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October 28, 2004 - 12:35pm -- jim
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Prisons & Prisoners

FBI Terror Task Force Raids "Hugs for Puppies" Headquarters in Philadelphia

Animal Defense.info

According to activists from the Animal Defense League, at approximately 6 AM this morning a resisdence at 50-18
Hazel
Ave, in Philladelphia, Pennslyvania was served a warrant and raided by sixteen
agents from The
FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.


The warrant was signed by United States Magistrate Arlander Keys of the
Northern
District Justice of Illinois. The warrant was served by Special Agent Jeremy
Ashcroft of the Illinios Terrorism Task Force and was directed towards
SHAC-USA and a
prominent Philladelphia-area animal rights organization, "Hugs For
Puppies".

October 28, 2004 - 12:09pm -- jim
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Mainstream Media

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Neighbours Say Haitian Cops Killed at least 10 People in Capital
Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitian police raided a building in Haiti's capital and killed at least 10 people, most of them young, neighbours told a human rights lawyer Wednesday, the second day of a strike called by loyalists who want the return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Police denied the report. Lawyer Judy Delacruz said she saw trails of blood where neighbours told her police had dragged the bodies of those killed in an alley behind Ruelle Estime in the Fort National neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince.

The report came the week Haiti's interim government said police would act to end weeks of violence that killed at least 61 people - not including those reported killed Tuesday.

October 28, 2004 - 12:09pm -- jim
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Mainstream Media

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Neighbours Say Haitian Cops Killed at least 10 People in Capital
Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitian police raided a building in Haiti's capital and killed at least 10 people, most of them young, neighbours told a human rights lawyer Wednesday, the second day of a strike called by loyalists who want the return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Police denied the report. Lawyer Judy Delacruz said she saw trails of blood where neighbours told her police had dragged the bodies of those killed in an alley behind Ruelle Estime in the Fort National neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince.

The report came the week Haiti's interim government said police would act to end weeks of violence that killed at least 61 people - not including those reported killed Tuesday.

October 27, 2004 - 10:49pm -- jim
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News

Yasser Arafat "Very, Very Sick"

BBC News


The shell-marked compound has a small clinic of its own.
A team of doctors has arrived at Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah
where the ailing Palestinian leader's health has significantly deteriorated.
One cabinet minister, who asked not be identified, told Reuters that Mr
Arafat, 75, was "very, very sick".

October 26, 2004 - 11:24am -- jim
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Culture

nolympics writes:

"Broadcasting Legend John Peel Dies, Aged 65
The Guardian

'It feels like John Peel invented Radio 1'

John Peel, the veteran DJ who discovered dozens of major bands during a broadcasting career spanning 40 years, has died after suffering a heart attack. Peel, who was 65, was taken ill during a working holiday with his wife, Sheila, in the city of Cuzco, Peru, and never recovered. The Radio 1 controller, Andy Parfitt, described Peel as a "broadcasting legend"

October 21, 2004 - 9:27am -- jim
News
Health

"One Man's Trash…"

Nicole Bergot, Newsday


Freegans say they dine well — and make an important political statement — by eating food thrown away by stores and restaurants.


Leaning over a black garbage bag on a recent cool night, Adam Weissman uses his bare hands to scoop steaming brown rice and veggies into a plastic container. Alongside him, two friends pull muffins, pasta and sweet potatoes, still warm from a hot buffet, from the pile of trash bags outside Lifethyme, a natural foods market in Greenwich Village.

October 20, 2004 - 11:01am -- hydrarchist
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Culture

Anthony Rudolf writes:

Fermin Rocker, 1907–2004

Anarchist's Artist Son

Anthony Rudolf, The Independent

Fermin Rocker, painter and graphic artist: born London 22 December 1907; married 1954 Ruth Robins (died 1989; one son); died London 18 October 2004.

Last night, at the Chambers Gallery in London, took place the private view of what was acknowledged by the painter himself to be his final exhibition.


For some time Fermin Rocker had been tired. His eyes were not as good as they were, and walking the few yards to the studio with its north light — at the back of his top-floor flat in Tufnell Park — was becoming difficult. It was even possible that the private view would be his last or penultimate excursion from the flat, for even with the help of his devoted son and amanuensis, Philip, going down all those mansion-block stairs presented formidable problems. But, after a 48-hour flu, the 96-year-old Rocker died in his bed on Monday. There had always been a good chance he would die brush in hand, but it was not to be.

October 19, 2004 - 7:51am -- jim
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In the Streets

Anarchists Storm European Social Forum

Matthew Tempest, The Guardian

Anarchists stormed the stage at the European Social Forum in London on Saturday night, barring London Mayor Ken Livingstone from speaking.


Up to 200 demonstrators, some of them masked, took control of the Forum claiming that the event, which purports to be a celebration of global justice and peace, has sold out.


Around a dozen activists climbed scaffolding around the stage to unfurl banners with messages such as "Ken's Party, War Party" and "Another world is for sale" a pastiche of the Forum's own "Our world is not for sale" slogan.

October 18, 2004 - 7:21pm -- jim
News
Ecology

American Multinational Firms Stealing Iraqi Grain
Seeds

GRAIN

When the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
celebrates
biodiversity on World Food Day on October 16, Iraqi
farmers will be mourning its
loss.


A new report [1] by GRAIN and Focus on the Global
South has found that
new legislation in Iraq has been carefully put in
place by the US that
prevents farmers from saving their seeds and
effectively hands over the
seed market to transnational corporations. This is a
disastrous turn of
events for Iraqi farmers, biodiversity and the
country's food security.
While political sovereignty remains an illusion, food
sovereignty for
the Iraqi people has been made near impossible by
these new regulations.

October 18, 2004 - 6:09pm -- jim
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"Plot to Kill Me, Says Venezuela's Chavez"

Andiswa Mesatywa

Caracas — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced what he said was an opposition plot to assassinate him in his weekly television programme late on Sunday.


The leftist leader of Latin America's leading oil producer also criticised the lack of mention of Latin American affairs in three recent televised debates between US presidential candidates George W Bush and John Kerry.


"Warnings are sent to me from several places in the world, from Europe, from Latin America and even the United States, saying 'Chavez, pay attention, Chavez, don't let down your guard, because they're preparing an assassination in Venezuela,'" Chavez said on his Hello, President programme.


The plotters are motivated by his government's efforts "to change the capitalist system", Chavez said.

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