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The Shortwave Report 5/11/07 ¡Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2007 5:34pm PDT
Presidential Candidate: Senator Reid was Right, War is Lost Reid is now opposing the Iraq War because the U.S. is losing; he initially supported the war and backed the invasion. The war is another imperial adventure by the U.S. and there is a growing divide, by those supporters of U.S. imperialism, that a continued war is weakening U.S. imperialism....
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2007 10:47am PDT
GMO News From Around the Globe 
GMOs are Going Down: watch the evidence mount and knowledge spread....
Posted: Wed, May 9, 2007 3:53pm PDT
US funding for Military in Colombia goes to Para-military Terrorist Death Squads. Forty groups are appealing to Congress to end funding for the Colombian Military. Reports of various high government officials' ties to the terrorist para-militaries, including the Chief of the Army, highlight the need to end funding. Read and write your own shorter letter to Boxer, Feinstein, and Sam Farr! Funding for next year is now being considered in Congress. Your action can save lives....
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 12:11pm PDT
Ode to My Armpit Hair I've never owned a disposable razor, I haven't shaved since '78
Prepubescent armpits are not natural on grown women, I see shaved armpits as body hate.
Armpit hair is natural, Armpit hair is soft
Armpit hair is not a prickly mess, Not a puffy forest of shadowed stubs....
Posted: Sat, May 5, 2007 5:38pm PDT
World WithOut Oil ~ a cultural phenomenon 
People (“netizens”) across the nation and from overseas showing up to ‘play’ World Without Oil Alternate Reality Game. A grand experiment is now unfolding.
World Without Oil (WWO) went Live on Sunday night April 30th “as $4 pump price looms….” This was supposed to be a concocted headline for a Game launch but the San Jose Mercury News came out with essentially the same headline on April 29 for real....
Posted: Fri, May 4, 2007 6:12pm PDT
Cucapa: Día del Niño * El Mayor (video/quicktime 14.0MB) Cucapa: Día del Niño * El Mayor, Baja California
30 de Abril del 2007...
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 8:50pm PDT
The Shortwave Report 5/4/07 ¡Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 5:13pm PDT
Take Action May 11-12: SFA Days of Action vs. Burger King! 
The historic Taco Bell and
McDonald's agreements were
two huge steps down the path to farmworker justice, and students and youth
were pivotal in both campaigns. Today, the movement for Fair Food continues
as the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and its allies look to expand the
precedents of these agreements to the world's #2 burger chain: Miami-based
Burger King....
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 2:09pm PDT
Congresistas estadounidenses exigen la captura de Ríos Montt Ex dictador de Guatemala busca inmunidad por su candidatura...
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 2:36pm PDT
CALIFORNIA: Bill banning teen drivers from talking on cell phones passes state Senate This article discussed the issue of banning cell phone use from drivers under the age of eighteen. I feel it is unfair to single out a particular group when the issue affects everyone on the road....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 12:39am PDT
In Response to SF Chronicle about Protesters demading apology for WWII Sex Slaves My letter is my thoughts and appreciation for a SF Chronicle article that detailed the work of protesters demanding apology from the Japanese Consulate in SF for WWII sex slaves. It exposed the horrors of WWII precipitated by the Japanese army and is denied by Japan even now. It helps to expose the struggles of Asians in America as well as the world and lets the public know the complexity and difficulty that the vast amount of Asians of all cultures must deal with both among and outside of As...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 10:32pm PDT
Days of Action against La Parota Dam: May Day to Cinco de Mayo Root Force is calling for Days of Action against La Parota Dam from May 1 to May 5, May Day to Cinco de Mayo. This comes in response to increased push by the Mexican government for the construction of the dam, marked by increased repression of resisters and a new loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 7:54pm PDT
The Shortwave Report 4/27/07 ¡Listen Globally! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 5:06pm PDT
To Educate or Not to Educate? Comprehensive sex education should be taught at schools nation wide. There are many consequences to students not getting all of the facts which include high pregnancy and abortion rates as well as high STD and STI numbers. There are other countries where comprehensive sex ed. is taught and their numbers on all are lower. It also breaks down what is really being taught in all inclusive sex ed. programs....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 3:13pm PDT
Support the lost children The state has no record of how many foster children have died. This needs to change....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 12:39pm PDT
International Day of Direct Action against Climate Change and the G8 Friday 8th June 2007 We all know the terrifying statistics: a million species extinct by 2050, 19 of the 20 hottest years on record since 1980, Greenland and Antarctica melting, droughts, floods, famines … the G8 have had over 30 years to address climate change and only succeeded in providing trillions in subsidies to the very industries that are destroying our planet and our future. And while the G8 continues to line their pockets, island states disappear and hundreds of thousands die as a result of the freak we...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 7:17am PDT
Response to Article We had an assignment for my class to write a letter to the editor....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 10:26pm PDT
Step it Up Campaign - Stop the accelerting Climate This short letter is asking those in the position of power to spread awareness of the fact that we as a nation are greatly contributing to climate change and global warming, and that we must mitigate our day to day lifestyles towards a sustainable way of life....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 12:50pm PDT
Thousands decry global warming The article briefly describes American's concern of climate change through the process of global warming, caused by excessive carbon emissions. The demonstration was organized nationwide, through emails, blogs and word of mouth communication and was entitled "Step it Up." "Step it Up" refers to the citizen push for congress to require an 80 percent decrease in US carbon emissions, by 2050....
Posted: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 11:49am PDT
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