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Big Mountain, Black Mesa Struggle Continues/Spring Caravan from the Bay & NCoast RIGHT NOW there is an amendment on the congressional floor that sets a new
timetable for the forced relocation of a number of indigenous Navajo families on
Black Mesa. This bill, S1003, comes at a time when the world's largest coal
company, Peabody Coal, prepares not only to continue, but in fact to
expand its strip mining of American Indian lands.
# This spring a caravan will be traveling to Black Mesa from Northern
California and the San Francisco Bay Area....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 12:27am PST
January 5, 2006 is National Bird Day A project of the Animal Protection Institute and the Avian Welfare
Coalition, National Bird Day "is a day to appreciate our own native
wild birds flying free outside our windows, and a day to reflect on
how we treat the native birds of other countries....
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 11:44pm PST
3/13-17th: National Week of Campus Action Against the War NATIONAL WEEK OF CAMPUS ACTION
Week of March 13-17
Students Say NO to War in Iraq!
College Not Combat, Troops Out Now!...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 11:38pm PST
Write to oppose Alito's extreme views and deception MoveOn wants to get 50,000 people to write to the Senate to express their opposition to Alito's nomination...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 11:28pm PST
Harry Magdoff 1913-2006 Marxist Economist Harry Magdoff, co-editor of Monthly Review since 1969 and one of the world's leading political economists, died on New Year's Day, 2006 at his home in Vermont. He kept the journal to the socialist principles and theoretical and pedagogical standards of its late founders, Paul M. Sweezy, who died in February 2004, and Leo Huberman....
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 9:12pm PST
Native American Tribes Attempt to Recover After Being Defrauded of Tens of Millions by Abr Former U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who served as chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee that investigated the scandal, and Tigua tribal governor Arturo Senclair, one of the Indian tribes defrauded by Abramoff, discuss the Native American tribes that have been embroiled in the Jack Abramoff scandal. The tribes hired Abramoff to represent them in Washington regarding casino and gambling issues. As their lobbyist, Abramoff instructed the tribes to make political donations to cert...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 7:42am PST
The Biggest Congressional Scandal in Over a Century? Lobbyist Jack Abramoff Pleads Guilty Lobbyist Jack Abramoff admitted to defrauding at least four Native American tribes of tens of millions of dollars, bribing government officials and evading taxes. Abramoff has reportedly agreed to testify against several members of Congress who received favors or donations from him or his clients. Washington analysts say the corruption scandal could take down as many as twelve lawmakers. We speak with Peter Stone, a staff reporter for the National Journal, about the details of the case....
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 7:40am PST
Dyncorp and Halliburton Sex Slave Scandal Won't Go Away Almost a year after Representative Cynthia McKinney was told by Donald Rumsfeld that it was not the policy of the Bush administration to reward companies that engage in human trafficking with government contracts, the scandal continues to sweep up innocent children who are sold into a life of slavery at the behest of Halliburton subsidiaries , Dyncorp and other transnational corporations with close ties to the establishment elite....
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 6:47am PST
Abramoff and al-Arian: Lobbyist's "Charity" a Front for Terrorism .......
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 6:40am PST
Out of Iraq Events Nationwide This Week + 1/7 Local organizations, including many UFPJ member groups, have planned over 70 Out of
Iraq events around the country on or about January 7th....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:50pm PST
US: low-fare Independence Air to shut down US air carrier Independence Air announced Monday that it will shut down all operations on Thursday, January 6, just 19 months after it was launched. The low-cost airline had filed for bankruptcy protection last November 7, and its parent company FLYi had been looking for a major investor or buyer since then, without success....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:25pm PST
Cheney-Rumsfeld Surveillance Plans Date Back to 1980s Illegal eavesdropping and illegal detentions of U.S. citizens marks a revival of presidential powers curtailed since Watergate, and likely grew out of a secret Reagan-era program that planned to suspend the U.S. Constitution in the event of a national emergency....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:21pm PST
D’s and F’s For ‘No Child Left Behind’ Nearly four years into the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) the nation’s urban school districts have shown little benefit from the law which mandated annual reading and math tests for all students in grades 3 through 8. But the most worrisome trend is that most urban schools are making no progress in reducing the achievement gap between white and minority students. That’s the word from eleven large urban school districts including Los Angeles....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:20pm PST
Washington Pulse -- Alito Record Shows Hard Line on Immigrant Rights Little attention has been paid to Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito's views on immigration. As a lawyer for Reagan administration, Alito argued that immigrants who enter the United States illegally are not entitled to the rights afforded to American citizens....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:18pm PST
January Execution Alert Ringing in 2006 with 8 Scheduled Executions...
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 9:51pm PST
CIA 'ignored Iraqi weapons evidence' The Bush administration is facing new charges over its handling of pre-war intelligence, with a book alleging that the CIA ignored a mass of evidence gleaned from Iraqi weapons scientists, months before the 2003 invasion, that Saddam Hussein had abandoned his WMD programmes....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 7:42pm PST
Muslim clerics sound al-Aqsa alarm The Supreme Islamic Association and al-Aqsa Association for Construction of Holy Shrines have accused Israeli authorities of carrying on excavations under al-Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem and threatening its stability, Aljazeera reports....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 7:39pm PST
My Mother Went From Being Chair of the Local Republican Party to a Screaming Progressive Kentucky is the Bluegrass State. It's where I was born and lived until leaving for college. My mother was Chair of the local Republican Party at a time when Republicans were scarce there. Now the state is glaringly, blindingly red....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 7:38pm PST
My Brother is Gone (poem for Tookie by fellow San Quentin Death Row Inmate and Friend) Poem written by Steve Champion upon the occasion of his friend's execution at San Quentin....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 5:17pm PST
New Year's Visionary Inspiration: radically meaningful nonviolence 
Pacifism alone appears obsolete in the face of tyranny. Yet what if pacifism is but only one form of nonviolence in a spectrum limited only by our imagination? The author looks at one scenario sure to rock your world (with art)...
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 12:03pm PST
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