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FTAA. March to Duro Bag in Ludlow, Kentucky (greater Cincinnati). NPR coverage. 50 PACE (Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical & Energy Workers International Union) members, local labor leaders, college students and others marched to Duro Bag headquarters in Ludlow, Kentucky (greater Cincinnati). Strike against the company's plant in Rio Bravo, Mexico. Harassment of independent labor union organizing there. Duro Bag situation was mentioned in other FTAA, Quebec A20 articles, too. So check out Quebec and Vancouver IndyMedia also....
Posted: Fri, Mar 2, 2001 10:21am PST
Davis paying double for Power Grid Gov Davis is not acting like a smart buyer by offering such a windfall price for the grid. Cutting a deal feels great, until you have to live with the deal....
Posted: Wed, Feb 28, 2001 10:59pm PST
A20. Quebec 420 = prison industrial complex. 3rd Summit of the Americas "plan on erecting a 2.4 mile long metal fence, similar to those found around prisons, in the streets of the provincial capital sometime in early spring. The perimeter will cover approximately 4 square miles of the downtown core. Moreover, all citizens who reside or work in the security perimeter -- nearly 25,000 people -- are currently being given a security pass to enter the area, ... The original police plan to run criminal record checks on all Quebec residents receiving a pass"...
Posted: Wed, Feb 28, 2001 1:46am PST
Sen. Perata on energy conservation rebates legislation to return $1 billion in state surplus revenues to consumers for conserving energy...
Posted: Tue, Feb 27, 2001 9:17am PST
Energy Crisis News Today's news re polluting power plants, greedy energy corporations, drilling in the Arctic, etc....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2001 7:09pm PST
Public Power Now! 
Brian Belknap joined about 50 protestors in a march down Mission Street today....
Posted: Sat, Feb 24, 2001 6:45pm PST
Sieze Today: No FTAA 
San Francisco--Juliette Beck of Global Exchange calls the proposed FTAA (Free Trade Agreement of the Americas), "NAFTA on steroids." Speaking about the proposed expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement to the entire western hemisphere, she stated,"If you think NAFTA has been a disaster for working families and the environment in the US, Canada, and Mexico, this will be far worse."...
Posted: Sat, Feb 24, 2001 2:45pm PST
Stop the FTAA 
San Francisco--Roselle protested against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas because she thinks that, "its wrong that the wealthy people of our country should be able to take over entire nations." Hundreds of corporate representatives are advising the US negotiators who are writing the rules for the FTAA....
Posted: Sat, Feb 24, 2001 2:43pm PST
No Borders No Ftaa 
San Francisco--The rights of immigrants have been trampled while free trade agreements such as NAFTA have made crossing the US-Mexico border easier for television sets than for people. Mark Shoemaker joined in solidarity with the people who are fighting the Free Trade agreement of the Americas (FTAA), which would expand NAFTA throughout the western hemisphere....
Posted: Sat, Feb 24, 2001 2:39pm PST
FTAA is not Fair Trade 
San Francisco--Andres Tomas Conteris protests against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas because, "the corporations are seeking to control every facet of our lives -- in every geographical area of this hemisphere and eventually around the globe. If we don't stop it now, they will put an end to our lives. They're invading our gene pool, they're invading our living rooms, they're invading every aspect of our lives and we have to say NO. We also have to say YES to different alternatives --...
Posted: Sat, Feb 24, 2001 2:36pm PST
Solidarity 
San Francisco--Liz Hinckle stood silent with hundreds of other people
outside the Mexican Consulate "to support the Zapatistas in their march from
Chiapas to Mexico City and also to support the struggle against the FTAA,"
which would expand NAFTA to the entire western hemisphere....
Posted: Sat, Feb 24, 2001 2:30pm PST
Santa Rosa Energy 'Crisis' Teach-In, March 1st! Energy Teach-In and Community Forum on PG&E, California History, Global Energy Picture, MUDs, and Renewables...
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2001 11:00am PST
FTAA Action in SF: Start kicking! Protests against the FTAA and globalization are getting started in anticipation of massive resistance planned in Quebec City for April....
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2001 5:23pm PST
Contra FTAA, Solidaridad con Zapatistas a Feb. 23 protest this friday against the FTAA and in solidarity with the Zapatistas...
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2001 8:49am PST
Public Hearing (2/23) regarding a 51-megawatt "peaker power plant" at SFO. I've researching our power situation today and ran across this press release from the California Energy Commission. Basically this says a new power plant is being proposed for SF airport, owned by El Paso Merchant Energy. This looks like an alternative to the plant that was going to float on the bay that no one wanted. Looks like there trying to slip this in. A Energy Commission vote is scheduled for Mar. 7. A public hearing is 2/23 at 10 am at the Holiday Inn in South San Francisco....
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2001 4:32pm PST
Washington State House Petition Promotes Energy Industry Lies The Washington State House of Representatives produces a petition to the federal government concerning power export to California that might as well have been written by the energy industry....
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2001 9:40pm PST
Energy Reregulation: Letter To DeFazio A Seattle resident's letter to Oregon U.S. Represenative Peter DeFazio on his lesislation to reregulate the energy industry....
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2001 9:58am PST
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