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FWF Crew - Prose Combat Mix FWF Crew 2004-05-18 5:17 PM
This is the first FWF Crew mix made by the entire crew, entitled "Prose Combat : Conscious Rhymes & Rebirth of Speech". (text/html)

Animal Rights Activists Speak Out About Foie Gras Eric Jonas 2004-05-18 2:34 PM
The Pittsburgh animal rights group Voices for Animal Liberation has been asking local restaurants to remove foie gras from their menus. Foie gras is made by force-feeding a duck or goose one third of his body weight every day by having a metal pipe forced down his throat. (text/plain + 32 comments)

Alert: Stop The Repression Of The Protests Against The G-8 In Georgia david 2004-05-18 1:19 PM
The Miami Model is blowing into Georgia. (text/plain)

G8: Island Residents May Suffer from G-8 Presence, but Sea Island Company Will Not Bork 2004-05-18 12:59 PM
Sea Island, Georgia -- Sea Island is the actual physical site of the G-8 summit this year though adjacent St. Simons Island will take at least some of the overflow. The leaders from the wealthiest nations, predominantly white, will come together in June at this southern Georgia resort to further their economic domination of the rest of world. (text/html)

Starbucks Workers Go Union! Rebel Worker 2004-05-18 9:50 AM
First in Nation, Starbucks Workers Form Union. Baristas Petition for Election (text/plain)

For 8 days in May, Truckers closed the Port of Oakland Daniel Borgström 2004-05-18 6:24 AM
For eight days in May, the Port of Oakland was virtually shut down by truckers striking for better conditions. The same port had been closed down by antiwar protesters just three weeks before, so a small contingent of us from Direct Action to Stop the War (DASW) joined them as a community support group and reported their struggle on Indymedia. (text/plain)

ride of silence noah 2004-05-17 9:46 PM
remeber those injured or killed by cars (text/plain)

PAPV Press Advisory david 2004-05-17 6:09 PM
PAPV to hold press conference on Malcom X Day. (text/plain + 1 comment)

"Remember the Dead" march gwen 2004-05-17 5:54 PM
In remembrance of those who have recently died, as well as to denounce the torture and humiliation of Iraqis by U.S. troops, Pittsburgh Organizing Group held a silent "funeral procession" on Sunday, May 16th in Oakland. The march toured past local institutions with specific ties to the war. Flyers to bring about awareness of the ties between CMU and the military were also distributed to passers-by. (text/plain + 3 comments)

West Coast G8 June Protests: Update! West Coast G8 2004-05-16 10:58 PM
West Coast G8 regional mobilization update (text/html)

Torture and Guerrilla Warfare Gary Sudborough 2004-05-16 8:39 PM
Popular support is absolutely essential for the success of guerrilla warfare and torture is an effective counterinsurgency tactic, utilized not just for interrogations, but to intimidate the population supporting the guerrilla fighters. (text/plain)

Blue Sky Peace Festival Free Booths for Activists! Kevin Mc Daniel, Festival Coordinator 2004-05-16 2:24 PM
Activists vendors, volunteers, jugglers, troublemakers, humans , environmentalists, kidz, so-called adults , and freaks are invited to beautiful Sullivan County Saturday, July 10 for the first ever Blue Sky Peace Festival. If you can't make it to Solarfest in Vermont (www.solarfest.org) July 10 & 11, check out this cool local festival. (text/plain)

BTL:Former Counsel to President Richard Nixon Declares that Misconduct in... Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2004-05-16 8:56 AM
...Bush White House is 'Worse than Watergate' * Interview with John Dean, former counsel to President Richard Nixon, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris (text/plain)

SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPES CHUCKMAN 2004-05-16 3:18 AM
SENATE ENJOYS PORNO PEEP SHOW... (text/plain)

Whistleblower Charges Warner-Lambert with Deceptive Practices: NGO-oxy-moron 2004-05-15 11:05 PM
"Mammon's Gangsters Caught Doing What They Do Best...Committing Felonies and than, Lying About Them." (text/plain)

BTL:Human Rights Abuses in U.S.-Run Iraq and Afghan Prisons are... Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2004-05-15 7:28 AM
...Widespread and Systemic * Interview with Carroll Bogert, associate director, Human Rights Watch, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris (text/plain)

