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Any point in going to the next CSAW conference in Jan?
Im trying to decide if there is a point going...
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2001 9:58pm PST
Under-employment Support Group
Monday evening, December 3rd, 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. at Bound Together Books,
1369 Haight Street near Masonic, San Francisco (415) 431-8355
Informal discussion on the recession, the "end of work," self-employment, collectives, alternative economies, cost-cutting, and survival strategies for reduced or no-paycheck situations. Everyone is welcome....
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2001 9:43pm PST
AFSCME UC Workers To Picket AFL-CIO Convention
Rank and file AFSCME-UC workers will be picketing the AFL-CIO Convention on 12/3 to demand union democracy and protest corruption...
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2001 8:53pm PST
Corporate America and the 9-11 Attacks
A local proprietor discusses the impact of terrorism, war and recession on small businesses, noting that while corporations are contributing to relief funds, they are doing so by scaling back holiday parties and other activities that typically support smaller businesses....
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2001 5:25pm PST
Enron Gets Zapped by Its Own Greed
Investors, who unlike Enron executives, didn't sell until too late, lost their retirement savings and children's college tuition....
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2001 5:15pm PST
War casualties - what TV will never show.
The children of Iraq, courtesy of the NWO. Be forewarned; the URL means what it says. The story appears below, sans photos....
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2001 3:22pm PST
Berkeley World AIDS Day Demo
On November 30, nealy 100 demonstrators marched from Roche Laboratories to Bayer in Berkeley on the eve of World AIDS Day to protest corporate greed, high drug prices, and drug patent monopolies....
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2001 2:47pm PST
Waging War Against Dissent
AN UPDATE FOR THE BUSH II REGIME Nov 29 2001
Waging War Against Dissent 2001
The Seattle National Lawyers' Guild WTO Legal Group has updated and
re-released their substantive report on post-WTO militarization of law
enforcement, and the increasing linkage between corporate hegemony and state
violence. Read the full report....
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2001 2:00pm PST
Boys will be boys
Soccer player nibbles his way into celebration
Associated Press Wednesday, November 28, 2001
MADRID -- Francisco Gallardo has taken celebrating a big goal to a new level.
The Sevilla midfielder has been charged by the Spanish soccer federation's disciplinary committee after he celebrated a teammate's goal by biting the player's penis....
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2001 12:35pm PST
A simple guy supports US action
Simple reasoning from a simple guy in support of US military action....
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2001 11:51am PST
open letter to mayor of Santa Cruz
E-mail letter concerning Camp Paridise, a homeless encampment, done by the homeless, for the homeless, as an attempt to "have a life". and being worked against by the political structure...
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2001 9:44am PST
A Broken Promise
Reforms of the 1960s promised a new life to people with mental illness; for too many, those promises turned into neglect and death....
Posted: Sat, Dec 1, 2001 8:52am PST
Wendell Berry re 9/11
Wendell Berry is a farmer, writer, conservationist and teacher
who lives in Henry County, Kentucky....
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2001 10:34pm PST
CBC Reports Extensive Civilian Casualties
A Canadian journalist visited a hospital today, near the border with Afghanistan in Pakistan where a steady stream of civilian wounded are showing up as a result of bombing directly on the city of Kandahar....
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2001 7:50pm PST
Selling the Psychotic Military Dream
Even though you would think Boeing doesn't need to do much consumer advertising, what they do is brand for their own ideological control of society. This "branding" is actually called propaganda in other societies were people aren't as brainwashed....
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2001 6:04pm PST
The End of Genetically Engineered Food?
As awareness of GE foods reaches levels seen in Europe, the wholesale rejection of what the British have dubbed "Frankenfood" is likely to be duplicated in the US....
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2001 3:48pm PST
Charities Make Millions in Salaries
Well-known charities make millions in salaries!...
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2001 2:06pm PST
Agony in Afghanistan
For many, home is a blanket and the food is weeds...
Posted: Fri, Nov 30, 2001 2:03pm PST