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Millions march against war: At home NEW YORK – Braving frigid cold, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators rallied near the United Nations, Feb. 15, to protest George W. Bush’s threatened war on Iraq and to support UN efforts to stop the war. The rally here was part of a coordinated one-day protest in 600 cities across the nation and around the world. According to Indymedia estimates, 11 million people marched and rallied against the Bush war plans, making it the largest peace outpouring in world history. Over 1 million rallied...
Posted: Fri, Feb 21, 2003 8:16am PST
BTL: Massive Worldwide Protests Demand a Peaceful Resolution of Iraq Crisis Interviews with Leslie Cagan, veteran protest organizer, and Angela Davis, long-time activist, conducted by Between The Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Feb 21, 2003 2:27am PST
Peace Protests and Media Bias Feb. 15 was a day of global humanitarianism. Millions of people all over the world, especially in western European, demonstrated for peace and against the war on Iraq. They displayed slogans rejecting war, supported a peaceful solution to the crisis and condemned the US president for his threats. The largest demonstrations took place in countries like Britain, Italy, Spain and Australia which support the US-led war. There were demonstrations in the United States and even in Israel....
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 11:01pm PST
Statement on the arrest of Sami Al-Arian A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition statement on the arrest of Florida
Professor Sami Al-Arian...
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 9:43pm PST
KPFA Flashpoints Feb 20: Anne Gwynn again in Nablus; new Edward Said lecture KPFA FLASHPOINTS FEB 20, 2003
-ISM member ANNE GWYNN reports again from Nablus
-Excerpts from last night's sell-out lecture at UC Berkeley by Professor Edward Said..
-Pacifica Radio Network fund drive
(audio link in full story test below or see http:flashpoints.net)...
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 8:20pm PST
Antarctica Says No to War 
And You Thought It Was Cold in New York...
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 6:46pm PST
International Peace Activists In Iraq As Human Shields To Be War Criiminals 
American, British, German, French and other peace activists from around the world, are in Bahgdad as human shields to protect the Iraqi people from a massive barrage of Weapons of Mass Destruction from the U.S. Rumsfield has branded them as "war criminals" for a humanitarian act - putting themselves in harms way for fellow human beings who cannot protect themselves....
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 1:14pm PST
Gulf War Vets Assoc. Questions who started the oil well fires For the past six years, the American Gulf War Veterans Association have received numerous reports from veterans stating that US forces were responsible for the setting of the oil well fires at the end of the Gulf War. These testimonies are now being taken very seriously in light of recent revelations of the events that occurred during the first Gulf War....
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 1:09pm PST
Michael Powell, FCC Chief Faces Setback in Telecom Deregulation might actually want to look at a diff site for this, the popups are murder on here....
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 12:24pm PST
Greenpeace confronts US military shipment as it tries to leave the Netherlands While all this was going on a police boat crossed the bow of the Rainbow Warrior, only a few metres away, the Captain radioed the police that they had just made a very dangerous move crossing so close in front of the bow. The police boat then came along the starboard side and rammed the Rainbow Warrior several times. I was on the bridge when people started shouting they are going to board, the police are getting ready to board. The doors to the bridge were locked, all hatches and portholes se...
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 12:11pm PST
Spanish Democracy? 
Oppressive crackdown on Basques by the Spanish government....
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 11:31am PST
Free Speech Silenced: Palestinian Activist Sami Al-Arian Arrested In Florida 
2/20/2003: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Palestinian professor in Florida and three others were arrested on Thursday in a case about alleged financing of terrorism, federal law enforcement officials said. They said federal agents arrested Sami Al-Arian, a tenured computer sciences professor at the University of South Florida, two others in Tampa, Florida, and one person in Illinois, near Chicago....
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 9:58am PST
Bill O'Reilly Assists Cyber Terrorists by Falling for Defamation Scam Last night on the "Factor," Bill O'Reilly read an email, on the air, from Stephen DeVoy, dissident writer and owner of several dissident websites. The only problem is, Stephen DeVoy did not write the letter. The letter was written by a group of anti-Arab/anti-Muslim Cyber Terrorists waging a death threat campaign against Stephen DeVoy. Apparently, Mr. O'Reilly is so keen to defame the antiwar movement, that he fails to adequately verify any defamatory information sent his way. W...
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 8:51am PST
POLICE RAID AGAINST BASQUE NEWSPAPER MAIN BASQUE LANGUAGE MEDIA GROUP closed by the police....
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 5:45am PST
Iranian-backed forces cross into Iraq
By Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran and Guy Dinmore in Washington...
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2003 1:44am PST
Activists Arrested for Posting Pictures of Iraqis in NYC wow, NYC is really out of control . . . that situation is going to explode any minute....
Posted: Wed, Feb 19, 2003 9:41pm PST
As the Economy Crumbles Summarizing the shitty economic news of the week
Issue #3 - Monday, February 17, 2003
As the Economy Crumbles features selected news summaries with links to further information about the lousy economic trends affecting many of us. The rose-colored rhetoric, hype and spin from economists, bureaucrats, PR flacks and analysts emanating from Wall Street and the financial media requires a skeptical mind and a well-functioning bullshit detector....
Posted: Wed, Feb 19, 2003 8:08pm PST
antiwar groups vow to shut down Britain Anti-war campaigners are planning massive civil disobedience and direct
action protests to try to bring Britain to a halt on the day any bombing of
Iraq begins....
Posted: Wed, Feb 19, 2003 7:42pm PST
The Distorted Face of the Media - Recent Media Attempts To Undermine the Anti-war Movement An article discussing US media attempts to undermine the force and shape of the current anti-war movements, with a focus on media imbalance in the month of February. CNN, MSNBC, and FOX stations are discussed in the article....
Posted: Wed, Feb 19, 2003 5:53pm PST
FLASHPOINTS: 65 YEAR OLD ANNE GWYNN, OTHERS SHOT IN NABLUS, LIVE AUDIO REPORTS KPFA Flashpoints excerpt Feb 19, 2003
-a series of phone messages over five hours last night left by Welsh nurse Anne Gwynn in Nablus, occupied Palestine, as she and other ambulance workers tried to evacuate a pregnant woman under fire -- live audio of gunfire, fighting, cries, people getting shot, Anne crying out for the American people to wake up to how their tax dollars are being spent.. YOU WON'T HEAR THIS ON CNN. THIS IS REAL
if the audio upload doesn't come through to Indymedia, tr...
Posted: Wed, Feb 19, 2003 5:44pm PST
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