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Simple question with (perhaps) productive answer.
Some more detailed information about President Moron's itinerary for next week, including a stop "near Medford" to talk about "thinning" forests.
Corporate America lost billions on the Net. That doesn't mean the medium has no value -- but the moguls remain clueless about where it lies.
Public Information on the Bush Administration Protests coinciding with
President Bush fundraiser for US Senator Gorgon Smith Thursday, August 22, 2002
Mayor Vera Katz called a press conference this morning (8-16-02) to announce new enforcement guidelines for the cities existing obstructions as nuisances law. (Please see enclosed) The new guidelines will effectively allow enforcement of the law against anyone sitting or standing on a public sidewalk.
The Dekalb County Green Party resolved to urge its members and supporters to work and vote for Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in the upcoming primary
on August 20th.
"[T]he Bush administration has delivered a powerful new tool: authorization to use nearly $1.7 billion in U.S. military aid directly against the rebels."
This article comes from www.arabnews.com and they talk about Mr. Zack, could did be mr Z from out the NYT?
FBI calls have been temporarily rerouted to FOX's "America's Most Wanted"
Reposting of an awesome article on the escalating situation in Chiapas, the human rights violations and lack of democracy.
Bush Daddy Finale: Can any good come of the bad?
We're seeking first hand accounts of FNB Aug 9, 2002
"Human rights suffer in the present globalization process. Persons as creatures of nature or "speaking bodies" live under the logic dominating this process. Speaking about these human rights means speaking about the system that violates and threatens human dignity..The future of the 1st world lies in the 3rd world.." A book review of Franz Hinkelammert's "For a Culture of Hope" by Christoph Juenke is available on www.portland.indymedia.org.
The PPRC's weekly rally at Pioneer Courthouse Square on Friday, August 16th, at 5:00 p.m., will highlight the Peace and Justice community's current push for a large protest at George W. Bush's Portland fundraiser on August 22nd.
Any action against Iraq full of risks
...Debate in U.S. May Be the Only Way to Avert War. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with John Humphries, who recently returned from an American Friends Service Committee delegation to Iraq.
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Photos from the protest today
August 15, 2002
The following message was received by the Earth Liberation Front Press Office - it should be noted that this action was not claimed by any group - but the message stands for itself:
Audio file of a presentation, given by Mark Des Marets of Northwest Restistance Against Genetic Engneering, concerning the dangers inherent in genetically engineered trees. File is about 45 minutes in length.
The Clatsop County Board of Commissioners voted 3 to 1 to allow the Oregon Department of Forestry to "exchange" 4 healthy forest areas for a patch of monocultured trees and clearcut areas. The trees in the "exchange" areas are from 60 to 140 years old. DOF says that's not old enough to qualify for protection. Come honor the Clatsop forests before they are killed! One has a volunteer-maintained trail system which is very popular and very beautiful.
What the Prez is really about:
account of protests in Portland today to defend the Ron Mandella Community Garden in Sacramento.
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. Germany, Netherlands, China, Spain, and Cuba.
Chemtrails have been gaining acceptance in the progressive media as a reality due to the huge amount of data available. This information plays a role in a larger area of concern: unacknowleged or "black" projects and the Strategic Defense Initiative.
We are organizing a day for activists to come and present their work and causes to the students of Reed College. If you are interested, write me.
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August 14 feature from Melbourne (Australia) Indymedia
The Police Accountability Campaign is looking for video, pictures, soundbytes, and witnesses in regards to police misconduct during Monday's critical mass ride to the Longshoremens' rally.
Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S.
citizens disclosed last week but little publicized -- would allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the courts by declaring them enemy combatants.
The issue of violence has become rather divisive within our growing movement. In our struggle to bring about fundamental social change is nonviolence a more viable and effective option than violence, and vice versa?
The arguments of anti-pacifist Ward Churchill and nonviolent activist George Lakey are presented and critiqued...
quarter sheet flyers, double-sided. download and copy. for use at Starbucks Protest Friday morning (Aug. 16) to tell people what Starbucks is doing to Samantha Buck and urging them call/write Starbucks and demand that they leave Sam alone. These flyers are not date-specific or Portland-specific so they can be used in any town to pressure Starbucks.
Tonight at the Cascadia Forest Alliance Revue (7:30 pm at Liberty Hall) learn why local residents, environmentalists, and recreationists are coming together to oppose the commercial take-over of the NE side of Mt. Hood. Find out what exactly Mt. Hood Meadows and the Forest Service have planned for our Mt. Hood."
Many eco-accidents, organised environmental criminal, coruption...
Stop Genetic Engineering
Here are the streets that have been saturated with posters. We need posters up on other streets.
"What do we mean by Turning the Tables? We mean turning over our world-view and looking at things from another perspective-through the eyes of those on the margins, not at the centre. Looking at things from the bottom-up not the top-down-that sense we achieve when we turn that map of the world `upside down' and see Africa and South America at the top." This sermon was delivered in Toronto on May 5, 2002. Do we have the humility to learn from a Canadian woman?
"Where economic calculation first relativizes all non-economic values and then dissolves them completely, a nihilism seemingly without alternative dominates that passes into a mysticism of death.. The question of power is raised because alternatives are part of human nature. Alternatives always exist. Alternatives are not impossible today but are made impossible..Refusing this generalization..would play into the hands of neoliberal fragmentation."
"Pioneer Square Inc" is considering closing a large section of the square for fifteen weeks each year to put in a skating rink. Advocates are trying to elicit "Norman Rockwell-like" imagery to evoke a sense of nostalgia for simple times that never were. Bottom line: they want to draw more people into the area to shop!
Military looks to drugs for battle readiness
As combat flights get longer, pilot use of amphetamines grows, as do side effects.
An excerpt from the Donahue interview with, Breitweiser, the widow of the 9-11 victim who is one of the 400 9-11 family members filing suit against Bush for allowing 9-11 to occur.
[USE WITH MEDIA HELLRAISING KIT!!]
8/15 report about the release pending trial of the first 3 suspects and making it about Tre Arrow
Read here about the Bush administration's lies about Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction" and what the anti-war movement can do to stop U.S. plans to invade Iraq.
Despite the government's assurances that it never could have foreseen
such a scenario...On 9/11, CIA Was Running Simulation of a Plane Crashing into a Building
Court date for man who videotaped 16-year old being assaulted by police
War in Iraq could result in complete loss of civil liberties in America. The Bush Administration does not take well to dissent and organized dissent regarding the war could result in internment of peaceful demonstrators. Perhaps the waters that are now washing thru Europe will remind our allies and that America's disrgard for international law could be a disasterous as our disregard for global warming.
Information regarding a protest to stop the destruction of Sacramento's oldest community garden at the offices of two Portland developers.
sorry to make portland IMC the official UFO site, but...
Information on the still-in-formation student organization at Reed College to revolutionize working at Reed.
Feature from Seattle Indymedia. THE CORPORATE MEDIA SUCKS DON'T READ IT DON'T WATCH IT DON'T LISTEN TO IT
emotional/emotive rant about the condition of the world (the society of humanus) as i see it
Here is one person's wish list for the Bush protest:
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