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Now is the Time? Now is the Time! The Potential of the Gulf Coast Crisis: Points for Discussion and Intervention...

....tens of thousands of people had failed to flee because they had nowhere to go and no means of getting there..... The free market played a role in other ways. Bush's agenda is to cut government services to the bone and make people rely on the private sector for the things they might need. So he sliced $71.2 million from the budget of the New Orleans Corps of Engineers, a 44 percent reduction. Plans to fortify New Orleans levees and upgrade the system of pumping out water had to be shelved....

The State leaves 100,000 to drown like rats, while people everywhere open their hearts and homes As many as 20,000 people have been abandoned in the New Orleans Convention Center with no resources and no anticipated relief. Meanwhile, National Guard units with submachine guns and body armor prevent people from taking necessary food from places where it would otherwise go to waste, and call it "urban warfare."...

The rising prices of gasoline toward $3 a gallon and more and of crude oil toward $60 a barrel and more are among the growing symptoms of a deeper problem—the global peaking of our petroleum supply....

Una Conferencia Anual de Paz Para Crear Uniones Internacionales y Multirraciales 26 de Agosto, 2005 - el Domingo, Agosto 28, 2005. http://www.CommonUnityPeaceConference.org o http://www.awbc.lfhniivaaaa.info - Nadie será rechazado por falta de dinero. (A World Beyond Capitalism Conference- No One Will Be Turned Away For Lack of Funds.)...

"The neoliberal policy of the last years is entangled in a deep legitimation crisis. Unemployment is not lowered through social cuts.. Dismantling democracy and increased repression go along with militarization.. Another world is possible when we reorganize cooperative global life.."...

Townspeople in eastern Ecuador on Monday blocked access to several oil wells operated by state-run firm Petroecuador calling for more infrastructure development in the region...

U.S. imperialism continues to intervene in suppressing the democratic rights of 80 million Filipinos a hundred years after its brutal conquest of the country at the turn of the last century....

The USSF Planning Committee decided on the site on June 30th after an extensive criteria-setting and selection process that looked at more than a dozen cities across the U.S. In the final round of selections, full proposals from San Francisco, Albuquerque, and Atlanta (including support from local mayors and city councils) were considered......

The ink is scarcely dry on oil deals signed between the Islamist dictatorship that rules Sudan from the northern capital, Khartoum, and an eager bevy of oil companies from China, India, Japan, and Britain - even as the genocide continues full tilt in the western region known as Darfur. Every new contract signed in Khartoum makes it clearer that this genocide is fueled by the world's unquenchable thirst for petroleum....