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Canadian Farmers Sue Monsanto and Aventis Canadian organic farmers have filed a class action suit against Monsanto and Aventis seeking compensation for damages caused by their genetically engineered canola, and to obtain an injunction to prevent Monsanto from introducing genetically engineered wheat in Saskatchewan, Canada....
Posted: Sat, Jan 19, 2002 8:56am PST
United States Refuses to Abide by Geneva Convention On January 11, 2002, the United States announced that it was refusing to abide by the 1949 Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war in its treatment and internment of those taken prisoner in Afghanistan or Pakistan by the United States. The Third Geneva Convention, which provides specific guidelines for treatment of prisoner combatants, is a part of the "law of nations" and is a mainstay of international humanitarian law. The United States explained that the prisoners were not a...
Posted: Sat, Jan 19, 2002 6:31am PST
U.S.-R.P. MILITARY EXERCISES IN MINDANAO A TRIPWIRE TO A NEW VIETNAM? By sending 650 US combat troops, including 160 Green Berets and Navy Seals, with the approval of the puppet Macapagal regime, into a battle zone in Southern Philippines, U.S. imperialism is deliberately setting up a tripwire to a new Vietnam....
Posted: Sat, Jan 19, 2002 12:25am PST
Honor MLK Jr., Fight Racism & War (SF1/16 demo pics) 
8 photos & text......
Posted: Fri, Jan 18, 2002 6:33pm PST
the Real history of San Francisco 
An ongoing history of San Francisco detailing the characters and events that the rich and powerful would prefer you didn't know about....
Posted: Fri, Jan 18, 2002 6:10pm PST
BLINDSIDED as PLANET X PASSES IN May 2003 New Jerusalem? The Bible speaks of a Holy City that will appear as a planet and will be called that Great City or Holy Jerusalem. The size of this incoming planet will be 12,000 Furlongs or 1,500 miles across. KX76 is estimated to be 12,000 Furlongs or larger. 12,000 Furlongs is 745 miles across....
Posted: Fri, Jan 18, 2002 6:09pm PST
Slashdot Users Defy Censorship In what approximates a "user revolt" against editors at the Slashdot.com online community, a moderator-critical threat has become one of the most popular in history despite the editorial
"bitchslap of the century"....
Posted: Fri, Jan 18, 2002 5:03pm PST
Berkeley peace movement coverage in SFweekly Lengthy but worth the read. Yes it's not original work, but it's a very fair, truthful, lengthy article about the messy student anti-war movement in Berkeley and the whole fuckup with the ISO. Anyone involved with the movement should take some pointers from the writer's observations....
Posted: Fri, Jan 18, 2002 4:25pm PST
The American Way of Life: Moments of a Negative Utopia "The US has sovereignly ignored condemnations of the Haage International Tribunal... US foreign policy and the economic and military power of the US represent a first obstacle for every emancipatory interest on this globe."...
Posted: Fri, Jan 18, 2002 3:06pm PST
TONIGHT-1/18-Arise...conscious hip hop open mic in Oakland Friday January 18th
open mic.
live music
DJ Chauncey P. Farnsworth
Doors open at 8:30pm. All Ages. $3, no one turned away for lack of funds
at 40th St. Warehouse
379 40th St, Oakland...
Posted: Fri, Jan 18, 2002 12:13pm PST
Protest Richmond Anti-Homeless Ordinnace TOMORROW Saturday 19 at 9:00 am The City of Richmond, CA passed an anti-homeless ordinance last month making it illegal to sleep in your
car or in the streets in any public place anywhere in the city. Tomorrow Saturday 19 at 9:00 we will be
protesting this callous action during the city's celebration of the winter olympic torch passing by.
We demand that this callous ordinance by repealed and that real solutions be provided in Richmond for our residents who are homeless. Meet at Macdonald and 27th St at 9:00 am. Peace...
Posted: Fri, Jan 18, 2002 12:00pm PST
The Shortwave Report 1/18/02 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A 30 minute review of news and opinions recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast-13.4MB & quick/streaming-3.4MB. With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. Germany, Netherlands, Russia, China, Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2002 11:15pm PST
Slide Show: Argentina Struggle (video/mpeg 590.5KB) This is a powerpoint slide show on the Dec. 20 protests in Buenos Aires. It's been going around e-mail lists throughout the internet. The captions are in Castilian Spanish, and the dialect/dialogue appears to be Agentine, therefore possibly coming all the way from those in the struggle down there (and that's also the rumor). Please spread it around, show it to Argentinos you may know! Viva La Argentina!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2002 9:49pm PST
Bay Area Looses free radio Freedom of speach officially died today. Tonite a non corporate radio talk program lost its right to interview non komformist....
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2002 9:18pm PST
Copwatch Info Needed: South Berkeley Motorcycle Cop Please post any information you might have!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2002 9:12pm PST
Powell & Market Demo 1/16: NO WAR 
Several hundred protesters demonstrated against war at the intersection of Powell and Market streets in San Francisco Wednesday, January 16....
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2002 7:38pm PST
Argentine Protesters Back on Streets BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Hundreds of Argentines marched in the capital Thursday to demand jobs and aid to ease the ravages of a deep economic crisis, and the nation's top banker reportedly offered to resign in a dispute with the new government....
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2002 5:14pm PST
Noam Chomsky to speak in Berkeley announcement of Noam Chomsky talk at UC Berkeley...
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2002 5:06pm PST
bin Laden... Harari... CIA... drugs... GW... israelism... mossad... BCCI Now Mike is a real piece of work. Since his "retirement" from the Mossad he has been working "on loan" to a number of Intelligence Agencies, including the CIA and British Intelligence. He served as a special advisor to Manuel Noriega in Panama. Guns for dope and contract killings are his specialty....
Posted: Thu, Jan 17, 2002 1:15pm PST
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