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Authorities in Boston have designated as the official protest an area enclosed by a maze of overhead netting, razor wire and chain link fence. To some it resembles an internment camp, to others Guantanamo Bay. Today lawyers file suit to overturn the "free speech zone."...
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 9:17am PDT
Iraqis talk, in whispers and loud voices, about some American companies that started digging and investing minerals from the land here…then exporting them to America, or some other countries. These whispers between people taught me that they are mostly right, if not every time. Especially the stories about Abu-Ghareb prison, as I heard them, but didn’t believe them at the beginning. Will the Capitalism start sucking the Blood of Iraq, as it has sucked the blood of the American continent?…and...
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 8:39am PDT
FBI officials Friday went door-to-door in Lawrence and neighboring cities trying to find and interview members of a local anarchist group.
Members of the group said they thought agents were trying to find out if they knew of any plans to disrupt the Democratic National Convention next week in Boston. According to national news reports, FBI officials said Friday they had "unconfirmed information" that a domestic group planned to violently disrupt the convention by targeting media ...
Posted: Sun, Jul 25, 2004 11:28pm PDT
Hundreds of protesters have destroyed a field of genetically modified maize in south-west France....
Posted: Sun, Jul 25, 2004 10:10am PDT
Demonstrators at an anti-Olympics protest in central Athens last night hurled a gasoline bomb outside the Interior Ministry and spray painted the columns of surveillance cameras set up for the Games. There were no arrests....
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 12:39pm PDT
The FBI has targeted anarchists in New York, Boston, Denver, Lawrence, Kansas City, Topeka, and Kirksville (Missouri), asking questions about the upcoming Democratic and Republican National Conventions. FBI agents raided homes in Denver and arrested two anarchists for "failure to pay bike tickets" and "failure to appear in court"....
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 12:34pm PDT
The FBI has actively been harassing activists in the past two days in Denver, Lawrence, Kirksville, Columbia, and Topeka....
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 10:09am PDT
Are you coming to Boston for the Democratic National Convention this July? Are you
planning to work with the Independent Media Center?...
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 11:31am PDT
Building Bridges Radio presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 8:14am PDT
Martha Stewart sentenced to five months in federal prison....
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 5:10pm PDT
"THIRST"
National Broadcast Premiere Tuesday July 13, 10pm (check local
listings) on PBS's acclaimed "P.O.V." (Point of View) series....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 3:34pm PDT
Under Bush, 'marginal' workers hidden...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 6:52am PDT
Mr. O'Cat sharpens his claws on the editor of the Financial Times regarding the op-ed piece "Lay Off The Cuffs"....
Posted: Sat, Jul 10, 2004 6:03pm PDT
Vice President Dick Cheney faces criminal indictments for illegal activities while CEO of energy giant Halliburton and also illegally intervened to secure a $7 billion no-bid contract for his former employer after his election to office, an analysis by the White House counsel’s office concludes....
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2004 12:19am PDT
JULY 1, 2004 Washington, DC—A group calling themselves the Party Liberation
Front (PLF) took over the lobby of the World Bank Headquarters this morning
and threw a party to “celebrate” the 60th birthday of the World Bank and the
success of its global capitalist agenda. 60 years ago finance leaders from
the major world powers met in Bretton Woods, NH to establish the World Bank
and IMF. Since then wealthy elites in the US and elsewhere have reaped
billions of doll...
Posted: Thu, Jul 1, 2004 11:09am PDT
Indigenous groups in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia are experiencing a political awakening that could have profound repercussions for each country's democracy....
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 10:50pm PDT
"Anonymous economic forces are not responsible. For 20 years the governments of the most important industrial countries have systematically pursued a policy of redistribution upwards from below.. The misery of the third world is indescribable.."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 9:31am PDT
This is from a Trot group, but in spiote of that it contains useful info......
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 7:14pm PDT
Pakistan Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali forced out to make way for Shaukat Aziz....
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 10:55pm PDT
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