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The Lord of the Rings: Good versus Evil Gary Sudborough 2004-03-23 2:28 PM
A comparison of the two good versus evil confrontation theories being propagated by the Bush administration with one that I think bears a closer resemblance to reality. (text/plain)

Is the US secretly moving WMDs into Iraq? RR 2004-03-23 2:13 PM
A report by an Iranian news agency alleges that US and British forces have secretly moved WMDs into Iraq, supposedly to counter claims that they failed to find the original justification for the war on Iraq. [taken from the From the Environmentalists Against War website: envirosagainstwar.org] (text/plain)

Help Close the SOA! WPA-SOAW 2004-03-23 2:11 PM
Action Alert Email, Fax, and write your representative and tell them: SHUT DOWN THE SOA! (text/plain)

Kerry Committed War Crimes, 'Burned Villages' United Press International 2004-03-22 9:48 PM
The Presumptive Democratic Nominee for President of the U.S. Is a Confessed Baby Killer. (text/plain + 1 comment)

April 3rd Progressive Conference Westminster College Green Party 2004-03-22 3:18 PM
A coalition of student organizations at Westminster College lead by the Green Party will host a “Regional Progressive Conference” on Saturday April 3. The current plan for the conference will feature five workshops and a keynote speaker followed by live musical entertainment. (text/plain)

Great Anarchist Noam Chomsky backs BUSH-lite Kerry Johnnie Smoltz 2004-03-21 5:26 PM
Could he now be the WORLDS MOST DUMBEST MAN! (text/plain + 6 comments)

Demands at Sit-in Transcribed by IMCistas 2004-03-20 6:04 PM
POG spokesperson presented the following demands at the CMU sit-in (text/plain + 1 comment)

Update from Occupied CMU Danny P 2004-03-20 4:50 PM

M20 march update: 2:45 PM imc eds 2004-03-20 3:00 PM
Marchers estimated at 2700. (text/plain + 2 comments)

75 Semester at Sea Students Protest! Brandon Cohen 2004-03-20 11:19 AM
75 university students from all over the country participated in a protest against George Bush in the middle of the ocean. Sailing on the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea program, a large portion of the ship stood in solidarity against the war in Iraq. (text/plain + 11 comments)

cmu source confirms lock down by way of cmu 2004-03-20 11:01 AM
cmu source confirms lock down (text/plain)

pittsburghers in Baghdad for m20 vincent / blast furnace radio 2004-03-20 9:05 AM
m20 message from baghdad (text/plain)

Collect evidence in street if police riot today Kirsten anderberg 2004-03-20 7:42 AM
For today's protests, make sure to collect the spent evidence of police riot materials afterwards. Take pictures of cops without name tags. Dress as Santa. Take fake babies to the front lines... (text/plain)

Beelen Raid related to convergence doomburger 2004-03-20 12:45 AM
more on raid in the hill (text/plain + 2 comments)

Community members gather to discuss M20 DA Danny P 2004-03-19 10:52 PM
Organizers with the Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) and interested community members met Friday night to plan direct action for March 20th (text/plain)

Raid on Beelan- 2nd report concerned citizen 2004-03-19 10:52 PM
10:42 pm March 19th (text/plain + 3 comments)

CMU Occupations Have Begun! Friends 2004-03-19 10:41 PM
The sixth floor of the CMU administration building has been locked down by protesters. (text/plain + 11 comments)

Cops Raid Beelan Street! Premempitve Strike? concerned citizen 2004-03-19 10:30 PM
Cops raid Beelan Street (text/plain)

OBJECT! DESERT! MUTINY! STRIKE! REVOLT! re-post by NEFAC Friends in Pittsburgh 2004-03-19 9:02 PM
Probably translated from French. (text/plain)

A Legacy of Struggle: The Importance of Knowledge Gary Sudborough 2004-03-19 2:12 PM
The importance of a knowledge of history in understanding the past and to develop an appreciation for the sacrifices and accomplishments of those progressive people who preceded us. (text/plain)

Building Bridges Radio-The Fight for Labor Rights From Iraq to the U.S. by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash 2004-03-19 5:23 AM
Building Bridges Radio presents this 27 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON L.A.INDYMEDIA AUDIO LINK BELOW (text/plain)

Listen Liberty! Individualist Anarchist zine updated L 2004-03-19 1:52 AM
Listen Liberty! Individualist Anarchist zine updated with more writings and links: (text/plain)

