."
Statement from the Anti-Intervention Network: "...This is a war on the entire population. It is up to the anti-war movement to expose this truth in all its dimensions..."
What Reporters Knew About Kosovo Talks -- But Didn't Tell: "...a senior State Department official had bragged that the United States "deliberately set the bar higher than the Serbs could accept." The Serbs needed, according to the official, a little bombing..."
Lawyers Charge NATO Leaders Before War Crimes Tribunal: "...A group lawyers from several countries has laid a formal complaint with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia against all of the individual leaders of the NATO countries and officials of NATO itself..."
Life Is Precious--or It's Not: "...Institutional violence is right at home in the suburbs. Don't point too hard at the gangsta rap in your brother's house until you've examined the Pentagon in our own..."
Noam Chomsky On Kosovo from the ZNet Forum: "...If someone doesn't pay protection money, the don has to establish "credibility," to make sure others don't get funny ideas about disobeying orders. So what Clinton, et al., are saying is that it's necessary to ensure that everyone has proper fear of the global enforcer..."
NATO is very sorry, again: "...According to Serbian Media Centre in Pristina the convoy of refugees was returning to their homes when NATO planes attacked it. They say there were no military vehicles nearby...."
Was A Peaceful Kosovo Solution Rejected By U.S.?: "...By the close of the first round of the Rambouillet talks in late February, Serb President Milan Milutinovic had already declared Serbia's willingness to to discuss "an international presence in Kosovo"..."
Stop the US/NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia!: "...The US has coldly admitted the last thing they want is liberation and real independence in Kosovo. They are intervening to expand US/NATO control over this region..."
NATO/U.S. out of Yugoslavia! by Mumia Abu-Jamal: "...It isn't about "ethnic minorities." And it also isn't about "genocide." It's about establishing who's "boss" in the next century..."
Government Attacks Medical Aid to Iraqi Children: "...Handelman travelled with three other men from the Northwest in November, 1997 to deliver 400 pounds of basic medical supplies such as aspirin and syringes, as well as the notorious children's toys mentioned in the OFAC letter..."
Another Lie by Howard Zinn: "...No nation in the world possesses greater weapons of mass destruction than we do, and none has used them more often, or with greater loss of civilian life..."
In the Wake of the Starr Inquisition: "...The common rhetoric of the religious right is that our country is in the midst of a moral breakdown caused mostly by the social and political changes brought about by the 1960s. They propose a moral crusade to cleanse the nation of the decades of post-1960s liberalism..."
NWLPSN Statement on the Denial of Justice to Leonard Peltier: "...The case of Leonard Peltier is becoming one of the worst examples of justice being overruled by special interest groups. No matter what the final outcome maybe, the case of Leonard Peltier will live infamy..."
Statement by Refuse & Resist! on the Million Youth March: "...Refuse & Resist! calls on people from every community to step forward, make their voices heard, and defend the right of the Million Youth March to proceed as planned..."
Resist the Bombing of Iraq! Resist All Attacks Against Iraq!: "...Refuse & Resist! calls on all people of conscience to resist all war moves against Iraq. The people of Iraq are not our enemy, they have suffered enough..."
No U.S. Troops Anywhere/Anytime!: "...We are proud and honored to join with our Filipino Brothers and Sisters in this national day of resistance aimed at stopping the revival of U.S. bases in the Philippines. The Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) is just one more way for the U.S. to control the Philippines under the lie of "joint military exercises." We call this bullshit...."
Oppose The Real "Terrorists!": "...Many people are asking "Why is it abhorrent to explode two car bombs in front of U.S. embassies - but heroic to drop 60,000 bombs from war planes onto cities, water treatment plants and hospitals as the U.S. did in Iraq?"..."
Resisting the Racist Anti-Tribal Campaign: "...there is an ongoing anti-tribal campaign being conducted by extreme right wing elements, in many cases using individuals and groups who remain unaware of the hidden agenda..."
The Origin of "In God We Trust": "...Advocates of the theory of a "Christian Nation," a "religious liberty amendment," voucher plans, and other attempts to establish religion in the United States have been at this since the nation was founded..."
R&R Youth Network at Jericho 98 [JPEG]
Geronimo ji Jaga Pratt Wins New Trial: "...A judge granted a new trial for Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt on Thursday, capping a 25-year legal battle by lawyers who said his murder conviction was political retribution against the Black Panthers..."
Native Americans Resist Forced Relocation: "...The US government has stepped up its 20-year campaign against the Navajo (or Dineh) people. The government has announced a "90-day eviction" process that will forcibly remove the Navajo from their lands..."
Flag Ammendment Again!: "...Proponents of the Flag Consecration Amendment to the U.S. Constitution are preparing, for the fourth time, to bring their amendment to the First Amendment to a vote in Congress this year, with a better chance of passage than ever before..."
CBS Attacks Bruderhof Communities: "...what makes the Bruderhofs a "cult" and a cloistered order of Catholic nuns ruled by a mother superior not a cult? Apparently the difference is that the Bruderhofs have taken up the defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal..."
Statement on Atlanta Nightclub Bombing: "...A supremacist group may be found responsible for this bombing. But these bombings are a part of something larger. The bombings in Atlanta and the burning of Black churches are related. They are all one attack..."
MOVE Members Persecuted by PA Prison Authorities: "...MOVE members have been unjustly imprisoned for almost twenty torturous years now, despite their obvious innocence. During these past twenty years, prison officials have tried a lot of sadistic tactics to try to break MOVE..."
Free Leonard Peltier!: "...No direct evidence exists against him, yet Leonard Peltier approaches the twentieth year of his incarceration..."
A New Jersey-To-Texas Death Penalty Connection: "... Before, they [Texas executioners] were just pumping as much as they could get into the syringe. And the executees were coughing and spasming. When New Jersey communicated the proper dosages, Texas tried them. They worked better. They still had coughing and choking and spasming, but not as much...."
Refuse & Resist Statement on Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf: "... In a country where religious beliefs (at least Christian religious beliefs) are protected, Abdul-Rauf's position should be admired. The outrage over his stance only points out the deep racial divide in this country..."
The Threat of Fascism: Lessons from Weimar Germany: "...the definition of fascism needs to be clearly defined and hotly debated, for the term retains a very real utility, such as "conservative," "right-wing" and "reactionary," do not..."
Der Bell Kurve: A review of the racist viewpoint being promoted in The Bell Curve book by Hernstein and Murray.

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