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The Song of Roland Revisited |
by Steven Laffoley
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09 Mar 2005
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We need only replace "liberty" and "freedom" with "Christianity" and the words would find themselves comfortably flowing from the mouths of crusaders standing at the walls of Jerusalem a thousand years ago. |
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News :: Environment : Nukes : Political-Economy |
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Bulgarian Green Leader Threatened With Death |
by ENS via Joe Futrelle
futrelle (nospam) shout.net (verified) |
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09 Mar 2005
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VIENNA, AUSTRIA -- Award-winning Bulgarian anti-nuclear activist Albena Simeonova has received threats on her life due to her public opposition to the construction of a nuclear power plant in Belene, in the northern part of the country, Greenpeace said today. Simeonova, a Greenpeace activist, was honored with the 1996 Goldman Prize for Europe. |
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Poems for Another World |
by marc batko
mbatko (nospam) lycos.com (verified) |
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08 Mar 2005
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The world, nature, women and the impoverished South cry for an alternative where workers are more than cost factors, where all persons share in the social wealth and profit is no longer worshipped. |
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Heavily Armed Duo in No Position to Lay Down Law On Nuclear Proliferation |
by Richard Butler
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08 Mar 2005
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Thwarting Iran's Nuclear Ambitions Would be Easier if the US and Israel Kept their Side of the Bargain |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Environment : International Relations : Nukes : Regime : Right Wing |
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Bush Appoints Right-Wing Extremist to UN Post |
by Jim Lobe
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08 Mar 2005
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 ”His nomination sends the exactly the wrong message to the world about the Bush administration's willingness to work with other countries and in multilateral institutions. There's no one who has a greater track record of offending other countries, including our closest allies." |
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Extreme Prejudice: Events in a Small Kansas Town Reflect the Close Links Between the Civil Rights Struggle and Gay Liberation |
by Gary Younge
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07 Mar 2005
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To compare these two struggles is not to equate them. To say they are the same would be ridiculous. It goes without saying that there are major differences between race and sexual orientation - and therefore homophobia and racism. It also goes without saying that the existence of many black lesbians and gays makes the binary opposition of the two issues redundant. To ignore the parallels would be no less ridiculous. The civil rights movement was not made from whole cloth. Nor were its achievements limited to the interests of African Americans. It was part of a narrative of extending human rights to those who had been denied them that helped remove discriminatory barriers for many, not least white women and Jews. Its roots, like its appeal, were universal. |
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LOCAL Announcement :: Israel / Palestine |
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Norman Finkelstein to speak at Law School Tuesday evening |
by David Green
davegreen48 (nospam) yahoo.com (verified) |
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07 Mar 2005
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Professor Norman Finkelstein, author of The Holocaust Industry and the forthcoming Beyond Chutzpah, will speak at the UIUC School of Law Tuesday, March 8th, at 6 p.m. |
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LOCAL Announcement :: Education : Elections & Legislation : Media : Political-Economy : UCIMC : Urban Development |
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Wirelessing the Revolution: Participatory Media, Wireless Networking, and Community Empowerment. |
by Sascha Meinrath
sascha (nospam) ucimc.org (unverified) |
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07 Mar 2005
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 "Wirelessing the Revolution: Participatory Media, Wireless Networking, and Community Empowerment. AKA: How you're about to get completely screwed by the telecommunications industry and don't even know it."
Wednesday, 1-2:30pm
110 Speech & Hearing
901 South Sixth Street
Imagine a free wireless networking system that any municipality, company, or group of neighbors could easily set up themselves. Over the past half-decade, the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN) has been developing an open source, turnkey wireless networking solution that exceeds the functionality of many proprietary systems. CUWiN's vision is ubiquitous, extremely high-speed, low-cost networking for every community and constituency. Following in the footsteps of Linux and Firefox, CUWiN has focused on creating a low-cost, non-proprietary, user-friendly system. CUWiN's software will share connectivity across the network, allowing users to buy bandwidth in bulk and benefit from the cost savings.
Unfortunately, existing telecommunications incumbents are working overtime to lock customers into expensive, pitifully inadequate service agreements and deploying telecommunications infrastructures using yesteryear's technology. Their business models are antiquated, but guess who has to pay for their inefficiencies? That's right, you do. This presentation will walk participants through an introduction to wireless technologies, discuss some of the social benefits of Community Wireless Networks, and focus on some of the more dastardly tactics being undertaken _right now_ by major telecom incumbents to screw you over (e.g., last week an ammendment to the Illinois telecom rewrite removed the language that the law's purpose is to "provide for fair, just and reasonable rates"). |
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