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The Friendship seen by Proudhon
The Friendship seen by Proudhon...
Posted: Sat, Mar 22, 2003 6:23am PST
As the Economy Crumbles #7
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
Repression of Social Movements in Argentina Escalates
Several weeks before the 2003 presidential elections, the social tension in Argentina is intensifying. The people's response to the economic crisis has included many examples of autonomous collective organizing, and the government is responding now by increasing repression. Many social projects, such as occupied factories, occupied houses, cultural and social centers are in danger of being evicted....
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2003 4:57pm PST
Don't let veil of war lead to destruction of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge!
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
Biotech/WTO conference in Sacramento, help organize against it
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
For Our Common Future - No to War! Cancel the Debts!
"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
North American Social forum
Discussion board for planning and propagandizing the North American Social Forum
http://northamericansocialforum.org/bbs/...
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2003 3:47pm PST
Colombia: U'wa people reject oil explotation in Kera Chikara
COMMUNIQUÉ TO THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN RESPONSE TO THE DISCOVERY OF PETROLEUM IN OUR ANCESTRAL TERRITORY KERA CHIKARA...
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2003 8:30pm PST
Unequal Resource Distribution: Prosperity through Hunger
Profit maximization leads to unrestrained plundering of our natural resources and destroys our natural foundations of life..In Rio 1992, government representatives promised to drastically change resource consumption, consumer habits and production methods....
Posted: Fri, Mar 7, 2003 5:49pm PST
An Anti-Commercial Manifesto
"Consumo ergo sum" - I consume therefore I am. .Advertising confirms that possession and use of goods brings happiness. The more goods are produced and consumed, the more happiness.. Millions who hunger for feelings are fed..consumer products."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 4, 2003 6:54pm PST
The Privatization of the World
"State tax receipts rapidly decline through the globalization of capital. Heavily indebted states, provinces and communes have become economic crisis factors instead of being active as masters of crisis. They sell off cheaply the state table silver."...
Posted: Sun, Mar 2, 2003 1:18pm PST
USDA Announces WTO-Level Ministerial Conference for Sacramento
Call to Action !!!...
Posted: Thu, Feb 27, 2003 9:42pm PST
Squeezed like sardines (by Latuff)
Copyright-free photo by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Thu, Feb 27, 2003 3:09pm PST
Energy companies demand tax on solar power!
Three California energy companies propose a bill that will allow them to put meters on houses powered with solar power! This will allow them to place a tax on each kilwatt hour the sun provides. The purpose of this is to help foot the enormous debt that the energy companies themselves caused the state during the so-called "energy crisis."...
Posted: Tue, Feb 25, 2003 11:01pm PST
Campaign to denounce the closing of Egunkaria
Campaign to denounce the closing of Egunkaria...
Posted: Sun, Feb 23, 2003 10:42am PST
antitoo : anti directory project
antitoo is an anti directory project...
Posted: Sun, Feb 23, 2003 9:33am PST