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All campers to pay Ticketmaster??
The Government is promoting the "imbedded" fee model because they feel the public's perception of a seamless and free reservation system is desirable....
Posted: Mon, Aug 23, 2004 10:30pm PDT
Petition to Save Overtime Pay
When was the last time the government cut your paycheck? That’s what’s going to
happen to millions of workers because of President Bush’s overtime pay take-away.
Starting today, employers can reclassify some 6 million workers as ineligible for
overtime pay....
Posted: Mon, Aug 23, 2004 8:48pm PDT
Hackers rise up to protest the RNC
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Posted: Mon, Aug 23, 2004 4:18pm PDT
Top 10 Reasons to Protest During the RNC
The day before the Republican National Convention opens in New York City, the eyes
of the world will be on us as we march in opposition to the Bush administration's
policies of war, greed, hate and lies. Our message of peace and justice will be a
resounding cry: WE SAY NO TO THE BUSH AGENDA. Here are ten...actually 11... great
reasons why you should be with us on Sunday, August 29:...
Posted: Sun, Aug 22, 2004 11:22pm PDT
August 27 New York City Immigrant Workers Speak Out!
No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights! No To Sweatshops! End The Racism On The Community!...
Posted: Sun, Aug 22, 2004 9:41pm PDT
RNC:FOX NEWS "SHUT-UP-A-THON"; Tuesday, August 31, 4 pm
Tuesday, August 31, 4 pm The Official Republican National Convention FOX NEWS "SHUT-UP-A-THON" 1211 Ave. of Americas (btwn. 47th & 48th) New York, NY...
Posted: Sun, Aug 22, 2004 9:46am PDT
NYC: Indymedia Infoshop and video activism for RNC
Indymedia has rented the gigantic artspace...
Posted: Sun, Aug 22, 2004 12:45am PDT
The New Rome and the RNC
Be aware. In the name of "our interests", this report is setting you up for complicity in the terrible crimes now being committed by this so-called "war on terrorism," and worse ones yet that are on the drawing boards....
Posted: Sun, Aug 22, 2004 12:20am PDT
Getting Ready for RNC
The Republican National Convention (RNC) is set to begin in less than two weeks and preparations have reached a fevered pitch. Dozens of activist groups have planned protests. Indymedia will be there to bring you comprehensive coverage, in-depth analysis, and
up-to-the-minute reports....
Posted: Sat, Aug 21, 2004 8:20pm PDT
RNCdelegates.com launched!
The RNC Delegates Working Group would like to announce the launch of RNCdelegates.com! On this website, people mobilizing against the RNC will find the names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of many of the delegates going to the Republican National Convention later this month....
Posted: Sat, Aug 21, 2004 5:56pm PDT
BREAKING the LEASH: A Surrealist Statement Against Torturocracy of George W. Bush
Of the dungeons there had been strange things narrated—fables, I had always
deemed them—but yet strange, and too ghastly to repeat, save in a whisper.
—Edgar Allan Poe, “The Pit and the Pendulum”...
Posted: Sat, Aug 21, 2004 12:27am PDT
DNC2RNC Arrival March Call to Action
Join the DNC2RNC march as they arrive in Manhattan on August 26th....
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 7:56pm PDT
Is Despair Spreading in the Bush Camp?
"The situation for Bush is really precarious if one considers the increasing signals that the economic system is much weaker than assumed.. Ultra-conservatives are worried about the great global instability.."...
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 5:41pm PDT
Boo!SSH scares me, astute essays hinting at OtherWorlds, OtherWays
"True sanity entails in one way or another the dissolution of the normal ego, that false self competently adjusted to our alienated social reality...and through this death a rebirth, the ego now being the servant of the divine, no longer its betrayer." —R. D. Laing Ronnie Laing's profound dictum leaves us with many poignant questions regarding the true nature of the psychic lives of so-called ordinary Americans and our ability to function in this corrupt and crumbling empire. In sho...
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 2:43pm PDT
August 27 New York City Immigrant Workers Speak Out!
First of the week-long Counter RNC Mobilization in New York City
No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights! No To Sweatshops! End The Racism On The Community!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 1:14pm PDT
Trial By Fire: The SHAC 7 and the Future of Democracy
It remains to be seen if activists involved in other causes will truly understand the indictment of the SHAC 7 in its broadest social and historical context, thereby showing solidarity with the myriad of SHACtivists and other direct action militants on the front lines of protest, making sure that their voices are anything but a whisper. Meanwhile, the animal liberation cause continues to grow throughout the world, establishing itself as both an heir of the great human liberation movements and...
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 12:45pm PDT
Zapatista Contingent at the RNC Protests in NYC - August 29/30, 2004
CALL FOR A REVOLUTIONARY ZAPATISTA CONTINGENT
at the Protests against the Republican National Convention in New York City*
as part of the Latin America and Caribbean Solidarity Bloc
(http://www.LASolidarity.org)
on SUNDAY, AUGUST 29
and at the Still We Rise Coalition Rally and March
(http://www.StillWeRise.org)
on MONDAY, AUGUST 30 -...
Posted: Fri, Aug 20, 2004 12:13am PDT
Welcome to NYC orientation
It is likely that if you're protesting in front of
an
RNC event, there will be cops, firefighters and teachers protesting next
to you....
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 11:53pm PDT
Anniversary of Program to Get Papers to Include Same-Sex Wedding Announcements
Marking the second anniversary
of its Announcing Equality Project, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced today that the number of U.S.
newspapers that accept same-sex wedding or union announcements has
climbed to 504, a more than seven-fold increase in just two years....
Posted: Thu, Aug 19, 2004 11:31pm PDT