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Interesting use of the weblog for union purposes! But what has happened recently?
AFSCME 3800 Negotiations News
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Tentative Agreement Reached!!
Borders Readers United
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For Jackie,
Meatball Wiki: UniversityWiki
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Geek post, for my venture into movable type
Invisible Adjunct: Teach Yourself Movable Type
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Jim Henley is not right, neither is Kynn, Googlebombing and other forms of culture jamming are needed. They are creative outlets for the crushing weight of the military state. What needs to happen, and both Jim and Kynn point to this, is that that can't be ALL that we do.
Shock and Awe: Brief note on "Googlebombing"
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"Union Factory Workers are middle class."
EdgeWise 28.12.2003: "Union Factory Workers are middle class."
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raging grannies, bush in 30 seconds
Bush in 30 Seconds
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Discussion of knitting circles here, maybe it will happen
ann_arbor_ypsi: Does anybody know of any knitting circle
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Warning: offensive
seat of the revolution :: XXX-mas Guide 2003
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"The Headline Game: Dean: I'm joining al Qaida!
Crescat Sententia: December 21, 2003 - December 27, 2003 Archives
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"I can't think of a better place to reflect on the awesome love of our lord Jesus than to be here at Lawtey Correctional. God bless you.""
Crescat Sententia: December 21, 2003 - December 27, 2003 Archives
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"First, it gave a context for the failed promise of Reconstruction and placed black life in a global context. Mr. Du Bois wrote against the backdrop of a world where the European powers at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 "with great gusto" carved up Africa and where America, as a result of the Spanish-American War, strode onto the international stage as an imperial power."
Negrophile. One who admires and supports Black people and their culture.
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"Just a little reminder of all the countries the US has bombed since WWII: China (1945-1946, 1950-1953), Korea (1950-1953), Guatemala (1954, 1967-1969), Indonesia (1958), Cuba (1959-1960), the Belgian Congo (1964), Peru (1965), Laos (1964-1973), Vietnam (1961-1973), Cambodia (1969-1970), Grenada (1983), Libya (1986), El Salvador (1980s) Nicaragua (1980s), Panama (1989), Bosnia (1995), Sudan (1998), Yugloslavia (1999), Afghanistan (2001-?), Iraq (1991-?). How many innocent lives do you think were lost? I'll give you a good guess: MILLIONS. Millions of people dead. Millions of people who were mostly just poor and in the wrong political place at the wrong political time. Is that not terror? Oh, and are the rich countries or the poor countries the ones that produce and sell almost all of the weapons throughout the world? Also, Is there not a clear and distinguishable connection between the arms industry, the oil industry, major media networks, and US foreign policy makers? I would like to thank Arundhati Roy for this little reminder. Oh yeah and btw, Happy Consumption Day, i.e. Christmas and all the other consumer holidays!"
:: jakeneck | freers of the lead world ::
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"Nafta 10 Years Afta, The North American Free Trade Agreement took hold 10 years ago, after a bruising, arm-twisting debate. Today it is more than ever a politically charged symbol of the promises and perils of free trade.
The accord, known as Nafta, brought under one canopy three hugely different economies: the wealthy United States, middle-class Canada and striving Mexico. The disparities made Nafta the boldest gamble ever on the proposition that free trade could benefit all.
Leaders promised the accord would create millions of good jobs, curb illegal immigration and raise living standards "from the Yukon to the Yucatan." A decade later, the verdict, even among Nafta's strongest supporters, is that for those goals free trade by itself is not enough."
:: jakeneck | freers of the lead world ::
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"Still, it's the end of the year, so let's break out the champagne for good news around the world for women in 2003--accomplishments, activism, bold deeds and grounds for hope."
Good News for Women
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"I also have a message for all Americans: The capture of Saddam Hussein does not mean the end of violence in Iraq. We still face terrorists who would rather go on killing the innocent than accept the rise of liberty in the heart of the Middle East. Such men are a direct threat to the American people, and they will be defeated."
Shock and Awe: Pessimistic Bush Not Ready To Pronounce Saddam Guilty
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"In November, Republican House negotiators blocked a provision that would have created criminal penalties for war profiteers and cheats who try to defraud American taxpayers and cash in on the relief and reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The provision has now been introduced as a stand-alone bill and should be passed as soon as possible. "
RuminateThis: CUTTING OFF THE WAR PROFITEERS
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"How about tons of coffee made by growers cooperatives, rather than by exploited farmers."
NathanNewman.org - News and Views: What Would Jesus Drink?
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Interesting weblog, needs rss feed and comments though
detroitblog
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"Saddam Hussein is an evil guy, but given our military support for him during the time he was murdering Iranians and many of his own people, the US is hardly in the position to sit in single judgment."
NathanNewman.org - News and Views: The Fog of War
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"A New Hampshire National Guardsman was pardoned Monday for an assault conviction involving his wife and son so he could be deployed to Iraq."
Shock and Awe: Settling In, In Iraq
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Very interesting the breakdown of the numbers, as if to minimalize the total dead.
"In the Iraq war, 474 U.S. troops have died -- 326 under hostile circumstances. Eleven troops have been killed since the beginning of the week."
CNN.com - Five GIs killed in Iraq insurgency attacks - Dec. 26, 2003
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"Christmas Day, 2003, Jenin, West Bank -- Night has fallen, and I am staring at mounds of rubble. This used to be a neighbourhood in the Jenin Refugee Camp. The Israeli army levelled the houses with people inside, in what is known here as the Jenin Massacre. The rubble mounds are pulverized so fine they appear to be crematory remains."
ei: Sharon's pattern of provocation
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"The Republican National Committee has, for the first time in their 150 year history, selected New York for their Convention from August 29-September 4, 2004. In a shallow attempt at exploiting the lives lost at the World Trade Center, the RNC has pushed the Convention date to September."
RNC NOT WELCOME IN NYC!
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"According to a military report that outlined the use of passenger and cargo airlines in the Iraq conflict, the government paid $636.2 million to 10 airlines that flew troops overseas during a 131-day emergency mobilization from February through June. It also paid $574 million to 14 cargo carriers to deliver equipment to Iraq and neighboring countries in that period."
Goodspeed Update 2003: News and Information for Students at the University of Michigan
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Shock and Awe: A Barbarous Occupation
"Iraqis stand on top of a house destroyed by the U.S. forces Friday Dec. 26, 2003 in Khalidiya, some 100 kilometers (some 60 miles) west of Baghdad. The house alledgedly belonged to a suspected rebel leader who was arrested by U.S. forces a week ago, locals said."
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Blog Left: Critical Interventions Warblog (war blog, Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Bush, Gulf War II, left)
And Nathan Newman comments:
"Atrios predicts that the new media meme (pumped by the GOP) will be that Dean is "pessimistic." Since Dean thinks he can get rid of Bush and solve our economic problems, I'd say that makes him optimistic.
So I'd say this calls for a positive google bomb promoting the idea that Dean is optimistic. "
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"In a recent speech at Columbia University, Noam Chomsky strongly criticizes the Bush Administration's war against Iraq. He speaks against the power investors have over world affairs, the media's capitulation to them and much more."
Democracy Now! | An Hour With Noam Chomsky on Iraq, War Profiteers & The Media
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"For the Romans, the putting down of Jewish rebellions, or the persecution of Christians, was all part of empire-maintenance. They were equal-opportunity oppressors. In the National Museum of Damascus is a replica of Trajan's Column, built in second-century Rome by Apollodorus, who hailed from Damascus. The friezes on the column depict Trajan's conquest of Dacia - modern-day Romania. In blood-loving detail, the sculptures depict the carnage of battle, even the mass suicide of Dacians, unwilling to be enslaved by the Romans. Trajan, not satisfied with that conquest, went on conquer Mesopotamia - our Iraq. "
Are We Ready, Able to Be Romans?
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"Today is the first day of Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is an African-American celebration created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor at Cal State Long Beach in Southern California. It celebrates seven cultural principles on seven days from December 26 to January 1."
Shock and Awe: Kwanzaa Day One: Umoja
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"The FBI was obsessed with Martin Luther King, who they saw as the most powerful and popular leader of the the Civil Rights movement."
Uppity-Negro.com: A VASpider Fansite: Ain't nothing changed
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"Well the Pentagon is ticked about troops acquiring their own equipment again -- Army Thin-Skinned Over Homemade Armor (Lieb, Wa. Post, 12/26/03). Appararently the 428th Reserve Army Transportation Company got their hometown (Jefferson City,Mo.) funeral director to pitch in $4000 to pay for extra armior for their vehicles. The Pentagon may not allow delivery of the armor because they haven't approved it. The problem faced by the 428th is that their vehicles were not designed for combat and won't repel even small arms fire."
Uncommon Thought Journal: Where does the DoD budget go?
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" If you Watch Nothing Else This Year. It will take a while to download this interview with Dennis Kucinich on Link TV . "
mousemusings weblog
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Entertaining, but WTF?!
O r b i t J u i c e (dot) C o m
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.: SPEARHEAD :: B O M B T H E W O R L D :.
Flash, nice job.
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"Within this site you will find a wealth of information by and about England's crop circlemakers."
"Top of the crop: 2003"
¤ c i r c l e m a k e r s ¤
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~mousemusings weblog
"1. Saint Nicholas is the patron Saint of children in Siberia (Russia), a supplanter to the indigenous Shaman."
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.What Are They Reading?
"Historical equivalencies are tricky. Most of the particulars of Hitler's ascent to power didn't correspond at all with the rise of Reagan. Or of George W. Yet, since reading Bright Room for the first time some years ago, I have sought it out a few times since Bush Jr. took office. Something about the plight of Kushner's German characters hits painfully close to home."

