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IMC Weekly PDF #11
News and analysis from the IMC global network...
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2001 8:41am PDT
California Banking Lobby vs. Your Privacy, protect yourself!
the california banking lobby is going to steal your privacy protections ... but you have the right to opt-out of this deal! ralph nader is helping people with a pre-written letter you can send to your bank, credit card company, etc, to let them know that you are asserting your legal right...
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2001 6:02pm PDT
Fighting the Organized Rape of Our Daughters and Sisters: The Flesh Trade War
A wave of attention and criticism has been accumulating around the issue of trade. Now another type of trade, that of children trafficked into the military and prostitution has also begun to raise questions within the mainstream consciousness. Slavery, a supposed relic of the past, still exists in many forms all over the world....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2001 4:33pm PDT
The Race to Incarcerate: 2,000,000 and Growing
Visit http://utah.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=703&group=webcast
for the full story - put together from Angela Davis' speech in Utah during International Women's Day, a workshop about prison issues during the "People's Summit on Globalization" in Colorado in March, and interviews with local activists and officials....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2001 4:32pm PDT
REJECT THE REBATE!
Check out the on-line petition against Bush's unfair and irresponsible tax cut. By using our rebates to fight implementation of the tax cut and other economic justice efforts, we help shift federal priorities....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2001 11:54am PDT
Alert! Press Lynching by Libel Law
ALERT!
BRITAIN’S OBSERVER SUED BY CANADIAN COMPANY OVER PALAST INVESTIGATION INTO LINKS TO BUSH,
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES...
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2001 9:31am PDT
KPFA Flashpoints Radio interview w flamboyant attorney Tony Serra
KPFA Flashpoints Radio June 28, 2001 (link to audio in 'full story' text below)
- Iran-Contra holdover Elliot Abrams tapped for NSC (8 min)
- American ties to Peruvian hackman Vladimiro Montesinos (10 min)
- Noelle Hanrahan interview w "terrorist attorney" Tony Serra. (20 min)
- 3 anti-WTO student protestors shot dead in Papau New Guinea. Report from PNG trade unionist and journalist on the scene. (14 min)...
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2001 1:16am PDT
We are losing you! Get a clue!!
Wake up, open up your eyes; maybe then we can find the solutions instead of keep causing problems...
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2001 11:27pm PDT
The Shortwave Report 6/29/01 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A 30 minute weekly review of news and opinions recorded from a shortwave radio. Free to rebroadcast. This week- Netherlands, Cuba, Germany, Russia, and Spain. 13.7MB...
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2001 7:13pm PDT
A6-S14: A Call to Action Against the US-`Iraq War
A Call to Action to End the US War Against Iraqis...
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2001 5:16pm PDT
Orgs denounce electricity/gas disconnection for working families & the poor
We demand immediate
re-connection of services and a repeal of all rate increases....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2001 3:20pm PDT
Robertson to sue BIG OIL?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson accused the oil companies Thursday of trying to block him from reopening a small refinery in California and said he is considering an antitrust lawsuit.
Robertson, at a news conference with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., reiterated complaints that unnamed oil companies had thwarted efforts to get financing to reopen the refinery near Los Angeles....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2001 2:24pm PDT
IMPERIALISM SCREWS ARGENTINA
How activists in Argentina fighting for the Salta strikers are being baited in the capitalist press....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2001 2:21pm PDT
IMPERIALISM SCREWS ARGENTINA
Background on the workers revolt in Salta that is shaking Argentina....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2001 2:18pm PDT
Rainbow Warriors
Hopi prophecy in the age of enlightenment. As the 4ht of July fast approaches I would like to move away from the glorification of war and towards celebrations of peace....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2001 1:13pm PDT
PROGRESSIVE NEWS OF INTEREST
Here are several news items written from a left point of view that will never be seen in the corporate media....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2001 12:38pm PDT
Thought of The Day
As we yell so loud, it remains buried in the sound of silence....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2001 10:57pm PDT
San Francisco City Hall Considers Fur Ban
San Francisco activists propose a citywide ordinance to ban the sale of
fur. The proposal could land on the November 2001 ballot....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2001 8:36pm PDT
High School Resisters: Locke'd Down in Watts
Criminalization of inner-city youth in the United States...
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2001 7:30pm PDT
FBI Brands Reclaim The Streets as "Terrorists"
As Posted on LA IMC with Link to FBI Document added:
In another sign that the growing anti-capitalist, anarchist, anti-car movement is gaining effectiveness, the FBI recently listed Reclaim the Streets amongst the "Threats of Terrorism to the United States." In a May 10 statement before the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Armed Services and Select Committee on Intelligence, FBI director Louis Freeh listed Reclaim the Streets as a "potential threat" to the United States along with assor...
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2001 1:48pm PDT