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Palo Alto/San Jose Stop FTAA/Fast Track Actions
Demonstrations against Fast Track/FTAA begin in Palo Alto, revving up for a large demonstration against Congresswoman Anna Eshoo Friday, August 31st. A Townhall meeting for labor leaders, including AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, and other union presidents and key Congressional Representatives- AnnaEshoo, Mike Honda and Zoe Lofgren to dialogue on Trade issues, Tuesday, September 4th in San Jose....
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2001 12:18am PDT
KPFA Rally - Activists & Free Speech Radio Sign (photo)
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Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 9:38pm PDT
KPFA Rally - Activists & Take Back Pacifica Sign (photo)
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Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 9:33pm PDT
Earth First! vs. the FBI (a/k/a Bari and Cherney v. USA)
Earth First! vs. the FBI (a/k/a Bari and Cherney v. USA) will have another crucial pre-trial hearing this Friday, August 31 at 10 am at the Oakland Federal Courthouse, 1301 Clay Street '(between 12th and 14th Sts.)....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 7:17pm PDT
Jeff Webb: Not What You Think
Corporate media says outraged citizens are demanding more leeway for SFPD, even setting up a webcam to force them to act. Jeff Webb says the corporate media are exploiting his message....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 7:06pm PDT
Issues of Psychoactive Democracy
An appeal to study psychoactive substances and their influence on public health and democratic process....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 4:15pm PDT
Rally at KPFA
On August 28th about 300 free speech activists turned out at KPFA in Berkeley to support Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now team.
Here are a few pictures of the rally.
Several QuickTime movies of the event will be posted in the next few days at http://fog.ccsfbay.org/~wcarpent...
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 3:54pm PDT
Breaking news: Italy's interior minister Scajola resigns
Italy's interior minister Claudio Scajola has stepped down this morning august 28th....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 2:31pm PDT
Amy Goodman and Edwin Johnston on Building Bridges over wbix.org
On Wednesday, August 29th from 8-9 pm est Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report (In Exile) will broadcast a special one hour program on the crisis at WBAI and Pacifica...
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 2:05pm PDT
"Mindless" Globalization Foes with "Lemming Instincts" Hinder Levy Search
Newsday Columnist Robert Reno writes that "lemming instincts" drive anti corporate globalization activists. He wants to know what "globalization foes want?". His Column + links to his column, his email address, and emial to the Editor address' are included below....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 1:28pm PDT
South African Anarchist Statement on the UNWCAR
South African anarchist statement on the UN "World Conference Against Racism" to be held in Durban, South Africa, from 31 August to 7, September 2001...
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 12:38pm PDT
Migrants and the Mass Media
In this essay translated from German, Christoph Butterwege shows how intellectual, institutional and individual racism are promoted by the media when foreigners are stylized as threats. The identities and positive contributions of migrants is usually neglected or falls by the wayside....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 9:43am PDT
"Against Depolitized Politics!"
The rule of multinational corporations has changed politics into accessories of capital. If corporations have rights without responsibilities and use tax oases to avoid liability, democracy and language become subverted and hollow....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 9:32am PDT
"Identities, Hear the Signals!"
Globalization threatens identities, declares Frederike Habermann. Called to be subjects not objects, we could gain strength from the Zapatista vision where many worlds fit and everyone has a place....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 9:24am PDT
The 10 Globalization Lies
The globalization lies that the welfare state is unaffordable and that unregulated free investment helps poorer southern countries must be exposed. This book review translated from German summarizes many current myths and distortions that contribute to growing inequality....
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2001 9:21am PDT