This is a friend of mine over at Labor Notes
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Interwebnet.org - Guantanamo Bay - Invasion of the Lawyers
"On January 5th, 2004 we'll be asking responsible citizens to lock up one small corner of the world or conveniently 'lose' the keys for 24 hours. We ask you to do this in the name of those who are being held without explanation, without trial, and without basic human rights at Guantanamo Bay. It's a fast, effective and easy way to protest without being locked away yourself in a Free Speech Zone."

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Naked Protesters & Nude Activists
Public Nudity in the Public Interest
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L I A R
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Dennis Kucinich Blog and News - The Electability of Dennis Kucinich, Candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination
"He's not sexy enough. He's not electable. Yeah, that last one. Not electable. How many times have I heard folks say that they really like Congressman Dennis Kucinich (Democrat of Ohio) and the stands he takes in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, but they don?t think he can be elected?"
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Big, Left, Outside: Dot Communism?
"I've settled on being a one-day-a-year Jehovah's Witness, each December 25th, as the JW's, considering xmas, accurately, to be a pagan rite mixed with an economic scam, avoid it as scrupulously as I do."
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Remind us why?
Flash, all the lies.
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kuro5hin.org || Dennis Kucinich: the Kuro5hin interview
kuo5hin: "Your platform reads like Progressive pillow talk - universal healthcare, full employment, fully funded public education through college - but is America ready for that radical of a shift to the left?"

Dennis: "What is radical about healthcare for all? What is radical about education for all? What is radical about jobs for all? When that starts to be radical, we have to ask ourselves, what in the heck has happened to this country?"
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Oblivio > Road > Hacked
This Google logo - is the best.
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-=-Nurse Ratched's Notebook-=-: Another reason for Bush to dislike the French
"A French official is examining whether to prosecute US Vice President Dick Cheney over alleged complicity in the abuse of corporate assets dating from the time he was head of the services company Halliburton, the French newspaper Le Figaro said."
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Big, Left, Outside: Pictures that Tell a Thousand Words
"This British soldier, fusilier Gary Bartlam, home from Iraq for the holidaze, deserves a Darwin award. Committing war crimes and taking photos of them, and then bringing the film to the local photo shop to be developed."
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Lean Left: White House to Blame for Uranium Error
"And here is the best part: they had no process for determining if what the president said was actually true or not"
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A Saddam Chronology
"when a trial is organized by those who are themselves guilty of serious crimes, truth is not the goal."
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Electronic Iraq:Bush has opened Pandora's Box
"In Arab eyes, it was a final mortal blow to the so-called "Arab system" through which the component parts of the greater Arab "nation" collectively strove to protect the territorial integrity and basic security of the whole"
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Democracy Now!
"Declassified Documents: Bechtel Planned to Evade Iraq "Genocide" Sanctions in 1988"
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Democracy Now! | Do Americans Shop Too Much? A Christmas Eve Look At Consumerism in the U.S.
"Juliet Schor, Professor of sociology at Boston College. Schor is author of The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need and Do Americans Shop Too Much?"
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Whiskey Bar: What is a Neocon?
"What is a Neocon?"
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MediaChannel.org - A Global Network of More Than 1,000 Media Issues Groups
"We are seeing an orchestrated media campaign by the administration and a psychological operation aimed at the insurgents in Iraq."
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Uppity-Negro.com: A VASpider Fansite: Christmas, how spent by Slaves
"Thus, by an artfully-contrived plan, the slaves themselves are made to put the seal upon their own servitude. The masters, by the system, are rendered as cunning and scheming as the slaves themselves."
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mousemusings weblog
""We must recognize the effect NAFTA has had on El Paso (Texas) and communities around the country. We need a whole new approach to trade, and that begins with the cancellation of NAFTA.""
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Weapons of Calf Destruction | Metafilter
" USDA refused to release mad cow records"

Uncommon Thought Journal: Suspected mad cow disease (BSE) in the US
"The cow was obviously ill before it was slaughtered and was referred to as a "downer." In other words it was falling down before slaughter"
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do i need a title to have an link anchor?
Bryan answers no and then gives me a complicated group of code words to tell me no. :-)

But that still doesn't help the fact that I have messed up all my links... oh my, just when I introduce a real writer to my project... introducing Windchime Walker

(Still need help.)
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Raygun Gothic - Archive - Bravo echo sierra tango whiskey india sierra hotel echo sierra.

