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Stop Cross-Gender Pat Searches! - Ca Prison Focus Launches Dignity for Women Prisoners ...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 12:38pm PST
The Yes Men Strike Again! - Media Pranksters Spotlight Dow Chemical Connection to Bhopal ...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 12:30pm PST
Too Many Logs in the Catalog - "Victoria's Dirty Secret" Fights Massive Deforestation ...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 12:23pm PST
Clouds on the Organic Horizon - Is Organic Farming Becoming the Victim of its Own Success? ...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 11:54am PST
Taking Back Their Land - Brazil’s Indigenous Movement Wins Key Electoral Victorie ...
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 12:02pm PST
U.S.-Approved Carnage Grips Haiti Haiti began 2004 celebrating the 200th anniversary of the defeat of Napoleon's army and French slavemasters, but it quickly became a year of misery and terror for the Caribbean island's long suffering people. -- photo: Haiti Information Project...
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 11:52am PST
Rethinking The Thanksgiving Holiday Born and reborn as a unifying political symbol, Thanksgiving has glorified the European invaders, and accepted their oppression of people of color...
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 11:42am PST
Bay Guardian Sues New Times Chain for Predatory Pricing The Bay Guardian filed suit Oct. 19 against the SF Weekly, the East Bay Express, and New Times Newspapers, the Phoenix-based chain that owns the two local weeklies, charging that the nation's largest alternative newsweekly chain had illegally sold advertising below cost in an effort to put the family-owned Bay Guardian out of business....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 11:37am PST
The Middle East Cauldron The Next Five Years Whoever is President of the United States, the basic political dilemmas of the Middle East will be the same in the coming five years. There are three loci of crucial happenings and probable major shifts in the coming period: Iraq, Iran, and Israel/Palestine...
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 11:27am PST
Native Americans Liberate The Rock Celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the Alcatraz Occupa On November 10, 1969 newspaper headlines read "Indians on Alcatraz";. In the middle of the night, Indians had chartered a boat and 14 of them had climbed onto The Rock to claim Alcatraz for the Indians. When reading the news in the morning paper, the vast majority of Bay Area residents responded with the expression of the time--"Right On"!...
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 10:44am PST
WIPE YOUR TEARS AND GET ORGANIZED! If the extent of fraud in the Bush/Cheney coronation is unclear at the time of this writing, what is clear is that the world and people in the U.S. will be living with an even more destructive and dangerous regime for at least the next four years. The corporate media and the Democratic Party have already concluded that the election is valid, thus averting a repeat of the legitimacy crisis of 2000. The worst immediate effect of all this may be that the people of the world are tempted to give u...
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 10:31am PST
Fault Lines Issue 2: G8 Summit Hides on Private Island In Occupied Brunswick, site of several demonstrations opposing the 2004 G8 Summit in South Georgia, police and military units not only outnumbered protesters by a factor of 50 to one(!), there were more of them than actual Brunswick residents. Funny thing is, the Summit wasn’t even taking place in Brunswick....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 11:02am PDT
Fault Lines Issue 2: The Real "Spin Factor" Subjecting a civilian population to collective punishment is an archetypal war crime, although American disdain for the Geneva Conventions has preceded Abu Ghraib by many decades...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:57am PDT
Fault Lines Issue 2: Mass. Crackdown A protester is arrested for refusing to show identification to a federal officer. An MIT alumna is arrested for leafleting the entrance of this year’s commencement. A college student who dressed as an Abu Ghraib prisoner is accused of falsifying a bomb threat, charged with felonies and required to undergo psychological evaluation. Eight housing activists who enter an abandoned building during a protest are held at gunpoint and charged with multiple felonies....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:50am PDT
Fault Lines Issue 2: Deported, but not Demoralized Brooke Atherton is a Bay Area activist dedicated to fighting Israel’s repression of Palestine. On June 24, six days after Brooke was deported from Israel, Fault Lines talked to her via e-mail. Writing from Beirut, Brooke wanted to stress that this situation is not about her; it is about the movement for a free Palestine…...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:48am PDT
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