Vancouver Bus Rider Union Brings Back Night Bus Service
Vancouver grassroots activist group Bus Riders Union (BRU) recently enjoyed success of its 18 month "Night Owl buses, end the curfew now!" campaign when the regional transit board Translink voted to...
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May 12
Deck: Download Issue #18 [1MB, pdf] Body: Download Issue #18 [1MB, pdf]Issue #18 is formatted as eight pages of letter sized paper (8.5x11"). (You need Acrobat Reader or an application that reads pdf...
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Plunderphonics
DJ Danger Mouse's Grey Album Mix the Beatles' The White Album with rapper Jay-Z's Black Album and what do you get? DJ Danger Mouse's experimental CD, The Grey Album. You also get a cease-and-desist...
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Accounts Unsettled
Independent reporting from Iraq An ambulance destroyed by US forces during the "siege of Fallujah". Jamail argues that corporate news outlets are willfully oblivious to war crimes and atrocities...
View ArticleUnions, Council Launch Legal Challenge to Uphold Compliance with Canada...
Courts should be able to review the federal government's compliance with the Canada Health Act, says a coalition of "public health care supporters" including the Council of Canadians, the Canadian...
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Montreal Police Shut Down Critical Mass
A critical mass in Toronto. Last week, Montreal police forced the bicycle-based protest to disperse. Police dispersed a monthly bicycle protest in Montreal last week, arresting at least one person and...
View ArticleEast Asia Drying Out
(Jaju) Klaus Toepfer, director of the UN environmental watchdog UNEP, warned the world's environment ministers that dust and sand storm activity in Northeast Asia has increased five-fold over the past...
View ArticleAlgerian Election Declared Fair
(Algiers) Bruce George, designated monitor of the Algerian elections on behalf of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), has declared that the reëlection of President...
View ArticleNATO Expansion Raises Fears
(Oslo) Russian defence minister Sergei Ivanov indicated that Russia and NATO plan this year to sign a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that would allow the former Cold War rivals to deploy military...
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Iranian Reformist MPs Resign en Masse
Reformist President Mohammed Reza Khatami at celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the Shah. (Tehran) Nearly 120 members of the Iranian parliament have resigned in...
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