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State Senator Alan Bates of Oregon and the San Francisco
Rules Committee are recommending impeachment of the Bush
Administration....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 3:14pm PST
View the trailer for Grenada: The Maroon Spirit, a new documentary film about the island of Grenada...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 2:06pm PST
NEW YORK -- A prominent off-Broadway theater says it still hopes to present "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," a politically charged play about a young American student who was killed while trying to stop the Israeli destruction of a Palestinian home in Gaza....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 7:06am PST
An Open Letter to Jim Nicola, Artistic Director, New York Theater Workshop...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 6:25am PST
New York Times cultural critic Edward Rothstein comments on the New
York Theatre Workshop's "postponement" of the play "My Name is
Rachel Corrie", about American activist Rachel Corrie who was crushed
to death by an Israeli bulldozer while attempting to prevent the
demolition of Palestinian homes in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on March 16,
2003....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:36pm PST
The Oscar winning song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" promotes the culture of death, so writes NAM contributor David Muhammad. Muhammad is the Executive Director of The Mentoring Center in Oakland....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:45am PST
Want to know what's really behind Americans' racial biases? See the Oscars' Best Picture winner "Crash," writes regular NAM contributor Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a political analyst and social issues commentator, and the author of The Crisis in Black and Black....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:45am PST
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Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 11:51pm PST
On the night of Fat Tuesday, police gave out about 240 citations and made 30 arrests for vandalism to cars and businesses, and drunk in public. http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_061212445.html
KPIX TV station (CBS 5) has a link to a fairly unedited video of a line of riot police chasing a group of women down the street, and one woman in particular looks like she is unfairly hit with a baton, with a clear camera shot....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 6:53pm PST
Last week, new photographs of detainees abused by US soldiers in the infamous Abu Ghraib gulag in Iraq surfaced. They were discovered by the American Civil Liberties Union. The story was covered on TV… in Australia!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 5:14pm PST
A true review in three parts.
RECIPES FOR DISASTER: An Anarchist Cookbook
By Crimethinc Agents Provocateur...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 10:42am PST
“The Vagina Monologues”
on March 3rd & 4th, 2006
7:30pm
Center for Spiritual Living
1195 Clark Street, San Jose, California
Tickets:
$15 General/ $12 Seniors & Students...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 11:48pm PST
Two Sides
(A Poem Dedicated to the Organizers of Love Parade San Francisco
and the Participants of the September 24th Peace March)...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 11:09pm PST
In this exclusive extract from his forthcoming memoirs, Kurt Vonnegut is horrified by the hypocrisy in contemporary US politics (Buy A Man Without a Country at the Guardian bookshop)...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 3:09pm PST
author: Pravda or Consequences -
Check out http://www.wholewheatradio.org/wwrss.php....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:34pm PST
Satire piece shows possible future if Christian right extremists take control of US. Added comment shows reality behind satire, from war on the environment, women's rights and Palestinians....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 9:46am PST
“I don’t know of anything more important than freedom of expression,” said former Supreme Court Justice Peter Cory commenting on the Court’s decision to uphold Jim Keegstra’s conviction for willfully promoting hatred in 1991.
The offensive Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have now ignited global interest in the subject. To date four Canadian media outlets have entered the fray.
Despite death and destruction, some free speech advocates have characterized this as a defining battle....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 2:03pm PST
The Fight Back Theater is auditioning actors and actreses, recruiting performance support and financial support for a performance of "Can't Stop the Clock."...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 3:34pm PST
RAW will challenge and inspire you to discover your authentic self as
powerful female performers and artists peel back the layers of their
identities....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 3:33pm PST
You'd think the translator of a text that shows that people can't understand texts that have passages left out of them would NOT leave any passages out of his/her translation. But Ken Knabb may not be as good a translator as we'd like to think, because he failed to translate a full third of the situationists' crucial essay "How not to understand situationist books"!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 4:35pm PST