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Kristen Ess: Report from Occupied Palestine
Each week Kristen Ess files reports and gives voice to Palestinians, providing a necessary forum for understanding and ending the human rights disaster in Occupied Palestine....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 3:22pm PDT
Ever Been Paid Overtime? That's Coming to an End Under Bush and Senate
According to the Labor Department's own estimate, as many as 3.3 million workers who currently receive overtime pay would be denied it under the new plan. That forecast is unrealistically low. The Economic Policy Institute concluded that the proposed regulations would eliminate overtime pay for more than 8 million workers, since the new plan would make it so easy and profitable for employers to alter workers' job descriptions....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 1:03pm PDT
Confronting Maxxam execs in Houston
Texas area activists are getting together in efforts to challenge Houston based Maxxam corp about their logging of ancient redwood forests and their escalating violence against peaceful tree-sitting protestors in Humboldt California (along with numerous other offenses). Dirty South Earth First! spent the weekend and part of the week in days of action against Hurwitz and his company. Contact us for more info....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 11:09am PDT
Murdoch's Extended Reach
We should be worried once again about Rupert Murdoch. For unless swift action is taken, Murdoch--and the conservative political causes he supports--will soon become an even more powerful presence in the United States and the world...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 11:07am PDT
BAY AREA PROTEST TO DEMAND RELEASE OF JOSE BOVE, July 15!
Food First and the National Family Farm Coalition urge you to join in a Day of Action Tuesday for the immediate release of French farmer leader Jose Bove. Celebrate the day after Bastille Day on July 15th by organizing a protest at your local French embassy or consulate....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 10:58am PDT
More on Howard Dean – "I was against the war, but I wasn't a protester."
just catching up on recent stories exposing the *real* Dean, for those who, amazingly, haven't yet figured out what a sham he is....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 10:54am PDT
Support for Bush Declines As Casualties Mount in Iraq
Public support for President Bush has dropped sharply amid growing concerns about U.S. military casualties and doubts whether the war with Iraq was worth fighting, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 10:51am PDT
The Arrogance of Power
We are now, I believe, at the beginning of a long-delayed Washington political drama....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 10:30am PDT
Americans Concerned About Media Behemoths, Poll Shows
Washington — The more Americans learn about federal changes that lift restrictions on companies owning different media outlets in the same city, the less they like it, a new poll suggests....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 10:22am PDT
Radio Under Fire Over Free-Speech Clampdown
WASHINGTON (Billboard) - Natalie Maines' controversial comments about President Bush are echoing ever louder in Congress and starting to rattle windows in the radio industry....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 10:17am PDT
Debasing Democracy?
A Tampa pirate radio activist says an FCC proposal favoring media conglomerates can be detrimental to us all....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 9:56am PDT
New York Times Reporter Judith Miller Accused of “Hijacking” Military Unit in Iraq
Three months into their occupation of Iraq, US military forces have failed to find any evidence of the supposed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons that Washington claimed as the principal justification for invading the country. It is no longer possible to conceal the fact that the Bush administration lied to the American people to promote an unprovoked war of aggression....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 9:46am PDT
SOLICITING SUBMISSIONS FOR PHOTO ESSAY
The New York City Independent Media Center (IMC) has a feature
- a one to two page photo essay - to its bi-monthly free paper, The
Indypendent. The Indypendent has a print circulation between 15,000 and
20,000 copies, most are distributed in the greater metropolitan area....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 8:16am PDT
SOS2003: Aug 1-3 event against Bush push for new nukes
Senior officials in the Bush administration who have proposed the production of a new generation of nuclear weapons have scheduled a meeting to discuss plans for nuclear proliferation at US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) during the first week of August 2003. We are going to be there to say NO! Join us!...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 7:43am PDT
Still No Weapons of Mass Destruction Found in Iraq
The need to invade Iraq relied on the argument that Saddam Hussein was currently or nearly capable of launching WMD on the United States and its allies:...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 7:09am PDT
Anarchist People of Color Conference is Coming
Anarchist People of Color Conference Update for June 15, 2003...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 6:38am PDT
Bush family fortunes Greg Palasts new BBC Video (video/x-ms-wmv 38.7MB)
Windows media Video Subject GWs war record, 2000 election, and 911....
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2003 2:52am PDT
For-Profit DC Firm for Teen Runaways=Deaths of 6, Then Bankruptcy
worth taking a look at....
Posted: Sun, Jul 13, 2003 8:51pm PDT
Healthy Forest Militia Challenges Forest Service
Sawyers Bar, Ca. - During the past few weeks, a group calling themselves the Healthy Forest Militia implemented small diameter fuels reduction in a Knob Timber Sale unit in the Klamath National Forest....
Posted: Sun, Jul 13, 2003 3:19pm PDT