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positive reviews of new book "Making Kind Choices"
Ingrid Newkirk's book "You Can Save the Animals" has been near the top
of the DawnWatch recommended reading list for years. I will take this opportunity to announce with delight that she has a new book out called "Making Kind Choices: Everyday Ways to Enhance Your Life Through Earth-
and Animal-Friendly Living." Sir Paul McCartney wrote the forward! Below
are brief reviews from the Sunday, January 9, Chicago Tribune, and Sunday, January 16, Washington Post:...
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 1:32pm PST
The Cork is Off the Bottle - Nuclear Incident in Montana
A retired high-level government source was called yesterday to respond to a nuclear incident in Montana. Apparently the silo doors of numerous ICBM missiles were opened....
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 1:19pm PST
Freedom means knowing how big your cage is
On January 20, 1969, during the inaugural parade for Richard Nixon, I stood in a crowd of onlookers on Pennsylvania Avenue and when Nixon's limousine passed by I threw an apple at the car. It bounced off the car behind the one carrying Tricky Dick (who now seems like a liberal compared to the likes of George W., Bill Clinton and John Kerry; seriously). No law enforcement authority rushed into the crowd looking for the perpetrator. Imagine if I had repeated my act at today's inauguration. Ever...
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 1:07pm PST
Urgent Action! Racist Music Attacks Asian Tsunami Victims at Hot 97, New York City!
Calling A Protest Letter And Rally Against The Radio Station!...
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 4:17am PST
Seattle Central Community College Students Force Army Recruiters off Campus
Among countless counter-inaugural actions held nationwide on January 20, 2005, the feistiest one took place in Seattle. Look at the photograph of Seattle Central Community College students forcing Army recruiters off campus. Naturally, no national media carried this news except Yahoo! News. What makes this action especially promising? The class and race of the students who organized it. According to Andrew Goldstein's profile of Seattle Central students, "everyone at Seattle Central l...
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 3:13am PST
Ohio: IWW Organizer Fired
It was 6 months January 10, 2005 that I will have been fired from Wild Oats under what many believe to be questionable circumstances. Not only has Wild Oats ignored the unions attempt for the exact reason for my termination, they have also ignored the hundreds of Wild Oats shoppers who have demanded an answer....
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 12:48am PST
In Defense of Animals (IDA) News
Tips for winter health followed by several news items and things you can do for each:...
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 12:40am PST
"Fight or Walk: The Chicago Transit Fare Strike"
The purpose of this article is to help us discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our fare strike campaign in Chicago, as well as to help groups in other cities who want to organize around transit issues. When we first decided to do this campaign, there wasn’t much to read on how other people had organized fare strikes. Hopefully this can be useful to other groups who want to use similar tactics....
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 12:11am PST
attn:Activists! grad student looking for research subjects
grad student looking for activists to participate in a research project...
Posted: Sat, Jan 22, 2005 6:05pm PST
Venezuela in the Spotlight: Lou Dobbs Show
May the new year be full of surprises! May we finally put the horse before the cart and mend our own pockets before falling to the destructive myths of unilateralisma nd offensive self-defense! Clif Ross is a Bay Area activist who recently returned from Venezuela....
Posted: Sat, Jan 22, 2005 8:22am PST
26 CITIES PROTEST J-20
Even in the middle of January, thousands of Americans find it necessary to voice their dissent towards the Bush Administration....
Posted: Sat, Jan 22, 2005 8:19am PST
Leonard Peltier Support Update
We currently have some exciting legal strategies going for Leonard.
There are more to come. We urge you to regularly (& frequently)
visit our Web site at http://www.peltiersupport.org for up-to-date
information on the Peltier case....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 7:59pm PST
NOW Activists to Rally in DC tomorrow
On Jan. 22 the National Organization for Women and its Capital City chapter will commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which legalized a woman's right to abortion in the United States. NOW activists will gather in front of the Supreme Court to tell the courts, the administration, and Congress, "We won't go back!"...
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 7:46pm PST
Traveling Soldier--new issue is out
"Traveling Soldier" is an antiwar GI newsletter...
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 1:08pm PST
Current Globalization Sows Hatred and Terror
The future is very nebulous. Two different possibilities exist: balance or destruction.. A world in which 24,000 persons die of starvation everyday and hundreds of millions of children are without a school education cannot be just and is unacceptable....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 9:07am PST
1/20 DC Coronation Parade Stopped by Protests
The dreams of the faithful who came to honor the Christian crusaders were shattered today amid chants and tear-gas, when what was expected to be a grand victory march down Pennsylvania Avenue descended into an embarassing public spectacle for the president that temporarily brought his motorcade to a complete hault....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 5:09am PST
NOW Calls for Resignation of Harvard University's President
The National Organization for Women calls for the resignation of Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, who has failed to lead the prominent (and previously all-male) university toward true inclusion of women....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 11:02pm PST
Bush Said "Freedom" 76 Times in 35 Paragraphs
Bush used code words for "Freedom" 76 times in just thirty-five paragraphs today. You'd never know that in our time Bush's racist, sexist, authoritarian, "Christian conservative" bullies have championed every kind of tyranny....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 5:16pm PST
Bob's Dream Investigated by the FBI
Bob Ecoffey, the recently downsized Director of Bureau of Tribal Police, and the person responsible for naming Arlo Looking Cloud responsible for the murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, has been troubled by the very dream which helped Indian Bob indict Arlo. Some people have been poking holes in that dream which was originally interpreted by an medicine man, and most recently adjudicated by Judge Lisa Cook. And the dream still just won't give Bob any rest, so we had to call in the FBI to inve...
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 3:37pm PST