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i dunno let's see
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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Asia suspends US beef imports
"Countries across Asia have temporarily halted imports of US beef after that country's first suspected case of 'mad cow disease' was announced."
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mousemusings weblog
"Kucinich says U.S. can't go it alone in Iraq "
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Union of Radical Workers and Writers
Bookstore Workers Organizing Forum
17 January 2004 10am-4pm
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BBC NEWS | World | Americas | First 'mad cow' case rattles US
"The United States has reported its first suspected case of 'mad cow disease', or BSE, in Washington state."
Time to Get Vegan!
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-=-Nurse Ratched's Notebook-=-
"This one represents a definite point scored for justice. Jose Padilla may well be a very dangerous man and may deserve imprisonment for his alleged crimes, but like any American he also deserves due process, the right to present a defense, and the right to face his accusers."
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Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings.: The Rest of the Story
"Quite honestly, I have no idea what to believe about the 'capture' of Saddam, but I find stories like this interesting, to say the least:"
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Shock and Awe: The Doctrine of Pre-Emption...in Los Angeles
"LAPD: 'Pre-emptive' arrests made to get terror info"
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Goodspeed Update 2003: News and Information for Students at the University of Michigan
"Well, apparently Walter Cronkite is with me on this one: Saddam Hussein should face charges before the International Criminal Court at the Hague."
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via mousemusings weblog
" US News: Keeping Secrets
The Bush administration is doing the public's business out of the public eye. Here's how--and why"
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via mousemusings weblog
" US News: Keeping Secrets
The Bush administration is doing the public's business out of the public eye. Here's how--and why"
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via mousemusings weblog
" Note to self..Living in Michigan with voices like Levin, Conyers and Dingell makes me feel a bit luckier than most. "
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via Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
"The Grand Canyon is only a few thousand years old!
In addition to cutting out scenes of gay events held at National Parks, the US Park service is also selling books that "prove" the Grand Canyon is only a few thousand years old."
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via Uppity-Negro.com
"I so want this to be deliberate"
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February 9, 2004, San Diego, CA
O'Reilly Emergent Democracy Forum
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Japander.com
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via ritilan.com
Great short film.
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via A Mixed Blog
"This Canadian paper denounces the racism of Americans but endorses the "one drop" myth and sees no contradiction in it."
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via No Media Kings
"It focused on the paradoxical notion that if you want to live without bosses, you have to be self-disciplined. I attribute my productivity to being well organized and hopefully I passed on a few pointers to fellow anti-authoritarian types, complete with absurd graphs and diagrams."
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via Open Source Politics
"It would seem that at least some in Iraq think that Saddam was in US custody for a week and a half before his capture was actually announced."
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via The Wilmington Journal
"However, the Baltimore Afro-American newspapers reported in 1948, the same year South Carolina's then-Gov. James Strom Thurmond was the presidential nominee of the segregationist Dixiecrat Party, that he had several Black relatives, including an uncle and two cousins."
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via The Nation
"Twenty-eight years ago, two electricians at an Alabama nuclear power plant were looking for air leaks in a room full of electric cables, using candles to see where drafts were escaping from. One of the candles got too close to some foam rubber insulation -- and it caught fire."
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via mamamusings
I need to back up a lot of things...
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via Not Geniuses
Interesting links
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funny! if it weren't so serious.
" Demonstrating to the world that Canada is the final and ultimate power."
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via NathanNewman.org
"Hundreds of thousands of Iranians died in the Iran-Iraq War, assisted by the US who backed a bloodthirsty killer named Saddam Hussein in his victory over Iran. Hussein was a tool of US power then and was only discarded when the puppet stopped dancing to US demands."
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via Body and Soul
"My daughter was a bit scared (first earthquake), but she got under the kitchen table and held onto the leg just like she learned in kindergarten."
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via Metafilter
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via ritilan.com
"Project Gutenberg hits 10,000 (books on-line)"
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website
"She wants people to get active, think and react on everything that happens around us."
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mac homepage website
"More vacation than any previous President EVER. Must be Nice."
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Another Poster for Peace
""Copyright-free" means you can add in your own information, or even print this art commercially."
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via ProtestGraphics.org
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interesting online possibilities
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hi speed connection
This is very well done, take it through for a couple of minutes.
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International Day of Peace
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Actually, the United States has been engaged in military operations for most of this country's history.
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via Reuters
"A family spokeswoman said the family is in the habit of not commenting publicly on the private lives of their children."
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via Lilith Gallery
Includes my favorite song - John Lennon "Imagine"
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via Alas, a blog
"This isn't a current piece, but hey, it's new to me: A good EPI summary of the ways NAFTA has hurt Mexican workers."
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we should do this for BRU!
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via website
"Join the Million Yippie March!
Come to New York and Protest at the Republican Convention!
August 30 to September 2, 2004"
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via Metafilter
"There are many benefits of a gentle introduction to the world by being born in water, and the testimonials make it sound like a great option."
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via RuminateThis
"Think about it: you're running for president of the United States, and you're already caving into insurance companies. What's next? Caving into arms manufacturers? Caving into polluters? I'm unbought and unbossed. I'm nobody's boy. ~ Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)"
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via Joi Ito's Web
Geek post, the Tipping Point and organizing nodes.
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via BBC News
"At least three people have died after a strong earthquake shook coastal cities in central and southern California."
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via BushRecall.org
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via AlterNet
"the United States military is insuring Iraqis celebrate a Merry Christmas "
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via Lean Left
""We got into conversation with the Germans who were anxious to arrange an Armistice during Xmas. A scout named F. Murker went out and met a German Patrol and was given a glass of whisky and some cigars, and a message was sent back saying that if we didn't fire at them they would not fire at us.""
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via RuminateThis
"You think maybe our launching two pre-emptive wars in two years - one having nothing to do with the other - has been a contributing factor to this news?"
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via Borders Readers United
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via Stand Down, the No War Blog
"In fact, $8.5-million spent on security during the FTAA meeting came directly out of the $87-billion President Bush extracted from Congress for Iraq last month a fact barely reported outside of the Miami press."
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via gogobot
"I thought inspections didn't work?"
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Psychotria Nervosa
"White House Slashes Bush Photo-Op Budget"
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via Antiwar.com
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via Antiwar.com
"We said that we had citizen IDs and we are students," said Fadi, but the soldiers insisted, with guns pointed at their heads, "You are in Iraq and you are terrorists."
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via Lean Left
"The US government almost never charges companies who willfully and deliberately violate safety rules, even when those violations lead to deaths"
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via disjointed.org
Links to a gallery of fine art!
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via Brocco Li
And the second best thing about this post is that he uses a wiki!
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via 90% Crud
Hillarious ad, nsfw
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via Joho the Blog
"Wired.com is reporting that at least five convicted felons secured management positions at a Diebold, including one who served time in a Washington state correctional facility for stealing money and tampering with computer files in a scheme that 'involved a high degree of sophistication and planning.'"
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via Eschaton
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via Eschaton
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via Eschaton
"Limbaugh then:

There is no right to privacy specifically enumerated in the Constitution."
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via Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
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via BBC NEWS
Human trafficing, yes it does exist
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via Alas, a blog
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via Time, via Antiwar.com
Rumsfeld, the architect of the lean army... and now apparently the one to blame for all these soldiers deaths, and everyone elses.

