Petition demanding Israel return funds deducted from Palestinians for unemployme
DWRC,
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Since 1967 the state of Israel deducted funds from Palestinian workers for unemployment insurance. To this day, no Palestinian worker has received unemployment payments. Please sign this petition demanding that Israel return these funds to Palestinian workers who have paid for these benefits. Conservative estimates put unemployment at over 55% in the occupied territories. These funds are badly needed by the tens of thousands of families of workers who had millions of dollars deducted from their salaries.
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Pics of Anti-Starbucks Demo in Hillcrest, Dec. 15, 2002
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,
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![Pics of Anti-Starbucks Demo in Hillcrest, Dec. 15, 2002]()
Photos of demonstration against the invasion of San Diego's Hillcrest/Mission Hills neighborhood by Starbucks Coffee. Organized by the California Coalition for Women Prisoners in association with a group of youth activists, the action protested Starbucks' use of prison labor to assemble holiday gift packages, its use of genetically modified dairy products, the company's reneging on an agreement to provide "fair trade" (cooperative-grown) coffee and the monopolistic tactics that have enabled Starbucks to drive out locally owned independent coffeehouses. (article 1)
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Sat., 12/21 Winter Solstice Vigil for Peace
San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice,
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, WINTER SOLSTICE VIGIL FOR PEACE: Meet at 4:30 p.m. at the fountain in Balboa Park near Space Theater and the footbridge that crosses Park Blvd. At 5 p.m. begins a peace walk from the fountain to 6th and Laurel Street and 5:30 - 7 p.m. gather around a lumenaria peace sign for music and sharing. Solstice is a time a of change, a time of renewal. Bring the message of peace with justice back to the center of the holiday season.
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Judge Takes Interest in S.F. Medical Pot Case
Dale Gieringer,
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San Francisco, Dec 17 US Judge Martin Jenkins displayed a keen interest in the civil suit by Angel Raich, Diane Monson, et al. for an injunction to protect their right to use medical marijuana, declaring that the case raised "significant issues" concerning the government's constitutional authority to prohibit medical use of marijuana.
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Kid Turns His Dad In for Pot
Dan Savage,
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After a teenager in Covington, Washington, turned his father in for growing marijuana, local TV news reporters and daily newspapers fell all over themselves calling him a hero. Was I the only pot-smoking parent who was horrified?
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The Governments No-Fly Blacklist
Dave Lindorff and Doug Stuber,
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Who they're really trying to keep off planes: The next two articles highlight who Bush/Ashcroft consider to be "terrorists." You and I may be next. Our civil rights are being eroded in a Nazi-like manner as we silently and passively allow it.
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Watered-Down Rights
Paul F. Heller,
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The needs of the few apparently outweigh the needs of the many when it comes to quenching California's thirst for water.
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Censorship in SD
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Recently San Diego IMC has been hiding posts that they don't like because they say these posts were "cross posted" besides not fiting the criteria originally set by SDIMC other truely crossposted articles posted recently have not been hidden. Double standard? YES
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Bill Moyers interviews Senator John McCain
Bill Moyers,
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On NOW with Bill Moyers , Senator John McCain (R-AZ) discusses the attacks on the newly adopted campaign finance law that he co-sponsored with Senator Russell Feingold (D-WI). Program airs Friday, December 13th, at 9pm ET on PBS (check local listings.)
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Free Speech & the IMC
nobody but me,
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"Free Speech" is an important concept. The IMC-- over all other media outlets-- should uphold the importance of the First Ammendment. "Free Speech" is not selective speech; it means any opinion, idea, expression, etc. regardless of content or offensiveness.
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The Deceptive Memory
Reinarto Hadipriono,
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There is no past, present or future! What is really happening is that we are constantly undergoing a change of condition. Apparently we are being deceived by those impressions of the previous conditions that have remained imprinted as our memories.
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