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De-Nazify the West Bank
The television camera lens moves with seeming effortlessness from the pictures of suffering and death at the Hebrew University to the carnival in Gaza City, where thousands take to the streets in celebration of the pictures from Jerusalem. Gazing at the revelers on the screen, one strains one's eyes to find an expression of shame, guilt, or remorse on the faces in the crowd. One unconsciously prays to discern anything that would show that those in front of the camera are there by accident or ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 9:54pm PDT
EBumFights - What Would YOU Do For a Dollar?
From Skid Row to Madison Square Garden - here's capitalism in action!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 8:54pm PDT
Cheney Protest (video/quicktime 6.3MB)
Several hundred people gathered outside the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, CA to voice their disapproval with Dick Cheney & the current administration. (quicktime video -- length -- 2:08)...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 8:17pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 8/9/02 ¡Listen Globally!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. Netherlands, Spain, Germany, and Cuba...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 6:42pm PDT
bush to visit beautiful portland in august--you should, too
come to the beautiful northwest as portland hosts the worlds most dangerous man, george w. bush, in august...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 5:07pm PDT
American Crusade 2001+ Trading Cards
Confused about the war on terror? Can't tell the good bad guys from the bad bad guys? Having trouble explaining all those double-standards to your kids? Print your own handy color trading cards from this web site now: it's the axis-of-oil versus the axis-of-evil!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 4:56pm PDT
Unlimited Presidential Powers - *NYT* Op-Ed Piece??
The Bush administration seems to be using the Hamdi case to establish the principle that it has the exclusive power to decide who is an enemy combatant. If the administration's position prevails, we can expect to see many more cases like it. The government will be free to seize anyone it wants simply by saying the magic words "enemy combatant," and the courts will be powerless to release such people from prison, or even provide them with lawyers....
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 3:15pm PDT
Our Veep came out from the Fairmont to greet the Protesters! (video/quicktime 1.9MB)
Vice-President Richard Cheney, joined by Mrs. Dick, mingled with the hoi polloi. 30 sec. 2MB...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 3:11pm PDT
SF Autonomous Initiative
A new initiative is in the germinal stages of development to form a Autonomist Collective and eventually a People's Union...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 2:15pm PDT
Kimberly Rogers Womyn's Brigade - Court Report and Conclusion
This is an Ontario group that occupied and took over a local government official's office.
We were protesting the brutal cuts to welfare and for all people whose lives are threatened by the economic violence perpetrated by the BC Government. We named ourselves after a woman in Ontario who died last year as a result of Ontario welfare cuts. There will be an inquest into her death this October...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 1:40pm PDT
Feds Open "Total Info. Awareness" System to track *everything*
On Wednesday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will begin awarding contracts for the design and implementation of a Total Information Awareness (TIA) system....
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 1:28pm PDT
Why the income tax must go
The fastest way to make America a free country again would be to repeal all income taxes – the personal income, corporate, gift, estate and Social Security taxes.
This would create at least five very important benefits:...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 1:17pm PDT
CIA Official Calls for "Sending SWAT Teams into Journalists’ Homes"
"We’ve got to do whatever it takes – if it takes sending SWAT teams into journalists’ homes – to stop these leaks,” admonished James B. Bruce, vice chairman of the CIA's Foreign Denial and Deception Committee....
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 1:08pm PDT
Descent into savagery as a nation's jobs disappear
"And yet there I was, with my own bloody knife and piece of meat," Mr Banrel said. "I felt like we had become a pack of wild animals ... like piranhas on the Discovery Channel. Our situation has turned us into this."...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 10:51am PDT
'Turn the other cheek' is a moral responsibility
babylonicide...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 10:20am PDT
Flashpoints Aug 6-7: Pal prisoners; Vieques; US prisons
KPFA Flashpoints Radio
-August 7: stories of Palestinian political prisoners.. Vieques update.. human rights in America's prisons..
-August 6: about the psychological damage of increasing violence and resistance on Palestinian families.. Israel faces an environmental crisis.. VP-select Cheney comes to SF
----- full story and audio links at http://flashpoints.ne...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 9:16am PDT
Free our ears!!!
Another music business is possible!!!
And the misicians alive and happy...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2002 8:30am PDT
Protest & Rally - No Militarization of the Port of Oakland!
This summer - workers across Alameda County - are unifying their struggles
to fight for new contracts and a Voice@Work - against employers attempting
to eliminate good jobs that we need in our communities, take away
healthcare & benefits from our families, attack workers' rights, and
threaten public services & the health of our neighborhoods....
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2002 11:52pm PDT