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to the barricades

"'A Brazilian environmentalist was killed in an Atlantic rain forest on Tuesday night, only 10 days after a U.S. nun and activist against illegal logging was murdered in the Amazon jungle. Dionisio Ribeiro Filho, 59, was shot in the head with a shotgun at the Tingua federal reserve, about 19 miles from Rio de Janeiro city, after he defended it for over 15 years from poachers and illegal palm tree cutters, police said on Wednesday.' - Reuters"
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"The news of the death of 213 miners following a gas blast at a colliery in Liaoning on February 14 barely registered outside China, but it was further evidence of an ongoing tragedy, and symbolic of the enormous human cost that China is paying for its phenomenal economic growth.' - China Labor Watch"
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Go HERE to have a form generate the HTML for you.
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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Ecstasy trials for combat stress

"American soldiers traumatised by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be offered the drug ecstasy to help free them of flashbacks and recurring nightmares.

The US food and drug administration has given the go-ahead for the soldiers to be included in an experiment to see if MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy, can treat post-traumatic stress disorder."
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NathanNewman.org: Calculator on Bush Privatization Plan

"Go Chuck Schumer. A very nice simple calculator showing how workers lose out under Social Security privatization. Via Josh Marshall."
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MemoryBlog: Report: 55 Years of Americans Spying on America

"The Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive has posted a fascinating report by the Defense Personnel Security Research Center:

Espionage Against the United States by American Citizens, 1947-2001 [PDF format]"
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The Next Tea Party

"Democracy reigns, in the form of brutal entitled self interest, and there is only before us the path to one hell or the other."
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Compare and contrast these intense images.
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CNN.com - Nurses, teachers take on Schwarzenegger - Feb 22, 2005

"'He behaves like an arrogant patriarch with respect to women's occupations,' said Rose Ann De Moro, executive director of the California Nurses Association. 'Nurses, teachers, home health workers -- it's vulgar how he's run roughshod over them. He's arrogant, and he's a bully.'"
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"'Some 7,000 protesters, some carrying banners saying 'Bush go home', 'War Monger' and 'No. 1 Terrorist', marched through the Mainz [in Germany] today but were kept away from the visiting the US President. The largely peaceful rally never got within a kilometre of President George W. Bush, who is on his first German visit since the 2003 Iraq war, which was deeply unpopular in Germany.' - The Telegraph"
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Times of hate, Times of joy: Rova and Gannon, there's a connection

"From Salon.com:'Additionally, Guckert attended the invitation-only White House press Christmas parties in 2003 and 2004, and last holiday season, in a personal posting on GOPUSA, Eberle thanked Karl Rove for his 'assistance, guidance, and friendship' Eberle was Guckert's boss. 'nuff said. "
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"'Belgian police fired water cannon at hundreds of demonstrators protesting against the visit of President Bush to European Union headquarters Tuesday."
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funferal: Because organizing matters
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Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Revealed: the rush to war

"The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, warned less than two weeks before the invasion of Iraq that military action could be ruled illegal."
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News

"Ceremonies marking one-time presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt's third year in the hands of Marxist rebels angered families of less-known Colombian hostages."
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News

"Ceremonies marking one-time presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt's third year in the hands of Marxist rebels angered families of less-known Colombian hostages."
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Friends! (through MC Trashpedal)

WE'RE TWINS RECORDS :: pop-noise-electronics-etc. :: ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

"The New Folk Sounds of Patrick Elkins" and "Hobo A Go Go: The Official Tour CD" are reviewed in the Feb 2005 issue of the Wire (with Anthony Braxton on the cover)!!! Hobos Patrick Elkins, Jason Voss and Justin Shay are hard at work culling the very best of the Hobo A Go Go tour from July 2004. The live CD should be out in March."
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Thanks Brian!

Werewolf

"Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I'd call it a party game, except that it's a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria."
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NLRB Issues Complaint Against Wild Oats

"The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint last week against Wild Oats Natural Foods for the firing of union organizer, Tom Kappas. The Industrial Workers of the World has been struggling to re instate Kappas for the past seven months in a campaign aimed at restoring fairness to how the company deals with union organizing."
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Times of hate, Times of joy: Manuel Yang and Peter Linebaugh: a Dialogue About Murder in Toledo

