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State Controller proposed anti-torture investment policy; defense contractor goes into att
California State Controller Steve Westly called Tuesday for the California State Teacher’s Retirement System to become the first among the nation’s largest pension funds to restrict investments in companies engaged in torture....
Posted: Wed, Jul 7, 2004 3:21pm PDT
The Fuel of the World Machine
"The twofold energetic crisis of capital accumula-tion consists in that human energy has become vastly unprofitable while fossil energy has become too expensive. Devaluing people and upgrading oil is the short formula for the increasing dilemma of the dominant way of production and life.."...
Posted: Wed, Jul 7, 2004 9:35am PDT
Show Me The Money
The US stands at the edge of the abyss. In the end, there will be no easy solutions -- and perhaps no solutions at all to our problems, because the treasury has been, and is being looted....
Posted: Wed, Jul 7, 2004 1:35am PDT
Californians Support Sustainable Agriculture!
On March 6, 2004 residents of Mendocino county passed a measure that bans the planting of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops -- also known as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) -- within their county. Mendocino county’s Measure H is being used as a model for at least seven other counties in California where local residents are well on their way to passing similar measures. Californians feel that local measures seeking to ban the cultivation of GE crops are critical steps to take in the promo...
Posted: Tue, Jul 6, 2004 7:42pm PDT
Tues 7/6: Court Date for 6/8 Arrestees
Tuesday, July 6
2 pm
Court Room 22
3rd Floor
850 Bryant St
San Francisco CA...
Posted: Mon, Jul 5, 2004 9:14pm PDT
Book Review: "Noir" by K. W. Jeter
"Noir" by K. W. Jeter contains some very disturbing ideas that are being realized under the Bush Regime. This is a brief, humble book review...for your amusement and edification....
Posted: Sun, Jul 4, 2004 2:12pm PDT
President Boooosh. We Are “In A Pickle”
I am a former staunch conservative Republican who has recently been “born again”. I have been “born again” into a progressive, populist and will vote for Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). I really don’t care what his party affiliation is or whether is called a liberal, moderate or conservative. Mr. Kucinich is a man of integrity, honesty, common sense and sincerity....
Posted: Sat, Jul 3, 2004 12:55pm PDT
Group takes over World Bank Lobby; Celebrates Capitalism and the Benefits of Exploiting Po
JULY 1, 2004 Washington, DC—A group calling themselves the Party Liberation
Front (PLF) took over the lobby of the World Bank Headquarters this morning
and threw a party to “celebrate” the 60th birthday of the World Bank and the
success of its global capitalist agenda. 60 years ago finance leaders from
the major world powers met in Bretton Woods, NH to establish the World Bank
and IMF. Since then wealthy elites in the US and elsewhere have reaped
billions of doll...
Posted: Thu, Jul 1, 2004 11:09am PDT
City Set to Amend "Son of Patriot Act"
The following is an update on the "Son of Patriot Act," that draconian and repressive "parade ordinance" that the Sacramento City Council passed last year with no public input....
Posted: Wed, Jun 30, 2004 3:31pm PDT
Deep unrest threatens Andean leaders
Indigenous groups in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia are experiencing a political awakening that could have profound repercussions for each country's democracy....
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 10:50pm PDT
The Crash Begins on the Golf Course
"Anonymous economic forces are not responsible. For 20 years the governments of the most important industrial countries have systematically pursued a policy of redistribution upwards from below.. The misery of the third world is indescribable.."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2004 9:31am PDT
Working class action in Argentina
This is from a Trot group, but in spiote of that it contains useful info......
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 7:14pm PDT
Brave New World: Book Review
"Social policy can support the economy when women are increasingly integrated in the working life for example. Childcare must be assured. If a shortage of workers exists, a useable health care must be established..But what happens if workers are in abundance?.."...
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 10:49am PDT
grow food on lawns
food not lawns and cattails for central valley drought and heat.....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 7:50pm PDT
Annulling Debts as a Great Step
"The goal must be redefined beyond goods production and abstract labor, beyond the market and the state.. The great step of debt cancellation occurs when the burden can no longer be endured. The new finance capitalism since the 1980s is a speculative bubble and debt capitalism.."...
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 10:34am PDT
Shaukat Aziz Slated to Become Prime Minister of Pakistan
Pakistan Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali forced out to make way for Shaukat Aziz....
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 10:55pm PDT
6/28: 1 month anniversary of arrests and torture of activists in Guadalajara
June 28 is the 1 month anniversary of the reperssion violence and illegal
detentions against the protesters of the Third Coumbre of Latin America
the Carribbean and European Union....
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 11:51am PDT
The Social Movement Needs a Strategy
"The provisional declaration presented for Porto Alegre III starts from the weakening of the Washing-ton Consensus that fixed the neoliberal agenda, cemented market fundamentalism and a growing loss of legitimation of international institutions.."...
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 9:37am PDT
Subsistence Economics: Avoiding Capitalist Exploitation
"Subsistence economics doesnt appear in any statistics or gross national product.. Everyone may only take as much as he or she needs for survival.. The resistance communities have shown that a life is possible beyond paid labor and dependence.. Self-sufficiency gives them an impressive strength"...
Posted: Fri, Jun 25, 2004 12:48pm PDT
"Urban Permaculture" (video/quicktime 10.3MB)
Early Version (4 Min. Quicktime)...
Posted: Fri, Jun 25, 2004 1:20am PDT