Last Saturday(June 24), about ten DC activists travelled to Baltimore to help day laborers marching on the office of Peter Angelos. Angelos, thebowner of the Baltimore Orioles, is paying day laborers at the Camden Yards stadium sweatshop wages.

Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition, otherwise known as TASSC, held a demonstration in front of the White House yesterday.

Several courageous activists were taken into custody by the US Park Police.

Kid Sunday on the metro

Since 01/06, when the Palestinians elected a Hamas-dominated government, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have accelerated their brutal treatment. After Israeli PM, Ehud Olmert, appeared before the lapdog U.S. Congress on May 31, 2006, the IOF also slaughtered 32 Palestinians, including 10 children. On 06/23/06, Tim Rothermel and Laila El-Haddad, at a Capitol Hill forum, warned that the Palestinians may, eventually, face starvation, too.

Thousands of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer (LGBTQ) youth are forced out on to the streets in the U.S. each year, and face harassment, homophobia and even violence in their high schools. In addition, there are many LGBTQs outside this country seeking an increasingly difficult path to political asylum in the U.S.

On this edition, we'll hear from the LGBTQ community, on the streets, in the schools and outside the system.

Note: This is not the entire Making Contact Show. This is just two out of three segments. You can listen to the entire show on www.radioproject.org/archive/2006/2406.html

It has been reported on Democracy Now that many in New Orleans suspect that real reason the National Guard is being deployed there has nothing to do with recent street crimes-and EVERYTHING to do with the housign protests planned for July 4th!

After the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit upheld a board ruling on May 5th of this year ordering Smithfield Packing Comapny to cease and desist, Smithfield Tar Heel plant workers and their supporters held a Day of Action today in DC, demanding from Smithfield Hog Packing Company's plant in Tar Heel North Carolina safer working conditions, a stop to harassment/beatings and intimidation, better protection, slower lines and the right to unionize, as part of a National Campaign of justiceatsmithfield.org.

The protest against Negroponte took place as planned. Dozens were present to protest the nefarious Negroponte.

Yesterday, PBS broadcast "The Dark Side" in which FRONTLINE professes to go "behind the headlines to investigate the internal war that was waged between the intelligence community and Richard Bruce Cheney, the most powerful vice president in the nation's history." It "tells the story of the vice president's role as the chief architect of the war on terror."

Franklin Shelter provides housing for 275 residents. Since they are not "surplus people," Franklin Shelter cannot be surplus property. At 9AM on June 20, Franklin shelter residents marched against the Mayor's plan to replace them with hotel guests.