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Did you know? I didn't.
National Freedom Day
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My friends Eric and Mandy have their site up, it looks good:
Justice Clothing
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We need some kind sole out there to make a web tag, like the Borders one.
Boycott Krogers
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"Labor unions representing nearly 200,000 workers across Massachusetts have endorsed same-sex civil marriage in recent weeks, as the organizations lobby to expand workplace benefits for their gay and lesbian members."
Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Unions lend voice, might to back gay marriage
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Flash Fun!
BUSH ALMIGHTY!
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"Proposed U-M policy sets rules on teacher-student relationships

Faculty member who starts relationship with supervised student would have to report it

Sunday, January 18, 2004
BY GEOFF LARCOM
News Staff Reporter "
Proposed U-M policy sets rules on teacher-student relationships
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Not sure what I think about this peice.
Michael Moore.com : The General vs. The Deserter
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Flash fun!
Saddam's an OutKast: Hey Allah!
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NEWS!!: IUOE Local 12 Rank and File Caucus, follow the link from: They Call Us Troublemakers
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This is funny, but is having bandwidth issues, check back if you can't get it.
Dishonest Dubya
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OUTRAGEOUS!!
MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action
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From a friend, need to check out more. I am not in the camp that thinks the Greens shouldn't run someone!
Draft Camejo for President
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"the left preaches class warfare. the right practices it."
-=-Nurse Ratched's Notebook-=-: Think America is a classless society? Think again.
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"Unions which engage in over-the-top patriotism and flag waving, which don't know the difference between "buy union" and "buy American", are making it easier for the ultra-rightists to get a foot in the door."
Eric Lee: The John Birch Society's "labor" websites
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"Just before Christmas, the United Food and Commercial Workers union once again, ordered its pickets to halt their picketing of distribution centers that supply some 850? supermarkets owned by Safeway, Albertsons, and Ralphs engaged in a concerted attempt to drive down medical benefits and average wages of 70,000 union grocery workers in the Southern California region."
Teamster Net - Grocery Pickets Defy UFCW Officials (Two Articles)
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"Union Label is a group whose purpose is to promote trade unionism by displaying a union label on its members' weblogs."
Union Label Weblogs
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The anti brand
feministe: Unbrand America
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A great story about the power of being human in that face of crap.
The S-Train Canvass: A troll visits S-Train, in the flesh!
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"The Buying of a President"
Take what you can...Give nothing back!
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I hope that all will vote with their hearts in the primarys and move away from fear.
Muslims For Kucinich: Top Ten Responses to "I love Kucinich, but..."
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"Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Calls Bush 'A Blind Man in a Room Full of Deaf People'"
mousemusings weblog
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Flash, check it out
Dennis Kucinich for President 2004
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The power of Google is scarry at times, check out how to use it better, but most importantly - how it uses searches
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Top Google search tips
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"17 principles of effective organizing"
David Grenier: Hunter's Organizing Principles
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Wow, this post points to contracts the military gives out on a DAILY basis.
Page of Moss - Bloglet
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BuzzFlash interview with Dennis Kucinich
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"Kucinich raised about $5 million in 2003, and expects matching funds to take him to about $9 million. He is spending frugally. And he is raising more."
Dennis Kucinich Blog and News - Left-Wing Flutters Give Low-Flying Kucinich Some Thrust
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"The costs of setting up an online radio station are minimal."
Eric Lee: Broadband internet opens new possibilities for unions
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"Live from Iraq - Basra Braces Itself for Industrial Shut-Down"
No Sweat
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Haiti General Strike
No Sweat
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"The Justice Department is now prosecuting Brett Bursey for holding a "No War for Oil" placard during a presidential visit to Columbia, S.C"
Democracy matters
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"That U.S. intelligence agencies confuse terrorists with children"
Data collection is easy, analysis is hard | Metafilter
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When your policies are gaining in unpopularity, throw a curveball.
Uncommon Thought Journal: The Empire and Space
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Check out these ads, they are great. The AFL-CIO and the Democratic Party should run ALL of them.
Bush in 30 Seconds
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"This Week's Shameless Agitator Award goes to Willie Nelson - for his new song "What Ever Happened to Peace on Earth," composed on Christmas Day and debuted at a rally for Dennis Kucinich in Austin, Texas on January 3, 2004."
Confessions of Shameless Agitator
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"Without an organized “labor-left” on the
scene, solidarity actions, while well-intentioned, are not going to be
a serious factor in the outcome of the grocery chain beef—or any other. "
Teamsters - Teamster Net - The Great Grocery Strike and the Left
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Michigan makes a splash in the tech world.
"Merry pranksters in Michigan have been hijacking the wireless intercom system at a Burger King drive through and insulting the customers. Kids these days!"
Smart Mobs
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A good friend of mine fought breast cancer at an early age several years ago, successfully. She was aware of the conections then.
"Chemicals from underarm deodorants and other cosmetics can build up inside the body, according to a study."
BBC NEWS | Health | Concern over deodorant chemicals
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"Child porn crimes have risen 15-fold since 1988 and new internet mobile phones could make things even worse, according to a children's charity."
BBC NEWS | Technology | Net blamed for rise in child porn
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New York City is steeling itself for a transit strike.
Monkeyfist.com: Planning for the Strike
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A brief history of Saddam Hussein

via BuzzFlash
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This is a nice find, I really love the creativity that people have.
Bush's "Axis of Evil" World Tour
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As part of the group of people that helped Borders Workers in this struggle, I am honored to know them.

As a community labor activist, I am encouraged by the outpouring of support from everywhere!

As a Wobbly, I thank you all for the One Big Union!

Lots of lessons learned and lots more to learn in our struggles.

