Rally to Free Julian Assange! Speakers include: Julian Assange father and brother, Flint Taylor (People’s Law Office), Jerome McDonnell (WBEZ Worldview), Kevin Gosztola (reporter at Assange trial, with ShadowProof.com) Thursday June 17, 4:30-6 pm 625 N. Michigan https://www.facebook.com/andy.thayer1/videos/10224325301817370 https://www.facebook.com/events/823365964945718?ref=newsfeed Co-sponsors: Chicago Committee against War and Racism, Chicago Area Peace Action, Assange Defense, Chicago ALBA Solidarity, Chicago … Continue reading Thurs June 17: Free Julian Assange with his father & brother, Flint Taylor, Jerome McDonnell
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FreeAlexSaab Delegation First Day in Cabo Verde: Denied Access to Alex Saab
#FreeAlexSaab Delegation Encounters on the First Day in Cabo Verde By Roger D. Harris, Task Force on the Americas June 4, 2021, Sal Island, Cabo Verde. In their first full day in Cabo Verde, the emergency human rights delegation met with Saab’s lawyer and the Venezuelan ambassador, tried to meet with the local police commander, … Continue reading FreeAlexSaab Delegation First Day in Cabo Verde: Denied Access to Alex Saab
Free Alex Saab! Sign the Petition to Cape Verde!
The US Government ordered Venezuelan diplomat detained, held in isolation, and denied needed medical care in Cabo Verde! Join us in the struggle to free Alex Saab. We ask you to send the letter below to President Biden and President Fonseca and Prime Minister Correia e Silva of Cabo Verde. Signed: Oliver Stone Noam Chomsky Vijay … Continue reading Free Alex Saab! Sign the Petition to Cape Verde!
The US Plan to Imprison Businesspeople in other Countries for “Violating” Illegal US Sanctions: The Cases of Alex Saab, Meng Wanzhou, Mun Chol Myong
US economic sanctions are a weapon against states which choose a development path independent of US global domination. Sanctions can take the form of blocking a nation’s financial and trade transactions, not allowing financial institutions to process them. The US can also freeze the assets of another country. The US uses sanctions as a tool … Continue reading The US Plan to Imprison Businesspeople in other Countries for “Violating” Illegal US Sanctions: The Cases of Alex Saab, Meng Wanzhou, Mun Chol Myong
Rally to Demand Freedom for Julian Assange
Rally to Demand Britain Free Julian Assange Tuesday April 16, 4:30-6 pm 625 N. Michigan, outside British Consulate https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoALBASolidarityCommittee/photos/gm.626982934445600/2348855928729935/?type=3&theater "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love." Julian … Continue reading Rally to Demand Freedom for Julian Assange
Loyola Political Film Series November-December 2017
Sundays, 2pm Loyola University (downtown) Corboy Law Center, room 301, 25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago (one block north of Chicago & State Red line L stop) November 5 October: Ten Days that Shook the World Sergei Eisenstein 1928 104 min Soviet silent historical film by Sergei Eisenstein It is a dramatic celebration of the 1917 … Continue reading Loyola Political Film Series November-December 2017
Spring 2017 Political Film Series
click on the title to read. movie April 16 is canceled.
Fall 2016 Film Series: The Fight Against the 1%
Fall 2016 LoyolaFilm Series: The Fight Against the 1% Sundays, 2pm Loyola University (downtown) Corboy Law Center, room 301, 25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago (one block north of Chicago & State Red line L stop) September 18 Shock Doctrine 78 min 2009 A documentary adaptation Naomi Klein's 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine. An investigation of … Continue reading Fall 2016 Film Series: The Fight Against the 1%
DePaul Fall 2014 Film Series: Peoples’ Struggles in the Americas
DePaul University Schmitt Academic Center Room 254 2320 N. Kenmore Avenue. Chicago (2 blocks west of Fullerton Red Line) Sundays at 2pm October 26 Revolutionary Medicine : The Story of the First Garifuna Hospital Speaker from Honduras Solidarity Network Revolutionary Medicine is a 45-minute documentary by Beth Geglia and Jesse Freeston, who had been … Continue reading DePaul Fall 2014 Film Series: Peoples’ Struggles in the Americas
Loyola African-Women-Labor-Latin America Film Series Jan-June 2014
Loyola Film Series: Winter-Spring 2014 Afro-American, African, Women, Labor, and Latin America Sundays, 2pm Loyola University (downtown) Corboy Law Center, room 422, 25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago (one block north of Chicago & State Red line L stop) January 12 Negroes with Guns: Robert Williams and Black Power (2004) Williams was a NAACP leader in … Continue reading Loyola African-Women-Labor-Latin America Film Series Jan-June 2014