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ACLU & NLG Groups Sue Over DNC "Free Speech Zone" aka Boston's Camp X-Ray
Authorities in Boston have designated as the official protest an area enclosed by a maze of overhead netting, razor wire and chain link fence. To some it resembles an internment camp, to others Guantanamo Bay. Today lawyers file suit to overturn the "free speech zone."...
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 9:17am PDT
Life in Baghdad
Iraqis talk, in whispers and loud voices, about some American companies that started digging and investing minerals from the land here…then exporting them to America, or some other countries. These whispers between people taught me that they are mostly right, if not every time. Especially the stories about Abu-Ghareb prison, as I heard them, but didn’t believe them at the beginning. Will the Capitalism start sucking the Blood of Iraq, as it has sucked the blood of the American continent?…and...
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 8:39am PDT
FBI agents come calling on Lawrence Kansas anarchists
FBI officials Friday went door-to-door in Lawrence and neighboring cities trying to find and interview members of a local anarchist group.
Members of the group said they thought agents were trying to find out if they knew of any plans to disrupt the Democratic National Convention next week in Boston. According to national news reports, FBI officials said Friday they had "unconfirmed information" that a domestic group planned to violently disrupt the convention by targeting media ...
Posted: Sun, Jul 25, 2004 11:28pm PDT
Protesters destroy French GM crop
Hundreds of protesters have destroyed a field of genetically modified maize in south-west France....
Posted: Sun, Jul 25, 2004 10:10am PDT
Athens: Petrol bombs tossed at ministry buildings
Demonstrators at an anti-Olympics protest in central Athens last night hurled a gasoline bomb outside the Interior Ministry and spray painted the columns of surveillance cameras set up for the Games. There were no arrests....
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 12:39pm PDT
FBI Launch Anarchist Dragnet
The FBI has targeted anarchists in New York, Boston, Denver, Lawrence, Kansas City, Topeka, and Kirksville (Missouri), asking questions about the upcoming Democratic and Republican National Conventions. FBI agents raided homes in Denver and arrested two anarchists for "failure to pay bike tickets" and "failure to appear in court"....
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 12:34pm PDT
Midwest anarchists questioned about RNC, DNC
The FBI has actively been harassing activists in the past two days in Denver, Lawrence, Kirksville, Columbia, and Topeka....
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 10:09am PDT
Resurrection of Care at Bohemian Grove
Report from the Sunday, July 18, 2004 protest at Bohemian Grove, near Monte Rio in Sonoma Country, California...
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 1:04am PDT
Globalize Liberation Book Release Celebration July 28
please join us for a BOOK RELEASE CELEBRATION! for the new book from City Lights: ** GLOBALIZE LIBERATION ** How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World, edited by David Solnit - WED JULY 28, 7PM...
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 5:29pm PDT
Increasing Inequality. Language, Community, Nature and the Future Endangered
Without the social contract, we become wolves to one another. Rousseau's idea is replaced by Hobbes' "natural order". The might is right delusion and the warrior mentality replace Kant's vision of eternal peace and the UN's passion to outlaw war....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 5:57am PDT
Boston Independent Media Center - Democratic National Convention Projects
Are you coming to Boston for the Democratic National Convention this July? Are you
planning to work with the Independent Media Center?...
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 11:31am PDT
Building Bridges Radio - Boycott Liberty Apparel: National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
Building Bridges Radio presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 8:14am PDT
“This Is Your Future”
Global Exchange trip to Argentina provides insights into privatization both there and at home in the Central Valley. For a related story about privatization in Fresno, see: http://sfbay.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/1686399.php...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 3:19pm PDT
CAE: Fear and Profit in the Fourth Domain
The following article is long and academic, but highly rewarding. How often do you encounter a radical critique of biotechnology that combines Greek mythology, JudeoChristian theology, medieval painting, Gothic literature, 1980s horror films, and cutting edge biology? So, yeah... check this out!...
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 7:30pm PDT
Bohemian Grove Protest -- this Sunday, J18
The annual Fat Cats' Festival will be held this Sunday, July 18th at Monte Rio in Sonoma County....
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 10:24pm PDT
Will Martha Redecorate the Big House?
Martha Stewart sentenced to five months in federal prison....
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 5:10pm PDT
Slim-Fast drops Whoopi after Bush sex joke
Slim-Fast has dropped Whoopi Goldberg from its advertising after the comedian made a sexual joke about George Bush.
The Unilever-owned diet food brand acted after Goldberg made fun of the US president at a Democratic fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York last week.
"We should keep Bush where he belongs," Goldberg said, gesturing at her genitals, "and not in the White House."...
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 8:48am PDT
Tonight on PBS: Movie "Thirst"
"THIRST"
National Broadcast Premiere Tuesday July 13, 10pm (check local
listings) on PBS's acclaimed "P.O.V." (Point of View) series....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 3:34pm PDT
Relieving Ourselves Of The Bush Infection
visit www.luxefaire.com/electro.html...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 11:54am PDT
7/18: REALLY FREE MARKET
let's make the free market monthly event!...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:56am PDT