Announcement :: Activism
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FILMMAKERS & AUDIENCES:
PETITION THE MPAA FOR BETTER RATINGS!
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), a trade association, defines itself "as the voice and advocate of the American motion picture industry." But its rating system for films impacts much more than the industry. MPAA ratings affect a film's distribution and thus its financial success; this, in turn, limits what kinds of movies get made and what people get to see at the local movie theater.
The rating system was designed to provide information to parents and movie-goers, but it too often results in arbitrary, inconsistent, and unreasonable decisions, which chill filmmakers' creative freedom and keep films away from audiences.
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BTL:Massive Antiwar Protest Underscores Movement's New Power
02 Feb 2007
(Updated)
by
Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Report on antiwar protest in Washington, D.C. produced by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
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Israel's Kafkaesque "Matrix of Control"
02 Feb 2007
by
Stephen Lendman
An account of Israeli repression of the Palestinians.
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Full Employment as a Grand Delusion
02 Feb 2007
by
Iris Gleicke
The third labor market is not a panacea. However it is the only possibility for bringing a large number of persons into meaningful employment.. Whoever wants to stop rightwing extremists must take the bottom out of their arguments and expand the labor market with a third nationwide sector.
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News :: U.S. Government
microwaved and lasered bad
they are openly attacking many people even their own but their own are so mind controlled they do not know or care....
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News :: Environment
Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab's 200 Executioners Ready
01 Feb 2007
by
Bob Nichols, Project Censored Winner
Gay or straight, bisexual or transgender, black or white or Asian, it makes no difference to the cold blooded murderers at Livermore as the employees mindlessly carry out their proscribed "tests" and "detonations." After all, the money's good, why would they ever ask anything?
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News :: Labor
UGSOA LOSES OVER 300 MEMBERS IN ONE WEEK!
01 Feb 2007
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UGSOA NEWS
What's going on at ugsoa? The ugsoa under the lack of leadership of Jim Vissar seems to to be in a spiral spin downward as they continue to lose members and elections. Below are just a few of the elections ugsoa has lost and/or it's members have filed to decertify them
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Elections & Legislation
Bush and Gonzales – Two Terrorists
01 Feb 2007
by
Scott Huminski
Bush, Alberto Gonzales and the Justice Department subject an entire state to civil rights violations reminiscent of 1930s Germany.
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Interview :: Poverty
Basic Income Strengthens Workers' Negotiating Power
01 Feb 2007
by
Katja Kipping
Basic income could be an effective instrument against the growing poverty, a kind of democracy package and a good vehicle for self-determined reduced working hours..Some leftists have a hard time because they follow a certain work fetishism
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Announcement :: Environment
welcome energy crisis
01 Feb 2007
by
repsol mata
15 points to break with oil addiction
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