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The Crash Begins on the Golf Course
"Anonymous economic forces are not responsible. For 20 years the governments of the most important industrial countries have systematically pursued a policy of redistribution upwards from below.. The misery of the third world is indescribable.."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 9:31am PDT
Working class action in Argentina
This is from a Trot group, but in spiote of that it contains useful info......
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 7:14pm PDT
Brave New World: Book Review
"Social policy can support the economy when women are increasingly integrated in the working life for example. Childcare must be assured. If a shortage of workers exists, a useable health care must be established..But what happens if workers are in abundance?.."...
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 10:49am PDT
grow food on lawns
food not lawns and cattails for central valley drought and heat.....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 7:50pm PDT
Annulling Debts as a Great Step
"The goal must be redefined beyond goods production and abstract labor, beyond the market and the state.. The great step of debt cancellation occurs when the burden can no longer be endured. The new finance capitalism since the 1980s is a speculative bubble and debt capitalism.."...
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 10:34am PDT
Shaukat Aziz Slated to Become Prime Minister of Pakistan
Pakistan Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali forced out to make way for Shaukat Aziz....
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 10:55pm PDT
6/28: 1 month anniversary of arrests and torture of activists in Guadalajara
June 28 is the 1 month anniversary of the reperssion violence and illegal
detentions against the protesters of the Third Coumbre of Latin America
the Carribbean and European Union....
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 11:51am PDT
The Social Movement Needs a Strategy
"The provisional declaration presented for Porto Alegre III starts from the weakening of the Washing-ton Consensus that fixed the neoliberal agenda, cemented market fundamentalism and a growing loss of legitimation of international institutions.."...
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 9:37am PDT
Subsistence Economics: Avoiding Capitalist Exploitation
"Subsistence economics doesnt appear in any statistics or gross national product.. Everyone may only take as much as he or she needs for survival.. The resistance communities have shown that a life is possible beyond paid labor and dependence.. Self-sufficiency gives them an impressive strength"...
Posted: Fri, Jun 25, 2004 12:48pm PDT
"Urban Permaculture" (video/quicktime 10.3MB)
Early Version (4 Min. Quicktime)...
Posted: Fri, Jun 25, 2004 1:20am PDT
WalMart Civil Rights Class Action Certified
Federal Judge Orders Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the Nation’s Largest Private Employer, To Stand Trial for Company-Wide Sex Discrimination...
Posted: Wed, Jun 23, 2004 11:52am PDT
Alternatives instead of Corrections
"Politics has actually never lost this control. The Washington Consensus is a purely political project.. With the slogan `Another World is Possible', the movement makes a far-reaching claim.. It fights for a new social, economic, political and democratic order all over the world.."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2004 2:06pm PDT
Full audio available for Reclaim the Commons teach-in press conference
Full audio of the RTC teach-in press conference is available at radio4all.net. The 22 min. mp3 previews key topics presented at the Reclaim the Commons teach-in, June 3-5, 2004: GE food, human genetic manipulation, pharma profiteering, racial justice links and alternative visions. Speakers: Brian Tokar, Anuradha Mittal, Marcy Darnovsky, Anne-christine d'Adesky, Inga Olson, David Kahn...
Posted: Mon, Jun 21, 2004 4:17pm PDT
Fairy-Tale about the Upswing
"Neoliberal policy lowers individual real income, increases mass unemployment and reduces mass demand.. The need for a constant influx of foreign capital is gigantic, $2.3 million a minute.."...
Posted: Mon, Jun 21, 2004 10:37am PDT
Kids at Really, Really Free Market
One thing that made Reclaim the Commons different from other mobilizations was that kids were a big part of it. Here are some photos of kids who were at the Really, Really Free Market....
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 5:13pm PDT
wot happened to biotechimc?
i visit a website called biotechimc regularly but it is not on the server any more... we need more discussion and information of biotech and its implications. i have printed a interview i got from the search engine below, with respect to all people...
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 3:17pm PDT
6/6 Costumes Seen at Really, Really Free Market
The announcements for the Really, Really Free Market encouraged people to wear costumes. Some clever people took the invitation to wear costumes to heart....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 9:14pm PDT
Hacker Breaks into S. Korea Atomic Energy Institute and others
SEOUL (AFP) -- A hacker has broken into computers at sensitive South Korean research institutes and government agencies, cyber security authorities said Saturday.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said the anonymous hacker had broken into computers at the Agency for Defense Development, which develops weapons, the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, the Korea Institute for Defense Analysis and three other government agencies....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 7:58pm PDT
Italian Police Arrest Four Suspected Anarchists Near Pisa
Between June 7 and 9, four anarchists from the Silvestre group were arrested in the Italian city of Pisa and charged with "criminal conspiracy and preparing explosives". On the night of June 15-16 in Milan, a cellular telephone tower on top of an auto-body shop was set on fire and words of solidarity for “Free and Silvestre” were left on the walls....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 4:34pm PDT