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Faced with the fourth death of a farmworker in the fields this year, labor and community groups in Sacramento will hold a news conference condemning Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for his failure to enforce state laws at Cesar Chavez Plaza Park, 10th and J streets, Sacramento, CA.

Injured 9/11 Iron Worker John Sferazo will be in San Francisco and San Jose to discuss the affects for workers of the 9/11 attack and also the fight for legislation to protect those workers and others who were harmed

Saturday, July 12, 2008 : This week on Crossing The Line: Supporters of Dr. Sami al-Arian, a Palestinian political prisoner being held in the US, are outraged at a new indictment after al-Arian refused to appear before a grand jury probing an Islamic charity in northern Virginia. Host Naji Ali gets an update from Dr. al-Arian's daughter, Laila, regarding this latest indictment.

From a Monday, July 14, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog

From a Monday, July 14, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog

Monday, July 14, 2008 :On May 12th, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 400 workers at a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa in the largest immigration raid in U.S. history. Many were sent to prison. We speak with Erik Camayd-Freixas, a professor and Spanish-language court interpreter who was flown into Iowa for the trial. He broke the code of confidentiality among legal interpreters to describe the workers predicament in what he calls, "The saddest procession I have ever witnessed." He says most of the workers were peasants from Guatemala and did not fully understand the criminal charges they were facing. He also says that court-appointed lawyers had little time to meet with the workers, many of whom ended up waiving their rights.

Monday, July 14, 2008 :An American photojournalist who was embedded with the Marines in Fallujah has been barred from the Marine Corps because of graphic photographs showing Marines killed in a suicide bombing last month. A few hours after he posted some photos of the bombing on his blog, a high-ranking public affairs official ordered him to remove it. When he refused, he was told his "embed" had been terminated and he would be flown out of Iraq.

The rightwing government's intention to fingerprint all Roma reflects the country's unresolved problem of racial discrimination

"The high oil price and the food crisis threaten the existence of over a hundred million people." (Walden Bello) "People in poor countries must starve so the rich can continue driving their cars." Growing plants for biofuels is a crime against humanity.

Sunday, July 13, 2008 :The crisis in the US financial system has taken a major turn for the worse with the announcement on Sunday that the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board are to take emergency action to prop up mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Part II of McChesney's tour de force

Many Philadelphians rudely reject the premise meticulously detailed in the new book by veteran journalist J. Patrick O'Connor: police and prosecutors framed Mumia Abu-Jamal placing an innocent man on death row.... "From the beginning of this case, it was corrupt. It was a railroad job," O'Connor said recently during a reading/book signing at a small venue on Baltimore Ave in West Philadelphia sponsored by the organization, Journalists for Abu-Jamal. "I wrote the book to show not only that Mumia did not kill Officer Faulkner but to show how and why they framed Mumia," said O'Connor who lived in the Philadelphia area at the time of the brutal December 1981 crime at the heart of this controversial case.

Preventative health care positions are being threatened by state budget cuts and may soon disappear since they are not part of mandated nurse-patient ratios. San Francisco is looking to lose 30 percent of its home health care program for Medi-Cal patients. In less heavily populated areas, including Monterey and Humboldt counties, one home health care nurse makes the difference between care or no care for people isolated by lack of public transportation.

In preparation for the upcoming Climate Convergence, a public forum in Corvallis, OR on (7/8) will discuss the risks of locating LNG terminals along seismically active Cascadian subduction zone of coastal Oregon

Our representatives have turned on us. It is very clear, with the passage of HR6304 in the House of Representatives, that it will be up to us to make a difference in this country.

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The Justice for Javon Dawson Committee is calling on all honest and freedom-loving people to support the demands for justice and reparations in the St. Petersburg police murder of this 17-year-old African who was attending a high school graduation party and unarmed when he was shot twice in the back and killed. (read full story: http://uhurunews.com)

[Gipfelsoli Infogroup | MediaG8way] Press Release June 27 2008 * Japan: International Resistance against the 2008 G8 summit has begun * Camps, demonstrations, action days * Police try to link protests to terrorism and are denying people entry into Japan

Maria Gilardin, beloved by many for her TUC radio program, recently relocated to a remote area in northern California to achieve her dream of an ecolologically responsible and sustainable life. Today she sent out the following message describing the fires that threaten her new home-- and the effort of fighting them. (This story is also told at her website.)

The U.S. is just used to having things its own way, and its leaders don't like people and nations who won't let them do what they want, when they want to do it, so they do all they can to paint them as the bad guys, since they consider themselves the good guys! And most of the mainstream media go right along with them, repeating the same government line and pumping out the same propaganda.