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Ann Arbor Borders wins union contract
The agreement ends almost a year of negotiations between the Madison Heights chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers, which serves as the workers’ union, and Borders Group....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 1:06pm PST
MoveOn.Org's Bush-Hitler Comparison Commercial 1 (video/quicktime 5.0MB)
You asked for it, you got it. Almost banished from the Internet to the Memory Hole, this amazingly accurate comparison proves to be too much for wimpy Democratic front-group MoveOn.org. The question of taste aside, it's the meme that's important. NEVER AGAIN???...
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 12:47pm PST
Seattle: FBI arrests Animal-rights activist
An agent with the FBI's domestic terrorism squad arrested an animal rights activist yesterday for allegedly lying to a Seattle federal grand jury investigating an arson attack on an Olympia forest-product company....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 11:20am PST
Activist Media Take on the Primaries
New Hampshire is traditionally regarded as the make-it-or-break-it primary for wannabe presidents. Free Speech TV and Manhattan Neighborhood Network want to give the kids a say....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 4:58pm PST
The Stupefyingly Long List of Bush Lies
Harry and Helen Highwater of www.unknownnews.net have updated and expanded their 'Words of Wisdom' page listing an amazingly, stupefying long list of lies and propaganda from the Bush Regime about Saddam, Iraq and WMD....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 3:39pm PST
Home Depot: America's Do-It-Yourself Bush Fundraising Store?
Home Depot is
a major contributor to President Bush's campaigns . Home Depot executives,
employees and their families have given more than $1.5 million to the GOP
since 1999, most of it in "soft money," before that practice was outlawed
last year....
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 10:51am PST
AZ: Undocumented prisoners forced to register for draft
UNDOCUMENTED, JAILED MIGRANT WORKERS
TOLD THEY MUST REGISTER FOR MILITARY DRAFT...
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 10:03am PST
Embedding
"Since Woodrow Wilson introduced the `Committee for Public Information' during the 1st World War, governments and the military have attempted to regulate the manner and extent of reporting.."...
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 5:03am PST
Outsourcing Payback Time
A discussion of the problem of outsourcing. Provides ethical, practical suggestions on how to deal with the Corporados....
Posted: Tue, Jan 13, 2004 9:52pm PST
Oppose CAPS II - no-fly lists
(reprint) Despite strong opposition from airlines, privacy advocates and Members of Congress, the Bush Administration is pushing ahead with plans to implement a computerized airline passenger profiling program that would create secret blacklists of innocent people prevented from flying....
Posted: Tue, Jan 13, 2004 5:50pm PST
Queer Muslims & Allies Conference in LA
Third International Conference for LGBTIQ Muslims & Friends - Feb. 13-16, 2004 - Hollywood (Los Angeles, CA)...
Posted: Tue, Jan 13, 2004 8:51am PST
The Case of Leonard Peltier
Below you will find a new detailed article on the case of Leonard Peltier. This article explains why Leonard’s case is so important to all of us and why support events like the Feb. 7th Tacoma Peltier March are needed to be supported by all who believe in social justice and peace....
Posted: Mon, Jan 12, 2004 3:21pm PST
National "Freedom to Marry Week" Actions Feb 9-15
World's Largest Gay Church Group And DontAmend.com
Announce National "Freedom to Marry Week":"Gays Called To Flood Marriage Bureaus With Same-Sex Marriage License Applications And Participate In National Pro-Marriage Rallies...
Posted: Sun, Jan 11, 2004 11:06pm PST
Bush administration expands police spying powers
The Bush administration has signed into law an act that grants new powers to US intelligence agencies to spy on the public, and expands the controversial Patriot Act. In a highly unusual move, Bush signed the legislation into law on a Saturday—December 13—the same day US forces captured Saddam Hussein....
Posted: Sat, Jan 10, 2004 1:59pm PST
"We have lost 30 years": Dennis Meadows
"We must develop a new concept of economics, one in which people are less interested in accumulating material things. Only then can sustainable growth be achieved..If we had begun in the seventies to develop alternatives to material growth, we could look to the future more calmly.."...
Posted: Fri, Jan 9, 2004 3:27pm PST
PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE EMBRACED BY 2ND LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT IN USA!
WWW.CALISAFE.ORG
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERS...
Posted: Fri, Jan 9, 2004 4:09am PST
Mumia Abu-Jamal on enemy combatant radio (audio/mpeg 45.6KB)
Prison Radio with Mumia Abu-Jamal is now airing on enemy combatant radio....
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 10:23pm PST
Rank-and-File Movement Wins Election in SEIU Local 36, Incumbents Refuse to Leave Office
On December 13, members of Local 36 of the 1.6 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the largest in the AFL-CIO and originator of the national "Justice for Janitors" campaign, elected a new president, secretary-treasurer and 23 Executive Board members. This came in the 18th month of a national SEIU trusteeship over Local 36, which represents over 4,300 janitors, building maintenance workers, technicians and professionals in Philadelphia and its suburbs ...
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 6:29pm PST
Demand Justice for Miami FTAA protesters! 1/12 call-in action
The City is continuing to harass people in the legal system. Call/Fax/Email the following political officials all day on January 12th!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 12:31pm PST
EPA Refuses to Protect Food Supply from Sewage Sludge
On New Year's Eve, December 31, 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency denied a petition requesting that the agency ban the land application of sludge. On the same day, the agency published its review of regulations governing the use and disposal of sewage sludge......
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 9:55am PST