Join us to challenge the corporate crime, poisons for profit, and flagrant lies of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (www.bio.org), at the time of their annual international convention, with a creative uprising for truth, life and justice!

Fight CAFTA through active democratic participation this Friday April 15th at UCSC Baytree Bookstore. Noon.

Last year's IMF/World Bank protest was a colorful demonstration of peaceful alternatives to the culture of war. Is it any more important to protest this year, with Paul Wolfowitz taking office as the new president of the World Bank?

I don't think so.

May 7th = Anarchism Now, a one-day conference at UCSC exploring and contextualizing contemporary anarchisms.

Chiquita Brands has a history of corruption in small ports like Turbo, Colombia. With the rise of Bush crony and Medellin cartel boss Alvaro Uribe Velez, they now act with complete impunity. Here are two typical vignetttes: one of corruption and another of terrorism.
(1) Nolo Contendre to violation of SEC regulations
(2) How Paramilitaries Clear the Land for Corporations: A Firsthand Account