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Invitation to Paradise: Cult Marketing "Post-modern advertising assumes the func-tion of religion and reveals the spirituality of consumption. .What is finvolved is self-fashioning.. Life puts itself on stage and invents its identity. Capitlaism succeeds in elevating commodities into our gods."...
Posted: Wed, Nov 19, 2003 5:26am PST
Changing the World Without Taking Power "These events (like Seattle, Cancun, 1968 and the Zapatista rebellion of Jan 1, 1994) open up a new world.. I think the only way of thinking about revolution is a way that breaks time and breaks continuity-above all the continuity of our subordination under capital."...
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2003 5:31am PST
SF Bay Area IMC screens "Kilometer Zero" Cancún WTO film Here are some upcoming events sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center! Please tell your friends and come out and support this valuable community resource.....
Posted: Mon, Nov 17, 2003 2:39pm PST
The "Neoliberal Delusion" Condemned: Oscar Lafontaine "The `delusion' prevails in neoliberalism that `the national economy flourishes when people don't do well'..The neoliberal order in which 95 percent of transactions are speculations..is unstable. This is a system that derails again and again.." trans German...
Posted: Mon, Nov 17, 2003 10:18am PST
Global Capitalism: Three Converts to Anti-Globalization "In the global age, radical criticism has become an esoteric function." This essay explores the criticism of George Soros, Joseph Stiglitz.. Whoever knows only customers and not citizens ignors institu-tions and collective actors....
Posted: Sun, Nov 16, 2003 6:35am PST
The Blue Shock: The Limits of Growth "The prognoses of Dennis Meadows and his research team have not been fulfilled. Perhaps they have not been fulfilled because they broguht many to reflect as the theses of Malthus did or in Meadows' case to rethinking or shifts in thinking." trans German...
Posted: Sat, Nov 15, 2003 5:22am PST
"This is an inverted world": Interview with Jeffrey Sachs "Unlike Europe, the American media hardly raise critical questions. The motives and reasons for war are hardly put in question.. Why do we spend $100 billion for Iraq and only $200 million for the Global Fund? This is an inverted world." translated from German...
Posted: Fri, Nov 14, 2003 5:52am PST
Celebrate 20 years of the EZLN Demonstration Nov.17, 20th anniversary of the EZLN. San Francisco: Monday, Nov.17, 12pm, Mexican Consulate, 532 Folsom, SF.
No Plan Puebla Panama! No evictions of Indigenous Peoples from Montes Azules! Implement the San Andreas Accords...
Posted: Thu, Nov 13, 2003 5:33pm PST
Clan of the Cave Banker The tale of an idea whose time has past....
Posted: Thu, Nov 13, 2003 5:31pm PST
Taking IT Global Taking IT Global (TIG) is an international organization, led by youth, empowered by technology. TIG brings together young people in more than 200 countries within international networks to collaborate on concrete projects addressing global problems and creating positive change....
Posted: Wed, Nov 12, 2003 7:02pm PST
Immigrant Rights, CAFTA, FTAA! Don't miss this incredible opportunity to hear guest speaker, Salvadoran tradeunionist, Sara Quintanilla, and local organizers from the Women's Collective of the SF Day Labor Program and the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights break it down about immigration, worker's rights and free trade!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 12, 2003 11:46am PST
THE HUMAN NEED Some basic facts about the world we live in explain why so many people refuse to concede that we live in the best world possible. This a chruch document, not a radical one, and number come from UNO....
Posted: Wed, Nov 12, 2003 10:32am PST
The Philosophy of Short-Sightedness: Shareholder Value "True orgies of mass dismissals and reduc-tions in costs are celebrated in the name of shareholder value to squeeze out a maximum of output from a minimum of employees and no longer to worry about the social consequences." translated fr German...
Posted: Wed, Nov 12, 2003 5:50am PST
Montana's Alternative to Energy Deregulation Montana's Democrats are seeking either a rural electric cooperative or public power group to buy NorthWestern Energy, the supplier/distributor of electricity and natural gas to more than 300,000 customers (after Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings are finalized)....
Posted: Tue, Nov 11, 2003 7:23pm PST
FTAA Legal Needs Funds NOW! The legal defense team working in Miami to support folks at the FTAA festivities is in URGENT need of funds. Remember how happy you were to have a great legal team in SF in March? If you or people you know are going to Miami, please read on for information on how to donate....
Posted: Tue, Nov 11, 2003 12:04pm PST
Stay Healthy So You Can Stay in the Streets Some suggestions from the Street Medics on what you can do to stay healthy before, during and after the demonstrations against the FTAA....
Posted: Mon, Nov 10, 2003 10:14pm PST
The Blind Spots of the Economy: Economic Theory in Crisis "Belief in econmic reason was long ago a new world religion after the old religions lost persuasiveness.. Most govts in the world make themselves accessories of capital interests and abandon social, ecological and culotural possibilities. from the German...
Posted: Mon, Nov 10, 2003 5:10am PST
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