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Improving Police Handling of Bicycling Issues (SF)
Protecting public safety is the role of the police - yet as evidenced in "Data Show Police Bias Against Bicyclists on SF Streets," (SF Indymedia 4-24-2001), there is a serious department problem when it come to protecting cyclists victimized on the streets. This article outlines a number of ways that San Francisco police can improve their responsiveness when handling situations involving bikes and cyclists....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 12:24pm PDT
When Good Drivers Go Bad
When good drivers go bad
For bicyclists and pedestrians, hitting the road can be a deadly experience...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 12:18pm PDT
Call to artists: Seattle IMC seeks submissions for summer guerrilla art show
Seattle's IMC gallery is currently accepting submissions for our summer guerrilla art show titled "phenomANON: Two decades of ephemeral urban guerrilla artfare". Check it out!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 12:07pm PDT
Testimonial on the Anti-FTAA Demonstrations
One street medic's account of the police repression in Quebec City, April 18-22, 2001....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 10:25am PDT
NAFTA Chapter Eleven online
Read case documents from NAFTA disputes at this informative website....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 10:18am PDT
Canadians Rise Up Against Hemispheric Free Trade Pact at Quebec Summit
Quebec would become a right of passage for thousands of young Canadians who came to protest the FTAA and the hollowing out of their democracy only to bump into the largest security buildup in their country's history....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 9:56am PDT
Earth Day Message from Bush (Flash cartoon)
Please click the link below......
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 9:25am PDT
Western responsibility regarding the health consequences of the Chernobyl
Responsabilités occidentales dans les conséquences sanitaires de la catastrophe de Tchernobyl, en Biélorussie, Ukraine et Russie.
(en français) :
http://www.multimania.com/mat66/consequences.html...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 5:03am PDT
no more cops in quebec
after being bombed with chemicals for 2 straight days, someone communicates in one of the only mediums that will convey their message...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 4:08am PDT
graffiti communication in quebec
as all other communication is intimidated and suppressed, we will always have graffiti!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 4:05am PDT
corporate media: not welcome in quebec
corporate media is surprised to find themselves counted as the enemy in anti-capitalist and anti-globalization demos. this van, in a yellow zone on friday, had all of its windows smashed, people jumped inside and blew the horn and flash the lights, and the cable for the camera was cut. people are reacting to massive disinformation and distortion from the corporate media....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 4:01am PDT
riot cops protect corporate media in quebec
corporate media being protected by their partner-in-crime... many corporate reporters are finding themselves the targets of anti-capitalist protesters who see them as the enemy....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 3:58am PDT
cops and corporate media -- working together
in this lovely scene, a corporate media "journalist" (and his cameraman, not seen) are allowed behind the riot police while everyone else is pushed down the street and gassed repeatedly. this was on friday near where the anti-capitalist march tore down a section of the wall....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 3:55am PDT
Authors and Artists to Discuss Web's Darker Side
Jim Redden, author of Snitch Culture, and Paulina Borsook, author of Cyberselfish, will join local artists Los Cybrids at the LAB this Saturday for the second of a series of performalogues dealing with the Internet and its discontents, "The Webopticon: Arquitectura of Control"...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 1:01am PDT
Authors and Artists to Discuss Web's Darker Side
Jim Redden, author of Snitch Culture, and Paulina Borsook, author of Cyberselfish, will join local artists Los Cybrids at the LAB this Saturday for "The Webopticon: Arquitectura of Control"...
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2001 12:29am PDT
After the Humboldt Courthouse Rally
Following the main "No Way FTAA" rally at the Humboldt County Courthouse, an anarchist clown, dressed in black, with a round, red nose and red, curly-toed elfin-boots, ran the "Jolly A" up the pirated flagpole....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2001 10:11pm PDT
Data Show SF Police Bias Against Cyclists
Numerous injuried sustained by bicyclists in San Francisco prompted the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition to open up a hotline for cyclists to report incidents. Over 14 months of reports revealed a disturbing pattern of police neglect and indifference to injured cyclists....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2001 6:19pm PDT
UK Anarchist Groups Said Planning Mass Bomb Scare May 1
Anarchist groups plan to disrupt emergency services in their campaign of chaos on
May 1 by encouraging their followers
to make hundreds of bogus alarm
calls. They want protesters to create
bomb scares at London,- main rail and Underground stations, which would
swiftly paralyse the capital....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2001 5:25pm PDT