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CAFTA Negotiations Come to a Close, Despite Absence of Costa Rica In what some are calling another blow to the US corporate trade agenda, negotiations for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) concluded on Wednesday, but only four of the five target countries participated in the finalizing of the deal....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 7:23pm PST
FTAA Protests: Amnesty Says Miami Police May Have Broken UN Laws MIAMI - Police in Miami may have violated various international laws and covenants on civil rights and use of force when they crushed protests against a free trade meeting last month, rights group Amnesty International said.
In a letter to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, dated Dec. 16 and made public on Thursday, the human rights watchdog repeated a call for an independent inquiry into police actions that led to more than 200 arrests and dozens of injuries....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 6:27pm PST
Open Statement for California Anarchist Gathering “Occupied Territory 2004”, in Fresno CA. Centrally located in California, we are calling on all anarchist and anti-authoritarian anti-capitalist groups to converge and create the world that we so desperately need...
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 6:03pm PST
What Does Legal Self-Defense Against Riot Police Look Like? How do we use legal self-defense against violent riot police? Why were 231 protesters criminally charged at FTAA Miami protests and 0 police? A Miami judge said he witnessed 20+ felonies by police. Police Chief Brahms rapes a woman and where does she go? How do protect ourselves?...
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 11:15am PST
Power Outage in San Francisco Leaves 120,000 Customers in the Dark Wow, just found out the SF Bay area lost electrical power on the busiest shopping night of the year......
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 5:53am PST
Citizen's Lawsuit Filed Against the Bechtel-designed Garage in Golden Gate Park Deep within the City's ground lease/stealth revenue bond for the Music Concourse Community Partnership ( approved 11/21/03) , there is a clause that halts the garage project upon the filing of major legal action. Interestingly, the City Attorney attempted to file a pre-emptive lawsuit against "ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE MATTER," on December 10, to do an end run around our CEQA/Prop J lawsuit. Attorneys Herrera, Schwartz and Greenman filed a COMPLAINT FOR VALIDATION of all actio...
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 5:23pm PST
The Unknown Candidate Why has the media blocked out Dennis Kucinich? Maybe because they don't want to hear his stance on WTO,Free-Trade, and Globalization....
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 2:50pm PST
We Can Do This: Direct Action against Global Capitalism and US Imperialism; Ingrid Chapman We Can Do This: Direct Action against Global Capitalism and US Imperialism
An interview with Ingrid Chapman
By Chris Crass
Ingrid Chapman has been involved in direct action organizing for the past 4 years. At 23, she has helped pull off successful mass actions, worked with thousands of activists around the country and bases her work in the question, "How do we build broad based movements capable of challenging global capitalism and US imperialism?" While it is easy to get de...
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 1:14pm PST
Is America sick? Australia's largest daily is publishing this series of five articles on the theme "Is America Sick?"...
Posted: Tue, Dec 16, 2003 8:42pm PST
Good piece on Miami form Salon.com This is a very good piece from salon.com. Highlights incluude that Police Cheif Timoney is now on his way to Boston to handel the DNC, and lawyer's guild attorneys being identifierd as those who are there "to antagonize police"....
Posted: Tue, Dec 16, 2003 6:58pm PST
America's Oceans Fished Dry "Several top experts of ocean biology warn of the threatening collapse of the oceans before America's two coasts..The decisions of politi-cians made 30 years ago are responsible.. The number of snappers has fallen to only three percent of the stock."...
Posted: Sat, Dec 13, 2003 2:20pm PST
Miami Activist Denfense Blast#1 Inportant info about arrests and police brutality in Miami during November's protests against the FTAA...
Posted: Fri, Dec 12, 2003 1:32pm PST
Update from FTAA Felony Arraigmnets in Miami 27 FTAA felony defendants were in court this week in Miami.........
Posted: Fri, Dec 12, 2003 1:23pm PST
AUDIO FILE: Miami Report Back On 12/7/03 at the Portland First Unitarian Church, members of the local community gathered to witness a multi media report back from the Free Trade of the Americas protests.. These are audio files from people attending the Miami protests....
Posted: Thu, Dec 11, 2003 3:22pm PST
The Crash has Already Begun "The crash has already begun! Every crash comes inthree steps, the stock market crash, the banking industry crash and finally the real crash, the collapse of the economy, busi-nesses, jobs and the financial system.. The coming depression is the correction.."...
Posted: Thu, Dec 11, 2003 9:48am PST
Fresh Human Organs on sale: call Romanian embassy now Top surgeons have been found trafficking human organs....
Posted: Tue, Dec 9, 2003 12:10pm PST
San Francisco Bicycling 2004 Calendar The End of Oil and Obesity. Construction of Infrastructure for Youth.
San Francisco Bicycling 2004 Calendar: Publication Release in US and Japan....
Posted: Mon, Dec 8, 2003 1:17pm PST
Canada's Potvin advocates cyanide as "development" Potvin can be translated as bribe. Canada’s Commercial Counselor presents dump of 220 000 tons of cyanide in our water as development and jobs - this must be newspeak. We're in Europe pal not in the Great North!...
Posted: Mon, Dec 8, 2003 10:27am PST
Anti-CAFTA Day of Action and Outreach! TODAY in SF The next battle against the FTAA is CAFTA! When the protests and workshops are over in Miami, it will be time to get mobilized to stop the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) - the next step toward the FTAA and the Bush administration's cynical use of "free trade agreements" to expand a system of corporate rule....
Posted: Mon, Dec 8, 2003 10:04am PST
FTAA negotiations end early in face of massive popular mobilizations Recap and analysis of FTAA actions in Miami Nov. 19-21 2003....
Posted: Sun, Dec 7, 2003 8:25pm PST
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