EL LIBERTARIO # 48: destruyendo la represión
CRA - El Libertario, Venezuela,

* El nuevo número del vocero de la Comisión de Relaciones Anarquistas (CRA) de Venezuela comienza a distribuirse, con contenidos de imprescindible lectura para quienes se interesen en aproximarse a una voz ácrata de ideas y acción que ya es bien conocida en los medios radicales alternativos de Venezuela y de todo el ámbito de habla hispana.

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Starbucks Adds Rats in the Cupboards to Rats in the Boardroom
nobux,

(with apologies to rats for comparing them to corporate monsters)

The primary role of Starbucks in society seems to be to destroy local businesses and exploit workers in this country and others in the pursuit of obscene profits.

Starbucks serves milk containing genetically engineered recombinant bovine growth hormone, a danger to dairy cow and human health, and only a tiny percentage of their coffee, 3,7%, is fair trade.

Starbucks is strongly anti-union, squashing workers' rights by intimidating and firing union organizers for the nascent Industrial Workers of the World Starbucks Workers Union, including the recent termination of IWW barista Daniel Gross. The IWW filed a complaint with OSHA over unsafe working conditions associated with rats and roaches at 44 NYC Sbux outlets.

Starbucks attacks local businesses with buy-outs, "cluster bombing" tactics, and market cannibalization. Starbucks outlets recently opened across from popular local businesses in two central San Diego locations: Urban Grind in Hillcrest and Claire de Lune in North Park. The Ocean Beach Grassroots Organization has been fighting Starbucks and other chain stores for years.

The Starbucks website lists over 200 stores in San Diego County.

I think you know what to do.

IWW Starbucks Workers Union | Starbucks Delocator | ihatestarbucks | In Defense of Rats
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Introducing Ghost Troop to the Army Inspector
Captain Eric H. May,

The strange near-death of an active Army Ghost Troop seems more than suspicious, as the unit leader, Captain May, explains in this most revealing report to the Army Inspector General. Are Ghost Troops, who serve on a mission of conscience to spread the word about the 911 set up -- and prevent future ones -- on the Bush League hit list?
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A World Beyond Capitalism Conference.NoCharge
diversity,

The Second Annual International Multiracial Alliance Building Peace Conference, known as the 2006 A World Beyond Capitalism Conference is set to begin August 26th in Portland. It will continue from August 26th-28th, 2006. There is no charge for anything!  http://aworldbeyondcapitalism.org
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VENEZUELA LEADING THE RACE FOR THE UN SECURIT
Stephen Lendman,

VENEZUELA AHEAD IN RACE FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT
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FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS IN PHILIPPINES
E. San Juan, Jr.,

The massive human rights violations in the Philippines perpetrated by the illegitimate Arroyo regime have been universally condemned throughout the world. Amnesty International, UN Human Rights Committee, Asia Human Rights Commission, National Lawyers Guild, Reporters Without Borders, and other groups have protested the warrantless arrests, kidnappings or forced "disappearances," and extrajudicial killings of over 700 Filipinos since 2001. The Tasaday 5 illustrates the daily repression inflicted on activists working for justice and human dignity. U.S. citizens should demand a halt to their tax dollars given by Bush--tax dollars being wasted on military aid to the brutal Arroyo military used to suppress the civil liberties of women, workers, peasants, professionals, indigenous communities, and other citizens. Stop Arroyo/Bush State terrorism!
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Victor Thorn and Lisa Guliani --
Captain Eric H. May,

A former Army intelligence and public affairs officer who has

spent the last three years tracking and interdicting Bush

administration terror plans exposes the double-dealing side of

the alternative media, focusing on the Wing TV team of Victor

Thorn and Lisa Guliani, who have deliberately sabotaged the

ongoing efforts by the 911 Truth Movement to spread word to

endangered areas of possible pending 911's.

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Swift,IBM and U.S.Government spying on stock
Tony Ryals,

Below are pertinent links to the Swift or Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications controversy over allowing the W Bush regime and its CIA and Treasury Department to spy on international banking and securities or stock data with no questions asked.As you will see from one link below,this may have not phased brain dead American public but it has indeed raised ire over seas where complaints against U.S. snooping have been filed in up to 32 countries !


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Operation Apocalypse: "888" Results
Captain Eric H. May,

A former Army intelligence and public affairs officer continues his

examination of End-Times Christians, and how they have been duped

into becoming a suicide cult, with an analysis of four predictions in his

August 1 essay, "Operation Apocalypse." The results are shocking and

disturbing, and invite new questions, even as they answer old ones.

