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September 5, 2003 - 9:25am -- jim
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Culture

DownhillBattle is a new website about why major label domination of music needs to end. Filesharing and CD burning have given us some tools, but we need to defend our right to use them and at the same time develop new ways to support artists. The pre-launch web page has a parody of iTunes and an article about filesharing as civil disobedience.


DownhillBattle will have articles, music reviews, news, and free music propaganda. There will also be forums where we can drop the debate team bullshit and do some serious strategizing on how to get music back. Because no matter what kind of music you're into, it will be way more fun after the major labels are gone. The Downhill Battle site will launch for real in early September. In the meantime, there will be a pre-launch weblog and photos of our flyer campaign.

September 5, 2003 - 8:34am -- jim
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In the Streets

Anonymous Comrade submits:

SAT, SEPT 13 - SAY NO TO THE WTO!


NYC Parade and Festival of Resistance to War & Corporate Rule

Gather at 1pm, south steps of Union Square (14th & Broadway) preceded by:

MARCH FOR LABOR RIGHTS AT HOME AND ABROAD!

Gather at noon outside the Park Avenue Country Club, 27th St. & Park Avenue

sidewalk march past Verizon Wireless, meeting up with the main Parade and Festival in Union Square.

September 4, 2003 - 2:47pm -- jim
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In the Streets

"Cancun Medics Call for Aid"

Garth Karl

Hi to all of you from Garth. I'm writing from Cancún. I want to apologize for the mass mailing, but things are desperate here. Basically we're way short of funds. What this means is that we literally have people sleeping in public parks, inspite of the nearly nightly downpours (not medics, though, because I and several others have fronted nearly 2,000 to provide for medic housing and a clinic space). We're looking at nearly 30,000 people coming here and right now we don't even have money to buy jugs of water...so we medics have organized a short crew to use bleach to decontaminate water.

September 4, 2003 - 12:54pm -- jim
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Culture

Anonymous Comrade submits:


M/C - Media and Culture is calling for contributors to the 'text' issue of M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

The award-winning M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal.

September 3, 2003 - 6:13pm -- jim
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Independent Media

Call For Submissions for



Activist Family Handbook



Deadline: April, 30, 2004. Please circulate.



Looking for short prose articles/essays that deal practically with issues of parenting and activism.

September 3, 2003 - 5:19pm -- jim
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In the Streets

"4th Cancun Bulletin"

Puente a Cancun Team

Welcome to the 4th Cancun Bulletin from the Global Exchange Puente a Cancun

team providing a road map to de-railing the 5th WTO Ministerial...



WTO Scrambling to Rescue the 5th Ministerial from Imminent Failure,

Protesters Numbers grow....


Summary – With a week or so left before the beginning of the Cancun

Ministerial, three key factors are beginning to predominate...

September 3, 2003 - 5:12pm -- jim
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Prisons & Prisoners

Support Stephen Funk, US Military Resister

Military resister Stephen Funk goes on trial Thursday, Sept. 4, for refusing to fight in Iraq. Please stand with Stephen -- Sign this online petition NOW.
Petition

Marine reservist Stephen Funk, a gay US conscientious objector of Filipino and Native American origin, faces a military tribunal on Thursday September 4.
He is refusing to kill and publicly saying so. "In the face of this unjust war based on deception by our leaders, I could not remain silent."

September 3, 2003 - 5:12pm -- jim
Announcements
Prisons & Prisoners

Support Stephen Funk, US Military Resister

Military resister Stephen Funk goes on trial Thursday, Sept. 4, for refusing to fight in Iraq. Please stand with Stephen -- Sign this online petition NOW.
Petition

Marine reservist Stephen Funk, a gay US conscientious objector of Filipino and Native American origin, faces a military tribunal on Thursday September 4.
He is refusing to kill and publicly saying so. "In the face of this unjust war based on deception by our leaders, I could not remain silent."

September 3, 2003 - 5:03pm -- jim
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In the Streets

jim submits:

Emergency Update on WTO Cancun Mobilization



URGENT APPEAL-- DONATE NOW ON-LINE TO HELP PEASANT FARMERS GET TO CANCUN FOR WTO PROTESTS (instructions at end)



Dear Friend of Farmer and Peasant Organizations:

Dear Opponents of the WTO and Free Trade Policies:



ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!



Mexican farmers and peasants URGENTLY need your financial support now to organize against the World Trade Organization (WTO). Any amount large or small that you can give, will help (see below for how to give on-line or how to send funds).

September 1, 2003 - 8:23pm -- jim
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Events

"The 1st Palestine Walkathon in the Tri-State Area"

Alliance for World Awareness of Rights and Equality (Aware)

Walk for the children of Palestine! Register to Walk now!
AWARE, The Alliance for World Awareness of Rights and Equality, is proud to sponsor the First Annual Walkathon for Palestine. The proceeds from this year's walkathon will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund [PCRF] in order to help Palestinian children who are in desperate need of medical care.

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