"Essential, Essential, Essential reading....you have to read this article. It examines this sort of rampage that a worker in Toledo went on through a left-Marxist lens which considers the process of lean production. And it brings in concepts from the Japanese Left, a group that's not often heard from."
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"'A rights group expressed fears yesterday that security personnel might use excessive force against anti-globalization protesters at a WTO meeting in Hong Kong, as the territory's police stocked up on riot control equipment. The Police Tactical Unit has ordered rubber bullets and lead-filled bean bags, Commandant Suen Kwai-leung said. The thumb-sized bean bags are fired from guns and, like rubber bullets, are intended to be non-lethal. 'The goal is to have ammunition that is slightly harmful,' Suen told reporters.'"
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A Theory of Power, Jeff Vail's Critique of Hierarchy & Empire

"Swarming is an ancient military tactic—in fact, Alexander the Great pioneered the first effective counter-swarming maneuver over 2,000 years ago. However, it is also one of the most contemporary of military topics: how to defeat asymmetrical swarming tactics in counter-insurgency operations, how to effectively employ swarming in a modern military, etc. In the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, the anarchist “Black Block” pioneered a new form of swarming technique by using text-messaging and cell phones."
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The Next Tea Party

"'One thing is clear: Ours is a charitable nation. Without the creation of wealth our system affords, there would be little of the giving the world depends on.'"

"yeah... folk would just waste it on food and stuff. Thank God these people are collecting it for us (aka creating) and doing good with it.
When a million of us have it, its groceries. When one of them has it, its the creamy goodness of charitable wealth."
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The Postmodern Anarchist

"You know, I remember going to a union staff party in Ohio where a union organizer/manager, who found out I was from North Carolina, shortly thereafter pretty much blamed me and all activists in NC for not being able to get Jesse Helms out of office. What a punk. He sure didn't share stories of victories comparable to removing that source of evil from office. And I couldn't say anything because I was attending with a friend, this guy was her boss, and the people working for the union weren't unionized. So she was worried that she would lose her job!"
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This is the most amazing wiki walk through!!!

Jon Udell: Heavy metal umlaut: the movie
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iPodlounge | Understanding the Podcasting Revolution

"Ever heard of Dawn and Drew? The Godcast network? The Rock and Roll Geek Show? These names are synonymous with the “podcasting” phenomenon that has been sweeping the Internet in recent months."
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Another great wiki tutorial! Except he doesn't explain why weblog is preferred to blog.

A socialtext screencast by dltq.blogs.com
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does anyone have knowledge of this stuff?

adfunk01@streamyx.com to me More options 2/12/05 (6 days ago)

its function to attract user from search engine to this article

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark
To: adfunk01@streamyx.com
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:49:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Tech Dose Information] 2/12/2005 04:49:00 PM

why do you have this extra text, and why does it include me. just curious. Mark

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Facing possible cuts, WMU grad students mull union

This is really cool. I have been involved in three organizations listed here! :-)
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safetyvideo28.mpg (video/mpeg Object)

This was sent by my buddie Charles, as an homage to my injury this week. I broke my ankle Sunday night, had surgery on Monday, down and out for a few days/week.

Laugh, at my expense.
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Wal-Mart gets advance warning of labor inspections through secret sweetheart deal with George W. Bush Administration: "Secret sweetheart deal between Wal-Mart and the Bush Administration:
Labor Department warns company in advance of inspections and audits, keeps quiet about rights violations,"
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Upcoming.org:

Hot Meat For Young Lovers at The Elbow Room (Monday, February 14, 2005)
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Upcoming.org:

Hot Meat For Young Lovers at The Elbow Room (Monday, February 14, 2005)
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Trouble Makers Handbook 2

What do you think of my quick mock up for a wiki weblog type website.
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Take Action: Hold Wal-Mart Accountable

"Your help is urgently needed.

Wal-Mart announced Feb. 9 it will shut down the Canadian store where workers had formed a union six months earlier to have a voice on the job."
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Quote of the day--Claire Wolfe

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
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Live weblogging

Drawn Together - TV Series - TV Tome

This show is great. It is so offensive to so many people!

Tonights show saw the cast do a sit down strike and "win" the chance to be a billionares right hand man. Win a job! The plan so far is for the winner to start a revolution against the producers... let's see what happens in the next few minutes....


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Arbor Update: AA News Editor Vindicator Scab

"Ann Arbor News editor Ed Petykiewicz temporarily went to Youngstown, Ohio to work as a scab at the Youngstoung paper The Vindicator when workers there walked out on strike:"
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Confined Space

"President Bush's Fiscal Year 2006 budget proposal, issued today, calls for the complete elimination of OSHA's worker training program. The program, known as the Susan Harwood Worker Training Grants, was created under the administration of Assistant Secretary for Labor Eula Bingham during the Carter administration to provide hands-on training to workers about their rights and the hazards they face. Although the Reagan administration cut the grants back significantly, no administration has ever attempted to completely eliminate the program, until now."
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Can't wait!!!!!!

