 Seattle Erupts with WTO Protest
by
Willie Thompson, Insurgent Collective
Walking in downtown Seattle on the morning of Tuesday, November 30, the
first day of the anti-WTO protest, was pure joy.
People had taken over the streets and were set on shutting down the World
Trade Organization's ministerial meeting Full Story...
A CommuniquÈ from One Section of the N30 Black Bloc in Seattle
by
the Acme Collective
 On November 30, several groups of individuals in black bloc attacked various corporate targets in downtown Seattle. Amoung them (to name a few) were:
Fidelity Investment (major investor in Occidental Petroleum, the bane of the U'wa tribe in Columbia)... Full CommuniquÈ...
AOL-Time Warner:
Dawn of a Golden Age, or a Blow to Media Diversity?
by FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)
The last few media mergers have attracted an enormous amount of press attention, and this was certainly true when America Online (AOL) announced its plans to buy media giant Time Warner on January 10.
Nonetheless, certain issues were obscured in the initial press treatment of the deal, which has been called the largest business merger of any kind in history. Full Story...
Frank Soifer Remembered
by Julia D. Fox
Frank Soifer, state chair of the Oregon District of the Communist Party USA, died of complications of heart surgery on Dec. 23. Members of the community will probably remember Frank as the mayoral candidate and charismatic working-class guy who distributed the People's Weekly World on the UO campus, the Saturday Market and the L. and L. Market. Full Story...
AlieNation:
The Map of Despair Space/Time Control, Space Travel, and Space Exploration
By The CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
In the modern world, control is exerted over us automatically by the spaces we live and move in. We go through certain rituals in our lives-work, "leisure," consumption, submission-because the world we live in is designed for these alone. We all know malls are for shopping, offices are for working, ironically-named "living" rooms are for watching television, and schools are for obeying teachers. Full Story...
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