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Response to Article about Oakland teen violence The Oakland Council wants to fund programs for students to get them off the street, where they encounter gang violence....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 10:17am PDT
Response: “Drought or no drought, we all must conserve water” This is an op/ed in response to “Drought or no drought, we all must conserve water” that originally ran in the San Jose Mercury News on April 24th 2007. Although the everyday people need to conserve water it won't do much because such a small percentage of water is used domestically, most is used to support agriculture. In order to impact our already warming planet in a positive manner there must be a collective effort to conserve water and use it more efficiently....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 9:58am PDT
Entrevista con María Jiménez de Mujeres Unidas y Activas (audio/mpeg 35.0MB) Entrevista (25 min) de Radio Zapatista (KPFA) con María Jiménez de Mujeres Unidas y Activas sobre organización de las marchas del 1o de mayo y la situación de los inmigrantes en California. María habla también del trabajo de Mujeres Unidas y Activas y de los desafíos de la participación política de la mujer latina en los Estados Unidos....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 6:26pm PDT
Ron Dellums Gets Oakland Moving Again We have begun hearing the beginnings of low rumblings of criticism over the early actions—or inactions—of the administration of Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums. These criticisms peaked, in chorus, on the passage of Mr. Dellums’ first hundred days in office, the traditional point—since the frenetic time of Franklin Roosevelt in seeking to roll back the Depression, I believe—of marking the initial accomplishments of an administration. From Heather MacDonald of the Oakland Tribune of April 10: “Today,...
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 10:38am PDT
10 US Troops Killed. Thousands of Sadrist Demonstrators Come to Najaf ......
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 6:38am PDT
Capitalism and the Consequences of Biofuels In today’s world the use of biofuels has led to horrific consequences for the people of the world and the environment. For example The division of the world -- between a handful of rich countries consuming most of the world's resources and the rest of tha planet, has meant that the growing of crops for fuel—mostly for export to Europe, Japan and the United States—is being done on large-scale plantations in the third world. In order to make room for these plantations ancient forests are bein...
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 12:50pm PDT
Pete Seeger for Nobel Peace Prize To read about and sign the petition to ask the American Friends Service Committee to nominate Pete Seeger for the Nobel Peace Prize:
http://www.petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=3774...
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 4:59pm PDT
Accused Narco Banker to Host Bush-Calderón Meeting in Yucatán Another US-Mexico Presidential Summit in the Temozon Sur Hacienda of Roberto Hernández Ramírez of Banamex-Citigroup...
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 8:09am PDT
Turkey: depressed prices sparking farmers protests Turkish hazelnut estimates for 2006-2007 show a significant excess supply, putting huge downward pressure on prices of the key agricultural and export commodity and threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of farmers. This will be the second blow to Turkish farmers after excess supply last year led to hazelnut prices plummeting to around 2.5 YTL per kilo from the previous year’s level of 7 YTL....
Posted: Mon, Mar 12, 2007 9:02am PDT
Iraq war resister convicted in Germany On Tuesday, March 6, US soldier Agustin Aguayo was convicted on charges of desertion by an American military court in Würzburg, Germany. He was sentenced to eight months’ detention in a military prison. He was also given a dishonourable discharge from the army and stripped of pay and benefits. The US army prosecutor had originally pleaded that Aguayo be locked away for two years....
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 6:51am PST
Afghanistan in Winter: Where Death Comes Cheap A crazy woman stalks the streets near Afghanistan's parliament. When a warlord's rocket killed her family during the early 1990s she lost her mind. Now she moves between the cars and people looking for it, another of the living dead trapped in her own private hell....
Posted: Sun, Feb 25, 2007 10:17am PST
Federal charges in home pot-growing operation Five suspects who allegedly grew marijuana in specially-outfitted homes in Oakland - including one across the street from an elementary school -- are facing federal charges for producing plants with a street value of $6 million, court records show....
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 6:57pm PST
Is the Bush administration behind the bombings in Iran? Two bombings this week in Zahedan in southeastern Iran are the latest in a series of incidents involving armed opposition groups based among the country’s ethnic minorities. The most recent attacks again raise questions about the activities of the US military and CIA inside Iran as the Bush administration intensifies its preparations for war....
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 1:43pm PST
Putin Denounces Unilateral US Iraq War Jaafari Calls for US Troops to Depart ......
Posted: Sun, Feb 11, 2007 10:45am PST
Guerrillas Kill 3 GIs: US Accidentally Kills 8 Kurdish Policemen ......
Posted: Sat, Feb 10, 2007 4:50pm PST
Bush administration stokes trade tensions with China The Bush administration took a drastic step last Friday toward provoking an open trade conflict with China by referring its disputes with Beijing to the World Trade Organisation (WTO)....
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 7:14am PST
Sri Lankan journalists protest against attacks on media More than 300 journalists demonstrated at the Fort Railway Station in central Colombo last month to condemn the growing harassment and intimidation of the media, including killings, abductions and death threats. As President Mahinda Rajapakse has intensified the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), his government and the military have imposed what amounts to a regime of de facto censorship....
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 7:13am PST
Germany: Guantánamo detainee Murat Kurnaz and the politics of the SPD Following two terms in office by the government led by Gerhard Schröder, broad layers of voters in Germany know that the politics of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) are anything but social. Under the SPD and the Greens, the most comprehensive welfare cuts and the biggest redistribution of wealth took place since the establishment of the Federal Republic after World War Two. Now, following the return of 24-year-old Murat Kurnaz from his Guantánamo detention, it is also clear that the politic...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 8:19am PST
Interview with Fernando Botero at the Opening of "Botero: Abu Ghraib" 
The Botero paintings must be experienced. They are worth traveling to see. The prisoners’ huge bodies dominate the large yet claustrophobic canvases. They endure pain that is palpable to the viewer...yet these men convey a strength and a dignity that stays with you. The question is posed: what kind of society, what kind of country would visit such crimes against humanity? Ask yourself, what am I doing to allow this to continue?...
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 1:20pm PST
Belgium Volkswagen workers resume strike On the evening of Wednesday, January 24, workers at the Volkswagen Forest factory in Brussels resumed their strike....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2007 6:08am PST
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