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protesters charged with killing cop at biotech/skateboard demo
Look at the updated newswire at Philadelphia IMC. A biotech Industry conference which was held in San Francisco last year was held in Philadelphia this week, and received a similar protest due to ethical/economic concerns. Yesterday, skateboarders were holding a convergence, and decided to have a parade/protest by skating in Love Park where it had been banned. A police officer who hadn't been in the center of a small conflict suffered a heart attack and died in the stressful situation, and fo...
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 8:22pm PDT
Bards of the powerful
Far from challenging the G8's role in Africa's poverty, Geldof and Bono are giving legitimacy to those responsible...
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 12:09pm PDT
Get ready to support anti-G8 prisoners in Scotland
Get ready to support anti-G8 prisoners in Scotland
(Please distribute widely!)...
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2005 4:59am PDT
Geneva Journal #4 from Leisa Faulkner Barnes
Here's the latest report from Leisa Faulkner Barnes from the Hunger Strike for Economic and Social Justice now taking place in Geneva, Switzerland....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 11:55pm PDT
BTL:Neoliberal Conditions Attached to G8 Debt Relief Plan for...
...Poor Nations Exacerbate Poverty ~ Interview with Bill Fletcher, president of Trans Africa Forum, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 5:08am PDT
The Allied Media Conference
The Allied Media Conference is right around the corner: June 17-19.
This is the 7th year that hundreds of zinesters, radio pirates,
copwatchers, podcasters, community journalists, hip hop heads,
librarians and more will be gathering in Bowling Green, Ohio. If
you're building alternative media, you should be there, too....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 11:57am PDT
New Anti-Capitalist Film re-edited
Calling all anti-capitalists!! “Capitalism and Other Kids’ Stuff” – a popular new film, which argues the anti-capitalist case in simple language, and which has won much acclaim in recent months - is now re-edited and can be viewed and downloaded as a BitTorrent at www.socialist-tv.com...
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 5:15am PDT
US shows OAS delegates American democracy in action
In his speech to the Organization of American States (OAS) extolling the benefits of US-style democracy, President George W. Bush declared Monday that Latin Americans “need to see that in a democratic society, people can walk in the streets in safety.”
Unfortunately, for those who traveled to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for the OAS general assembly, such democratic comforts were in short supply. Rather, the atmosphere surrounding the inter-American meeting was that of a police state, and thos...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 12:09am PDT
NOAA and Corporate SEAS
NOAA announced today that it is devising a plan to parsect the sea from about 200 miles out from shore, for "fish farming"...
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 9:07pm PDT
Slide Show of Chavista May Day March (video/x-ms-wmv 8.6MB)
Slide Show of May Day with the Chavistas....
Posted: Sun, May 29, 2005 4:43am PDT
BTL:Big Oil Buys Influence in Washington, Crafting Legislation that...
...Adds to the Industry's Record Profits ~ Interview with Bob Williams, director of the Politics of Oil Project at the Center for Public Integrity, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Mon, May 23, 2005 6:34am PDT
Halliburton: Protestors Arrested @ Shareholders Meeting
*Civil Disobedience Blows the Whistle on War Profiteering inside
Halliburton Shareholders Meeting*...
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 3:24pm PDT
Torture okay: propaganda paper
The article - Not Enough Official Torture in the World? The Circumstances in which Torture is Morally Justifiable - is soon to be published in the University of San Francisco Law Review?...
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 9:07pm PDT
Support Chavez; Buy CITGO Gas - Join the BUYcott; It doesn't go to Bush, Saudia Arabia etc
CITGO is owned by state owned Venezuelan Oil Company which is benefitting the poor. See bottom for closest stations...
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 7:11pm PDT
Downtown Living Room in Vancouver, BC
On Monday May 16, on the eve of Tuesday's provincial election, the Work Less Party will be having a leisurely and relaxing day at the dorner of Burnard and Georgia....
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 6:48am PDT
Without a Human Face
Hundreds of thousands of families are at risk with CAFTA. the import duties will be completely removed. Guatemala's small farmers will not be able to compete with the heavily subsidized products of the US agricultural industry....
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2005 10:29am PDT
Big Berlin anti-right demo photos
There are a lot of antifascist 'antifa' demonstrations in Germany on a weekly basis, and there was a particularly powerful event May 8th,the anniversary of the end of WWII, in Berlin when a far right NPD party had 3000 people out supporting rightist economic positions and making a statement on that germans should be getting over guilt of World War II.
The left, which has some factions matching those seen in the U.S., such as anarchists in black sweatshirts, and some unique perspectives s...
Posted: Sun, May 8, 2005 5:28pm PDT
BTL:Increasing Energy Demands and Diminishing Supplies Set Off Intensifying...
...International Struggle to Capture Petroleum Resources ~ Excerpt of a speech by Michael Klare, professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College, produced by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, May 8, 2005 7:25am PDT
Biology Prof. Resigns Over Gvt. Use of Plant Research
We speak Dr. Martha Crouch, a former biology professor at the University of Indiana. She ran a lab dedicated to cutting edge plant research but decided to end her career when she found out that biotechnology companies were co-opting her research for profit....
Posted: Fri, May 6, 2005 8:15pm PDT
Dow Releases 'Acceptable Risk' at Banking Conference
May 3, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DOW RELEASES "ACCEPTABLE RISK" PROGRAM AT BANKING CONFERENCE
"Risk Calculator" helps ensure sound business practice...
Posted: Tue, May 3, 2005 4:26pm PDT