<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120</id><updated>2011-04-21T20:03:04.954-07:00</updated><title type='text'>STOP THE FTAA</title><subtitle type='html'>Is there any reason left for us to be civil in the face our steady progress toward a worldwide military dictatorship? Have we become the Policeman of the World without badge or social responsibility?</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>50</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-106556084422227718</id><published>2003-10-07T14:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2003-10-07T14:10:52.670-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Free Trade is War

by Naomi Klein  
September 11 2003 

On Monday, seven anti-privatization activists were arrested in Soweto for blocking the installation of prepaid water meters. The meters are a privatized answer to the fact that millions of poor South Africans cannot pay their water bills. 
more</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/106556084422227718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/106556084422227718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2003_10_05_archive.html#106556084422227718' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-75298760</id><published>2002-04-11T14:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2005-09-26T13:53:01.396-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>RESIST G8"In July, 2002, the G8 will retreat to the hills of Kananaskis, Alberta for its annual gathering. Ensconced in a tiny, well-guarded resort town, the "leaders" of 8 states and their entourages will hide from the protesters who will fill the streets of Calgary and Ottawa and the highways to Kananaskis..."</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/75298760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/75298760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2002_04_07_archive.html#75298760' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-11469963</id><published>2002-04-04T15:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2002-04-04T15:56:29.223-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>It's time to put Salem's Statesman Journal on the map, along with the name of their new publisher, Sonja Sorenson for their blatantly unfair manipulation of labor.
The story is unraveling as I type this, and I'll be sure to keep you posted.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/11469963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/11469963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2002_03_31_archive.html#11469963' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-9048931</id><published>2002-01-25T14:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2002-01-25T14:22:41.923-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>...thousands of students, union members and activists plan to protest in New York City from January 31 to February 4 at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in what is expected to be the largest American anti-corporate globalization demonstration post-9/11.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/9048931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/9048931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2002_01_20_archive.html#9048931' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-8161512</id><published>2001-12-24T02:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2001-12-24T02:21:09.530-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>"Giuliani's most memorable quote on education was a proposal to blow up the entire NYC Board of Education."
Robert Lederman
But Bob, this main is not an ordinary terrorist, he's Time Magazine's Person of the Year! "It was really strange. It's hard to think of yourself that way.'' said Guiliani. Strange indeed in light of the fact that the 75 year old conductor, Pierre Boulez was dragged out of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/8161512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/8161512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_12_23_archive.html#8161512' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-8160648</id><published>2001-12-24T00:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2001-12-24T00:53:52.210-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>here's a cute little slide show I made today that I hope you'll enjoy. peace.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/8160648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/8160648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_12_23_archive.html#8160648' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-8155748</id><published>2001-12-23T19:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2001-12-23T19:47:49.446-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>"The US and British governments say they are "reconciled to civilian deaths" in their war. They cold-bloodedly admit they will be killing people who had nothing to do with the attacks in New York and Washington. There is no sense of "humanity", of "mercy" or of "justice" in that - just the plainest hypocrisy."
The best text I have read about why we need to mobilize to STOP BUSH'S WAR</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/8155748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/8155748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_12_23_archive.html#8155748' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-8150526</id><published>2001-12-23T14:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2001-12-23T14:43:26.726-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>More opinion in the particular article than news, but soon we'll have some freshly translated reports from the revolution in Argentina: a revolution with profiund economic implications. Until then, from Indymedia we have:
"The new provisionary president of Argentina, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá (Peronist) has been nominated by the Congress Assembly. The most important thing that Rodríguez Saá anounced </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/8150526'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/8150526'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_12_23_archive.html#8150526' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-8138749</id><published>2001-12-22T22:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2001-12-22T22:56:24.883-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>From the Bush Terrorist Archive Department
"the CIA officially acknowledged...
that the mastermind of the terrorist attack, Chilean intelligence chief Manuel Contreras, was a paid asset of the CIA.
