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Iraq
Journal
A collection of regular print, audio, and video
reports from Iraq
PR
Watch
Helping the public recognize manipulative and
misleading PR practices - a must-read muckraker
FightingBob.com
Wisconsin progressive politics site and webblog.
Forest Conservation
Portal
Nexus of information dedicated to the "age of
ecological restoration"
DIYmedia.net
Info hub for media news and action, with extra-special
focus on microradio
Redhouse.us
The issues of La Crosse, Wisconsin
Radio
WORT-FM
Listener supported community radio - 89.9 FM Madison
WSUM-FM
UW student radio - 91.7 FM Madison
WSUW-FM
UW student radio - 91.7 FM Whitewater
Workers
Independent News Service
Madison-based labor radio news
Visual
WYOU
Community cable access television - Cable Channel 4
Madison
Prolefeed
Studios
Independent documentary film clearinghouse and
organizer of Madison's Electric Eye Cinema
BigTimeTV
Madison-based original video productions
Print
The
Madison Insurgent
Independent newspaper seeking to challenge dominant
ideologies
The Madison
Times
Newspaper focusing on positive and success stories in
communities of color
La Comunidad
News
Periódico basado en Madison que trabaja para
empoder a los individuos hispanohablantes.
Madison-based newspaper working to empower Spanish
speaking individuals.
Union
Labor News
Monthly newsletter by, for, and about working people
in Dane County
The
Progressive
Madison-based monthly magazine seeking to be a
journalistic voice for peace and social justice at
home and abroad
Premiere Generation Ink
Madison-based multimedia publisher of poetry, art,
photography, spoken word, and video.
Rick's
Café
South-Central Wisconsin's local music newspaper
Books
A Room of
One's Own
Feminist bookstore in Madison
Rainbow
Bookstore Cooperative
Lefty bookstore and event space in Madison
Infoshops
UW
Infoshop
A collective resource center providing a lending
library and organizing resources to the Madison and UW community
Satire
The
Infinite Jest
Online satire and home of the American Crusade trading
cards. "Like The Onion, only bitter"
The
Whitebreads
A locally produced comic strip lampooning the affluent
American lifestyle
This site made manifest by
dadaIMC software
Code wrangling by
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Announcement: Protests & Direct Action |
09 Jan 2004
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Welcome Ollie North Forum and Protests
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by Madison Infoshop
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To mark Ollie North's visit to Madison next week at the $30,000 behest of Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC), there will be both a forum and two protests. Come learn more and express your disdain! |
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Commentary: Farming |
07 Jan 2004
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BSE Slips Through the Firewall
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by Jim Goodman
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 In January of 2003 the USDA issued a press release announcing the progress it had made on implementing preventative measures aimed at keeping bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) out of the United States. The BSE prevention program included testing of 20,000 cattle for BSE in 2002: banning imports of live ruminants (cattle, sheep, goats) and most ruminant products from countries at risk for having BSE; banning the use of most rendered mammalian protein in ruminant feed and prohibiting the use of vertebral columns from certain categories of cattle. Note: most, certain--- loopholes. |
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News: Global Justice |
04 Jan 2004
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Death and Lies: Nablus, Occupied Palestine
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by kelly bornshlegel
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Yesterday four boys were killed in Nablus, and one more in critical condition in the hospital.
