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Tree Sit Trailer
Tree Sit Trailer is available to be viewed on-line. Real Video, 6 minutes long. Check out the link to treesit.org below. Sneak previews throughout the US in the fall....
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2001 11:11pm PDT
REGIONAL MOBILIZATION FOR SAN FRANCISCO "MILLION VOTER MARCH" MAY 19TH!
Vote March In San Francisico and Washington DC May 19th...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2001 10:21pm PDT
Californians Get Shocked with Electricity Rate Increase
The California Public Utilities Commission, in a 3-2 vote, passed a rate hike of up to 47%...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2001 10:06pm PDT
Pro-Palestinian Activists Silenced
Pro-Palestinain activists attended a number of events called, "Silent Voices Speak," to protest the omission of the Palestinian story from this forum on how to stop injustices. When the organizers invited the protesters to speak, the police physically blocked them from entering and arrested Alison Weir on bogus charges to keep her voice silent....
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2001 7:04pm PDT
Mattole Defenders Audio (audio/mpeg 6.2MB)
audio formatted for telephone broadcast (this article can be hidden)...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2001 1:30pm PDT
Columbus Opponent Jim Cosner set for May 16 Hearing
Jim Cosner, the man accused of smashing a statue ofCristopher Columbus at San Jose City Hall, is set to have a May 16 Bail Reduction Hearing. Cosner and supporters claims that the statue is a symbol of racism and genocide....
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2001 12:53pm PDT
Police Violence Reigned Terror Upon Quebec City During Anti-FTAA Demonstrations
The protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement during the
Summit of Americas meeting has long since ended. Nevertheless, reporting on
some of the specifics of the police repression that occurred during the protests has been slim to non-existent in the states (look out for upcoming NYC-IMC media critique). Thus, the following report details some of the anectdotal stories of police terror that characterized the weekend's worth of protests. All of the stories were eye-witne...
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2001 3:27am PDT
Bush Administration Works to Weaken Endangered Species Act
Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Bruce Hamilton, conservation director with the Sierra Club, who discusses the impact these proposed changes could have on threatened and endangered species, and what his organization is doing to fight back....
Posted: Tue, May 15, 2001 2:26am PDT
Time Out for a Microcosim - a poem for small moments
It's about a dying plant on the receptionist's desk at the hospital...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2001 7:43pm PDT
Attempted Censorship of the very popular Cannabis.com forums. Owner fights back!
Click the link (the clickable link is also at the end) to see this ongoing thread with all the many graphics and images that posters have left. Or copy and paste this URL into your browser:
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/thread.shtml?1x36543...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2001 7:09pm PDT
Blackfeet Runs for Mumia (audio/mpeg 1.2MB)
Zachary Running Wolf Brown, a Blackfeet, is running from San Francisco to Philadelphia for Mumia. Route includes Denver, Pine Ridge, Chicago & Cleveland. 2:04...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2001 6:42pm PDT
FREE THE 6,000 PAGES; FREE LEONARD PELTIER NOW!
The FBI still holds 6,000 pages on the Leonard Peltier case....
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2001 5:21pm PDT
Instructions On How To Stop Landlords From Passing Along Utility Rate Hikes
Massive Efforts Underway
To Pass Along The Utility
Rate Increases By Landlords Of The Bay Area To Their Renters.
FIGHT BACK NOW!...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2001 4:43pm PDT
Bolivian Activist Gabriel Herbas (audio/mpeg 6.4MB)
Interview with Bolivian environmental activist. The website did not accept the full upload previously. Answers in English & Spanish. (20:49)...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2001 2:08pm PDT
Letter Bomb the President
Open Letter from Deivid's Thangto George www. Bush...
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2001 11:00am PDT
Forest Defenders Updates Via Telephone
info on how to receive updates off line through the phone....
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2001 10:12am PDT
Bush Announces Plan to Deploy Missile Defense System, Which May Provoke...
...New Global Nuclear Arms Race. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Luke Warren, media director with the Council for a Livable World Education Fund, who takes a critical look at the Bush administrations' proposed missile defense system and the motivation behind the controversial program....
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2001 2:36am PDT
05/12/01 Lockdown for the Mattole!
Lockdown for the Mattole. Activist later unlocked after a deal was brokered by CHP. Sherriff's and Maxxam got pretty frustrated by the fact this protester wasn't arrested. A little while after this, unbeknow that this had happened, a observer was suckered punched by the owner/contractor of PL....
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2001 12:54am PDT
Land Tyrants make Lousy Neighbors
Image that sums up some of the feelers directed at Maxxam Corporation lately. The image was taken at one of the many blockades leading into the Mattole watershed being hammered by Pacific Lumber and it's contractors on May 12th, 2001....
Posted: Mon, May 14, 2001 12:31am PDT