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Nike Watch: Building Toward May Day Actions!!!
May 1 is international workers' day in many parts of the world and will be
a key day for the "Play Fair" campaign in the Philippines, Hong Kong,
Indonesia, India, Netherlands, Sweden and many other countries. The on-line
campaign tool-kit has a printable campaign petition and lots of ideas for
how you can support the campaign on May 1 in your town or city....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 10:43pm PDT
April 7th Protest in NYC (video/quicktime 39.9MB)
NEW YORK - Some 80 New York anti-war activists took to the streets this morning, returning to the doors of the Carlyle Group, the secretive investment house that helps propel the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq through its holdings in armaments companies. They were picking up where they left off exactly one year ago, when more than 70 activists from student, community, religious, and labor groups were arrested while demonstrating outside the Manhattan offices of a Carlyle subsidiary. The acti...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 10:40pm PDT
Hydrogen HUMvee Highway 2 martial law
Arnold's recent visit 2 UC Davis heralded his hydrogen highway HUMvee plan 4 CA. The water needed 4 the hydrogen fuel cells no doubt diverted from the local rivers?...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 8:44pm PDT
California RNC Delegates in NYC next September
some resources for californians coming to nyc for the rnc next summer. Please come to NYC!!!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 6:49pm PDT
Israel kills seven in Gaza invasion
Nine Palestinian men have been shot dead, the youngest 13 years old, in an Israeli raid on the the town of Bait Lahiya in the Gaza Strip....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 5:17pm PDT
Civilians die as Fallujah ceasefire fails
United States forces and Iraqi insurgents traded machine-gun fire, mortars and grenades for four hours in Fallujah early yesterday, killing six civilians and breaking a tentative ceasefire, residents said....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 5:14pm PDT
Poland mulls Iraq exit options
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland said on Wednesday it was reviewing its position in Iraq but would not pull its troops out suddenly or without Washington's approval....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 5:11pm PDT
Bush Says World Owes Israel's Sharon a 'Thank You'
US President George Bush has lavished praise on the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, saying world leaders owe him a 'thank you.'...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 5:08pm PDT
Bush threatens Iran over nukes as Israeli nuclear whistleblower is silenced
Nuclear-Armed Iran Would Be 'Intolerable' -Bush
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Israel continues to produce atomic weapons and already has as many as 300 warheads, experts said today as the country released a man imprisoned for 18 years for leaking nuclear secrets....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 2:16pm PDT
Tension forms when Soldiers take down posters of Al-Sadr
When the US talks about "freedom" one really has to wonder what they mean. Closing a newspaper for inciting violence is bad enough, but going into businesses and homes and destroying anything thats anti-coalition seems about as despotic as one can get. Soldiers will beat up Iraqis and confiscate and destroy pictures of Saddam or Sadr. One wonders if US soliders would do they same if they found a picture of Kerry or other leaders the mostly Republican Coalition Provisional Authority ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 2:08pm PDT
Saudi dissidents: 'Regime' is cracking
Leading Saudi dissidents have said the latest attack in the kingdom's capital is an indication of the government's failure to adequately address calls for reform....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 2:01pm PDT
US destroying Falluja homes
Ferocious fighting in the Iraqi town of Falluja has grown so intense that US occupation forces have begun destroying buildings and homes....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 2:00pm PDT
BUSH'S 'TRANSFER OF POWER' GAMBIT IN IRAQ
President Bush has no intention of giving up Washington's dominant role in Iraq after June 30. But he needs help from the UN for his plans to work....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 11:51am PDT
Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu Released After 18 Years
On the morning that Mordechai Vanunu is released from prison after serving 18 years for revealing to the world that Israel had a nuclear arsenal, we go to Ashkelon to speak with his adoptive parents and a coordinator of the US Campaign to Free Mordecai Vanunu....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 11:15am PDT
Tripping up on Iraq's crossed wires
The US is not only failing to engage with Iraqi politics to good effect, it is also engaging in tactics that will inflame things further, says Paul McGeough....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 6:57am PDT
CRUEL CHOICES IN SUDAN
Arab Military dictatorships enforcing Islamic law mostly run Sudan since independence from the UK in 1956. Over the past 20 years, a civil war pitting black Christians and Animists of the south against the Arab-Muslims of the north has brought at least 1.5 million war- and famine-related deaths....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 6:57am PDT
68 Killed, 200 Injured In Basra Blasts
BASRA, Iraq, April 21 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – At least 68 people were killed and 200 others injured early Wednesday, April 21, in a series of car bombs that devastated three police stations in this southern Iraqi city....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 6:52am PDT
Supreme Court Rejects Indian Activist Peltier's Appeal -
Peltier Attorney Respond to the US Supreme Court Denial of Appeal...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 12:02am PDT
Rights Group Says Wiranto Must Stand Trial Not Stand for Office
notoriously brutal Indonesian General with years of blood on his hands from East Timor occupation now runnign for president...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 11:15pm PDT