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Tenth Pittsburgh Restaurant Ditches Foie Gras
More victories in Pittsburgh......
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 6:08pm PST
SAMHSA Suicide Prevention: no gay, lesbian, bi or transgender
Feds refuse to allow "gay" "lesbian" and "transgender" in federally funded suicide prevention workshop...
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 2:53pm PST
Blast from the Past: Choicepoint and the 2000 election
in 2000, Katharine Harris and Jeb Bush used ChoicePoint to purge the voter rolls of Florida of tens of thousands of African American "felons", and here they are, back in the news again, pay particular scrutiny to the description of their database...
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 12:18pm PST
Importance of French Workers' Struggle to Keep 35 Hour Week Shouldn't be Underestimated
The real reason for U.S. capitalism's attempt to create anti-French sentiment is the French workers' stand for the 35 hour week at a time when U.S. and global capitalism is trying to normalize going backwards....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 9:32am PST
The End of Globalization
The economy ought to serve humanity; humanity should not serve the economy. Beware the neo-liberal idolization of growth and competition! If growth becomes a law, ecological collapse is unavoidable. If competition is made absolute, mass unemployment will occur everywhere....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 7:35am PST
Yusuf Islam Updates
SINGER ISLAM GETS LIBEL DAMAGES
and
THE SUN AND SUNDAY TIMES AGREE TO PAY SUBSTANTIAL LIBEL DAMAGES TO
YUSUF ISLAM...
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 12:03am PST
Supremacist Charged in Machine Gun Sales
SEATTLE -- Federal agents arrested three men on gun and explosives charges Tuesday, including a white supremacist who once served time for plotting to kill Martin Luther King Jr....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 7:44pm PST
Study: Homeless Shelters, Food in Demand
-- Many homeless shelters and soup kitchens faced with more requests for emergency services are turning people away because they lack the beds, food and money to meet the demand, says a survey from an advocacy group for low-income Americans....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 7:37pm PST
Patriots and Parrots: Imprisoning Tongues in America
It can be dangerous to engage in free speech. This year alone, 242 journalists, in countries such as Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, have been tossed into jail for their words, and one has been killed....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 7:29pm PST
Greenpeace Protesters Get Jail Terms
PITTSBURGH -- Six Greenpeace activists were sentenced Tuesday to jail terms ranging from five to 30 days for climbing a smokestack at a coal-fired power plant in protest of President Bush's energy policy....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 7:23pm PST
Black History Month
This should have preceded the piece Black History Month/White History Month but for some resason it wasn't posted....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 1:51pm PST
"We Refuse to be Buried by Globalization"
"The theory of the end of work is nonsense. It is part of an ideology. We are not in a crisis but in a process of change in which the whole labor force is no longer needed.. Our problem is that we stubbornly cling to an old concept of work.."...
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 7:21am PST
Wal-Mart Agrees to Pay Fine for Violating Child Labor Laws
Wal-Mart Agrees to Pay Fine for Violating Child Labor Laws; Company Signs Settlement Agreement with Labor Department...
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 1:07am PST
Preliminary Analysis of Bush's Budget
NCLR RELEASES PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF PRESIDENT BUSH'S BUDGET
Expresses Strong Concern Over Budget Priorities...
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 12:58am PST
Urge the Anti-Choice Movement to Help Us Prevent Abortions
kinda weird, huh? (reposted by Susie-Q)...
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 12:51am PST
Montel Williams: Fighting for Your Life Shouldn't Be a Crime
Talk-show host Montel Williams tried many different medications to dull the pain from MS, but the only thing that has worked for him has been marijuana. That makes him a criminal in Illinois....
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 11:06pm PST
Infoshop/AMP releases new Copwatch 101 booklet
Infoshop.org and the Alternative Media Project are pleased to announce the public release of our new Copwatch 101 booklet. This is the first booklet in the pamphlet series published by our Breaking...
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 8:48pm PST
Call for a Mass Mobilization April 15-17th, 2005 During the Spring Meetings of the World B
The April 16, 2005 meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank will represent the five year anniversary of the first major demonstrations against these institutions in the United States...
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 8:43pm PST
Oil Cleanup at Aleutian Shipwreck Halted
JUNEAU, Alaska -- Salvage and cleanup operations of a freighter that wrecked in the Aleutian Islands have been shut down until spring, the Coast Guard said Monday...
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 8:00pm PST
Keyes' Daughter Calls Self 'Liberal Queer'
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- The daughter of conservative Republican Alan Keyes referred to herself Monday as a "liberal queer" and urged support for gay and lesbian young people who have been deserted by their families....
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 7:57pm PST