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 darrenlobo
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| Drone Free Horsham Protest |
| 2013.04.29 08:19:51 | |
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With the announcement that a Remotely Piloted Aircraft (drone) command center will open at the Horsham Air Guard Base (located in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania) in October local activists from all parts of the political spectrum came together and swung into action. On April 27, 2013 about one hundred protesters marched to the base's main gate and held a rally they called Drone Free Horsham. See video and read more at: http://theinternationallibertarian.blogspot.com/2013/04/drone-free-horsham-protest.html Tags: socialist | Remotely Piloted Aircraft | protest | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | libertarian | Horsham | drone | antiwar Hits: 979 | Read more... |
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| allenjasson
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| Politics and the London Zoo |
| 2013.04.15 21:00:38 | |
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Personally, I find it difficult to disengage or avoid politics, even on an outing with my children to the London Zoo. At King’s Cross Station I interrupted our journey to take my two boys to admire what I consider to be a rare and wonderfully imaginative innovation in Architecture and a marvel of modern engineering – the roof above Kings Cross Station. Of course, you can’t tell that to a child under 4, but I could get them to lie on their backs on the floor alongside the central column and get them to study the beautiful sweeping arches that hold up the enormous roof lattice above.
A crowd was amassing with a high police attendance and someone was shouting with a broad Irish accent “Maggie Maggie Maggie! Dead Dead Dead!!” followed by a loud chorus of cheering and chants of “The bitch is dead!”.
I asked one of the crowd what it was all about – “They’re protesting the cuts”.
She was not impressed with my contention that unless there was a very large number of the British population willing to get serious they were wasting their time. She was less dismissive of this view when I reminded her that despite 2 million protesting in London against the Iraq war in 2003 we are still participating in wars all over the world; “Is this little mob going to make any difference?”. They just don’t give a damn about protest and they are militarising the Police and reshaping the law ready for the time when the world economy hits the fan and it all gets serious. While we conversed my 1-year-old son was pushing the double push-chair away and into the back of a group of police. As their alarm subsided I joked that it was probably the strongest resistance they would face all day.
Meanwhile the “Maggie!” chants continued and I shouted back up the escalator shaft (at risk to life and limb) that if they didn’t have the balls to get rid of her while she was Prime Minister there was not much point raving now.
At the London Zoo, wandering among the remnants of the procession of species disappearing in the wake of the human onslaught there were endless reminders of the FACT of Climate Change and the alarming rate of species extinction (which I first heard about at University more than 30 years ago) and efforts to persuade the masses that the loss of eco- and bio-diversity matters. As has been the necessity for some time, I fought off my rising anger and anxiety in order to present calm rationality for my day out with my boys; as best I could.
On The Tube going back to King’s Cross an old lady (older than me) lamented the crowded conditions. I asked “What would things have been like if all the money spent on cars, petrol, motorways, traffic control and all the carnage of motor accidents had been spent on Public Transport?”. She agreed with my point and someone else joined the conversation. I told them that I had only recently come to understand, thanks to Monbiot, how we embarked on this madness. I had discovered that Dr Beeching, who had shut down the railways in the 1960s had been appointed by the then minister of transport, Ernest Marples - owner of the motorway-building company Marples Ridgway. I expressed the view that this was a criminal act of monumental consequence. Others tuned into the conversation and I began my usual rant about the psychopaths who currently run the planet and the consequent danger we are in with imminent environmental disaster due to Climate Change and economic disaster due to criminal mismanagement of the global economy. Once I began to see my folly I simply asserted that we are in deep shit and that all that was going to save us is conversations like this among ourselves leading to a broader awakening.
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| darrenlobo
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| Don't Tread On Me: Protesting the Josey Fundraiser (video) |
| 2012.10.31 09:12:35 | |
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On October 28, 2012 the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police threw a fundraiser for the fired Officer Josey. Many different groups and communities came together to protest, so great was the outrage. You can see in the video the solidarity of the people opposing helping this woman beating cop.
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| darrenlobo
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| Police State Checkpoint Nullification in Upper Moreland, PA |
| 2012.06.24 09:46:58 | |
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The problem with these checkpoints is that they're warrantless, arbitrary searches. This goes against all standards of civilized behavior and is not tolerable in a free society. Not only are checkpoints violating our rights they're not effective.
Tags: protest | cars | checkpoint | Constitution | dictatorship | DUI | filming | fourth Amendment | government | liberty | nullification | nullify | Pennsylvania | police | roads | Upper Moreland | Valley Forge Revolutionaries
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| darrenlobo
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| Highlights of the Brandywine Peace Community's Good Friday Protest at Lockheed Martin (video) |
| 2012.04.07 22:05:43 | |
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Highlights of the Brandywine Peace Community's Good Friday Protest and Civil Disobedience at Lockheed Martin in King of Prussia, PA http://www.brandywinepeace.com/
Tags: Brandywine Peace Community | Lockheed Martin | King of Prussia | Upper Marion | Pennsylvania | war | defense contractor | corporation | profiteer | peace | protest | civil disobedience | Good Friday | peaceful | resistance | arrest | police | security | arms | manufacturer | cops Hits: 6344 | Read more... |
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| darrenlobo
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| Occupy Philadelphia: The Kick That the Left Really Needed |
| 2011.10.17 22:20:05 | |
 “The kick that the left really needed “ are the words of one of the protesters. These are high hopes that will not be realized. Who are these Occupy Philly people? What do they stand for? Who do they represent? Let’s take a look. In the video below there are two interviews with participants in the Occupy Philadelphia movement and a Karl Marx impersonator that performed there.