All within an hour, Rawhi Shuman (19) Amer Arafat (26) and Amjed al-Masri (15) were shot and killed in the downtown Nablus area. Rawhi was hiding behind a taxi, waiting for soldiers to pass so that he could continue down the road. Amer was near a taxi stand, doing business and talking to customers. Friends of mine talked to him five minutes before he was shot, they were talking about getting a taxi. After the soldiers shot him, they gathered around the body and demanded to everyone that they show them the gun. There was no gun, or anything that would look like a gun. |
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News: Global Justice |
03 Jan 2004
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Ringing in the New Year: Resistance in Nablus, Occupied Palestine
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by kelly bornshlegel
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In the midst of an already month-long invasion, the sheikhs announced over the mosques for everyone to yell from their windows and their roofs "Allahu akbar" (god is great) together for an hour. It began with the voices from the mosques, together, "Allahu akbar" again and again, the voices growing louder and prouder with each chant. Then, a chorus began from the old city, and then the mountains and the camps. Thousands of different voices, in different rhythms and tones, yelling and chanting together, their sound almost drowning out the noise of the tank fire around them. The voices joined together in strength and solidarity; recognizing but not broken by the pain and suffering felt throughout the city. During this month, most people have been confined (but not safe) in their homes, students have been prevented from taking their final exams and stores remain indefinitely closed. Eleven people have been killed; three of them children and hundreds of people have been hospitalized due to injuries. Everyone is mourning, many are terrified, but the people in Nablus joined together to show that they will not be defeated. |
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News: Food |
02 Jan 2004
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WORT gives Mifflin Co-op a clean slate for the New Year
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by Mifflin Street Co-op
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 Collectives and Cooperatives have a long history of cooperation amongst each other. At a Board Meeting last month, the WORT radio station Board of Directors voted to forgive Mifflin Street Food Co-op of $1,800 of debt. The struggling store headed into an acute financial crises beginning last spring with the closure of West Johnson Street. On December 3rd, the grocery store's members had voted to keep the grocery store open for another 6 months before reassessing the store's financial situation. Mifflin Members hope that they can find the community support to put the co-op back on the path to profitability. |
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Commentary: Anti-Racism |
31 Dec 2003
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Indian-bashing returns to Wisconsin
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by Zoltan Grossman and Debra McNutt
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Recent media coverage of tribal gaming in the Madison area has at best failed to inform readers about the origins of tribal casinos, and at worst exhibited a racial double standard.
Under the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, tribes can have a level of gaming only withn the same "class" as the state where it resides. Wisconsin tribes can have Class III casinos only because the State has a Class III lottery. But where are the newspaper articles or activist groups focusing on the omnipresent lottery?
The only way to stop Indian casinos is to end the lottery, but neither the Tavern League nor the Isthmus seem to question non-Indian gambling institutions. The message is unmistakably clear: it is fine for the white majority to profit from gaming, but it is somehow scandalous for a minority group to benefit. |
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Commentary: Protests & Direct Action |
26 Dec 2003
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Ollie North - the Man, the Myth, the Rhetoric, the Reality
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by Madison Infoshop
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On Jan. 13 -14th Madison will be welcoming one of the darlings of the conservative movement – none other than Oliver North! Here is some background info on this state terrorist and war criminal in preparation for upcoming protests of his visit. |
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Announcement: Protests & Direct Action |
21 Dec 2003
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Protest Ollie North!! - A Call
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by Up Nort', Heh! Coalition
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Calling all campaigners for peace and supporters of the global justice movement, all critics of the Bush/Cheney war on Iraq, all opponents of the "free trade" neoliberal agenda at home and abroad; all adversaries of corporate abuse of the public trust right here in Wisconsin! All those who think globally and act locally!
Oliver North is coming to Madison as the guest of the notoriously anti-labor Wisconsin Association of Manufacturers and Commerce (WAM). The most infamous of those perpetrators who broke the law and circumvented Congressional prohibitions to run an illegal war against Nicaragua from the Reagan White House during the 1980s, later revealed as the "Iran-Contra Scandal," Ollie North will be in Madison on January 13th-14th. |
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News: Feminism |
21 Dec 2003
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A Feminist Critique of "Lingerie Bowl 2004"
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by Diane Farsetta
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The Superbowl has never been a woman-friendly event. But with the pay-per-view "Lingerie Bowl 2004" half-time show planned for this year's game on February 1st, we may witness a new low. |
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Commentary: Militarism |
20 Dec 2003
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Occupation will fail to prevent civil war
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by Zoltan Grossman
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Julius Caesar knew how to announce the capture an enemy leader. In 52 BC, his Roman soldiers defeated the tribes of Gaul, and captured the Gallic leader Vercingetorix. The "barbarian" chief was paraded through Rome in chains, and executed after six years in captivity. In The Gallic Wars, Caesar justified his invasion and occupation of Gaul by writing that Vercingetorix "terrorized waverers with the rigors of an iron discipline. Serious cases of disaffection were punished by torture and death at the stake, and even for a minor fault he would cut off a man's ears or gouge out one of his eyes, that they may be an example to the rest, and frighten others." |
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News: Global Justice |
19 Dec 2003
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Report from Palestine - Back to Hell
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by kelly bornshlegel
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As an international in Palestine with all of my priviliges, and as I have been honored to meet so many amazing and strong people during my stay, I have never felt I have the right to label the situation as hell. But it is. During a month of relative calm, Palestinians in Nablus were living lives that somewhat resembled normal (as normal as possible under occupation). Now the city is once again under siege. |
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News: Civil Liberties |
14 Dec 2003
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Activists consider Miami ramifications
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by Andrew Broman
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The police's escalation of the "war on terrorism" at home through the use of rubber bullets, stun guns, tear gas and sophisticated surveillance is forcing activists to ask whether they might need a new strategy for fighting corporate-brand capitalism.
