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U.S Congress axes all bike projects
A U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on Friday approved a bill that would cut funding for transportation alternatives like bike paths in order to bolster highway construction spending....
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2003 11:23am PDT
Reading the wrong thing in public can get you in trouble
Careful: The FB-eye may be watching...
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2003 10:31am PDT
Going home, to red ink and blues
"People are seething about the Bush administration’s spending $4 billion a month in Iraq while letting small American towns beg for scraps. Washington should be lending a hand, not adding to the local burden."...
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2003 10:04am PDT
These Five Would be Heroes in the US if They Had Worked for the CIA
The New York Times published an article on Thursday, July 17th 2003 that goes to the very core of Cubas defense of necessity in seeking information on planned attacks against the island....
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2003 9:29am PDT
Gov. Dean's Police State of Vermont
Dean's subversion of the bill of rights in the context of judicial appointees and criminal prosecutions...
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2003 8:11am PDT
BTL:Tax Credits for Poor Families Held Hostage by GOP
Interview with Deborah Weinstein, executive director of the Coalition on Human Needs, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2003 3:51am PDT
The Nation: Freedom Summer
Article for the Nation magazine regarding the ISM...
Posted: Sat, Jul 19, 2003 3:41am PDT
Zionists and Nazis Re-united in France
Reuters in Paris reports that: "French neo-Nazis formed an alliance with extremist Jewish groups on the Internet to publish a torrent of hate messages directed against Arabs and Muslims, according to a report by a leading anti-racist group."...
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2003 10:25pm PDT
80 Killed in US Raid into Syria
echoes of Cambodia and the Ho Chi Minh trail...
Posted: Fri, Jul 18, 2003 11:54am PDT
Irish peace activist arrested by Israelis and held for days on trumped up charges
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Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2003 11:54pm PDT
CALL FOR SUPPORT:MIGRANT WORKERS IN KOREA
This was sent to the editors@indy. It tells some background of the indentured slave system used in South Korea. It asks for some concrete solidarity......
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2003 11:31pm PDT
Activists Find Tracking Devices on Their Cars!
Federal surveillance is a routine part of Coronado’s life, and he says officials have been increasingly interested in his activities since he began visiting the homes of Maxxam executives. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t surprised on Sunday morning, July 6, when he was attaching a trailer hitch to his car and noticed something underneath his vehicle that wasn’t supposed to be there....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2003 7:08pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 7/18/03 ¡Listen Globally!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.2MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Russia, Germany, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2003 4:36pm PDT
Applying the “F Word” To How Bedouins Are Treated In Israel*
*Unfortunately the word "fairly" is non~applicable under these conditions:
Your homes are not recognized.
Your rights are not recognized.
Your fields are sprayed with chemicals while you are standing in them....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2003 7:06am PDT
Globalization: Slavery's Living Legacy
The Atlantic slave trade initiated globalisation and its legacy lives. President George Bush's speech in Senegal about the evils of slavery last week has, as one critic quipped, made Africa and its history "sexy". About time, too, as Aids, drought, genocide and poverty threaten not only the continent but the stability of the world....
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2003 5:10am PDT
BTL:Iraq War is Looking Increasingly Like a Quagmire
Interview with former Calif. state Sen. Tom Hayden, antiwar activist, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2003 2:35am PDT
Iraq is less safe than before Saddam - British Polls Reveal
British Channel 4 News and the Spectator have commissioned the first comprehensive independent survey in Baghdad since the conflict. "Baghdad is on a knife-edge. Three in four of its residents say the city is now more dangerous than when Saddam Hussein was in power."...
Posted: Thu, Jul 17, 2003 1:54am PDT
Defend Freedom of Speech for Community Media in Venezuela
defend freedom of speech for community media in the empire of the north / Resist our local oppressive media that don't represent, a thousand ChronWatch, ABC, Univision, Telemundo, etc. WATCHES movements.......
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2003 11:38pm PDT
We Want Our Unions Back/m All Out For Chicago Conf&Protest
Rank and file workers will be going to Chicago to organize a national campaign for union democracy and against labor-management collaboration. They will also protest the AFL-CIO Executive Board...
Posted: Wed, Jul 16, 2003 10:56pm PDT