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November 5 battle cry: Defeat the right wing
People's Weekly World Newspaper, Oct 19, 2002
Interviews with labor, civil rights, women’s and peace organizations reveal a concerted nationwide campaign to maximize voter turnout in the Nov. 5 elections in an effort to wrest control of the House of Representatives from the Republican right wing and increase the one-vote Democratic margin in the Senate. A net gain of seven seats will give the Democrats control of the House....
Posted: Mon, Oct 21, 2002 8:20am PDT
Army hacked handicapped man to death
A Colombian army patrol hacked a 34-year old man with Downs’s syndrome to death with a machete in the village of Santiago Perez. Possible motive: vengeance...
Posted: Mon, Oct 21, 2002 4:33am PDT
The Growing Prison/Court Industry
The prison/justice industry needs business; the more arrests, the more money is gained for the county coffers....
Posted: Sun, Oct 20, 2002 8:29pm PDT
Iraq War 'Unjustifiable', says Bush's Church Head
"All attempts at a 'dialogue' between the President and his own church over the war had fallen on deaf ears at the White House. "
The church vs the right wing??...
Posted: Sun, Oct 20, 2002 12:31pm PDT
Entertainer Harry Belafonte Sparks Dispute Over Provocative Remarks About Colin Powell
Project 21, a leadership network for conservative blacks, said Belafonte should apologize to Powell, who director David Almasi (WHO IS JEWISH) said "of all people, is one of the most independent thinkers in the Bush Cabinet."...
Posted: Sun, Oct 20, 2002 11:16am PDT
Greenpeace Activists Shut Down Los Angeles and New York Exxonmobil Gas Stations
Brave work, to chain yourself to a gas pump - wouldn't try that in DC . . .
But seriously, Greenpeace does so much around the world, it's amazing....
Posted: Sun, Oct 20, 2002 10:04am PDT
Excellent!! Green Senate Candidate Ted Glick Stages Sit-in for Open Debates!!
Go Ted!!! Beautiful!!!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 19, 2002 11:45pm PDT
Title: Israel\'s Pro War Virus Attacks Capitol Hill
Additionally, I also wonder, “Shouldn’t Netanyahu be required to register as an agent of a foreign principal with the Justice Department before giving the Congress his biased spiel?” He claimed he was speaking
“as a private citizen” on behalf of the “overwhelming majority of Israelis.” If that’s true, and if he isn’t otherwise exempted under the law, (see, Title 22 U.S.C. 611, et seq., the “Foreign Agent Registration Act”), then why hasn’t the Likud Party partisan registered?...
Posted: Sat, Oct 19, 2002 11:13pm PDT
Homeless Depot - Toronto
Got this email from a Canada list I'm on - it sounds like a good idea!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 19, 2002 10:20pm PDT
IDF protects Palestinian olive picking ?
A report from PeaceNow activist about Olive picking...
Posted: Sat, Oct 19, 2002 10:07pm PDT
Brutality of the world most moral army
The Israeli army removed them by force from their land - some may call this reverse ethnic cleansing...
Posted: Sat, Oct 19, 2002 10:03pm PDT
ANARCHIST ANTI-WAR CONFERENCE OCT. 25-27. THIS COMING WEEKEND!!!!
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Posted: Sat, Oct 19, 2002 8:12pm PDT
The Resistance Gallery
Re-live the Bush residency in protest pictures!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 19, 2002 7:51pm PDT
Israeli "Settlers" Shoot At Palestinian Olive Workers & Peace Activists
Israeli "settlers" shoot at Palestinian farmers and peace activists (read hero's) while the IDF ("the world's most moral army") does nothing....
Posted: Sat, Oct 19, 2002 7:33pm PDT
Israeli "Settlers" Shoot At Palestinian Olive Workers And Peace Activists
Israeli "settlers" (read nazis) shoot at Palestinian olive workers and peace activists (read hero's)...
Posted: Sat, Oct 19, 2002 6:53pm PDT
Vietnam: The Soldier's Revolt
"Our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near-mutinous. Conditions exist among American forces in Vietnam that have only been exceeded in this century by... the collapse of the Tsarist armies in 1916 and 1917."
-- Armed Forces Journal, June 1971 (1)...
Posted: Sat, Oct 19, 2002 5:49pm PDT
On the war cargo: Open letter to ILWU Rank & File
The following appears in the November issue of the Industrial Worker:, published by the IWW, iww.org...
Posted: Fri, Oct 18, 2002 6:01pm PDT
WHY THE WORLD HATES AMERICA
Why does everybody hate America? Gee, I have no clue whatsoever. Could it be because......
Posted: Fri, Oct 18, 2002 11:40am PDT
Hundreds of Thousands March as Strike Grips Italy
If only we could get this happening here . . ....
Posted: Fri, Oct 18, 2002 11:01am PDT