Urban Unrest

25 January 2008 | Programming | Ernesto Aguilar

THe ever-awesome Rachel Clarke sends this out about tonight’s Houston Indymedia Radio Show. Tune in tonight at 7:30 p.m.

Headlines…

Activists in Portland arrested for engaging in direct action to protest Northwest National’s investment in new Liquified Natural Gas Pipelines

Seattle activists with the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action continue to demonstrate against the largest stockpile of nuclear warheads in the United States
Temple students demonstrate on MLK day for workers’ rights
Mexican prison authorities deny access of US farmworkers to Flavio Sosa, a prominent activist with the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca
Features…

Last week more than 500 activists gathered in Houston for the National Network of Immigrant and Refugee Rights Conference. Houston Indymedia was there to bring you a piece of the many different voices and perspectives shared during the three day event.

We talk with a community organizer out of Boston MA who led a successful blockade against a bank foreclosure this past week. As many predominantly minority families fall victim to the sub-prime lending schemes, her organization City Life is empowering the working poor to fight back.

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