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Big Mac Attack
Interview with Dave Steel and Helen Steel, subject of the new documentary McLibel, from NYC Indymedia's biweeklyn newspaper....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 1:36pm PDT
One, two, many Mclibels
Review of recent relase of recent release McLibel, from NYC Indymedia's biweekly newspaper....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 1:34pm PDT
Hinchey Debate NOW! Call your Reps!
CALL YOUR U.S. REPRESENTATIVE. Urge their support of the
Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment to the Justice Appropriations bill.
Members of Congress' offices can be reached through the U.S Capitol
Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or through the online congressional
directory at http://clerk.house.gov/members/index.html...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 10:02am PDT
Stop Evil Funding Cuts to Public Broadcasting!
Contact your US Representatives to Stop Evil Funding Cuts to Public Broadcasting!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 9:42am PDT
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till: New Documentary Uncovers Evidence in 1955 Murder
Half a century after Emmett Till's mutilated body was found in a Mississippi river, investigators have unearthed his casket and reopened the case. We play excerpts of a new documentary, "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till" that uncovers new evidence in the case and we speak with the filmmaker, Keith Beauchamp....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 8:56am PDT
Urgent Alert/ Justice4JulioAyala International Campaign
Please distribute widely to your links &lists ! / Justice4JulioAyala International Campaign / Sign the petition ! END PD WAR ON BLACK &BROWN NOW!
http://www.petitiononline.com/Just4J/petition.html...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 12:11am PDT
Call for Demonstrations After Republicans Squelch Downing St Memo Hearings by Conyers
Republicans have shut Conyers out of Capitol and forced him to hold his hearings in the Democratic National Committee. A protest will take place in DC at 5pm. Local demos are being planned now all over the country....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 11:07pm PDT
Nuevo Laredo: Martial Law as Media Stunt in the Failed War on Drugs
The new police chief
of
the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo took office last Wednesday.
Nine
hours later he was gunned down....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 10:24am PDT
ALERT: MAJOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA VOTE IN CONGRESS TOMORROW
The pro-medical marijuana Hinchey/Rohrabacher amendment is
expected to happen on Tuesday, June 13 (tomorrow). In the wake
of Monday's Supreme Court ruling in the Angel Raich medical
marijuana case, it is crucial that positive progress in the
number of members of Congress voting for medical marijuana be
shown....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 10:33am PDT
A Network at War
Since ostensiblly winning a campaign to recapture the small progressive Pacifica network that spanned years, involving at one time three seperate lawsuits, and 10's of thousands of its active listerners, the tiny network is once again at war with itself.....Having, along with senior producer Ryme Kakthouda, joined in filing complaints of discrimination on basis of national origin and ethnicity at the last meeting of our national board in NYC,
(http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/12052...
Posted: Sat, Jun 11, 2005 10:59pm PDT
Angel's update and link to decision
I will be going to Washington DC to lobby Congress from June 12-June 14. I
will try to post when I get back. I will tell you more about my next plans
in the next week or so. I hope everyone is doing
well....
Posted: Sat, Jun 11, 2005 3:22pm PDT
Action Alert: Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment Vote on Tuesday!
Next Tuesday at noon, Congress will have their first opportunity to act
on an invitation extended by 6 Supreme Court Justices to protect medical
marijuana patients. Call your U.S. Representative on Monday or Tuesday
morning and urge their support on the Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment to
the Justice Appropriations bill....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 10:07pm PDT
Weekend of Resistance in Solidarity with Jeffrey "Free" Luers (audio/mpeg 17.3MB)
Weekend of events to remember environmentalist and political prisoner, June 10th-12th, 2005 -- special feature on Enemy Combatant Radio, 37 minutes, including an interview with "Free" from our archives....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 5:56pm PDT
The Allied Media Conference
The Allied Media Conference is right around the corner: June 17-19.
This is the 7th year that hundreds of zinesters, radio pirates,
copwatchers, podcasters, community journalists, hip hop heads,
librarians and more will be gathering in Bowling Green, Ohio. If
you're building alternative media, you should be there, too....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 11:57am PDT
Makes you wonder.... Was there ever a civil right movement in US??
"I will never forget. I
remember the words that were spoken and everything
exactly" says David...
The story of Myrtle Beach, (AKA PD MURDER BEACH) SC cops beating David Dixon...
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 2:17am PDT
ALERT: Important Medical Marijuana Vote in Congress Next Week
In the wake of Monday's Supreme Court ruling in the Angel Raich
medical marijuana case, the US House of Representatives is now
scheduled to vote on an important pro-medical marijuana
amendment next week....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 11:08pm PDT
Premier Diamond Dave and the C.A. Insurgency (audio/mpeg 23.7MB)
Premier Poetry Politics What Ever, Smoken Word, WORD!!!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 10:10pm PDT
DISPOSABLE LIVES: How Animal Liberation Can Affect Us All
The movement for animal liberation is the bastard child of social justice. Many people fighting for justice on other issues simply don’t see it as relevant to their struggle. Animal liberation isn’t taken seriously, and those fighting for it often have their priorities questioned. Even as we fight for an egalitarian world, a hierarchy of social justice persists. Animal rights always takes a back seat to any other issue.
What many people don’t see is that it is all part of the same struggle....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 7:38pm PDT
America’s internal “gulag”-the imprisonment of immigrants in the US
A network of prison facilities in which detainees are held indefinitely without charges, denied access to attorneys and family, terrorized by dogs, and subjected to abuse tantamount to torture, as well as sexual humiliation. This description applies not just to Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram Air Base, but also to another “gulag” of jails and detention facilities strung across the United States in which tens of thousands of immigrant workers are being held by US Immigration and Customs Enfo...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 4:33pm PDT
White House Environmental Chief Cooney Watered Down Climate Reports
The New York Times reported that a White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming. The official -- Philip Cooney -- is chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Before coming to the White House in 2001, he was a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute. We speak with Greenpeace and the Sierra Club....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 4:32pm PDT