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The Participatory Budget
Story from Porto Alegre, Brazil - the site of the World Social Forum, taking place from January 26 - 31....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 6:52pm PST
Call for worshops - BASTARD conference
This is a call for workshops for the BASTARD conference on anarchist theory....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 1:10pm PST
What is Socialism
Over 150 years ago, a small pamphlet was published that opened “a ghostis haunting Europe, the ghost of communism”. (This was before the rise of the Soviet Union and its bureaucracy. At that time, “communism” had a wholly different meaning; it meant a workers’ revolution and a worker-run society.) It was true; within months the whole continent was ablaze with revolution....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 11:32am PST
Middle Paraná Social Forum
The Middle Paraná Social Forum has now a date
"Another world is possible"
In the end of the year encounter, called by the Mobilizing Committee
of
the Middle Paraná Social Forum (FSPM by its initials in Spanish), the
citizens and social organizations present constituted themselves into
an
Assembly resolving the date for the realization of the second edition
of
the Forum....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 4:54am PST
Why has India blocked foreign tsunami aid to the Nicobar and Andaman islands?
The remote Andaman and Nicobar group suffered a devastating blow from the December 26 tsunami. The low-lying and mostly uninhabited chain of 572 islands in the Bay of Bengal was the closest Indian territory to the epicentre of the massive earthquake. As well as being swamped by the sea, it was hit by a series of substantial aftershocks....
Posted: Mon, Jan 24, 2005 9:52pm PST
Thatcher and the Coup that Failed (video/x-pn-realvideo 16.4MB)
This is the story of the real Dogs of War who got caught......
Posted: Mon, Jan 24, 2005 3:27pm PST
Urgent! Call for Witnesses on June 8, 2004
***Ruling will set a precedent on protest in SF!!!***
Witnesses Needed for the Defense of First Amendment Rights!!!!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 24, 2005 9:11am PST
Tsunami Provides Profiteering Opportunities
Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday, January 18, 2005
For Yudhoyono, Opportunity Knocks Amid the Ruins
Indonesia and the US, thrown together because of the Boxing Day tsunami, want to revive their military links and boost business and investment ties....
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 7:54pm PST
Banking with Hitler (video/x-pn-realvideo 27.1MB)
Documentary that reveals the support given to Hitler's Germany by American and British banks....
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 9:33am PST
Zapatista Doll Causes 2-Car Derailment In Metro DC Snow. (audio/mpeg 840.0KB)
A derailment of two cars near Union Station
today right at the beginning of major global
protests has the entire city at a standstill.
Conductors are standing by....
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2005 8:45am PST
Zapatista Event: Chiapas, the Silent War
Want to find out the latest on what's happening in Chiapas? Come to "Chiapas: The Silent War" on February 5 at 7 p.m. in the Conference Room, 909 12th Street, in Sacramento....
Posted: Sat, Jan 22, 2005 8:58pm PST
Unhappy Neo-cons in D.C.
Neo-cons harassed at events surrounding inauguration....
Posted: Sat, Jan 22, 2005 8:28pm PST
Modesto Anti-Authoritarians Take to Streets
Around 60 anti-authoritarians, peace activists, and people fed up with the Bush Administration took to the streets of downtown Modesto last night, following an hour long rally....
Posted: Sat, Jan 22, 2005 1:18am PST
Besieged Bolivian President Faces More Upheaval
There were injuries on both sides in Santa Cruz as residents battled riot police....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 4:06pm PST
Current Globalization Sows Hatred and Terror
The future is very nebulous. Two different possibilities exist: balance or destruction.. A world in which 24,000 persons die of starvation everyday and hundreds of millions of children are without a school education cannot be just and is unacceptable....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 9:07am PST
Chavez nationalises VENEPAL under workers control
Hands Off Venezuela Campaign...
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 11:07am PST
Hard Landing of the Dollar
The decline of the US dollar signals the economic weakness of the superpower and the structural crisis of capitalism. Since 1985 the US has been heavily indebted to foreign countries. This foreign indebtedness amounts to 35% of the GDP....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 10:28am PST
Why Uncle Sam won't tell you what not to eat
Weak Links in the Food Chain...
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 10:22am PST