LOCAL Announcement :: Globalization & Capitalism : Government & Elections
Forum: Bolivia After the Election of Evo Morales (1/18)
14 Jan 2006
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passin' it on
Forum: Bolivia after the election of Evo Morales: what way forward? w/ a Presentation by UCSC student Eric Blanc, who has spent the last four months organizing in Bolivia.
8pm, Wed, 1/18/06 Porter Fireside Lounge - Free!
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Announcement :: Alternative Media : Arts & Culture : Education & Youth : Environment & Food : Transportation
Sixith Annual Bicycle Film Festival - Call for Entries
The Bicycle Film Festival is seeking submissions for its sixth annual Festival. The event will feature dozens of different films on a variety of bicycle styles - from BMX to urban bike culture, cycling to commuting.
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How Are We Serving Justice?
14 Jan 2006
by
Stewart A. Alexander
January 17 is the scheduled execution day of Clarence Ray Allen however this event demonstrates how callus and unmerciful we have become as a society. Here is a man that is dying and now we are preparing to take his life. The system is not working.
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News :: Civil & Human Rights
LISTS--CIA Planes; European Spy-Nests; CIA Front Co.s, DDO Rodriguez
13 Jan 2006
by
CLAYTON HALLMARK
EU AGREED TO CIA PRISON FLIGHTS -- With these words: "Both sides [EU-US] agreed on ... increased use of European transit facilities to support the
return of criminal/inadmissible aliens...."
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Good-bye, Canada? --- USA Military Occupation
13 Jan 2006
by
Leon Gunin
Why Harper is an American tool for turning Canada into US colonial enclave
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U.S. Trade Deficit Devastating Economy
12 Jan 2006
by
Stewart A. Alexander
The U.S. economy is being sold to the highest bidders in world trade markets and our trade deficit is destroying our economy. Americans risk losing everything due to poor leadership in Washington D.C..
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Justice for Chiquita and Banadex
Earlier today, someone on the other side of the Potomac
(visitors I.P. 149.101.1.123, US Dept of Justice)
did a Yahoo! search for
Banadex (a division of Chiquita Brands), and read my coverage of their corporate impunity enjoyed at expense of US taxpayers. One would expect the Department of Justice would already know about the the case history of Banadex: they've been fined as recently as 2 years ago for their crimes in Honduras. Journalists who have publicly challenged Chiquita in the past have been dogged by lawyers and stalked on the internet, especially the award winning "journalist in exile"
Ignacio Gomez, who eventually found refuge in Cuba.
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