LOCAL Review :: Activism : Economy : Globalization : Latin America
Econ 101: Opportunities After Economic Collapse
A review and commentary on "The Take," a documentary story of worker and community expropriation of factories and service industries after the 2001 economic collapse of Argentina. Shown Saturday, March 5, at Red Emma’s Bookstore and Coffee House.
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News :: Poverty
Sign Petition- Save Housing Assistance Programs
Sign The Petition To Save The Nations Housing Assistance Programs!
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News :: Europe
PARODY
We'll focus on Jack "the Ripper" and draw parallels just for fun. If this instution has one functioning brain on the payroll it's a brain of bird (dead bird). Yes it is a parody of sorts but it fails to make me laugh.
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Announcement :: Activism : Animal Rights : Biotechnology : Civil & Human Rights : Environment
National Grassroots Animal Rights Conference, March 31st - April 3rd, NYC
This national conference (March 31st through April 3rd in New York City) will be the first of its kind. It intends to: empower the grassroots; promote discussion and skill sharing; be affordable, accessible, and inclusive; challenge oppression WITHIN the animal rights movement; have an open and participatory structure; develop a broader analysis of the social and economic context of animal oppression; promote abolition, not reform; and support cross-movement alliances.
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Islam and SEX
Freudian psychological reality begins with the world, full of objects. Among them is a very special object, the organism. The organism is special in that it acts to survive and reproduce, and it is guided toward those ends by its needs -- hunger, thirst, the avoidance of pain, and sex. Freud’s focus on sex wasn’t entirely unimportant, as many modern psychologists and therapists would have us think.
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News :: Activism : Civil & Human Rights : History : Right Wing
HANIBAL ANTE PROTAS!
Was the Roman cry, while Hanibal’s elephants were freezing crossing the Swiss Alps towards Tuscany. The cry was a little premature, but those who waited long enough did see Hanibal at the gates of Rome in 219BC. “Cartagena delenda” was the Roman answer to Hanibal’s expedition and Cartagena was deleted. For some historians this was one of the many seeds that germinated into pre-natal Fascism, which sprouted on European soil only some 21 centuries later.
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News :: Middle East
Man files lawsuit against police
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — A Saudi man filed a $5 million federal civil rights lawsuit on Friday against police in Eugene, claiming he was beaten "Rodney King-style" when officers responded to a fight at a bowling alley two years ago
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