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RNC Protester Gets Within 10 Feet of Dick Cheney
This guy is definitely the most accomplished RNC protester as of yet, and personally I'm very happy for him, but the question remains, where are the thousands of other pranksters and die-hards? Is this the best we've got? One guy gets within ten feet of the vice president and yells a couple a slogans. Well shiver me timbers, those bad kids make me scared !...
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 7:32pm PDT
Republican Convention Stress Sending Record Number of Psychiatric Patients to Hospitals
For many, the security crackdown has brought back some painful memories and anxieties from 9/11. And so psychiatric wards, that are usually empty in August, are now filled....
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 6:18pm PDT
The hidden wounds of war
Soldiers can sustain psychological wounds for a lifetime...
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 4:47pm PDT
Ft. Bragg PTSD rates comparable to Vietnam era
“The numbers are looking more and more like Vietnam,” said Capt. Jill Breitbach, chief of psychology services for the 82nd....
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 4:06pm PDT
Building Bridges Radio - UNPRECENDENTED: THE FLORIDA ELECTION DEBACLE
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 27 minute Radio Program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON LA INDYMEDIA AUDIO LINK....
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 1:38pm PDT
The Blood on Nalgene Water Bottles
The Nalge Nunc Corporation, makers of the popular Nalgene water bottles, produces and distributes devices used in animal research....
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 11:01am PDT
Education is not a Commodity for Trade
"Educational policy can and must bring light into globalization.. The world is no longer as simple as in biblical times when the traders could be simply chased from the temple. Education must remain master in its own house.. Education is not a commodity.."...
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 7:20am PDT
9/1 in NYC: 5,000 person unemployment line!
Don’t let the Convention be the only statement New York City makes that week: stand up and be heard!
On Wednesday, September 1, THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE, a symbolic unemployment line representing the 1.2 million jobs lost overall since March 2001 and the more than eight million Americans who are currently unemployed, will wind through New York City. More than 5,000 citizens, each holding a pink slip, will form a line stretching from the corner of Broadway and Wall St., up to 31st St. and then w...
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 12:32am PDT
What will happen on A31?
We will turn the streets of NYC into stages of resistance and forums for debate. We are calling for actions focusing on Republican events throughout the day. We are asking all New Yorkers to join us in the streets on this day. If you don't want to risk the streets, we ask that you at least participate from the sidewalks....
Posted: Mon, Aug 30, 2004 11:51pm PDT
Removing Intelligence From America
The Europeans and the Asians cannot understand why Americans don't know anything. Is it due to our failing educational system, our focus on money and consumerism, bureaucratic paralysis and the emphasis on job specialization, our isolation from other nations, or all of the above? I fill in "all of the above" with my number two pencil....
Posted: Mon, Aug 30, 2004 11:04pm PDT
Cell phone numbers, emails, and other info on key RNC staff
from nyc.indymedia
Phone, email, and other contact info for key RNC staff. Enjoy!!!
Phone list edit.pdf (34 k)
FORWARD AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE - PRINT AND DISTRIBUTE AT ALL ANTI-RNC EVENTS!!!...
Posted: Mon, Aug 30, 2004 8:38pm PDT
Sex, Art & Politics Takes on John Ashcroft
Mark I. Chester and Dr. Carol Queen's Center for Sex and Culture announce a series of events in September on radical sex photography and artistic freedom featuring New York City photographer Barbara Nitke to coincide with the Folsom Street Fair....
Posted: Mon, Aug 30, 2004 5:59pm PDT
ACLU Criticizes Secret Service Investigation of NYC Indy
In a letter sent today in response to a grand jury subpoena issued by the Secret Service, the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union said they are representing a web hosting service and administrators of an independent media website regarding the anonymous posting of publicly available information about delegates to the Republican National Convention...
Posted: Mon, Aug 30, 2004 5:47pm PDT
citizen
yep...did you miss THIS one? go whine about the holocaust.
the advantage i enjoy is that i'm neither dem or rep.
call it the 'truth' party....
Posted: Mon, Aug 30, 2004 5:10pm PDT
Gilardin's response to KPFA staff letter #1
repost of Maria Gilardin's response to staff letter, including a summary of staff collaboration during 10-year attempted takeover...
Posted: Mon, Aug 30, 2004 4:27pm PDT
Diebold GEMS central tabulator contains a stunning security hole
By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date not a single location in the U.S. has implemented security measures to fully mitigate the risks....
Posted: Mon, Aug 30, 2004 3:59pm PDT
Operation Sibyl Drops Some Knowledge
Five people - including local Bay Area seminarian, Becky Johnson - were arrested on Thursday after dropping a "Bush/Truth" banner down the face of the Plaza Hotel. They are currently facing trumped-up charges which could put them in jail for up to 7 years....
Posted: Mon, Aug 30, 2004 3:42pm PDT