May 1, 2006Wednesday, July 1st from 4pm to 7pm at the Israeli Consulate
6730 Wilshire Blvd
Today Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and dragged the ship back to Israel,
abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S.
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. This ship is one of two, that along with hundreds of cars and trucks will carry volunteers and leading activists like Cynthia McKinney,
British MP George Galloway, and leading IAC organizer John Parker,
as they attempt to deliver aid to the Palestinian people living under Israeli siege in Gaza.
- Sign the online petition to demand release of those taken hostage and safe passage to Gaza -
- Make a donation for the Viva Palestina humanitarian convoy!
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.
Black History Month Film Screening of …
At The River I Stand
(Directors: David Appleby, Allison Graham & Steven Ross, 1993, 56 min)Where: IAC OFFICE: 101 North La Brea Ave, Inglewood - Rm 309
(Between Florence and Manchester, Next to Civic Center)
Contact: (310) 677- 6407 Wheelchair Accessible
A Film of Fightback: Lessons for Today’s Economic Crisis! This classic documentary recaptures the 1968 struggle for economic justice among Memphis' sanitation workers, who earned so little they qualified for welfare. In the film, retired workers recall their fear as they challenged the white power structure when they went on strike for higher wages and union recognition. The Black community mobilized behind the strikers, organizing mass demonstrations and an Easter boycott of downtown businesses. In March of 1968, Martin Luther King traveled to Memphis as part of his "Poor People's Campaign" to expand the civil rights agenda to include economic justice. King planned to march again on April 8, 1968, but was assassinated four days earlier. A nonviolent march was held nonetheless, leading to the city council granting most of the strikers' demands. At the River I Stand was described in the Dallas Observer as "one of the most clearheaded, evenhanded documentaries about the civil rights movement you'll ever see, and a piece of gripping storytelling as well."
Discussion on Economic Crisis and Demand for Jobs Following Film.
Popcorn & Softdrinks Available
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)
In Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’s Birthday
A FIGHTBACK CONFERENCE
Bail Out the PEOPLE,
Not Wall Street!
Following on the heels of a highly successful Fightback Conference that took place in New York City on Jan. 17, the Bail Out the People Movement’s call for a West Coast meeting on Jan. 24 drew over 100 activists to the Service Employees Local 721 union hall in Los Angeles. Participants came from as far away as the San Francisco Bay area and Tucson, Ariz. National and regional organizers of the Bail Out the People Movement were also present.
Two Important Events Coming Soon!
1) Stop Bailouts, Forelosures & Attacks on Workers Forum - Sat. 10/25
2) Protest at Federal Reserve - Bailout People - Not Wall Street - Mon. 10/27
Download bilingual flyers to help spread the word!
Forum leaflet in Spanish
Forum leaflet in English
Protest leaflet in Spanish
Protest leaflet in English
Join Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, SEIU Local 721, Harvard Blvd. Block Association, International Action Center and others in a…
LABOR/COMMUNITY FORUM
Stop Attacks on Workers—Bail Out WORKERS–Not Bankers
WHERE - Hermandad Mexicana Nacional - 7915 Van Nuys Blvd., Panorama City, CA 91402
WHEN - Saturday, October 25th at 10am
Contact: 818-989-3019
DEMANDS:
Moratorium on foreclosures, evictions
& raids of immigrant workers.
Freeze all job layoffs. Extend unemployment benefits.
Protect workers’ pensions - hands off Social Security.
Debt cancellation for working and poor people.
Moratorium on budget cuts in all social programs.
Who’s to blame for this economic crisis? The federal government continues the biggest anti-worker raids in history, targeting immigrant families. Yet the real culprits who initiated this latest crisis on Wall Street, the super rich, get trillion-dollar bailouts - money from working people’s taxes including the money from those immigrants targeted in the raids. And not only have our tax dollars been given away, the stage is being set for massive cuts in vital services that will cut the life out of our communities.
State governments feeling the crunch are today reneging on their responsibilities to provide basic services, thereby exacerbating foreclosures, evictions and poverty.
Come to a forum to discuss what we can do to
help with our immediate crisis of foreclosure and
eviction and build the unity and action necessary to prepare ourselves and our communities against the coming attacks on workers and their families that are sure to intensify.
Then comes the ACTION:
LABOR/COMMUNITY NATIONAL PROTEST
At Los Angeles Federal Reserve Bank
950 S. Grand Ave.
(downtown near Olympic)
MONDAY OCTOBER 27 - 12 NOON
CONTACT: (310) 677-6407
Spend Trillions on the People, Not War & Wall Street!
The bankers and their federal government continue the biggest thievery of working people’s wealth in history.
However, the richest 1 percent of the population, who are the real culprits who initiated this latest crisis on Wall Street get rewarded with trillion-dollar bailouts with our tax dollars.
Because of this, local governments feeling the crunch are cutting back on our basic services, thereby exacerbating foreclosures, evictions, poverty and the massive health care crisis, especially effecting children.
The bailout money could be spent creating jobs, providing health care and building homes to meet the immediate crisis of homelessness, eviction and unemployment.
But that would benefit working people and the poor, not the bankers - so it’s not happening. However, we must demand it and make it happen!
Sponsored By:
Hermandad Mexicana Nacional, SEIU Local 721, Harvard Blvd.
Block Assoc, International Action Center, BAYAN-USA
Protest at Federal Bldg Demands Two-Year Moratorium on Foreclosures!
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!