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Works in Progress pizza party fundraiser

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/13/2010 - 15:45.

Come out to Fertile Ground Guest House (311 9th Ave, next to Oly Timberland Library) on July 31 to celebrate Works in Progress 20th year anniversary with a pizza party.

The event costs $10 (discounted at $5 for WIP subscribers, $8 for WIP Facebook friends) at a gathering that will last from 6-9 p.m. Stay posted for speaker and performance updates on our Facebook page. New WIP t-shirts and merch will be available for purchase. Announcement space will also be available to all who attend.

The free community monthly newspaper released its 20th anniversary edition this May and will have fundraising events throughout the year.

Feel free to come earlier in the day to help Fertile Ground and WIP re-paint the mandala located on the nearby intersection of 8th & Adams at 5 p.m.

Caravan to US Social Forum!

Submitted by rick on Wed, 05/12/2010 - 23:06.
06/13/2010 - 16:00
06/30/2010 - 16:00
Etc/GMT-7

Here is the link to the caravan website:

http://freedomcaravan.wordpress.com/

CIA Drug Trade

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 23:50.

From Tomdispatch.com:

Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Afghanistan as a Drug War
Posted by Alfred McCoy at 4:10pm, March 30, 2010.  read more »

Chomsky on the USA and Latin America

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 12/21/2009 - 00:45.


Local Community Radio Act Clears House of Representatives Without Opposition from Commercial Broadcasters

Submitted by rick on Thu, 12/17/2009 - 14:06.

December 16, 2009

Washington,
DC – The Local Community Radio Act passed the House of Representatives
Wednesday evening with a resounding voice vote and now moves to the
Senate. The bill will open the airwaves for hundreds of new
non-commercial stations across the country, bringing low power radio to
urban areas for the first time.

Following the recommendations of the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC), the House of Representatives voted to remove
technical restrictions Congress placed on low power radio in 2000 at
the request of commercial broadcasters. These restrictions have kept
low power radio out of the top 50 radio markets, which reach over 160
million Americans.  read more »

"Honduran Elections": A Parody on Democracy - Laura Carlsen | December 7, 2009

Submitted by rick on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 14:13.

Please Check the Americas Program website for urgent fundraising appeal. -Rick

Available in translation: "Elecciones en Honduras", una parodia de democracia

Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)  read more »

Media Matters: With "Climategate" and Jennings smears, the right goes guerilla

Submitted by rick on Sun, 12/13/2009 - 14:28.

The conservative reaction to President Obama's election is turning downright Faustian.

As the rhetoric on the right has grown increasingly shrill, a few conservatives have raised their voices in alarm, counseling their ideological kin to step back from the abyss. Former Bush speechwriter David Frum wrote in August that "the increasingly angry tone of incitement being heard from right-of-center broadcasters" is likely to lead to politically motivated violence. Not two weeks ago, conservative blogger Charles Johnson articulated the reasons behind his departure from the right, citing conservative support for "anti-science bad craziness" and "[h]atred for President Obama that goes far beyond simply criticizing his policies."  read more »

Indonesia 'bans' film on journalists' deaths in East Timor

Submitted by rick on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 17:16.


Malcolm Rennie, Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Brian Peters, Tony Stewart,

The Balibo five were Malcolm Rennie, Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Brian Peters and Tony Stewart


Indonesia has banned the film Balibo,
which depicts the deaths of six foreign journalists in East Timor, the  read more »

Fault Lines -- Great Short Documentary on Honduran Resistance

Submitted by rick on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 17:05.

This is from al-jazeera 

http://www.quixote.org/emvideo/modal/1129/425/350/field_emvideos/youtube...

 

http://www.quixote.org/emvideo/modal/1129/425/350/field_emvideos/youtube...

 

A Hard Look at the Numbers What Actually Happened in the Iranian Presidential Election?

Submitted by rick on Wed, 06/24/2009 - 00:29.

June 22, 2009 Check out: http://www.counterpunch.org/  -Rick

By ESAM AL-AMIN

Since the June 12 Iranian presidential elections, Iran "experts” have mushroomed like bacteria in a Petri dish. So here is a quiz for all those instant experts. Which major country has elected more presidents than any in the world since 1980? Further, which nation is the only one that held ten presidential elections within thirty years of its revolution?

The answer to both questions, of course, is Iran. Since 1980, it has elected six presidents, while the U.S. is a close second with five, and France at three. In addition, the U.S. held four presidential elections within three decades of its revolution to Iran’s ten.  read more »

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