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Older Features | Newswire | Publish | Commentary | About US ELECTION 2000 7.11.00 Indymedia Election Coverage Bush-246 Gore- 242 Indymedia is gathering news and articles about the US elections in attempt to provide coverage by the people who are electing government figures. Check out our election special EXCLUSIVE BILL CLINTON INTERVIEW 7.11.00 Amy Goodman Interviews President Clinton New York City - When President Clinton called Pacifica Radio's WBAI on election day morning to shore up the vote for Vice President Al Gore and First Lady Hillary Clinton, he did not expect to spend 30 minutes defending his administration's record on the death penalty, the Middle East and racial profiling, among other issues. But that is exactly what happened when he encountered Amy Goodman, host of Pacifica's flagship newsmagazine Democracy Now! and Gonzalo Aburto, host of WBAI's Alternativa Latina. The journalists confronted Clinton for flying back to Arkansas in 1992 during the presidential campaign to execute Ricky Ray Rector, a mentally impaired man, questioned his administration's support of sanctions against Iraq, killing thousands of children every month, and asked him whether he would grant executive clemency to Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who is serving life sentence for murder at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas. This was the first time that Clinton has addressed the Peltier case publicly. [listen in: audio interview | read more ] NEWS FROM THE MID EAST 7.11.00 More Horror In Beit Jala Dear Friends, I do not know how to start or what to say, but I was wrong, Wednesday the 1 of November was not the most horrific night of my life and my family's, it was last night and maybe not, may be there will be worse??!!The night started with the bombing of Beit Jala from the Israeli settlement of Gilo began, immediately I heard the screaming of my brother at his wife trying to get the phone number of his daughter's God Father Mitri, who took my nieces; Renata (three years old) and Cilina (20 months old) for a drive in Bethlehem, because the infants did not go out for so long and he wanted them to feel better. I immediately jumped on my broken foot outside the house to see what was happening to realize that my brother and his wife are there, but not their babies. read more WTO ONE YEAR LATER 7.11.00 Morale Reportedly Low at the WTO Nearly a year after violent demonstrations in Seattle disrupted the World Trade Organization's meeting of ministers and shredded its image, the group's leader, Mike Moore, is still trying to pick up the pieces. more CHECK OUT WTO CHAT 7.11.00 WTO Press Office to Hold Online Chat For the first time, the WTO Secretariat Press Office will host a live on-line chat on Tuesday 7 November 2000 starting at 15:00 hours (Geneva time, GMT + 1) and lasting about one hour. The briefing will be held by Keith Rockwell, WTO Spokesman, and will deal with issues concerning the implementation of WTO agreements. To see a short segment of the conversation that took place, click here.You can also join a discussion on indymedia's server. VOTEAUCTION.COM SHUT DOWN 7.11.00 Satirical Voting Site Shut Down On November 1, Network Solutions (the private for-profit corporation in charge of all .com, .net, and .org domains) shut down Vote-auction.com without warning or explanation, shortly after public attacks by the California Secretary of State, and after the Chicago Board of Elections filed an election fraud lawsuit against the domain. [ read more | ACLU takes on CA] ANTI-NUCLEAR PROTESTS CONTINUE 6.11.00 Austrian Activists Blockade Czech Border Austrian anti-nuclear activists sealed off the border with the Czech Republic Sunday, the fourth day of renewed blockades aimed at forcing the Czech government to shut down a recently activated nuclear power plant. International opinion is increasingly negative toward the new plant which is now online. There are reports of news crews being denied access to the demonstrators. Dialog between Austria and the Czech Republic is increasingly under strain due to the protests. The current blockade started Thursday at three border crossings closest to the nuclear plant in Temelin, 30 miles from the border with Austria. The blockade was gradually extended over the next three days and the last of the 15 crossing points was closed for traffic at noon Sunday. read more U'WA SITUATION INTENSIFIES 4.11.00 Oxy Begins Test Drilling update from RAN On Friday, just outside of U'wa land, Occidental Petroleum began test drilling. Leaders of the U'wa Indian tribe have protested the Occidental Petroleum Corp. project for years, at one point even threatening a mass suicide should the company be allowed to drill in the area near Colombia's eastern border with Venezuela. An international campaign against Occidental and its main financier, Fidelity has been continually targeting Al Gore (who is invested in Oxy, as well as Ralph Nader) to speak out on behalf of the U'wa. read more NEWS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST 3.11.00 