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Will Martha Redecorate the Big House?
Martha Stewart sentenced to five months in federal prison....
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 5:10pm PDT
Tonight on PBS: Movie "Thirst"
"THIRST"
National Broadcast Premiere Tuesday July 13, 10pm (check local
listings) on PBS's acclaimed "P.O.V." (Point of View) series....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 3:34pm PDT
For Bush, Surplus Labor Hidden In Plain Sight
Under Bush, 'marginal' workers hidden...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 6:52am PDT
An Open Letter to the Financial Times
Mr. O'Cat sharpens his claws on the editor of the Financial Times regarding the op-ed piece "Lay Off The Cuffs"....
Posted: Sat, Jul 10, 2004 6:03pm PDT
Cheney Faces Criminal Indictments;Other Illegal Actions Raise Warning Flags at White House
Vice President Dick Cheney faces criminal indictments for illegal activities while CEO of energy giant Halliburton and also illegally intervened to secure a $7 billion no-bid contract for his former employer after his election to office, an analysis by the White House counsel’s office concludes....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 12:19am PDT
Group takes over World Bank Lobby; Celebrates Capitalism and the Benefits of Exploiting Po
JULY 1, 2004 Washington, DC—A group calling themselves the Party Liberation
Front (PLF) took over the lobby of the World Bank Headquarters this morning
and threw a party to “celebrate” the 60th birthday of the World Bank and the
success of its global capitalist agenda. 60 years ago finance leaders from
the major world powers met in Bretton Woods, NH to establish the World Bank
and IMF. Since then wealthy elites in the US and elsewhere have reaped
billions of doll...
Posted: Thu, Jul 1, 2004 11:09am PDT
Deep unrest threatens Andean leaders
Indigenous groups in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia are experiencing a political awakening that could have profound repercussions for each country's democracy....
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 10:50pm PDT
The Crash Begins on the Golf Course
"Anonymous economic forces are not responsible. For 20 years the governments of the most important industrial countries have systematically pursued a policy of redistribution upwards from below.. The misery of the third world is indescribable.."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 9:31am PDT
Working class action in Argentina
This is from a Trot group, but in spiote of that it contains useful info......
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 7:14pm PDT
Shaukat Aziz Slated to Become Prime Minister of Pakistan
Pakistan Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali forced out to make way for Shaukat Aziz....
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 10:55pm PDT
6/28: 1 month anniversary of arrests and torture of activists in Guadalajara
June 28 is the 1 month anniversary of the reperssion violence and illegal
detentions against the protesters of the Third Coumbre of Latin America
the Carribbean and European Union....
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 11:51am PDT
The Social Movement Needs a Strategy
"The provisional declaration presented for Porto Alegre III starts from the weakening of the Washing-ton Consensus that fixed the neoliberal agenda, cemented market fundamentalism and a growing loss of legitimation of international institutions.."...
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 9:37am PDT
WalMart Civil Rights Class Action Certified
Federal Judge Orders Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the Nation’s Largest Private Employer, To Stand Trial for Company-Wide Sex Discrimination...
Posted: Wed, Jun 23, 2004 11:52am PDT
Fairy-Tale about the Upswing
"Neoliberal policy lowers individual real income, increases mass unemployment and reduces mass demand.. The need for a constant influx of foreign capital is gigantic, $2.3 million a minute.."...
Posted: Mon, Jun 21, 2004 10:37am PDT
Texans can do no wrong
"After reading stacks of documents from the investigations and talking to energy experts, I found more smoking guns in California's energy crisis than in a Clint Eastwood movie, and none of them have Ken Lay's prints on them." -- Kathryn Jones, 2001...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:42pm PDT
Marx Reloaded: Reflections on the 155th Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto
"As predicted, free enterprise and competition have led to a concentration of capital and monopolization of the productive forces. Instead of increasing investments.., plants are closed, production sites shifted abroad, men and women dismissed and state fees only paid by lower class...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:37am PDT
Pastry Operations in Poland and Brazil
On June 2, 2004, an activist from Food Not Bombs-Warsaw (Poland) pied the
President of the City, Lech Kaczynski. The pie action was made to protest
Kaczynski's moves to prevent the city's annual gay parade from taking place....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 10:16pm PDT
South Korea struggles against WEF
While we are since 214 days in sit-in strike, last weekend we supported the struggle of S. Korean workers, peasants and students against WEF....
Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 8:59pm PDT
WAR: Festival Against Imperialism (Lawrence, KS: June 30-July 4)
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Posted: Wed, Jun 16, 2004 6:30pm PDT