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About the 6/6 Really, Really Free Market
The market will be a demonstration of the "gift economy" in the midst of the Conspicuous Consumption Center of SF, and a practical demonstration of Reclaiming the Commons by calling forth the talents that we all have to share with one another. (so bring yours to share)...
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 1:25am PDT
Alioto Legislation Exempts Biotech Companies from Payroll Tax as BioDev 2004 Looms
Biotech Companies have their hands out. Stay Tuned for Outcome....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 12:07am PDT
Documentation of RTC Teach-in?
Is anyone going to record the Teach-In and post mp3s on Indymedia?
At the GEAN conference, portland.indymedia volunteers were the ones that actually recorded the conference.
thanks for all the great work!...
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 4:33pm PDT
Earth Liberation: Night of Resistance and Support
Earth Liberation discussion on prisoners and the liberation struggle...
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 2:33pm PDT
Urgent cry for help from Guadalajara
An email from a friend in Mexico about the Guadalajara demos. Can someone please translate this!...
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 11:55am PDT
Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital
"The central idea", Putnam writes, "is that social networks are valuable. Social networks increase individual and collective productivity like a screw-driver and a good education.. Without noticing, we moved away from one another.."...
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 6:16am PDT
Reclaimin' the Commons
A mass mobilization is afoot from June 3-9 in San Francisco to oppose the
hostile corporate takeover of the necessities of life, and to demonstrate
the solutions to corporate power that already exist. I’m forwarding this
because it’s very much a grassroots effort, and we are what makes up those
grassroots…
Read more about how you can help!...
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 12:59am PDT
LIBERATE GEORGIA, U.S.A. !!! HELP THE G8 PROTESTERS!!
12 days away from the Sea Island 2004 G8 summit, the repression in Georgia (USA) escalates. State of emergency declared by Georgia Governor in six coastal counties.
Police given the go-ahead to stop all demonstrations....
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 12:34am PDT
United for Peace and Justice condemns "State of Emergency" in Georgia, US
United for Peace and Justice condemns
"State of Emergency" declared by Georgia Governor;
demands right to protest at upcoming G-8 summit.
Join UFPJ in Marching Against the War in Iraq and War at Home
At the G8 Summit!...
Posted: Sun, May 30, 2004 11:27am PDT
5/30 4pm Spokescouncil for Reclaim the Commons Action Planning
please send a spokesperson from your affinity group, or just a friend who can
speak for you, or just yourself. and be thinking of what level and style
of actions you wish to engage in for the upcoming weeks......
Posted: Sun, May 30, 2004 10:53am PDT
6/2 at 6pm, meeting to discuss Indybay coverage of Reclaim the Commons
6pm at 6th Street Books
144 6th St in San Francisco, about 2 blocks south of Market Street...
Posted: Sun, May 30, 2004 10:37am PDT
Update on Guadalajara
In Guadalajara, Mexico, violent repression and torture is occurring during protests of the meeting of Latin America and the Caribbean and the European
Union May 26-29th....
Posted: Sun, May 30, 2004 8:36am PDT
URGENT UPDATE: GUADALAJARA
Violent confrontations at protest in Guadalajara, Mexico. People have disappeared, others wounded. Indymedia is surrounded by police. In English and Spanish....
Posted: Sat, May 29, 2004 1:45pm PDT
Up Against Wal-Mart
Anti-Wal-Mart activists in Fayetteville, Arkansas, are organizing a June 4-6 gathering to protest the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting. Composed of students, labor unions and local progressive groups, the Against the Wal Coalition hopes to increase awareness of the retail giant’s unsavory business practices....
Posted: Fri, May 28, 2004 1:01pm PDT
Money, Power and the State: Capital Needs Control
"Practical necessity and lack of alternatives in social development contradict basic democratic development.. When one doesn't have a choice any more because the same policy is made irrespec-tive of one's choice, that is the end of democracy.."...
Posted: Fri, May 28, 2004 9:33am PDT
Reclaim the Commons PSA (audio/mpeg 949.4KB)
Come to San Francisco June 3rd - 9th Dazzle the forces of corporate globalization with streets full of resistance and vision! While the biotechnology industry and its lobbyists meet in San Francisco and the G8 meets in Georgia, join us in San Francisco for a mass mobilization that says NO to corporate profiteering and destruction and YES to the world we want....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 4:42pm PDT
FBI Abducts Artist Steve Kurtz, Seizes Art
Feds Unable to Distinguish Art from Bioterrorism;
Grieving Artist Denied Access to Deceased Wife's Body...
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 3:18pm PDT
Tell The Wet Seal it’s time to respect Mexican worker rights!
Come out and tell The Wet Seal it’s time to respect Mexican worker rights!
Protest at The Wet Seal in Berkeley on Thursday, May 27th at 12pm...
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 2:08pm PDT
Privatization Dissolves Civil Society
"The leading 200 corporations are so pwoerful that their combined annual sales surpass the total economic output of 182 out of the 191 countries of the world.. Walmart has a greater economic volume than the economies of 178 countries.."...
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 9:49am PDT
Iraqi weapons pipeline probed
The Pentagon is investigating reports that Iraqi weapons are being sent covertly to Syria and that they are fueling anti-U.S. insurgents training there, The Washington Times has learned....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 6:51pm PDT