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Campaign to denounce the closing of Egunkaria
Campaign to denounce the closing of Egunkaria...
Posted: Sun, Feb 23, 2003 10:42am PST
antitoo : anti directory project
antitoo is an anti directory project...
Posted: Sun, Feb 23, 2003 9:33am PST
Egunkaria, the world's only Basque-language newspaper forced to close
Egunkaria, the world's only Basque-language newspaper forced to close...
Posted: Fri, Feb 21, 2003 1:49pm PST
EF! puts Calpine on alert
Citizens from all over California and Oregon stormed the corporate headquarters of Calpine Corporation February 17 in San Jose, California to denounce the corporation's development activities in the Medicine Lake Highlands of northern California. The area of Medicine Lake has enormous spiritual and cultural significance to the Pit River, Klamath-Modoc and Shasta Tribes....
Posted: Wed, Feb 19, 2003 3:31pm PST
South America gaining momentum vs. US
Some observations on my five months in South America...
Posted: Fri, Feb 14, 2003 1:47pm PST
ACME ShutsDown "Serving the Poor, Profitably" Awards in Canada
On Wednesday, February 5th, ACME and its supporters brought an undignified but very justified end to the CME/CIDA 11th Annual Awards for International Cooperation Gala. This is the equivalent of if the Business Roundtable and USAID were meeting and it was shut down!!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 10, 2003 10:33am PST
Bush's address at this year's WEF (audio/mpeg 3.8MB)
the last 5 minutes of Bush's speech including applause...
Posted: Mon, Feb 10, 2003 9:24am PST
Eat the Rich! (by Latuff)
Support Opera Ball Attack Alliance in Austria. Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Sat, Feb 8, 2003 9:37pm PST
12 Day Fast in Cuernavaca, Mexico to Raise Consciousness about Costco Plan
In Cuernvaca, Mexico, the Civil Front for the Defense of La Selva has organized segments of the poplulation of this historical city to protest against a Costco megastore and the development of a large parcel of forest land. Reposted from www.indymedia.org....
Posted: Sat, Feb 8, 2003 6:19pm PST
Salvadoran Consulates shut down in Solidarity with 100,000 + march in El Salvador
5th March in Solidarity with Striking Health Care Workers and to Protest Privatization took place in El Salvador yesterday! Over 100,000 Salvadorans were in the streets....
Posted: Fri, Feb 7, 2003 6:03pm PST
Direct Action at El Salvadorian Consulate Office
Today I accompanied a group of global justice activists to the office of the El Salvadorian Consulate, in downtown San Francisco. Following is a photo essay of the day....
Posted: Thu, Feb 6, 2003 7:26pm PST
Activists Shut Down Salvadoran Consulates; ACTIVISTAS SE TOMAN CONSULADOS SALVADOREÑOS
Activists Shut Down Salvadoran Consulates
in New York and San Francisco in solidarity with massive march against free trade, privatization of health care, and attacks on labor in El Salvador; ¡ACTIVISTAS SE TOMAN CONSULADOS SALVADOREÑOS EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS!...
Posted: Thu, Feb 6, 2003 5:58pm PST
Whose Movement?
I guess it was on year 2000, while organizing for the S26 protests when I first heard about the World Social Forum (WSF). The idea was to have a permanent counter forum to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the meeting of corporations' CEOs, governments' officials and academic leaders to discuss global policies for the world. This counter forum, designed to oppose the economic forum, was structured however on the very same basis: a meeting of global leaders to discuss globa...
Posted: Thu, Feb 6, 2003 2:52am PST
USDA Announces WTO-Level Ministerial Conference for Sacramento
VENEMAN ANNOUNCES AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE...
Posted: Fri, Jan 31, 2003 10:01pm PST
Which Direction is the US Heading?
For non-economists, income millionaires obviously have much less reason to spend this extra money than households keeping their heads above water with several jobs.. When Bush began his term of office, the Budget Office forecast a surplus of $3 trillion...
Posted: Fri, Jan 31, 2003 4:42pm PST
1/27/03 - Update on the Digna Ochoa Investigation: IAHRC Investigators Arrive in Mexico
As you know, Ms. Ochoa was found shot to death in her office in Mexico City on October 19, 2001. One year and three months have passed since her death, and little progress has been made in the investigation....
Posted: Wed, Jan 29, 2003 6:43am PST
The Oil Man Cometh
How much more obvious does Bush's greed have to be?...
Posted: Sat, Jan 25, 2003 6:50pm PST
Venezuela. Hundreds of thousands rally in victory celebrations. Vheadline.com
I finally found a good article on the pro-President Chavez rally in Venezuela. The corporate media articles have so much spin against Chavez. Just check the corporate news sources indexed by Google News to see for yourself.
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=1762...
Posted: Sat, Jan 25, 2003 9:54am PST