A wonderful e-mail has been circulating today. It describes how Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and other women of the 1900s — two generations after Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton — were beaten, jailed, trashed in the newspapers and taunted by crowds when they snuck into private venues, stood in lines illegally, chained themselves [...]
Monday, September 1, 2008
Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddou, and Nicole Salazar were among the arrested. Local journalist Jeff Severns Guntzel was teargassed. More to come. Nine are reported to have been arrested for “conspiracy to riot,” and Coldsnap reports that the National Guard moved in on Cedar and Kellogg and threatened mass arrests. NEW: Audio of Amy Goodman’s arrest [...]
Friday, August 22, 2008
Alongside my compatriot at the Anti-Advertising Agency James Powderly, Brian Conley was recently detained and taken into custody in Beijing alongside four other activists and artists. I received this email update forwarded today from Conley’s wife, Eowyn Rieke. My husband, Brian Conley, has dedicated his life to helping oppressed people communicate their struggles to the [...]
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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