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BRAZIL: New Environment Minister (Translated by Amigos da Terra- Amazonia Basileira)
1) Marina Silva takes over at the Ministry of the Environment, Promises much work.
2) Minister wants to include environmental protection in development banks contracts....
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2003 8:01am PST
King's Widow Speaks Out Against War with Iraq Coretta Scott King said one of the reasons her husband was assassinated was because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. She said King initially feared that if he took a stand against that war, fund-raising for his group would dry up....
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2003 7:39am PST
Venezuela: Oil Workers will take street actions asking for their right to work Venezuelan Oil Workers request that the workings at the contractors companies are started again. Text: Maria Fernanda Pineda
Translation: Trastor (from Panorama Newspaper - Maracaibo)...
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2003 4:59am PST
Fighting Navy use of Sonar; threat to marine mammals // BAY AREA Organization, SeaFlow 
This organization advocates against the Navy's LAF sonar program. Attached is their PSA and more information. Website has helpful information, including KQED interview that details differences of opinion....
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2003 12:56am PST
Call White House-tell them "NO!" to Additional $14 Billion in Aid to Israel Call White House-tell them "NO!" to additional 14 billion in aid to Israel...
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2003 12:17am PST
What Martin Luther King Would Have Said About Iraq War Care to guess what King might think about the Bush push for war in Iraq? King continued: "They watch as we poison their water, as we kill a million acres of their crops. They must weep as the bulldozers roar through their areas preparing to destroy precious trees."...
Posted: Tue, Jan 14, 2003 10:39pm PST
Poster: War for Oil 
All five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council-- Russia, China, France, Britain, and the United States-- have oil companies with a stake in who rules Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Jan 14, 2003 8:42pm PST
Jan 18: Background info on A.N.S.W.E.R. For those of you coming out to protest in SF on Jan 18, learn a little about the group organizing the protest:
http://authoritarianopportunistswhocozyuptogenocidaldictators-forpeace.org/...
Posted: Tue, Jan 14, 2003 5:19pm PST
Greenpeace Protesters Stage Break-in at Nuclear Power Plant (UK) 
Greenpeace campaigners scale the dome containing the pressurized water reactor at Sizewell B nuclear power station, near Leiston, Suffolk, England, Monday, Jan. 13, 2003. Nineteen Greenpeace protesters earlier entered the building and said their action is to highlight poor security at Britain's nuclear power plants and their vulnerability to terrorist attacks, not to tamper with the power station's operations. (AP Photo/Andrew Parsons/PA)...
Posted: Tue, Jan 14, 2003 10:20am PST
Texts of Zapatista speeches, January 1st, 2003 On January 1st, the EZLN's Comandancia (General Command) addressed the crowd of over 20,000 Zapatistas that overtook San Cristobal, Chiapas. The texts of their speeches follow....
Posted: Tue, Jan 14, 2003 10:13am PST
US Media: Champions of Profit, Propaganda and Puffery Will the US Media Cover the January 18th AntiWar Protests? Revisiting The State of the US Media....
Posted: Tue, Jan 14, 2003 8:16am PST
Long live to Norman G. Finkelstein! (by Latuff) 
Son of Maryla Husyt Finkelstein and Zacharias Finkelstein, both survivors of Warsaw Ghetto and concentration camps, Dr. Norman G. Finkelstein is author of four books, including "The Holocaust Industry". It's a great honour to have this cartoon published in his website: http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/id137.htm...
Posted: Tue, Jan 14, 2003 6:42am PST
SURROUND the WHITE HOUSE Jan 18 2003 copy & send image free... 
Bu$h Family is doing to... WE the PEOPLE... what friend... Ken Lay did to ENRON & Employees...
It's TIME to TRANSPLANT the BUSH-ES... OFF Government PROPERTY...
Posted: Mon, Jan 13, 2003 3:44pm PST
new! online A.N.S.W.E.R. -ing service a new web site urges you to go to D.C. on 1/18 and stop this blasted war! oh, and it doubles as an expose on A.N.S.W.E.R., the group that organized the march...
Posted: Mon, Jan 13, 2003 12:07pm PST
Stop the FBI! Stop the Patriot Act! Support Raise the Fist, Jan 24! DAY OF RESISTANCE...
Posted: Mon, Jan 13, 2003 10:55am PST
Bolivia: The national roadblock has started the military have started to use what seems to be live ammunition against the peasants who are blocking the highway through Bolivia....
Posted: Mon, Jan 13, 2003 10:11am PST
Trade Unionists Launch ‘U.S. Labor Against the War’ Article about launching of new group, U.S. Labor Against the War...
Posted: Sun, Jan 12, 2003 4:12pm PST
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