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A hoard of Linux supporters including Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann marched through the streets of the city Thursday to lobby for the newly proposed Digital Software Security Act (DSSA)....
Posted: Thu, Aug 15, 2002 6:46pm PDT
Microsoft and other software companies are ramping up a lobbying effort aimed at convincing governments to think again where it comes to adopting open-source software....
Posted: Tue, Aug 13, 2002 1:14pm PDT
This newsletter summerises the International meeting from activists to prepare the activities against the WEF in Salzburg (12th to 19th september). The meeting took place from the first to the second of July in Vienna
The people who came to the meeting came as well from eastern european countries as from EU-countries.
The next international meeting should be in early August in Salzburg. Invitations will be spread through the mailinglists (look for point 6 Communication)....
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2002 7:36am PDT
A Firestorm Of Rage Has Swept Across The East Bay As Patients Testify About The Abrupt
Closure Of A Pain Clinic That Has Now Left
Many At Risk! Three Suicide Attempts Have Been Made Since Notice Of The Pain Clinic
Closure Reached The Patients!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 6, 2002 2:30am PDT
...Our people are sinking into misery. There are no jobs, there is no food.
Hunger pangs in our guts and stings our sensibility. Our children ask for
bread that does not exist. ......
Posted: Sun, Aug 4, 2002 8:40pm PDT
Anarchists engage in direct action as opposed to voting. This anti-electoralism (or anti-parliamentarianism) may seem strange and even perverse to many. After all, virtually the whole left believes in the importance of voting. In the US, liberals and state socialists have voted for the Democrats with a steadfastness that is almost religious, even as the Democrats have steadily moved to the right. In Western Europe, they have voted consistently for the Socialist or Labor Parties (social democr...
Posted: Sun, Aug 4, 2002 3:33pm PDT
Michael Savage-right wing conservative talk show host on KSFO 560AM San Francisco, Ca. goes on air on behalf of the DISNEY CORPORATION calling the Lancaster, Ca. teenage kidnap/rape victim's "SLUTS"...
Posted: Fri, Aug 2, 2002 9:19pm PDT
A great 90th birthday present for a man who has said, "My central theme in public advocacy has been the promotion of human freedom."...
Posted: Thu, Aug 1, 2002 10:30pm PDT
ANARCHISTS JUMP ON SCENE IN OAXACA, MEXICO TO DEMAND JUSTICE AND AN END TO INSTITUTIONAL PARAMILITARISM... CHECK GLOBAL LINK FOR UPDATES...
Posted: Wed, Jul 31, 2002 11:45pm PDT
I urge all others to condemn the actions of Sutter/Summit CEO-Warren Kirk, and to flood his office with letters expressing outrage for hurting the most vulnerable in todays society....
Posted: Wed, Jul 31, 2002 4:03am PDT
Ralph Nader discusses his new book Crashing the Party, civic responsibility and corporate crime. The talk runs for 55 minutes....
Posted: Tue, Jul 30, 2002 11:15pm PDT
Acount of G8 protest events of June 19-27 in Calgary/Kananaskis, Canada...
Posted: Wed, Jul 24, 2002 10:13pm PDT
Diane Wilson, fisherwomen from texas is fasting in support of the demands of the Bhopal survivors. The demands are:...
Posted: Sat, Jul 20, 2002 9:53pm PDT
Copyright-free photo by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Thu, Jul 18, 2002 1:40pm PDT
Two months ago -- out of the blue one Saturday morning -- Vallejoans were informed by their "excited" Mayor Tony Intintoli that he had been negotiating in secret with Bechtel and Shell for a year and that the two firms would build a huge complex at the southern end of Mare Island consisting of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) regassification facility and 1,500 megawatt power plant....
Posted: Thu, Jul 18, 2002 10:58am PDT
Emergency Protest against ChevronTexaco in solidarity w/ Nigerian women. Friday from 5-6pm at 575 Market Street in front of ChevronTexaco offices. Bring signs to raise awareness and pressure the corporation to give in to the protestors demands....
Posted: Wed, Jul 17, 2002 12:32pm PDT
Oil's too political. Coal's too dirty.
Solar, wind, hydro—they're all just green dreams.
Hydrogen is lovely stuff, but it takes energy to make it.
It's time Americans learn to stop worrying and love nuclear power....
Posted: Sun, Jul 14, 2002 10:46pm PDT
Yet another corporate accounting scandal, something Bush's empty promises are loathe to truly address. The problem, of course, isn't the lack of regulation, but the logic of capitalism itself......
Posted: Wed, Jul 10, 2002 6:37pm PDT