Get rid of Rumsfeld NOW!
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via On Lisa Rein's Radar
"Can't our administration tell the truth about anything?

Would it have really been so bad to just tell the truth on this one? We still have him in custody and all. The Kurds could have gotten their proper credit -- we could have bonded with a persecuted people and all, and then we all could have held hands and hated Saddam together. (These are the Kurds, remember? The ones that were gassed ten years ago that the Administration likes to bring up all the time as justification for the Shrub War's unfound WMDs!)"
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flav 2
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can you find the flav
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via Wireless Bandit
Any cent that they can extract...
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Google reprioritizes what is important, traffic.
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via Smart Mobs -
"Can anyone tell us how long-haul truckers are now using the Internet? Any good trucker community sites or other interesting links? Are cell phones replacing CB radios, or augmenting that line of communication? Please share your stories."
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non leather forks
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via Common Dreams
"A judge who said he witnessed some of the anti-free trade protests (FTAA/Miami) complains in open court about how police handled the demonstrations."
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via electronic intifada
"Today 13 Israeli reservists from the Israeli army's top commando unit, "Sayeret Matkal" announced they would no longer serve in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, reflecting growing unease with Israel's occupation of Palestine. The reservists, including three officers, made their announcement in a letter to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "Sayeret Matkal" is the top commando unit in the Israeli army. In September, Israeli pilots wrote a similar letter, refusing to take part in air strikes on Palestinians living in the occupied territories. Several hundred Israeli soldiers have refused to serve in the Palestinian territories and have been sentenced to prison terms."
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via Daily Kos
"Introducing the Republicard. First practiced under the record deficit-spending of the Reagan-Bush administrations, and now re-issued under the fiscal wreckage of George Bush with a trifeca of Republican-rule to again spend like theres no tomorrow."
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via Creative Commons
This is a flash video (the second in the series) to help people understand copyright. It is good, check it out!
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via ActNow!
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via The Only Official Evil Portal
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via To The Barricades!

Dinner with the prez previous post
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via Eschaton: "
The 'Reagan Revolution' did not shrink the size of the federal government"
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via Telegraph
"Iraqi officials and judges involved in setting up Baghdad's new war crimes court have revealed that Saddam Hussein's trial will not be finished for five years, despite the clamour for speedy justice since his arrest last week."
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via cbs news
"A disabled soldier will never see combat again, but he might find himself fighting a new fight against the government's medical bureaucracy."
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via Alas, a blog
"The cost to the taxpayer of enforcing marijuana prohibition is staggering—over $10 billion annually."
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via Eschaton
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via Eschaton

CONDITION ORANGE!!!
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"The U.S. G.I. is Time's Person of the Year.'" via MetaFilter

Well isn't that a shock!
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via EdgeWise
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"The University of Illinois is in its 77th year of celebrating a racist Indian mascot, and the great-great-granddaughter of Sitting Bull, a junior there, doesn't like it." via randomWalks headlines:
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older but interesting news via Human Rights Watch Press release, New York, August 3, 2002
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via mousemusings weblog
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via The Sunday Herald - Scotland's award-winning independent newspaper
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via drupal
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via NathanNewman.org - News and Views
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odd bumping into your name...
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via Muslims For Kucinich
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via Common Dreams
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via In August and Everything after...

Vote now!
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via Smart Mobs -
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local and imported

via Mindful Musings
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National Conference on Organized Resistance
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Geek post via Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
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via Boing Boing
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"A US court said that the recording industry's methods to find music swappers are not allowed by the law." via BBC NEWS
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via BBC NEWS
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via Joho the Blog

geek post
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This is an interesting idea. The presentation needs to be worked on and some basic things to the site are a bit odd. (But look at mine.)

via LIBERA ASSOCIAZIONE IL POPOLO DOMENICO SCHIETTI
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Fiore Flash via Metafilter
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Dead corporations

via Metafilter
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NSFW? | Metafilter

NSFW = not safe for work
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via randomWalks: ufcw strike at 2 months
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in London, a local call for Mayday brainstorming.
via No Sweat

Then that makes it official. SE Michigan call for Mayday planning email me or post here.
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A thousand local families have been protesting for 608 days" via No Sweat: "
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The appeals court said one of the arguments by the Recording Industry Association of America "borders upon the silly," rejecting the trade group's claims that Verizon was responsible for downloaded music because such data files traverse its network. via NathanNewman.org
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A web artist's attempt to bring to light the garbage that search engines bring up in searches.

Poogle.Com - Stinky Poo
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via commons-blog
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via Jim Moore's cybernetics, politics, emergence, etc.
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via Jim Moore's cybernetics, politics, emergence, etc.
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via disjointed.org
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Artist, Professor, Consultant, Wireless Monster
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really cool gadgets and ideas
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this is the critical mass web cam. (for those of you who don't know what critical mass is, go to the Google page to look it up.)
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Matt is the Green Party candidate that nearly won the Mayor of San Francisco (something like 52%-48% and he was outspent 8-1) mousemusings weblog
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via The Bunker
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"Here was this man, our President, came all the way around the world, spending 17 hours on an airplane and landing in the most dangerous airport in the world, where a plane was shot out of the sky not six days before.

Just to spend two hours with his troops. Only to get on a plane and spend another 17 hours flying back. "

This was the most interesting part of the post.
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via Psychotria Nervosa
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Very cool video, check them out! "President of the Apes!
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Taipei Times - archives
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"You mean ONE of the tyrants is a prisoner... the other one is raping the US treasury..." via Blogcritics.org:
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via ActForChange Petition

help them reach their goal of signatures!

also check out my labor page
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GET-UP

One of my pictures!! :-)
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via S.C.C.A. - Star Captains Club of America
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via Psychotria Nervosa
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via SeattlePi.com
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via Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
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"What is RIAA Radar?
The RIAA Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)." RIAA Radar:
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brilliant!
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"The Salem cigarette brand is marketing itself by paying attractive young men and women to give away its product."

