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Activists to Wear "Clean Clothes or Nothing" in First-Ever
National "Sweatfree" Conference!
[Information for this alert comes from SweatFree
Communities, of which Campaign for Labor Rights is a
founding member.]...
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 3:39pm PDT
Why are so many Americans oblivious to their country's arrogant, sometimes brutal behavior, actions that are so easily recognizable to the rest of the world? For the answer, read on....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 10:34am PDT
There are three indications of an oppressor: he/she oppresses those above him/her by insubordination, he/she oppresses those below him/her by being domineering, and he/she supports other oppressors....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 9:52am PDT
Special thanks to the folks at Z magazine and Counterpunch.org....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 9:47am PDT
Call for Nonviolent Direct Action as part of the May 19 Halliburton Shareholder's
meeting Mobilization in Houston TX...
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 9:25am PDT
AL-FATIHA CONDEMNS SEXUAL HUMILIATION OF IRAQI DETAINEES
CALLS FOR NATIONAL LGBT GROUPS TO DENOUNCE HOMOPHOBIC HUMAN RIGHTS
ABUSES...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 11:21pm PDT
An incredible letter from a US Special Forces vet.
"When one uses the term "systemic," she is saying that the source of this abuse is not individual moral failure, but a predictable expression of the system and its structures.
The abuses of detainees, by US troops, by CACI International and Titan Corporation mercenaries, and by the CIA in Iraq, is "systemic."
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Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 7:54pm PDT
The irony here is that the presidential campaign is itself a factor limiting debate on some of the most crucial issues facing the American people, including the occupation of Iraq. It may be the tragedy of US politics that no one can say that the war is lost until popular revulsion at a stream of flag-draped coffins coming back from Iraq, makes that conclusion unavoidable....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 6:30pm PDT
Send a message out loud and clear that we liked Do Not Call and Do Not Junk Mail is next. 100 Million Trees cut per year for unwanted junk mail is unacceptable!...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 4:59pm PDT
Recent items culled from Google News concerning various ALLEGED official misdeeds, high crimes, misdemeanors and atrocities....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 3:02pm PDT
An Internet hate group called "Free Republic" targeted Nick Berg's father and company on an enemies list two weeks before the son was detained by Iraqi police. The son was subsequently kidnapped and beheaded, allegedly by Islamic terrorists....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 2:23pm PDT
"Perhaps if we saw more of the true face of war in all its disgusting horror we'd be a little less quick to accept its necessity from politicians.. Already it is beginning to look like President George W. Bush's political Waterloo.."...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 9:58am PDT
However, police chief Major General Mohammed Khair al-Barhawi told reporters Thursday that his department had never arrested Berg.
"The Iraqi police never arrested the slain American," he said. "Take it from me... that such reports are baseless."...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 7:56am PDT
Talk about "crude" prices... We could use a little lubricant ourselves right about now......
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 7:45pm PDT
Were you arrested with me at First and Broad in Seattle on Dec. 1, 1999. If you were we won money but you have to fill out paperwork soon....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 4:20pm PDT
"Democracy suffered, Stiglitz writes, because there is no longer discussion of alternatives when everythiing is subordinated to the discipline of the financial markets..Nothing is sacred to this adminis tration beside the interests of its own clientele.."...
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 9:28am PDT
Many U.S. residents carry toxic pesticides in their bodies above government assessed "acceptable" levels, according to Chemical Trespass: Pesticides in Our Bodies and Corporate Accountability a report released today by Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) and partner groups in more than 20 cities...
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 12:01am PDT
"The neoliberal medicine Less State and More Market does not work.. That the neoliberal medicine does not heal the economy and society but damages them must be clear to everyone who hasn't succumbed to the neoliberal delusion." Forcing employees to more work intensifies crisis....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 12:00pm PDT
Mark Dankof's article for Al Jazeera on why Bush and his pals at The Weekly Standard and FreeRepublic.com are panicking is now re-posted on his own site, as well as in numerous other places on the web. The American paleo-con urges decent Americans Left and Right to dump these Bush-Cheney-Sharon shills and their policy of War and Empire for Oil and Israel....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 10:50am PDT
Many activists around the world are aware that the G-8 Summit is to be held on Sea Island, just off the rural coastline of Georgia, June 8th through 10th. However, there has been relatively little talk of the large numbers of activists coming together to oppose it as Europeans did when the G-8 met in Genoa, Italy in 2001....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 10:20am PDT