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Important Action: in Behalf of Amina Lawal!!!!!!!!!
AMINA LAWAL SET TO BE STONED...
Posted: Thu, Sep 18, 2003 8:28am PDT
Bush's Short Trip iinto Purgatory
"The government did miserable work in planning for the time after Saddam Hussein. The government treated Congress like a nuisance, Senator Chuck Hagel from arch-conservative Nebraska declared.. The $166 billion for the anti-terror crusade is a record."...
Posted: Thu, Sep 18, 2003 5:08am PDT
"Report From Baghdad" Part Four--Women in Iraq
This is a part four of the six-part series "Report form Baghdad" by Pacifica Radio KPFK Los Angeles Reporter Lee Siu Hin's July 2003 trip to U.S. occupied Iraq, to commemorate 6-months commemoration of U.S. invasion of Iraq (Sep 20), and to understand the future of Iraq.
To view the entire series, please visit:
http://www.actionla.org/Iraq/IraqReport/index.html...
Posted: Thu, Sep 18, 2003 2:43am PDT
BTL:As Middle East Road Map Peace Plan Unravels, Israel Threatens to...
...Expel or Assassinate Yasser Arafat. Interview with Hussein Ibish, communications director of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Sep 18, 2003 2:34am PDT
Jeff Halper: One State. Preparing for a Post Road-Map Struggle Against Apartheid
Now that Ariel Sharon and his Likudist ilk have destroyed the last chance for the two-state solution, the choice now comes down to one of either Israeli Apartheid towards the Palestinian people for perpetuity or one state for all its people in which everyone is equal under the law....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 10:57pm PDT
Beware Monsanto GMO hemp
Why is hemp still illegal in the USA? Other countries like Canada are growing hemp for fiber, clothing, paper, biodiesel and biodegradable plastic. When the Lakota people in South Dakota grow hemp, they are harrassed by federal agents and their crops raided. Preventing people from growing hemp is most likely because Monsanto is planning a patented genetically engineered version of hemp "terminator seeds"....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 10:40pm PDT
Wesley Clark: A Clinton by Another Name?
Clinton loyalist Wesley Clark is a trigger-happy hot-head who may have been involved in Waco; and he's ready to serve....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 7:52pm PDT
Patti Smith isses an indictment of George W. Bush in London
Patti Smith, who headlined a Berkeley anti-war concert earlier this year, ended her politcally charged summer tour in London with a spirited recitation of the Declaration of Independence, followed by this indictment of the policies of President George W. Bush....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 7:29pm PDT
Kathy Boudin set free
After 22 years in prison, 1960s radical Kathy Boudin set free...
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 6:58pm PDT
Thailand To Send Tens Of Thousands Of Homeless to Concentration Camps Before Bush Visit
The Thai authorities have said they want to clear Bangkok's streets of thousands of homeless people ahead of a meeting of world leaders next month....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 4:27pm PDT
Cancun Confrontation: Thousands Protest the WTO and Capitalist Globalization
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Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 4:20pm PDT
Radio Libre Antagonista :: TRANSMITIENDO AHORA
Radio Libre Antagonista :: TRANSMITIENDO AHORA...
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 4:11pm PDT
Cancun Fair Trade Action Reportback
Reportback from Bureaucrash's Fair Trade action at Cancun!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 1:18pm PDT
Empowering Democracy Conference
PROBLEM: Corporate power and influence are subverting democracy.
SOLUTION: Share ideas, strategies and tactics to make campaigns more effective. Joint strategizing and collective power by working together!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 12:44pm PDT
ALEXANDER COCKBURN: Behold, the Head of a Neo-Con! Matchlessly Wrong About Everything
And of course the neo-cons, who have never forgiven the UN for Resolutions 242 and 338,(bad for Israel) told Bush that he should tell the UN to take its charter and shove it. Bush, who appreciates simple words and simple thoughts, took their advice, and last Sunday night had it served up to him by his speechwriters as crow, which he methodically ate in his 18-minute speech, saying the UN has an important role in Iraq....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 11:26am PDT
Chicago Consulta Oct. 11 and 12 to plan against the FTAA in Miami
On November 20 and 21 the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) will meet
at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Miami to unilaterally finalize their
vision of an economic policy that threatens the freedom and well being of
every living being in this hemisphere. Although ordinary people will not be
allowed into the meetings to offer their input, we will be in the streets to
welcome them....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 11:19am PDT
Cronies v. Qualifications, Howard Dean’s Dilemma
Dean’s desire to appoint unqualified cronies to high positions....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 2:51am PDT
Dean's Digital Divide
You've got to hand it to Howard (who knew?) Dean. He's worked the Web like no previous political candidate, harnessing the mighty power of the mouse to rake in the bucks and out-"buzz" his rivals....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 12:39am PDT
"Report From Baghdad" Part Three--Life in Iraq
This is a part three of the six-part series "Report form Baghdad" by Pacifica Radio KPFK Los Angeles Reporter Lee Siu Hin's July 2003 trip to U.S. occupied Iraq, to commemorate 6-months commemoration of U.S. invasion of Iraq (Sep 20), and to understand the future of Iraq.
To view the entire series, please visit:
http://www.actionla.org/Iraq/IraqReport/index.html...
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2003 12:38am PDT
Bush's Big Tent is torn on the Right
Young white men--the conservative Republican base since Nixon--are embracing Schwarzenegger's moderate politics in California. This can only strain the GOP coallition of the Christian Right, Libertarian Economics, Free Trade, and Conservative Main Street greed....
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2003 5:00pm PDT