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G8 ignores mounting problems in world economy In its early years, the heads of government meeting now known was the G8 was regarded as a means of co-ordinating the policies of the major capitalist powers to try to overcome major problems in the world economy....
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 7:03am PDT
More pics from SF: Protest Gaza Siege and Support the Palestinian People 
More pics from SF: Protest Gaza Siege and Support the Palestinian People
Thursday July 13...
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 4:22pm PDT
Chronicle of Gobal Resistance against the 2006 G8 Summit! July 14, 2006 was a Global Day of Action against the G8. July 15, 2006 was an International Day of Action for Climate Justice, and against Climate Change and the G8. Below is a partial list of anti-G8 actions that happened on these days around the world, and on other days in St. Petersburg and elsewhere during the past week....
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 4:02pm PDT
OPEN LETTER FROM MODERN TIMES BOOKSTORE This coming October, Modern Times Bookstore, an independent, collectively owned and operated progressive bookstore in San Francisco's mission district, will be celebrating its 35th anniversary. For a while, we weren’t sure we would even make it through the summer and we are now asking for help to move forward for another 35 years. We believe that the survival of our store is critical as the U.S. occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan stagnate, while at home immigrants face heightened repressi...
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 12:25pm PDT
Doug Dowd's Course on Economics Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street...
Event Date: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 11:24am PDT
The Bay Area's G-8 Defendant, Gabe Meyers, Speaks - II (video/quicktime 32.0MB) Part 2 (of 3): Five-minute QT movie. 32MB....
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 11:09am PDT
The Beauty of the System ---A tale of shipping, blackmail and slow death in the lost Cul de Sac...
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 7:57am PDT
Oakland: Pyeongtaek Farmers' Struggle in Oakland Korean Community Center of the East Bay
4390 Telegraph Ave., Suite A
Oakland, CA 94609
(Between 43rd & 44th Streets)...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 12:24am PDT
China builds railway into Tibet The Chinese government celebrated an engineering feat on July 1 as President Hu Jintao officiated at the departure of the first train from Beijing to the “roof of the world”—Tibet....
Posted: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 9:37pm PDT
Berkeley: Organize against ALEC corporate lobbyist Please COME TO AN ORGANIZING MEETING MONDAY, JULY 17 !
We will meet at 7 pm at the office of the Bay Area Coalition for
Headwaters, in the Ecology Center building at 2530 San Pablo Ave., Berkeley (betw Parker and Dwight, west Berkeley) closest BART is North Berkeley. We will send out a notice about the actual event in San Francisco, likely taking place mid-day on Thursday, July 20 on Monday.
BACH homepage;
http://www.headwaterspreserve.org/...
Event Date: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 3:16pm PDT
The Bay Area's G-8 Defendant, Gabe Meyers, Speaks (video/quicktime 30.5MB) Gabe's next court date is July 20th and his trial is set for early August. He faces a felony charge of lynching.
Part 1 (of 3): Four-minute QT movie. 30MB....
Posted: Sun, Jul 16, 2006 8:11am PDT
ALTERNATIVE G8 ST Petersburg DECLARATION OF COMMON SECURITY July 14, 2006 ALTERNATIVE G8 ST Petersburg DECLARATION OF COMMON SECURITY July 14, 2006
The time for rhetoric is long since past. The G8 must comply with years of obligations and commitments made to “Common Security” – peace, human rights, environment and social justice. The Following is a proposed Declaration of Common Security...
Posted: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 12:43pm PDT
Protest @ Monsanto in solidarity w/ G8 days of action Monsanto's location near UC Davis and the USDA enable this biotech corporation easy access to academia and government, with plenty of financial promises to their state benefactors. This Mon Jul 17th on the last day of the G8 nations conference, anti-biotech activists demand an end to biotech GMO/GE monocrop monopolies and say NO GMO, NO SB 1056!!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 8:22am PDT
Global Social Rights Worldwide! Sink the G8! Deregulation of finance markets leads to a concentration of power in the hands of a few bansks and investment funds.. Social rights gained by struggle are already sacrificed on the altar of the market....
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 5:34am PDT
More Photos from SF: Protest Gaza Siege and Support the Palestinian People 
More photo's from July 13 Protest Gaza Siege and Support the Palestinian People...
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 9:43pm PDT
Semiotic Sequences and Cultural Appropriation I have recently discovered that donning a cleaner’s garb or waiter’s apron is a passport to a wealth of knowledge. A very rich harvest of information is available to every non-descript person in a service industry. A typical but dated example (I do not wish to compromise my current activities) would be an overheard conversation between two bankers regarding the then new strategy of reducing (their) costs while simultaneously narrowing the options/freedoms of the population. The banks and othe...
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 10:21am PDT
SF: Peter Camejo hosts Venezuelan Embassy Chief Economics Officer on their New Economy Holiday Inn
1500 Van Ness...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 5:16pm PDT
Self starting protests @ Mexican consulate Theft of the election by Calderon comes at a perfect time for the Bush regime and their money hungry NAFTA/WTO/PPP sponsoring corporations thirsting for the agua, labor, bosques and cultural lifeblood of Mexico's southern Sierra Madre mountains, petroleum reserves etc.. Let's not allow Calderon, another imperialist lapdog from Fox's PAN party, to steal the Mexcan presidency! Choicepoint and other corporate voter fraud devices need to be removed from interfering with the democratic electoral p...
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 4:54pm PDT
Hundreds riot in southwest China 
Hundreds of people have rioted in southwest China's Yunnan province, overturning and smashing several police vehicles, state media and an official said....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 11:48am PDT
Show solidarity against World Bank/IMF meetings in Singapore - Sept. 14 - 20, 2006 Mobilization for Global Justice (MGJ) has endorsed the following call, written and distributed by Jubilee South, a coalition of social movements throughout the Global South who are resisting illegitimate debts and IMF/World Bank policies. The statement calls on people worldwide to take action in their own communities against the IMF/World Bank the week of September 14-20, while the institutions meet in Singapore.
(in English y espanol)...
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 11:25am PDT
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