Sick of SUV’s? Want to do something?
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Fight the spewticle! Take back the streets! Stay Free! magazine gave out tickets in Brooklyn. You can do it too. Join the community of big game SUV hunters. Or, create and download your own guerrilla bumper stickers like “I don’t care about the air! Ask me why.” And for those a little more out there, there’s implied regurgiation.
Author: Ruby Sinreich
Girls kick ass!
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Erica Pratt is my new hero!
[H]er captors covered her eyes and bound her hands and feet with duct tape and left her alone, locked in a darkened basement. For hours, the police said, Erica gnawed through the duct tape that bound her. Then, mostly feeling her way through the darkened basement, she hopped up the basement stairs only to the find the door locked, the police said. The girl kicked out a wooden panel on the basement door, wriggled through the narrow opening, then punched out a window and screamed for help, the authorities said
Make corporate crooks pay
Contact your congressional representative and make sure he or she supports the stronger measures of the Sarbanes-Leahy Accounting Reform Bill, which passed the Senate last week. This bill is much stronger than the legislation proposed in the House. More information is available at the Enron Watchdog.
The president assaults the planet
Between withholding $34 million previously committed to Chinese family planing efforts and attempting to appoint an anti-abortion activist judge to the federal appeals court, Mr. Bush is doing his damndest to make sure we suck up the planet’s dwindling resources at an even more blinding pace than ever before while reducing the ability of women to control their own bodies. How’s that gonna play with the soccer moms?
Be very afraid
They’re heeere… “Promise Keepers 2002: STORM THE GATES” is playing at the Raleigh Entertainment and Sports Arena (which are they, sports or entertainment?) tonight and tomorrow. It’s already sold out but you can join them for the live web cast. Don’t miss “Advancers of the Kingdom: Champions of Righteousness and Justice in our Communities.”
UNC stomps on us again
The North Carolina Senate is about to pass legislation exempting privately-owned, University-affiliated development from local property taxes. This is yet another blow against local autonomy by the UNC System’s pals in the General Assembly (Senators Rand, Lee, et al). (C.H. Herald)
This could set a very dangerous precedent. While it doesn’t affect Chapel Hill right now, I can see how this may definitely come up at the Horace Willliams property where UNC plans to develop “Carolina North,” a Centennial Campus-like project with lots of partnerships with private companies. They may carry out for-profit activities, while enjoying the University’s tax-exempt land.
It hasn’t been approved yet. Contact your senators!
To the moon, Alice
China is planning to mine the Moon’s surface for mineral resources. “Our long-term goal is to set up a base on the Moon and mine its riches for the benefit of humanity.” The fact that they have not successfully put a human in space yet is a mere technicality, I guess. (BBC)
It’s a date!
North Carolina primaries are supposed to be held in May, but we had some, uh, complications. The N.C. General Assembly just passed legislation for elections to go ahead on September 10, and decided that no runoffs will be allowed between that and the November elections. (Yahoo/AP)
Spies R Us
I don’t have words for how terribly wrong this is. It should be pretty obvious anyway. The U.S. government plans for one in every 24 people to be a spy, informing on friends, coworkers, and family.
The US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report “suspicious activity”.
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Historically, informant systems have been the tools of non-democratic states. According to a 1992 report by Harvard University’s Project on Justice, the accuracy of informant reports is problematic, with some informants having embellished the truth, and others suspected of having fabricated their reports.
Can you name all seven?
DeadlySins.com is a fabulous site with information about the seven deadly sins and lots of related stuff like The Lust Test (I scored 10%), Gandhi’s list of seven sins, recommended reading, the seven virues, etc.