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Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2003 1:49pm PDT
Vasalisa, up front, with the tattoo, says that although the police have been hounding protesters day and night, they have been making their presence known - in some suprising ways...
Today, farmers, indigenous activists, agri-fighters, health advocates, students, women's groups and, yes, some of our very own Bay Area local radicals spelled out No OMC! (No WTO!) on a Cancun beach during the protest against the World Trade Organization....
Posted: Mon, Sep 8, 2003 11:08pm PDT
Ugandan Member of Parliament and gender activist Ms. Winnie Byanyima, Tanzania President Benjamin Mkapa and the minister for Industry and Trade for Tanzania, Dr. Juma Ngasongwa have been speaking out recently against rich countries agriculture subsidies, the WTO's unjust trade rules and the inability of poor Sub-Saharan countries to acquire generic forms of AIDS medicines. Attached are excerpts from stories which appeared in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania newspapers over the last few weeks....
Posted: Mon, Sep 8, 2003 3:36am PDT
"The gigantic blackout (that will certainly not be the last) was a direct consequence that the US is so exemplary in the special neoliberal disciplines privatization and lower costs..Profit maximization at any cost leads to an abstract cost cutting pressure." Fr German...
Posted: Wed, Sep 3, 2003 9:30am PDT
In good self-organizing tradition, folks are
preparing to cover FTAA/ALCA meeting in Miami this coming November....
Posted: Sun, Aug 31, 2003 8:35pm PDT
Interview with Wenonah Hauter, of Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris....
Posted: Sat, Aug 30, 2003 5:09am PDT
Peter Boelke was economics editor of the weekly Der Spiegel from 1974 to 2001. His essay translated from the German could help uus understand the ambivalence of globalization....
Posted: Wed, Aug 27, 2003 10:45am PDT
Traveling to Cancun for the WTO? Here are some suggestions from street medics -- what to do now, what to bring, how to stay healthy so you can stay on the streets....
Posted: Tue, Aug 26, 2003 6:30pm PDT
Street medics, or action medics, are at an all time premium lately. As protest increase in frequency and intensity, and police bring more serious weaponry into the streets, we need to learn street medicine to protect ourselves....
Posted: Tue, Aug 26, 2003 1:44pm PDT
“3% are bad people who will come here as anarchists to disrupt…to get on the news by getting someone to club them.”...
Posted: Tue, Aug 26, 2003 1:36pm PDT
Protest tactics and techniques are reviewed by Kirsten Anderberg in this article that promotes parties to practice street protest maneuvers....
Posted: Tue, Aug 26, 2003 1:34pm PDT
"The American oil economy which the Bush administration represents also profits from scientific falsification. Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton declared that Arctic oil drilling would not endanger cariboo.." Translated from the German...
Posted: Tue, Aug 26, 2003 7:59am PDT
Interview with Carlos Anastacio, a leader of the Bolivarian Movement...
Posted: Mon, Aug 25, 2003 4:09am PDT
A new 24-page report on the WTO - "Neoliberal Globalization: Cancun and Beyond", published by Action for Social and Ecological Justice (ASEJ), and written by Aziz Choudry is available for download from www.asej.org. Further details follow...
Posted: Thu, Aug 21, 2003 8:13pm PDT
H. Peter Burg is a VERY good friend to the Republican Party, and his company FirstEnergy has benefited greatly from his patronage -- they have eluded NRC oversight and rigorous prosecution for pollition. Not that anyone really cared or notice ... until last Thursday when the lights went out....
Posted: Mon, Aug 18, 2003 6:21pm PDT
"Democracy Now" included a feature debate today proving that journalists and politicians are inept at managing a power grid and defending the rights of the public on this issue....
Posted: Mon, Aug 18, 2003 1:20pm PDT
"The solar architect Rolf Disch in Freiburg sold the first solar-energy-plus houses that produce more energy with the help of the sun than is consumed in these energy-houses. Every homeowner becomes an energy-seller. Economy and ecology harmonize.."...
Posted: Mon, Aug 18, 2003 6:30am PDT
Street medicine and action medics are in great demand as police violence increases against activists. This article reviews street medicine wisdom and organizations....
Posted: Sat, Aug 16, 2003 2:05pm PDT