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Burningman Countercultural Arts and Music Festival Holds their Annual "Decom"

04-11-2006 10:41 | Culture | Social Struggles | World

The countercultural art and music festival, Burningman, is throwing it's annual New York City "Decompression" party.  Some fifty thousand people attended the festival this year, and nearly four thousand guests are expected to arrive from all corners of the earth to attend the annual "afterburn" party known as Decompression or "Decom."

Swap Box Project- a how-to

03-11-2006 03:13 | Culture | World

What is the Swap Box Project? Why do the streets need communal space, and what can you do to take back your right to define the public sphere.

Bristol alt media is back with Bristle 23

02-11-2006 22:46 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | World

We’re not looking for a new England
But we are fighting for another world

Issue 23 of Bristle magazine is out now, sticking it’s size 10’s (and 9’s, 7’s, 5’s…) into the nationalism & identity issues with a special feature.

“Welcome, dear reader, to our humble offering of alternative print media opposing the forces of darkness – capital, the state and religious fundamentalists.” (Bristle 23, editorial, page 1)

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Hombre rico, hombre pobre

01-11-2006 21:46 | Analysis | Culture | Indymedia | World

La Comunidad Europea firmó en la ciudad holandesa de Maastrich, en diciembre de 1991, el tratado de la Unión Europea que preveyió para finales del pasado siglo una completa unión económica y monetaria, una política exterior común y el camino para una integración política. Tenemos que reconocer, poniendo la mano sobre el corazón, que Europa nos admitió, ¡eso sí!, como hermanos pobres–hombres pobres–en unión de nuestros también hermanos ( ... )

Mixed Bag

01-11-2006 14:37 | Culture | Education | Social Struggles | World

War is the Answer (Ode to ‘democracy’)

Give me your poor, your tired, your hungry,
I’ll piss on ‘em, rape, and kill ‘em
That’s what your statutes of bigotry mean
Bomb ‘em back to the stone age
and devastate their lands is really what
your democracy means.

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"The End of Suburbia" on www.youtube.com

01-11-2006 13:11 | Culture | World

The end of cheap oil could be the beginning of community.

Love, War & Peace In The New Amerika

31-10-2006 21:34 | Culture | World

triple play and back to the mound poem

Spirituals Day is on 1/11 – God Day falls on 11/11

‘Secular Spiritualists Day’ is on 1/11 – ‘Global God Day’ falls exactly after ten days on 11/11. This day 1/11 is a ‘Global Spiritualists Day’ or say ‘Human Spiritualist Day’. Similarly 11/11 is only a ‘Universal Gods Day’. On this two days devotees or followers of all regions and religions , regardless to any community, cult, class, color creed
are invited to unite , moreover merge-n-mingle understand and enjoy with each other geniusly , generously and genuinely without hating or harming innocent beings.

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Weekly Vigil to Save the Jarawa - Reminder

Survival International are holding a weekly vigil at India House in solidarity with the Jarawa tibe

Disabled People in North Korea

30-10-2006 14:31 | Culture | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Dear All,

Please see below for Press Release which is extremely disturbing. There must be something that the international disability, indymedia and others communites can do about these horrific human rights abuses in North Korea which goes beyond the atrocities what Hitler and the Nazi's caused to over 200,000 disabled people who were the first victims within the Holocaust!!!!!

Meat Sheik, Anglican paedophilia, and non-regulation Jewish foreskin

30-10-2006 03:33 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | World

This past week in Australia has been ‘fundamentally’ outstanding; dimwitted fundamentalist religionists vied with each other for top billing in the local media. Never has the nation seen such retarded behaviour from so many diverse religious groups. The prize for fundamentalist imbecile of the week however goes to the Muslim cleric Sheik al-Hilali for his retrogressive reference to women as “uncovered meat”. He unashamedly placed the responsibility for rape and other sexually violent acts onto women; men were exonerated on the basis that “uncovered meat” is sexually provocative! The local media now refers to the cleric as the “Meat Sheik” and continues to sensationalise aspects of the story.

BeyondTv video activist festvial November 26-Dec 2

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END OF THE ENDRUN? Exec sentence :24 years. . . .SO THAT WE DONT THINK ?

- IT DOESNT TAKE A LEFTY TO SAY THAT THIS BIT OF NEWS HAS GOT BACKPEDALLED IN THE MAINSTREAM PRESS. . . . in as much as its talked about, even the "whistleblower" seems to want to blame these two people for everything - BUT THAT SEEMS TO AVOID LESSONS THE WORLD NEEDS.
( WITHOUT dismissing words as "commie", "liberal" or "lefty" - do the 2+ 2 =4 )

42! UN DEADLOCK BREAKS? plus - pause for thought !

. . . . AFTER 41 ROUNDS OF VOTING AT THE UN, the venezuela-versus-guatamala choice as south americas delegate for a two-year seat with the big powers is to transfer to a mutual agreement . . . .
26/10/6
( . . . . happy UN "birthday", plus. . . .

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OutRage!: Muslim hypocrisy on freedom of speech

Following the Channel 4 debate on Monday 'openning', the debate on muslims and freedom of speech. Peter Tatchell of OutRage! posted this on the Guardian's blogspot.

usa election : 23/10/6 disinfo-spin update

23-10-2006 12:22 | Anti-militarism | Culture | Globalisation | World

runes decrypting, latest:
from the "minderbinderaintamuleORtheG.O.P" ADVANCE WARNINGS OF . . . . odd interferences in democracy - quite seperate from the usual bluesversusreds underground hardball - (recall the famous EISENHOWER resignation speech quote )

China Asserts Superiority

21-10-2006 18:53 | Analysis | Culture | World

China asserts dominance in the region but if you blinked you missed it; the difference between loud and clear and subtle and clear is the difference between, “bombing into the stone-age” and gently applying Asian lateral diplomacy. DPRK (Kim Jong il) rebuffs six-party talks but promises China during independent talks, that nuclear testing will cease. Miss war whore/status quo/dead children, Condoleezza Rice, and the rest of the world are left in no doubt which nation exercises the greater degree of influence in the region; a clear message has been sent – the world has taken note.

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Fund democracy? Football bungs? U.N. Secretary . . . . bribes?

19-10-2006 12:17 | Culture | Globalisation | World

Today a report comes out that deals with the way wefunddemocracy . . . . but it seems to have a strange limit to its suggestions, seeing "democracy" as "labour/libdems/tories/greens/etc" - the groups alone - without seeing the needs of actual democracy at all.Even so - attempts to stitch even this attempt to clean up democracy abound. . . .