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LEATHERFOLK should publicly denounce "Abuse Ghraib"
In Pride and peace events,
leatherfolk should carry banners saying
"YES to consensual play; NO to real abuse"....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 11:56am PDT
SBC Strike Enters Final Day
May 24 (BCN) — Striking SBC Communications, Inc. workers on Sunday said they were saving their energy for a large-scale effort today, the final day of the strike, Yonah Diamond, a service technician with SBC in Oakland, said....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 11:46am PDT
stopnader.com
Every vote for Nader is really a vote for Bush
Think about it....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 3:49am PDT
Another Time - Another Terrorism
This is a lesson that Iraqis are beginning to learn. When they hear US
occupiers speak of 'freedom', 'justice', 'democracy', and 'human rights',
all they will hear is the Arabic words meaning 'Father of the Stranger':
Abu Ghraib....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 11:43pm PDT
How you can help Camilo Mejia
This message came from the organization Military Families Speak Out....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 11:16pm PDT
The Free Market Ends in Robbery: Professor Rademacher
"The free market ends in robbery". Professor Rademacher urges an alternative to "naive market fundamentalism". "Seek and you will find. Rhine capitalism and the social market economy could be models of a global, eco-social market economy.."...
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 7:10pm PDT
Eleciton 04: Stop US Aid to Israel
With the worldwide outcry at the murder and torture of Palestinians and theft of Palestinian land for 56 years with US tax dollars, it is long overdue that US voters demand that all candidates oppose US aid to Israel if they want our vote....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 10:10am PDT
Sexual Domination in Uniform: An American Value
The Abu Ghraib portraits of sexual humiliation and submission have
exposed the unbelievably tangled strands of racism, misogyny,
homophobia, national arrogance and hyper-masculinity that
characterize the U.S. military....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 12:44am PDT
CopWatch Explosion in the U.S.
It is now a phenomenon. CopWatch organizations are being set up all over
America, by ordinary citizens, driven to police the police, in grassroots
community efforts....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 12:12am PDT
Dr. George Lakoff
George Lakoff on
The Language of Politics
Real video 80 min May21
This talk analyzes the power of language at the base of political thinking on the right and on the left and delivers a thoughtful roadmap for a progressive values re-emergence in American politics. Dr. Lakoff is associated with the Rockridge Institute, a new progressive think tank. Please give them a visit to learn more.......
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 11:31pm PDT
5/20: After Three-Day Wait Mass. Couples Flock To Wed
The new round of nuptials came as Gov. Mitt Romney took the first steps toward blocking city and town clerks from issuing marriage licenses to out-of-state gay couples, which the Republican governor says is prohibited by state law....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 11:23pm PDT
Currently Employed SCI-Green Prison Guard Supervised Torture of Prisoners in Iraq
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Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 11:09pm PDT
Guard at Prison That Holds Mumia Now Torturing in Iraq
Charles A. Graner, Jr. [see picture, standing arms folded], an army reservist cited in a military report as supervising the torture of Iraqi prisoners, is CURRENTLY EMPLOYED as a prison guard at SCI-Greene. This is the same prison that Mumia Abu-Jamal has been imprisoned on death row at...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:48pm PDT
LOUISIANA's endangered natal clefts
A Louisiana legislator wants to ban low-slung pants which reveal the, ahem, natal cleft......
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 1:21pm PDT
Geneva Accord on Treatment of Prisoners of War
Much has been made of the clear violations of the Geneva Accords by Nazi USA, but the provisions of these accords are not known to most
Americans. Now is the time to become familiar with these accords, detailed on the website of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. See: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 9:39am PDT
'The Neocons made me do it!'
How the lies of famous Anti-War Activist & Ex-U.N. arms inspector, Scott Ritter, Reveal the Strategic
Goals of the Bizarre Iraq War'
Part 5 in a Series, 'The Neocons made me do it!'
(Copied from http://emperors-clothes.com/ritter/mademe.htm)...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 6:25am PDT
White House to Stop Sneaking in Judicial Nominees
Big news! After tremendous outcry from outraged activists (that's
you!), the White House reached an agreement with Senate Democrats
yesterday and vowed to stop installing judicial nominees during
Congressional recesses....
Posted: Fri, May 21, 2004 11:44pm PDT
Where is the Truth in Mainstream Media?
Do you know who owns the media in your part of the country? One of about a dozen companies. One person's thoughts on what has happened to the media and how we can circulate alternative media to the public....
Posted: Fri, May 21, 2004 11:19am PDT
Ignore her Advice at your Peril: Jane Jacobs
"Her message is that to ignore the poor's plight is to allow this pillar of community (marriage) to warp and disintegreate. Then society as a whole risks sliding into a Dark Age." North Americans must heed the warning signs of the next Dark Age or risk cultural collapse....
Posted: Fri, May 21, 2004 8:17am PDT
We are everywhere
An evening with the co-authors of We Are Everywhere: the irresistible rise of global anticapitalism (Verso, 2003), along with other independent media makers recently returned from Iraq. who will present images and stories from the Iraqi uprising and from resistance movements around the world....
Posted: Thu, May 20, 2004 7:51pm PDT