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The unemployed need to be informed rather than infantilized, vocal rather than silenced, and mobilized rather than marginalized.
A small company that provides medicine from Canada probably will be ordered to shut down.
After three trials, A Virginia police officer has been acquitted for shooting and killing an un-armed black man in front of his house
Writer from Astoria, Oregon
John Ashcroft is hospitalized with a potentially fatal illness
We must plan now!
Hypocrisy at the Fed
"I Never Sail on Anything Less Than 135 Feet"
It will be like March 20th 2001. What I mean by this is that there is nothing that will come out of a rally and march on the 20th except some liberally sore feet (hah!). Even the so-called "radical feeder march" is a fucking j-o-k-e.
As the pages of indymedia say, from the people that are out there, this is a yawn. This is not a reason to leave your homes and go rally with PPRC or the so-called radicals at wither Pioneer Square or the North Park Blocks.
Watching the local news... 6 or 8, can't remember which...
The high cost of housing hurts many in our communities, particularly low income families, seniors and the disabled. Lack of affordable housing pushes people into hunger and homelessness, and has negative impacts on the environment, the economy and the educational system. People throughout the region are getting active around this basic need (details for Rally on 3/11 and efforts in Clackamas & East Mult. County follow).
What if we had a forest of great commercial value and wood products companies were cutting it down as fast as they could? What if that forest were just about half gone and the cutting rate was accellerating? What if that forest could NEVER regrow, ever?
The world's petroleum reserves are that irreplacable forest. They are literally ancient forests and other biomass and we are permitting oil companies to "clearcut" them. Petroleum is a resource of nature. It is natural. It is a very valuable gift from the earth. What is it going to take to wake up and notice what is going to happen as this valuable substance disappears from easy access and easy usability?
Join us for protest and public meeting.
The latest dispatch from political prisoner Jeff 'Free' Luers who is serving a 22 year sentence for burning three SUVs to protest global warming. To sign up to his list serve, go to  http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/freejeffluers
Tonight at 8:00pm is the final showing in Portland of "Fourth World War". If you haven't seen it yet, come on down and check it out. There is no admission but we will be accepting donations. If ya give a donation, we'll be able to do more stuff like this in the future.
The unions opposed 2002's universal health care initiative, Measure 23, but they're not going to do anything about the health care crisis.
fuck the police state, watch this video of the resistance to a police state in miami, fl bombs, tear gas, and bullets.
More evidence has surfaced that Microsoft has been financing SCO's attacks on linux.
My mom asked me this question and I couldn't come up with an articulate answer. Please help me give her a good answer!
I thought our government decided Sarin was BAD, and reason to bomb other countries.
when rumsfeld talks, people listen!
A myth equal to the fable of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction is gaining strength on both sides of the Atlantic. It is that John Kerry offers a world-view different from that of George W Bush. Watch this big lie grow as Kerry is crowned the Democratic candidate and the "anyone but Bush" movement becomes a liberal cause celebre.
Show the world that Anti-authoritarians are still here to say no to war-profiteers, fascism, and murderous empires!
We have not gone away, we have been waiting...
Calendar & Events Have Some Wrong Listings
We will be gathering signatures for a new PUD effort this coming Saturday, March 6. We'll meet at 10 am at FreeGeek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue (several blocks south of Hawthorne).
The new Willamette Electric PUD will encompass the eight precincts in inner Southeast and Northeast Portland which voted an average 57% in favor of public power in the recent Multnomah County PUD election.
Racicot was quoted as " Senator Kerry crossed a grave line when he dared to suggest the replacement of America 's commander-in- chief at a time when America is at war," while implying that Kerry was a traitorous renegade. Just to remind the snide Racicot, Kerry happens to be a war hero. He has the medals to prove it. The Army doesn't award Purple Hearts out for catching syphilis, in some Mexican whorehouse, while guarding the skies of Texas from VC infiltrators.
Short Science Fiction that may not be Science Fiction at all.
come along for a few days and help people save the Mattole's old growth Doug fir forests from corporate plunder by MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber.
Add your voice to the Hands Off venezela Campaign
Grand jury to review call logs from Bush's jet in probe of how a CIA agent's cover was blown.
A Canadian who admitted his family has had links to Al Qaeda says he was recruited to work for the CIA, the FBI and the U.S. military in Afghanistan and later at the U.S. prison facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Anti-war groups throughout the United States and around the globe will take to the streets on Saturday March 20, the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, under the banner "The World Still Says No to War."
am tossing out this astute quotation to spark commentary....
Britain cannot afford to "err on the side of caution" in the fight against terrorism, Tony Blair has said in one of his starkest warnings yet.
This article offers information relating to the funeral industry's funeral pre-planning and the pros and cons associated with planning your funeral before your death.
The goal is to create identification packages for children in the state's 169 towns and cities.
Shift in Bush administration policy seen as concession to President Fox. Backing off tough, new security measures, the Bush administration has decided to drop a planned requirement for visa-carrying Mexicans to be photographed and fingerprinted when coming to the U.S. for short visits near the border.
The wave of anger about these ads is growing by the minute - PLEASE help by sending at least ONE email or making ONE phone call to your local media. When each one of us does one thing it will add up. The media must be pushed to ask one more question than whether people like or don't like the ads - they need to ask about Bush's role in 9-11. NOW IS THE TIME!
I do warn you about the photos ....
Last monday 1st of March 2004 my brother in law, together with some friends were just going out of his house when 2 trucks of the National Guard appeared with 15 guards each one. They started to hit him just there and then they forced him into one of the trucks. In the truck they keep hiting him, furthermore they dropped a tear gas bomb inside the truck (all the GN's were wearing masks).
