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mp3 of Al Gore's speech on presidential powers (01/16/06) (audio/mpeg 45.7MB)
Al Gore made an exceptional speech at Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. Monday, January 16 2006 12:30 PM1/16/2006.
This is a 96Kbps MP3 (mono) with audio of the entire 1h 6m 35s speech delivered by al gore....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 12:20am PST
US Vietnam-era deserter arrested
A US Marine who absconded from his base more than 36 years ago as a protest against the Vietnam war has been arrested and may face a court martial....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 4:01pm PST
MLK Jr. Message: "Act. Now."
Martin Luther King, Jr.:
"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 1:52pm PST
Immigration Reform: From 'American Dream' to 'Latino Nightmare'
A young man whose mother immigrated from Nicaragua looks at the immigration reform debate and finds frightening changes on the horizon....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 9:09am PST
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Day. He was born in 1929. Last week, he would have turned 77 years old. In the early 1960s, King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South where police dogs and bullwhips and cattle prods were used against Southern blacks seeking the right to vote or to eat at a public lunch counter. After passage of Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, King began challenging the nation's fundamental priorities. He maintaine...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 9:07am PST
US living standards in 2005 continued downward trend
Millions of Americans saw their living conditions drastically decline in 2005. For the US working class, four years of a supposed economic recovery celebrated by Wall Street have translated into rising expenses, stagnating real wages and record debt....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 8:57am PST
Will Bush Let a Terrorist Walk? Posada Carriles May Soon Hit the Streets
It's now clear why the United States refused to charge Posada Carriles with terrorism. Not until now do we see exactly why the government charged him only with the single and timid charge of entering the country without proper papers. Instead of pursuing justice, the United States government simply scolded the terrorist....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 7:57am PST
IRISH REPUBLICANS UNITE TO COMMEMORATE HUNGER STRIKES
Chicago Hunger Strike Commemoration Committee
Colm Mistéil, Concerned Group for Republican Prisoners - Chairman
Deirdre Fennessy, Irish Freedom Committee (Chicago Cumann)
TJ O Conchúir, Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America...
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 6:16pm PST
Berrnie Sanders speaking in Marin January 21, 2006
Bob Meyers of the Ruth Group writes: Bernie Sanders’ campaign to replace retiring Vermont Senator (and fellow independent) Jim Jeffords is the most important race of all in 2006. To explain Why Bernie? I was about to write a few paragraphs placing him the tradition of senators “Fighting Bob” La Follette (champion of the working poor and Bernie’s hero), feisty Wayne Morse (who cast one of two votes against Gulf of Tonkin resolution), J.W. Fulbright (who called our attention to the “Arrogance o...
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 5:54pm PST
Free Media Activists Tools
Free Press is a national nonpartisan organization working to improve democracy in the U.S. media system.
If you go to their website you can download free and helpful information....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 1:20pm PST
What is an Antiwar Movement?
Against Laundry Lists and the Exhaustively Debated, Politically Correct, 58-Point Platform...
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 11:13am PST
9 months?
It seems there are changes in the works. A lame duck prezzy will get to replace a moderate voice of reason on the Supreme Court with handpicked right-white-man who thinks he knows what's best for the rest of us. Now there are ads on BART from the rightwingers.
Well we got our own ads!...
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 11:21pm PST
"Airline Workers United" Forms to Fight Concessions Industry-Wide
Things seem to keep going from bad to worse for workers at Northwest Airlines (NWA). While striking mechanics and cleaners face a bitter winter after more than four months on the picket line, pilots, flight attendants, gate/ramp agents, baggage handlers, customer service reps, and other union workers face a fresh round of givebacks against the backdrop of a bankruptcy court....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 10:07pm PST
Safety reports document deadly conditions at West Virginia mine
Newly released reports from state and federal safety inspections of the Sago Mine prior to the January 2 explosion that killed twelve West Virginia coal miners detail a rash of potentially deadly safety violations and a pattern of negligence, if not criminal disregard, by company officials....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:59pm PST
City residents denounce “Bring New Orleans Back” rebuilding plan
New Orleans residents reacted with anger and defiance Wednesday to a proposed rebuilding plan for the city devastated by Hurricane Katrina more than four months ago. The “Bring New Orleans Back” Commission, created by Mayor Ray Nagin, unveiled the plan at a standing-room-only meeting attended by hundreds of residents. The audience was too large for the meeting room and spilled out into the corridors of the Sheraton Hotel where it was held....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:57pm PST
Indianapolis Gay Rights Law Signed
Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson has signed the city's gay rights into law.
LGBT civil rights leaders looked on as the mayor put his pen to document in a ceremony at the City-County Building.
City-County Council voted last month to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in the areas of employment, education, public accommodations, and housing....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 8:09pm PST
Dead Man Wheeled In -- The Graying of Death Row
The aging and often sickly death row population nationwide, including San Quentin prisoner Clarence Ray Allen, scheduled for death Jan. 17 -- shows further the cruelty of capital punishment, the writer says....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 7:40pm PST
Girls Don't Need Weighlifting - Top Ten Reasons
Earlier this week Ambrea Phillips, a senior at Anderson County High in Tennessee, was involuntarily removed from a weight training class because she was the only girl. Below are some reasons school officials might have cited to explain....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 4:39pm PST
Major court ruling on protestor mass arrest lawsuit in DC
Court also rules that the Sept. 2002 mass arrest of protestors and
passers-by violated the Fourth Amendment rights of the plaintiffs...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 4:37pm PST
Bay To Gulf People's Pipeline Part 2 (video/quicktime 19.3MB)
Activists tell Pelosi's aide what needs to be done.
Three-minute QuickTime movie. 19MB....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 4:12pm PST