May 1, 2006GET ON THE BUS TO ARIZONA!
May 29th National March
to Stop Racist SB 1070
8 am to 2 pm in Phoenix
Click the bus to buy your ticket!
Ticket Price $40
Bus leaves from 21st and Maple at Midnight Friday night,
returns Saturday night
Demonstration at Foreclosure Auction in Norwalk
Thursday, April 29th at 10:30 am
12720 Norwalk Blvd, Norwalk, CA
Join the protest against L.A. County's daily foreclosure auction in front of the Norwalk Courthouse!
WE DEMAND:
For more info, for rides or to volunteer call 323.306-6240 or 818 989-3019
From Afghanistan to Mumia:
Stopping the War at Home & War Abroad
Come hear the latest updates on war and repression at home and join the discussion where we’ll find out what the war in Afghanistan has to do with record unemployment here in California, or fighting for justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal or Oscar Grant?
When: Wednesday, Feb. 24th at 7 PM sharp
Where: IAC/BOPM office: 5274 W. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles – Suite 205
We’ll also hear about organizing a contingent for the March 4th and 20th demonstrations against the education cuts and war and the march on Washington to demand jobs on April 10th.
For more information call (323) 306-6240
A Benefit in Solidarity with Haiti
SATURDAY FEB. 13th @ 1PM
Hosted and co-sponsored by SEIU Local 721 Latino Caucus; Global Women's Strike; BAYAN-USA; IAC/Bail Out the People Movement; Hermandad Mexicana Trans-Nacional; Harvard Blvd. Block Club
Where: 500 S. Virgil Ave, Los Angeles (near 6th and Virgil)
Contact: (323) 306-6240
Featured Speaker: Robert Roth, founding member of Haiti Action Committee
Ride with IAC activists leaving by van on Friday night and returning late Saturday night.
Be part of a Los Angeles delegation at this important demonstration!
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who boasts that it is an honor to be called a member of the KKK, has turned the clock back on human rights by fifty years with a revival of chain gangs.
Through a special arrangement with Homeland Security via bill 287(g) he uses his department to conduct illegal profiling and mass arrests of Latinos and other immigrants.
His Maricopa County Sheriffs recently forced a woman to give birth to her baby while shackled to a hospital bed!
But Joe Arpaio couldn’t get away with such high-profile,
repressive tactics if he did not have support from powerful people in Washington. Janet Napolitano, the current head of Homeland Security,
was the governor of Arizona during much of his reign of terror and did nothing to stop him.
Let’s help make this demonstration a message
that speaks loud and clear to the repressive agencies in Washington, and to the White House too. Let’s make it a message that says
“WE WANT JOBS AND SCHOOLS – NOT ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS AND NOT RACIST PRISONS.
Call and reserve your space in the vans today. Call 323 306-6240.
Can’t go? Please consider contributing funds to help someone else participate. Thank you!
All over the world in September eyes will be on Pittsburgh, where the
G20 countries will meet to consider what to do about the biggest global
economic crisis since the 1930s. The heads of governments, finance
ministers and central bankers that will be in Pittsburgh for the summit
cater to the bankers and corporate executives all
the time. We must make them respond to the demands of the
millions who have lost jobs and homes because of
this crisis. We need your help filling the bus and sponsoring
unemployed activists who want to march in Pittsburgh. Would you or your
organization want to donate to sponsor unemployed workers or send a
delegation? Call us right away at (323) 306-6240.
Please contribute to help everyone participate who wants to.
> Read John Parker's journal with video and pics!
More than 200 solidarity activists delivered medical supplies and ambulances to the Palestinian people of Gaza!
This was the largest ever US humanitarian aid convoy to Palestine and was organized by British MP George Galloway and Vietnam Veteran and
anti-war activist Ron Kovic. It carried more than one million dollars in medical supplies for the people of Gaza, who have been forced to
live in prison-like conditions for years under blocade by the U.S. backed Israeli military.
The convoy's delegation of about 200 people left for Cairo, Egypt on July 4th from Brooklyn, NY. They waged a hard fought campaign to reach Gaza with New York City Councilman Charles Barron leading the
negotiations with the Egyptian authorities, and finally were able to reach their goal on Wednesday July 15th.
The participants include former Congressperson Cynthia McKinney, New York City Council Member Charles Barron, and members of CAIR,
Middle East Childrens Alliance, Cuba Coalition, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, MECHA, International Action Center,
International Socialist Organization, Workers World Party, Answer Coalition and many more.
Please consider making a donation to help cover the considerable costs of travel. All donations beyond the costs to IAC will be added to the general fund of Viva Palestina.
Wednesday, June 10 at 7 pm
5274 W Pico Blvd, Room 205
FILM:The Angola 3:
Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
narrated by Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Also, report from the Monday June 8th hearing of the San Francisco 8.
For more information please call (323) 306-6240.
