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Freedom means knowing how big your cage is On January 20, 1969, during the inaugural parade for Richard Nixon, I stood in a crowd of onlookers on Pennsylvania Avenue and when Nixon's limousine passed by I threw an apple at the car. It bounced off the car behind the one carrying Tricky Dick (who now seems like a liberal compared to the likes of George W., Bill Clinton and John Kerry; seriously). No law enforcement authority rushed into the crowd looking for the perpetrator. Imagine if I had repeated my act at today's inauguration. Ever...
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 1:07pm PST
Urgent Action! Racist Music Attacks Asian Tsunami Victims at Hot 97, New York City! Calling A Protest Letter And Rally Against The Radio Station!...
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 4:17am PST
Seattle Central Community College Students Force Army Recruiters off Campus Among countless counter-inaugural actions held nationwide on January 20, 2005, the feistiest one took place in Seattle. Look at the photograph of Seattle Central Community College students forcing Army recruiters off campus. Naturally, no national media carried this news except Yahoo! News. What makes this action especially promising? The class and race of the students who organized it. According to Andrew Goldstein's profile of Seattle Central students, "everyone at Seattle Central l...
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 3:13am PST
Ohio: IWW Organizer Fired It was 6 months January 10, 2005 that I will have been fired from Wild Oats under what many believe to be questionable circumstances. Not only has Wild Oats ignored the unions attempt for the exact reason for my termination, they have also ignored the hundreds of Wild Oats shoppers who have demanded an answer....
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 12:48am PST
In Defense of Animals (IDA) News Tips for winter health followed by several news items and things you can do for each:...
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 12:40am PST
"Fight or Walk: The Chicago Transit Fare Strike" The purpose of this article is to help us discuss the strengths and weaknesses of our fare strike campaign in Chicago, as well as to help groups in other cities who want to organize around transit issues. When we first decided to do this campaign, there wasn’t much to read on how other people had organized fare strikes. Hopefully this can be useful to other groups who want to use similar tactics....
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 12:11am PST
Seattle, WA - Protesters chase recruiters off campus 
Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Due, right, a U.S. Army recruiter, is surrounded by protesters at Seattle Central Community College, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005, in Seattle...
Posted: Sat, Jan 22, 2005 11:51pm PST
Venezuela in the Spotlight: Lou Dobbs Show May the new year be full of surprises! May we finally put the horse before the cart and mend our own pockets before falling to the destructive myths of unilateralisma nd offensive self-defense! Clif Ross is a Bay Area activist who recently returned from Venezuela....
Posted: Sat, Jan 22, 2005 8:22am PST
Leonard Peltier Support Update We currently have some exciting legal strategies going for Leonard.
There are more to come. We urge you to regularly (& frequently)
visit our Web site at http://www.peltiersupport.org for up-to-date
information on the Peltier case....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 7:59pm PST
NOW Activists to Rally in DC tomorrow On Jan. 22 the National Organization for Women and its Capital City chapter will commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which legalized a woman's right to abortion in the United States. NOW activists will gather in front of the Supreme Court to tell the courts, the administration, and Congress, "We won't go back!"...
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 7:46pm PST
1/20 DC Coronation Parade Stopped by Protests The dreams of the faithful who came to honor the Christian crusaders were shattered today amid chants and tear-gas, when what was expected to be a grand victory march down Pennsylvania Avenue descended into an embarassing public spectacle for the president that temporarily brought his motorcade to a complete hault....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 5:09am PST
British Newspapers Mock Bush Inauguration 
Editors of major London newspapers wasted no time mocking President Bush's inauguration address.
Assorted splash headlines will greet readers on Friday morning:
"BUSH: I SWEAR IT'S IRAN NEXT, George Bush pledged all-out global war on terrorists and tyrants," headlines the STAR....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 1:09am PST
NOW Calls for Resignation of Harvard University's President The National Organization for Women calls for the resignation of Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, who has failed to lead the prominent (and previously all-male) university toward true inclusion of women....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 11:02pm PST
Bush Said "Freedom" 76 Times in 35 Paragraphs Bush used code words for "Freedom" 76 times in just thirty-five paragraphs today. You'd never know that in our time Bush's racist, sexist, authoritarian, "Christian conservative" bullies have championed every kind of tyranny....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 5:16pm PST
Bob's Dream Investigated by the FBI Bob Ecoffey, the recently downsized Director of Bureau of Tribal Police, and the person responsible for naming Arlo Looking Cloud responsible for the murder of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, has been troubled by the very dream which helped Indian Bob indict Arlo. Some people have been poking holes in that dream which was originally interpreted by an medicine man, and most recently adjudicated by Judge Lisa Cook. And the dream still just won't give Bob any rest, so we had to call in the FBI to inve...
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 3:37pm PST
Why Uncle Sam won't tell you what not to eat Weak Links in the Food Chain...
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 10:22am PST
Building Bridges Radio: Representative John Conyers Building Bridges: Your Communiyt and Labor Report presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK....
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 2:06pm PST
foie gras food fights in Portland An order of duck liver, food fight on the side:
When animal rights activists targeted foie gras, they were served a heated debate about the ethics of dining, Portland-style...
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 1:40pm PST
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