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Only for-profit companies may bid for Iraq rebuild contracts
Non-profit companies are being excluded from bidding for the contracts to rebuild Iraq social institutions, which they consider unrealistically rushed, with a one year timeline. In addition, the bidding process is not open, but is by invitation only in a nontransparent process for a few select corporations...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 8:20am PDT
SF Commonwealth Club Holds Free Town Hall Forum on the War Today
Don't know what the deal is with this, but just noticed it announced on the news....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 8:01am PDT
antiwar messages spray-painted on about 60 SUVs and trucks in Santa Cruz Tues night
Alright Santa Cruz! The news idiotically covered a woman who said they should have just asked her to donate (something like $3000+) to efforts against war, since now she's just wasting the money - what an IDIOT! Like she would have just handed over 3k . . . gee, guess she hadn't already, so when was she going to??...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 7:53am PDT
Willie Says SF Could Have Saved Money if They'd Handled the Protests Oakland's Way
Just watching the news this morning and heard Willie tell Phil Matier that SF could have saved money on the protests if they'd done it Oakland's way....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 7:39am PDT
How Neoconservatives Conquered Washington – and Launched a War
Baghdad is now under US control. But where are Iraq's weapons of mass destruction which justified the war on Iraq?...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 7:36am PDT
reuters made a boo-boo
oops. Reuters covered the Cuban case against those convicted after a years-long investigation....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 7:07am PDT
Screw Bechtel - I prefer BELCtel - BURP!
I photoshopped the Bechtel Corporate Logo to be "Belchtel"
Belch:
1. To expel gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth; burp.
2. To erupt or explode.
3. To gush forth.
Its been submitted to Adbusters Magazine :-)...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 6:18am PDT
Fw: Fake 'Dancing In The Streets' - Free Iraqi Forces Get Around
Fw: Fake 'Dancing In The Streets' - Free Iraqi Forces Get Around...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 4:34am PDT
WHo owns CNN? MSNBC? ABC?
So ya think we have a "free press" eh? Check out who owns who, and who owns what you think..........
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 4:07am PDT
Berkeley: THE FIX IS IN!!!!
Fixing obnoxious clear channel visual pollution billboards that is....
Enjoy!!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 4:02am PDT
War Tax Resistance Made Simple
Regardless of the specifics, the basic truth is about half of your income tax is going to the military. For all the millions of people who've taken to the streets in the past four months to prevent or oppose this war, this is like a kidney punch from behind: You may spend your days, nights and/or weekends working to preserve peace, but everyone who pays taxes is financially helping to support the war....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 3:22am PDT
BTL:Thousands Engage in Nonviolent Civil Disobedience to Protest Iraq War
Interview with Gordon Clark, coordinator of the Iraq Pledge of Resistance, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 2:39am PDT
Picking at the holy scabs of “Ground Zero”,
Picking at the holy scabs of “Ground Zero”, ( even skilfully sequestering and sanitizing the pain suffered in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ) the regime threatens daily to lash out in retaliation for a crime that stinks more of Operation Northwoods or the Tonkin Incident than a long distance act of global terrorism organised by a one-time CIA co-opted camel herder hiding out in the caves of Afghanistan....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 2:35am PDT
Firstly, the war is not over...
People are terrified - and the Iraqis are terrified - that this will turn into a 'new American century'...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 2:29am PDT
SF deconstructing Bush under his radar
stop the Bush war(s) with local action, thinking globally--going on 26 free Coffee House Teach-Ins...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 2:21am PDT
Local News, from the, Bay Area/SF, Video to the World, form us, " ***** Activists *** (video/mpeg 49.9MB)
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Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 1:54am PDT
Ignored looting indicative of US disinterest in WMD
All of Iraq, from factories and mansions to government ministries, party headquarters, and military installations is being picked clean by looters. Why is there no US concern that critical evidence of WMD is being lost and destroyed?...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 12:29am PDT
ROTC military recruiters off campus! Protest this Saturday at UC Berkeley, 10am
ALL ANTI-IMPERIALISTS: Join this united front protest to demand: ROTC OFF CAMPUS! ALL US TROOPS OUT OF THE NEAR EAST NOW! April 12, this Saturday at 10am. UC BERKELEY, in front of Wheeler Hall....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 12:12am PDT
What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News // Eric Alterman Interview // KPFA (audio/mpeg 8.5MB)
Mr. Alterman was interviewed on KPFA's "Cover to Cover" show. // about 8.7megs, under 30 minutes...
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2003 12:05am PDT
4/12 at 5 SF: Picket Warmonger Pelosi
Join us in a picket of warmonger, Democratic Party machine Congressperson Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, as she receives a "peace" award on April 12, 2003 at 5 p.m. at the Fairmont Hotel, Nob Hill, California and Mason....
Posted: Thu, Apr 10, 2003 11:53pm PDT