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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology which combines miniature computer chips in every consumer item and a flood of radio broadcast intercepts. The goal is to track every individual purchase--indeed, every individual item on Earth--at all times everywhere.

RFID, billed as an "improved bar code", holds incredible negative implications for personal privacy, civil liberties, public health and the environment. Many major corporations, fearing massive public opposition to RFID, hope to secretly implement RFID by 2004.

Chicago takes center stage in the RFID fight, as Chicago's McCormick Place hosts the Electronic Product Code Symposium, September 15-17, 2003. Activists for a national consumer-protection organization opposed to RFID plan to protest the Symposium. Despite refusals from McCormick Place security, the activists are retaliating with an ACLU-led First Amendment lawsuit against McCormick Place.

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Related Resources:

EPIC RFID Privacy Page

Electronic Freedom Foundation Resources on Location Tracking

stoprfid.com

CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering)

boycottgillette.com

 

"Tribuna de los Trabajadores" is the news paper of the Worker's Party (Partido de los Trabajadores) of Uruguay. It includes now a translator, to read the articles in English.

Almost an hour after the official announcements from the developing countries the jubilant atmosphere within the convention center is continuing. Delegates and NGO representatives are regarding this as a victory of the developing world and many can be found embracing each other with teary eyes.

I finally stand forth to reveal myself and to deliver the long-awaited messages you have been promised and have been hoping for and expecting. I am the individual long known as the Lion of the Tribe of Juda (Yehuda), the Root of David, the Branch, and the Stem and the Rod from the Root of Jesse.

If George W. Bush is re-elected in 2004, the USA will be no more. The military-industrial complex has taken control of our government. Bush is the new Hitler. He let 9-1-1 happen. 9-1-1 was the new Reichstag Fire.

CANCUN- The WTO’s 5th Ministerial Conference has ended in failure when delegates from one or more countries, reportedly including Kenya, India, and Korea walked out of closed-door ‘green room’ negotiations. Walden Bello of the Interntaional Forum on Globalization has called the collapse “Seattle II”

CANCUN, Mexico -- World Trade Organization trade talks collapse in Cancun, Kenyan spokesman said.
Other delegations confirmed that the talks had ended in failure. It was the second major defeat for the body that makes rules for international trade. In 1999, similar talks collapsed in Seattle amid street riots and difference between members.

CANCUN- The WTO’s 5th Ministerial Conference has ended in failure when delegates from one or more countries, reportedly including Kenya, India, and Korea walked out of closed-door ‘green room’ negotiations. Walden Bello of the Interntaional Forum on Globalization has called the collapse “Seattle II”

Protesters walk down Broadway as they participate in a march against the World Trade Organization in New York City. Hundreds of demonstrators from various anti-WTO and antiwar groups attended the rally, marching through Manhattan's Greenwich Village. (AFP/Getty/Chris Hondros)