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Anti-Capitalist Conference Reportback & SF Plans
Announcing the formation of an organizing collective for an SF Anti-Capitalist Conference and reportback from Anti-Capitalist Conference in Toronto...
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 2:58pm PDT
Why the U.S. Supports War Crimes
Ever wonder why the USA is one of the few countries to oppose an end to war crimes, and why they oppose the international warcrimes court? Here's one reason....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 1:55pm PDT
Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Blockaded From Liquidating Mattole
Early this morning, activists blockaded a road entering the old-growth ecosystem that is the headwaters of the Mattole River in an attempt to halt logging of Timber Harvest Plan(THP) 1-01-413, a THP that includes fifty acres of old growth slated to be clear cut....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 1:27pm PDT
How to be a right wing pundit in 12 easy lessons
YellowTimes.org Columnist
[Matt Osborne has served eight years in the U.S. military and holds a Bachelor Arts degree in Political Science. He speaks Arabic and Southern as well as English. Matt enjoys running in triathlons, and has a large family living in the shadow of Helen Keller's Alabama home, located in the southern United States.]...
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 1:12pm PDT
Saving and improving Social Security: The Communist Party’s solution
Marx’s observation that the task of a movement goes beyond mere interpretation of events was never more apt than when it comes to the struggle to defend – and improve – the Social Security system....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 11:48am PDT
Labor solidarity backs West Coast dockers
OAKLAND – Leaders of unions representing transport workers from around the world locked arms at a Solidarity Day rally here on June 27 in support of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). The ILWU is in the battle of its life, faced with a threatened lockout by the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) – and the danger that President Bush will invoke the Taft-Hartley Act in the event of a strike or slowdown....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 11:46am PDT
Who caused 9/11?
Despite the white-washing in the media, more questions than answers remain about who caused the collapse of the WTC and why....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 10:14am PDT
U.N. official says Israel blocks Palestinian aid
Zionazis want Palestinians starve to death, at the barbedwired extermination camps they are confined. Zionazis also want UN refugee agency to spy on refugees....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 10:07am PDT
Critics pressing U.N. agency, despite little progress on case
Israel slandering the UN Relief Agency. Israelis want the Palestinians to starve to death....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 9:34am PDT
Aid agencies condemn Israel
More than 30 international aid agencies working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have accused Israel of obstructing their operations to the point that they can no longer fulfil their mandates....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 8:38am PDT
Israel's Obstruction of S.A Humanitarian Aid To Palestine a Political Issue
Israeli Government deliberately prevented from delivering life saving humanitarian aid to Palestinians, besieged under Israeli occupation and 18 hour curfews....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 7:46am PDT
Lesbian and Gay Pride march London UK
Thousands marched on Saturday 6th July , the 30th anniversary of Londons annual Lesbian and Gay Pride march...
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 4:11am PDT
THE PENAL COLONIES
The Gaza strip is a perfect realization of the Israeli vision of "separation". Surrounded with electric fences and army posts, completely sealed off the outside world, Gaza has become a huge prison. About one-third of its land was confiscated for the 7,000 Israeli settlers living there (and their defense array), while over a million Palestinians are crowded in the remaining areas of the prison. Now Israel is considering the imprisonment there of families of suicide bombers from the ...
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 2:33am PDT
Tuesday Oakland City council Vote On Just Cause
Oakland activists have collected over 36,000 signatures for a Just Cause Initiative which now needs the vote of an uncertain City Council before it may become a Ballot Measure....
Posted: Mon, Jul 8, 2002 1:05am PDT
BACH Alert-06/25/02-ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THE HERITAGE TREE ACT
On May 30, 2002, Senator Don Perata (D-Oakland) introduced State Constitutional Amendment (SCA) 17. The bill calls for the people of California to be given the opportunity to vote on passage of the
Heritage Tree Preservation Act....
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 9:57pm PDT
Update on imprisoned Israeli Soldier objectors
To the best of our knowledge, there are six objectors currently held in the military prisons of Israel. One of them, Ilan Windholtz, is serving his fourth prison term in a row (which requires especially massive pressure in his case)....
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 7:38pm PDT
Campaign for Renters Rights
A report on the July Campaign for Renters Rights Meeting in Oakland...
Posted: Sun, Jul 7, 2002 7:12pm PDT