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Stop War Profiteers-Direct Action Monday
A direct Action to stop war profiteers will occur on Monday Nov. 18 beginning at 7am gathering at Market and Sansome in San Francisco's financial district. There will be actual shutdown of some nasty corporations and others who will profit off of, or are part of the war-making process. Under the theme "Rivers of Life, Rivers of Blood" there will be a colorful expression of our outrage. A Convergence of training and gathering forces will occur Saturdya and Sunday....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 11:24am PST
UNANIMOUS! Teach-ins on Iraq in Oakland Schools!
The Oakland School Board Unanimously (with one abstention) passed a resolution to plan teach-ins throughout the School District on the war on Iraq
Here is the FRONT PAGE! Oakland Tribune article and below is the School Board Resolution, cosponsored by Board Member Dan Siegel and Oakland Education Association president Sheila Quintana....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 11:21am PST
2002 Pro-Israel- PAC Contributions
Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to House and Senate Candidates 2002 Cycle and Previous Career Total -(PCT)- 1978 through December 31, 2001...
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 10:12am PST
Class warfare in Colorado: Steelworkers mark fifth anniversary of strike
PUEBLO, Colo. – The locked-out steelworkers from United Steel Workers of America Locals 2102 and 3267 gathered here at the state fairgrounds in October to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the strike at the CF&I steel mill in Pueblo. Over 700 union members and supporters turned out to renew their pledge to last one day longer than Oregon Steel in its continuing war on its workers....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 9:39am PST
Iraq okays UN terms, Bush pushes war
Iraq has accepted a United Nations Security Council Resolution giving weapons inspectors sweeping new rights but allows many pretexts for the Bush administration to provoke a war. The resolution warns Iraq of “serious consequences” if it doesn’t comply – and the White House has made clear that anything it defines as a material breach will almost certainly mean a new war....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 9:12am PST
Pacifica/KPFA Moves to Save Nation's Oldest Public Radio Archives
In an effort to save and restore more than 47,000 historic tapes that span half a century of radio programming, the five-station Pacifica Radio network will broadcast a national on-air fundraising benefit on Tuesday, November 19, featuring rare recordings from the endangered archives....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 9:01am PST
Don Hazen's Sleaze
Darn those ethics. They just get in the way....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 8:39am PST
America in a Trance
Despite our urgent recommendation to the contrary, the American people have seen fit to turn Congress into a Bushonian Rubber Stamp....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 8:30am PST
Italy: activist in jail for no global action
Italy: activist in jail for no global action...
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 8:20am PST
November 22nd is on a Friday This Year
If you're feeling apprehensive tonight about the state of the world, consider that November 22nd falls on a Friday this year. Mark Dankof tells us why....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 8:16am PST
Two High Profile Jewish Peace Activists Debate About Palestine Issues
There are many nuances in positions on the Palestine-Israel conflict as evidenced below.
Israel Shamir is an Israeli writer and poet living in Jaffa, Israel-Palestine. Rabbi Michael Lerner is a local rabbi and leader of the Tikkun Commnity,www.tikkun.org, and advocates for the respect for equal human rights for the Palestinians and the two-state solution, which many believe is still apartheid....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 7:48am PST
Is It Heresy to Say Zionism is in the Same Category as White Supremacism?
Apparently at Indymedia, it is heresy to equate Zionism, which is Jewish Supremacism, with White Supremacism. Why? Racism is racism is racism....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 7:33am PST
Indymedia Buries Palestine Issue
Indymedia is supposed to be so concerned about the mistreatment of our fellow human beings at the hands of the rich and powerful. Yet why is there not one big headline story on their homepage about the longest military occupation in modern history?...
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 7:17am PST
Palestine is Still The Issue
The war of Iraq is actually partially a cover to get people to "forget" about Palestine, to get distracted about the crimes against humanity that are happening everyday to the Palestinians by the Zionist Jewish Israelis, courtesy of our US tax dollars....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 7:01am PST
No-Global Leaders arrested in Italy
No-Global Leaders arrested in Italy...
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 6:45am PST
My Declaration of War
It has reached the point where civil disobediance in all of its forms by all types of people united for one purpose, regardless of cost, time, sacrifice, effort, and opposition, is all that stands between our freedom and the evil greed of corporate slavery. It is now or never. This must be the season of our discontent....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 5:24am PST
Another Muslim murdered in hate crime- where is the outrage!!
Another Muslim murdered in hate crime- where is the outrage!!...
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 5:05am PST
RATIO 18000:1 - THINKING OF WINNING A LAW CASE ?
...as many as one (1) prosecution out of 18.000 complaint collection......
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 3:17am PST
BTL:Economic Sanctions on Iraq Continue to Exact Deadly Toll on...
...Civilian Population. Interview with Joy Gordon, professor of philosophy at Fairfield University conducted by Between the Lines'Melinda Tuhus....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 2:36am PST
Welcome to Rio de Janeiro (by Latuff)
Urban violence is reaching unbearable levels. Inhabitants are caught in a crossfire between drug gangs and police, both armed with full-auto rifles....
Posted: Fri, Nov 15, 2002 1:23am PST