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Responses to a theatre show by comedian Leo Bassi indicate the escalation of right-wing clerical reaction in Spanish politics. The cutting of government subsidies to a theatre festival that staged the show is the latest in a sequence of attacks that has seen theatres picketed and attempts made to bomb auditoriums....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 9:34pm PST
author: Ralph Nader
CounterPunch
March 25 / 26, 2006
Impeachment or Resignation: Pick Your Poison...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 10:01pm PST
If any one doubted that the days of Tony Blair's Cool Britannia were over, the Radiohead lead singer, Thom Yorke, yesterday scratched deep into the Prime Minister's celebrity-friendly veneer....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 7:12pm PST
Hacktivists in the Philippines have started an electronic civil disobedience campaign against the national police, demanding the release of the Sagada 11, eleven punk food not bombs activists falsely accused of being members of the NLP....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:35pm PST
Submission Categories:
1. General: Shorts (running less than 30 minutes) in all genres and formats.
2. Special category: “Culture Jamming” - Including films with subversive meanings, media hacking, information warfare, terror-art and guerrilla semiotics, public activism opposed to commercialism and corporate imagery that plays with the branded images and icons of consumer culture to make consumers aware of surrounding problems and diverse cultural experiences that warrant their attent...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 10:24am PST
"My Name is Rachel Corrie" - a play based on the words of the American peace activist crushed to death three years ago by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza - is causing controversy after the New York City theater that was scheduled to run it postponed production. We host a discussion with Katharine Viner, the editor of the play in London and James Nicola and Lynn Moffat, the two top directors of the New York Theater Workshop....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:50am PST
The free swap meet is a gathering of people who want to cut out the middleperson of their exchanges. People are going to be gathering with items they want to trade with others for goods and/or services. Bring your old records, food, clothes, bikes, massage techniques, seeds, light bulbs, furniture, or anything else you wouldn't mind getting rid of....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 2:01am PST
Hope to see you on the streets....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 12:11pm PST
Rachel Corrie (1979-2003)...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 8:22pm PST
SF Bay Area vs. Los Angeles
Saturday, 3/18, 2pm at 9th Ave & Lincoln Way in Golden Gate Park, SF...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 10:13pm PST
We're having fun in the streets on saturday.
We'd love to see you out there!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 8:15pm PST
Singer Isaac Hayes is to stop providing the voice for a character in cartoon South Park because he objects to its "inappropriate ridicule" of religion....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 4:38pm PST
At the time of writing, the month is February, and the year is 2006. Millions of Iraqis, Afghanis, and Palestinians are living under American and Israeli military occupations. Daily, civilians are killed, homes are ransacked and destroyed, and new refugees are born. The leaders of so-called "Western" countries continue to make menacing moves in the region that bode badly for Syria and Iran. Most of the region's leadership is either shockingly silent, or quietly collaborating behind-...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 8:01pm PST
A ROCKIN' BENEFIT CONCERT FOR COMMON GROUND COLLECTIVE IN NEW ORLEANS!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 11:31pm PST
Black Cuisine celebrated its 25th Anniversay in the Bayview and drew a good crowd both from the neighborhood and far off places. With the dawn of an event such as the recent power grab by SF Redevelopment it is the culture of the neighborhood that one has to be aware of. SFRA are greedy and culture really does not matter to these scumbags. What matters to them is money and they will do anything to grab land and make money. Even destroy a good culture....
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2006 8:47pm PST
author: Joseph DuRocher
e-mail:e-mail: PDJWD@aol.com
A Veteran's Letter to the President:
"I Return Enclosed the Symbols of My Years of Service"...
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2006 2:14pm PST
Roger Waters, a founder member of the rock group Pink Floyd, is under pressure to cancel a planned concert in Tel Aviv in June as a protest against Israeli policy towards the Palestinians....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:40pm PST
A New York theater company is coming under criticism for backing out of an agreement to stage a play based on the life of U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie. The play’s producers are calling the decision censorship. Corrie was killed in Gaza nearly three years ago when she stood in front of an Israeli bulldozer set to demolish a Palestinian home. We speak with actor and activist Vanessa Redgrave....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 5:26pm PST