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Briton 'shot dead in Gaza' A British journalist has been shot dead by Israeli soldiers as he filmed a documentary in a refugee area in Gaza, according to Israeli media reports....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 3:57pm PDT
INTERNATIONAL PEACE ACTION - May 3rd The Works on Shirts Project invites you to take part in "WEARNICA", an international day of artistic reactions to the war in Iraq and continuing conflicts throughout the world....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 3:19pm PDT
PHOTOSETS OF TURKISH QUAKE PROTESTS AND SCHOOL DORMITORY Photosets with hundreds of photos related to the Turkish earthquake are available at the following URLs. Some photos duplicate:
*Photos of Celtiksuyu, where the school dormitory collapsed:
http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Celtiksuyu&n=100&c=news_photos
*Photos of Bingol, scene of protests:
http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Bingol&n=100&c=news_photos...
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 1:55pm PDT
45% of BC rainforests being sold to corporations 45% of British Columbia’s Coastal Temperate Rainforests and other habitats being sold to corporations!...
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 12:19pm PDT
UK: Comes Clean: It WAS the Oil, Stupid! Tony Blair's environmental advisor tells all on the Iraq war: yes, the war WAS about the oil, for the benefit of big oil monopolies. Why war criminals Bush and Blair repeatedly lied to the world about the WMD remains to be told....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 12:06pm PDT
Vatican Concerned By Bush's "Christian" Blood Cult George W. Bush proclaims himself a born-again Christian. However, Bush and fellow self-anointed neo-Christians like House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, John Ashcroft, and sports arena Book of Revelations carnival hawker Franklin Graham appear to wallow in a "Christian" blood lust cult when it comes to practicing the teachings of the founder of Christianity. This cultist form of Christianity, with its emphasis on death rather than life, is also worrying the leaders of mainstream Christi...
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 12:02pm PDT
An Unhealthy Electoral Environment Environmentalists face the most opposition from the Club for Growth, which picks candidates based solely on "tax cuts and growth." Founded by the presidents of the libertarian Cato Institute and the conservative magazine National Review, they have won 17 of 19 House and Senate races since 1999 and raised more than $10 million in 2002 alone....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 11:58am PDT
North African Immigrants Riot at Italian Detention Centre During the evening, before April 22, there was a small rebellion in a "welcoming" center for immigrants at Ponte Galeria in Italy. When the "mobile department" and guards arrived they were "welcomed" with stones and other thrown objects....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 11:18am PDT
Cry from the cages of a jail beyond reach of the law The iron grill walls of the cells, where most have been held for more than a year, are banged incessantly as the suspected terrorists yell and even scream to an accompaniment of lightning flashes typical of the tropics. Some are juveniles as young as 13 years of age, while others are described by Guantanamo medical staff as suffering from serious mental illness. They are guarded by a corp of twenty-something reservists, plucked out of suburbia, who wear silver tape over their name tags for fe...
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 10:17am PDT
Israel to Close the Door on ISM - Tries to use foreigners' bombing as a rationale "Wednesday's bombing in Tel Aviv, which was committed by two men who entered Israel on British passports, added a new reason to the authorities' desire to clamp down on the foreign activists - fear that other terrorists from overseas might enter the country under the guise of peace activists." - Logic: If no more peace activists are allowed to enter the country, then no more foreigners will be able to disguise themselves as illegal peace activists and get inside the country. Wouldn't it be ...
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 10:10am PDT
Birmingham Recalls a Time When Children Led the Fight Some 2,000 people are expected to commemorate this weekend the epochal battle they fought in the civil rights movement, when children as young as 6 years old marched, picketed, jammed the jails and juvenile halls, shut the city's shopping district down, and at last broke the back of segregation in Birmingham, the most segregated city in the nation....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 5:43am PDT
BTL:Cuba's Crackdown on Government Opponents Triggered by... ...Washington's Funding of Dissident Groups. Interview with Philip Agee, former Central Intelligence Agency officer who resides in Havana, Cuba conducted by Between the Lines' Denise Manzari...
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 2:36am PDT
TURKISH POLICE STOP QUAKE DEMO BY FIRING LONG MACHINE GUN BURSTS Police fired long bursts of automatic gunfire into the air as a crowd of around 1,000 demonstrators marched on the local governor's offices chanting "Government resign" and demanding tents and food after a powerful tremor destroyed their homes and trapped hundreds of children in a school dormitory. 83 children remain trapped and rescuers reported hearing some of their screams....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 2:16am PDT
Public Confused and Conflicted about War on Terrorism Retro Poll Finds When Americans hear specific provisions of the USA Patriot Act they oppose these intrusions into their civil rights by larte margins (avg.77%). Yet when asked what impact the War on Terrorism is having upon civil rights, many of the same people say its "strengthening" or having "no impact" upon their rights" (57%)....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 12:58am PDT
Amnesty International: US Soldiers Parade Naked Prisoners Through Baghdad Streets 
LONDON - Amnesty International said it was disturbed by a Norwegian newspaper report that included a photo purportedly showing U.S. soldiers escorting three naked Iraqi men through a Baghdad park....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 12:16am PDT
227 MMM cities worldwide and counting!!! Global March for Cannabis Liberation. May 2, 3, 4 The main MMM links. A very comprehensive city list with more detailed event info has been frequently updated lately. It is at this link:
http://www.millionmarijuanamarch.org/cities.php...
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2003 11:43pm PDT
Salt Lake City rallies condemn war crimes in Iraq 
The Committee for War Criminal Prosecution held its annual spring rallies to protest war crimes committed by nation-state leaders, featuring the Bush administration's performances in Iraq this year....
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2003 6:48pm PDT
Cuba's Castro Says U.S. Is Provoking War ``In Miami and Washington they are now discussing where, how and when Cuba will be attacked,'' the Cuban president told a crowd of hundreds of thousands gathered for the celebration in Havana's Plaza of the Revolution. Bush wants to win Florida, re-election 2004....
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2003 5:37pm PDT
Photos: May 1st in Brukman, Buenos Aires 
Más fotos del acto frente a la fábrica (actualmente bajo control policial) Brukman...
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2003 3:54pm PDT
Articles on the Argentinean elections, life under US occupation in Iraq and others Articles and and dossiers on Argentina's presidential elections and the left; life under US occupation in Iraq; Balance-sheet of the first phase of the war and others...
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2003 3:14pm PDT
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