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The Mahr Provision in Islamic Marriage Contracts Prof. Gabriel Sawma 2009-07-22 3:05 AM

In recent years, many Islamic divorce cases were litigated in the United States family courts. The issue of mahr in the Islamic marriage contracts became subject of debate among lawyers and scholars. This article sheds lights on the Islamic mahr in USA. (image/jpeg)

Volunteerism Will Not Rebuild the Gulf Coast--Building A Political Movement Can Mike Howells and Jay Arena 2009-07-22 2:08 AM

'Self-Help' Volunteerism is part of the problem, not the solution to rebuilding the Gulf. What we need are volunteers in the tradition of the civil rights movement, who come to support, to engage the social movements battling for-profit and non-profit corporations that are profiting from the disaster. (image/jpeg)

OCTOBER 5 DIRECT ACTION AT WHITE HOUSE Don Muller 2009-07-21 11:14 PM

In early October, the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR) will carry out direct action at the White House to end the war in Afghanistan and to close Bagram prison and end torture. (image/jpeg)

Citizens Launch Group To Halt Nuclear Reactor On Chesapeake Bay Cathy Garger, Co-Founder, PAARC 2009-07-16 7:49 PM

Marylanders today announced launch of a citizens' organization to stop the proposed experimental French, double-sized nuclear reactor in order to save the dead and dying Chesapeake Bay. (image/png)

Big Oil too big for Arnold's "shared sacrifice" Anonymous 2009-07-16 5:14 PM

Arnold Schwarzenegger calls for "shared sacrifice" in California State budget cuts. But who is he willing to sacrifice? Children who will go without health care, young pregnant women who will not receive counseling, working moms, students depending on state sponsored college scholarships, and people with disabilities, Alzheimer's, mental illness, and HIV/AIDS. And who is to too big to sacrifice? Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Conoco-Pillips, and BP. The Governor and California Republicans adamantly insist that the oil and natural gas companies will pay no severance tax for the privilege of extracting oil and natural gas that belongs to Californians, even as the State goes $25 million deeper into high interest debt every day. (image/png)

Protestors Descend on HANO Demanding "Sec. 3 and Sec. 8!" darwin 2009-07-15 8:17 PM

Dozens of protesters converged on the Housing Authority of New Orleans' headquarters today demanding jobs and housing. They expected a board meeting, but were told at the last minute of its cancellation. HANO did not offer a reason but said Friday it will reconvene the board. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

Obama, Ghana, and African oil Ann Garrison 2009-07-12 1:33 AM

Barack Obama's visit to Ghana is, most fundamentally, about West African oil and natural gas, and control of the corridors for transporting it through the Gulf of Guinea, on the West African Coast. Nigeria, the greatest source of African oil for export, is at the center of the African oil producing states bordering the Gulf, and the Niger River is the corridor for transporting Nigerian oil and gas, and now, oil and gas from landlocked Niger, as well. (image/gif)

Tracie Washington: Real Government Transparency Darwin 2009-07-11 6:52 PM

THE GILLESPIE MEMORIAL COMMUNITY BREAKFAST (image/jpeg)

Would Jesus See Racism Here? AW 2009-07-11 3:04 PM

Should not all Catholics belong to the church nearest their home? (image/jpeg)

Workers Demand Fair Employment Practices and Public Works Program Mike Howells 2009-07-11 1:22 PM

Organizers of the Job Action emphasized that Section 3 of the U.S. Fair Housing Act requires that 30% of the new hires for redevelopment work should be local, public housing and low-income residents, and demanded a massive Public Works Jobs Program (image/jpeg)

FDC to G8-funded World Bank: Cancel all illegitimate debts Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) 2009-07-10 12:26 PM

MANILA, Philippines. Members of the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) staged a protest action in front of the World Bank office here today to demand the total and unconditional cancellation of all debts it is claiming from the Philippines and developing nations. The protest action coincided with the opening of the Group of Eight Nations’ (G8) 35th Summit in Italy which sets among its agenda the development of a comprehensive response to the global economic crisis. (image/jpeg)

Democratic World Government Now! Jim Stark 2009-07-08 2:00 PM

Rescue Plan for Planet Earth. There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government." ~ Albert Einstein (image/jpeg)

Anarchism, Violence, and Brandon Darby's Politics of Moral Certitude MJ Essex 2009-06-26 4:59 AM

In post-Katrina New Orleans, anarchist truths found fertile, if toxic grounds to take root and grow. New paths were walked on. Antiauthoritarian principles emerged as important guides for both reconstruction and the struggle against disaster capitalism. A million or more equally important stories can now be told about mutual aid, cooperation, subversion of authority, disruption of state and capitalist plans. And yet Brandon Darby's morality tale has become a media darling, due in no small part to his perfect and full adoption of his role as a state agent, regardless of whether it was official in 2006, or whether the FBI is still cutting him paychecks. We owe it to ourselves to tell these other stories of New Orleans, St. Paul and beyond. (image/jpeg + 10 comments)

Interview with El Libertario (Venezuela – June 2009) Grupo (A) Star, Madrid 2009-06-24 5:27 PM

* From Madrid the anarchist group Star, linked to the Iberian Federation of Anarchists Youths (Federación Ibérica de Juventudes Anarquistas-FIJA-), has raised questions whose answers will let us know today and in detail what is doing and saying the known Venezuelan anarchist newspaper. (image/jpeg)

PRAYER RALLY TO REMEMBER RANO MASSACRE IN THE PHILIPPINES BOT 2009-06-21 4:09 AM

THE infamous but almost forgotten Rano massacre in Digos City will mark its 20th year on June 25. (image/jpeg)

Nicaragua: Pellas Group displays a shameful insensitivity Giorgio Trucchi - Rel-UITA 2009-06-20 8:45 PM