Tags: socialism | Ron Paul | protest | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | Occupy | medicine | march | libertarian | Karl Marx | healthcare | free market | food | Economy Crisis | Communism | capitalism | 99% | 1% Hits: 6243 | Read more... |
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| darrenlobo
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| Hiroshima Day Protest 2011 King of Prussia, PA (video) |
| 2011.08.07 20:33:34 | |
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The Brandywine Peace Community strikes again, this time protesting against Lockheed Martin building parts for nuclear missiles on the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan during World War II. The protest went well with speeches, music, and the use of crime scene tape to block the entrance. The civil disobedience squad was arrested trying to deliver documents to Lockheed Martin.
Tags: bomb | weapons | Enola Gay | Pennsylvania | King of Prussia | Lockheed Martin | civil disobedience | police | atomic | arrest | protest | Brandywine | war | peace | nuclear | Hiroshima Hits: 9009 | Read more... |
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| darrenlobo
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| Police Brutality Protest, West Chester, PA (video) |
| 2011.07.27 23:41:31 | |
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Braving the one-hundred degree heat, and looking like Brave Heart, Michael Heise lead a group that protested the brutal macing, arrest, & abuse of four young men on July 3 by the West Chester, PA police. He tells the sad story of what happened that night in this video.
Tags: 1st amendment | free speech | cops | cop | noise | PA | Pennsylvania | West Chester | brutality | July 2011 | protest | police | signs | mace | pepper spray Hits: 9689 | Read more... |
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| darrenlobo
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| Outreach Table - DECLARE PEACE FAIR (video) |
| 2011.07.03 20:17:10 | |
 The DECLARE PEACE FAIR was held at Independence Visitors Center lawn area 6th & Market Streets, Phila., PA on Saturday, July 2 from 1 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Tags: war | tables | rally | protest | Philadelphia PA | music | Independence hall | Focus on peace | Declare Peace Fair | 4th of July Hits: 11473 | Read more... |
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| darrenlobo
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| Dance Party at Thomas Jefferson's Memorial (video) |
| 2011.06.06 11:02:38 | |
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"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." Tags: Adam Kokesh | Code Pink | dancing | police | protest | Thomas Jefferson | Washington DC Hits: 9107 | Read more... |
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| The Libyan Murderer Muammar Al-Gaddafi |
| 2011.02.23 20:38:12 | |
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right now. I cannot understand that people could possibly be as heartless as they are and turned out to be since the |
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| darrenlobo
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| Why They Torture (video) |
| 2011.01.31 02:27:03 | |
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Last Saturday the weekly demonstrations for and against the wars in West Chester, PA were joined by some special visitors. One was an activist I only know as Barbara advocating the closure of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp in Cuba. This is a US military facility that has been the subject of much controversy. Terror suspects are kept there and many are tortured. Tags: West Chester PA | war | torture | protest | peace vigil | Guantanamo | Dom Giordano | anti war Hits: 10661 | Read more... |
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| darrenlobo
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| Martin Luther King and the Empowerment of the War Machine: A Libertarian’s View (video) |
| 2011.01.19 05:59:01 | |
 Tags: war | protest | peace | Martin Luther King | Lockheed Martin | defense contractor Hits: 11948 | Read more... |
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| darrenlobo
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| FREE GEORGE DONNELLY RALLY (6/4/10) |
| 2010.06.07 07:11:17 | |
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FREE GEORGE DONNELLY Rally at the Edward N. Cahn US Court House and Federal Building in Allentown, PA on June 4 2010. While filming a FIJA.org outreach George was kidnapped and charged with simple assault. The Federal Marshall lied in an affidavit but confiscated the evidence that shows what really happened to George Donnelly. If George's video camera's footage is brought to discovery we shall know the truth! SHOW US THE VIDEO! Federal Marshal's are liars! Tags: US Marshals | arrest | protest | rally | Allentown PA | arrested | FIJA | Fully Informed Jury Association | George Donnelly Hits: 6988 | Read more... |
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| darrenlobo
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| TV and Newspaper Coverage of Rally for George Donnelly |
| 2010.06.06 07:58:23 | |
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The rally on Friday June 4, 2010 in Allentown, PA demanding the end of George Donnelly's legal ordeal was a smashing success. About thirty people marched in support holding signs and chanting. All was peaceful, the US Marshals behaved themselves this time. Tags: George Donnally | US Marshals | arrest | rally | protest | Allentown PA Hits: 6904 | Read more... |
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