The new report was issued almost 24 years to the day after the murders of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and American co-worker Ronni Moffitt, who died on Sept. 21, 1976, when a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/8138749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/8138749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_12_16_archive.html#8138749' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-8009457</id><published>2001-12-17T21:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2001-12-23T15:09:03.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Portland IndyMedia "Hundreds ...took to the  streets of Portland, Or Sunday afternoon in defiance of  'America’s New War.” Bakunin is rapidly becoming my favorite IndyMedia reporter: appearing in the right places at interesting times -:) The replies to this article are as worthy as the article itself. Deva applauds the pampleteers: "approaching passersby, handing out literature and letting people</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/8009457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/8009457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_12_16_archive.html#8009457' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-7491489</id><published>2001-11-28T21:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2001-11-28T21:59:12.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Word Up From Naomi Klein NoLogo "In recent weeks,
 there has been a severe crackdown on activists (reclassified as
 "terrorists") in Bolivia and Oscar Olivera has been arrested. This was a big mistake: Olivera has friends around the world and they will be bombarding the authorities with calls for the political charges to be dropped."
Olivera is best known for leading the successful campaign of</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7491489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7491489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_11_25_archive.html#7491489' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-7395523</id><published>2001-11-25T15:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2001-11-25T15:55:56.740-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Fear and Loathing "What is equally obscene is, the concentration seems to be focused entirely on the Wrong Kind of Sekurity, the bugging of our phones, our computers, and our private thoughts and feelings. Our other security, that upon which our very lives depend, is nonexistent, a spiderweb patched together with Faerie Dust, an illusion. It's a powderkeg lit on both ends, and with all-too  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7395523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7395523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_11_25_archive.html#7395523' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-7394578</id><published>2001-11-25T15:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2005-09-26T13:58:08.453-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Fruits of Excess Capital  "The essential difference between the various economic forms of society, between, for instance, a society based on slave labour, and one based on wage labour, lies only in the mode in which this surplus-labour is in each case extracted from the actual producer, the labourer." 
Karl Marx, by way of&amp;nbsp Steven Realo</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7394578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7394578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_11_25_archive.html#7394578' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-7374373</id><published>2001-11-24T16:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2001-11-24T16:41:57.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Buy  Nothing Several major  stores were marched through, with chants such as “Shop, Shop, Shop, While the Bombs Drop” until store security escorted folks out..." during the "Buy Nothing Day" action in Portland Oregon. reports of this and more, archived where you
can .be the news</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7374373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7374373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_11_18_archive.html#7374373' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-7305530</id><published>2001-11-21T15:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2001-11-21T15:41:30.336-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Close the School of the Americas, Live Coverage"... I am still physically bruised from the handcuffs placed on me as I participated in civil disobedience and my  tired mind is still catching up with the events that happened..."
Chani Geigle-Teller
Close It Down!
November 21, 2001</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7305530'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7305530'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_11_18_archive.html#7305530' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-7209511</id><published>2001-11-17T22:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2001-11-24T16:40:20.000-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Fear and Loathing I just noticed my friend Doug has been bonging.., ahh,  I mean blogging again. This report may be a bit late, but hilarious and biting nonetheless 
"I was kidnapped by some friends and taken to the Alice Cooper concert at bongpoint last night. We'd just retaliated against Afghanistan, Sunday, October 7, 2001. Even before that, Columbus, Ohio, was already in a paranoid state </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7209511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7209511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_11_11_archive.html#7209511' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-7206905</id><published>2001-11-17T19:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2001-11-17T19:54:23.993-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The Spud - Cards - Shit for Brains - Bush
here's a real "terraced" for you....
should he have his day in court, or will a military tribunal suffice?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7206905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7206905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_11_11_archive.html#7206905' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-7204186</id><published>2001-11-17T17:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2001-11-17T17:14:57.926-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Over 50 Oregonians arrived in Columbus GA last night to join the annual protest and vigil at the School of the Americas, uncertain as to whether a permit had been granted for their planned procession. In a late-night email, Eugene activist Donna Frasier reported: "Judge Faircloth granted the permit... saying if the Army needed to be protected from this group of nonviolent people then we really </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7204186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/7204186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_11_11_archive.html#7204186' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-6279178</id><published>2001-10-11T20:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-10-11T20:45:38.933-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>George Orwell meets Dr. Strangelove!
Military Space Initiative:
a document from Los Alamos National Labs
Official US Government Plans to militarize outer space for 
"war-fighting, peacekeeping, counterterrorism, war on drugs..."