Insurgent Ideas pattrice jones 2004-05-14 6:17 PM
Federal, state, and private security forces converged to police not actions but ideas at the Student Animal Rights Organization (SARO) conference on animal liberation, which included the first ever academic symposium on the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). The conference featured analyses from feminist, anti-racist, radical environmentalist, and animal liberationist activists and scholars. (text/plain)

Meet the New Boss… Mark Drolette 2004-05-14 1:20 PM
Why are so many Americans oblivious to their country's arrogant, sometimes brutal behavior, actions that are so easily recognizable to the rest of the world? For the answer, read on. (text/plain)

Film "Raymundo" Website Ernesto 2004-05-14 12:28 AM
We have the pleasure to inform you that was inaugurated the official site of the film RAYMUNDO. (text/plain)

Washington Behind Terrorist Plot Against Chavez Hands Off Venezuela Campaign 2004-05-13 11:27 PM
Colombian Paramilitaries Arrested (text/plain)

Exposed at Abu Ghraib: Torture of U.S. Rule iskra 2004-05-13 3:48 PM
The U.S. interrogators, officially called "Human Exploitation Teams" (HETs) have been terrorizing, raping, torturing and murdering prisoners in Iraq... (text/plain)

Natural Building and Deep Ecology Training in Tennessee amanda womac 2004-05-13 3:41 PM
The Sequatchie Valley Institute at Moonshadow, a non-profit organization, will host its 3rd annual Natural Building Workshop June 18th-27th. Learn how to build a natural, affordable, long-lasting, beautiful home with materials from the land. Particpants will learn through hands-on workshops using cob, adobe, timber-framing, and more. The workshop cost is $650 with work trade and scholarships available. Limited space is available and you must register to attend. For more information, please contact SVI at (423) 949-5922, or email efactivist@yahoo.com. More information is available on the web at www.svionline.org. (text/plain)

Kerry is as good as Roosevelt, Nader as bad as Bush Heckraiser 2004-05-13 1:30 PM
“Progressives need to understand that Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932 on a wishy-washy platform no bolder than the Kerry platform...poll after poll shows the Nader vote depleting Kerry and helping Bush, and tipping swing states and their electoral votes to Bush." (text/plain)

Oh, Say Can’t You See? Mark Drolette 2004-05-13 2:13 AM
According to most polls, about 50% of Americans continue to look favorably upon President Bush. For heaven’s sake, why?? For the answer, read on. (text/plain)

Allied Media Conference, June 18-20 Allied Media Conference 2004-05-12 11:18 PM
Allied Media Conference, June 18-20 (text/html)

Bush's New, New Lie Christopher Sheer (posted by Pipard) 2004-05-12 3:02 AM
June 30 simply marks the selection of yet another "governing council," picked by foreigners (some combination of the UN, U.S. and UK) to act as a front for the U.S.-led occupation army. It will be just business as usual, except for a new set of misleading titles. For example, the "Coalition Provisional Authority" will be renamed the "United States Embassy," staffed by some 2000 employees. That's about it. Really. (text/plain)

IMCs Need Better Marketing Lombard Bukke 2004-05-11 10:38 PM
Ideas on how to improve readership and interest in publishing on Independent Media Center. Why the right to right as a citizen is important. Opportunities to write more opinion than the scrawny Letters to the Editors that are hacked up to a few sentences is a way to go. Can't mainstream media practice democracy? (text/plain + 20 comments)

Georgia G-8 Protests Look to Be Big Bork 2004-05-11 4:00 PM
Many activists around the world are aware that the G-8 Summit is to be held on Sea Island, just off the rural coastline of Georgia, June 8th through 10th. However, there has been relatively little talk of the large numbers of activists coming together to oppose it as Europeans did when the G-8 met in Genoa, Italy in 2001. (text/html)

A picture's worth a thousand words Seven Oaks 2004-05-11 3:12 AM
“It is the photographs that give one the vivid realisation of what actually took place. Words don't do it.” — Donald Rumsfeld, May 7, 2004. (text/plain)

Fallujah Rebels, Residents, Police Celebrate Victory over U.S. Marines Dahr Jamail, The NewStandard 2004-05-11 12:04 AM
While Marines report a successful excursion to the heart of Fallujah, civilians and armed mujahideen join Iraqi police and soldiers in touting the defeat and retreat of US forces in the battle for Fallujah. (text/plain + 2 comments)

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