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San Francisco experienced a 5-plus hour siege by the Navy's Blue Angels aka Blue Death with their illegal low flights over heavily populated San Francisco, wasting tax dollars and oil and glorifying war, invited here by that good Democrat, election-frauding, fascist thug "mayor" Willie Brown....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 5:47pm PDT
Along with a few employees wo rushed protestors desperate to get to their jobs, a channel 2 camera man for no apparent reason rushed and hit several protestors in an attempt to get into the federal building....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 4:36pm PDT
Most Israeli PMs Said
To Have Been Diagnosed
Mental Patients...
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 3:43pm PDT
Over the last two days, an overwhelming majority of elected representatives we pay and whom, at our behest, are duty bound to protect our interests authorized a supposedly former alcoholic and cocaine addict .to use force against Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 2:25pm PDT
Federal Buliding, SF, 10/11/02. Overall cool heads prevailed at this CD/ rally. Less so at Larkin St entrance. 2:43 video of arrest....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 2:13pm PDT
What are Global Exchange really? Soft capitalists peddling their petty bourgeois line of overpriced trinketsOR liberals in radical's clothing trying to ram their lame brand of reformism down the anti war movement's throat....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 2:09pm PDT
Authoritarians suck...
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 1:21pm PDT
like many Americans, I was concerned by the way the Administration first proposed to deal with that threat. The seeming desire of this Administration to wage war alone -- without the support of our allies and without authorization from Congress -- was wrong....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 1:15pm PDT
Five hundred antiwar protesters blockaded the San Francisco federal building on the morning of October 10, successfully shutting it down for three hours....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 1:01pm PDT
Lines of federal workers formed as antiwar protesters blockaded teh SF federal building. Most waited peacefully but a few ran at protesters and hit them. Other managed to sneak over the fence while the protesters were not watching.
Unlike most US workers, these federal employees get Monday off as a holliday. Its hard to believe how desperate many of them were to get to their jobs....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 12:50pm PDT
LOS ANGELES – The labor movement reacted with outrage to George W. Bush’s decision to invoke the unionbusting Taft-Hartley Act to end an employer lockout of the West Coast International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). It was the first use of the law against the union since Richard Nixon invoked it in 1971 to interrupt a strike....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 12:37pm PDT
Two members of Code Pink a PreEmptive Strike for Peace were arrested yesterday (Oct. 10th) for disrupting Congress right before the vote on authorization to use force against Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 12:37pm PDT
One interesting part of protests at a federal building is that the cops are federal. Here are some pictured of the police at the protest this morning. The cop after the photo marked loose cannon ran up to and hit protesters with his batton without provocation. The cop marked as undercover with the white hat helped with an arrest while his partner has been at many past protests....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 12:33pm PDT
As the Bush Jr. administration and the Pacific Maritime Association work hand-in-hand to wage a brutal war against the dockworkers, international labor unity is needed for a defiant fightback....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 12:21pm PDT
On Oct 11th, protesters who had slept all night in front of the Federal Building in San Francisco managed to blockade the large building and prevent most workers from getting in for several hours....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 12:19pm PDT
ANA AMRIKIYAA WA ANA AASIFA: I'm an American, and I'm sorry: Laurel Severns (AFSC, Chicago) traveled in Iraq in late June 2001 with Voices in the Wilderness. The film’s title is taken from the response of American activists when observing the remains of a soccer field where days before an American or British “smart bomb” killed 22 children and wounded a dozen more: I’m an American and I’m sorry. Severns’ commentary offers a much-needed primer for opposition to further genocide in Iraq. www...
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 12:18pm PDT
Nearly two months have passed since President Bush hosted an “economic summit” – a flop the People’s Weekly World headlined as “all show and no go.” As events have since shown, we may have understated the case:...
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 12:17pm PDT
LOS ANGELES – The labor movement reacted with outrage to George W. Bush’s decision to invoke the unionbusting Taft-Hartley Act to end an employer lockout of the West Coast International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). It was the first use of the law against the union since Richard Nixon invoked it in 1971 to interrupt a strike....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 11:57am PDT