This fits into part of a story that I have been writing. Basically it is about guerilla advertising. The story is about an ad exec, who starts to take notice of anti billboard activists and watches as over the years they are successful at removing billboard from our lives, but in the process he dreams and schemes other, more effective ways to market products.
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Religious Teaching on Worker Rights

via ICPJ
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"the Bush administration gave the concession for operating the port to Stevedoring Services of America, a politically-connected firm handling cargo around the world that has a long history of anti-labor policies" via CorpWatch.org
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"Senators were told Iraqi weapons could hit U.S. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Monday the Bush administration last year told him and other senators that Iraq not only had weapons of mass destruction, but they had the means to deliver them to East Coast cities. If this is true, is he in trouble for saying it?" via Metafilter
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start surfing
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DIANE SAWYER: But stated as a hard fact, that there were weapons of mass destruction, as opposed to the possibility that he could move to acquire those weapons still --

GEORGE BUSH: So what’s the difference? via mousemusings weblog
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"Article 98. From 1995 through 2000, the U.S. government supported the establishment of an International Criminal Court. In 2001, the Bush Administration ended US participation in ICC meetings and, on 6 May 2002, officially nullified the previous signature of the Rome Statute. " via Metafilter
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Geek post! This guy runs at least 55 operating systems on his G4! Many Systems on a PowerBook
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"There are people that, if I was doing the job, would certainly not be in the position they were in at that time because they failed. They simply failed,' Kean said. " via Lean Left:
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"According to conservative logic, that's what Bush has just done by endorsing the death penalty for Saddam Hussein, before any trial or verdict has even begun:" via Lean Left
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'We have a real problem with drugs in our schools,'' she said, 'and they're using our narcotics officers to entrap me for selling a vibrator.' via mousemusings weblog
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via Open Source Politics
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"When Ted Koppel steered one of the most critical debates of the Democratic presidential contest toward horserace questions about endorsements, poll positions and fund raising, the host of ABC-TV's Nightline inadvertently created an opening for a serious discussion about one of the most important issues in America today: media policy. And Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Dennis Kucinich has seized that opening with a vengeance." via The Online Beat
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"It has been said that the definition of a fanatic is one who, having lost sight of his objective, redoubles his effort. The American Life League qualifies under that definition." via Wampum::
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Dennis hit the issue on the head, listen to the audience!

via Real Audio clip
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Global Rich List via Seb's Open Research
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"Looks like ol' Strom didn't mind if one room in the house wasn't segregated ...." via Lean Left:
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via Lean Left
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via The Nation
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via Joho the Blog
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"Levy on the Death of the Internet" via Joho the Blog:
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Saddam Arrest Cheer Fades Into Iraqi Ire at US
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Dennis Kucinich Blog and News - SmartMob ABC San Francisco 3pm Today

We should do something like this as BRU, a community reaction to crappy reasons not to bargain. If BRU could write up something quick, we may be able to do something on Wednesday.

A Community response is needed to fight this continued union busting!
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supposedly his "weakest" point, wow, he gets to the heart of the matter.

Muslims For Kucinich
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Body and Soul, via
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Kucinich supporters
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Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Powers Of 10: Interactive Java Tutorial
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the Osama clock
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PowerPoint makes you dumb. | Metafilter
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It's not stealing 'cause the cost is built into the thingamajig, eh? | Metafilter
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Best Pics of 2003
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randomWalks flux: Che Saddam
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plattitudes.com: "powerpoint is evil"
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We need to strategize and see when it would be best to have the trial, in regards to the election cycle, silly!

via BBC NEWS
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via seat of the revolution
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mousemusings weblog: "My vision of a post-industrial Detroit slowly materializing "
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via Muslims For Kucinich

check this out
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tee time in texas - January 3, 2004
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FUH2 | Fuck You And Your H2
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randomWalks: green in '04?
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randomWalks: we got that war on
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CIA Sends More Agents to Iraq to Help Crack the Resistance
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Body and Soul: Definitions of Justice: "Justice is simple. If you capture and kill all the bad people, all the people who oppose you, good will triumph."
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A retired teacher has broken her silence to reveal she's the love child of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond and his family's black maid.

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AlterNet: War on Iraq: News Log: A tyrant falls...
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Yesterday, www.kucinich.us disappeared from Google and other
search engines. We have reason to believe that someone sent
very numerous requests to search engines requesting that the
site be listed (which it already was), and that as a result it
was removed. Google considers programs that submit to hundreds
of search engines at once as spam and removes sites using these
tools from its indexes. It's unlikely but conceivable that this
was even done by an overzealous supporter.

The last thing you should do is contact the search engines. We're
doing so. But you should do this right away: put a link to
www.kucinich.us on any website you control, and make the link use
the words "Kucinich for President," and put the www.kucinich.us
address in the signature of your Emails. Despite this setback,
the site had its biggest day ever yesterday, so this is no time
to get disheartened!

Google Search: president 2004
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Are the polls wrong about Kucinich? (Articles) Rob Kall: "Kucinich is now, with a usual estimate of two percent support in most polls, where Clinton Was in the Months before the Start of the 1991 Primaries."
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MarkDilley
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Iraq Halts Its Count of Civilian War Deaths
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A Deliberate Debacle
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The Spectator.co.uk
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for brian to check out.

movable type plugin for images

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ann_arbor_ypsi: BOYCOTT THE DEL RIO!
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Juan Cole * Informed Comment *
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Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
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Downhill Battle - RIAA Information Awareness Activism (RIAA)

Could we do something like this around Borders unwillingness to bargain in good faith?
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This would be funny to do as a contest for borders workers, what would the headlines read if we actually negotiated a fair contract.via Boing Boing
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via BushOut.TV:
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We could ask people to write in with the message Boycott Borders, over and over and over... ? textually.org: HELLOWORLD PROJECT
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"Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi has criticised states for infringing human rights 'under the cloak of the war on terrorism'." via BBC
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Lean Left: I Thought The Onion Was Satire
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"Why did they leave out America? Oh, because it's the 'default' country I suppose." via Metafilter:
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"Big Brother Really Exists, And He's Not Who You Think He Is. "

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"Read about his exciting bird hunting trip, where he shot 70 'pen-raised animals that cannot escape." via Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
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"How the String Cheese Incident -- five barefoot, mandolin- plucking improvisers from Boulder -- is taking on the most hated corporation in music" via Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things:
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"rather than fight this return to nature, urban farmers have embraced it, gradually converting 15 acres of idle land into more than 40 community gardens and microfarms "
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ordered a halt to a count of civilians killed during the war via Eschaton:
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The second issue of Moment, a new radical newspaper, can now be found in coffee shops, stores, and university buildings throughout Ann Arbor. A broad range of activists in Ann Arbor have applauded the new paper as a necessary alternative to the dominant community newspaper, the Ann Arbor News, and the leading University of Michigan student publication, the Michigan Daily. via Michigan IMC
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When you get there, click on each letter to get a different news source about the new method of dealing with protestors...randomWalks: The Miami Model
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Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
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The Longest Line

Apple Store Japan
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I knew the song "Imagine" and was devistated when I heard the news.