This document also boasts that BMD (Ballistic Missile Defense)
is a sure thing for fiscal 2002. The mad scientists await
further instructions from "Vision for 2020</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/6279178'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/6279178'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_10_07_archive.html#6279178' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-6267989</id><published>2001-10-11T11:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-10-11T20:47:44.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>ARMS TRADE RESOURCE CENTER
"Ignacio Gomez, exiled Colombian journalist, says that "the U.S. Special Forces are opening at least 5 schools in Colombia, at least 4 in Ecuador and 3 in Peru." He goes on to raise the important issue of oversight, saying "we are going to have a total lack of data on how the Latin American military is trained by U.S. Special Forces." Senator John McCain reinforced </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/6267989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/6267989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_10_07_archive.html#6267989' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5863106</id><published>2001-09-23T10:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-23T10:31:02.750-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Explosives Planted In Towers
The collapse of the buildings appears  "too methodical" to be a chance result of airplanes colliding with the structures, said Van Romero, vice president for research at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
"My opinion is, based on the videotapes, that after the airplanes hit the World Trade Center there were some explosive devices inside the buildings </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5863106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5863106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_23_archive.html#5863106' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5862881</id><published>2001-09-23T10:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-23T10:13:42.456-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The Emperor Walks Naked, cont...
"...Washington is playing with the possibility of a war which would make the horror that occurred last Tuesday at the World Trade Center, or even the much larger-scale horror of the U.S. terror-bombing of Yugoslavia, look like previews of hell."</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5862881'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5862881'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_23_archive.html#5862881' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5862777</id><published>2001-09-23T10:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-23T10:06:53.793-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5862777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5862777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_23_archive.html#5862777' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5708288</id><published>2001-09-15T14:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-21T20:36:18.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>AFL-CIO Focuses on Relief Efforts, Calls for Cancellation of IMF Meeting..continued 

"...We remain steadfast in our conviction that the policies of the World Bank and the IMF must change if they are to foster a fair and just global economy that works for working families everywhere.  We will continue to call for new rules for the global economy that protect people and the planet, not just </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5708288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5708288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_09_archive.html#5708288' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5707369</id><published>2001-09-15T13:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-21T20:39:02.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'> AFL-CIO Focuses on Relief Efforts, Calls for Cancellation of IMF Meeting

"Today I have sent a letter to James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, and Horst Köhler, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, calling upon them to cancel or postpone the annual meeting of the Bank and the IMF scheduled for Washington at the end of September.  As I said to them in my letter, I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5707369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5707369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_09_archive.html#5707369' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5704474</id><published>2001-09-15T09:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-15T15:17:27.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>In September 1939, Adolph Hitler marched on Poland, and brought it to it's knees. Today, entire continents capitulate to the whim of Horst Kohler, director of the IMF. As the  leaders of Ecuador bow to the neo-liberal command, they file the following report to the international banking cartel:
 "...Domestic fuel subsidies have been reduced markedly. In December 2000, the prices of gasoline and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5704474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5704474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_09_archive.html#5704474' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5645226</id><published>2001-09-12T12:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-12T12:07:05.150-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>...In his prospectus for The Economist, Wilson wrote: "we seriously believe  that free trade, free intercourse, will do more than any other visible agent to extend civilisation and morality throughout the world." 
The Economist seems to know a few things about "INTERCOURSE", but we have our own spin here -;)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5645226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5645226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_09_archive.html#5645226' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5644749</id><published>2001-09-12T11:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-12T11:43:13.856-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>"...Chiquita maintained financial records in Miami for the purpose of helping Ecuadoran growers, with whom it had contracts, evade taxes...
