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News :: Miscellaneous
From Palestine, The Next Revolution In File Sharing
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18 Sep 2003
From the legacy of Napster comes ES5 - the product of an international team dedicated to the success of Peer-to-Peer file sharing. Built with great attention to privacy and stealth, the group cleverly positioned themselves in a place of few intellectual property laws - Palestine.
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LOCAL News :: International Relations
AWARE News Notes 030914
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18 Sep 2003
Notes from last week's "war on terrorism" -" prepared
for the AWARE meeting, Sunday, September 14, 2003.

[AWARE -- Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort -- is a group of people from C-U and environs who are opposed to the policies of the US government -- neo-imperialism and favoritism of the rich. We hold open meetings every Sunday 5-7 PM at UCIMC to discuss the situation and plan a variety of responses. The selection and the comments below, however, represent my views and not necessarily those of AWARE as a whole or of particular members. (Source and date are indicated after each item thus: “[DN 0915]” = Democracy Now!, September 15.) --CGE]
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Commentary :: Globalization
WTO Beached In Cancun
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17 Sep 2003
In short, the WTO was doing fine so long as its negotiators could operate in the shadows. But it has trouble getting past "the Dracula test," as Public Citizen's Lori Wallach has described it. The increasing exposure to daylight over the last four years has nearly done in this ambitious undertaking. And the future looks bright.
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News :: Civil & Human Rights
American Library Association Responds To Attorney General Remarks On Librarians And USA PATRIOT Act
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17 Sep 2003
"Attorney General John Ashcroft today accused the country's biggest library association and other critics of fueling "baseless hysteria" (http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2003/091503nationalrestaurant.htm)
about the government's ability to pry into the public's reading habits."

The ALA responded to Ashcroft's own baseless accusation of "hysteria" with the following statement:
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News :: Protest Activity
Cancun Confrontation: Thousands Protest The WTO And Capitalist Globalization
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17 Sep 2003
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LOCAL News :: Arts
Opportunity To Escape Psychological Genocide Moves Interactoractionist To Don Wildness With Intention To Deeply Confront BATTLE RAPPERS!
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17 Sep 2003
Flougg Blorngoot, the "semi-crazy" radical's radical is BACK in Champaign-Urbana, seeking to inspire BATTLE RAPPERS and others of similar SPIRIT to art themselves and their excellent intuition with "depth-charges" meant to assist them in more meaningfully articulating themselves. Tuesday night, this 'direct interactionist' dared to visit several temporary autonomous zones even though he was a bit fearful of the unknown outcome.
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News :: Drugs
Seattle Defies Drug Czar; Votes To Make Marijuana Prosecutions Lowest Priority
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17 Sep 2003
It's time to end the fiscally wasteful and failed war on marijuana
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Announcement :: Globalization
Chicago Consulta Oct. 11 And 12 To Plan Against The FTAA In Miami
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17 Sep 2003
On November 20 and 21 the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) will meet
at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Miami to unilaterally finalize their
vision of an economic policy that threatens the freedom and well being of
every living being in this hemisphere. Although ordinary people will not be
allowed into the meetings to offer their input, we will be in the streets to
welcome them.
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Announcement :: Elections & Legislation
Arab-Americans Gain Clout
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17 Sep 2003
James Zogby, Arab American Institute president, appeared Tuesday with a dozen activists in Metro Detroit's 220,000-strong Arab community to announce the presidential forum, Vote 2004: An Agenda for Peace and Justice. He said it "will be the major political event in our community for the election cycle"
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Announcement :: Miscellaneous
Anarchy In The Age Of Dinosaurs €" A DIY National Book Release.
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17 Sep 2003
By dinosaurs, we mean Capitalism, The State, Hierarchy, and the countless other guises worn by Authority. What shall come after the dinosaurs?

Anarchy of course.

In fact, anarchy is already all around us
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