ISRAEL SHOULD SUPPORT THE KURDS AGAINST SYRIA Ariel Natan Pasko 2004-03-17 11:20 PM
Israel's Foreign Policy toward Syria should be built on the demands that it leave Lebanon unconditionally, end it's support for Hezbollah and "Palestinian" terror groups, dismantle it's Weapons of Mass Destruction, and keep it's hands off the Kurds. Israel's greater regional policy should be based on supporting the rights of minorities in the area. Only that way, based on democratization, liberation from oppressive regimes, and encouraging freedom, will the Middle East and North Africa be transformed into a region worthy its millennia old history. (text/plain)

Bush Likely to Slap Investment Sanctions on Syria mark dameli 2004-03-17 6:10 PM
The Bush administration is expected to curb future investments by U.S. energy companies in Syria but allow existing projects to continue under a wave of new sanctions over alleged support by Damascus for groups on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations,Syria founded and sponsored several terrorist groups in self-occupied Lebanon and in Syria. Syrian sponsored groups carried several suicide attacks against Americans, West-Europeans and Lebanese since 1980’s killing hundreds. The Syrian regime has founded and sponsored terrorists that mastered hostage-taking and hijacking against American and West-European nationals and civil airplanes. Eleven terrorist groups listed in the US State Department use the Syrian capital as a headquarter.http://www.2la.org/lebanon/ee/terroram.htm ,congressional sources said on Wednesday (text/plain)

M20: Why to demonstrate on March 20 ? AmigaPhil 2004-03-17 7:02 AM
Why it is important to participate in the global anti-war day : (text/plain)

MARCH 20 - Call For An Overweight Lard Ass Bloc Richard Simmons 2004-03-16 9:33 PM
information on a Overweight XXXL Big Bad Fat Ass You Ain't Moving Me bloc for the March 20th mass march and rally, part of pittsburgh regional convergence against war and occupation. (text/plain + 12 comments)

