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What path toward an independent workers movement? (re Million Workers March)
A leaflet of the Communist Voice Organization presented at the Detroit Conference of the Million Workers March held May 14-5. The leaflet opposes the alliance with certain Detroit city council members and union bureaucrats that has developed within the Detroit organization of MWM and opposes the same policy nationally....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 9:37pm PDT
Bush Makes Historic Visit to Biodiesel Plant
Visiting a biodiesel plant near Richmond, Virginia, President Bush
today called biodiesel “one of our nation’s most promising alternative fuel
sources” and discussed the importance of a comprehensive energy plan to
wean the United States from foreign petroleum....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 5:36pm PDT
farmed animal intelligence being discussed
DawnWatch: ABC (and SBS) transcript "Barnyard Brains." Also, tonight, zoo elephant deaths 5/16/05...
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 12:21pm PDT
Bill Moyers Responds to CPB's Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias
In his first public address since leaving PBS six months ago, journalist Bill Moyers responds to charges by Kenneth Tomlinson - the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting - of liberal bias and revelations that Tomlinson hired a consultant to monitor the political content of Moyers' PBS show "Now." We spend the hour playing an excerpt of Moyers' closing address at the National Conference on Media Reform in St. Louis, Missouri....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 9:24am PDT
The SAT: New and "Improved"
The new SAT claims to be better than before, yet it does not take into consideration those lower income students....
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 10:30pm PDT
Urge your members of Congress to oppose harsh new mandatory minimum sentences
Urge your members of Congress to oppose harsh new mandatory minimum sentences !...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 2:17pm PDT
Bill Moyers Speech In Moments
KPFA 94.1 Free Speech Radio is planning to air Bill Moyers speech about Media Reform...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 9:38am PDT
Downtown Living Room in Vancouver, BC
On Monday May 16, on the eve of Tuesday's provincial election, the Work Less Party will be having a leisurely and relaxing day at the dorner of Burnard and Georgia....
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 6:48am PDT
"The Way is Clear": Venezuela
Venezuela is one of the few states whose government is taking new paths against the global trend to political stagnation.. No one has the illusion that the people and the political system canchange from one day to the next but the way is clear....
Posted: Sat, May 14, 2005 10:51am PDT
55th B'day, Kent and Jackson State Killings
The anniversaries of the killing of 4 college students in Ohio and 2 in Mississippi have haunted my birthday for 35 years....
Posted: Fri, May 13, 2005 8:24pm PDT
Jeff 'Free' Luers-subject of show on Free Radio Santa Cruz Monday May 16
read on...
Posted: Fri, May 13, 2005 2:08pm PDT
War Resister Pablo Paredes: Military Judges Orders No Jail Time For Refusing Deployment
Paredes was convicted in a court-martial on Wednesday. However a judge decided Thursday not to sentence him to jail - instead he will face three months of hard labor....
Posted: Fri, May 13, 2005 10:06am PDT
Victory for Pablo Paredes
Naval War Resister Pablo Paredes Wins Victory in Military
Court Martial at San Diego Naval Station....
Posted: Fri, May 13, 2005 6:26am PDT
Summer Festivals Fund War
It is no secret that most of the oil consumed in the US is imported, and that war rages worldwide to secure future supplies. Put simply, a portion of every dollar spent on petroleum will wind up in a petroleum warlords bank account. So all this summer festival travel increases our daily contribution to funding wars for oil....
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2005 9:00pm PDT
Greyhound Adoption - Correction (re: IDA e-news item)
Greyhound Adoption - Correction (re: IDA e-news item)...
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2005 5:53pm PDT
Nebraska victory, Castro pickets, more news...
U.S. judge voids Nebraska's anti-relationship law; sexworkers versus pimps; human pheromones; Spokane's closet mayor; more news links + May 15 peace demo in SF....
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2005 5:04pm PDT
Americans Join Together to Demand Wal-Mart Change
51 Members of Congress and 21,788 Americans Join Together to Demand Wal-Mart Change; Political, Grassroots Pressure on Lee Scott, CEO of Wal-Mart, to End Discrimination at Wal-Mart Grows...
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2005 1:22pm PDT
Pamela Anderson's stand against chimp actors
DawnWatch: Pamela Anderson's stand against chimp actors in International Herald Tribune -- May 11 2005...
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2005 12:14pm PDT
Army to Stop Recruiting for One Day, May 20th
Army to stop recruiting for a day to probe tactics...
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2005 10:41am PDT