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Workers' Memorial Day 2007 Donna Puleio Spadaro, MD 2007-03-12 3:24 AM
Workers Memorial Day 2007, a day to remember those who have suffered and died on the job and to renew the fight for safe workplaces, will be observed by the Allegheny County Labor Council, in Pittsburgh, PA on Monday, April 30 at noon in Market Square. (text/plain)

Nine On Nine Pulls Foie Gras Off Menu Voices for Animals of Western PA 2007-03-11 8:27 PM
Second Victory for Voices for Animals in Less than 2 Weeks (text/plain)

Gov. Proposed Internet Surveillance Nico Salvatore 2007-03-10 8:28 AM
Proposed Internet Surveillance Gold Mine for Police Asset Forfeitures (text/plain)

part 3.......video / pittsburgh: attack of the killer robots enny and video by Neil Bhaerman 2007-03-04 6:45 PM
On Friday, March 2, Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) and supporters set out to shut down the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), a largely Pentagon-funded venture of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) that has become a world leader in warfare robotics. The action succeeded beyond the organizers' expectations. more from Pittsburgh Organizing Group: http://organizepittsburgh.org/m2/ video shot by Neil Bhaerman: http://www.current.tv/community/peopl... Blastfurnace Radio and TV: http://www.notowar.com/ (text/plain)

video / pittsburgh: attack of the killer robots edited by lenny and video by Neil Bhaerman 2007-03-04 1:11 PM
On Friday, March 2, Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) and supporters set out to shut down the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), a largely Pentagon-funded venture of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) that has become a world leader in warfare robotics. The action succeeded beyond the organizers' expectations. more from Pittsburgh Organizing Group: http://organizepittsburgh.org/m2/ video shot by Neil Bhaerman: http://www.current.tv/community/peopl... Blastfurnace Radio and TV: http://www.notowar.com/ (text/plain)

Big Oil Rips-Off Americans Louise Torbin 2007-03-04 2:43 AM
Big Oil is stealing our oil and is refusing to pay their fair share of royalties on oil removed from USA Public Lands. Bush has already given Big Oil over $15 billion in tax breaks and other subsidies; while working Americans struggle to pay their income taxes. This is another Slap to American Families. (text/plain)

Blockade at National Robotics Engineering Center right now! anonymous 2007-03-02 12:00 PM
There is currently a blockade at the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), a branch of Carnegie Mellon University that develops robotic vehicles and weapons delivery systems for the U.S. Army and Marines. This blockade is happening as a part of the Pittsburgh Organizing Group's Barricade the War Machine call to action; for more information, please see http://organizepittsburgh.org/m2/ . (text/plain + 38 comments)

March on the Pentagon is fast approaching A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition 2007-03-01 4:29 PM
On March 17, 2007, the 4th anniversary of the start of the criminal invasion of Iraq, tens of thousands of people from around the country will descend on the Pentagon in a mass demonstration to demand: U.S. Out of Iraq Now! Everyday more and more people are joining the mobilization and important victories are being won. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Green? My ass! stephen donahue 2007-03-01 2:22 AM
Its too easy being green (text/plain + 22 comments)

GUINEA: The Trade-Unions Bosses Liquidates th ICP 2007-02-28 10:05 PM
At the end of discussions during Sunday with the authorities, religious leaders and a delegation of the CEDEAO (Economic Community of the States of the area) directed by the former President-general of Nigeria, the gangster Babangida, the trade-union leaders decreed the "suspension" of the general strike which had lasted for 2 weeks, as of Sunday midnight. (text/html)

Brazil: The "brake" is COPOM. Bernardo Kucinski 2007-02-28 8:40 PM
The logic of the the Growth Acceleration Program opposes classic economists as Michael Kalecki and John Keynes. The GAP that does not contain a expansionist monetary policy is not the GAP, is the anti-GAP, as, by the way, the last act of the Copom made clear. (text/plain)

Video-chronicle: Demonstration supporting CSO Eskuela Taller and the squatters and occupie La Plataforma 2007-02-27 7:56 PM
Last february 24th 1000 people participated in a demonstration for the defense of the CSO Eskuela Taller and the squatters and ocuppied spaces. The mobilization claimed self-organization, self-management, and autonomy as fighting weapons against institutional repression and capitalism. (text/plain)

GUINEA: the army requisitions all the workers! ICP 2007-02-26 10:06 AM
Friday evening, Kerfalla Camara, the chief of staff of the Guinean army, announced in a radio broadcast that he has ordered the end of the general strike and the resumption of work on Monday, by requisitioning all the workers in the administration, in commercial establishments and in private enterprises! (text/html)

BTL:Iranians Fear U.S. is Preparing to Attack Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2007-02-25 1:39 PM
Interview with David Barsamian, author and radio producer, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris (text/plain)

VFA Wins Campaign Against Foie Gras at Giant Eagle! Voices for Animals of Western PA 2007-02-25 1:27 AM
VICTORY!!! Giant Eagle Stops Selling Foie Gras! (text/plain + 3 comments)

