Newsitem List
958 of 1105
The Dollar a Day Dress (video/x-pn-realvideo 26.2MB)
Panorama travelled the world to create "The dollar a day dress" - a symbol of how the world trade system harms the poor. Reporter Steve Bradshaw travelled from the Sahara to the Andes to discover some of the harsh truths about free trade and its impact on the developing world....
Posted: Sun, Mar 6, 2005 4:15pm PST
PM article bunking 9/11 conspiracy theories is written by cousin of Micheal Chertoff
This is a pretty big story for those in the 9/11 Truth movement. The Popular Mechanics article attempted to debunk the claims of 9/11 researchers came out last month to magazine stands throughout the country. Low and behold, the article is written by Benjamin Chertoff, cousin of The new Homeland Security Chief....
Posted: Sat, Mar 5, 2005 3:04pm PST
3/25: 8th Annual Anarchist Cafe
Vegan dinner!! Music!! Spoken Word!! Surprises!!
Friday, March 25, 2005
6pm on
"The Kitchen"
225 Potrero Ave., at 16th Street
San Francisco...
Posted: Sat, Mar 5, 2005 12:20am PST
When the Left is "Right" in Lebanon
THE LEFT is ALIVE in Uruguay, but dead in...LEBANON. It is worse in Lebanon; there is a small group of former leftists who claim that they constitute the "new left." I have written in an article in As-Safir that they are more the like "old right." They share the same slogans of the fascistic Phalanges Party from the 1970s, and they see no fault in Hariri's aggressive and cruel capitalism which impoverished large segments of the Lebanese population....
Posted: Fri, Mar 4, 2005 7:05pm PST
BTL:White House and Media Escalate War of Words Against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
...Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ~ Interview with Eva Gollinger, attorney reporting from Caracas, Venezuela, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Mar 3, 2005 5:41am PST
Sonoma County supervisors put biocrop issue on Nov. 8 ballot
Voters to decide proposed GMO ban
Sonoma County supervisors put biocrop issue on Nov. 8 ballot...
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2005 9:18pm PST
Wolfowitz candidate to head World Bank
The news that Paul Wolfowitz, the US deputy defence secretary neo-con
hawk, is a leading contender to head the World Bank has sent a frisson of
fear down the spines of development experts across the globe....
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2005 3:03pm PST
Walden Bello, Jose Maria Sison and Schisms in the Left
Despite efforts by many around the world to rise above sectarianism in the face of the USA's raw imperialism, Walden Bello, a prominent critic of neo-liberalism, has launched an international distancing campaign against the Communist Party of the Philippines and the democratic sectoral movements which draw political inspiration from them. Claiming that the CPP's military wing has targeted him with a "hit list," which in fact is a mere diagram showing the international linkages of va...
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2005 12:17pm PST
Financial Advice: A Life Without Money
Mammon is the rule of money over people.. Money completely excludes all true community.. Jesus is the friend of people and therefore the enemy of property, the enemy of the survival instinct as an egoistic instinct. Eberhard Arnold was a Christian socialist in the early 1900s....
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2005 11:02am PST
Green and Black Urban Gathering this June in Philly
We are calling for anti-authoritarian, eco-positive radicals and allies to gather during the anti-biotech mobilization and share our vision of struggle for liberation and harmony among all living communities....
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2005 10:16am PST
Calling a Nazi a Nazi
Anyone who has studied the history of the Nazis would be hard pressed to differentiate between a Nazi and a Neoconservative....
Posted: Tue, Mar 1, 2005 11:41pm PST
Sun-shining on Activists Brutalized by SF Sheriff's Dept.
On Feb 22, The Sunshine Taskforce unanimously found the sheriff's department in violation of three sections of the sunshine ordinance. The Sunshine Task force stated that "the sheriff's Department shall release all records" related to the violent cell extraction, which seriously injured activists, arrested on June 8th during the Reclaim the Common's (RTC) biotech protests....
Posted: Tue, Mar 1, 2005 9:39pm PST
ALERT- Bush Social Security Privatizing Plan Is Crumbling!
The Bush Campaign To Privatize Social Security Is Crumbling! Please Take A Moment To Join Our Rolling Letter campaign To Push The Profiteers Over The Edge! We Need As Many As Possible To Flood The New York Times With Letters To Condemn Rep. Jim McCrery! Thanks In Advance For Your Help!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 1, 2005 9:24pm PST
FDA Chooses Drug Industry Health Over Public Health
The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) associate safety director, Dr. David J. Graham, highlights FDA priorities, with the safety of your medicines being low among them. And adverse reactions to 'properly prescribed and administered drugs' is the US's 4th leading cause of death....
Posted: Tue, Mar 1, 2005 12:12pm PST
Call for Direct Actions A16
Come to DC for a week of Direct Action and prevention of "Business as Usual" and the Spring World Bank and IMF meetings....
Posted: Mon, Feb 28, 2005 9:58pm PST
Attny Gen. Spitzer Pulls the Pants Down on Mega-Corps
This speech was given by Mr. Spitzer at the National Press Club in Wash. DC on 1/31/05....
Posted: Mon, Feb 28, 2005 6:24pm PST
massacre in brazil: call to action friday march 4th
Take action March 4th! A squatting encampment of over 12,000 people was brutally evicted Febuary 16th in Goiania, Brazil. This is a call to action. (in spanish,portugese,swedish)
--=--
Consulate General of Brazil in San Francisco 300 Montgomery Street, Suite 1160 San Francisco, CA 94104 415-981-8170 tel. 415-981-3628 fax Website: www.brazilsf.org E-mail:consular@brazilsf.org...
Posted: Mon, Feb 28, 2005 4:18am PST
BTL:Opponents of US Ratification of Central American Free Trade Agreement Say..
...Victory is Within Reach~ Interview with Shane Stevens, of CISPES, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, Feb 27, 2005 6:33am PST
"Haiti: Killing The Dream" Airing on Channel 29 (S.F.)
"Haiti: Killing the Dream" an award-winning film documentary about the struggles of the Haitian people against the forces of U.S. Imperialist Rule will air Saturday, February 26, at 6:30 p.m. on San Francisco public access Channel 29. Check it out!...
Posted: Sat, Feb 26, 2005 5:47pm PST
Sweatfree Bay Area Campaign Kick Off
Are the Workers who Make your Clothes “Slaves to Fashion”?
Thursday, March 3, 7:00 PM
New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street
San Francisco
$5 donation at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds....
Posted: Sat, Feb 26, 2005 12:22am PST