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Peters contends that during the years 1985-1991, when a warning-and-fine system was in effect, cheating stations dropped to no more than 20 percent from about 80 percent found dishonest on previous random checks....
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2003 8:51pm PDT
Tonight, Kevin Danaher, Co-founder of Global Exchange, expert on international financia institutions, and Medea Benjamin, among others, speak at UC Hastings about legal strategies to stop corpororate globalization. Fundraiser for National Lawyers Guild, the folks who have been out on the street protecting you when expressing your First Amendment rights, and providing legal services.
Medea Benjamin
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Posted: Thu, Apr 10, 2003 7:59am PDT
Leading up to the WTO ministerial in Cancun this September, a mini-ministerial is taking place this June in Sacramento. The US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA), USAID, and the US State Department are hosting a summit to which the Ministers of Trade, Agriculture, and Environment from 180 nations have been invited. The Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology will take place in Sacramento from June 23-25, 2003 and will showcase industrial agriculture, chemicals, irradia...
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2003 12:55pm PDT
Strikes and death threats towards Assembly´s members suddenly appeared in Esquel, Argentina, when a Canadian Company´s plans for mining started to be screwed by local population´s oposition. Esquel people need our solidarity....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2003 9:50am PDT
conference on communications, media and technology for organizers...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2003 12:15am PST
What ever happened to the 9/11 investigation?...
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2003 7:25pm PST
there will be a huge biotech/WTO meeting in Sacramento in June. You are invited to help shut it down....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2003 3:58pm PST
Republican Party in California is behind cutbacks that by fall 2003 could cause over 200,000 students in California colleges to lose their classes and thousands to lose their jobs...
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2003 8:50am PST
"Leaks from the state department's 'future of Iraq' office show Washington plans to privatise the Iraqi economy and particularly the state-owned national oil company. Experts on its energy panel want to start with 'downstream' assets like retail petrol stations. This would be a quick way to gouge money from Iraqi consumers. Later they would privatise exploration and development."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2003 12:29am PST
Think you're paying too much for gas? You may be right......
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2003 6:38am PST
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Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2003 12:41am PST
The Friendship seen by Proudhon...
Posted: Sat, Mar 22, 2003 6:23am PST
Summarizing the shitty economic news of the week - Issue #7 - Sunday, March 16, 2003
As the Economy Crumbles features selected news summaries with links to further information about the lousy economic trends affecting many of us. The rose-colored rhetoric, hype and spin from economists, bureaucrats, PR flacks and analysts emanating from Wall Street and the financial media requires a skeptical mind and a well-functioning bullshit detector....
Posted: Fri, Mar 21, 2003 1:51am PST
This is a critical week for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Senate has passed a budget resolution that instructs the Energy Committee to open the Arctic Refuge to oil development in order to raise revenues, and then makes more than $200 million in funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund contingent on opening the Refuge. There will be an amendement offered on the floor to strike the Arctic provisions on Wednesday....
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2003 2:21pm PST
There's going to be a large conference in Sacramento in June, with members of the WTO, government officials, and corporate fat cats there. Lets organize against this meeting and let the world know we don't want their biotech in our foods and we don't want free trade....
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2003 11:31am PST
"War has changed into a structural and permanent part of the global hegemony.. In the name of the liberalization of the market, the population sees itself robbed of its elementary rights. Every area of life and nature is for sale." Final declaration of WSF...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2003 6:19pm PST
Discussion board for planning and propagandizing the North American Social Forum
http://northamericansocialforum.org/bbs/...
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2003 3:47pm PST