It was until just recently that I got to visit Strawberry Fields. I think all should make a trip there.

via Lean Left
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Muslims For Kucinich: Go-along media ignoring Kucinich
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General Questions:

I. Do you ascribe to either: A) Passive-Aggressive Patriarchy:" (often come across as a victim/helpless/in need/dependent and get women in your life to be your physical and emotional caretakers? to buy you things? to take care of your responsibilities? pick up your slack? use guilt or manipulation to get out of your responsibilities and equal share of the work? do you treat your female partner like a "mom" or your secretary?)

B) "Aggressive Patriarchy:" (Do you often take charge? Assume that a woman can’t do something right so you do it for her? Believe that only you can take care of things? Think that you always have the right answer? Treat your female partner like she’s helpless, fragile, a baby or weak? Do you put down your partner or minimize her feelings? Do you belittle her opinions?)

2. How do you react when women in your life name something or someone as patriarchal or sexist? Do you think of her or call her a "PC Thug," "Feminazj," "Thin-skinned," "Overly-Sensitive," a "COINTELPRO-esque" or "Un-fun?"

3. Do you see talking about patriarchy as non-heroic, a waste of time, trouble making, or divisive?

4. If a woman asks your opinion, do you assume she must not know anything about the subject?

5. Do you believe that women have "natural characteristics" which are Inherent in our sex such as "passive," "sweet," "caring," "nurturing," "considerate," "generous," "weak," or "emotional?"

6. Do you make fun of "typical" men or "frat boys" but not ever check yourself to see if you behave in the same ways?

7. Do you take on sexism and patriarchy as a personal struggle working to fight against it in yourself, in your relationships, in society, work, culture, subcultures, and institutions?

8. Do you say anything when other men make sexist or patriarchal comments? Do you help your patriarchal and sexist friends to make change and help educate them? Or do you continue friendships with patriarchal and sexist men and act like there is no problem.

Activism Questions

9. As a. man, is being a. feminist a priority to you? Do you see being a feminist as revolutionary or radical?

10. Do you think that you define what is radical? Do you suffer from or contribute to macho bravado" or ‘subpoena envy? (I.e. defining a true or "cool" and respectable activist as someone who has: been arrested, done lockdowns, scaled walls, hung banners, done time for their actions argued or fought with police, done property alterations, beat up nazi boneheads, etc.)?

11. Do you take something a woman said, reword it and claim it as your own idea/opinion?

12. Are you taking on the "shit" or "grunt" work in your organizing? (I.e.: Cooking. cleaning. set up, clean up phone calls, email lists, taking notes, doing support work, sending mailings, providing childcare?) Are you aware of the fact. that women often are taking on this work with no regard or for their efforts?

13. Do you take active step to make your activist groups safe and comfortable places for women?

14. If you are trying to get more women involved in your activist projects, do you try to engage them by telling them what’ to do or why they should join your group?

15. Do you ever find yourself monitoring and limiting your behavior and speech in meetings and activist settings because you don't want’ to take up too much space or dominate the group? Are you aware of the fact that women do this all the time?

16. Do you pay attention to group process and consensus building in groups or do you tend to dominate and take charge (maybe without even realizing it)?

Sexual/Romantic Relationships and Issues

17. Do you make jokes or negative comments about the sex lives of women or sex work?

18. Can you only show affection and be loving to your partner in front of friends and family or only in private?

19. Do you discuss the responsibility for preventing contraception and getting STD screening prior to sexual contact?

20. Do you repeatedly ask or plead with women for what you want in sexual situations? Are you aware that unless this is a mutually consented upon scenario/game that this is considered a form of coercion?

21. During sex, do you pay attention to your partner’s face and body language to see if she is turned on? Engaged, or just lying there? Do you ask a woman who she wants during sex? What turns her on?

22. Do you ask for consent?

23. Do you know if your partner has a sexual abuse, rape, or physical abuse history?

24. Do you stay with your partner in a relationship for comfort and security? Sex? Financial or emotional caretaking? If you’re not completely happy or "in love" with your partner anymore? Even though you don’t think it will ultimately work out? Because you’re afraid or unable to be alone? Do you suddenly end relationships when a "new" or "better" woman comes along?

25. Do you jump from relationship to relationship? Overlap them? Or do you take space and time for yourself in between each relationship to reflect on the relationship and your role in it? Do you know how to be alone? How to be single?

26. Do you cheat on your partners?

27. If your girlfriend gets on your case for patriarchal behavior or wants to try to work on the issues of patriarchy in your relationship, do you creak up with her or cheat on her and find another woman who will put up with your shit?

28. Do you agree to romantic commitment and responsibility and then back out of these situations?

29. Do you understand menstruation?

30. Do you make fun of women or write them off as "PMS-ING?"

Friendship Questions

31. Do you tend to set the standard and plans for fun or do you work with the others in the group, including women to see what they want to do?

32. Do you talk to your female friends about things you don't talk to your male friends about especially emotional issues?

33. Do you constantly fall in love with your female friends Are you friends with women until you find out that they are not in love with you too and then end the friendships? Are you only friends with women who are in monogamous or committed relationships with other people?

34. Do you come on to your female friends even jokingly?

35. Do you only talk to your female friends (and not your male friends) about your romantic relationships or problems in those relationships?


36. Do you find yourself only attracted to "Anarcho-Crusty Punk Barbie", Alterna-Grrrl Barbie," or Hardcore-Grrrl Barbie?" (The idea here being that the only women you arc attracted to fit mainstream beauty standards but just dress and do their hair alternatively and maybe have piercings and tattoos) Do you question and challenge your internalized ideals of mainstream beauty ideals for women?

37. Have you ever heard of or discussed "sizeism" and do you think it is low on the oppression scale?

38. Are you aware of the fact that ALL WOMEN, even women in radical communities, live under the CONSTANT PRESSURE and OPPRESSION of mainstream patriarchal beauty standards?

39. Are you aware of the fact that many women in radical communities have had and are currently dealing with eating disorders?

40. Do you make fun of "model-types" or "mainstream" women for their appearance?

Domestic/Household Questions

41. When was the last time you walked into your house, noticed that something was misplaced/dirty/etc. AND did something about it (didn’t just walk by it, over it, away from it or leave a nasty note about it) even if it wasn’t your chore or responsibility?

42. Are you constantly amazed by the magical "food fairy" who mysteriously acquires food, brings it home, puts it away, prepares it in meal form and then cleans up afterwards?