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Another Battle of Baghdad Cover Up -- It's Ti
Captain May,

Summary: Former Army intelligence and public affairs officer Captain May argues that the Bush

League infowar to hide the truth of Iraq's strategic and tactical blunders has sunk us into Middle

Eastern quicksand -- and that the time for getting out is running out.

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Why Lebanon? OIL, water, pipelines & profits
4peace,

Why a war on Lebanon? Why now? A new article by Professor Michel Chossudovsky suggests it's about oil, water and pipeline routes, and offers insight into the war's impending expansion. The U.S. and Israel aren't the only nations with interests in this game. Other players appear to include the U.K., France, and Italy.

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Operation Apocalypse
Captain May,

A former US Army intelligence and public affairs officer offers a disturbing analysis that the End Times movement has pre-programmed for World War Three, the end that they're praying to bring about. Has this new Jonestown Cult been brainwashed dileberately -- and what does that mean for us all?
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Karmabanque
small WORLD Podcast,

Max and Stacy are Karmabanque/Karmabank Radio; where the tired and oppressed can hear some "jolly good rants" and extremely metaphorical financial entertainment about the neo-feudal corporate occupation and the suicide consumers they inspire.
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Resist the G8 in Mexico Oct 3-4th!
repost from Rising Tide North America,

CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW! Call for Organized Opposition to counter the G8 + 5 Climate Summit: October 3-4 in Mexico City!

¡Enfrente la G8 + 5 Cumbre del Clima! Octubre 3-4 en Ciudad de México: ¡Justicia Climatica Ya!

October 3-4, 2006, Mexico City
Oppose fraudulent G8 climate negotiations!
Stop carbon trading, stand up for climate justice!
A zero emissions world is possible! Make it real!


On Tuesday, October 3 in Mexico City, the Energy and Environment Ministers from the "Group of Eight" (G8) industrialized countries are scheduled to begin negotiating a climate change deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
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Update on the AFP Military Rebels
AJLPP-USA (Alliance-Philippines),

For the people’s democratic forces, it is just plain killings, disappearances or torture in jail.

For military rebels, it’s a different kind of torture. News sources revealed today that the combination of “solitary confinement, intrigues, unsolicited acts of kindness, and even continuous blaring of [heavy] metal music” has taken a toll on the detained Magdalo rebel soldiers, according to the former legal counsel of one of them.

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Deport Bolante Back to the Philippines
AJLPP-USA,

San Francisco -The Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP-USA) scores the hypocrisy of the US Ambassador Kinney’s announcement that the US government “would be helping the Philippine government to fight corruption.” We believe that if the US government is serious in its campaign against corruption, it should start revealing details of why Arroyo’s former agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn "Jocjoc" Bolante who was taken into custody in the United States and is now applying for asylum in the United States is not being deported back to the Philippines. 

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Corporate personhood enables genocide
jackrabbits watching in la noche,

This article written in response to LA judge Helen Bendix's decision to side with Libaw-Horowitz corporation and evict south central campesino farmers from their greenspace urban farm..
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Young Women of Wisdom
Nadia Cason,

its about 3 young ladies going to help this one girl to find her way to jesus shes a new student in the school and she has no idea about who god is so the girls take her to revival and the new girl didn't understand what they were talking about at the revival so we went to a resturant and explained what the pastor say and she ask a lot of question and we answer them and 2 week later we went to another revival and she walk up to i altar and gave her life to christ.
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On Iraq, Lieberman, McCain, Perle, and Hoffa
NonNeocon,

Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain aren't merely "hawksih"; as "Honorary Co-Chairmen" of a pre-Iraq-war spin machine called The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, they were leading cheerleaders for a war that now threatens to mushroom out of all control--unless we remove the Liebermans, McCains, and their fellow war cheerleaders from our U.S. Congress.

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Mondavi vinyard$ exploit workers, ecosystem
oak moth,

Mondavi winemaking corporation should be boicotted for labor violations (UFW campaign), ecological destruction (decimation of oak woodlands for new barrels/vinyards), and exploitation of family grape farmers overseas using WTO globalization agreements..

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Global Protests Slam G8 Pollution of Climate
Rising Tide North America,

The protests included large "banner drops" in multiple cities, protests of coal and oil companies, and rallies at the U.S. embassy in London and the Washington, DC home of U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman. On Friday, protestors showed up at Bodman's home, demanding that the United States and the G8 abandon the focus on nuclear, coal, and on oil wars as "energy security." They chanted "No Coal, No Nukes, G-8 shut it down!" No arrests took place.
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Harith Al-Dhari attending important meeting
Dave Watson,

Mr. Harith Al-Dhari in a special uniform before attending important meeting in Istanbul, Turkey.
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James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency
small WORLD Podcast,

Interview with James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
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Anti-G8 Protest Successful in Russia
author: LINK/Berlin anti-G8 Press Group,

Despite the fact that as many as 200 potential anti-G8 protesters have been already arrested just before the arrival of President Bush in Russia, activists yesterday successfully organised a large carnival protest in Moscow without a single person being detained. However, illegal harrassment and detention of people remains a large civil rights problem.
(this article only posted in USA on Portland IMC, please repost as widely as possible!)


