Free World / Free the World

http://www.nofreelunch.org/
We are health care providers -- physicians, pharmacists, nurses, dentists, among others -- who believe that pharmaceutical promotion should not guide clinical practice, and that over-zealous promotional practices can lead to bad patient care. It is our goal to encourage health care practitioners to provide high quality care based on unbiased evidence rather than on biased pharmaceutical promotion.

http://pw2.netcom.com/~mvp1/news.htm

Managed Care Proponents Spend $60M (11//30/98)

WASHINGTON - The Associated Press: Insurance companies and their allies in the fight against new regulations for managed health care spent an average $112,000 per lawmaker to lobby Congress in the first half of this year.

The $60 million lobbying outlay was four times the $14 million-plus spent by medical organizations, trial lawyers, unions and consumer groups to press for passage of the so-called Patients Bill of Rights, disclosure reports filed with the secretary of the Senate show.

http://www.corpwatch.org/
GREENWASH Nuclear Energy Industry: Sooo 20th Century
By Kenny Bruno, Posted: 6/7/2001
The Award goes to the Nuclear Energy Institute for audaciously using a scooter riding teenage girl to claim that a polluting, highly dangerous, economically disastrous 20th century technology is our energy future.

http://www.allyourbrand.org/
I'm not some militant anti-corporate warrior. I'm just your average media-saturated, bozo-filtering consumer and this is my personal innoculation against whatever nice, easy-to-swallow, blue-lit, "down with the kids", ironic, straight-to-camera with a wink and a "Hey, you got me" smirk, meta-post-modern, faux-honesty / faux-deceit, triple dummy-fake, shake 'n bake media sheen that these people are going to cloaks themselves in and come at me with. I want to be tired, tired, tired of this by the time they get their act together.

http://www.indymedia.org/
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth

http://www.metropolitic.net/
Two weeks ago, a court in Malaysia issued a ruling that could have might represent a major victory for the dual causes of indigenous land rights and rainforest preservation efforts.

The Earth Island Institute is reporting on the legal victory of Malaysia's indigenous Iban, who were fighting the efforts of the Borneo Paper and Pulp Plantation to cut down rainforests in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. In siding with the Iban, the Sarawak High Court set forth a principle that could have far-reaching repercussions: It ruled that indigenous claims over land were in existence before the establishment of the Malaysian government, and had to be respected as natural rights. Even more encouraging is the fact that Malaysia is a member of the British Commonwealth, and legal precedents from British Commonwealth countries can be used in other Commonwealth countries.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/web2514/moore2514.html
Well, 101 days into the junta and the fear mongers are having a heyday, aren't they? Even good liberals and Democrats have joined in the mantra. To listen to them, you'd think George W. Bush had opened the Gates of Hell and unleashed the legions of Satan upon the American people.

These good people actually believe Junior has put the arsenic back in the water, given the go-ahead to spew massive carbon dioxide emissions into the air, torn up our national forests and raped the Alaskan wilderness. Now, don't get me wrong. There's no doubt that this illegal squatter in the Oval Office is not to be trusted farther than you can throw Katherine Harris. But, please, let's cut the crap and tell the truth: George W. Bush has done little more than continue the policies of the last eight years of the Clinton administration. As hard as that is for many of you to swallow, that is the truthÐÐand the sooner you stop the scare campaign, the sooner we'll be able to fight Bush in a way that will stop him for good.

http://www.utne.com/bSociety.tmpl?command=search&db=dArticle.db&eqheadlinedata=You%20May%20Be%20an%20Anarchist%20And%20Not%20Even%20Know%20It
You May Be an Anarchist - And Not Even Know It
Anarchy does not mean chaos. According to leading anarchist John Zerzan, it's sensible resistance to subjugation in our lives.

http://www.motherjones.com/
Mother Jones isn't just a magazine anymore. It's a many-faceted media organization. The non-profit Foundation for National Progress, which has been publishing Mother Jones magazine since 1976, now also produces this Web site; and the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography.

Missing in Action The US government has studied the health effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam veterans -- but how about the Vietnamese?

