News :: Media
News Junkie Scott's Blog (8/30/05)
New Texas law could mean death penalty for abortion doctors.
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Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Protest Activity
Sep. 16-18: Confront & Shutdown the Minutemen! No Borders, No Racists!
We call on people everywhere to converge on the San Diego/Tijuana region and the Mexicali/Calexico region of the Mexico/US border in order to stop the vigilante operation being planned there by the Friends of the Border Patrol, beginning on September 16th. Our goal for Sep. 16th-18th is to take action and directly shut down the Minutemen operations.
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Review :: Activism : Economy
ECON 101: Crisis Organizing
The "ECON 101" series is motivated by the concept of "crisis organizing." In particular, economic crises provide an opportunity to accelerate advances in the goals of the global justice movement. With the real estate bubble reaching its peak, such an opportunity might be on the horizon. This brief article introduces a slightly longer view of "crisis organizing" presented by Immanuel Wallerstein in his 90-page book "Utopistics."
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Willy Wonka and the Racism Factory
29 Aug 2005
by
Jonathan McIntosh
An in-depth critique of Tim Burton’s 2005 film
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory focusing on elements of racism and colonialism.
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Reflections on the VI Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle and the new Latin American left
29 Aug 2005
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Cuban Libertarian Movement
* The Cuban Libertarian Movement (CLM; in Spanish: Movimiento Libertario Cubano - MLC) presents for collective debate its reflections on the declarations made by the EZLN (the Zapatista rebels) in July 2005 in the state of Chiapas, Mexico.
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News :: Globalization
BUILDING A SECRET AIR FORCE : The CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs
29 Aug 2005
by
endoftheroad
"What was the most exciting thing you saw?" I ask.
"I found a list of officers' names," he said, "under the heading 'Non-Terrestrial Officers'."
"Non-Terrestrial Officers?" I say.
"Yeah, I looked it up," says Gary, "and it's nowhere. It doesn't mean little green men. What I think it means is not earth-based. I found a list of 'fleet-to-fleet transfers', and a list of ship names. I looked them up. They weren't US navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet." ifo hacker--GARY MCKINNON
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Can the Empire Do Everything?
29 Aug 2005
by
Mumia Abu-Jamal
"The problem is that the US supported the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. A paragraph of that treaty imposes an obligation of negotiations on ending the nuclear arms race.. An empire doesn't seem worried about justice and law.."
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Announcement :: Protest Activity
Mobilizing Meeting TONIGHT for Sept 24 demonstrations
29 Aug 2005
by
Virginia Rodino
Tonight in Washington, DC, hear former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and Gold Star Families for Peace member Tia Steele talk of the importance of the September 24-26 days of action in Washington, DC.
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News :: Media
News Junkie Scott's Blog (8/29/2005)
Sharon vows to accelerate settlement expansion in the West Bank.
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Nothing to report from Iraq's front, America
Here is a president who purposefully, if blindly, took his nation to war, brandishing with equal mastery ignorance and incompetence...
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