Boondocks - TV Series - TV Tome

"The failed FOX pilot has found new life as the cable channel has committed to 15 half-hour episodes of the animated comedy, which is based on the Aaron McGruder comic strip of the same name. The network hopes to begin production in time for 'Boondocks' to premiere in the fall of 2005 as part of its successful 'Adult Swim' lineup."
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Vision Circle: The Other Side of Ossie Davis

"My father told me that the Detroit News ran a story about Ossie Davis that reveals his more progressive side. Now most of us in the know KNEW a bit about this side. We knew for example, that Davis eulogized Malcolm X at his funeral ('he was our shining black prince', Davis noted). But this story gets a bit deeper. Earl if you're checking this out you should link this to your post. As an aside, I have written about Grace Boggs before. She's one of the last true revolutionaries left. Her Center is powerful and needs support."
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------> everybodY needs a little extra-oompH

"United States On Steriods"
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Martin Espada

"Imagine the Angels of Bread


This is the year that squatters evict landlords,

gazing like admirals from the rail

of the roofdeck

or levitating hands in praise

of steam in the shower;

this is the year

that shawled refugees deport judges

who stare at the floor

and their swollen feet

as files are stamped

with their destination;

this is the year that police revolvers,

stove-hot, blister the fingers

of raging cops,

and nightsticks splinter

in their palms;

this is the year

that darkskinned men

lynched a century ago

return to sip coffee quietly

with the apologizing descendants

of their executioners.



This is the year that those

who swim the border's undertow

and shiver in boxcars

are greeted with trumpets and drums

at the first railroad crossing

on the other side;

this is the year that the hands

pulling tomatoes from the vine

uproot the deed to the earth that sprouts the vine,

the hands canning tomatoes

are named in the will

that owns the bedlam of the cannery;

this is the year that the eyes

stinging from the poison that purifies toilets

awaken at last to the sight

of a rooster-loud hillside,

pilgrimage of immigrant birth;

this is the year that cockroaches

become extinct, that no doctor

finds a roach embedded

in the ear of an infant;

this is the year that the food stamps

of adolescent mothers

are auctioned like gold doubloons,

and no coin is given to buy machetes

for the next bouquet of severed heads

in coffee plantation country.



If the abolition of slave-manacles

began as a vision of hands without manacles,

then this is the year;

if the shutdown of extermination camps

began as imagination of a land

without barbed wire or the crematorium,

then this is the year;

if every rebellion begins with the idea

that conquerors on horseback

are not many-legged gods, that they too drown

if plunged in the river,

then this is the year.



So may every humiliated mouth,

teeth like desecrated headstones,

fill with the angels of bread."
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FactsOfIsrael.com: Video: Attacking an Islamic Terrorist camp in Afghanistan

This is scary.
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Alabanza

"In Praise of Local 100; for the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100, working at the Windows on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center"
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Consortiumnews.com

"Indeed, it will be hard to comprehend how Bush got two terms as President of the United States, ran up a massive debt, and misled the country into at least one disastrous war – without taking into account the extraordinary influence of the conservative media, from Fox News to Rush Limbaugh, from the Washington Times to the Weekly Standard."
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Bombing for Choice

Here is *not* a meme from Rad Geek:


Anti-abortion ideologues beware: I'm promoting objective, factual information on:



You can too. Join me in Bombing for Choice.


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The Next Tea Party: Our Gang Insignia in Iraq
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The Next Tea Party

"Interesting perspective from Rachel Bronson, director of Middle East and Gulf Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations, in a Morning Edition interview on NPR this morning.

According to Ms. Bronson, the as yet to be determined if successful democratic elections yesterday most likely have had the opposite of their touted intended inspiring effect on the larger region. (as in...the 'hope' this election will bring to all oppressed people of the region...go ahead George don't say it, surprise me.)"
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The Washington Monthly

"WASHINGTON, Sept. 3-- United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting.

According to reports from Saigon, 83 per cent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong.

....A successful election has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam. The election was the culmination of a constitutional development that began in January, 1966, to which President Johnson gave his personal commitment when he met Premier Ky and General Thieu, the chief of state, in Honolulu in February.

The purpose of the voting was to give legitimacy to the Saigon Government, which has been founded only on coups and power plays since November, 1963, when President Ngo Dinh Deim was overthrown by a military junta."
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