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Oct 16 7 PM Berkeley City Council Action For Peace!
Please come to the Council Chambers to support a letter from the Berkeley City Council
going to our federally elected officials to support a cease-fire of the air strikes on Afghanistan....
Posted: Tue, Oct 16, 2001 2:52am PDT
Global Exchange/Ruckus: We Want Our Money Back
global exchange and ruckus, all the money you've gotten from us, we want it all back! thanks for turning your back on people who believed in the movement and diversity of tactics!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 16, 2001 1:28am PDT
Flashpoints Radio Oct 15: GWB TO SACRAMENTO WEDNESDAY, more
KPFA Flashpoints Radio October 15, 2001:
-Shahim Sabahi, editor of the English language Pakistani paper, The News (10 min)
-Sam Barrett of Oxfam International (10 min)
-Reverend Father Daniel Berrigan (30 min)
-Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange invites everyone to come to Sacramento to peacefully protest GEORGE W BUSH, on his visit this Wednesday Oct 17 (3 min)
(link to audio in full story text below)...
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2001 11:52pm PDT
Madison School Board braces for pledge night
Williams, Bill Keys and Carol Carstensen said their support of the motion was intended to reduce pressure on students uncomfortable with the pledge's "one nation under God" line or the lyrics of the anthem, which some object to as militaristic....
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2001 5:27pm PDT
Marine May Lose Home For Flying Flag
Barry Silver also argued that the association had committed a fraud against the court when it first said it objected only to the pole, but then later said it objected to the pole and the flag....
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2001 5:24pm PDT
Anthrax fears shake world
Confirmed cases of anthrax in the United States have sparked panic across an already jittery world, and encouraged hoaxers to make the most of mounting insecurity.
From Brussels...
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2001 5:19pm PDT
4 Overseas Plots Foiled
Officials said much of the evidence suggests various loosely knit terrorist cells – from Algerians to Afghans – are agitating to attack again. They're united in their admiration for bin Laden and his calls to attack Americans, but there is no evidence they are being coordinated in a single master plan, the officials said....
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2001 5:03pm PDT
Why is the United States bombing Afghanistan into little bits?
Analysis of US government actions in terms of mythic narratives & an enduring icon of recent US history, as filtered through the machinery of popular culture....
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2001 4:07pm PDT
U.S. War Criminal Admits, Applauds U.S. Policies of Terror
dick cheney, george bush, ronald reagan, bill clinton ... these are not patriots. they are war criminals who get us killed for their profit. this interview shows it perfectly....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2001 11:42pm PDT
The Beginning of the End of the American Empire
Comments of an Extremely Pissed Off Activist....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2001 6:33pm PDT
TURNING THE PSYCHO TABLES ON ‘MS.' BIN LADEN
Of course, psychological warfare didn't start with these worms, although Tokyo Rose was more funny than frightening....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2001 4:37pm PDT
Counter Demonstrators Organize for O20 Anti-war in SF
freeps try to get a movement going, brownshirts rally around nationalism and racism...
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2001 1:43pm PDT
Pilots signing up for gun classes
Proponents say special ammunition now available could lessen the odds of puncturing the fuselage in a shootout....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2001 1:34pm PDT
College staff find chilling free speech climate
Around the country, college faculty and staff who express opinions on the terrorist attacks and U.S. bombardment of Afghanistan are facing rebuke in public and private, suspension and investigation....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2001 1:18pm PDT
10 things you need to know about anthrax
The following questions and answers about anthrax are provided courtesy of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2001 1:14pm PDT
Rocklin vows to keep 'God Bless America'
"They picked the wrong issue, they picked the wrong time and they picked the wrong community," said Mark Forbes, the Rocklin school board president....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2001 1:07pm PDT
Anti-U.S. rampage kills hundreds
Most of the slaughtered were Christians, with many more injured....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2001 1:04pm PDT
US FOOD DROPS 'USELESS' FOR HUNGRY HORDES
None of the food meets strict Islamic requirements for food preparation ....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2001 12:59pm PDT
A CALL TO ACTION....lower the flag...
A campaign to incease the visibility of the anti-war/peace movement....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2001 12:39pm PDT
CYANIDE THREAT: Tapes reveal poison plan
SECRETLY recorded tapes have revealed plans by followers of Osama Bin Laden for a chemical weapon attack in Europe using a poisonous invisible gas that security sources say was cyanide....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2001 5:05am PDT