Looking Back Five Years to The Battle of Seattle
santacruz.indymedia.org c/o lotus,

November 30, 1999 represented a triumphal moment for worldwide civil resistance against a global economic system that gives private corporations more power than governments. In the morning hours of N30, 1999, tens of thousands of activists from across the globe converged in the streets of downtown Seattle, to shut down meetings of the World Trade Organization, the undemocratic, international governing forum of neoliberal globalization.

The conflict became infamous around the world, partially because of the violent police response to the largely peaceful demonstrations. In years since, N30 has been remembered in the streets of Seattle and around the globe, with marches, rallies and celebrations of resistance. Dialogues about the effectiveness of the movement have multiplied in number, both within and beyond activist circles. The date is also remembered as the birth of the Independent Media Center, www.Indymedia.org.

At the WTO protests in Seattle, we had a collective vision. We saw beyond the borders that divide us. We saw people come together across every kind of political and cultural difference and stand up in a way that we had not seen in this country for decades. We saw peaceful protests shut down one of the most powerful institutions in the world and we saw a system dazed and frightened by the sound of our voices.
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URGENT: Support Industrias Fronterizas
WORKERS OF INDUSTRIA FRONTERIZA c/o lotus,

We are workers of Industria Fronteriza and we are still fighting for our
severance pay after being fired in June 2002 for demanding our legal
rights. There is good news! We have won the lawsuit against the company,
and now we are in the next stage, which is preparation to confiscate the
company's machines and equipment. We are asking for your support again.
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The Secret Wars Of The CIA
Paul Revere,

John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the agency and go public
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America's Choice: Constitution or Tyranny?
Ed Ward, MD,

Basically, there are five safeguards of the Constitution: Executive, Judicial, Legislative, Press, and the People. America's defense of the Constitution is now in the hands of the People. Poetic Irony, that now that those that want it will now have to suffer for it, or continue in Tyranny.
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10th Annual Changemaker Celebration
Foundation 4 Change c/o lotus,

"New Voices, New Visions"

Friday November 19, 2004

Balboa Park Club Ballroom
Balboa Park, San Diego

(Park Blvd. to President's Way. Go west and park in the Pan American Plaza near the San Diego Automotive Museum.)

5:30 p.m. - Reception and Silent Auction
6:30 p.m. - Family-Style Dinner & Program
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Building Bridges Radio- Bangladeshi Worker's
Ken Nash & Mimi Rosenberg,

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report brings you this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON INTERNET WEB ADDRESS LINK
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Direct Action Training, Sat, Dec 4th
ORGANIC collective,

Direct Action Training

Saturday, December 4th
12:00pm - 3:00pm
@ Foundation 4 Change
3758 30th St. , San Diego 92104
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Transcript of 11/10 Rally on Falloujah, pt. 2
transcribed by Mark Gabrish Conlan,

Part two of the transcript of the emergency rally November 10, 2004 outside the Federal Building on Front and Broadway downtown, MC'd by Martin Eder of Activist San Diego and co-sponsored by his organization and the San Diego and North County Coalitions for Peace and Justice, to demand an immediate end to the U.S. campaign against Falloujah and the occupation of Iraq.
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Where's the riot?
attendee,

Where's the riot?
Friday
Noon
Sun God
Wear Black
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Middle Class New Working Poor
Frosty Wooldridge,

America's Middle Class Becomes the New Working Poor
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Phil Angelides/Opportunity, Fairness, Liberty
Phil Angelides (transc. Mark Gabrish Conlan),

California state treasurer Phil Angelides spoke to the predominantly Queer San Diego Democratic Club October 28 and outlined the issues at stake in the November 2 election: economic opportunity and fairness, preservation of civil liberties and continuing the advances in justice and civil rights made by Democratic governments since the 1930's.
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Dashing Mayor to the Rescue
Richard Mellor,

San Francisco hotel workers strike heading in the wrong direction as millionaire mayor gets involved
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against precarity
www.greenpeppermagazine.org,

