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KPFA Flashpoints Radio: July 9, 2001, Medea; Neta Golan; Guatemala
KPFA Flashpoints Radio July 9, 2001: (link to audio in 'full story' text below)
- California FERCed again, Medea Benjamin and Peter Navarro (10 min)
- Young Israeli peace activist Neta Golan speaks up and out (24 min)
- Human Rights in Guatemala, two genocide lawsuits filed (20 min)...
Posted: Tue, Jul 10, 2001 12:57am PDT
As long as cities exist environment can never be saved
The following is about to come true:
Nature can exist
(1) before man
(2) after man
(3) not with man...
Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2001 7:24pm PDT
IRV passes full Board 10-1
IRV will be on the March ballot. Without comment, everyone except Supervisor Yee voted in favor of placing the Instant Runoff Voting charter amendment on the ballot. This is a major victory for the Greens and for revitalizing democracy!
For more info:
http://calirv.org...
Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2001 6:07pm PDT
The Occult Technology of Power
If the people know then what?!?!...
Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2001 4:51pm PDT
End the War Poster
agit prop for solidarity actions with VITW to end the war against Iraq...
Posted: Mon, Jul 9, 2001 4:29pm PDT
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