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world's worst knock-knock joke--we tried to warn you!
We've tried to warn you. Now it's already too late in forty states. If you're a U.S. citizen, you'd better be quiet, well-behaved and pleasantly conformist. Involuntary outpatient commitment (IOC) is law in 40 states and the District of Columbia. The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), largely a drug company front group, has pushed hard for IOC in every state and territory - and NAMI is winning....
Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2001 2:51pm PDT
UK Observer: Police End Canabis Seizures
Britain is to abandon the hunt for cannabis smugglers and dealers in the most dramatic relaxation of policy on the drug so far.
Instead the Government has told law enforcement officers, including Customs officials and police, to target resources on 'hard drugs', such as heroin and cocaine....
Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2001 2:20pm PDT
Notes from the War Zone
report back from the war zone in Iraq....
Posted: Sun, Jul 8, 2001 1:09am PDT
NOON, TUESDAY JULY 10 DEMO at Congressman RICHARD POMBO's office, STOCKTON
**** Congressman took Money from MAXXAM; tried to Shut down Savings and
Loan Trial in Case Similar to Keating Five ****...
Posted: Sat, Jul 7, 2001 10:23am PDT
FoxNews: Price Caps Blamed for Further Power
WASHINGTON — Just weeks after federal authorities imposed controls on wholesale energy prices in California, what many economists warned could happen in the Western states appears to happening: Befuddled by the complex pricing formulas as energy reserves fluctuate, energy producers are withholding power and making the shortages even worse....
Posted: Sat, Jul 7, 2001 9:38am PDT
FoxNews: Klammath Falls farmers defy feds; open dam with chain saw
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — On Wednesday, a crowd of 100 to 150 people armed with a diamond-bladed chain saw and a cutting torch opened a gate that had been welded shut and reopened a headgate to send water from Upper Klamath Lake back into the "A" Canal of the Klamath Project....
Posted: Sat, Jul 7, 2001 9:26am PDT
KPFA Flashpoints Radio: PACIFICA BATTLE UPDATE (audio link)
KPFA Flashpoints Radio July 6, 2001: Pacifica Battle Update:: Dennis Bernstein Interviews:
- Dissident board member Tomas Moran (16 min)
- fired Pacifica news director Dan Coughlin (13 min)
- WPFW Local Advisory board chair Sam Husseini (6 min)
- KPFA Living Room host, fired Larry Bensky (6 min)
- Barbara Lubin of Friends of Free Speech Radio (6 min)
(link to audio in 'full story' text below)...
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2001 11:26pm PDT
July 14 Protest at Bohemian Grove
The Bush program is an integral part of corporate globalization, of
eliminating all barriers to corporate profiteering, while destroying people's rights, national sovereignty and the environment
at home and around the world....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2001 2:50pm PDT
Friday 7/20, arise...conscious hip hop/spoken word
Friday July 20th, 2001
@ Long Haul Infoshop
3124 Shattuck Ave (across the street from La Pena), Berkeley.
There will also be an AK Press book table.
Arise... benefits RACE (Revolutionary Anti-Authoritarians of Color for Equality), a newly forming group in the bay area for anti-authoritarian activists/organizers of color....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2001 1:53pm PDT
OTS Director Quits; Maxxam S & L Trial Imperiled
The OTS (Office of Thrift Supervision) case against Charles Hurwitz and his Maxxam Corporation (owners of Pacific Lumber) is in jeopardy. Hurwitz and Co. crashed a Savings and Loan in Texas before taking over PL; the bailout cost the taxpayers $1.6 billion....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2001 1:22pm PDT
The Shortwave Report 7/6/01 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinions recorded from a shortwave radio. Free to rebroadcast.With times and freqs for listening at home. Netherlands, Russia, Germany, China, Spain, Cuba....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2001 10:18am PDT
Bay subburbs get an "F"
Bird cages, corporate consumer stripmalls, and planned traffic jams Bay Area subs get an "F"...
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2001 9:56am PDT
Bolivian Anarchafeminists Attack Bank
This is one of several pictures that infoshop.org has broken about the Bolivian anarchafeminists who have attacked various capitalist targets....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2001 6:36am PDT
MAKING A KILLING: CORPORATIONS PROFITING FROM U.S. PROXY WAR IN LATIN AMERICA
EXPOSING THE PRIVATIZED WAR: NAMING NAMES OF CORPORATIONS PROFITING FROM THE 'SECRET' U.S. PROXY 'WAR ON DRUGS' IN SOUTH AMERICA, A WAR TO PROTECT AMERICAN COMMERCIAL INTERESTS...
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2001 1:04am PDT
Death to Queer Muslims
fundamentalist react to Queer muslims marching in Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco...
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2001 10:36pm PDT
DEMONSTRATION CALLS FOR ETHICS PROBE OF REP. POMBO
Congressman took Money from MAXXAM; tried to Shut down Savings and Loan Trial in Case Similar to Keating Five...
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2001 9:43pm PDT
Closed Military Zone: Terrorization of the Palestinian People Continues
The fact that no outside observers were allowed into the entire West Bank south of Hebron during this 24-hour period, including journalist and human rights observers, and even the Red Cross was prevented from providing humanitarian aid to the hundreds of families affected, raises fears about acts of violence and intimidation committed with absolute impunity by an army against a defenseless civilian population.......
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2001 9:37pm PDT