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One Woman’s Lament for Haiti
Haiti brings back the for gotten art of grieving as its mountains burn, its democracy is trampled by the jackbooted march of an ousted police chief who is supported and financed in the armed take over of the tiny nation by the Bush coup machinery bent on gaining corporate power and control of the impoverished nation nestled atop the Caribbean topography, criminally ousting its democratically elected leader....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 11:33am PST
Tonight at New College: First-Hand Report from Iraq
First-Hand Report and Slide Show from Iraq - With Peace Activist Dana Visalli - Friday March 5th, 7 PM. New College of California, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco - Free!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 11:32am PST
Lizz Brown In Oakland!
What: Lizz Brown, St. Louis Radio Host to Be Featured at “Taking Back Our Community’s Future: Going From Miseducation to Community Control of Education!” Conference
When: Saturday, March 13th, noon to 6pm
Where: Uhuru House, 7911 Mac Arthur Blvd, Oakland, California
Media Contact: Wendy Snyder, 510-295-7834...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:50am PST
Emergency Response to Mural Hate Crime - Targeting Rachel Corrie
Saturday, March 6th, Noon press conference about attack on mural 1-3 pm poetry and music 1:00 pm – restoration of the damage to begin 3284 23rd Street (between Mission and Capp), San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:34am PST
Hold off transition, Haitian prime minister says
Haiti's prime minister calls for an investigation of how Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the country. Aristide, meanwhile, wants to return....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:25am PST
Paul Martin's Haitian Adventure
In which the Canada Steamship State sails into uncharted waters, and all we get is a cheap T shirt....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:24am PST
Canada and Haiti
Does the new Canadian Prime Minister support democracy in the Americas or U.S. orchestrated coups?...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:20am PST
Haiti, America, and the rest of the world
Haiti, America, and the rest of the world...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:19am PST
HOW TO STOP BUSH’S 9-11 ADS
There's a wave of anger about these ads all over the media right now. The media need the pressure to ask the real questions, the ones that go beyond the ad itself. Do ONE thing towards this efffort, and keep the wave going....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:18am PST
Commission will select prime minister for Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A three-member commission Thursday began working to select a new prime minister and organize a transitional government to end the crisis that plunged Haiti into a violent tailspin and forced President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to resign....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:15am PST
View from Europe - Haiti "realpolitik"
Realpolitik: a ruthlessly realistic and opportunist approach to statesmanship rather than a moralistic one....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:12am PST
Caribbean Nations Call For UN Investigation on Ouster of Aristide In Haiti
South Africa has also expressed concerns. The country’s foreign affairs minister said if the U.S. did kidnap Aristide it will “have serious consequences and ramifications for the respect of the rule of law and democracy the world over.”...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:10am PST
California Green primary: final results
Final percentages for 4 presidential candidates in California Green primary....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:08am PST
Santa Clara says "NO to Bush!" video (video/x-ms-wmv 5.4MB)
Santa Clara protests George W Bush fundraiser in front of convention center March 4, 2004. 2:15 min. video highlights speech by Joey Johnson of Not in Our Name....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 9:25am PST
Ramsey Clark on Haiti
World wide protests to the U.S. engineered coup in Haiti...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 9:09am PST
protesting an abduction
Marines were back in Haiti, President Aristide was reportedly kidnapped, and we held a rally at Powell & Market to protest the U.S. sponsored coup. Interventions of days gone by were also brought to mind...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 7:37am PST
Adam B. Kushner and SF Chronicle Smears Aristide. Call or Write and Ask Why.
"Was Haiti's collapse last week wrought by the United States? It hardly seems a fair question, given the despotic disposition of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. His rule was illiberal, unconstitutional and corrupt."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 7:00am PST
Meddle on Reclaiming the Commons - sf.june8 (audio/mpeg 7.3MB)
On air interview with Meddle of the Sonoma County Green Bloc. This interview was recorded on Indynewswire (a new program on Free Radio Santa Cruz airing Mondays from 1:00 - 3:00 PM)
Meddle discusses the June 3-9 mobilizations being planed in San Francisco during the annual Biotechnology Industry Organization meeting....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 3:08am PST
Thurs. 3/11 Film Screening: "The Cucumber Incident"
Save the date!!! Thursday, March 11th SF Bay Area IMC video screening for International Women's Day!!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 1:54am PST
A year of silence since Rachel Corrie died
This year, and for every year for
the rest of my life, the approach of March will mean something else entirely - the
anniversary of the brutal death of my cousin, Rachel Corrie....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 11:19pm PST