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José Bové inprisoned
José Bové, the French small farmers' leader, was brutally arrested at 6 0' clock this morning...
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 7:01am PDT
Iranian Students Spark Revolt
On the night of wednesday June 11th a new resurgence of student revolt erupted onto the streets of Tehran........
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 3:31am PDT
General says White House pushed Saddam link without evidence
Former General Wesley Clark told anchor Tim Russert that Bush administration officials had engaged in a campaign to implicate Saddam Hussein in the September 11 attacks-- starting that very day. Clark said that he'd been called on September 11 and urged to link Baghdad to the terror attacks, but declined to do so because of a lack of evidence....
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 2:19am PDT
Charlie Reese: Road Map To Nowhere
The United States doesn't need any special ambassadors, public-relations programs or propaganda campaigns to repair its miserable image in the Middle East. This blatant, hypocritical double standard vis—vis Israel is the be-all and the end-all of our image problems in the Middle East. It's also the source of most of the terrorism directed at the United States in and from that part of the world....
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 1:46am PDT
Border between Life and Death
If the presence of the life process is considered to be one of the exclusive characteristics of living creatures, what then are we to say about seeds? Does it ever occur to you that in those monocellulars “that have survived till today” the life process has virtually never come to a stop since the very beginning of their existence? Because of the obscurity of the line separating the living from the dead, is it not possible for us to claim that there is “life” in atoms...
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 12:39am PDT
Has Libya been framed with the Pan Am flight 103 bombing?
...pressure from the families—he mentioned 10 powerful families of surviving British relatives—could force the British government to establish a Tribunal of Inquiry. The purpose of the tribunal would be to determine once and for all who destroyed Pan Am 103 and what the motive was....
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 12:38am PDT
Black Panthers at Alameda County Courthouse
Photos from a Black Panther video screening projected on the Alameda County Courthouse where Huey Newton was tried for a gun battle with Oakland police which left one officer dead and another critically wounded....
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 10:59pm PDT
Rummy Hiding His Cards On N. Korea Involvement?
What Didn't Rumsfeld Know About Reactor Sales, And When Didn't He Know It?...
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 9:45pm PDT
Most Dangerous Man in Washington
Review of Bush policy in Iraq and its implications...
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 9:30pm PDT
BBC: US forces threatened in power vacuum
Do we need Nostradamus or Bush re-elected to figure out that "the people" will not tolerate "too many" US deaths and therefore might be wise to recognize early the power and truth of Iraq's resistance before we all, particular those at the bottom, sacrifice more? Revolution!...
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 8:58pm PDT
Detained Iranian students' whereabouts unknown
Iranian security forces have rounded up dozens of students in recent days in a move reformist MPs say would exacerbate tension in the wake of a spate of recent pro-democracy protests.
Reformist newspapers today report the arrests were carried out by officials wearing plainclothes and the whereabouts of many of the detained students is unknown....
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 7:05pm PDT
Let's Fight to Win Against the War on Workers and the Poor
By abandoning their members and working class communities to the ravages of global capitalism as they are doing in San Francisco and here in Oakland, Union leaders leave a vacuum that begs to be filled....
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 6:23pm PDT
Sac - Know Your Rights info
This is the info on the Know Your Rights handbill that we're distributing at the Welcome Center and elsewhere. Sorry for not getting it online sooner. Please read it & ask others to read it too. And write the legal hotline number on your forearm so it'll be handy if you get arrested!...
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 6:01pm PDT
Sac cops' phone numbers to complain
Here are some numbers to call and demand that the cops behave themselves and stop harassing people on the streets. It might not accomlish anything for us but will likely give the cops a sense of what it's like to be harassed...
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 4:20pm PDT
Radical Exchange / Solidarity with Argentina
Call for Translators...
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 4:12pm PDT
Hezbollah—Terrorist Group or Political Party?
“If you [the United States] want to use certain moral and legal parameters to judge one side, then judge the other side as well. Otherwise, go back to politics. Hezbollah is just one part of the conflict that exists between the Arabs and Israelis, the crux of which is the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”...
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 4:01pm PDT
Transcending Conflict
on the root of all suffering being ignorance of love (AKA pride)...
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 3:55pm PDT