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Court Calls Plaintiff's Son "One Hyper Sensitive Catholic Child"
Tom Merton
2004-03-14 10:40 AM
Dissecting the Electable Mr. Kerry
posted by Pipard
2004-03-14 2:44 AM
Will we forge a powerful, lasting, rising political force together that really opposes the ugly crusade and climate of modern America--and that refuses to be shut up and shut down by the deadening imperialist arguments about "electability"? (text/plain)
John Kerry is a hypocrite. John Kerry is unelectable.
ben frank
2004-03-14 12:21 AM![]()
open note to DNC- we will not accept John KErry. WE WILL NOT unite behind KErry. If you insist on shoving Kerry down our throats you are throwing the election to Bush as we will have no choice but to vote green. (image/jpeg)
CMU MLK day protest
KF
2004-03-13 11:29 PM
Story about the protest at Carnegie Mellon to have Martin Luther King Jr Day as a holiday (text/plain + 2 comments)
Tonights Demstrations in Spain
EL MILITANTE
2004-03-13 9:48 PM
NO TO TERRORISM-STATE OR INDIVIDUAL (text/plain)
oops, I goofed! greaserpunk666
Mike "Cyco Miko" Campana
2004-03-13 7:07 PM
OOps I goofed at the CMU SEI
Greaserpunk666???? (text/plain + 8 comments)
Kerry is the FriendlyFascist Vote
Midels Solomon
2004-03-13 3:22 PM
John Kerry is the worng person to vote for - His hiring of Rand Beers to be his foreign policy advisor brands Kerry a NAzi warrior. Wake up peace fools - or admit which side you are on... (image/jpeg)
Risk Factors
RUCHI AHUJA
2004-03-13 4:12 AM
Now that you're a parent, you might not remember how it felt to be a teen, caught in that gray area between childhood and adulthood. Sure, it's a time of great possibility but it can also be a period of great confusion and anxiety. There's pressure to fit in socially, to perform academically, and to act responsibly. (text/plain)
Rachel Corrie Vigil
Jonas
2004-03-13 1:45 AM![]()
(University of Pittsburgh) On March 16, 2003 Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist with the International Solidarity Movement, was killed by an Israeli army Caterpillar bulldozer while she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian house in the Gaza Strip... (image/gif + 14 comments)
MARCH 20TH and the Israeli Wall of Apartheid
Jonas
2004-03-13 1:23 AM![]()
During the March 20th "Pittsburgh Still Says No to War", the Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee will recreate and march with a section of Israel's monstrous and deadly Apartheid Wall, with direct action to follow. (image/jpeg + 4 comments)
(Almost) Free Books for Swing State Organizers
yael
2004-03-13 12:52 AM
Almost Free Books for Swing State Organizers. (text/plain)
Anti-Social Security group defrauds the elderly with 'ARP' designation
Leigh Strope
2004-03-12 8:49 PM
The Alliance for Retirement Prosperity was founded by Republicans like Grover Norquist (president of Americans for Tax Reform) and Steve Moore (president of the Club for Growth), who view the elderly as dangerously selfish welfare-addicts. (text/plain)
Globalization and the Sex Trade:Trafficking and the Commodification of Women and Children
Richard Poulin
2004-03-12 6:03 PM
In this important article, Richard Poulin, professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa (Canada), argues that the sex industry, previously considered marginal, has come to occupy a strategic and central position in the development of international capitalism.<br><br>
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Lebanese student protesters clash with police over Syrian army presence
MARK DAMELI
2004-03-12 4:44 PM
BEIRUT - Lebanese students clashed Friday with security forces during protests against Syria's military presence in their country which their hero, exiled general Michel Aoun, tried but failed to end 15 years ago.
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Syrian Relations with the Iraqi Baath Party:
MARK DAMELI
2004-03-12 4:41 PM
BEIRUT - Lebanese students clashed Friday with security forces during protests against Syria's military presence in their country which their hero, exiled general Michel Aoun, tried but failed to end 15 years ago.