During a Wednesday gathering to assess the victories and defeats at the FTAA protests in Miami last month, Madison activists talked about a fear rising within the movement. This fear probably caused Miami's low turnout (relative to the Seattle WTO protest in 1999), a gentleman, wearing a "Hip Hop Generation" T-shirt, said. |
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Commentary: Energy |
13 Dec 2003
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Peak Oil (video)
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by Harry
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 Watch this video examination of the decline of oil production, featuring Colin Campbell and a cast of millions. The 16MB file is viewable in Quicktime, (05:36 minutes). |
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Commentary: Media Criticism |
12 Dec 2003
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On becoming a TV star
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by Andrew Broman
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Tina Fabulous' picture stared back at the people moving through The Great Dane on Thursday night. Her blonde hair was shining, her smile was wide, and she was drawing them in.
Dozens stood in a line starting at Tina's picture, snaking around a pool table and ending at two stages, where bright lights shined on women interviewing for a spot on the cast of ABC's show, "The Bachelor." |
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News: Labor & Unions |
10 Dec 2003
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Report & Pics of Action at Tyson Board Member's House
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by Josh Healey
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 About 50 people, including 20 striking Tyson workers, went inside a gated community in Middleton on Saturday to picket outside the house of David Jones, who sits on the Tyson Foods Board of Directors. The action was jointly organized by the UFCW Local 538, the Student Labor Action Coalition, and the South Central Federation of Labor, with significant participation also from the International Socialist Organization. |
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Commentary: Labor & Unions |
07 Dec 2003
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Union Workers and Labor Activists Enter Gated Neighborhood to Picket At Home of Tyson Foods Board Member
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by Jim Cobb
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Today, in the wake of the University of Wisconsin Regents vote last week to divest the University's approximate $200,000 holdings in Tyson Foods, about 50 people walked around the entrance gate blocking the street leading into a wealthy privatized neighborhood in order to picket at the home of David Jones who sits on Tyson's Board of Directors and who is also CEO of Rayovac. |
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News: Media - Independent & Community |
05 Dec 2003
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The Madison Observer - Vol. 2 Issue no. 11
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by Youssef Sawan
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The Madison Observer is a bi-weekly student publication sponsored by the MultiCultural Student Coalition. Here is the last issue of the Madison Observer, until next semester. For archived issues, visit:
http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~madobserver/ |
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Commentary: Peace/Antiwar |
04 Dec 2003
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Denial and Deception: Before and Beyond “Iraqi Freedom”
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by matt vidal
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When a preliminary report by White House chief weapons inspector David Kay was released last month - nearly half a year after the fall of the Hussein regime and the official end of combat operations in Iraq - the Bush regime claimed vindication. Bush argued that the report proves that "Hussein was a danger to the world," while Secretary of State Powell is "even more convinced with the Kay report that we did the right thing."
What did the Kay report find? No weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and no evidence of WMD programs or capabilities other than in the distant past. That is, the report provided evidence that the only "imminent threat" to be found was in the rhetoric used by the Bush regime - and dutifully repeated in lockstep by the "liberal" corporate media - to justify the war. |
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Commentary: Peace/Antiwar |
04 Dec 2003
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Understanding 'Checkpoints' in Palestine
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by kelly
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I recently saw a cute interactive piece on the BBC website about "understanding checkpoints." They have a picture of what a checkpoint in Palestine might look like and links to the various parts of it for further explanation.
For many of you, it will be easy to understand the problems with this representation. For those that haven't been here or have little information on checkpoints, I want to give a clearer description using the BBC's model. |
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Interview: Labor & Unions |
01 Dec 2003
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FTAA analysis: John Heckenlively live with Miami IMCistas.
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by marco
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John Heckenlively from Racine was interviewed by Indymedia for a live radio broadcast on November 20, 2003.
He discusses how NAFTA has not made things better for people he's met in Central and South America, and makes the obvious supposition that ALCA/FTAA is going to be even leaps and bounds worse. |
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