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May 15, 2003 - 10:12am -- jim
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Drug War

"Tommy Chong Busted for Selling Bongs"


Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Tommy Chong, who played one half of the dope-smoking duo in Cheech and Chong movies, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to conspiring to sell drug paraphernalia.

Chong also pleaded guilty on behalf of his business, Nice Dreams Enterprises, which made a line of marijuana bongs and pipes. Doing business as Chong Glass, Nice Dreams Enterprises sold glass pipes and bongs that Chong acknowledged were used to smoke marijuana.

Full story is at Chong

May 13, 2003 - 8:30pm -- Uncle Fluffy
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Technology

hydrarchist submits "This story is actually wildly inaccurate as Jeffrey Gerard Levy, a 22 year old student at the University of Oregaon was charged with criminal offences under the No Electronic Theft (NEt) Act as long ago as August 1999. Nonetheless, given that these strategies unfold ina global context, these recent charges indeed indicate a significant shift.

Australian students nailed in world's first Net piracy criminal charges


Three Australian students have acquired a distinction they'd rather not have.


Tommy Lee, 21, Charles Cok-Hau Ng, 20, and Peter Tran, 20, all from Sydney, are the first people to face criminal charges for alleged internet music piracy.

May 13, 2003 - 9:13am -- jim
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Work

jim submits:

"Will We Lose the 8-Hour Day?

Congress Considers 80-Hour Weeks While Labor Department Guts Overtime
Rules"

Jon Bekken, May 2003 Industrial Worker


The Bush administration proposed new regulations March 27 that would deny
overtime pay protections to millions of U.S. workers. The proposed rules
would enable employers to reclassify many workers as managers,
administrative or professional employees ­- categories exempted from FLSA
protections including the requirement to pay time and a half for work
after 40 hours.

May 12, 2003 - 4:33pm -- hydrarchist
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Work

Emergency Mass Action submits:
This is cut-n-pasted from the belly of the beast (Bloomberg Financial News), but we have been unable to find more on this story anywhere.


Iraqi Worker Protests May Further Delay Revival of Oil Output

By James Cordahi

Basra, Iraq, May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Major Mark Tilley, de facto chief executive of Iraq's South Refineries Co., is facing a rebellion. Workers at the Basra refinery, the country's second- largest, are demanding elections to choose their managers and the royal engineer from the British Army is having none of it.

May 12, 2003 - 1:04pm -- jim
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Mainstream Media

"Orwellians Mix It Up at Wellesley"

Matthew Price, Boston Globe


Wellesley, Massachusetts--George Orwell has been called many things: the conscience of his generation, a prophet, a rebel. But was he also a misunderstood Christian, an early gay-rights activist, a latter-day Alexis de Tocqueville, and quite possibly the first blogger? These were but a few of the aspects of Orwell debated last week during a Wellesley College conference marking the centenary of his birth in 1903.

Full story is at Curious George

May 9, 2003 - 10:36am -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade submits

From the International Solidarity Office

Friday, May 9, 2003, For Immediate Release



Iraeli Forces Raid ISM Office



[Beit Sahour, Occupied Palestine] Israeli forces raided the ISM office this morning, confiscating equipment and material and snatching three women. At 12:30pm on Friday, May 9, approximately 20 military vehicles, army jeeps and a large armored personnel carrier (intended for many arrests) surrounded the ISM media office in Beit Sahour. Dozens of soldiers, border police and civilian police officers raided the ISM office, confiscating all computers, not only in the ISM office but in the nearby office of the Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement. Files, CD, and photos were all pillaged, while soldiers broke equipment and damaged office space. Israeli forces kidnapped Palestinian volunteer, Fida, American volunteer, Flo, and a worker with Human Rights Watch visiting the office. At the time of this writing, Fida has been released, and the internationals seem to have been moved to the office of the Israeli Ministry of Interior, most probably for deportation.

May 8, 2003 - 8:36pm -- hydrarchist
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nolympics submits:

Israel Intensifies Assualt on International Groups

As of Thursday, May 8, humanitarian organizations working within the Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestine began receiving a new declaration created by the Israeli military. This document (included below) demands signature of all international groups working within the Gaza Strip and any internationals attempting to enter the Gaza Strip. In addition to stipulations of not holding the Israeli Government responsible for the death of internationals, the declaration specifically states that the individual signing can have no connection to the International Solidarity Movement(ISM). The ISM, a Palestinian led non-violent group which attempts to provide protection to the Palestinian people and to enable them to non-violently resist the Israeli military occupation of Palestine, has recently come under attack from the Israeli Government and Army. This attack, including the targeting of ISM volunteers that left one dead, one comatose and one severely injured, and now this new declaration, are all aimed at discrediting and inhibiting the peace work of the ISM.

May 7, 2003 - 10:24am -- jim
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In the Streets

The following is a slightly amended translation from yesterday's La Republica. Thanks to A. & M. in Rome.

Mario Placanica, the carabiniere who shot dead Carlo Giuliani during the G8
in Genoa has been acquitted and will NOT stand trial. The judge of the
preliminary hearing has filed his results upon the basis that the
carabiniere 'acted in self-defence and with legitimate use of the weapon'.
The judge accepted totally the ballistic report, according to which, the
bullet that hit Carlo Giuliani was fired in the air and ricocheted off a
stone that was being hurled by one of the protestors [therefore suggesting
that the real guilt lies with another protestor].

May 6, 2003 - 9:51pm -- jim
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The State

"Broad Domestic Role Asked for C.I.A. and the Pentagon"

By Eric Lichtblau and James Risen, The New York Times


WASHINGTON, May 1 -- The Bush administration and leading Senate Republicans sought today to give the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon far-reaching new powers to demand personal and financial records on people in the United States as part of foreign intelligence and terrorism operations, officials said.

May 6, 2003 - 1:41pm -- jim
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Race Politics

"Anti-Apartheid Campaigner Walter Sisulu Dies, Aged 90"

AP, 06 May 2003

Walter Sisulu, a charismatic, quiet leader who brought Nelson Mandela into
the African National Congress and helped lead the fight against apartheid
for five decades, has died, aged 90.

He had been suffering from a long illness, according to the ANC

"His absence has carved a void. A part of me is gone," Mr Mandela said in a
statement.

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