Day 36: 1 Dead, 276 Injured For the 36th consecutive day, Israeli forces responded with lethal force against Palestinian demonstrators throughout the West Bank and Gaza, killing one and injuring 276, including 2 LAW field researchers. This afternoon, Nahid Fate Ahmad Alloh, 21, from Gaza, but living in Tulkarem Refugee camp, died after being hit by live ammunition during clashes west of Tulkarem. The bullet entered the right side of his body and exited on the left side. more An Urgent Statement In February of this year, we, a group of Palestinian academics and activists, addressed an urgent call to the Israeli public. We expressed in it our fear that the Oslo peace process, as it had evolved over the past seven years, was inevitably leading to further conflict -perhaps even war-rather than to our hoped-for goal: a final historic reconciliation that would enable our two peoples to live in peace, human dignity and neighborly relations. more The Bombing of Beit Jala Since 4:30 pm, we have been under heavy shelling by Israeli tanks and helicopters. The shelling was targeting all houses and residential areas in Beit Jala, Aida refugee camp and Al-Khader village, near Beit Jala. This shelling continued until about ten in the evening and we are not sure whether it will stop or not tonight. The factory across my house, about five meters away was hit, my cousin's car parked outside the house was totally damaged and the only thing we could do was sit in the inside room, all together. read more | Bethlehem is under heavy bombing US ELECTIONS 31.10.00 To vote for Nader, Gore, Bush, or at all? So, this Nader / Gore rift has become the debate de jour in US politics this week. With the election just a week a way Gore supporters are worried they'll lose the election and they want to blame Nader. Nader folks have countered with emails and websites. The Maoists have their views, and even among anarchists there's an argument whether they should vote for Nader or not vote at all. This whole problem might be different if the US had proportional representation. NEWS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST 30.10.00 Heavy Artillery Deployed Amid Continued Violence bullet holes in Bethlehem This morning, 30 October 2000, at 09.00 local time, Walid Dahdoul, 20 years old, a student at Al-Najah university from Beit Sahour, was beaten by Israeli settlers on the main road between Jerusalem and Nablus, Dhadoul sustained injuries to his head. This afternoon, 14.00 local time, Tassir Ahmed Suleiman, 46 years, from Ainabous, Burj Al-Hamam, Nablus was shot in the chest by live ammunition by Israeli settlers from Hitzbehar, when he was harvesting olives. more Al-Aqsa Intifada by Noam Chomsky Barak announced a new plan to determine the final status of the region. This plan...called for cantonization of the territories that Israel had conquered in 1967, with mechanisms to ensure that usable land and resources remain largely in Israeli hands while the population is administered by a corrupt and brutal Palestinian authority (PA), playing the role traditionally assigned to indigenous collaborators under the several varieties of imperial rule. read more A Green Light To Slaughter In the Sharm-al-Sheikh summit last week, Barak got from the US his green light to slaughter...There is talk about the Palestinian Kosovo, with 2000-3000 Palestinians dead. As usual, the blame for this slaughter is put in advance on Arafat, who, the story goes, wants his people to be slaughtered, to gain international sympathy...If there is anything that could still prevent the bloodshed, it is international intervention. [ read more | imc-israel ] G20 PROTESTS BEGIN IN MONTREAL 24.10.00 Beyond the Protests Tuesday October 24th: As leaders from around the world sit down to discuss economics at the G20 meetings, people are gathering in the streets to voice their dissent with how power is structured in society. Two arrests have been reported today during the demonstrations outside of the conference. police charge protestors Monday October 23rd, anti-globalization protesters rallied in front of the Sheraton Hotel in opposition to the G20 meeting that took place on the 24th. "We will not stand for thirty people in a hotel room making decisions for the rest of the world" a protester shouted. After two hours of chanting and dancing, a small group turned up the heat by lighting fires in two garbage dumpsters. Chaos ensued. The demonstration broke down, turning into a cat and mouse game with mounted riot squads charging down the streets armed with batons and pepper spray. Thirty-nine demonstrators were arrested, some while seated on the ground holding hands. [ read more | latest news from cmaq.net | background on the G20 20,000 TAKE THE STREETS IN KOREA 20.10.00 Day of Action Agaisnt Neo-Liberalism This past Friday, more than 20,000 demonstrators took to the streets in Seoul, Korea to march against the ASEM conference. The Asia- Europe Economic Meetings were taking place behind closed doors with more than 30,000 police preventing any dialog with the people in the streets. [ read more | KoPA ] NEWS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST 23.10.00 Dear Diary... From Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Palestine Diary Entry from the 21st of October, 2000 from the Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem, about the ongoing bombing and shooting of Beit Jala and Beit Sahour [ read more ] Atoning for the Middle East Tragedy After the Death of 3 Israeli Soldiers Rabbi Lerner presents a critical look at the death of two Israeli soldiers in view of the Palestinians' very real oppression by Israel. Attendee of the signing of the Oslo accords at the White House in 1993, Rabbi Lerner comments on hate, Barak's expansion of Israeli settlements and the possibilities of peace in the holy land. [ read more ] full coverage of the situation in the middle east at: indymedia.org.il OCT 22: STOP POLICE BRUTALITY 22.10.00 Anti-Police Brutality Activists Arrested In Police Raid Ten members of the October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality were arrested late last night during a police raid at the Bronx apartment where they were meeting to prepare for a Sunday rally and march. Maze Hoffman of the October 22 Coalition said that the meeting was interrupted at 10:30 p.m. on Thursday night when the police, claiming to be serving a warrant, broke down the apartment door, arrested all ten people and handcuffed them face down on the floor. [ read more | video of attorney Gray discusing police crackdown ] Personal Account of October 22 Demonstrations in LA horses charge in LA I was heading back to my car, to get home, to file a quick story about the events, when a phalanx of mounted riot police were firing rubber bullets at protestors westward on First Street, which runs on the south side of Parker Center. Demonstrators were attempting to secure First, which was part of the announced, origial plan to surround the station... As the crowd got pressed closer and closer together, the cops attacked the activists, firing rubber bullets and pellets. The LAPD were testing their recently invented program of "pain compliance", and it seemed to be working. People were suffering minor injuries, and with each shot, demonstrators got anxious or afraid, and ultimately, many got angry. read more. [more reports from LA | 2000 march in NYC | reports from Louisville | background on LAPD | police brutatity investigations ] MICRO RADIO STRIKES BACK 20.10.00 Mbanna Kantako and HRR Back on the Air Mbanna Kantako returned Human Rights Radio to the air this afternoon at 3pm Central time, in defiance of a court order prohibiting him from further broadcasting. This comes after a large-scale raid which took most of his gear from his home while his family watched. Kantako is awaiting the arrival of the FCC and federal marshalls as he is now in direct violation of a federal court order. [ HRR gets shut down | history of HRR | backgound information on LPFM | audio of the raid ] IMC INTERVIEWS A Conversation with Naomi Klein photo by lucas robinson ...And then I watched this converge and turn into what I believe to be the early stages of a mass movement. And that is to me what is happening in Los Angeles this week, and what happened in Seattle and what is going to happen in Prague. And you see all the pockets come together. But once there is a real movement, in some ways I think, we lose sight of how important it is to keep communicating... [read more | Naomi responds to CSIS | imc interviews: kevin danaher | robert mcchesney | anuradha mittal ] FEATURED COMMENTARTY MASS ACTION SINCE SEATTLE: 7 Ways to Make our Protests More Powerful George Lakey Seattle, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles: each of them experiments in mass direct action for justice and environmental sanity. Each has drawn thousands of committed people who care deeply about a better world, for their own back yard and for the planet. [ more ] Reclaim the Cities by Cindy Milstein "Direct action gets the goods," proclaimed the Industrial Workers of the World nearly a century ago. And in the short time since Seattle, this has certainly proven to be the case... [more] A Movement-building Critique of Philly Protests by Chris Crews As this social movement grows, we need to begin to not only think strategically, but also about the big picture. Where do we want this Movement to go, what will that direction look like, what structural changes need to occur, and how will we begin to move there? [more] Why Protest the Conventions? by Mike Albert The usual answer to "why protest the conventions"? is to list various violations of humanity that the two branches of our one corporate party - the republicans and democrats - persist in maintaining, and to note that we are demanding change in all these areas: bombing other countries like Iraq and Yugoslavia; starving countries to death as in sanctioning Cuba and Iraq... [more] IMC UPDATE www.indymedia.org is now archiving the featured articles. Check out older featured articles in the Features Archive. Get involved with indymedia! Inspired by democratic media? 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