The Tookie Protocol for Peace

A Local Street Peace Initiative by Tookie Williams (pdf, 26 pgs.) I am convinced that peace is possible, despite the many lives that have been lost from years of youth gang warfare. This document is designed to assist those whose…

Save Tookie Rally audio

Breakdown FM: Save Tookie Rally at San Quentin on Nov. 19, w/ Snoop Dogg, Fred Hampton Jr, T-Kash & Ex-Gangbangers When Snoop spoke he explained how Tookie’s turnaround about 10-11 years ago inspired him to re-examine his life and step…

Bartering Away Ghana’s Water

Yet another example of the worldwide stuggle to keep water public. The award of the contract to Vtiens International, a Dutch company and Rand Water from South Africa to manage Ghana Water Company was a trade-off between the government and…

Changing times

A year ago, twelve anti-war protestors getting arrested would have been a blip in the news if it even got mentioned at all. Today it’s front page everywhere. That’s how mainstream the anti-war movement has become. Good! And let’s keep…

UK gags paper over Aljazeera memo

Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper has been ordered to cease publishing further details from an allegedly top secret memo revealing that US President George Bush wanted to bomb Aljazeera. According to Britain’s Guardian newspaper, it is the first time that the…

Qatar wants to know what’s up, Dubya.

"I thought this was just a rumour, but now the UK has used the [threat of the] secrecy act to stop it, it raises more questions. It makes this high profile and we would be really interested to know what…