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Culture Irish National Monument near Tara Endangered by Building Works Tara Foundation | From the Tara Foundation: These are two statements released by the Save Tara Campaign on behalf of the Rath Lugh Direct Action Camp outlining the emergency situation at the Rath Lugh National Monument near the Hill of Tara: Full Story 1 Comments Political satire: Pakistan prime ministerial candidate denies he is Christian Shreeram Krishnaswami | Jabil Bush Hussein is outraged. Despite repeated denials by the PDP (Pakistan Democratic Party) leader and candidate for prime minister, rumors that he is or once was a Christian continue to gather momentum. Hussein’s campaign aides have emphasized his strong Muslim beliefs and downplayed any Christian connection. Spokesman Nouri Aswari issued a statement yesterday reiterating that “Husssein has never been a Christian, was not raised as a Christian, and is a committed Muslim." Full Story 1 Comments Celebrate International Women's Day at Revolution Books
Revolution Books | International Women's Day at Revolution Books Evolving the Network: Politics, Culture, & Consciousness
Jonathan Phillips | The Obama campaign shows that the power and influence of computer networks continues to grow, as a political and cultural force, while music and video downloading is transforming the arts and culture industry. Web 2.0 tools are evolving consciousness, creating new social and spiritual possibilities. Laura Dawn, the cultural director of MoveOn; Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, musician, writer, and filmmaker; and Daniel Pinchbeck, author and editorial director of Reality Sandwich, will discuss the transfigured landscape of our new networked culture, its potentials and pitfalls. Can virtual tools rescue us from the political and ecological abyss of a post Peak Oil world? Moderated by Reality Sandwich's publisher Ken Jordan. Marx in Soho Benefit Performance SP-USA (NYC) | As Marx himself rhetorically asks in the play, "Why do they (the capitalists) feel it necessary to declare Marx dead over and over again?" The audience comes away from this play knowing why. Full Story 1 Comments Reform Maryland Public Radio Launches a Daily Blog at saveWYPR.wordpress.com Gregg Mosson | Protests outside Maryland public radio station WYPR have entered the second month. Many WYPR listeners and members are angry over programming changes which do not reflect the Baltimore and Maryland community. Full Story 0 Comments The Redskins - Music for class struggle redskin | The Redskins was an old band from Britain, that made music for working class, for class struggle Full Story 0 Comments Christian Zionism from a Perspective of Jewish-Christian Relations Peter A. Pettit | In classical Christian anti-Judaism a distorted view of Judaism is pressed into the service of a Christian Heilsgeschichte. The present-day surge of Christian Zionism encourages the Christian community to take a crucial step forward in a partnership to Jews and Israel that is free of such distortion. Full Story 0 Comments Alex Kane | In what was billed as a “memorial” for Washington Square Park, an estimated 100 people gathered at Judson Memorial Church Feb. 6 to protest plans to radically redesign one of Greenwich Village’s most iconic public spaces. Full Story 2 Comments Paul Werner | Setting the record straight on Gustave Courbet, friend of Proudhon, member of the Paris Commune and a major French painter of the nineteenth century.. Full Story 0 Comments The croaker King of Krokylegmus Paul Werner | William F. Buckley has died. Boo-F.-ing Hoo. Full Story 0 Comments Thomas Riggins | He may have been bright but he left a dark legacy. Full Story 10 Comments THE THOUGHT AND REALITY OF MICHAEL DUMMETT Thomas Riggins | The TLS review of Dummett's book by Paul Boghossian shows the continuing relevance of Lenin's "Materialism and Empirio-Criticism. Full Story 1 Comments Anarchist Film Screening and Potluck: Thurs Feb. 28th 7pm In Our Hearts | The In Our Hearts Anarchist Network will hold its monthly potluck along with the debut video screening of Hold Fast, a film about maniac sailors, anarchist castaways, and the voyage of the S/V Pestilence. A love story about what drew us to the ocean, and what we discovered in the sea. Full Story 2 Comments 125th Street on the Line (Indypendent) Renee Feltz | While real estate developers dream of luxury high rises, many harlemites worry that massive redevelopment of 125th street could change their neighborhood forever. Full Story 0 Comments James Trimarco | A group of volunteers gathered in ABCNo Rio’s community arts center gallery on a cold Saturday morning in early February. The topic under discussion was grave. The future of No Rio — an open space for New York’s radical arts and squatter communities for nearly thirty years — was at stake again. Full Story 7 Comments dorotea mendoza | "The March 8th Against the War Committee call on all women to use this day of international activism to protest the war, call for its end, and for US troops to return to US soil. The March 8th Against the War Committee invokes the memory of Clara Zetkin and Alexandra Kollontai, of the European women and the Russian women who opposed imperialist wars. May their likes walk with us again, in the 21st century!" Full Story 2 Comments Saturday, Feb 23, PROTEST the Human Rights Campaign at their annual Gala
RHA | Join the RADICAL HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA and PROTEST the Human Rights Campaign's betrayal of the Trans community at HRC's annual gala fundraiser.
artist | Sunday February 24, 2008 Frederico Ponzio | . Full Story 0 Comments Position Paper - 15th February 2008: Digging Machinery operating at Lismullen
Tara Foundation | Digging machinery has appeared on the 6th February 2008 at the Lismullin National Monument near the Hill of Tara in Ireland as attempts are begun to fill in the Henge in advance of Irish and European Court decisions. ( John Brown: Trumpet of Freedom Brecht Forum | Early in the morning of his last day on Earth, the day that he will hang by the neck until dead, John Brown writes a farewell letter to his compatriots in the abolitionist movement. In the letter, he registers his outrage and horror at his first seeing an African Slave, starved and naked and chained to a post and beaten bloody with an iron shovel for the offense of stealing a crumb of decent food. In the passion of that moment, he vows to God to rectify the injustice, and wage war against the government that sanctions this abomination. Full Story 1 Comments Borough President Scott Stringer comes out with new cookbook A fan | Scott Stringer is a fiery advocate for community-based planning. He was instrumental in demanding that only 50% of the public fields on Randall's Island be sold to private schools; and he lent his good offices to the cause of Columbia expansion when he announced a 'deal' which only the University and two sell-out front groups approved of. He's a great cook! Full Story 3 Comments [general.page.prefix] 65 |
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