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Mattole Free State Raided! Come one, come all, to the forest!
Update from the revolution in Humboldt Co., CA...
Posted: Sat, Jul 28, 2001 10:45pm PDT
Protestors plaster Chron with lies
Protestors win promise of editorial meeting with SF Chronicle to discuss biased coverage of homeless people....
Posted: Sat, Jul 28, 2001 8:53pm PDT
Protestors plaster Chron with lies
Protestors win promise of editorial meeting with SF Chronicle to discuss biased coverage of homeless people....
Posted: Sat, Jul 28, 2001 8:52pm PDT
8/17&8/18 SF Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Demonstrations
World famous journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, currently on Pennsylvania's death row after having been framed for killing a cop in December 1981, is expected to appear in court on Friday, August 17, 2001. There were will be worldwide demonstrations on that date, including in San Francisco at Noon at Van Ness & McAllister, San Francisco. There will be a second demonstration Saturday, August 18, 2001 at Noon at Powell and Market, Powell St BART station, San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Jul 28, 2001 8:26pm PDT
PNWER PROTESTS IN WHISTLER! AN UPDATE!
An update on the PNWER protests in Whistler BC! Canada!...
Posted: Sat, Jul 28, 2001 4:23pm PDT
U.S. videographer arrested outside of Genoa, July 27
U.S. activist, Rebecca, was arrested in Milan, and is currently being held in Marassi prison in Genoa....
Posted: Sat, Jul 28, 2001 4:06pm PDT
"Report on Lawlessness from the Deaf Messenger"
"The curse of an evil deed is that it must always continue to engender evil" Schiller "Piccolomini" THAT GOES FOR THE TOTAL CHAOS THAT BESIEGES IMC EVERYWHERE TOO....
Posted: Sat, Jul 28, 2001 2:29pm PDT
More Indymedia-Genoa Social Forum raid detainees released. Horror stories, Media
"half of the seventy people arrested were injured; many were lying on the floor with head injuries and covered in blood, and hardly moved anymore, they only moaned. Blood was everywhere. Police broke a young woman's jaw and smashed out her front teeth. Immigrants with a dark skin were mistreated in a particularly extreme manner. ... The police hit us with batons and kicked us with their boots. On my way to the toilet I saw a man being beaten up in another cell."...
Posted: Sat, Jul 28, 2001 3:35am PDT
Amnesty for Victims of SF Anti-Homeless Laws
Over 80,000 bench warrants have been unconditionally lifted by DA Terence Hallinan in a major victory against legal harrassment of the poor....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 11:26pm PDT
SFPD Arrests Woman for Sitting On Sidewalk?
During NASNA, a weekend to highlight street newspapers and the escalating war on the poor by cities, police and media, participants witnessed firsthand harrassment around 16th and Mission....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 7:13pm PDT
Friday Report from NASNA
A summary of Friday's events at the North American Street Newspaper Association gathering in San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 6:20pm PDT
Hawaiian King Imprisoned
Majesty Akahi Nui, King of the Hawaiian Islands and the Nation of Hawai'i sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for trespassing at burial site of his Royal ancestors....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 5:41pm PDT
First interview with Marcus Covell, the UK Indymedia reporter in Genoa hospital.
Audio clip of first interview with Marcus ‘Sky’ Covell, the UK Indymedia reporter still in a Genoa hospital....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 1:40pm PDT
Homeless GrapevineVendor
I Marsha work for the Homeless Grapevine in the Cleveland Ohio area and I'm a proud vendor if you need any
information my E-mail is swansonb52@juno.com...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 1:04pm PDT
Protests against globalization in Ecuador - Esp & Eng
here is a rough translation to english of an article about protests in ecuador against the government and neoliberalism. the original spanish version follows. sorry about the formatting....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 12:44pm PDT
Noam Chomsky: Prisons in America (transcript)
"So, what we do with the superfluous people, the ones who don't contribute to wealth production for the rich -- and therefore aren't human really -- what you do with them is first of all try to coop them up in slums, which are sort of like concentration camps, and if that doesn't work you put them in jail. Which is the equivalent -- sort of a counterpart in a wealthy society to death squads in a poor society. So, they're [prisons] naturally zooming. And they are a shot in the arm."...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 12:21pm PDT
Hiroshima Day Bike Ride: UC to LLNL
Call for cyclists to ride from UC Berkeley to Livermore Labs on Aug. 6th to commemorate all nuclear victims and survivors, from Hiroshima on....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 11:36am PDT
Starhawk at post-G8 raids
A friend forwarded this email message from Starhawk, who evidently was present for some of the atrocities we've been hearing about. More stories on her website. :o|...
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 11:34am PDT
San Francisco Chevron Bombing Iraq?
A Special Report on the power of corporate globalization to influence American foreign policy at the expense of an entire nation. As part of a calculated war on America's poor and Iraq's poor.
This report is part of the Autonomous Affinity Groups campagin to End the War Against the Poor
Meetings every monday at 2940 16th St, Rm. 216 in the Mission at 6:30pm....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 11:08am PDT
West Nile virus under-reported
As many as 13,000 people may have contracted the disease in NY alone last year......
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2001 11:02am PDT