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Posted: Sun, Nov 23, 2003 2:03pm PST
This the latest news about the status of the people who were arrested last week in Miami, related to the protests against the FTAA...
Posted: Sun, Nov 23, 2003 12:17pm PST
Below is a call for a participatory demonstration for Monday, Nov. 24th to show our solidarity with the demonstrators and arrestees in Miami (related to last week's protests against the FTAA)...
Posted: Sun, Nov 23, 2003 11:32am PST
IP Justice Report from the
FTAA Trade Ministerial Meeting in Miami
November 16–20, 2003
Excessive Force:
“Bush Bullies Foreign Trade Ministers and US Protesters”
By IP Justice Executive Director Robin D. Gross, Esq.
Published November 21, 2003...
Posted: Sat, Nov 22, 2003 8:41pm PST
Despite all the bad images and problems of the FTAA protest there was some very positive things that also happened. There were many people that took time to commit acts of social responsibility and acts of kindness....
Posted: Sat, Nov 22, 2003 5:26pm PST
Dozens of Bay Area activists are behind bars in Miami, can someone post legal updates when they become available?...
Posted: Sat, Nov 22, 2003 10:35am PST
"The current `strangulation policy' will accom-plish the exact opposite of what was planned,
fewer jobs and a sinking domestic demand, not more jobs and increased growth. Through the massive cuts, a new poverty threatens in our coutnry.."...
Posted: Sat, Nov 22, 2003 5:11am PST
"Neoliberalism starts from a negative.. assumption that every person prefers him- or herself or circle. Therefore corruption is inevitable. This development can only be prevented by reduction of the public sector and the absolute self-control of the market."...
Posted: Fri, Nov 21, 2003 5:32pm PST
TONIGHT (11/21/03) at 7:30 pm Reverend Billy will speak at Modern Times Books in the Mission District about his new manifesto "What Should I Do if Reverend Billy is in My Store?" along with his plans to celebrate Buy Nothing Day....
Posted: Fri, Nov 21, 2003 5:53am PST
No, the energy legislation in the U.S. Senate is corporate welfare, plain and simple, and the man who should be leading the fight to change it has once again demonstrated his inability to do the right thing....
Posted: Thu, Nov 20, 2003 8:49am PST
"Who would deny that nature is transparent to a mystery eluding us, that it points beyond itself to something that isn't nature and yet appears in every part of nature?.. If nature is degraded to a mere sphere of objects, its transparency is lost." translated from German...
Posted: Thu, Nov 20, 2003 6:06am PST
Miami FTAA protests...
Posted: Wed, Nov 19, 2003 6:11pm PST
"Post-modern advertising assumes the func-tion of religion and reveals the spirituality of consumption. .What is finvolved is self-fashioning.. Life puts itself on stage and invents its identity. Capitlaism succeeds in elevating commodities into our gods."...
Posted: Wed, Nov 19, 2003 5:26am PST
"These events (like Seattle, Cancun, 1968 and the Zapatista rebellion of Jan 1, 1994) open up a new world.. I think the only way of thinking about revolution is a way that breaks time and breaks continuity-above all the continuity of our subordination under capital."...
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2003 5:31am PST
Here are some upcoming events sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center! Please tell your friends and come out and support this valuable community resource.....
Posted: Mon, Nov 17, 2003 2:39pm PST
"The `delusion' prevails in neoliberalism that `the national economy flourishes when people don't do well'..The neoliberal order in which 95 percent of transactions are speculations..is unstable. This is a system that derails again and again.." trans German...
Posted: Mon, Nov 17, 2003 10:18am PST
"In the global age, radical criticism has become an esoteric function." This essay explores the criticism of George Soros, Joseph Stiglitz.. Whoever knows only customers and not citizens ignors institu-tions and collective actors....
Posted: Sun, Nov 16, 2003 6:35am PST
"The prognoses of Dennis Meadows and his research team have not been fulfilled. Perhaps they have not been fulfilled because they broguht many to reflect as the theses of Malthus did or in Meadows' case to rethinking or shifts in thinking." trans German...
Posted: Sat, Nov 15, 2003 5:22am PST