Vol. XXXIX, Number 4  : Fall-Winter 2019 Portland Alliance Online

Published Tuesday, December 31st 2019     

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Of, by and for the people:  No fear, no compromise and no surrender!   Julian Assange, International Hero  

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The imprisonment and persecution of Julian Assange is criminal. 

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Assange explained that since he was convicted on trumped-up bail charges shortly
after his arrest on April 11, he has been “isolated from all ability to prepare to defend
myself, no laptop, no internet, no computer, no library so far,  but even if I do
get access it will be just for half an hour with everyone else once a week.”

 

                           

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This school is silencing its students’ support of Black Lives Matter
 

 

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A Group of Ferguson Protesters Releases List of Demands, Calls for National "Walk Out"

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Egypt Calls for Open-Ended Gaza Cease-Fire

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Demonstrators Leave Harlem by Bus, Flooding Staten Island to Protest Eric Garner's Chokehold Death

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Salt and Terror in Afghanistan

by Kathy Kelly

In late January in a room in Kabul, Afghanistan, I joined several dozen people, working seamstresses, some college students, socially engaged teenagers and a few visiting internationals like myself, to discuss world hunger. Our emphasis was not exclusively on their own country’s worsening hunger problems. The Afghan Peace Volunteers, in whose home we were meeting, draw strength from looking beyond their own very real struggles.

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Rise of ISIS Highlights Irony of U.S. Foreign Policy  
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― George Carlin

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       We’re doing this to ourselves.

       It is madness. Mass incarceration. 

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     Even 9 year- old girls. We’re insane.


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