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Give It Away Beware! The Maussians Are Coming!
This article by David Graeber discusses the concept of the gift economy, an idea first explored by Marcel Mauss in his descriptions of the Kwakiutl of British Columbia. He describes how the historical reality of such economies refutes many of the assumptions made by neo-liberal economists about the historical development of economic systems.
Also discussed are contemporary groups (such as the MAUSS group in France) who take their inspiration from such f...
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2002 6:39am PDT
vegan.nu becomes a international network for animal rights With it's approximately 8000 Swedish members, Sweden’s largest and only "community"/net paper directed on veganism and animal rights, vegan.nu, goes out on international ground by releasing a brand new version on 4 different languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English)....
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2002 2:05am PDT
Screeners heave sigh of relief SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - After eight months of anxiety, the airport screeners can heave a sigh of relief, for the moment.
The planned lay-off which would have affected the non-citizen screeners is not going to happen....
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2002 1:32am PDT
Flashpoints July 12: talk w JAMES BAMFORD, author of NSA Body of Secrets; Poets KPFA Flashpoints Radio Friday, July 12, 2002
-DB w James Bamford about the NSA (12 min)
-DB w James Bamford about the 1967 Israeli attack on the US Liberty and the coverup (16 min)
-DB w James Bamford about 'Operation North Wood', a 60's plan by the Joint Chiefs to kill Americans and blame it on Cuba (16 min)
-Berkeley Poets, Rubert Estanislao and Jamie Kennedy, of the Berkeley Slam Team(5 min)...
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2002 1:07am PDT
Nader in Berkeley - photo 
Also, not a great photo, but you get the idea....
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2002 12:48am PDT
Nader in Berkeley - dark clip (video/mpeg 2.2MB) Okay, I'm learning, trying this out. This is my first time posting a clip, and I obviously haven't yet figured out the lighting, not to mention using some other program . . ....
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2002 12:40am PDT
FREE MITCHELL CROOKS NOW Anyone remember the guy named Mitchell Crooks who shot the original video of police brutality against Donovan Jackson? I figure that since none of these issues would be brought to light without this courageous man, I find it very appropriate to approach this subject in a rather angry manner since no one else seems to be....
Posted: Sat, Jul 13, 2002 12:31am PDT
Urgent Alert on Jackson State Forest Your help is urgently needed. The California Department of Forestry (CDF) is rushing to resume massive logging in Jackson State Redwood Forest, which is owned by the people of California....
Posted: Fri, Jul 12, 2002 9:39pm PDT
Arrested development The last time I attended a hanging in the prison it was a murder, not a suicide. I arrived too late to bring the hanged man back to life: for, if there are degrees of deadness, he was by then already very dead....
Posted: Fri, Jul 12, 2002 9:06pm PDT
Anti-Semitism in San Francisco Anti-Semitism is alive and growing in San Francisco, thanks to the declining economy and the perpetration by the US capitalist class and their Zionist lackeys of the US military base to protect US oil interests, commonly known as Israel....
Posted: Fri, Jul 12, 2002 8:08pm PDT
[MLNews!*2002] TB Edition: Barcelona XIV International AIDS Conference Follow-Up & HIV MU [MSNBC] The AIDS Epidemic
[MSNBC] AIDS: Can the War be Won?
[MSNBC] STALKED by DEATH: Images, video track, the BATTLE Against AIDS
Thousands MARCH FOR LIFE in Barcelona
HIV in Young may Soar 70%
AIDS at 20: WORLD DEATH TOLL
23 Million Dead/ 68 more Million Predicted
PHOTO III: HIV BABY by Antony Njuguna
Report Shows HIV/AIDS Causing World Orphan CRISIS
STUDY: HIV in US NEWBORNS...
Posted: Fri, Jul 12, 2002 7:52pm PDT
Looking for Ian who called KPFA Trying to reach Ian who called Living Room on 7/12/02...
Posted: Fri, Jul 12, 2002 5:13pm PDT
If you are not rich and white, it's now offical, you have no rights The US recently arrested two Americans accused of fighting with the Taliban. One was rich and white the other was from a Saudi family living in Louisiana. Johnny Walker gets a trial, yet "a federal appeals court ruled.. American-born Taliban prisoner captured in Afghanistan, Yaser Esam Hamdi, could not have access to a lawyer."...
Posted: Fri, Jul 12, 2002 4:07pm PDT
SF events 7.12 SAVE CELLspace.org Help Protect this important community center...
Posted: Fri, Jul 12, 2002 2:47pm PDT
Today's Voice: Video of Cheney Touting Arthur Andersen The Media tells us what is wrong with the world; Voice4change will tell you what to do about it! Our member organizations are busy organizing, so we want to bring their message to you. Our affiliates are doing great work every day. They need your support…We will be their link to you. Sign on to www.voice4change.org...
Posted: Fri, Jul 12, 2002 1:18pm PDT
To Attempt Shut Down of 9/11 Evidence UQ Wire: DOJ To Attempt Shut Down of 9/11 Evidence
Thursday, 11 July 2002, 6:53 pm...
Posted: Fri, Jul 12, 2002 12:55pm PDT
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