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Examining the Impact of Globablization on Women Around the World
In the unprecedented expansion of world markets that began more than two decades ago, women play crucial roles. Some have been called beneficiaries of this globalization; but many more are its losers. NOW sheds light on how globalization has affected women's lives worldwide....
Posted: Thu, Sep 4, 2003 8:40am PDT
Building a Mighty Ghetto State
Our Wall is frequently being compared to the Berlin Wall. Visually and politically, this is a reasonable comparison. Also because the "Berlin Wall" was not only an urban monstrosity. It was part of the German section of the Iron Curtain, cutting all of Germany into two and extending from the Baltic Sea in the north to the border of Czechoslovakia in the south almost a thousand km, approximately the same as the planned length of Sharon's monster....
Posted: Thu, Sep 4, 2003 4:39am PDT
The 2003 Green Reel Film Festival - October 4 and 5
Oct 4 and 5, 2003 - is the antidote to the constant beating of war-drums we are faced with every day in America, from our leaders and especially in our media. The Green Reel is Democracy in action: a true forum for ideas, and an opportunity for the otherwise stifled voices of progressive filmmakers from across the country and around the world to get their message across, whether regarding the environment, politics, LGBT issues, racism, and corporate power....
Posted: Thu, Sep 4, 2003 4:06am PDT
BTL: Bombing of Shiite Holy Shrine Kills Powerful Cleric and...
...Further Destabilizes U.S.-Occupied Iraq. Interview with Erik Gustafson, president of the Education for Peace in Iraq Center, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Sep 4, 2003 2:48am PDT
AUDIO: Military families speak out. Palestinian student on life and death under occupation
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Posted: Wed, Sep 3, 2003 10:29pm PDT
VIDEO: Israel's Apartheid Wall stretches all the way to Rafah in Gaza. Impact on civilians (video/mpeg 41.7MB)
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Posted: Wed, Sep 3, 2003 10:18pm PDT
Preventive War or Preemptive War
"The preemptive war against Iraq broke the norms of the community of states. Internation-al law was degraded in its importance.. This
disempowerment of international law is a dangerous mega-political experiment with unforeseeable consequences." Fr German...
Posted: Wed, Sep 3, 2003 9:49am PDT
Blackout
"The gigantic blackout (that will certainly not be the last) was a direct consequence that the US is so exemplary in the special neoliberal disciplines privatization and lower costs..Profit maximization at any cost leads to an abstract cost cutting pressure." Fr German...
Posted: Wed, Sep 3, 2003 9:30am PDT
Dean Bloggers Exposed Sending Duplicate Posts to IMCs and Antiwar.com
It's one thing to come up with a post and post it multiple places, but this feels like spamming, particularly since the posts are just shallow and predictable nonsense. It's not like they're trying to cover up what they're doing, they're just spraying in all directions, no manners. It's a taste of what to expect from Dr Death himself - shallow spam, and lots of it....
Posted: Tue, Sep 2, 2003 10:40pm PDT
9th Circuit Court in SF overturns about 100 death penalty cases - jury trial fundamental
sorry for the cnn source, but someone else can maybe find a better viewpoint with more time....
Posted: Tue, Sep 2, 2003 4:18pm PDT
US boycott nuclear testban treaty - Coalition of NGO’s call for US boycott
Brussels - Vienna September 2, 2003 – Since 1945 there have been 2051 nuclear tests on our planet. This adds up to an average of one nuclear explosion every 10 days for the past 58 years. As the US boycott the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Conference (CTBT) which starts tomorrow in Vienna (Austria), a growing coalition of NGO’s is calling consumers to stop buying American (1)....
Posted: Tue, Sep 2, 2003 11:19am PDT
U.S. battlefield casualties in Iraq are increasing Washington Post says (by Latuff)
Article by The Washington Post. Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Tue, Sep 2, 2003 3:33am PDT
Stand in solidarity with Sherman
An invitation to all...
Join the family and friends of Sherman Austin to say your
goodbye's-for-now, share your well-wishes and strength, and show your solidarity when Sherman surrenders himself to Federal authorities....
Posted: Mon, Sep 1, 2003 11:08pm PDT
Flexibility and Sanctions
Flexibility and sanctions are used by the red-green German government to counter mass unemployment reaching 5 million. The unemployed are scapegoated for misguided neoliberal policies benefiting capital and corporations. Translated from German...
Posted: Mon, Sep 1, 2003 6:34am PDT
Free Sherman!
20 year-old webmaster is headed to prison for hosting an "illegal link" and support is urgently needed to pursue an appeal....
Posted: Mon, Sep 1, 2003 1:41am PDT
American Gestapo Herd Iraqi Old and Young in Barbed Wire
HAMREEN, Iraq - Iraqi sheep farmer Thani Mushlah was asleep on his roof when the American soldiers arrived before dawn....
Posted: Mon, Sep 1, 2003 12:33am PDT
Indymedia prepares to cover FTAA/ALCA in Miami
In good self-organizing tradition, folks are
preparing to cover FTAA/ALCA meeting in Miami this coming November....
Posted: Sun, Aug 31, 2003 8:35pm PDT
Photos from the demos against the summit of EU in Thessaloniki / 19-22 June 2003
Thumbnails lead to the main photos...
Posted: Sun, Aug 31, 2003 6:04pm PDT
Police After Oregon AR Activists
Police trying to find two Oregonians for investigation of ALF bombing of Chiron....
Posted: Sun, Aug 31, 2003 11:38am PDT
Tides Foundation and Alternet
Does foundation money grow on gumdrop trees? Most progressives seem to think so....
Posted: Sun, Aug 31, 2003 11:35am PDT