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Pictures for the Regional Anti-War Conference Press Conference
gwen
2004-03-12 3:18 PM![]()
Photos from the M20 press announcement on March 10th. (image/jpeg)
Vegetarian Athletes
AV
2004-03-12 3:31 AM
Fr Ron Lengwin Carl Lewis Dick Gregory
Ruth Heidrich Martina Navratalova and other
vegetarian athletes... whether they are health,
economic, ethical, spiritual or other vegetarians
their effect is to spread nonviolence and fitness
in the world. (text/plain)
Press Conference: Regional Anti-War Convergence
pghimc video collective
2004-03-11 11:38 PM
Details of the regional anti-war convergence were announced today at a joint press conference today at the Federal Building. (video/quicktime + 2 comments)
911 Days after 9/11
backdraft
2004-03-11 6:04 PM
What a accident!
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Terrorist Atrocity in Madrid
Alan Woods
2004-03-11 2:08 PM
NO TO TERRORISM-STATE OR INDIVIDUAL (text/plain)
Afghanistan: Abuses by U.S. Forces
Always Shariff
2004-03-10 10:25 AM
The United States is setting a terrible example in Afghanistan on detention practices. Civilians are being held in a legal black hole – with no tribunals, no legal counsel, no family visits and no basic legal protections.
Brad Adams, executive director of the Asia division of Human Rights Watch (text/plain)
Syrian authorities break up rare protest. U.S. diplomat, journalists briefly detained
Mark Dameli
2004-03-09 2:15 PM
DAMASCUS, Syria -- In a capital awash with Syrian flags, banners of support for President Bashar Assad and pamphlets declaring his party's achievements on its 41st anniversary, the paper banner raised by about 20 human rights activists urging freedom for political prisoners did not fit in.
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General Meeting for March 20th Sit-In Participants- those considering taking part
POG'er
2004-03-09 11:52 AM
General meeting for March 20th sit-in participants and those considering taking part: Friday, March 19th, 7pm at the corner of Forbes and Bouquet St in Oakland, directly across from The Original Hotdog Shop. (text/plain + 4 comments)
War and Resistance
Radio Free Tunes
2004-03-08 7:31 AM
CD Release Party for Mike Stout's anit-war CD "War and Resistance" Here Mike's moving tribute to fallen peace activist "Rachel Corrie" (audio/mpeg)
Reversing Global Warming.
Aaron Vallejo
2004-03-08 12:01 AM
China has already started. (text/plain + 141 comments)
URGENT: DEMAND Bush Testify before 9-11 Commission - World Peace Depends on It !!
Bill Douglas, National 911Visibility.org
2004-03-07 8:29 PM
URGENT ACTION!! 911 MASS PHONE, FAX, EMAIL CAMPAIGN - Please FWD!! Demand Bush Testify!! (text/plain)
Minneapolis transit workers strike
R Field
2004-03-07 7:43 PM
public transportation; workers' pay and benefits; Minneapolis transit strike; comparison with Pittsburgh's transit system (text/plain)
Iraq civil war: Rumors and reality
Ritt Goldstein
2004-03-07 7:00 PM
While the Bush administration attempts to spin its way towards Iraq War vindication and clear of civil war blame, the facts present another view. And Goldstein's 2 March piece provides them. (text/plain)
PROTEST BUSH IN CLEVELAND, THIS WED.
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2004-03-07 11:11 AM
Bush is going to be in Cleveland from 8am-3pm this Wed. March 10th, at the Cleveland Convention Center. Come on out and voice your oppposition to the president. Check out the Plain Dealer for more info. on why he's here. (text/plain + 3 comments)
The Deceptive Nature of Memory
Reinarto Hadipriono
2004-03-07 1:28 AM
There is no "past," "present" or "future"! What is really happening is that we are constantly undergoing "a change of condition." Apparently we are "being deceived" by those "impressions of the previous conditions" that have remained imprinted as our memories.
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