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Last night at 12am, some 200 police officers evicted Brukman, a suit factory under worker control. The 55 workers, mostly women took over the factory in December, 2001. This is the third eviction that the workers have experienced....

Of course, in telling of Ali's plight, it was necessary to turn the tale into a pallid human interest story, replete with "gee isn't this a terrible tragedy" overtones, instead of discussing it as the consequence of a vicious attack by the world's strongest nation on one of the world's weakest. The decontextualized narrative that accompanied assorted visuals from Ali's bedside brought home in stark relief just how deep into the pit of military boosterism the media in the "free ...

Four days after the attack on the Achille Lauro, on 11 October 1985, a bomb demolished the Santa Ana offices of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, killing Alex Odeh, the organization's regional executive director. Seven others were injured. According to a New York Times article the following day, "The Jewish Defense League, often at odds with the [ADC], denied responsibility for the bombing but praised the action."...

The fact that the US has denied UN inspectors back in, even at the urging of UN Inspector Hans Blix, suggests the US will plant evidence of WMDs in order to retroactively justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq....

CFL ALERT: Human rights organizations charge Israel with the illegal arrest and detention of over 300 Palestinian children. Many of these children are being held without charges, others have been held for months for merely throwing stones at Israeli tanks....

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For the first time, members of Critical Mass, the bicyclists who ride en masse in Berkeley, San Francisco and hundreds of other cities across the nation, will meet at 5:30 p.m. today at the Fruitvale BART station and ride across the Miller-Sweeney bridge into Alameda. http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~1334587,00.html#...

April 18th, 2003 - Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Baghdad after Friday prayers, to protest against what they see as a foreign occupation of their country....

Two leading evangelical Christian missionary organizations said Tuesday that they have teams of workers poised to enter Iraq to address the physical and spiritual needs of a large Muslim population....

TWO former employees of Levi Strauss have filed a lawsuit against the jeans-maker, alleging they were dismissed for blowing the whistle over tax dealings that they say inflated Levi’s bottom line by almost $400 million (£255 million) in 2002....