More Evidence about Ecuador's Miami connection 
</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5644749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5644749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_09_archive.html#5644749' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5644369</id><published>2001-09-12T11:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-12T11:23:27.726-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Human Rights Suit Against Unocal
"There is no question that Unocal knowingly participated in a project with a military that committed widespread and brutal human rights violations for Unocal's benefit," said Richard Herz of EarthRights International, co-counsel for the plaintiffs. "Now Unocal will have to answer for its despicable behavior."</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5644369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5644369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_09_archive.html#5644369' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5643068</id><published>2001-09-12T10:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-12T10:19:28.730-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>INNOVATIONS IN CROWD CONTROL WEAPONS
"there is a need to consider halting the use of peppergas in Europe until independent evaluation of its biomedical effects is undertaken. Special Agent Ward the FBI officer who cleared OC in the USA was found to have taken a $57,000 kickback to give it the OK. Other US military scientists warned of dangerous side effects including neurotoxicity and a recent </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5643068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5643068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_09_archive.html#5643068' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5642922</id><published>2001-09-12T10:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-12T10:11:42.236-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Oil Companies' Assault on Ecuadorian Activists &amp; Journalists Condemned Internationally
"Company security guards destroyed cameras, assaulted the activists and three journalists while taking possession of their photographic equipment in an attempt to prevent coverage of the incident. One journalist, Gustavo Abad from El Universo, a leading national daily, was reportedly beaten and detained by OCP</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5642922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5642922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_09_archive.html#5642922' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5471640</id><published>2001-09-04T01:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-04T01:53:21.216-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>1997 World Press Freedom Review"President Fujimori, who had tried to suppress media contact with the rebels by cutting off electricity and telephone lines to the captured residence, was furious with the journalists, who included Koji Harada, a photographer for Japan's Kyodo News Agency. Kyodo officials in Lima defended Harada, who, they said, had risked his life to bring the first images of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5471640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5471640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_02_archive.html#5471640' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5470000</id><published>2001-09-03T23:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-03T23:05:35.713-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>"...Thus we accuse the police of rioting, acts of terrorism and violations of basic human rights such as the freedoms of expression and assembly. The police must be made accountable for these crimes. The police attacked because Power is afraid of us, the rebel communities - people who won't submit to the neoliberal command." White Overall Statement</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5470000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5470000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_02_archive.html#5470000' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5469738</id><published>2001-09-03T22:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-03T22:43:25.870-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>"...our vision and cultural mission, which we are obligated to defend with dignity. THE RESPECT FOR THE LIFE OF MOTHER EARTH AND ALL THAT EXISTS UPON HER." U'wa Communique, July 31, 2001 
</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5469738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5469738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_02_archive.html#5469738' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5469698</id><published>2001-09-03T22:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-09-03T22:39:25.180-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>LIVE WORLD Unprecedented Verdict Frees Adidas Worker in Indonesia
"...Ngadinah’s case is also a victory for international labor solidarity.  Both the United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) and the AFL-CIO’s American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS) had been following her case closely and were in attendance at her final trial." 
</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5469698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5469698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_09_02_archive.html#5469698' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5344956</id><published>2001-08-28T10:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-08-28T10:51:07.300-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Haïti Progrès
August 15 - 21,  2001
"...Corruption and infiltration of the PNH (Haitian National Police) is no surprise. Since it replaced the FAdH in 1995, the PNH was designed, formed and trained by U.S. government agencies, which insisted on integrating many former Haitian soldiers(from the corrupt Duvalier regime that the US allegedly opposed, ed.)."
.be the news where you can read and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5344956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5344956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_08_26_archive.html#5344956' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5325261</id><published>2001-08-27T12:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-08-27T12:33:39.076-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>"It seems that any forces launching attacks against the Haitian government become the darlings of the Dominican authorities, in particular the army, which acts in close concert with the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. These agencies of Washington seem to be conferring on the Dominican Republic the role of sub-regional policeman. Although Haitian Foreign Minister Joseph Philippe </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5325261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5325261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_08_26_archive.html#5325261' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5288270</id><published>2001-08-25T01:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-08-25T01:56:06.156-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>FTAA Unveiled, again
Once again, the basics of FTAA, in case if all the tear gas and rubber bullets have blurred your memory... "The goal of the FTAA is to impose the failed NAFTA model of increased privatization and deregulation hemisphere-wide..."</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5288270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5288270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_08_19_archive.html#5288270' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5287946</id><published>2001-08-25T01:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-08-25T01:07:42.046-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Toledo's Win In Peru Examined
"...18.5% of those eligible did not vote, although voting is mandatory in Peru..."
The people's choice?
As soon as we explain the background, we plan to explore this much more thoroughly.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5287946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5287946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_08_19_archive.html#5287946' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5287789</id><published>2001-08-25T00:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-08-25T00:49:09.340-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>No Logo
"...When the young Canadian woman modestly handed me her book, with the quiet dedication "to Walden, with respect and solidarity," little did I know that I was receiving a stick of dynamite..."
reviewed by Walden Bello
</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5287789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5287789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_08_19_archive.html#5287789' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5264729</id><published>2001-08-23T19:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-08-23T19:44:30.580-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Some news from Chad and Agatha, who will be helping with a live webchat from Indonesia summary and background later today Webchat with an Indonesian Worker at behindthelabel.org </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5264729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5264729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_08_19_archive.html#5264729' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5079696</id><published>2001-08-14T00:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-08-14T00:24:22.430-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>
[NOTE: Guayas is a province in the south of the country were Guayaquil is located.  It is one of the fastest growing provinces in the country both in terms of GDP, population, and poverty.]
