Unionists Protest China's Most Favored Nation Status
by feefe of fife
1:05pm Wed Apr 12 '00
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Unioni
sts Protest China's Most Favored Nation Status
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chemical cops: tear gas and pepper spray can be deadly. ho one is
protecting the
by terry j. alllen
1:03pm Wed Apr 12 '00
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address: 44 old brooklyn rd, richmond, vt 05477 phone:
802-434-3767 tallen@igc.org
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| reprinted from in these times cover
story, the article documents the long and short-term effects of
chemical weapons used in seattle and stockpiled in dc.
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chemic
al cops: tear gas and pepper spray can be deadly. ho one is
protecting the (full
story)
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Anti-Corporate Jester
by Brian Klocke
12:33pm Wed Apr 12 '00
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phone: (303)543-9518 klockeb@colorado.edu
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| The anti-corporate jester entertains the
Jubilee 2000 Rally crowd on April 10, 2000.
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Anti-Corporate Jester
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POLICE HARRASS ACTIVISTS; CONFISCATE LITERATURE
by Michael Chameides
12:13pm Wed Apr 12 '00
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address: Bard College; Annandale, NY 12504 phone: 914-752-4005
mc753@bard.edu
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| Cops harrass activists. Undercover
police follow activists and pull them over. After questioning
them, yelling at them, they confiscate literature.
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POLICE
HARRASS ACTIVISTS; CONFISCATE LITERATURE
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Labor Converges on the Capitol
by Brian Klocke
11:28am Wed Apr 12 '00
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address: 325 32nd St, Boulder CO 80303 phone: (303)543-9518 klockeb@colorado.edu
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| This is a picture of the April 12, 2000
labor rally at the Capitol. An estimated 10,000 people were in
attendance to say no to normalized trade relations with China.
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Labor Converges on the Capitol (picture)
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Labor Converges on the Capitol
by Brian Klocke
11:28am Wed Apr 12 '00
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address: 325 32nd St, Boulder CO 80303 phone: (303)543-9518 klockeb@colorado.edu
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| This is a picture of the April 12, 2000
labor rally at the Capitol. An estimated 10,000 people were in
attendance to say no to normalized trade relations with China.
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Labor Converges on the Capitol (picture)
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Dolphins For Buchanan, at the Capitol 04.12.00
by Mike Flugennock
11:21am Wed Apr 12 '00
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phone: 202.547.6217 flugennock@sinkers.org
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| Once again, dolphins show their amazing
intelligence by clearly understanding that the issues highlighted
by today's rally aren't issues of
"right" versus "left".
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Dolphins For
Buchanan, at the Capitol 04.12.00 (picture and one comment)
www.sinkers.org
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The Turtles, at the Capitol 04.12.00 no.2
by Mike Flugennock
11:17am Wed Apr 12 '00
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phone: 202.547.6217 flugennock@sinkers.org
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| The Turtles, so Happy Together! At the
labor rights rally for human/worker rights in China, Capitol Hill
04.12.00.
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The Turtles, at the Capitol 04.12.00 no.2 (picture)
www.sinkers.org
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The Turtles, at the Capitol 04.12.00 no.1
by Mike Flugennock
11:14am Wed Apr 12 '00
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phone: 202.547.6217 flugennock@sinkers.org
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| The Turtles! So Happy Together, at the
labor rights rally against trade with mainland China, 04.12.00.
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The Turtles, at the Capitol 04.12.00 no.1 (picture)
www.sinkers.org
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U.S. GOV’T CLOSES DOWN VENUE OF FILIPINO-LED FORUM AGAINST IMF-WB
by People's Campaign Against Imperialist Global
10:48am Wed Apr 12 '00
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phone: (63-2) 435-9151 bayan@iname.com
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The People’s Campaign Against
Imperialist Globalization (PCAIG) today
deplored
the U.S. government for causing the closure of a university hall
where
U.S.-based Filipinos and other people of color were to hold a
symposium
in
line
with the protests surrounding the Spring Meeting of the
International
Monetary
Fund and World Bank in Washington D.C.
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U.S.
GOV’T CLOSES DOWN VENUE OF FILIPINO-LED FORUM AGAINST IMF-WB
www.bigfoot.com/~bayan-phils
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SHANK THE BANK
by feefe of fife
7:06am Wed Apr 12 '00
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| The Direct Action Movement is building
Momentum
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SHANK
THE BANK
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Protest at Colombian Embassy
by IMC
6:52am Wed Apr 12 '00
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phone: 732-548-8542 imc@braidwood.net
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| Protesters at Colombian Embassy call
attention to human rights and environmental abuses and denounce
the proposed $1.6 billion foreign aid package being considered by
the US Congress.