43. Do you contribute equally to domestic life and work?

44. How many of the following activities do you contribute to in your home (this is a partal list of what it takes to run a household): A: Sweep and mop floors and clean carpets B: Wash and put away dishes C: Clean stove, countertops, sinks and appliances if they are messy and each time after you have prepared food D: Collect money, do food shopping, put away food and make meals for people you live with E: Do house laundry (kitchen towels, bathroom hand towels, washable rugs, etc.) F: Clean up common room spaces, even if it’s not your chore G: Pick up other’s slack H: Deal with garbage, recycling, and compost I: Take care of bills, rent, utilities J: Deal with the landscaping and gardening K: Clean bathrooms and make sure bathroom is clean after you use it L: Feed, clean up after, and take care of housepets

Children & Childcare

45. Do you spend time with kids? If you do, do you spend time with children (yours or anyone's) in a way that is gendered? (do certain things with boys and other things with girls?

46. If you are a father, do you CO-parent your children? (Spend equal time AND energy AND effort AND money to raise them)?

47. Do you make childcare a priority? (at both activist events and in daily life)

48. Do you help make the lives of single mothers in your life and community easier by finding out if and how you can assist?

49. Have you politicized your ideas about child rearing and parenthood radical communities? Do you believe that individuals who are in the movement have children or that the movement has children?

Multi-Category Questions:

50. When was the last time you showed a woman how to do a task rather than doing it for her and assuming she couldn’t do it?

51. When was the last time you asked a woman to show you how to do a task?

52. Do you get emotional needs met by other women, whether or not you are in a romantic relationship with them? Or do you cultivate caring, nurturing relationships with other men in which you can discuss your feelings and get your needs met by them?

53. If a woman discusses with you or calls you out on your patriarchy, do you make an effort to be emotionally present? Listen? Not emotionally shut down? Not get defensive? Think about what she said? Admit you fucked up? Take responsibility/make reparations for the mistakes you made? Discuss your feelings and ideas with her? Apologize? Work harder on your own shit to make sure that you don’t make the same mistakes again with her or other women?

54. Do you look inside yourself to find out why you fucked up in these relationships and work to both change your behavior and be a better anti-patriarchy ally in the future?

55. Do you organize regular house meetings or activist meetings to resolve conflict in the house/group?

56. Do you use intimidation, yelling, getting in someone’s physical space, threats or violence to get your point across? Do you create and atmosphere or violence around women or others to threaten them (i.e.: throw things, break things, yell and scream, threaten, attack, tease or terrorize the animals or pets of women in your life)?

57. Do you physically, psychologically, or emotionally abuse women?

58. Do the women in your life (mothers, sisters, partners, housemates, friends, etc.) have to "remind" you or "nag" you or "yell" at you in order for you to get off your ass and take care of your responsibilities?


59. Do you talk to other men about patriarchy and your part in it?

60. When was the last time you thought about or talked about any of these issues other than after reading this questionnaire?

Scoring: ALL MEN need to work on issues of patriarchy, sexism and misogyny. However, this questionnaire may point out to you areas of particular focus or concentration for your own anti-patriarchal/sexist/misogynist process and development.
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This website is devoted to those concerned about the welfare of The Walt Disney Company and its future direction.

Save Disney
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But unlike a voting machine, every one of these other kinds of Diebold machines — EVERY ONE — creates a paper trail and can be audited. via Joho the Blog
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How the 45-minute claim got from Baghdad to No 10 via Telegraph News
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GoGoGolem's "Bush In 30 Seconds" Entry via BushOut.TV:
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How the "The People's Governor" avoids the people

via Body and Soul
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Life in Baghdad in Wartime via Lean Left
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"With a heavy dose of fear and violence, and a lot of money for projects, I think we can convince these people that we are here to help them"
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Google Search: President 2004

miserable failure
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Jim Moore's cybernetics, politics, emergence, etc. : Home Page
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Mindful Musings :: Google being mischievous?
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| BUSH SUCKS! |
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November was busy, coupled with some technology disasters in my neck of the woods, the best I could manage was to list some of my favorite links. Not the best I know, but what the help, I will try to do better. check out BordersReadersUnited.a2wc.org

More On The Missing 4 Billion Of Iraqi Rebuilding Money via Lisa Rein

Have They No Shame? via NathanNewman

At least four times in the fall of 2002, the president and his advisers invoked the specter of a "mushroom cloud," and some of them, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, described Iraq's nuclear ambitions as a threat to the American homeland... via MetaFilter

I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I don't even play one on TV. But every once in a while, I run across the website of one of these individuals that, in its own way, at least appears to make sense. via MetaFilter

The next big threat to the telcos via Night Hawk

US Supreme Court Rejects Nike's ''Right to Lie'' Bid via No Sweat

Labour abuses at Cintas in Haiti via No Sweat

GAP violating the Indonesian workers via No Sweat

Colombian Coca Cola TUist visits Britain via No Sweat

Anti-Black, Anti-Union via Nathan Newman

An old-school guide to Usenet Trolling.. via Everything in Moderation

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Some hotels, restaurants and airports are offering wireless Internet access -- at no charge -- in the battle to lure customers and deliver ROI. via_SmartMobs

Vancouver Squeegee IWW Union Update via LabourNewsNetwork

Remember Rip, Mix, Burn? via KevinMarks

Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world? via KevinMarks

Mapping the space via JoiIto

"The power of RSS is that the news comes to me filtered by all of those bright minds, who are themselves feeding off of other bright minds." via SebPaquet

GI Joe spoofs website

Director, Southeast NC Workers Center via IdeaList

"When cooperation breaks out, civilizations advance." via SebPaquet

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." via SebPaquet

More on "A billion dollars for Dean" via JimMoore

'A Guy Called Satan' via TheNation

The Pentagon Unleashes a Holy Warrior via RhinosBlog

Unions and Mobilization 2004 via_NathanNewman

Ashcroft's War on Greenpeace via Cyndy Roy

Workers Fight the Wal-Mart-ization of Big Grocery via AlterNet

Why Bush Cannot Win the War on Terrorism via LeanLeft

More Iraq violence LeanLeft

Democrats court labor vote via MuslimsForKucinich

Union battle puts debate on hold via MuslimsForKucinich

Jim Hightower on Kucinich via MuslimsForKucinich

Red Cross Bombed in Iraq via TheNation

40,000 protest occupation and war in Iraq, Baghdad bombed via Michigan IMC

Confidence in Bush eroding because of Iraq, poll says via ArizonaCentral

Dick Cheney, Commander in Chief via AlterNet

The Army be thuggin' it via RandomWalks

'a conscious decision ... to not be white' via RandomWalks

Brought To You By Wal-Mart? via TheNation

'Highway Robbery' via TheNation

Lisa Sloniowski and Mita Sen-Roy via.SebPaquet

E-Disobedience via.RandomWalks

Breathing Exercises via.PanicDisorders

Lisa Rein's Comprehensive Video and Photo Index via.LisaRein

why Kucinich refers to single-payer healthcare as "Medicare for All" via.MuslimsForKucinich

in case you were wondering via.MuslimsForKucinich

cease letter via.MuslimsForKucinich

RollingStone Interview with Dennis Kucinich via.CyndyRoy

Clarifying our Positions"Kucinich Demands Stations Cease Airing Dean Ad,Cites False Statements About Opponents" via.CyndyRoy