ANAIRC mobilizes to demand damages from the Pellas Group. Boycott against Flor de Caña rum grows (image/jpeg)

Campaign against the assassination of workers in Venezuela v.contrarepresionobrera 2009-06-18 10:14 PM

* El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario has joined this campaign and we’re trying to divulge this initiative in an attempt to confront the hired killers that are taking the lives of labor activists in this country. (image/jpeg)

Who's In GNOBEDD With LSU? A. Caritas 2009-06-17 2:13 PM

Major investors have created enormous economic and political pressures on LSU to build its $1.2 billion hospital in lower Mid-City <p> Casual observers might think that the pro-Charity vs. LSU teaching hospital conflict is an argument over two competing plans to bring health care back online in New Orleans. It is not. The difference between the two camps is in fact much more fundamental with the pro-Charity coalition valuing health as a human right versus LSU and its supporters valuing health care as a business anchor around which an industry can grow, land values can inflate, and hospitals can make money. No set of facts better illustrates this divide and fleshes out the LSU camp's motivations than the machinations of major real estate developers in Mid-City. In spite of the post-Katrina rise in mortality and morbidity rates —due to the local health care system's bedraggled state— LSU and its allies have stubbornly refused to entertain the notion of reopening Charity, favoring their economic development centered plans over what pro-Charity advocates define as an issue of the human right to medical care. <p> Into this conflict numerous journalists have intervened with facts and analysis. We (“A. Caritas” is a pen name for several researchers) reported in December about real estate acquisitions of several developers in and around lower Mid-City, questioning the for-profit motivations driving the LSU-VA project. New information about these developers and biotech boosters has compelled us to chime in again, especially in response to Times Picayune reporter Kate Moran's glowing profile of one Mid-City developer published in April. (image/jpeg + 7 comments)

School closures loom, as California donates its oil and gas to the cash rich oil industry Anonymous 2009-06-11 5:26 PM

California is the only state in the U.S. that donates its oil and natural gas reserves to the private oil and gas industry, untaxed. Were it a nation, it would be the only nation in the world to do so. And it has continued to, even as schools close and the State of California threatens to close its doors. (image/jpeg)

Social Panic ¿How is it created? Coordinadora Antifa Madrid & La Plataforma 2009-06-10 6:40 PM

Journalists from Tele5 caught by surprise with hidden camera. (image/jpeg)

Cuba: US Beaten with OAS Resolution pl 2009-06-09 4:06 PM

Cuba has rated as a US defeat the recent approval of a resolution that annulled its exclusion in 1962 from the Organization of American States, and ratified its will not to return to that bloc. (image/jpeg)

Bill Maher interviews Jeremy Schaill on the War in Afghanistan Anonymous 2009-06-08 7:30 PM

War correspondent and investigator Jeremy Scahill on Bill Maher's late night "Real Report." President and Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama has the Constitutional and military executive authority to end the U.S. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at any time. As Commander-in-Chief, he is first in command of the entire U.S. Armed Forces and could order them all home. Any U.S. military personnel who disobeyed would be subject to court martial, according to military law. The only possible defense would be that Commander-in-Chief Obama had ordered them to commit a war crime. (image/jpeg)

In support to sugar workers ANAIRC 2009-06-08 12:30 AM

Send your letter to the importers and distributors in USA (image/jpeg)

Obama in Cairo: no conciliatory words about oil and gas reserves Anonymous 2009-06-08 12:29 AM

In Cairo, Egypt, on 06/03/2009, Obama spoke of U.S.-Islamic reconciliation, but did not mention Iraq, Iran, or Sudan's oil and natural gas resources, the pipeline projects to move Central Asian oil and natural gas through Afghanistan, or the estimated $4 billion worth of natural gas off the Coast of Gaza. (image/jpeg)

Sept. G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, PA, US -- CALL FOR A GLOBAL MOBILIZATION Bailout the Peoples Movement 2009-06-04 1:02 AM

A CALL FOR A GLOBAL MOBILIZATION AGAINST THE G20 SUMMIT IN PITTSBURGH, PA., U.S. SEPTEMBER 24 AND 25, 2009 ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE – BUT WE MUST FIGHT FOR IT! BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE JOBS & SOCIAL NEEDS--NOT WAR AND GREED (image/gif)

Nicaragua: Grupo Pellas contrató una manifestación de autoapoyo Rel-UITA 2009-06-04 12:27 AM

Reacción ante la campaña de respaldo a la ANAIRC (image/jpeg)

Shame on Coalbama and RFK, Jr. too Anonymous 2009-06-03 10:07 PM

The coal industry made Barack Obama the star of its $20 million advertising campaign as the American Clean Energy Policy Act of 2009 was being drafted, and RFK, Jr., called Obama an "indentured servant to the coal industry." African American activist Jeremiah A. Lowery objected to both Obama's pro-coal policies and to R.F.K., Jr.'s choice of words. (image/jpeg)

Yes we can burn coal Anonymous 2009-06-03 2:19 PM

"This is America! We figured out how to put a man on the moon in ten years. You can't tell me we can't figure out how to burn coal, that we mine right here in the United States of America, and make it work!" —Barack Obama, on the campaign trail, 2008 The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, which Congress will vote on in June, reaffirms that commitment. (image/jpeg)

Employee Free Choice Act Roundtable at The Community Book Center in New Orleans Emily Sokolski 2009-06-02 11:04 PM

Workers and community members gathered at the Community Book Center in New Orleans to talk about the Employee Free Choice Act on Thursday May 28th. (image/jpeg)

Charity Supporters Confront City Planning Commission Darwin BondGraham 2009-05-29 4:06 AM

A diverse coalition of New Orleanians testified before the City Planning Commission today in support of reopening Charity Hospital. (image/jpeg)

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