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Call to Action: April Mob. vs IMF/World Bank
Educate, Organize, Mobilize!
Be the change you want to see in our world!
Organize public events in 2004, help expose the continued use of
power, veiled by rhetoric, to enrich corporations, banks, and
investors at the expense of people and the planet....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 7:03pm PST
Racial divide widens since Dr. King’s death
“There is nothing new about poverty. What is new is that we now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 4:56pm PST
LGBT News From "This Way Out"
It's the January 12 edition of This Way Out: The International Lesbian and Gay Radio Magazine, the world's audio oasis for LGBT news and culture, hosted by Lucia Chappelle and produced with Greg Gordon....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 3:16pm PST
The REAL State of the Union...
Last night the President gave his "State of the Union" address on over 40 channels nationwide. Here is the "REAL" State of the Union as Outlined by the UK Independent....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 3:08pm PST
1/21 ACLU Calls on House Judiciary Committee to Protect Reproductive Freedom
1/21: On the eve of the anniversary of the historic Roe v. Wade decision, the American Civil Liberties Union today urged Congress to oppose the so-called "Unborn Victims of Violence Act," which is scheduled for markup in the House Judiciary Committee this morning....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 9:43am PST
Log Cabin responds to State of the Union address
A culture war is a recipe for defeat...
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 9:35am PST
Roe v Wade Anniv. is also I'm Not Sorry Day
I'M NOT SORRY DAY: There is a small grass roots effort going on to create "I'm Not Sorry Day," to be celebrated on January 23, 2004, the thirty-first anniversary of Roe vs. Wade....
Posted: Tue, Jan 20, 2004 11:36pm PST
BBB Pies Operation Rescue Founder in NYC!
Agents of the Biotic Baking Brigade-NYC cell have pied Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry who was speaking on behalf of his new anti-abortion group, the Society for Truth and Justice....
Posted: Tue, Jan 20, 2004 11:24am PST
2/24 Stop the Corporate Invasion of Iraq
On February 24, protest Halliburton, Bechtel, and the other corporations that are making millions in Iraq, and speak out for Iraqi workers’ rights and self-determination. Call for an nternational day of protest!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 2:11pm PST
The Ideological State Apparatus
Comment on Danny Schecter's email piece recieved today, which I'll look for and post next, and which you may want to read first......
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 1:29pm PST
The New White Supremacy in the Corporate Media
With NBC publishing their full-page color ad in The New York Times today illustrating who and how MSNBC will be covering what the ad titled as the "Battle for the White House" NBC has illustrated their commitment to news by whites and therefore, for whites. It wouldn't be so bad if the ad and NBC's news reporting practice illustrated a reasonable balance of coverage but it most certainly does not and for that matter nor does any other corporate network broadcasting America today....
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2004 11:58am PST
Miami: FTAA Police review board
Police review panels hear allegations of police misconduct during hemispheric trade summit protests two months ago....
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 1:08pm PST
Letter to American Muslim Ummah
A call to mobilize against colonial occupations on March 20th, 2004, was issued and endorsed by a large nationwide coalition of organizations and communities that included the A.N.S.W.E.R Coalition; Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition; the National Lawyers Guild; the Arab Muslim American Federation; the Free Palestine Alliance-USA; the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation; and the Muslim Student Association of the U.S. and Canada. The National Council of Arab Americans (NCA...
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 10:03am PST
RADICAL PRO-CHOICE CALL TO ACTION FOR APRIL 25, 2004
feminists, radical cheerleaders, anti-authoritarians, anarchists and all
those concerned with women’s autonomy: join us on April 25th 2004 in
Washington, DC for a highly festive mobile cheer bloc!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 2:21pm PST
Dr. King’s vision inspires all working people
With the exception of Labor Day, there is no more important celebration of the fight for justice for all working people than Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Some people may only see Dr. King as a civil rights leader, a critical leader in the fight for equality for African Americans. That struggle was monumental – but Dr. King saw it as part of a larger vision....
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 11:49am PST
Protesters push past barricades at Martin Luther King's tomb
Hundreds of people pushed past barricades set up by the Secret Service to protest President Bush's visit to the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr. on Thursday, which would have been the slain civil rights leader's 75th birthday....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 1:23pm PST
Ann Arbor Borders wins union contract
The agreement ends almost a year of negotiations between the Madison Heights chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers, which serves as the workers’ union, and Borders Group....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 1:06pm PST
MoveOn.Org's Bush-Hitler Comparison Commercial 1 (video/quicktime 5.0MB)
You asked for it, you got it. Almost banished from the Internet to the Memory Hole, this amazingly accurate comparison proves to be too much for wimpy Democratic front-group MoveOn.org. The question of taste aside, it's the meme that's important. NEVER AGAIN???...
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 12:47pm PST
Seattle: FBI arrests Animal-rights activist
An agent with the FBI's domestic terrorism squad arrested an animal rights activist yesterday for allegedly lying to a Seattle federal grand jury investigating an arson attack on an Olympia forest-product company....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 11:20am PST
Activist Media Take on the Primaries
New Hampshire is traditionally regarded as the make-it-or-break-it primary for wannabe presidents. Free Speech TV and Manhattan Neighborhood Network want to give the kids a say....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 4:58pm PST