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Regulating Toasters
If this is the toaster with pictures, soon only Wonder Bread will pop out....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 4:27pm PDT
Seattle LEIU Protester Arrested As Terrorist
A S-IMC coop member reports someone he knows who was arrested at last night's protest of the LEIU has been handed over to the FBI after being targeted from a "terrorist" list....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 4:03pm PDT
Consequences of the Iraqi War part 1 (audio/mpeg 7.3MB)
Susan Quinlan Northern Californian War Tax Resister Group (07:58)
As an anti-war activist, Susan objects to paying taxes that fund the nation's defense budget.
She discusses tax resistance as civil disobedience....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 3:33pm PDT
Enemy Combatant Radio for the week of June 1 (audio/mpeg 13.4MB)
Enemy Combatant Radio weekly show, broadcasting from the SF Independent Media Center. 2 hours in half-hour chunks....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 3:22pm PDT
Halliburton: "Villagers Supply the Joy" "Medical Ctr for Congolese Village-
Actual photos from Halliburton Website. (only the captions have been changed... the
"Villagers Suppy the Joy" slogan is theirs.)...
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 3:10pm PDT
You'd better not try to shutdown Bechtel Thursday morning! (video/quicktime 10.0MB)
This is the message of an elite group of Republicans who spread out over San Francisco this week. Sunday they were in the Castro. 1.5 min. QT movie, 10 MB....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 2:58pm PDT
train with army equipment@880 and 80 in West Oakland
hundreds of armored vehicles, trucks etc. etc. loaded onto open cars of a train...
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 12:16pm PDT
Gay Republican crosses over to other side
"We are hated, we are marginalized, and are basically unwanted by a party that has forsaken the principles of Abraham Lincoln and become dominated by a right-wing that falls far short of representing main-stream America."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 12:04pm PDT
Legalize It: Ed Rosenthal to be sentanced Wed. June 2nd 8:30 AM - 450 Bryant SF, CA
Come help protest the sentancing of pot activist Ed Rosenthal Wed in San Francisco.
Ed Rosenthal is to be sentanced Wed. June 2nd 8:30 AM - 450 Bryant SF, CA...
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 11:29am PDT
Oakland City Council to hear report on panel to investigate OPD today
According to the Tribune story from last week, the Oakland City Council will hear a report today on the panelists to investigate the police actions of April 7th, who have been selected already by the city attorney and manager....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 11:28am PDT
Web of the Assembly of Florida Este (Bs.As.)
Web of the Assembly of Florida This (Bs.As.)...
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 8:01am PDT
Ottawa:"Then lights were turned off and about 30 policemen came into the room and sta
Three Algerians living in Montreal accuse Ottawa police of beating them and wounding them with tasers as police tried to end their occupation of Immigration Minister Denis Coderre's offices on Thursday....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 7:54am PDT
Question for all arrestees from M20-M21
Is anyone planning to show up for their infraction arraignment hearing?...
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 7:22am PDT
McCarthyism in Action at Yale
Mazin Qumsiyeh is a professor of genetics at the Yale Medical School and a hater of Israel, which he refers to as an apartheid state. Professor Qumsiyeh has recently indulged his hatred of Israel and its Jewish supporters in a manner remarkable for a university professor....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 5:13am PDT
Blix report increases pressure on Bush and Blair to justify rush to war
Both Congress and the UK parliament appear determined to hold their leaders to account on the issue. Two Senate committees are likely to hold a joint hearing to examine the administration's use of intelligence....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 4:56am PDT
7th Day of Stanford Fast:
Negotiations between the University administration and students continue in the 7th day of the student fast. Supporters of the fast include Dolores Huerta, Jesse Jackson, Julia Butterfly Hill, and Elaine Alquist....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 2:26am PDT
Adam Shapiro of ISM interviewed by the Daily Star in Lebanon about his experiences
"I realized that I could not stand by and watch. As someone who was an American but understood and experienced life in the Arab world, I could not be silent, especially as American-made weapons and the American government gave such overwhelming support to the Israelis. I have been attacked by the Jewish community and my family has received death threats. I have seen all the abuses of the occupation," he says, "from the littlest things like soldiers pointing guns at small kids o...
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 12:46am PDT
Blair turns heat back on Short
One dissident Labour member, Malcolm Savidge, the MP for Aberdeen North, told Radio 4's The World at One the row was potentially more serious than the Watergate scandal which forced Richard Nixon out of the White House in 1974....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 12:36am PDT
Major Watergate-like scandal over WMD?
WASHINGTON, Jun 2 (IPS) - When all three major U.S. newsweeklies--Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report--run major features on the same day on possible government lying, you can bet you have the makings of a major scandal....
Posted: Tue, Jun 3, 2003 12:33am PDT