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LOCAL Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Education : Protest Activity |
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PRC Rally Against the "Chief"--March 9th |
by Jen Tayabji
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25 Feb 2005
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PRC Rally Against the "Chief"
Wednesday, March 9th
12-1pm
South Patio of the UIUC Student Union |
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BTL:U.S. Airstrikes Against Iran Could Trigger Backlash in Iraq |
by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
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25 Feb 2005
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Interview with Wayne Madsen, investigative journalist and former security specialist with the National Security Agency, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris |
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The Other Tsunami: Man-Made Catastrophes |
by John Pilger
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25 Feb 2005
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Victims of a mammoth natural disaster are worthy victims while victims of man-made imeprial catastrophes are unworthy.. The massive assistance for the tsunami victims offered by common people is a spectacular reemergence of public spirit. |
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A New Strategic Focus for Progressives: The Local Green Economy |
by Kevin Danaher
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25 Feb 2005
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The progressive movement is realizing that merely protesting must be supplemented and eventually replaced with positive examples of our alternative system. Unless we can create economic institutions that provide meaningful jobs, while producing needed goods and services aimed at healing the environment, we are stuck in the rut of decrying the policies of those in power and elaborating policy alternatives that we cannot implement because the two corporate parties dominate policymaking at the national and state levels. |
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LOCAL Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Israel / Palestine : Media : Peace : Political-Economy : UCIMC |
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UC IMC On Latest "Fire on the Prairie" |
by via email
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24 Feb 2005
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Aaron Sarver interviews Danielle Chenowyth, co-founder of the thriving Independent Media Center in Urbana-Champaign and Urbana City Council member, about the success of the Urbana-Champaign IMC. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Elections & Legislation : Gender and Sexuality : Health : Right Wing |
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Republican Kansas Prosecutor Demands Files on Late-Term Abortion Patients |
by Jodi Wilgoren
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24 Feb 2005
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It is unclear exactly how the records could lead prosecutors to rape suspects, although the clinics say the files often include information about how patients became pregnant, among other "intimate details of their lives" like sexual history, birth control practices, drug use, psychological profiles, information about fetal anomalies and communications with law enforcement.
"These records are of the utmost sensitivity," the brief says. "The logical and natural progression of this action could well be a knock on the door of a woman who exercised her constitutional right to privacy by special agents of the attorney general who seek to inquire into her personal medical, sexual or legal history." |
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LOCAL News :: Civil & Human Rights : Elections & Legislation : Urban Development |
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Instant Runoff Voting: Fairer Elections for Champaign and Urbana? |
by repost but relevant
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24 Feb 2005
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San Francisco's Innovation in Democracy - Instant Runoffs
The best thing that could happen for fairer elections is if cities like Champaign and Urbana adopted a form of instant runoff voting (IRV). This allows voters to get the best representation possible. Here's a story on the results from this improved system, in San Francisco. Your comments on how IRV could imrpove our elections are solicited as comments. |
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News :: Government Secrecy : International Relations : Nukes : Regime |
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Iran Nuclear Program Creates a Furor Likely to Be Futile |
by Stephen Zunes
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24 Feb 2005
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Not only are such double standards unethical, they are ineffective: Any effort to impose a regime of haves and have-nots from the outside will simply make the have-nots try even harder.
The only realistic means of curbing the threat of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East is to establish a region-wide program for disarmament in which all countries -- regardless of their relations with the United States -- must be a part. |
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