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Protest at Colombian Embassy (video: realvideo)
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| As opponents of corporate rule gather
for the A16 protests in Washington, D.C., they will unwittingly
reprise the largest and least remembered civil
disobedience protest ever: Mayday 1971, in which over 13,000
people were arrested while trying to shut down the U.S.
government in protest against the Vietnam War
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free
radical: SHUTDOWN REDUX (full story)
www.free-radical.org
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A16 Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Bloc
by RACB
6:43pm Tue Apr 11 '00
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| Do not let the blows against this
capitalist system cease! From the streets of
Seattle, to Washington, DC, may our resistance be as
transnational as capital!
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A16
Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Bloc (full story)
www.infoshop.org/o
cto/a16_a.html
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Robert Naiman on IMF/World Bank History and Basics
by Liam Kirsher
5:54pm Tue Apr 11 '00
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phone: 415-509-6822 liam@numenet.com
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Robert Naiman, of the Center for
Economic and Policy Research, discusses the history of the IMF
and World Bank, the evolution of their economic policies, and the
disastrous consequences that have ensued.
Held at "St. Stephen and the Incarnation" in
Washington, D.C., on April 10, 2000.
Length: 49 minutes.
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Robert Naiman on IMF/World Bank History and Basics (sound:
realaudio)
Robert Naiman on IMF/World Bank History and Basics (sound: mp3
@ 11.7 megs)
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"More World, Less Bank" : One Ingredient
by Don Ogden
2:49pm Tue Apr 11 '00
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ahearnaa@aol.com
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| We DO have ongoing
alternative models to cut-throat global corporate domination of
life on Earth. All we need to do is support them! (a commentary)
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"
More World, Less Bank" : One Ingredient
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The IMF-World Bank's "Economic Medicine"
by Michel Chossudovsky
10:52am Tue Apr 11 '00
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phone: 617 9696865 emperors1000@aol.com
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| Through the imposition of deadly
economic medicine, the IMF and the World Bank are
responsible for destroying national economies and impoverishing
millions of people.
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The
IMF-World Bank's
"Economic Medicine" (full story)
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| On Saturday, IMF/World Bank protesters
and the DC Police began an elaborate dance that will culminate
with massive demonstrations on April 16th.
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Puppet
s vs. Police: An Uneasy Start to IMF Protests
www.cybertra
veler.org/a16_puppets.html
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| School officials in
Montgomery County in suburban Washington, D.C. have been tearing
down A16 posters at a furious rate. On Friday, student activists
responded with a raucous and colorful protest in front of the
school district's administration building. Photos included.
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Protes
t Hits a High Note in Montgomery Co. Schools
www.cybertrav
eler.org/a16_school.html
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Direct Action Gets Secret Service, Police Response
by Chloe Frommer
4:10pm Mon Apr 10 '00
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| The Mobilization for Global Justice’s
direct action began this morning with seven activists arrested at
the World Bank headquarters. They were arrested just after 9
a.m., after two members climbed cabling on the World Bank to hang
a poster, and five chained themselves to a Ryder pick-up truck –
obstructing automobile traffic on
Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Direct
Action Gets Secret Service, Police Response (full story)
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New Pyramids of democracy
by Vigdor Schreibman
3:49pm Mon Apr 10 '00
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address: 18 - 9th Street NE Apt #206, Washington, DC 2000-6042
phone: 202-547-8715 fins2000@EarthLink.net
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Article (in hypertext format) addresses
the use of the widely popular symbol of the Egyptian Pyramid
to mislead the people about capitalist development and
organization with suggestions for how to turn
this symbolism around to advance the cause of democratic
sustainability
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New
Pyramids of democracy (full story)
sunsite.utk.edu/FINS/News_Columns/Fins-
N...
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Colonizing the World's Economy
by Lenora Foerstel
12:05pm Mon Apr 10 '00
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foerstel@aol.com
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| After World War II, direct colonialism
was replaced with a new globalized economy, set forth by the
Bretton Woods conference in 1944, which gave birth to the
International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the
International Trade Organization.
