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In-situ crop diversity, wild relatives and biotech GE pollen contamination In-situ (on site) conservation of crop biodiversity is another answer to the fallacy of genetic engineering (GMO/GE) monoculture crops promoted by biotech corporations. Wild relatives of crops like rice and maize can be intercrossed/introgressed to increase resistance to insect pests and "weed" competition. We only need to protect the wild relatives of crops like rice, potatoes and maize.....
Posted: Thu, Nov 4, 2004 11:15am PST
After the 2004 elections: the political and social crisis will intensify The reelection of George W. Bush, achieved largely through the mobilization of the evangelical Christian vote on the basis of overtly religious appeals, will have far-reaching and disastrous consequences for American democracy....
Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 9:55pm PST
Election News Roundup-- Halliburton Declared Winner! In A Roundup Of The Nations Election News, It Appears That By A Landslide, Halliburton Is This Years Biggest Winner From The 2004 Elections! Kerry Delivers Election To Bush In A Flip Flop!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 8:31pm PST
What We Call Peace is Little Better Than Capitulation To a Corporate Coup This is an edited extract from the 2004 Sydney Peace Prize lecture delivered by Arundhati Roy at the Seymour Center last night.
Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice. Today, it is not merely justice itself, but the idea of justice that is under attack.
The assault on vulnerable, fragile sections of society is so complete, so cruel and so clever that its sheer audacity has eroded our definition ...
Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 2:38pm PST
United Kingdom G8 Protest "Days of Dissent! Reflections on Summit Mobilisations"...
Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 1:14pm PST
Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution 
When I was very young, I remember my family taking my uncle to Logan International Airport in Boston. One side of the Sumner Tunnel had been blocked to traffic due to security situations, because Fidel Castro was due to be passing through at any moment. This was the very day that he made his famous speech at Harvard University....
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 5:39am PDT
"An European Social Forum in London" PHOTOS REPORTAGE from LondonESF2004 
320 photos, the days of the ESF, the demonstration against war and the intelligent police of Blair. Things of the other world......
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 5:29am PDT
an anarchist analyssi of RNC 2004 I don't agree with everything in this piece (i don't agree that united for peace and Justice [the organziers of 500,000 person mass march on Sunday] should be dismissed as just a group of liberals), however this piece has some real insight as to where our movement stands as we enter a new period....
RNC REDUX: Anarchist Analysis of the 2004 RNC Protests
by Alexander Trocchi, CrimethInc. International News Agent Provocateur...
Posted: Sat, Oct 30, 2004 2:16am PDT
China Expects the Collapse of the Dollar Since 2001, the dollar has lost 40% of its value; half of the loss has occurred since April 2003. In 2004 alone, exports from China to the US rose 35%. China depends on American consumers as much as the US depends on China's financing of deficits....
Posted: Fri, Oct 29, 2004 8:05am PDT
9-11 Truth Forcing Its Way to the Surface With researchers challenging the official lie all over the country, we have a chance to break this story before the election, but we need your help!...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 12:20pm PDT
Eminem joins the black bloc in anti-Bush video! Eminem's new video to his song 'Mosh' sees him join the black bloc and storm some grand building. Once inside, however, the bloc forms an orderly queue to register to vote!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 7:13am PDT
Fluid Genome: Collapse of the Biotech Empire Mae-Wan Ho's book "Living With the Fluid Genome" exposes the biotech corporation's faulty science of genetic determinism and other outdated neo-Darwinian eugenics theory.....
Posted: Sun, Oct 24, 2004 11:06pm PDT
Stop the November Surprise! CAFTA supporters are preparing a "November Surprise"
Join Central Americans in Mobilizing to Stop Post-Election
Vote in US Congress!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 23, 2004 12:06pm PDT
Eerie silence surrounds failure to ratify FTAA Treaty 
Excerpts from Miami Today journalist Claudio Mendonca’s 10/21/04 story “ FTAA or no, Miami leaders forge ahead on Latin Trade”.
Because of an impasse between the US and Brazil and Argentina on commercial issues ranging from dumping to subsides, the 34-country Free Trade Area of the Americas, originally scheduled for ratification by the end of this year, has been put on hold....
Posted: Sat, Oct 23, 2004 9:35am PDT
Venezuela: Free the O-12th Prisoners and the Revolution will not be Terrorised Bolivarian revolution...
Posted: Fri, Oct 22, 2004 4:15pm PDT
Criticism of the Social State is Irrational "Paul A Samuelson, one of the most important economists of the 20th century, worries about the state of the US economy. He fears falling wages..`We in the US are on the way to a plutocratic democracy. Neither Bush nor Kerry can stop outsourcing'."...
Posted: Wed, Oct 20, 2004 9:13am PDT
European Social Forum closes European Social Forum closes with demonstration and actions European Social Forum closes with demonstration and actions...
Posted: Wed, Oct 20, 2004 6:36am PDT
Oxfam America Activists Mobilize, Demanding Fair Trade Certified(tm) Coffee at Local Super Today international development agency Oxfam America announced the start of Check Out Fair Trade, the second phase of its coffee campaign. Mobilized activists and supporters will visit their local supermarkets and ask store managers to stock and promote Fair Trade Certified(tm) coffee....
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 9:06pm PDT
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: More of the Same though touted as a "reformer" by Washington, new Indonesian President "SBY" is a defender of the status quo
out to please international investors and preserve Indonesian military hegemony throughout the archipelago...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 3:36pm PDT
European Social Forum fails to attract the poor, activists say LONDON : Activists have hit out after the latest European Social Forum (ESF), held in London, failed to attract the most vulnerable and deprived members of society due to being staged in one of the world's most expensive cities.
The three-day forum ended Sunday with the publication of a text calling for a Europe that was both pacifist and social-minded, and also for a day of demonstration throughout the continent on March 19, 2005....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 12:52pm PDT
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