On Monday, March 3, 2008, Dr. Sami Al-Arian began a hunger strike for justice to protest continued government harassment. Earlier in the day, Dr. Al-Arian was informed that he would be called to testify before a third grand jury in Virginia, only weeks before his scheduled release date. Under his plea agreement, Dr. Al-Arian should have been released last April at the latest. However, because he has not testified, his

This is StPeteforPeace's 2007 slideshow. It includes photos from tent city, the St. Petersburg cnn debate, protests with the CIW, and antiwar actions held in the Tampa Bay area. The slideshow is accompanied by music from Public Enemy, Rebel Diaz, M.I.A., Excentral Tempest and others.

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Early Monday morning dozens of concerned community members from Palm Beach County and all over the nation put their bodies on the line to halt construction of FPL's West County Energy Center (WCEC), demanding energy efficiency, truly clean, renewable energy and a moratorium on development in south Florida. Everglades Earth First!

He hasn't said the word black out of his mouth, not even to talk about the color of his suit or his shoes!

Environmentalists say the recent suspension of a federal permit to fill and develop 54 acres of wetlands at Cypress Creek Town Center amounts to a half measure that comes as too little, too late.

The wetlands in question have already been filled, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which suspended its permit Friday.

"This is a backhanded way of getting half the punishment out," said Denise Layne of the Sierra Club.

My name is Saoirse (Gaelic for freedom) and I am walking from Bristol in the UK to Porbandar in India without any form of money because I want my life to be my message. We live in a media packed world, where politicians and corporations market the talk, but don't walk the walk. So one day I decided to, literally, walk the walk.

Breaking bread and sharing it as a community is a fundamental right in any society, especially in the commons. In Prescott, AZ, a free community Food Not Bombs lunch came under fire by private security guards. The firm is contracted by the county to patrol the County Courthouse lawn.

No one knew when Diane Bailey began asking odd questions in October 2007 that it was the beginning of a serious attack on the Uhuru Movement that would see people associated with the movement lose their jobs, lose their housing and in one case, be framed and sent to jail.

Any elected official would love to brag the water in his or her district is "good enough to drink." Yet on Thursday, Hillsborough County commissioners pooh-poohed the idea that the Alafia River and the Tampa Bypass Canal should meet this