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EZLN Red Alert issued
The EZLN has issued a red alert for only the third time in eleven years- this is important to watch closely. The communique is below, followed by an article from La Jornada with an analysis of the situation and answers to some questions. Let's keep a close ear out for more news coming from local support committees that are directly allied with the EZLN like the Chiapas Support committee (based in Oakland), the situation looks ready to blow and we need to be prepared to demonstrate our suppor...
Posted: Tue, Jun 21, 2005 12:26pm PDT
Boycott Advertisers in the Washington Post
The manner in which the Washington Post treated Congressman Conyers' Hearing on the Downing Street Minutes is indicative of the censorship in the lying, biased, corporate owned media. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/AR2005061601570.html).and it's time we tell them we're not taking it anymore....
Posted: Mon, Jun 20, 2005 12:22pm PDT
Capital and Labor: Deeds Must Follow Criticism
A new balance between capital and labor income is necessary. Unfortunately the opposite is happening. The constant lowering of capital taxation in Germany fans the European tax lowering competition. The public infrastructure deteriorates....
Posted: Mon, Jun 20, 2005 6:46am PDT
Strategy for Another World: Walden Bello's De-Globalization
Walden Bello's de-globalization has a power that can burst open the system. Redistributing work through radical reduction of working hours and exchanging part of paid work for more freedom and quality of life are two pwoerful steps to regaining human autonomy....
Posted: Sun, Jun 19, 2005 6:56am PDT
Grassroots Effort to Stop Alameda Multiplex Grows, Delays Planning Decisions
"What is the real goal of this project? It seems that the community's desire to have their theater restored is being exploited to get a parking structure built. Who reaps any benefit?"...
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 3:20pm PDT
Geneva Journal #4 from Leisa Faulkner Barnes
Here's the latest report from Leisa Faulkner Barnes from the Hunger Strike for Economic and Social Justice now taking place in Geneva, Switzerland....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 11:55pm PDT
Sacramento Anarchist Events Calender
This is the right list to publish, previously posted one was messed up, sorry about that....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 9:45pm PDT
Malnutrition in Africa #1 Killer
Malnutrition mimics the symptoms of "AIDS", yet improving diet is not as profitable as selling pharmaceutical products like AZT believed to "cure" AIDS.....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 10:55am PDT
BTL:Neoliberal Conditions Attached to G8 Debt Relief Plan for...
...Poor Nations Exacerbate Poverty ~ Interview with Bill Fletcher, president of Trans Africa Forum, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 5:08am PDT
CIA and Gilman Louie less than honest
CIA's In-Q-Tel has severe conflict of interest in penny and small cap companies they promote and get government funding for in Congress as Beltway insiders under guise of 'national defense','homeland security' etc.,but also are invested in as individuals and stand to make substantial personal profit from in promotion and sale of stock.
This may prevent their interest in stopping U.S. penny stock shares used in money laundering activities....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 2:08pm PDT
Reclaim the Streets: Mutant Street Party
On June 8th, 2004 -- Reclaim the Streets hosted the Mutant Street Party. Over 100 people were arrested, and many were held in jail for several days as they exercised their right to silence. This series of video's captures exactly what happened during the street party and the events that followed....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 11:59am PDT
Anti-G8 Mobilization Consulta
Anarchist Action will be hosting a Consulta for the July 6-8 anti-war, anti-capitalist convergence against the G8 here in San Francisco. We encourage a wide array of politically diverse radical/anti-war/social-justice-oriented groups and participants....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 12:01am PDT
July 6-8: West Coast Anti-Capitalist Convergence and March (July 8) against the G8
Take the Streets and Resist the Capitalist War Machine on July 8! Call for the West Coast anti-war and anti-capitalist mass convergence, July 6-8 of 2005 in San Francisco, in solidarity with the mobilization against the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Scotland....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 11:59pm PDT
Abundance and Scarcity
The demand for a basic income attacks one of the basic pillars of the capitalist society: the notion that only persons who work may eat. Every person on this earth has a right to share in social life and wealth only because he or she exists as a person....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 6:19am PDT
Retort's Response: Intellectual Dishonesty
Retort's presentation of its new book, Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War, demonstrated blatant intellectual dishonesty....
Posted: Sun, Jun 12, 2005 12:09pm PDT
June 25: March Against War, Empire, & Capitalism in Downtown Palo Alto
Destroy the War Machine!
Meet 7pm . Saturday . June 25
Lytton Plaza in downtown Palo Alto
University Ave. at Emerson
2 Blocks from Palo Alto Caltrain...
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 10:47pm PDT
El anarquista Michelle Pontolillo en huelga de hambre indefinida
Nuestro compañero Michelle Pontolillo ha decidido dar comienzo a una huelga de hambre indefinida para protestar contra las detenciones de 10 anarquistas decretadas conjuntamente por los tribunales de Roma y Bolonia (Italia) el 27 de mayo de 2005. Entre los detenidos se encuentra Lucia Rippa, compañera sentimental de Michelle y madre de sus dos hijos....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 3:20pm PDT
The Allied Media Conference
The Allied Media Conference is right around the corner: June 17-19.
This is the 7th year that hundreds of zinesters, radio pirates,
copwatchers, podcasters, community journalists, hip hop heads,
librarians and more will be gathering in Bowling Green, Ohio. If
you're building alternative media, you should be there, too....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 11:57am PDT
New Anti-Capitalist Film re-edited
Calling all anti-capitalists!! “Capitalism and Other Kids’ Stuff” – a popular new film, which argues the anti-capitalist case in simple language, and which has won much acclaim in recent months - is now re-edited and can be viewed and downloaded as a BitTorrent at www.socialist-tv.com...
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 5:15am PDT