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February 11, 2003 - 5:15pm -- nomadlab
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Mobilize NY writes "

Federal Judge Barbara Jones ruled this
morning that the City of New York can deny United for Peace and Justice a
permit to march on February 15. Citing "heightened security concerns," she
ruled that protesters may only hold a stationary rally, for which we have been
granted a permit for First Avenue stretching north from 49th Street.

February 6, 2003 - 6:19pm -- Ben_Meyers
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"Oil and Iraqi War"

Ralph Nader


Despite well-known ties to Big Oil, Bush Administration officials have managed to keep a straight face as they insist that the drive to war against Iraq is motivated only by an effort to eliminate weapons of mass destruction and establish democracy. Tomorrow we'll see what evidence Secretary of State Powell presents to the United Nations. It is not credible that there would be such a strong push for war if there were no oil in Iraq. Oil is power and this is in significant measure a struggle over that power.

January 30, 2003 - 10:28am -- jim
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"The Ba'athists"

Tariq Ali

Given that different factions of the Ba'ath Party have ruled Syria and Iraq for almost half a century, a study of its origins is not a purely academic exercise.

January 28, 2003 - 8:21am -- jim
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Dan Welch writes:

"American Taliban"

Daniel Patrick Welch

Among recent media awareness of the burgeoning antiwar movement across the country, several items stick out. Moveon.org has released an antiwar ad to be shown on TV stations across the country, part of a grassroots campaign gone overboard. The group asked for enough money from supporters to launch a modest print ad, and wound up with enough for a nationwide TV campaign. Based on the 'Daisy' ad which has now become a classic in political advertising circles, the new ad warns against the inherent unpredictability of conflict, and the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons. It is an impressive grassroots achievement, and a compelling visual and emotional statement.

January 23, 2003 - 8:47am -- hydrarchist
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Antimilitarist Solidarity Network / Turkey

writes "Call for solidarity
by Antimilitarist Solidarity Network / Turkey

contact : reddet@savaskarsitlari.org

The common statement of our friends who will stand declare their anti-war

stance through 'conscience objection' and 'total objection' on Friday:

January 23, 2003 - 8:35am -- hydrarchist
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Institute for Social Ecology writes

"Courses in Social Ecology

The Institute for Social Ecology (ISE), located amid central
Vermont's rolling mountains, has been a center for education
and action working with the ideas of social ecology since the
1970s. The ISE and its programs also serve as a forum for
serious dialog among ecological, social justice, and
anti-capitalist activists, as a laboratory for new ecological
technologies, and as a resource for community groups around
the world. For the spring and summer of 2003, the ISE is
again offering its widely acclaimed programs.

January 16, 2003 - 11:17am -- hydrarchist
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Louis Lingg writes "The London Times published the following polemic by John le Carre:

"The United States of America has gone mad."

America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War.

January 14, 2003 - 12:31am -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade writes: TIME Europe magazine is conducting a poll on which country poses the greatest threat to world peace. The USA was included in the survey. Who is in the lead? As of now, it's the good old USA with -- 77%!

Vote: Who is the greatest threat?

http://www.time.com/time/europe/gdml/peace2003.html

January 13, 2003 - 3:12pm -- jim
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hydrarchist writes:


"World Forum Movement: Abandon or Contaminate?"


Linden Farrer


November 2002 saw 60,000 activists from all over Europe converge on Florence for the European Social Forum (ESF) at the same time as the neoliberal elite met at the TABD in Chicago (1).


In opposition to neo-liberalism that sees increasing inequality of wealth, environmental destruction, rolling-back of
'civil liberties' and a perpetuation of wars of aggression as central to its
operation, the ESF promised to be a meeting space for 'in-depth reflection,
democratic debate, free exchange of experience and planning of effective
action among movements of civil society engaged in building a planetary
society centred on the human being'(2).

January 10, 2003 - 2:42am -- hydrarchist
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Anonymous Comrade writes "WHY NOT SHOW OFF ABOUT THE BEST THINGS? A Few Quick Notes on Social Conflict in Italy and the Metaphors Used to Describe It (*)

A match used to show off like this:

- I'm able to set a barn on fire! I can set fire to a petrol tank, the seat of a ministry, an Etruscan museum, whatever!

- Why not just say you're able to light the gas and boil the soup?

We always show off about the worst things.

Gianni Rodari, "Minimal Fables"

A tradition

Some people have called the Italian insurgence of 2000-02 "la Primavera dei movimenti", the Springtime of Movements. That is also the title of a video documentary that was sold in newsstands enclosed with L'Unità daily paper.

In 1969 the biggest struggles of factory workers were described as "Autunno caldo", the Hot Autumn. Recently, it is quite normal to hear such comments as: "It's like the Hot Autumn!" or "It's the Hot Autumn again!".

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