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August 27, 2003 - 6:03am -- hydrarchist
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In the Streets

Joshua Musinski writes:



Update From Miami


Today marked the beginning of the local Miami business leaders formal involvement in the FTAA trade talks in Miami. With the first monthly Luncheon of the Free Trade Area of the Americas Ministerial Meeting and VIII Americas Business Forum, hosted by the Florida foreign trade Association. The Luncheon featured; Ambassador Luis Lauredo, Executive Director of the FTAA Ministerial and Americas Business Forum.

August 22, 2003 - 12:49pm -- nolympics
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In the Streets

By Rob Eshelman



At about 9 pm a group of internationals rushed into the TV room and asked if we heard the explosion. I was sitting with Dae, Connery, Greta, Reagan and Amira drinking a bottle of whiskey. We all looked at one another perplexed and answered in the negative.



An Israeli who I saw frequently around the Hostel said it was a sound familiar to her. It was a bombing. As she was telling us this, the sounds of screaming sirens from ambulances, police, and other emergency vehicles could be heard from the street outside. Most of our group got up to peer out the window and sure enough a stream of vehicles was rushing to where the sound of the blast emanated.

August 21, 2003 - 12:08pm -- jim
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"'Hysterically Happy' 60s Radical Kathy Boudin Paroled"

Associated Press, August 20, 2003

ALBANY, NY -- Kathy Boudin, the '60s radical who has served 22 years in prison for
a 1981 armored car heist in which three men were killed, was granted parole
Wednesday. Boudin, 60, a one-time member of the Weather Underground described as a
model inmate in prison, had been denied parole just three months ago, as
well as two years ago. Thomas Grant, a spokesman for the state Division of Parole, said Boudin
would be released from prison on Oct. 1 or earlier, once her plans for
parole supervision were set.

August 20, 2003 - 1:06pm -- hydrarchist
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Technology

hydrarchist submits:

"This seems relevant for many reasons, be they the expectations of Lula, the venerated position occupied by Gil because of his cultural capital, and the emerging recognition of the importance of free software in modern productive forces."

Speech of the Brazilian Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, in the
seminar "Free Software and the Development of Brazil."

"On the Way to Digital Democracy"

Gilberto Gil, Brasilia, 19th August 2003


We must not ignore the fact that digital culture extends its network
over the whole planet, and is going through decisive moments in
terms both of transformative thought and of utopia.


It's enough to recall the contercultural achievement of the microcomputer.
The counterculture was responsible for bringing the computer from the
industrial-military complex into the space of personal use, breaking the
monopoly of IBM in the area of computing. The writer Pierre Levy spoke,
correctly, of the countercultural detour of high technology, a 'high-tech
DIY', among little defined underground groups, observing that 'a picturesque
community of Californian youth at the margins of the system invented the
personal computer'.

August 20, 2003 - 12:57pm -- hydrarchist
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Technology

Anonymous Comrade submits:

SCO plans court attack on Linux GPL
By Matthew Broersma
ZDNet (UK)
August 15, 2003, 7:43 AM PT

SCO Group is planning to argue in its court battle against IBM that the General Public License (GPL) covering Linux and other open-source software is invalid, according to a report.

SCO, owner of several key copyrights related to the Unix operating system, has been aggressively defending its intellectual property holdings connected to Unix System V, and filed a $3 billion lawsuit against IBM earlier this year. The suit claims that IBM has committed trade-secret theft and breach of contract for allegedly copying proprietary Unix source code into its Linux-based products.

August 16, 2003 - 1:18am -- jim
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Independent Media

Anonymous Comrade submits:

Indianapolis: Solidarity Books Raided Last Night

Solidarity Books Collective, (Friday August 15 2003 @ 08:48AM PDT)

Over the past weeks, Solidarity Books has experienced a
steadily-increasing amount of police repression. There has been a
continuous stream of undercover police agents in and out of the space, a
marked rise in parked marked and unmarked police cars and tech vans on
the Boulevard Ave., and allegations that the infoshop was responsible
for vandalism at a downtown Starbucks and at St. Mary's Church (which is
the parish providing the NGA protests with a convergence space).

August 14, 2003 - 3:18pm -- jim
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"US Troops in Iraq Face Pay Cut"

Pentagon Says Tough Duty Bonuses are Budget-Buster

Edward Epstein, San Francisco Chronicle, August 14, 2003



Washington -- The Pentagon wants to cut the pay of its 148,000 U.S.
troops in Iraq, who are already contending with guerrilla-style
attacks, homesickness and 120- degree-plus heat.


Unless Congress and President Bush take quick action when Congress
returns after Labor Day, the uniformed Americans in Iraq and the
9,000 in Afghanistan will lose a pay increase approved last April of
$75 a month in "imminent danger pay" and $150 a month in "family
separation allowances."

August 14, 2003 - 3:03pm -- jim
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Technology

Anonymous Kumquat submits:

"USA Developing "Quasi-Nuclear" Gamma-Ray Weaponry"

David Hambling, New Scientist, 16th August 2003

An exotic kind of nuclear explosive being developed by the
US Department of Defense could blur the critical
distinction between conventional and nuclear weapons. The
work has also raised fears that weapons based on this
technology could trigger the next arms race.

August 14, 2003 - 1:35pm -- jim
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In the Streets

Anonymous Comrade submits "A Statement from Anarchist Black Cross Network Members


Report from Break the Chains Conference

Eugene, OR | August 8-10, 2003


Members of various collectives affiliated with the Anarchist Black
Cross Network (ABCN), which formed in July 2002, met at the Break the
Chains Conference, August 8-10, 2003 in Eugene, Oregon. The Break the
Chains Conference was originally intended to be the ABC-Network's
second annual conference. We consider the Break the Chains Conference
a success in terms of bringing folks together and in sharing
information about the struggle against prisons. We managed to meet
several times throughout the weekend, despite a packed conference and
a hectic workshop schedule to discuss common work and goals. We came
up with several goals for the network during our discussion sessions.

August 14, 2003 - 12:06am -- nolympics
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