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Commentary :: Education
Plea for Political Utopias
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01 Dec 2004
"A world map where the land utopiais not noted does not deserve a cursory glance because the land that humanity has sought since time immemorial is missing" (Oscar Wilde). This essay decries the false equation of utopias and totalitarianism.
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Review :: Elections & Legislation
Care to know how and why national elections are hijacked?
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01 Dec 2004
Modified: 11:27:30 AM
If you want to be amazed and enlightened... If you read this slowly and out loud so you can also hear it you may experience an out of mind experience into the reality that surrounds you. Most people will continue to ignore this, as they always have, as things worsen, including their IQs. *
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LOCAL Announcement :: Urban Development
A gift for Chambana
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01 Dec 2004
Modified: 03:26:54 AM
A gift to chambana!

http:///www.chambana.org

A Community Guide to Champaign Urbana
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LOCAL Announcement :: Peace
34th Annual Peace Bazaar to be held Dec 4th
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01 Dec 2004
Modified: 03:06:53 AM
The 34th annual Peace Bazaar will be held Dec. 4th in Champaign, IL, to raise funds for peace- related groups.
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Commentary :: Globalization : Media : Protest Activity
Five Years After WTO Protests: Seattle Weekly Trashes Anti-Globalization Movement
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30 Nov 2004
The media spin cycle leading up to major anti-globalization protests has become so predictable that activists have been forced to come up with better media strategies to keep up with the lies and disinformation. The mainstream media starts the cycle several months in advance with articles and coverage about the upcoming summit and accompanying protests.
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LOCAL News :: Civil & Human Rights
Amnesty Takes on Tasers
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30 Nov 2004
Amnesty International Report Examines TASER Use by Law Enforcement, Finds Rising Death Toll, Rampant Human Rights Abuses, Ill-Treatment and Torture
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News :: Housing : International Relations : Protest Activity : Regime
Halifax Family Scoffs at Belated Bush Thank-You
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30 Nov 2004
Call Praise for 9/11 Help `Silly'; City Sheltered 7,000 Americans
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Interview :: Globalization
The Economy of the Plundered South
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30 Nov 2004
The panacea of export orientation that the IMF and the World Bank promoted in the last 25 years for the South has led to absolute disaster..There are alternatives, abandoning export orientationa nd strengthening domestic demand.
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LOCAL Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Education : Labor : Protest Activity
Call for Solidarity: UI Clerical Workers to Picket Swanlund, Noon, Wed. Dec. 1
Current rating: 0
30 Nov 2004
Fed up with the UI adminstration's footdragging on negotiations for a new contract, AFSCME Local 3700, representing UI clerical workers, will picket the Swanlund Adminstration building at noon on Wednesday, December 1. They call for supporters to help picket and show solidarity.
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Commentary :: Government Secrecy : International Relations : Media : Nukes : Political-Economy : Regime
News Media in the 60th Year of the Nuclear Age
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29 Nov 2004
Lies from the White House have been part of the nuclear rationalizing process ever since August 1945.

We’re now six decades into the Nuclear Age. And we’re farther than ever, it seems, from a momentously difficult truth that Albert Einstein uttered during its first years, when the U.S. government still held a monopoly on the split atom. “This basic power of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms,” he wrote. “For there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world.”

While Uncle Sam continues to maintain a nuclear arsenal capable of destroying life on Earth, the American finger-wagging at Iran is something righteous to behold.
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