Rembering Sharpeville S/Heroes of March 21, 1960! Mongezi Sefika wa Nkomo 2004-03-16 5:07 PM
The current local struggles with a Global perspective is to RE-AFFIRM the historical social peace movements through a culture and political direct actvism for ECONOMIC JUSTICE is at the heart of the Azania Heritage International (AHI)'s mission since her Pittsburgh founding as a loose alliance in September 1991 at a public forum held at the East Liberty Public Library. It is in the above context that academic and community actvist associated with AHI led by Professor Dennis Brutus, Iskandar Langaliballele Mapetla, Professor Matamabnadzo, Dr. Uhuru Hotep, Mongezi Sefika wa Nkomo and Professor Jean Jacques participated in a teach-in on about March 21, the UNd Day to Eliminate Apartheid, RacismSexism, AGEISM and ALL FORMS of CONSITUTTIONAL and LEGALIZED DISCRIMINATION including HOMOPHOBIA, XENOPHOBIA, RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY ETC! Mongezi in his opening address summarise the Local Direct Action with a Global Perspective as old as the "Landing of Afrikan, captured into slavery, by European traders, and sold to white famers at Jamestown harbor of Virginia British colony of 1619 and the arrival of land dispossessing Dutch East India (Free Trading and Free Marketing State/Private Corporate) Compay headed by Johann Van Reebeck in Cape Town of April 1652." "This teach-in about Marc 21, 1960 Sharpevile massacre of non-violent and peaceful demostrators and machers for African Human Rights in their own ancestral land is not dissimilar with Pittsburgh resident's march against State sponsored Police Brutality among the African American communities and neighborhoods, especailly killing of unarmed BLACK MALES-! Secondly,it is March 21, 1960 and June 16, 1976 every weekday in the African American community like their brothas and sitahs in the continetal and carbbean Africa where child care,jobs with a living wage, right to organize as unions, quality public education through government budgets at city, county, state and federal/national levels are under attack if not non-existence since the 1990's boom of the private stckexchanges and importation of IMF/World Bank (Afrikan) Structural Adjustments imposed directly by government policy or indirectly by non-profit private foundations who are creating an ideological rational for privatizantion of ALL SOCIAL SERVICES that have resulted from New Deal and Civil Rights gains for African Americans, children, disabled,labor, students women and youth, including LEAGAL ALLIENs, in a country whose majority are descendants of European alliens who did have no legal right to own land here except BRUTE FORCE and RELIGIOUS LIES! Just like the minority land holders in Zimbabwe and South Africa whaor ofEuropean aliern descent! " Also we, AHI, endorse the Regional Peaceful and Non-violent but Civil Disobedience Against War in Iraq and ALL WARS at the expense of economic justice for social peace at home and abroad." Professor Chiseko Mike Matambanadzo assterd that Africans haver been involved in local and global resistance for economic justice both at the hands of European Christian monopoly capital;ist and Arab Muslim mercantile capitalist who occupied large parts of regional Africa in the southern and northern parts today. As an indigenous native of Zimbabwe, Southern Africa Matambanadzo reminded his audience that "RACISM" has been a globalist agenda institionalized agaisnt Africans at home and abroad in organized fashion like cultural dehumnization of indigenous Africanist beliefs and relions, customs, ethics, morals, and family values that made, according to Steve Biko- "Forigners in southern Northen and some parts of western Africa because of pre-eminince of occidental and oriental religions, customs and political ideologies! The trouble in Zimbwabwe is African "non-wjites" have been copted in western bourgeois ideology in the ruling party and government that has ties to IMF and World Bank since 1980, but western white racist press do not explain why America has military and traing agreements with Zimbawe and other 45 African countries today!" Mugabe has visted United States and Zimbabwe has a US Embassy like Uganda, Central African Republic and only Cuba does not have one. This shows the politics of Zimbabwe are no different from those of Ronald Reagan-George H.W. Bush-Bill Clinton-George Bush II "Weapons of Mass Destraction" in the last 23 years since 1981! AHI, according to Mongezi is to connect current and historical dots of alliance and coaltion building with an Afrikan Trans-Atlantic Linkages with local direct action on a global perspective like March 20, 2004 Anti-War Regional Convergence. Dennis Brutus emphasized the need to look at the US non-adherence to princi0ples of an elected popular democracy in Hait. A resolution forwarded by Brutus, seconded by Mongezi was unanimously accaptedas a consensus that: 1. To condemn the unilateral use of force by the US government in general and the Bush administration by supporting Haitian-Cotra[s based inside and outside Haiti, in a Savimbi/INITA of Angola style when his father was CIA Director in the seventies, vice president in and president in the 1980's through 1991." 2. Support the demands by the CARICOM ( Cariabean sates) and AU (African UNion) members states demanding a due process and human right of elected President Aristide of Hait, to speak at the global conference of his peers ( heads of state and government) at the United Nations's General Assembly as as sooa as possible; c) Support the African National Congress's official statement on " respect for democratical elected governments in Africa and Diaspora" that the selected, judicially, government of George Bush' intention to undermine democracy in the USA and abroard for private corporet profits and public welfare for the oligarchy minority ruling elites! c) Azania Heritage International (AHI) and allies such as the Pittsburgh Social Forum, NAACP, Urban League, National Urban Peace and Justice Council and other African American community organizations and their multi-racialist coalition partners inside and outside the Thomas Merton Center, including Orhganizing Pittsburgh have Afrikan Continetal Advocacy Demonstrations and/March on May 25 Afrikan Liberation Day or June 16 Soweto Day remembrancethrough direct action in our neighborhhoids like Hill distric from Freedom Square through Sugar Top, Bloomfield, Friendship, Garfield, East Liberty, Homewood and end at Malcolm X Park at Point Breeeze> Last but least speaker was Professor Jean-Jacques, PhD, of Senegal and colleague of Paul Le Blance, Dean of Graduate Studies at La Roche College, who emphasised the African Continental Cultural and Political Federal State based on models by Cheok Anta Diop, PhD of Senegal who is regarded as the cientific, anthropological genius behind the African-Centered Pan-Africanism, Black Conscious, Black Power through economic justice and social peace found in the USA African comminities, academia and popualr culture including Kwanzaa etc. Dr. Diop held a series of globalis, internationalist conferences, lectures in France through the United States from 1959 through the 1980's and mainstream Eurocentric schalrs from the racist founder of white supremacist "Orientalist Studies" London University's School of Economics has recenlty has recenlty pyblished a book by "Afrocentricity" Stephen Howe. 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Arissa Media Release Supporting Tre Arrow Derick Bonthell 2004-03-16 2:54 PM
ARISSA CO-FOUNDER URGES THE PUBLIC TO SUPPORT ECO-DEFENDER TRE ARROW AND OPPOSE THE TERRORISM OF THE FBI AND U.S. GOVERNMENT (text/plain)

The Lessons of Spain Alan Woods-Socialist Appeal 2004-03-16 9:30 AM
Spain (text/plain + 5 comments)

Network 'Zandvoort' Jan Boeykens 2004-03-16 2:33 AM
Some years ago, Marcel Vervloesem, invesgator of the Belgium 'Werkgroep Morkhoven', discovered at Zandvoort (Holland) CD-ROMS with more than 10.000 photo's of children (and babies) that were sexually abused. The discovery was broadcasted through out the world ... (text/plain)

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