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Halliburton: Protestors Arrested @ Shareholders Meeting
*Civil Disobedience Blows the Whistle on War Profiteering inside
Halliburton Shareholders Meeting*...
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 3:24pm PDT
Torture okay: propaganda paper
The article - Not Enough Official Torture in the World? The Circumstances in which Torture is Morally Justifiable - is soon to be published in the University of San Francisco Law Review?...
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 9:07pm PDT
Support Chavez; Buy CITGO Gas - Join the BUYcott; It doesn't go to Bush, Saudia Arabia etc
CITGO is owned by state owned Venezuelan Oil Company which is benefitting the poor. See bottom for closest stations...
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 7:11pm PDT
Downtown Living Room in Vancouver, BC
On Monday May 16, on the eve of Tuesday's provincial election, the Work Less Party will be having a leisurely and relaxing day at the dorner of Burnard and Georgia....
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 6:48am PDT
Without a Human Face
Hundreds of thousands of families are at risk with CAFTA. the import duties will be completely removed. Guatemala's small farmers will not be able to compete with the heavily subsidized products of the US agricultural industry....
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2005 10:29am PDT
Big Berlin anti-right demo photos
There are a lot of antifascist 'antifa' demonstrations in Germany on a weekly basis, and there was a particularly powerful event May 8th,the anniversary of the end of WWII, in Berlin when a far right NPD party had 3000 people out supporting rightist economic positions and making a statement on that germans should be getting over guilt of World War II.
The left, which has some factions matching those seen in the U.S., such as anarchists in black sweatshirts, and some unique perspectives s...
Posted: Sun, May 8, 2005 5:28pm PDT
BTL:Increasing Energy Demands and Diminishing Supplies Set Off Intensifying...
...International Struggle to Capture Petroleum Resources ~ Excerpt of a speech by Michael Klare, professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College, produced by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, May 8, 2005 7:25am PDT
Biology Prof. Resigns Over Gvt. Use of Plant Research
We speak Dr. Martha Crouch, a former biology professor at the University of Indiana. She ran a lab dedicated to cutting edge plant research but decided to end her career when she found out that biotechnology companies were co-opting her research for profit....
Posted: Fri, May 6, 2005 8:15pm PDT
Dow Releases 'Acceptable Risk' at Banking Conference
May 3, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DOW RELEASES "ACCEPTABLE RISK" PROGRAM AT BANKING CONFERENCE
"Risk Calculator" helps ensure sound business practice...
Posted: Tue, May 3, 2005 4:26pm PDT
Call for anarchist filems: Projectile 2006
PROJECTILE: A festival of anarchist film and culture...
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 4:28am PDT
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train
We speak with legendary historian Howard Zinn, author of one of the most popular books on American History, "A People's History of the United States." In his youth, Zinn was a bombardier in World War II and participated in the Napalm bombing in France. He went on to dedicate his life to opposing wars of all kind. He was an active fighter in Civil Rights Movement and served as an advisor to the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. In the late 1960s, he traveled to Vietnam with...
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 9:18am PDT
A New World in our Hearts: Anarchist May Day Festival!
http://www.anewworldinourhearts.mahost.org/...
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 8:46am PDT
BTL:World Bank/IMF Fail to Agree on Plan to Cancel Debt or Increase Aid to...
...Poorest Nations ~ Interview with Virginia Setshedi, of the South African Anti-Privatization Forum, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Apr 24, 2005 6:10am PDT
Endorse 8 principles of 'The Tsunami Justice Working Group of the Asian Solidarity Network
The Tsunami Justice Working Group’ emerged from a January 29th, 2005 Strategy Planning meeting convened by the Asian Solidarity Network of Toronto. In attendance were representatives from major labour, social justice and non-governmental organizations; from persons whose homelands are the tsunami-affected communities; and from concerned individuals.
The Statement of Principles reflects our commitment to an ongoing monitoring of developments in the tsunami-affected countries through the co...
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2005 12:09pm PDT
New Anti-Capitalist Film
This is to alert you to a new film – “Capitalism and other Kids’ Stuff” – that has recently been uploaded to the www and can be seen at www.socialist-tv.com , and which argues the anti-capitalist case in simple language....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 2:33pm PDT
June 18-21 *** Converge in Philadelphia *** BioDEMOCRACY / Reclaim the Commons!
Join us to challenge the corporate crime, poisons for profit, and flagrant lies of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (www.bio.org), at the time of their annual international convention, with a creative uprising for truth, life and justice!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 12:53pm PDT
April 13th is CAFTA National Call-in Day
April 13th is CAFTA National Call-in Day - Be part of
the Global Week of Action on Trade - Demand that Your
Representative take a stand Against CAFTA!
(www.stopcafta.org for more info and for call scripts)...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 12:19pm PDT
From World Bank to America Bank
President Bush had a hard time explaining to the unenlightened rest of the world why he proposes a man completely lacking in development experience, international credibility in combating poverty and ability to forge international consensus....
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 6:43am PDT
cyber action today
From the 10th to 16th of April, 2005, the Biovision/Biosquare forum will take place in the city of Lyon, France. This summit can be compared with the Davos WEF, but is solely concerned with biotech issues...
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2005 3:57am PDT
Contact Your Member of Congress Re: CAFTA on/by April 13th
Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, announced a committee hearing on the United States-Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) for Wednesday, April 13. It is rumored that the House Ways and Means Committee will also hold a hearing the same day....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 12:59am PDT