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Coloni
zing the World's Economy (full story)
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No Gas Banner
by imc- eddie becker
11:58am Mon Apr 10 '00
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| Activists lock down and unfurl a banner
at the World Bank building. They are demanding no more World
Bank funds for gas or oil projects. 4/10 9:30am
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No Gas Banner (picture)
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no gas banner
by imc/eddie becker
11:43am Mon Apr 10 '00
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| Activists lock down and unfurl a banner
at the World Bank building. They are demanding no more World
Bank funds for gas or oil projects. 4/10 9:30am
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no gas banner (picture)
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More Kickoff Rally pix
by J. Buckley
8:02pm Sun Apr 9 '00
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photos at the URL below.
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More Kickoff Rally pix
(picture)
www.dirtpatch
.com/jbuckley/stuff.html
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J2K Human Chain marchers approach Capitol, 04.09.00
by Mike Flugennock, flugennock@sinkers.org
2:10pm Sun Apr 9 '00
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| Thousands of concerned citizens converge
to form a human chain around the Capitol, calling for the
cancellation of Third World debt by the IMF, World Bank and US
Treasury.
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J2K Human Chain marchers approach Capitol, 04.09.00 (picture)
www.sinkers.org/a16
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Art&Revolution bird puppets at J2K Rally, Wash DC 04.09.00
by Mike Flugennock, flugennock@sinkers.org
2:05pm Sun Apr 9 '00
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| The famous
Art&Revolution message bird puppets "representin'"
for the West Coast at J2K.
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Art&Revolution bird puppets at J2K Rally, Wash DC 04.09.00
(picture)
www.sinkers.org/a16
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Labor Party contingent at Jubiliee 2000 rally, Wash DC 04.09.00
by Mike Flugennock, flugennock@sinkers.org
2:02pm Sun Apr 9 '00
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| Labor Party members, including Chris
from the A16 Mobe, turn out at the J2K Rally. Your reporter later
joined them in hissing the Clinton/Gore flunkie who schmoozed his
way in with a message from the AL2000 Unit itself.
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Labor Party
contingent at Jubiliee 2000 rally, Wash DC 04.09.00 (picture)
www.sinkers.org/a16
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A Memorial to the Crushing Third World Debt
by Mike Flugennock, flugennock@sinkers.org
1:59pm Sun Apr 9 '00
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| The Washington Monument? A gravestone?
What the hell _is_ it?
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A Memorial to the Crushing Third World Debt (picture)
www.sinkers.org/a16
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"Jubilee 2000", the Capitol, Wash DC 04.09.00
by flugennock@sinkers.org
1:55pm Sun Apr 9 '00
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| Thousands of concerned citizens gather
at the Capitol to "proclaim Jubilee" for Global South
debt cancellation.
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"Jubilee 2000", the Capitol, Wash DC 04.09.00
(picture)
www.sinkers.org/a16
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"Jubilee 2000", the Capitol, Wash DC 04.09.00
by flugennock@sinkers.org
1:55pm Sun Apr 9 '00
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| Thousands of concerned citizens gather
at the Capitol to "proclaim Jubilee" for Global South
debt cancellation.
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"Jubilee 2000", the Capitol, Wash DC 04.09.00
(picture)
www.sinkers.org/a16
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IMF and World Bank Programs Hurt Women
by Jill Hopke: jehopke@students.wisce.edu
8:22am Sun Apr 9 '00
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| Interview with Medea Benjamin, of Global
Exchange, on the effects of IMF and World Bank programs on women
(4:24).
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IM
F and World Bank Programs Hurt Women (sound: realaudio)
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cop restrains would-be street crosser
by flugennock@sinkers.org
9:17pm Sat Apr 8 '00
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| On the Puppet Parade to Malcolm X Park,
04.08.00. This DC cop absolutely insists that this guy stay on
the permitted route, gets attitudinal about it.
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cop restrains would-be street crosser (picture)
www.sinkers.org/a16
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big evil suit puppets march to Malcolm X Park no.2
by flugennock@sinkers.org
9:11pm Sat Apr 8 '00
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| If Camdessus, Wolfensohn and Moore were
the Three Stooges, which Stooge would Wolfensohn be? I'm trying
to think, but nothing happens!
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big evil suit puppets march to Malcolm X Park no.2 (picture)
www.sinkers.org
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big evil suit puppets march to malcolm x park
by flugennock@sinkers.org
9:02pm Sat Apr 8 '00
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| Marchers wearing puppets representing
the presidents of the IMF, World Bank and WTO on the procession
from the convergence space to Malcolm X Park for the free
concert.
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big evil suit puppets march to malcolm x park (picture)
www.sinkers.org
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