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40 million starving 'as world watches Iraq' UN agency accuses west of pledging to feed victims of Gulf war while concern for plight of hungry Africans fades....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2003 12:15am PDT
Death, fear, grief at Baghdad bomb site; more on this massacre A young woman's severed head and torso and a small boy's body were pulled Tuesday from a smoking crater carved into the earth by four U.S. bombs. When the broken body of the 20-year-old woman was brought out torso first, then the head her mother started crying uncontrollably, then collapsed. She was helped into a car by two male relatives....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 11:45pm PDT
Global Boycott for Peace people spontaneously organizing globally to boycott US corporate sponsers of the war...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 10:55pm PDT
Arab world riven by fury and despair Sense of humiliation matched, comparable to the defeat at the hands of Israel in 1967, by thoughts of revenge....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 10:04pm PDT
Arab nations want UN meeting on Iraq to stop the war Is there anything activists can do to support this?...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 9:44pm PDT
Peter Arnett: BOMBS BLAST HOMES INSTEAD OF SADDAM One body was pulled out dead after a couple of hours. Others were still buried when I got there, including the wife and two children of Abdil Hassad.
Abdil is a Christian who owns a shop. He is a handsome, well-dressed young man in his mid-30s.
He escaped the blast but wife Sena, 36, and daughters Rana, 10, and seven-year-old Maria were not so lucky. I found him sobbing uncontrollably by the pile of rubble.
"My wife and children are there," he cried as he crouched over the ...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 9:39pm PDT
Double standard of the media concerning Iraqi civilian deaths The following describes only partially the massacre of the Christian families in the homes which were bombed because the US claims Saddam Hussein was there. Unlike the friendly fire incident which killed Kurdish and US soldiers, the media didn't refer to this as carnage, but in this case, children and young women were murdered....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 9:23pm PDT
San Diego Civil Disobediance (video/x-pn-realvideo 15.5MB) In San Diego CA 5 people were arrsted in front of the Federal Courthouse for blocking the entrance....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 9:23pm PDT
UK Mirror appeals for funds for Iraqi children 
The pictures of his maimed and bloodied body moved us to tears.
Ali Ismaeel Abbas lies in a Baghdad hospital - an innocent victim of the Iraq war. The 12-year-old lost both arms when a bomb hit his home, killing his family....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 8:57pm PDT
Sinn Fein compares Iraq invasion with Ireland's occupation London, April 7, IRNA -- The invasion of Iraq by US and UK-led forces
could have the same consequences as the British occupation of Ireland,
Sinn Fein chairman Mitchel McLaughlin suggested Monday.
"Certainly the republican community here would regard themselves
as a community who have been victimized and suppressed by the use of
state force," McLaughlin said in comparing Iraq's invasion with the
British occupation of Ireland....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 8:04pm PDT
Iranians Attack British Embassy With Fire Bombs As Anger Grows Against Illegal US War Molotov cocktails were thrown at the British embassy in Tehran as around 250 Iranian students demonstrated against the war in Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 7:14pm PDT
Robert Fisk: US officer mistook a Reuters cameraman for a sniper. Visits site of massacre This is an excerpt of Robert Fisk's latest article. The full article is at the link below....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 6:37pm PDT
Red Cross official on casualties; Roundtable discussion: Alexander Cockburn,Michael Albert ......
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 6:20pm PDT
Civilian vehicles indiscriminately being mowed down along stretches of Iraq's highways ...the family...decided they would head out of Nassiriya for the town further south to the safe haven of Souk Al Shuyoukh.
Unfortunately, with the information blackout under which most Iraqis live...[they] had no idea that U.S. forces, sweeping north from Kuwait had control of that very highway that Monday night...the edgy Americans were shooting at everything on the stretch of road between the southern town and Nassiriya...from Basra. Jawad and his family, part of a huge convoy of cars car...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 5:58pm PDT
Journalist describes what happened to Ali's family - the boy who lost both his arms Then she brought up some images of Ali’s family just after the bodies had arrived at the hospital’s morgue. It was difficult to make out what had once been human beings. Cloth stuck to the bodies, bits of bold red-and-green fabric with flower designs....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 5:52pm PDT
On Getting Along by Howard Zinn "Remember, that those who have power and who seem invulnerable are in fact quite vulnerable.."...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 5:04pm PDT
Jerry Brown - Crypto Fascist The Dead Kenedys had Jerry's number a long time ago. Here are the lyrics to "California Uber Alles". Probably would be an appropriate addition to the soundtack for the Oakland dock video footage...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 5:02pm PDT
A New Tactic For Protest A New Tactic For Protest on the streets of the United States!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 5:01pm PDT
Sayng more than no 
PDFs of posters and how-to guide for making 24 X 36 posters...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 4:33pm PDT
What We Do Now "As the Bush administration continues its illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, we must steel ourselves for the difficult days that lie ahead."
from: http://www.thenation.org...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 4:22pm PDT
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