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LOCAL Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Elections & Legislation |
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Illinois Voter Registration and Information |
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10 Sep 2006
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With a number of key races, the November ballot is an important election. At least one candidate, otherwise qualified except for partisan manipulation of the state election board, is not yet listed on the ballot, but may soon be. This is Joe Parnarauskis, who is runnig on the Socialist Equality Party ticket for State Senate in the 52nd District. But when I got this email, I thought it important to remind everyone to get registered BEFORE the October 10, 2006 registration deadline. Don't forget to update your registration if you have moved, as many do in this mobile community. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Elections & Legislation : Government Secrecy : Labor : Latin America : Media : Protest Activity : Right Wing |
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Struggle in Oaxaca Persists Amidst Government Repression |
by Rochelle Gause
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10 Sep 2006
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Community radio has been a very significant part of this mobilization, giving new voice to the voiceless. Beginning in May 2005, at the annual strike and encampment of Section 22 of the National Union of Education Workers to call for pay raises, desks, books and breakfasts for their students, the teachers created a pirate radio station called Radio Planton that communicated the situation for the teachers encamped in the main square and much more. During the June 14th repression, now known as the “desalojo,” the station was destroyed. In response, students from the Autonomous University of Benito Juarez reclaimed their radio station, Radio Universidad, and it became communication for the movement. It too was shot into by government goons and acid was poured on the transmitter, destroying the station. On August 21st plain clothed police and paramilitaries attacked the transmitter control room for Channel 9 taking it and two affiliated radio stations off the air. A contingency plan had been created and within hours 11 radio stations were under the control of movement members, many of them women from Channel 9. |
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9/11 Conspiracies And Cons |
by John Prados
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09 Sep 2006
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There is no doubt that the events of 9/11 flowed from an immense chain of actions in many places by a host of actors. Orchestrating all this activity implies a level of skill that just does not track with the Bush administration’s demonstrated incompetence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israeli-Palestinian matters, or on selling democracy in the Middle East, detention and torture, domestic wiretapping, actually finding Osama bin Laden and on so much else. What the Bushies were good at was at capitalizing on the 9/11 tragedy to push their domestic and foreign policy agendas.
At the same time, it is not necessary for there to have been a Bush 9/11 plot to explain the extreme deceitfulness of the administration afterwards. |
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News :: Environment : Government Secrecy : Health : Nukes |
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Diabetes Epidemic in Europe |
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08 Sep 2006
Modified: 04:26:45 PM |
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US Radiation Wars Thought To Be Cause |
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LOCAL Announcement :: International Relations |
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The Future of U.S. - Islamic World Relations Videoconference |
by Democracy In Action
aperkin2 (nospam) uiuc.edu (unverified) |
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08 Sep 2006
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An Inernational videoconference dialogue with leaders and peers from Amman Jordan! |
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LOCAL Announcement :: Arts |
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Celebrate Fall - Dance to Klezmer, Watch Acrobatics this Sat. @ IMC |
by Danielle Chynoweth
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08 Sep 2006
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Hot Klezmer Now - smokin' hot tunes by the Vulgar Bulgars
New music by Paul Kotheimer
Acrobatics by Beth Simpson
First set will be on the front porch of the IMC if weather permits.
YOU WILL WANT TO DANCE!
Saturday, Sept. 9th
8 - 11 pm
@ the Independent Media Center
located at Broadway & Elm in downtown Urbana
$3-5 sliding scale.
You can get in free with an offer to help.
All ages. Smoke-free, drug free environment. |
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The Torturer's Apprentice |
by Ray McGovern
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08 Sep 2006
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Bush in jeopardy? Yes. The issue is torture, which George W. Bush authorized in a Feb. 7, 2002, memorandum in contravention both of the Geneva Accords and 18 U.S. Code 2441—the War Crimes Act that incorporates the Geneva provisions into the federal criminal code which was approved by a Republican-led Congress in 1996. |
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LOCAL Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Gender and Sexuality |
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Panel Discussion on Same Sex Marriage Wed. Sept. 13 at Channing-Murray |
by Nancy Dietrich-Rybicki
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08 Sep 2006
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A Panel Discussion entitled "Same Sex Marriage: The Political, The Religious, and The Personal" will be held this Wednesday, Sept. 13th at 7:00 p.m. at Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon, in Urbana |
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News :: Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iran : Iraq : Israel / Palestine : Latin America : Peace : Political-Economy : Regime : Right Wing |
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Poll Finds Waning Faith in Military Interventions |
by Jim Lobe
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08 Sep 2006
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The most interesting finding of the latest Pew poll appeared to be the growing public disillusionment with U.S. military intervention.
By a 45 percent to 32 percent margin, respondents said they believed that the most effective way to reduce the threat of terrorist attacks on the U.S. is to "decrease" rather than "increase" Washington's military presence abroad.
As noted in an accompanying analysis by the Pew Centre, that finding marks a "stark reversal" from the public's position on the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. At that time, a plurality of 48 percent of the public said expanding U.S. military deployments overseas was the best way to protect against future attacks, while 29 percent called for reducing such commitments. |
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