PATRIOTIC FRONT
Guayaquil, August 1, 2001
MANIFESTO: 
UNITY IS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR THE COMMON SOCIAL STRUGGLE OF THE PEOPLE!
The situation of Ecuador has become a veritable tragedy as a result of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5079696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5079696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_08_12_archive.html#5079696' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-5079691</id><published>2001-08-14T00:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-08-14T00:23:54.320-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>as we continue our opposition to the modern day, state financed privateers, news rolls in from the barricades!
and in Ecuador, at the barricades who will you find?
Doctors, teachers, and engineers in the struggle against
neo-liberal domination by crypto-fascist IMF economists...
FUCK THE FTAA!
</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5079691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/5079691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_08_12_archive.html#5079691' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-4835329</id><published>2001-07-31T10:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-07-31T10:36:09.190-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>just got back from a successful action at the Salem, OR Chamber of Commerce.
they were busy plotting to undermine public services here with a privatization
sheme, but we will have no part of such foolishness, especially since the
perpetrators do not support a living wage. Shawna from the Statesman Journal
showed up near the end to take our statements. So expect to see the glorious
details in</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/4835329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/4835329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_07_29_archive.html#4835329' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-4201324</id><published>2001-06-22T20:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-06-22T20:28:34.083-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>BLOGGER 
"Show your love. The hour is drawing near, and the race is close. .. show your appreciation with a vote for the Webby People's Voice award (in the Personal Site category)..."
We love you Ev, for enabling us to stumble along with our own, perhaps misguided, idea of "Freedom of the Press" with the wonderful tools and amazing resources you've managed to muster at BLOGGER!
</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/4201324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/4201324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_06_17_archive.html#4201324' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-4200671</id><published>2001-06-22T19:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-06-22T19:30:50.736-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Protest the Summit of the Americas 
Some of the Protest Victims in Quebec 
* Missing in Action – Jaggi Singh – Victim of a state kidnapping by undercover police at the demo - he is still in Jail. 
 - Eric Lafferriere, 28, will never speak again. Two rubber bullets severed a nerve in his left arm and crushed his larynx last Saturday. Eric  has undergone a tracheotomy and awaits further surgery.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/4200671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/4200671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_06_17_archive.html#4200671' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-4165202</id><published>2001-06-20T18:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-06-20T18:37:41.143-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Free Lori Berenson NOW
Today, American Citizen Lori Berenson was convicted in a Peruvian court in an instance of double jeopary. She had already been held in Peruvian prisons for over 5 years on the basis of draconian laws enacted by former president Fujimori during a "state of emergency" at the very end of the previous Bush administration in 1992. This is the type of thing that we will learn to</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/4165202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/4165202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_06_17_archive.html#4165202' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-4135504</id><published>2001-06-18T22:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-06-18T22:27:43.850-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>The Inquisition in Lima in 1736... and in April 2001: Lori Berenson (Liberacion - 26 April 2001) by Eduardo González Viaña, Peruvian novelist and Professor at Western Oregon University
"...A military court condemned her, almost without listening to her, for 'treason against the fatherland'despite being a US citizen. The civilian court that currently judges her emphasizes her ideological beliefs </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/4135504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/4135504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_06_17_archive.html#4135504' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-4111751</id><published>2001-06-17T12:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-06-17T12:44:06.670-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>White Overall Statement
Although this doesn't directly relate to the FTAA, it does indicate the
solidarity between the people of Gothenburg and the people of Quebec,
whose human needs were trampled for the sake of the dubious
"New World Order". Here is a statement from Gothenburg:


After the shooting - White Overall Movement Statement from Gothenburg J16 
To Civil Society 
To Media 

</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/4111751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/4111751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_06_17_archive.html#4111751' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3057120.post-4105476</id><published>2001-06-16T22:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2001-06-16T22:16:17.376-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Here's a shining example of the American influence on worldwide police oppression. The same thing has happened again and again in US cities like Eugene, Oregon, Iowa City, Seattle, Washington, and Chicago Illinois, where local police are temporarily replaced by faceless, masked, "Federal" thugs without badges or identification whose duty is not to protect the rights of the local citizens, but </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/4105476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3057120/posts/default/4105476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://stopftaa.blogspot.com/2001_06_10_archive.html#4105476' title=''/><author><name>David Roknich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00062279203901155334</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KoFCOHMfYpc/TMJn_HmOQjI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ydHGWRduiYs/S220/tanager6.jpg'/></author></entry></feed>
