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Demonstration in Sao Paulo against the FTAA and the WTO

15-06-2004 17:56

Yesterday, on Sao Paulo, where the 11th UNCTAD it’s having place , was made a demonstration protesting against the World Trade Organization, the Free Trade Area of the Americas and the war strategy of United States.

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The Icy Normality of Hunger

15-06-2004 16:39

"World agriculture in its present state of development could feed 12 billion persons.. The daily silent genocide of hunger that occurs in icy normality is not a fate. People are responsible.. Neoliberalism diametrically opposes the values of the Enlightenment. For Jean-Jacques Rousseau, there was no natural law of capital.."

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In The DocHouse: SURPLUS & FOURTH WORLD WAR

15-06-2004 12:34

The next In The DocHouse screening is a fantastic double bill examining the destructive and futile nature of excessive consumerism, the effect it has on the individual and the more devastating effect upon whole communities.

Sunday, June 20th at The Other Cinema, 4pm
and
Thursday, June 24th at The Ritzy, 6.45pm

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Haiti: Levi's supplier tries to break union - action needed

15-06-2004 08:56

Grupo M has fired 301 workers at the Codevi free trade zone at Ouanaminthe, Haiti. Dominican soldiers have been brought in to terrorise the workers. The management has threatened to close the factory down rather than negotiate with the union.

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AUDIO JOURNAL OF G8 UPRISING

15-06-2004 06:49

phone interviews during the no g8 uprising

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The G8 and Iraq

15-06-2004 00:29

On the poltical manuverings going on between the G8 around debt, dollars and Iraq.

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911: the Road to Tyranny

14-06-2004 18:01

Explosive documentary "911: the Road to Tyranny" is now on the Internet Archive.

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G8 Forum in Cambridge

14-06-2004 17:50

Last Thursday, the Cambridge Action Network (CAN) organised a forum on the subject of the G8, to coincide with the end of the G8-summit in Georgia, USA. This was the last in a series of events that took place in Cambridge including a film screening and some street-theatre. Here's what I took from the evening...

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Joseph Stiglitz' "The Roaring Nineties"

14-06-2004 16:45

"Tax cuts, deregulation in the sense of privatization and retreat of the state have made the wealthy even richer without benefiting the lower income groups.. The US preaches opening of markets while preventing free trading in its own markets.." Joseph Stiglitz received the 2001 Nobel Prize for economics.

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Memo's legalizing torture

14-06-2004 16:15

Lately some memo's were given to Newsweek, Washington Post about legalizing torture.

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S. Korean anti-globalization protest get violent bottles rock bash cops

14-06-2004 09:15

yesterday I heard on the bbc a snipid about a anti-globalization protest in S.Korea
that got pretty heated from the brief discription I got off the radio. found no trace of the story on any web site. Has anyone heard anything more on this action in S korea?
Is there any chance that there will be a indymedia in S. Korea any time soon?

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Bankruptcy

13-06-2004 12:54

:More taxes are expected from lower taxes. The circular argument is perfect.. This is the bankruptcy of neoliberalism. The economy grows, unemployment continues and the state becomes more impoverished.. Active working people are not included in this term `the economy'. Their rights and wage3s are even reduced. Isn't there a point where politics is forced to regard neoliberalism as falsified. Today we see clearly the falsification.."

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Documenting a decade of resistance to the G8 and capital

13-06-2004 11:39

Global Resistance against the G8 since 1994 is documented in the book We are Everywhere

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Sea Island G8 arrestees still in custody! How we can help them.

13-06-2004 08:11

Demonstrators break off the March For Palestine and head for Sea Island
On Thursday June 10th 15 people were arrested in Brunswick (GA) after refusing to disperse. The majority of them has not yet been released and they are not receiving medical attention despite injuries due to prolonged sun exposure and other lesions. Others were later arrested at a jail-solidarity demonstration outside the Glynn County detention center on Friday and charged with criminal trespassing.

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Protesting BIO 2004 in San Francisco

12-06-2004 20:48

An account of the June 8th protest at the biotech convention in San Francisco, California

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ANTI BUSH PAN-EUROPEAN NOISE PROTEST on Friday 25 June 2004, 20 hours

12-06-2004 20:38

GRAPHICS - note times wrong, corrected version will be forwarded on Monday
President Bush arrives at Shannon airport, together with Powell and Rice, on Friday 25 June, on an official UE visit to attend an EU-USA summit meeting. The Barcelona Stop the War Coalition (Plataforma Aturem la Guerra), supported by delegates of Irish and European Anti-War groups, calls on all interested groups, associations and individuals to organise and participate in an anti-Bush Pan-European Noise Protest throughout Europe. Agreed time 20.00 (8p.m.)(this would be 21.00 (9p.m.) in central Europe time. Duration 1/2 hour

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Bio-Chip Implants

12-06-2004 16:26

A few months ago I posted the article below. It received a mixed reception but some commeted that the idea was the creation of a paranoid conspiracy theorist's mind.

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Director Moore to focus on Blair

12-06-2004 13:03

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3800665.stm
Michael Moore wants to make a film about Phoney Bliar , excuse the bbc link but I couldn't find it anywhere else.
may be he'll be needing a few contributions I'm sure he'll find a very willing crew !

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EU corruption

12-06-2004 12:27

Corruption in the EU makes the mafia look like a quiet family business.