Solidarity, Mark
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Ann Coulter Print
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"Dear American serviceperson in Iraq,

I am a retired veteran of the army, and my own son is among you, a paratrooper like I was. The changes that are happening to every one of you—some more extreme than others—are changes I know very well. So I'm going to say some things to you straight up in the language to which you are accustomed."
BringThemHomeNow.org
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GENOCIDE IN BENTON HARBOR

BANCO Community Forum: Save Our City
Sat. Jan. 10, 1pm
Benton Harbor Library
213 Wall St., BH

From Rev. Edward Pinkney, 269-925-0001

All are welcome - please attend

Black genocide from the cradle to the grave. Black life is at risk. The
blue print for how the systematic killing of African-Americans is being
carried out in Benton Harbor is no longer invisible.

Some facts:
In Benton Harbor the infant mortality rate is 13.5% - one of the highest
rates in the nation.

Young Black men (babymakers), ages 18-26, are 80% of the prison population in Michigan. In Benton Harbor, that figure is higher.

75% of those young Black men are convicted by all White juries in Michigan. In Benton Harbor, that figure is 98%.

Rev. Pinkney is outraged about the recently renewed contracts of Public
Defenders Ernest White, Michael Renfro, and Rodney Fuller. All are white
and all have a history of not defending the people. They have each played
an important part in making sure that as many Benton Harbor Black people as possible become incarcerated.

It is difficult to fight against the blatant racism in Berrien County
because Benton Harbor residents do not attribute their oppression to
being African-American. They have been "taught" over time to believe that
Black people are poor people and that's just the way it is.

Rev. Pinkney is asking everyone to try and find ways to help the people of
Benton Harbor. Desperately needed are grant money, jobs, better schools,
etc., etc....
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"If you have spare mobile phones, pagers or PDAs sitting on a shelf or in a drawer, you can recycle them here in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. "
CollectiveGood mobile phone recycling
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"The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy"
The Pop vs. Soda Page
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"'Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.'"

- George H.W. Bush (Bush senior) and Brent Scowcroft in their 1998 book, A World Transformed."
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3. The Ann Arbor Area Committee for Peace brings you Democracy Now!

on Cable Channel 17 of the Community Television Network,
Tuesdays at 4:30 pm and Fridays at 10 am.

STARTS TOMORROW!

Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program
airing on over 170 stations in North America. Pioneering the largest public
media collaboration in the U.S., the program is hosted by award-winning
journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Democracy Now! was previously
available in the Ann Arbor area only to Deep Dish satellite subscribers or at
http://democracynow.org

The Tuesday 4:30 pm premiere show features:
* Scott Ritter: How the British Spy Agency MI6 Secretly Misled A Nation Into
War With Iraq *
--Former U.N. Iraqi Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter discusses how he was
personally involved in the MI6’s "Operation Mass Appeal" in the late 1990s to
"shake up public opinion" by passing dubious intelligence on Iraq to the media.

* Leading Iraqi Feminist Yanar Mohammed On the Role Of Women in Occupied Iraq *
--The founding member of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq joins
Democracy Now! in-studio to discuss the women’s struggle in Iraq.

The Friday Jan. 9 at 10 am show features:

* A Review of 2003 With Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Katha Pollitt, Martin
Espada, Michael Parenti and Aarti Shahani *
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Cost of War
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Don't click on this.
F Word - The F word and its many uses. eBaum's World - Flash Animation
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"Building goal orientated activist networks..."Jim Moore's cybernetics, politics, emergence, etc.
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90% Crud: Fat City, USA
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"They have caputured the best of the underground new-school while somehow allowing a distinct Detroit-feel to shine through it all"
seat of the revolution :: MI Hip Hop Underground
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"Love America, hate Americans is the attitude that seems to float through the executive wing of Corporate World."
The S-Train Canvass: I am a worker's owner!
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"1. Regain control of your sanity. Be your own gate keeper for what can and cannot enter your brain. First off - Turn off the TV. Stop filling your mind with information structured by those who have more of an interest in making a return for their investors than telling the truth. And if you can't understand that such boogiemen do exist in our overblown world of modern media, then just turn off the TV, go to the dayroom, and stare at blank walls."
Dennis Kucinich Blog and News - Uncle Tom's Seven Steps for Peace
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"But I'll renew an even better idea I proposed a year ago: index it to congressional salaries. Assuming a normal 2000-hour work year, congressmen make about $75/hour right now. How about simply making the minimum wage equal to 10% of that?"
To The Barricades!: A Minimum Wage Law That Says Yes To Me
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"Although fighter jets were racing toward the city after the commandeered planes, the transcripts showed that controllers at La Guardia Airport, apparently unaware of the hijackings, continued to send out flights until the second plane had struck the World Trade Center."
Lean Left: Flights Took off Until 2nd Plane Hit Tower
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"This is a very scary situation, since the new police force is expected to take the lead in stabilizing the country once the United States leaves. In other words, we are relying on a force consisting of people who may or may not be criminals or former members of Saddam's secret police."
Lean Left: Hiring Saddam's Criminals?
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"I've sometimes joked that if I could make just one change to US laws, I'd bar white men from the vote."
Alas, a blog: White men love George Bush
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" Honesty in Politicians "
mousemusings weblog
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Patch Adams...(t)he social activist, clown and fully licensed doctor, made famous by the Robin Williams movie based on his story and bearing his name, was in New Hampshire on Saturday to tour the state on the behalf of presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio.
Muslims For Kucinich: Activist stumps for Kucinich
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"work by a Canadian group to teach Afghani women to be journalists, and to start a number of radio stations operated by women."
funferal: Women and Radio in Afghanistan
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"Members of the Campaign Against Prison Slavery group sent their Wilkinsons Hit Squad to take action both inside and outside the Nottingham store in December 03..."
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