Truefire TrueFire is a self-publishing tool via.MetaFilter

The RIAA Strikes Back. (c/o arstechnica.com) via.MetaFilter

exploring color via.MetaFilter

Sand via.MetaFilter

Pick your poison via.MetaFilter

3 US Soldiers Killed, 4 wounded Friday via.JuanCole

It's about barriers to entry, not power laws via.KevinMarks

Evidence Of Things Unseen: The Rise of a New Movement via.Utne

Beyond Fear via.AdinaLevin

Progress for French street portrait shooters via.BoingBoing

Citi's CEO's SSN sky-written over NYC via.BoingBoing

American Idol for Russian prisoners. Prize: freedom via.BoingBoing

Why RSS is good via.PinappleBlog

Sexed Text via.MisBehaving

sex-typed categories via.MisBehaving

Libraries, tech, and gender via.MisBehaving

Is it sexism or is it just me? via.MisBehaving

female empowerment: blogs & India via.MisBehaving

About To Post A Series Of Really Sad Stories About Our Mistreated Troops (In Iraq and Here At Home!) via.LisaRein

A class act via Body and Soul

Profile via MuslimsForKucinich

Meet Dennis Kucinich via MuslimsForKucinich

Meijer orders activist arrested for wearing "Ask Me About Ice Mountain" shirt via IMC

Detroit Police Department Surveils, Community Responds via IMC

What's Appropriate? via LeanLeft

Sexuality and Genetics via LeanLeft

Imminent Threat via LeanLeft

Singled Out for Prosecution via GreenPeace

Just about everbody vs. George and Co. Via GreenPeace

Corporate control via GreenPeace

Your Friends Want to Help via PanicDisorder

The Matrix Revolutions website on IMAX

Socialtext 1.0 releas via EdwardVielmetti

U of Minnesota Clericals on Strike via NathanNewman

Support University Workers via LukeFranci

Presidential candidate Kucinich addresses health care union via MuslimsForKucinich

The muted reaction to poor treatment of wounded US servicemen via JohnSmith

How you can support the union via LukeFrancl

Support University Workers via LukeFrancl

Comic via WithGusto

Plan for 'window on the world' attraction via SmartMobs

Comic via WithGusto

Comic via WithGusto

Open video project via SmartMobs

Internet Archive website

"War is a Racket" via MetaFilter

The Anti-Ad Server website

Civil Disobedience against Diebold via DaveWeinberger

TinyURL via LukeFracl

Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, Marxism & Hope for the Future via Blackened

Speakeasies for food via BoingBoing

George W Bush, Scorecard of Evil via WageSlaveJournal

Miami students arrested for supporting strike. via NoSweat

IFC grants Grupo M loan and appears to grant union rights via NoSweat

From Charlton Heston to Independent Trade-unionism via NoSweat

Union Members Voted Against Arnie via NathanNewman

UAW: One More Parts Supplier Neutrality Pact via_NathanNewman

Poll: 62% Want Govt Health Insurance via_NathanNewman

Burying the Bad News via_NathanNewman

Urgent appeal: Tobacco company partners with Burmese military via_EricLee

Mexico: Over 250 workers sacked for joining a union via_EricLee

Mass arrests of trade unionists in Zimbabwe via_EricLee

Trade unionism in Iraq via BillyHayes

Press underreports casualties via_MetaFilter

Common Content website

"If voting could really change things, it would be illegal." via MetaFilter

Butterfly Pee via_MetaFilter

Cum Vs Moisturizer. via.MetaFilter

Song storm - sign up for the pledge and find out how they use the donate for good site via.MetaFilter

Room 209: Vegitarians comments

Michael Moore's new book excerpt on Salon via.BoingBoing

Union workers Protest Macy's pay policy via.RetailWorker

Jaqalanka: victory in Sri Lankan FTZ via.NoSweat

300,000 Mentally Ill in US Jails via.NathanNewman

Haiti: Union threatens strike via.LabourNewsNetwork

'Post-major combat operations' are hell via.MikeRoth

will allow postage-stamp-sized wireless phones within two years. via.SmartMobs

Prison Funnies via.MetaFilter

Bowling for Columbine via.RollingStone

Comic website

Send your advice to Michael Moore via.MichaelMoore

Ecuadorian Indian groups are suing Texaco for $1 billion for polluting their rainforests home with cancer-causing waste via.GreenPeace

Visit links Detroit, global water activism via.MichiganIMC

Pessimistic Rumsfeld Memo Leaked via.JuanCole

Arnold goes "Chichin Pwee Pwee" via.JoiIto

Second Superpower Supercomputing via.JimMoore

It Starts At School... via.MichiganIMC

Many progressives are praising Dennis Kucinich for saying all the right things -- and then they're backing other Democrats. via.CyndyRoy

Kevin Norton donated a truckload of Michael Moore movie clips to my Michael Moore archive. via.LisaRein

Ashcroft Involved in CIA Leak Investigation via.LeanLeft

slavery reparations via.MuslimsForKucinich

Open Source Everywhere via.CommonsBlog

Eye on Iraq Sign The Petition! via.CommonCause

On Productivity and Trade via.NathanNewman

The Extreme Slow Walk is a teaching of Pauline Oliveros and a practice of Deep Listening. via RandomWalks

It's Krugman day via.WageSlaveJournal

Urgent Appeal for Yao Fuxin and Xiao Yunliang : Immediate release on medical par via.NoSweat

Dying for your country no longer warrants a picture in the paper. via.MetaFilter

How the Poll Results on Iraq Were Manipulated via.MetaFilter

Breaking the ice. via.MetaFilter

Broadcast Flag Bad via.JoiIto

A Liberal Think Tank via.LeanLeft

Brown: New Deal = Socialism via.LeanLeft

Walking, Marching, Singing for Peace via.MuslimsForKucinich

Waiting for Lefty via.MuslimsForKucinich

Help Save Reproductive Rights via TheNation

The final solution for persistant trolls? via EverythingInModeration

Next found using slave immigrant labour in Thailand via NoSweat

The devil and Miss Jones via_GuardianUnlimited

Swarthmore and Diebold team up to undermine integrity of elections via_BoingBoing

College Costs and Inflation Calculator via_FrancoCastalone

Friday Terror! via MetaFilter

The Pretense of Airport Security via_FreeSpeechNews

Big-ass solar storm tonight via_BoingBoing

Global trade keeps a billion children in poverty, says UNICEF

Shelley Jackson's SKIN project: © and your flesh via_BoingBoing
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