This interview took place in July 2004 at the Mill Squat in Amsterdam, during the period it was liberated from the destiny of selling 'traditional' Dutch parephenalia to tourists. Merijn Oudenampsen and Gavin Sullivan from the Greenpepper magazine spoke with Milano-based organiser Alex Foti - formerly of the Italian flexwork syndicate ChainWorkers (www.chainworkers.org) - about precarity, european labour conflict, and the spread of new syndicalist modes of subvertised collective action across Neuropa. Alex Foti is guest written editor for the upcoming Precarity issue of the Greenpepper Magazine and will be part of the PrecarityPingPong! launch and critical debate during the London ESF at Middlex University, White Hart Lane Campus, Tottenham on 15 October 2004 between 3:00 – 5:00 pm. See www.greenpeppermagazine.org for details.
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National Fightback Conference- Nov 13 & 14 NY
dustin langley,

After the elections--no matter who wins--there needs to be a serious discussion about how to move the struggle forward. And that is exactly what hundreds of activists will be doing in New York City over the weekend of November 13-14 at a National Fightback Conference sponsored by Workers World Party.
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Venezuela: Venepal Workers Solidarity Appeal
Hands Off Venezuela campaign,

Bolivarian Revolution
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Tactical Escalation
tactical,

At the RNC, I noticed two conflicting trends, one hopeful and one disturbing.

At two separate events, fire was used as a tactic at the RNC protests. In both instances, organizers claimed that the people who had set the fires were undercover police and provocateurs. There was one trend, initiated by an unknown source to escalate confrontations, there was another to decry such escalation.
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Is Bush Turning Communist?
Richard Mellor,

Confusion among capitalists and Union leaders mounts as Bush calls for ownership of health plans and appears to support big government involving itself in matters of the market.
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SF Hotel Strike Not Shutting Down Hotels
,

A fight to win strategy has to replace the Union leaders passive approach if the SF hotel strike is to win
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Decked Stacked Against The Docks
Bennett Baumer,

East coast longshoremen fight for union democracy in piers ruled by a triangle of power-corrupt labor leaders, the mafia and shipping bosses.
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Trees Not Walls! Call to Action: O17 & Beyond
Trees Not Walls Solidarity Network,

Come all who conscientiously object to the capitalist transformation of Earth into industrial wasteland! In defiance of Walls designed to divide and displace us, on October 17 in Washington DC, before, during and after the Million Worker March, we invite you to join the Eco-Justice/Palestine Solidarity Bloc to participate in a powerful, long-overdue fusion of movements!


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Stockton Truckers Join IWW, Win 2-Day Strike
Adam Welch,

More than 200 Stockton owner-operator truckers working out of the rail yards in California's Central Valley have joined the IWW since July and won several victories.
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Starving Amid Plenty
Richard Mellor,

Society is awash in cash yet workers are expected to take cuts and be thankful
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UGSOA Members Vote to Stop the Payment of Due
Mr. Smith ,

UGSOA Members are Fighting Back Against UGSOA
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Radical Law Activist Speaks in San Diego
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Ann Fagan Ginger, veteran attorney, author and activist, spoke at the First Unitarian-Universalist Church in Hillcrest September 21 and warned that the U.S. is where Germany was in 1932 — and the Left's current tactics are inadequate to stop America from becoming fascist. She heads the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute in Berkeley, which plans to issue in March 2005 a report detailing all the civil-rights abuses of the U.S. government since 9/11.
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destroy your own damn money
the poor,

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Save Tom's job -- sign the Wild Oats petition
richard myers,

Tom Kappas was fired over a couple of bananas (or so they say!)
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spanish workers continue to fight
(A),

MADRID : Spanish unions demanded that a plan to partly privatise the country's shipyards be shelved amid growing unrest which has sparked violence at some yards and prompted wildcat strikes

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NCOR Call for Proposals
NCOR Collective,

This is the call for proposals for the National Conference on Organized Resistance on February 3rd through February 6th, 2005, in Washington, DC!
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Farmworkers March for Justice
Mike Rhodes,

Farmworkers in Reedley, California march to end racial profiling by the CHP
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Floridians Fight a War on Two Fronts
Sean O'Torain,

Bush and company hypocritically portray themselves as sympathetic to the victims of Florida's hurricane season as they unload the cost of rebuilding shattered lives on to Florida's homeowners.
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