A New Green Deal The government helped launch the digital revolution by investing in technology -- so why not do the same to create an energy-efficient economy?

http://www.poliglut.com/
So who are we to congratulate for these statistics? As reported by CNN.com , the rate of violent crime in America saw the largest one-year drop since the government started keeping track in 1973. No doubt both Republicans and Democrats will each clamor for the glory pointing to policies they've instituted in the past 10 years as the sole reason for this result. But what is the real reason? Stiffer penalties? More police? Or perhaps something as unlikely as unfettered access to abortion? Post your thoughts on why you think violent crime has dropped so much

http://www.ainfos.ca/
a multi-lingual news service by, for, and about anarchists

http://www.protest.net/
This is your world. You can do something to change it.

http://pigdog.org/
Lesbian sex toys wow high school students
Reported 2001-06-06 14:58:25 by El Destino
Lesbians! Vegetable dildos! It's just another high school art class in sex-crazed Canadia!

http://www.transnationale.org/anglais/default.htm
Workers in clothing factories in El Salvador are earning just 29 cents for sewing National Basketball Association jerseys that sell for $140 each, according to an investigation released on Thursday. (Financial Times, May 10, 2001)

http://www.echelonwatch.org/

Echelon is perhaps the most powerful intelligence gathering organization in the world. Several credible reports suggest that this global electronic communications surveillance system presents an extreme threat to the privacy of people all over the world. According to these reports, ECHELON attempts to capture staggering volumes of satellite, microwave, cellular and fiber-optic traffic, including communications to and from North America. This vast quantity of voice and data communications are then processed through sophisticated filtering technologies.

This massive surveillance system apparently operates with little oversight. Moreover, the agencies that purportedly run ECHELON have provided few details as to the legal guidelines for the project. Because of this, there is no way of knowing if ECHELON is being used illegally to spy on private citizens.

This site is designed to encourage public discussion of this potential threat to civil liberties, and to urge the governments of the world to protect our rights.

http://www.bugnosis.org/faq.html
A Web bug is a graphic on a Web page or in an e-mail message designed to monitor who is reading the page or message. Web bugs are often invisible because they are typically only 1-by-1 pixels in size. In many cases, Web bugs are placed on Web pages by third parties interested in collecting data about visitors to those pages.

http://grove.ufl.edu/~techlaw/vol6/Preston.html
The Internet challenges our legal system because it makes legal outcomes uncertain. Particularly, laws made to protect computers on the Internet and computer security are applied unpredictably. Novel situations always place unique strains on the law; the law is sensitive both to equity and language. Law is based on language; law that diverges from the language that forms its base risks incoherence. Incoherent law is unpredictable. At the same time, facts develop and evolve much more rapidly than language, but injustice ensues if the law does not respond to changing circumstances.

http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/pm/hdp/index.html
This site now contains information on Humanitarian Demining and Landmine Policy.

The U.S. Government humanitarian demining program assists selected countries in relieving human suffering and in developing an indigenous demining capability while promoting U.S. interests. The program provides increased humanitarian demining assistance to countries suffering from the presence of landmines, which maim and kill innocents, obstruct emergency assistance activities, hamper economic development, and impede free movement of citizens.

http://www.undp.org/erd/mineaction/
Post-Crisis Recovery and the Obstacle of Landmines

The dramatic increase in the number of armed conflicts over the past [val69.gif (6058 bytes)] decade has halted, and often set back, social and economic development in many of the world's poorest countries. These confrontations have led to tragic losses of human life, large-scale population movements, destruction of physical assets and a severance of trade ties. For the survivors of the war, a culture of militarization and fear often remains long after the signing of peace agreements.

http://www.minesactioncanada.com/
Ban landmines now. No excuses. No exceptions. No reservations. No loopholes.
Interdisons les mines maintenant. Aucune excuse. Aucune exception. Aucune réserve. Aucun échappatoire.

http://www.unicef.org/sowc96pk/hidekill.htm
Total number of land-mines: 110 million in 64 countries
Human cost of land-mines: 800 deaths a month, mostly innocent civilians, with thousands more maimed for life
Dollar cost of land-mines:
To buy one: $3-$10
To remove one: $300-$1,000

http://www.unicef.org/sowc96pk/choices.htm
"If we want to avoid future wars, we have to attack the causes of war, especially poverty. Where can poor countries find the money to pay for things like schools, clinics, seeds, potable water? The military budget is the obvious place. If we can find a way to reduce the arms trade, many countries will be able to concentrate on programmes that, in the end, prevent wars." -- Oscar Arias Sanchez, former President of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

http://vancouver.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=2210
Almost all of "British Columbia" is unceded (not surrendered + no treaty signed) Aboriginal Land. In international law this means the Land belongs to the First Peoples who lived here for millenium - The Aboriginals of colonized "B.C." Learn the links of colonization, capitalism, Resistance + Genocide. Get informed...than Decolonize.

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It is stolen Aboriginal Lands + resources of the Americas that built capitalism into the 1st worldwide self-destructing economic system-that we at the IMC are resisting since No 2 WTO in 1999 in Seattle . Because there is no just-us (non - Aboriginals) on stolen Aboriginal Land anywhere in the world - we want justice for all Peoples everywhere, including us Aboriginals of the Americas.