Notes from the Surf
http://neravt.com/left/newslinks.html finally got an update. Strange news in Colombia: their conservative president seems to be developing closer ties to Hugo Chavez (http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN18207417).
It seems you can get a court order to prevent a union organizer from speaking with strikers (http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20071023043132180). Maybe I just don't know all the details, but I didn't think that you could do that.
Is microcredit the best tool to fight poverty (http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/23/4750/)? If you can't change capitalism, maybe. Granted it can probably do a better job than the neoliberal idealogues at the World Bank, but it still assumes you have to work within the system.
If you're looking for a potential mate, research indicates you should be going to Miami and San Diego instead of Philadelphia (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071022/od_nm/philadelphia_unattractive1_dc). Poor Philadelphians...