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Striking Chinese Auto-Workers Block Roads, Railways 
On 18 & 19 November 2003, about 10,000 auto workers in Xiangfan City, blocked roads and railway lines across the city in a large-scale protest action aimed at pressuring the government to guarantee their rights during the privatization of their company, a process that will entail job losses for many of them. The two-day protest action paralyzed traffic throughout the city and led to a violent confrontation between the workers and the police....
Posted: Thu, Dec 25, 2003 12:32pm PST
Carols for Palestine This duo sings Christmas songs with the words changed to focus on the struggle of the Palestinians...
Posted: Thu, Dec 25, 2003 11:19am PST
Ritt Goldstein: US Police State Rising? Investigative journalist Ritt Goldstein's chronicle on the rise and ramifications of police power...from both journalistic and deeply personal perspectives....
Posted: Thu, Dec 25, 2003 10:52am PST
The Great Ecumene of Peace against the Great Economists of War Pastor Schorlemmer's address at the mass demonstration in Berlin on February 15, 2003 is translated from the German. In the name of the Prince of Peace, the rightwing should be evicted from the west wing. Peace and resistance are part of our nature as antibodies are part of our bodies....
Posted: Thu, Dec 25, 2003 7:03am PST
Kristen Ess: Bethlehem Celebrates Christmas, Rafah Counts the Dead 
Israeli soldiers shot a young woman in the head this morning on her way to school. Ambulance driver Jareer Kandilo said that the girl, Hania Mahmoud, was simply passing through the checkpoint, heading east to west inside Nablus, when Israeli soldiers shot the student directly in the head....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 10:31pm PST
Occupied Palestine Video (video/quicktime 3.4MB) Short Piece Dedicated to the People of Palestine
3 Speeds:
- Modem
- DSL Low
- DSL High...
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 7:56pm PST
Mad Cow Disease Hits The United States 
If you eat meat, you already have to worry about salmonella, E. coli, campylobacter, heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure, and cancer, as well as your weight. Now, add mad cow disease to the list. The U.S. government has announced that a dairy cow in Washington state was infected with mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Newspapers report that meat from the cow, who was killed December 9, traveled through three processing plants before the problem was di...
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 7:54pm PST
Leader slates 'homophobic' church The leader of the Church of Scotland is to use part of his Christmas sermon to accuse the kirk of reinforcing hatred of gay people....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 7:41pm PST
Bishop closes church for ignoring LGBT unions An Anglican church in Canada that defied its bishop by refusing to support same-sex unions has been shut down....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 6:32pm PST
IRAQ-ALERT – December 24, 2003 IRAQ-ALERT – December 24, 2003, vol. 2, no. 13
a weekly newsletter of the National Network to End the War Against Iraq (NNEWAI)...
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 2:10pm PST
intercropping: alternative to GE monoculture Genetic engineered crops attempt to replace African intercropping farming biodiversity with GE monoculture seeds that need replacement by biotech corporations when insects/weeds/viruses develop resistence to GE seeds...
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 12:41pm PST
The Racist Tapestry of Lord of the Rings! I don't imagine that it was the intention of the director or the producers of the Lord of the Rings films to paint a racist stereotypical tapestry over what could be described as a basic set of principles of humanity's behavior in the natural environment and with each other....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 12:40pm PST
Global Indymedia Women's Proposal This is a proposal that is circulating through the Indymedia Network. It was conceived on the global IMC Women's listserv, which has over 100 women active in Indymedia on it....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 11:00am PST
Gay footage will stay in Lincoln Memorial video Footage of gay rights demonstrations will not be removed from a videotape shown at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C, according to spokespeople from the National Park Service and the Human Rights Campaign. Earlier reports in various news outlets said the gay images would be removed....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 10:40am PST
Pension Fund Bars Gay Discrimination (New York City) The New York City Employees Retirement System, one of the biggest pension funds in the country has begun targeting Fortune 500 companies to adopt policies that specifically bar discrimination based on sexual orientation. The fund manages $78.6 billion in holdings....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 10:37am PST
Michigan Governor Bans Anti-Gay Bias LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm has issued an order banning discrimination against gays in state employment, a move critics condemned as a first step toward legalizing gay marriage.
The order issued Tuesday covers the executive branch, which has about 55,000 employees _ about 95 percent of all state workers....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 10:36am PST
Support Irish War Resister Fintan Lane Fintan Lane--Imprisoned for opposing the war making of our government--needs support. Send him a card at Limerick Prison....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 10:33am PST
Countries Start To Ban US Beef Due To Mad Cow Disease: Aren't You Glad You Don't Eat Meat? A growing number of countries are banning imports of American beef after the US announced its first suspected case of "mad cow" disease....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 9:24am PST
Alternative Christmas Carols in Manchester UK (video/x-pn-realvideo 17.0MB) Alternative Carols written by Jews active in the Palestine solidarity movement in Manchester UK...
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 7:57am PST
The Biggest Victory of Miami The people united will never be defeated
from the rogue imc
http://www.rogueimc.org/2003/12/1996.shtml...
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 7:42am PST
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