John Brown Caucus of SDS/MDS Statement on the SF (Panther) 8 John Brown Caucus 2007-02-24 9:51 PM
Free the San Francisco 8! Free All Political Prisoners!! (text/plain)

Encampment to Stop the War TONC 2007-02-22 10:53 PM
ENCAMPMENT TO STOP THE WAR In Washington DC (text/plain)

Open Letter to UFPJ TONC 2007-02-20 12:09 AM
Would it not be an enormous step forward, indeed a step towards revitalizing the antiwar movement, if all concerned abandoned the cynical infighting and divisiveness that only serves to make the movement more fragmented, and weak? (text/plain)

April 15-22: Week of Boycotts, Rallies For Impeachment Solari/NotBuyingIt 2007-02-18 9:28 PM
Please add this to your front page and calendar, and plan to take part in this unprecedented week of outrage and action against the unlected, criminal Regime which has hijacked this country and betrayed us all. Rather than marching in a circle and going home, let's turn this country on its head, and stop this now, before it gets any worse. (text/plain)

MayDay 2006 DVD ¡Gigante: Despierta! (Giant: Awake!) subMedia 2007-02-18 8:52 PM
My name is Franklin Lopez and I am collaborating with Indymedia (http://video.indymedia.org) on a DVD project about the May Day 2006 migrant rights marches. The working title is ¡Gigante: Despierta! (Giant: Awake!) This DVD project is a compilation of video pieces shot during the May Day 2006 immigrant marches and due to hit the streets several weeks before May 1 of this year. Me llamo Franklin López y colaboro con http://video.indymedia.org en un proyecto que busca producir un DVD de la protesta nacional de inmigrantes del primero de Mayo del 2006. (text/plain)

BTL:Echoing Pre-Iraq War Disinformation Campaign, Bush Now Targets Iran Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2007-02-18 11:54 AM
Interview with retired U.S. Army Reserve Col. Ann Wright, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris (text/plain)

Solidarity with the General Strike in Guinea! International Communist Party 2007-02-15 10:11 AM
Guinea-Conakry is a small West African country of 10 million inhabitants, one of the poorest countries on the planet, in spite of the richness of its mining industry: diamonds, gold, iron, uranium and especially bauxite of which it is the 2nd largest producer in the world. Although the majority of the population of Guinea lives in misery, local and foreign bourgeois and the American, Canadian and Japanese multinationals grow rich, protected by the regime of General Lansana Conté (who seized power after a coup in 1984) against rising dissatisfaction. (text/plain)

RNC 2008 Call to Action RNC Welcoming Committee 2007-02-14 1:17 PM
a call to action against the 2008 RNC in Minnesota (text/plain)

(mp3) pittsburgh: "save our transit invades re-election party vincent / blast furnace radio 2007-02-11 2:55 PM
audio location: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=21743 (text/plain)

Brazil: Henrique Meirelles faces the tornado at CBB. Pedro A. Xavier 2007-02-09 2:04 PM
Lula prefers that Meirelles stays but syntonized with him. The PT prefers to see Meirelles out. In the absence of Palocci, he guaranteed the depressive growth of the economy in the the last four years. (text/plain)

The irish down-under jimtravers 2007-02-08 3:56 PM
Can we ignore the signals that are as relevant in Ireland as anywhere else. As two countries enter the EU in 2007 are we nuturing the seeds of racial tension by opening our borders to people who wish to import their ways and culture into our society.Are we ignoring the threat of Islamic terrorism by endeavouring to be politically correct when dealing with asylum seekers, refugees and others entering this country. Is it time for change and a time to take stock of the ways in which we allow people freely enter this country? (text/plain)

Irish Soccer in Crisis jimtravers 2007-02-08 2:23 PM
An Irish supporters nightmare The match between the Republic of Ireland and San Marion has given us the space to reflect on our beliefs that what we thought in the past has now come true. Ireland was terrible at any standards and deserved to walk away with nothing more than a loss. (text/plain)

Documentary to Air on the History of Indigenous Muslims in Pittsburgh Haroon Al-Qahtani 2007-02-07 12:24 AM
Pittsburgh, PA – February 7, 2007 – Throughout February a documentary examining the rich history of Pittsburgh’s indigenous Muslim population will air on PCTV channel 21. “An Oral History of Islam in Pittsburgh” begins with the migration of formally enslaved African-Americans to Pittsburgh seeking employment and discusses the contributions of Satti Majid, a Sudanese Muslim who in the early twentieth century worked toward the establishment of a traditional Islamic community in Wilkinsburg. (text/plain)

BTL:April 14 Day of Action on Global Warming Will Demand Mandatory Cuts in... Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus 2007-02-04 4:44 PM
...Carbon Emissions~Interview with Bill McKibben, author and environmentalist, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus (text/plain)

BTL:Libby Trial Window Into White House Iraq War Attack Machine Between the Lines' Scott Harris 2007-02-03 10:23 AM
Interview with investigative journalist Robert Parry, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris (text/plain)

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