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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
Subsistence Economics: Avoiding Capitalist Exploitation
"Subsistence economics doesnt appear in any statistics or gross national product.. Everyone may only take as much as he or she needs for survival.. The resistance communities have shown that a life is possible beyond paid labor and dependence.. Self-sufficiency gives them an impressive strength"...
Posted: Fri, Jun 25, 2004 12:48pm PDT
"Urban Permaculture" (video/quicktime 10.3MB)
Early Version (4 Min. Quicktime)...
Posted: Fri, Jun 25, 2004 1:20am 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
Alternatives instead of Corrections
"Politics has actually never lost this control. The Washington Consensus is a purely political project.. With the slogan `Another World is Possible', the movement makes a far-reaching claim.. It fights for a new social, economic, political and democratic order all over the world.."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2004 2:06pm PDT
Full audio available for Reclaim the Commons teach-in press conference
Full audio of the RTC teach-in press conference is available at radio4all.net. The 22 min. mp3 previews key topics presented at the Reclaim the Commons teach-in, June 3-5, 2004: GE food, human genetic manipulation, pharma profiteering, racial justice links and alternative visions. Speakers: Brian Tokar, Anuradha Mittal, Marcy Darnovsky, Anne-christine d'Adesky, Inga Olson, David Kahn...
Posted: Mon, Jun 21, 2004 4:17pm 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
Kids at Really, Really Free Market
One thing that made Reclaim the Commons different from other mobilizations was that kids were a big part of it. Here are some photos of kids who were at the Really, Really Free Market....
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 5:13pm PDT
wot happened to biotechimc?
i visit a website called biotechimc regularly but it is not on the server any more... we need more discussion and information of biotech and its implications. i have printed a interview i got from the search engine below, with respect to all people...
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 3:17pm PDT
6/6 Costumes Seen at Really, Really Free Market
The announcements for the Really, Really Free Market encouraged people to wear costumes. Some clever people took the invitation to wear costumes to heart....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 9:14pm PDT
Hacker Breaks into S. Korea Atomic Energy Institute and others
SEOUL (AFP) -- A hacker has broken into computers at sensitive South Korean research institutes and government agencies, cyber security authorities said Saturday.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said the anonymous hacker had broken into computers at the Agency for Defense Development, which develops weapons, the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis and three other government agencies....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 7:58pm PDT
Italian Police Arrest Four Suspected Anarchists Near Pisa
Between June 7 and 9, four anarchists from the Silvestre group were arrested in the Italian city of Pisa and charged with "criminal conspiracy and preparing explosives". On the night of June 15-16 in Milan, a cellular telephone tower on top of an auto-body shop was set on fire and words of solidarity for “Free and Silvestre” were left on the walls....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 4:34pm PDT
The Mass Arrest: Part II of Protesting Bio 2004
On the evening of June 8th, 128 activists were encircled and arrested at Market & 5th in San Francisco...
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 1:21am PDT
Occupied Territory Anarchist Gathering Gets Underway
Modesto DAAA activist Doug Gilbert talks to the local media at the start of the Occupied Territory anarchist gathering....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 6:23pm PDT
6/27: Grand Opening of Urban Garden Center in Berkeley
Spiral Gardens Community Food Security Project
Invites you to come celebrate the Grand Opening of the
Urban Garden Center
Sunday June 27th
2:00 - 6:00 pm...
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 12:06pm PDT
G8 backs HIV vaccine plan
POST THIS EVERYWHERE!!!!!
The criminals engaged in the "Business of Disease" and of Tyranny,
are planning a new weapon against humanity !!
Know this: The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall of tyranny at the...
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 7:23am 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