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Support WB/IMF meetings actions in Singapore
Mobilization for Global Justice,

Mobilization for Global Justice (MGJ) has endorsed the following call, written and distributed by Jubilee South, a coalition of social movements throughout the Global South who are resisting illegitimate debts and IMF/World Bank policies. The statement calls on people worldwide to take action in their own communities against the IMF/World Bank the week of September 14-20, while the institutions meet in Singapore.

(in English y espanol)
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Cop Crackdown On the Eve of G8 in Russia
repost from email,

Russia is on the verge of the G8 summit which is to be hosted in Saint Petersburg.

The activists belonging to different political and grass root organizations and groups scattered all over Russia are coming to Saint Petersburg to participate in the alternative "summit". These persons are being harassed and persecuted by the local police and security services agents on their way to Saint Petersburg.

Up to this date at least 100 people have been detained under various pretexts having no legal force. People are forcefully deprived of their documents, transportation tickets, stalked by unknown individuals and then once again arrested by police on the pretext of protecting their personal safety (!). On different occasions people have brutally been mishandled by police and secret service agents.

We are appealing to all people in the Western countries and asking them to voice their solidarity with the Russian political and social activists at this critical moment on the eve of the G-8 summit. We suggest that you picket the Russian embassies and consulates.

For more info about anti-g8 actions in russia, see
 http://int.ru.indymedia.org/

UPDATE:
Despite the fact that as many as 200 potential anti-G8 protesters have been already arrested just before the arrival of Bush in Russia, activists yesterday successfully organised a large carnival protest in Moscow without a single person being detained. "Russian citizens desperately need international help. The government, police and the justice system are only oppressing popular dissent. We urge people to put pressure on the Russian embassy wherever they live." The police have today cancelled the one previously permitted demonstration against the G8, making all public dissent now officially illegal.
 http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/07/116615.shtml




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Bush Told Cheney to Discredit Wilson
The Guardian,

Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
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Outlawing Genetic Engineering
Myron (Mike) Stagman, PhD,

Genetic Engineering is a nightmare technology that has ALREADY caused a number of deadly, crippling and injurious disease epidemics, documented but unpublicized. Outlawing GE (GM, GMOs) via grassroots education/activation techniques will help create a Grassroots Democracy -- making history of the Corporation-Government-corporate Mass Media axis.
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La corte de los milagros
Carlos Ortiz de Zárate Denis,

“La corte de los milagros” evoca diferentes perspectivas; en la historia, en la geografía y en las mentalidades:  http://cortedelosmilagros.blogspot.com/2006/01/corte-de-los-milagros.html. En ninguna de las versiones encontradas se observan, sin embargo, signos de estigmatización del proceso, aunque abundan , en las imágenes del mismo, las combinaciones entre el bien y el mal. Este artículo trata de mostrar que en todo caso, la expresión trata de mostrar que hay otro mundo posible: el milagro no es sino una prueba de que el orden imperante no es el único posible.
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Film Screening: Juarez Femicides -- July 26th
sdimc,

FILM SCREENING:
On the Edge: The Juarez Femicides by Steev Hise
The Mothers of Juarez by Zulma Aguiar
Discussion with Steev Hise
Wed July 26 6:30 p.m.
Bard Hall, First Unitarian Universalist Church
4190 Front St. Hillcrest
$5 Donation Proceeds to Nuestras Hijas de Regreso A Casa (May Our Daughters Return Home) and SDIMC.

For more than a decade, the cities of Chihuahua and Juarez, near the US-Mexico border, have been killing fields for young women, the site of over 400 unsolved femicides. Despite the horrific nature of these crimes, authorities at all levels exhibit indifference, and there is strong evidence that some officials may be involved. Impunity and corruption has permitted the criminals, whoever they are, to continue committing these acts, knowing there will be no consequences.
Small advances in the struggle for justice are due to the perseverance of victims' families who cannot be silenced despite the efforts of state and federal authorities to keep them quiet. Campaigns by local, national and international non-governmental organizations are also important. Often grassroots groups work in a climate of threats and defamation by government officials for making one simple demand - STOP THE FEMICIDE!

Rather than provide an easy, murder-mystery style solution to the crimes, On The Edge sets out to explain the social, cultural, and economic factors that have created this situation where the killings can continue, and continue to go unpunished.


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