Haiti was safe for American democracy. One of those who made it so was American Marine General Smedley Butler, who, after he retired, had second thoughts:
I helped make Mexico . . . safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. After speaking about his pacification work in the Dominican Republic, China and elsewhere, Butler said: I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical ... in the military service. In his memoirs, Butler compared himself unfavourably to Al Capone. His racketeering made Capone look like a piker, Butler said.
wtf?
GRAND RAPIDS -- A Michigan school district told a teacher activated for military duty that he must cover the cost of a substitute during part of his absence and give the district some of his military pay.
Pinellas schools ponder a $2-million system that would require students to use their thumbprint to get on the bus.
let's devote a comment thread to his MEMORY today by posting any
article on John Ashcroft that suits the poster's fancy...here is the lead one....
This is the schedule posted on the website, for the 22nd annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference being held in Eugene at the University of Oregon Law School and in other buildings. For more info, latest updates of this schedule, and a pdf format version, as well as relevant links for more info, go to: hhtp://www.pielc.org
The four-day Conference includes over 125 panels, workshops, and multi-media presentations addressing the entire spectrum of environmental law and advocacy. Topics include: forest protection and ecological restoration, grazing and mining reform, labor and human rights, air and water pollution, Native American treaty rights, globalization and "free" trade, environmental justice, corporate responsibility, marine wilderness, international environmental law, water rights and dam removal, oil and gas litigation, genetic engineering, and urban growth. This year's Conference theme, Rousing the Restless Majority focuses on harnessing latent power to change. The Conference has become an event full of energy, innovation, and inspiration for all of us involved in the environmental movement. Whether you are a seasoned Conference attendee or a first-time participant, we look forward to seeing you in March for what is shaping up to be the best Conference ever!
This is the schedule posted on the website, for the final day of the 22nd annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference being held in Eugene at the University of Oregon Law School and in other buildings. For more info, latest updates of this schedule, and a pdf format version, as well as relevant links for more info, go to: hhtp://www.pielc.org
The four-day Conference includes over 125 panels, workshops, and multi-media presentations addressing the entire spectrum of environmental law and advocacy. Topics include: forest protection and ecological restoration, grazing and mining reform, labor and human rights, air and water pollution, Native American treaty rights, globalization and "free" trade, environmental justice, corporate responsibility, marine wilderness, international environmental law, water rights and dam removal, oil and gas litigation, genetic engineering, and urban growth. This year's Conference theme, Rousing the Restless Majority focuses on harnessing latent power to change. The Conference has become an event full of energy, innovation, and inspiration for all of us involved in the environmental movement. Whether you are a seasoned Conference attendee or a first-time participant, we look forward to seeing you in March for what is shaping up to be the best Conference ever!
This is the schedule posted on the website, for the 22nd annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference being held in Eugene at the University of Oregon Law School and in other buildings. For more info, latest updates of this schedule, and a pdf format version, as well as relevant links for more info, go to: hhtp://www.pielc.org
The four-day Conference includes over 125 panels, workshops, and multi-media presentations addressing the entire spectrum of environmental law and advocacy. Topics include: forest protection and ecological restoration, grazing and mining reform, labor and human rights, air and water pollution, Native American treaty rights, globalization and "free" trade, environmental justice, corporate responsibility, marine wilderness, international environmental law, water rights and dam removal, oil and gas litigation, genetic engineering, and urban growth. This year's Conference theme, Rousing the Restless Majority focuses on harnessing latent power to change. The Conference has become an event full of energy, innovation, and inspiration for all of us involved in the environmental movement. Whether you are a seasoned Conference attendee or a first-time participant, we look forward to seeing you in March for what is shaping up to be the best Conference ever!
I'm getting this ticker tape moving text going across the bottom of my screen, where the bar that lets you move from side to side on your screen normally sits...
Mike Niman has been writing commentaries and columns and doing research on the effects of gov't policies for years, and is a professor at the University of Buffalo, so the issue of teachers being called terrorists strikes a chord with him. This article links together many of the new domestic policies of our fascist gov't and it's repressive foreign policies and gives a new twist to the gay marriage ban I hadn't considered before... (I had to shorten the title to get it to fit on top)
Jeffrey Luers is an Oregon environmental/social justice activist and political prisoner. In June 2001, he was handed an extremely heavy-handed sentence of 22 years in prison for his participation in the destruction of several Sports Utility Vehicles [SUVs]. His reason for targeting SUVs was because they are wasteful and harmful to the environment. The blatant injustice in this case has prompted a wide-range of people to join Jeff's support movement.
The State should have no interest in who cohabitates regardless. It blurs the seperation between church and state.
"Neoliberalism doesn't produce growth and creates social inequality..Markets left to themselves, particularly in developing countries, are inefficient..The invisible hand is invisible because it doesn't exist..What is sold now as economics is in reality an ideology or a religion.."
a good article by Nirit Ben-ari
Japanese Sushi Chef vs. The Atomic Bomb
I deposited one penny into my checking account so the balance would be zero
This is Dennis Kucinich's message for today, March 4th, the last day his campaign can receive federal matching funds. The link below is a voice-recorded postcard. The transcript is posted below.
http://members.audiogenerator.com/postcards/?2692808
Choose Your Favorite Pro-War Candidate
Modern American imperialism began with Wilson (or before) and has been a steady progression to attempted domination of the world since then. No hope is provided. This is the American era (until it runs out of steam)
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mp3, ~10megs, 1 hour show, with Aristide statement at top of show
