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  • New York Rising, and Going Back to Bed
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WOID #17 -
    Strike one for the working guy.
    If the Masters of the Universe (New York’s mayor, New York State, the bosses, Wall Street and the lumpenbobos thought this was going to be "1980 Transit Strike, II" they’ve been disappointed.
    Nineteen-eighty : good little New Yorkers crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, Job über Alles, with the Mayor playing Right-to-Work Guiding the people, not much in the titty department, though.
    This time : nothing. Deserted streets. My post office closed. (…)

  • Causachun coca! Wañuchun yanquis!
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thanks to Pachamama, Mother Earth, thanks for the Coca Plant.
    We, Aymaras and Quechuas, original nations of the Andes, have survived the onslaught of the white man until today thanks to our coca leaf. From the moment the white man came to our land he has tried to control our leaf for his own enrichment. He has abused it here and now he is abusing it everywhere else. Since it has escaped his control he is intent on destroying it.
    He has labeled our sacred plant a drug, to be prohibited (…)

  • Activists: A Peacemaker is Killed
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SAN QUENTIN (FinalCall.com) - “The State of California just killed an innocent man,” three supporters of Stanley “Tookie” Williams, who witnessed his execution, harmonically yelled with their fists in the air as they left San Quentin State Prison’s death chamber. This most unusual rally cry at the end of a state sponsored execution was echoed outside the prison where nearly 3,000 supporters gathered to protest Mr. Williams’ killing.
    “Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is a cold blooded (…)

  • Katrina Survivors Tell Congress Levees Were Blown On Purpose
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Victim’s anger: Dyan French, who stayed in New Orleans during the hurricane and its aftermath, gives evidence to the congressional committee. She claimed the city’s levees were purposely bombed.
    By Eunice Moscoso, Washington December 8, 2005
    VICTIMS of hurricane Katrina have told a US congressional bipartisan select committee that they were held at gunpoint, treated like criminals and left to sleep next to dead bodies.
    They said the Government at all levels failed to protect them as (…)

  • Working Class Hero
    9 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As soon as you’re born they make you feel small By giving you no time instead of it all Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be
    They hurt you at home and they hit you at school They hate you if you’re clever and they despise a fool Till you’re so fucking crazy you can’t follow their rules A working class hero is something to be A working class hero is something to be
    When they’ve tortured and scared (…)

  • Venezuela’s true patriots ... unlike the cowards who stayed home and griped!
    6 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    With the outcome of the Venezuelan elections now decided President Chavez’ MVR party now holds a convincing majority. No matter what the fevered opposition says, it is still a majority since those who did in fact go to the polls in torrential rains decided which direction Venezuela must democratically take.
    MVR won 114 out of the 167 seats and this boils down to 68% ... it must mean that Chavez is doing something right if he gained such a majority to push through (…)

  • The death and torture flights of CIA should be stopped! Bush and his gang should be judged!
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Yildiz Onen Coordinator of the Global Peace and Justice Coalition of Turkey
    As the Global Peace and Justice Coalition we had a press conference in İstanbul on 30 of November about the death and torture flights of CIA and its using Turkish airspace and Sabiha Gökçen airport.
    Last week, there was some news about that CIA has been carrying some people, who had been captured by CIA through secret operations, to the secret prisons which was built in the other countries. In the news it was (…)

  • Women find no shelter from violence at home: WHO
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Urgent action is needed to tackle domestic violence against women, which is widespread, deep-rooted and largely hidden in a wide range of societies, a study by the UN health agency said.
    The study conducted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 10 countries found that between 15 percent (Japan) and 71 percent (Ethiopia) of the women interviewed had been subjected to physical or sexual violence by an intimate male partner during their lifetime.
    From about one-fifth of women in (…)

  • Halliburton (KBR) workers in Iraq paid 50 cents an hour
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) — While the United States spends billions on troop support in Iraq, the people serving the meals, scooping the ice cream, and washing the dishes make as little as 50 cents an hour.
    The U.S. military has paid Halliburton subsidiary KBR about $12 billion so far for so-called logistics support to U.S. military personnel in Iraq, the largest contract of its kind ever. Around 80,000 troops are served meals at dining facilities every day under the contract — the other (…)

  • What’s Wrong With Intelligent Design as Science?
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An intensifying battle over intelligent design (ID) to be taught in science classes has been emerging across the United States, alarming scientists and educators who consider ID as a political ploy to repackage religion under the guise of “alternative science” to undermine the scientific theory of evolution. Policymakers in 24 states are weighing proposals to introduce ID in their public school curricula. Whether ID is a religious belief or a scientific theory is at the heart of the (…)