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Wireless World: Anti-theft RFID clothing Privacy invading thugs want to track what you wear...
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2005 11:34am PDT
Any BreakAway or feeder marches for Sept 24 Just wondering. Any BreakAway or feeder marches planned on Sept 24. Any direct action?...
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 8:06pm PDT
DISPELLING MYTHS: THE "MIDDLE EAST'S ONLY DEMOCRACY" There is no denying of the fact that the Middle East is mostly ruled by autocratic, oppressive, and undemocratic regimes. On the other hand, the majority of these repressive regimes were mostly founded and funded based on Israeli and American wishes. It should be noted that the most popular revolts in the Middle East have been ruthlessly crushed by American puppet regimes (whom the West often refer to by "Moderate regimes") in the area. The regimes in Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 4:04pm PDT
U.S. Muslims issue anti-terrorism 'fatwa' WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. Muslim scholars issued a "fatwa," or religious edict, against terrorism on Thursday and called on Muslims to help authorities fight the scourge of militant violence...
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 12:03pm PDT
Labor, Housing, Arts Advocates United in Opposition to SF Tourist Hotel Conversions More than one hundred union members and supporters sat alongside housing rights advocates in a packed Land Use Committee meeting yesterday to voice their support for legislation barring the conversion of tourist hotel rooms into luxury condominiums. The legislation, forwarded by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, comes in response to efforts by the Fairmont Hotel to sell off almost half their rooms as residences. The Committee forwarded the proposal on without objection after hearing from a variety of ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 8:00am PDT
March 19th 2005: San Francisco (video/quicktime 46.9MB) To commemerate the second anniversary of the Iraq war, San Francisco came out into the streets to express it's discontent with the present political system. Here's my first-hand take of the events.
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Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 2:12am PDT
IMMIGRANTS NOT A DRAIN ON HEALTH CARE Countering the belief that immigrants to the United States use more than their share of health-care resources, a new study finds that just the opposite is true....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 7:45pm PDT
The UN troops in Haiti (video/quicktime 9.7MB) Seth Donnelly reports on his trip to Haiti.On the way to the Brazilian Consulate the marchers met a Local 2 UniteHERE demonstration. One-minute QT movie. 10MB...
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 6:47pm PDT
Hiroshima at 60 - A Critical Moment in History The 60th commemoration of Hiroshima is decisive due to the proliferation of nuclear weapons states and plans of the Bush Administration. The need for action has never been more urgent....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 3:25pm PDT
The Web: The growing threat of spyware Yet another bale out for failed capitalism - fed try to shore up online banks....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 2:47pm PDT
Racist anti-Mexican hate mail received at IMC office in SF 
A typed hate-mail letter from "G.R.O.M." (Get Rid of Mexicans) was received today at the SF Bay Area IMC office in San Francisco. The letter included a pile of cut-up INS, California, and Mexican ID cards belonging to residents of San Jose, Redwood City, Gilroy, and San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 2:00pm PDT
"Anti-Semitism" as a Political Weapon Criticising Israel´s mistakes is acceptable. But questioning whether Israel is a Jewish state with a racist apartheid system that renders non-Jews second rate citizens - that is not acceptable. It makes little difference whether the criticism is based on facts. Few people who cannot claim Jewish descent would dare to criticize publicly. They are afraid of being accused of "anti-semitism"....
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 12:54pm PDT
The Forgotten “–ism" An Arab American Women’s Perspective on Zionism, Racism and Sexism About Racial Discrimination Amongst Feminists
During the month of July 1985, I was in Nairobi, Kenya attending the
International UN Women’s Conference. I was getting ready to climb the steps up the
platform and give my speech when a woman came up to me and whispered in my ear
“Please do not bring up Palestine in your speech, this is a women`s conference not a
political conference.” The woman was Betty Friedan, one of the leading American
feminists in the sixties of the last century.
Of...
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 12:38pm PDT
New College CESA Event List, 7/27 - 8/3 Wed, July 27 - Norman Solomon speaks on Iran and his new book War Made Easy (at the Women's Building) / Thu, July 28 - How Did You Become an Activist? (New College, SF) /
Wed, Aug 3 - Life in Occupied Palestine: An Eyewitness' Stories & Photos (New College, SF)...
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 10:41am PDT
Sex+culture, TG media training, more... Selected political events, July 27 thru Aug. 3, incl. new park near Q center, TG media training, AIDS volunteers, toxic toys, bike circus, TG clinic party at Center 4 Sex & Culture, more......
Posted: Wed, Jul 27, 2005 10:30am PDT
SF DEA News on MMJ Busts the top 3 stories on the SF DEA's web site are California medical
marijuana bust stories. So if any DEA agent tries to deny their
priorities at public hearings like they did here in Sacramento use
this to show their full of crap and misguided in their priorities....
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 10:41pm PDT
Tonight! Queers and Gentrification El Rio 8pm Come check out tonight's radical film event on "Queers and Gentrification" at El Rio, 8pm. Event is free but we'll be collecting donations for the Manilatown Heritage Foundation....
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 3:38pm PDT
Norman Solomon Event 7/27 PSA (audio/mpeg 951.5KB) A :48 Second PSA for Event Tomorrow: NORMAN SOLOMON, BAY AREA AUTHOR AND MEDIA CRITIC, IN SAN FRANCISCO ON JULY 27 TO DISCUSS HIS NEW BOOK "WAR MADE EASY: HOW PRESIDENTS AND PUNDITS KEEP SPINNING US TO DEATH” AND HIS RECENT TRIP TO IRAN...
Posted: Tue, Jul 26, 2005 2:14pm PDT
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