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10/12: Join the Stop CAFTA Coalition to Say NO to CAFTA!
July 19th-21st, 2004, Central Americans around the region gathered together at the Fifth Mesoamerican Forum in El Salvador to strategize and demonstrate against CAFTA and other neoliberal policies. Participants and organizers put out a call for action on October 12th to oppose these initiatives that hurt Central Americans and asked for hemisphere-wide participation....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 5:31pm PDT
60 films for 60 years of World Bank/IMF
Launch of new web portal to independent film and video on the World Bank, IMF and regional development banks....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 10:36am PDT
Global Exchange Embraces Budweiser Corporation and rejects Righteous Reggae.
Global Exchange throws their annual fundraiser in partnership with the mega-Corporation Budweiser and blocks the performance of conscious rasta dancehall artist Capleton. Global Exchange has snitched out activists to police in Seattle, made backroom deals with the Democratic Party, and throws benefits with the same huge corporations they villianize, and proceeds to ban the loudest and most popular antiwar voice in popular music(which comes from the top conscious rasta artists such as Caple...
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 8:03am PDT
Reason #5 you should protest the G-7 Friday Oct. 1st
The Group of 7 most powerful economies, the G-7 is the global decision
maker on the matter of debt cancellation. Both in the IMF and World Bank
countries are given a vote proportionate to the size of their economies....
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 11:47pm PDT
10/1-2 Protest IMF/World Bank Meetings
THE MOBILIZATION FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE calls all activists to
WASHINGTON DC on OCTOBER 1ST AND 2nd to protest the meetings of the G-7, the
World Bank and the IMF and to join a Memorial Procession to end the war in
Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 12:09am PDT
Fri Oct 1 in SF - Sonia Shah speaks on Oil in the Age of Depletion
Friday, October 1 at 7 pm - Sonia Shah, author and independent journalist, will speak on, "Oil in the Age of Depletion: A Renewed Assault on Human Rights and the Environment" at New College, 777 Valencia Street, SF.,...
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2004 9:53pm PDT
the US, West Africa and Equatorial Guinea: the next battleground?
interesting background piece by Chris Deliso about plans for increased US involvement, possibly through private military companies, in West Africa...
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2004 2:39pm PDT
Equatorial Guinea: "the new Kuwait"
fascinating article from the Guardian about possible US intervention in Equatorial Guinea...
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2004 2:36pm PDT
45 Translated Articles to Celebrate the De-Selection
45 new translated articles are available at www.mbtranslations.com. Marcos and the Zapatistas speak of one world where many worlds fit, a world where everyone has a place. Hearts of stone can become hearts of flesh!...
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2004 6:54am PDT
A musical message of peace from PeaceFest (audio/mpeg 2.0MB)
A musical message of peace from PeaceFest, a free festival at Speedway Meadows in Golden Gate Park Saturday 9/25, from the Global Peace Foundation...
Posted: Sun, Sep 26, 2004 7:39pm PDT
Far Bigger Than Enron, Is Fannie Mae Going Down?
Fannie Mae, US sponsored corporate behemoth is reported to have used computer systems intentionally designed to flout GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.) They cooked the books. And they are far, far bigger than Enron. (Uh oh!!! Repent, The End Is Near?)...
Posted: Sat, Sep 25, 2004 9:59am PDT
Maquiladora Tour in Tijuana all are invited
You are invited to learn about Tijuana maquiladora workers' conditions and struggles. Tour to Tijuana's Industrial area:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 9 am to 3 pm meeting in San Diego, CA...
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2004 7:54pm PDT
Benefit Show for DAAA Collective Oct 16th
Oct 16th Benefit Show for the DAAA Collective/Ceres Food Not Bombs. Happening in Ceres CA....
Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2004 10:41pm PDT
Boston Social Forum: Significance, Achievements and Some Lessons Learned
analysis of the recent Boston Social Forum by two of its organizers...
Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2004 8:21pm PDT
this weekend: Symposium on Globalization and the Environmental Justice Movement
Symposium Builds New Bridges Between Environmental Justice Activists,
Academics, and Writers
“Colonia Tour” of Nogales, Sonora to begin three day long event
Tucson - September 23rd through 25th...
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 4:42pm PDT
Spanish shipyard workers block railways and clash with police
Izar rebelde!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 1:01pm PDT
Inflationary Deflation or the Dominance of the Global Financial Markets
"When real interests are above real growth raters of the GDP, debtors are structurally overstrained. The debt crisis of the 1980s and the financial crises of the past decade suggest that a kind of post-modern `plundering capitalism' is arising.."...
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 10:45am PDT
Capital Logic on Trial
"Rainer Roth in The House of Cards puts the mechanisms of the capitalist economy on trial.. To counter the long-term descent of profit rates, the tax burden for businesses, a constant 21% from 1960 to 1980, has spiraled down to only 8% today.."...
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 9:01am PDT
action against citibank 9/21
There will be an action against Citibank at its 1526
Webster St. branch in Alameda. Tuesday 9/21/04 at noon...
Posted: Mon, Sep 20, 2004 8:45pm PDT
The Take
Director/producer Avi Lewis (Counterspin) and writer/producer and renowned author Naomi Klein (No Logo) take viewers inside the lives of ordinary visionaries, as they reclaim their work, their dignity and their democracy....
Posted: Mon, Sep 20, 2004 4:44pm PDT