Wednesday, June 3 at 7 pm
5274 W Pico Blvd, Room 205
DPRK & the Right to Self Defense
According to the corporate news media the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (North Korea) sole purpose for testing nuclear weapons is to threaten the world's security, especially the U.S., which (according to these sources) has done nothing to provoke or threaten the DPRK. Some political organizations have also joined in condemnation of the DPRK for being "reckless."
If you have doubts about the claims by corporate media and want further explanation on why the DPRK would test ...
Please come to a meeting to discuss the leading role U.S. imperialism now plays in historic threats and war against the DPRK and why the U.S. is unwilling to negotiate directly with the DPRK.
Also:
Hear a statement condemning the murder of the courageous abortion-rights doctor George Tiller.
Next Week's Video Showing:
The Angola 3, Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation - narrated by Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Also, report from the Monday June 8th hearing of the San Francisco 8.
For more information please call (323) 306-6240.
Wednesday, May 20th at 7 pm
Birthday Commemoration of Malcolm X & Ho Chi Minh
5274 W Pico Blvd, Room 205
Celebrate Lives Dedicated to National Liberation, International Solidarity
& the Fight Against U.S. Imperialism
Also:
Hear reportback on the national day of actions to stop the execution of Troy Davis.
For more information please call (323) 306-6240.
Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 6:30 pm
A film by Lee Wang
Someone Else's War is a film about the invisible low-wage workers of the war in Iraq, the so-called "third country nationals." Men and women, mostly from South and Southeast Asia, perform the invisible labor on U.S. miltiary bases of Iraq earning a fraction of what American contractors in Iraq do. Wang's film is the first documentary to examine the underclass of the workforce created by American warfare.
Sponsored by Habi Arts, Anakbayan LA, Critical Filipina/o Studies Collective, and International Action Center
Hollywood Youth & Family Center, Large Room, 607 N Vermont
(between Clinton & Melrose)
AUGUST 2 PERSHING SQUARE RALLY
(downtown Los Angeles)An Emergency Call to Action
LOS ANGELES EVENT:
1PM at PERSHING SQUARE!
for info or to volunteer call (310) 677-6407 Join us on August 2 in more than 50 local actions all across the country. Get in touch with friends, co workers, community and religious groups and students.
Together we can say - NO ATTACK ON IRAN!
- Troops Out of Iraq and Afghanistan!
- We support the Palestinian Right to Return - End the U.S./Israeli occupation!
- We need health care and education not endless war!
- Drop gas prices - not bombs!
Labor/Community Forum on Mortgage Foreclosures
Saturday, July 26th from 1pm to 5pm
at SEIU Local 721 Meeting Hall, 500 NORTH Virgil Ave, Los Angeles
Join us as we plan a fightback campaign to demand a halt to the
epidemic theft of people's homes by giant banks and mortgage companies!
Panelists Representing:
SEIU -Local 721 Latino & African American Committees, Michigan Moratorium Now Coalition to Stop
Foreclosures & Evictions, Harvard Boulevard Block Association, State Assemblymember Mike Davis,
International Action Center, May Day Unity Coalition for Immigrant Rights, BAYAN-USA,
and Housing LA
For more information call Rosie at 213.494.8314 or John at 310.677.6407
Public Meeting: Obama, Racism & Black/Brown Unity
Saturday, June 21 at 4 pm
4343 Leimert Blvd in Los Angeles (northeast end of Leimert Park)
Town Hall Meeting featuring Monica Moorehead, former presidential candidate and editor of groundbreaking book
"Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle."
Other speakers include Martha Rojas of the May Day Unity Coalition who will speak about solidarity between the
African-American struggle and the immigrant rights movement
and
John Parker, the West Coast Coordinator of the International Action Center who will give an update on how communities are
organizing against bank and mortgage foreclosures that affect us all. (see below)
Copies of "Marxism, Reparations & the Black Freedom Struggle" will be available for sale and signing.
For more information call Workers World Party at 310 677-8647
Get involved in the IAC Campaign to Stop Foreclosures & Evictions!
- Help Petition City Council for a Los Angeles Resolution Demanding Action from Schwarzeneger!
- Develop plans for a grassroots campaign led by people from the most affected communities!
- Help organize street meetings to spread the word and build a struggle against the banks and mortgage companies!
IAC Filmshowing in Inglewood (narrated by Danny Glover)
Framing an Execution - The Media and Mumia Abu-Jamal
On March 27th, 2008 the Third Circuit Court of Appeals failed in its supposed mission of providing justice by continuing the blatantly racist judicial decisions disallowing a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal. In addition, its decision enables the prosecution to push for the death penalty. The International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal are calling on everyone to put the pressure back in the streets demanding justice for Mumia, who has been in jail for 25 years for murder based on a police frame up and racist trial. Amongst other crimes, this trial excluded Black jurors, allowed falsified evidence and witnesses tampering by a Philadelphia police department federally indicted for corruption. Come see for yourself how the media has played a role in Mumia's frame up in the press and on television. Narrated by Danny Glover, this 49 minute dvd analyzes and critiques that media coverage. Join in the post-film discussion on the latest developments in the case and what action we need to take to increase the heat!