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UNION TO PROTEST AT QUAIL LODGE WHILE UNION REACHES NEW AGREEMENT AT MONTEREY BEACH RESORT...

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....

The 6th District Court of Appeals reverses conviction of medical marijuana caregiver and patient Roger Mentch. Defendant was denied a CAREGIVERS defense and the jury given wrong instructions....

the Quarry Plaza, UCSC campus...

The following text was extracted from a flyer passed out at the UC Regents protest today, Oct. 18, 2006, by the organizers of the action. As the media misinformation about the demonstration hits the community, it's important for all of us to know the concerns that the students and workers were demanding be addressed....

Here's a gem from Free that does a great job explaining why we need to work together, even if we don't agree all of the time. I'd like to add that the concept of forgiveness is one that deserves a re-exmination, too. "It seems that more and more anarchist publications are becoming breeding grounds for self-promoting pompous drivel. Perpetuating a cycle of discord not only among fellow anarchists, but others who could be our allies if only our heads weren't stuck so far up our arses."...

Threemile puts pregnant woman at risk. Please help. This will make you angry. Threemile Canyon Farms in eastern Oregon is back to its shameful behavior of discrimination against women...

The Guerrilla News Network web site seems slightly retro, slightly well-off, slightly out-of-kilter cool, like Lily Allen in a Che Guevara T-shirt. The guys may wear berets. They do guerrilla book reviews: you attack, and when the clumsy reaction force finally gets in place, you're gone! The review vanishes, as if it had never been, into some misty Sierra Madre of the internet....

The fact that two different classes - workers and bosses have squared off, thereby exposing a longtime contradiction within the Democratic Party and the shallowness of so-called Santa Cruz's progressive/liberal mainstream, has not gone over the head of just our former state assemblyman......

38 minute interview (in Spanish) with two Oaxacan teachers recorded 10.14.06 at La Ley Barricade, which protects an occupied Radio in Oaxaca City. Posted to radio.indymedia. English language transcript below....