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Craig Rosenbaugh on the Anti-war Struggle An excellent analysis of why the peace movements fail to stop war and a call for radical direct action....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 11:42am PST
Meet the people of Baghdad 
The 'human shields' have been sending back snap shots of the people of Baghdad. Now a rare chance to actually see those the American taxpayer will be party to slaughtering. "There will not be a safe place in Baghdad. The sheer size of this has never been seen before, never been contemplated before." Unnamed Pentagon Official. "You have this simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days or weeks but in minutes." Harlan Ullman, one of t...
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 10:31am PST
Australian PM Placed Under House Arrest By Greenpeace 
ANTI-WAR protesters blocked the gates of the prime minister's official residence in Canberra today, forcing John Howard to leave on foot by a back entrance....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 10:08am PST
Why we need to fight the LEIU in Seattle For close to 250 local and state police intelligence units, the problem of how to spy on dissidents was solved by membership in the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU). As journalist David Kaplan saw it, the LEIU was a "private fedrally-funded network of computerized files." Who was in the files?...
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 9:01am PST
TreeSit Goes Up Late Tuesday After City Wounds In Lawrence Kansas 2000 year old elm tree is hacked to pieces but still standing, on a lot in Lawrence Kansas by the local chain of Borders corporation.
The company wants to turn the little over an are plot into a parking lot to remedy the problems of the weekly filling of the lots as a product of the nightlife in Lawrence.
As a result Cicha (activist) in direct action ascended the elm late last night and plans to stay until the corporation and the city decides to turn reserve their plans for a parking l...
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 9:00am PST
A tribute to Rachel Corrie Rachel you have left your country, a thousand miles away.You traveled to a foreign land, to protect people unrelated to you. People, you realized, are just human beings like you. You died in line of duty ( a peace and justice duty)
You are a martyr of peace. Fly in the sky, rest in peace, peace that you so much loved....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 8:56am PST
Justice Scalia Bans Broadcast Media From Event Where He's Accepting Free-Speech Award "The Constitution just sets minimums," Scalia said. "Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 7:44am PST
Code Pink Vigil and Arrest in front of White House Code Pink Vigil held on International Women's Day. Over 20 arrested....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 7:33am PST
Who Could Have Ordered Wiretapping of French, German EU Offices? Telephone tapping systems have been found at offices used by France and Germany in the building where European Union leaders are due to hold a summit from Thursday, an EU spokesman said on Wednesday....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 6:19am PST
War is not the Path to Peace American jurists see a breach of international law in a preventive war.. Aggressive war is one of the most serious transgressions of international law..Global Action to Prevent War. LCNP
http://www.lcnp.org/global/IRAQLetter.htm...
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 4:50am PST
Bugging devices found at EU The discovery of the telephone bugging systems was first reported by Le Figaro newspaper, which blamed the US....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 4:36am PST
Emergency Protest and Civil Disobedience at Oscars Ceremony in Hollywood This is a call to action for protest and civil disobedience at the Academy Awards show in Hollywood. Take a stand this Sunday March 23 at 3:30 pm on the corner of Hollywood Blvd. and Highland Ave. in the heart of Hollywood....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 4:10am PST
U.S. Puppet in Colombia Seeking Scapegoats for Losing War on Communist Rebels Veteran political analyst and historian Domingo Alberto Rangel writes that despite monopolizing money, arms and troops on a level never seen before, Colombian president Alvaro Uribe has little to show for his 7 months in power....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 3:47am PST
Interviews from the streets of Baghdad (video/x-pn-realvideo 7.1MB) Do the Iraqi people want war?
Interviews from the streets of Baghdad....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 3:08am PST
Call for an International Boycott and Go-slow A call has been issued by a small Australian peace group, for a consumer boycott of all goods and services from the United States, Britain, Australia and their allies, and for everyone in these countries who is opposed to this war, to go slow economically in every way possible, until the war is over....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 1:38am PST
Rachel Corries Memorial Service Interrupted By Israeli Army 
Israeli forces fired teargas and stun grenades yesterday in an attempt to break up a memorial service for Rachel Corrie, the American peace activist killed by an army bulldozer in Gaza on Sunday.
Witnesses including several dozen foreigners and Palestinian supporters say Israeli armoured vehicles tried to disperse the gathering at the spot in Rafah refugee camp where Ms Corrie was crushed to death....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 1:23am PST
Flashpoints Radio Mar 18: eyewitness to Rachel Corrie's death comes forward FLASHPOINTS RADIO, MARCH 18, 2003
-The Israeli Propaganda Machine Call the Slaying of International Solidarity Worker Rachel Corrie an Unfortunate Accident; ISM Workers Allege Her Killing was Premeditated
-Also, International Legal Experts Say the Bush War is Clearly Illegal
-Actor Martin Sheen Speaks Out Against the War and the Blacklisting of Actors. -Human Rights Activist Van Jones on the Post-9/11 Crackdown on Civil Liberties...
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2003 11:40pm PST
Palestinians Mourn the Death of Rachel You won't see this story in the U.S. corporate mainstream newspapers. No, they only want to portray Palestinians as hating Americans when it is only the American government they hate (just like many of us, American citizens, such as myself). In fact, today I saw a headline on a mainstream paper, maybe it was the NY Times, that had on its front page, "Palestinians Cheer on Saddam". This is how the Zionists spin the news for us. Aren't we so lucky?...
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2003 9:47pm PST
CBC Segment on Uranium 238 Munitions (video/x-pn-realvideo 7.9MB) CBC segement on DU munitions, interview with Maj. Doug Rokke. 11 min....
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2003 9:19pm PST
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