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People's Newsroom: Open Saturday
Over 150 street journalists from across North America have converged on SF. Come by and makemedia/maketrouble at the NASNA IMC newsroom! Located at New College....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 9:48pm PDT
Come to NASNA IMC!
When corporate media refuses to tell the truth ... time for independent media! All day Saturday at New College, please come by!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 9:44pm PDT
That Lady Smells Like Urine
"That lady smells like urine ... no wonder her family is on the streets." Seen at NASNA 2001, San Francisco....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 9:41pm PDT
Learning to Ignore the Homeless
A poster seen hanging up at the NASNA conference in San Francisco....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 9:37pm PDT
SFPD Arrests Woman for Sitting On Sidewalk?
During NASNA, a weekend to highlight street newspapers and the escalating war on the poor by cities, police and media, participants witnessed firsthand harrassment around 16th and Mission....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 7:13pm PDT
Friday Report from NASNA
A summary of Friday's events at the North American Street Newspaper Association gathering in San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 6:20pm PDT
Hawaiian King Imprisoned
Majesty Akahi Nui, King of the Hawaiian Islands and the Nation of Hawai'i sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for trespassing at burial site of his Royal ancestors....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 5:41pm PDT
Street newspapers on display at NASNA
At the North American Street Newspaper gathering in San Francisco, a wall of street newspapers tells the truth...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 5:21pm PDT
CHCROP joins rally in Sacramento
California Homeless Civil Rights Organizing Project Joins in Conference and Attends SHOC Sponsered Rally...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 3:34pm PDT
Raising Our Voices Checks Out Media Tools
A street reporter from Raising Our Voices, a media empowerment project in San Francisco for homeless and formerly homeless people...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 2:59pm PDT
Street Reporter Arms Herself with Video Camera
marsha, from cleveland homeless grapevine magazine, armed with a video camera at the north american street newspaper association gathering at new college in san francisco...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 2:48pm PDT
President of NASNA, Brian from Cleveland
Brian, from Cleveland, president of NASNA, speaks at the opening remarks this morning....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 2:40pm PDT
People's Newsroom at NASNA
imcistas set up a firewall for the people's newsroom in nasna, where housing activists and homeless people from around the country have gathered...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 2:22pm PDT
No to the War on the Poor
flyer for organizing against corporate profiteering from the suffering of the poor...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 2:07pm PDT
First interview with Marcus Covell, the UK Indymedia reporter in Genoa hospital.
Audio clip of first interview with Marcus ‘Sky’ Covell, the UK Indymedia reporter still in a Genoa hospital....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 1:40pm PDT
Homeless GrapevineVendor
I Marsha work for the Homeless Grapevine in the Cleveland Ohio area and I'm a proud vendor if you need any
information my E-mail is swansonb52@juno.com...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 1:04pm PDT
Protests against globalization in Ecuador - Esp & Eng
here is a rough translation to english of an article about protests in ecuador against the government and neoliberalism. the original spanish version follows. sorry about the formatting....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 12:44pm PDT
Noam Chomsky: Prisons in America (transcript)
"So, what we do with the superfluous people, the ones who don't contribute to wealth production for the rich -- and therefore aren't human really -- what you do with them is first of all try to coop them up in slums, which are sort of like concentration camps, and if that doesn't work you put them in jail. Which is the equivalent -- sort of a counterpart in a wealthy society to death squads in a poor society. So, they're [prisons] naturally zooming. And they are a shot in the arm."...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 12:21pm PDT
Noam Chomsky: Prisons in America (audio/mpeg 5.8MB)
"So, what we do with the superfluous people, the ones who don't contribute to wealth production for the rich -- and therefore aren't human really -- what you do with them is first of all try to coop them up in slums, which are sort of like concentration camps, and if that doesn't work you put them in jail. Which is the equivalent -- sort of a counterpart in a wealthy society to death squads in a poor society. So, they're [prisons] naturally zooming. And they are a shot in the arm."...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 12:19pm PDT