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Henry Norr's Last Article On the Dangers of Electronic Voting - later, fired. This is really an excellent article, and I suspect more likely a reason he was 'fired' - "Problems with Florida's new touch-screen equipment have been amply documented. To cite just two: Votes cast for the Democratic candidate for governor in one precinct during last fall's gubernatorial race were credited to Jeb Bush because of a "misaligned" touch screen. No one knows how many votes were misrecorded. In city council elections in Palm Beach last March, when a losing candidate...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 1:55pm PDT
Banks Attacked in Valencia, Spain On the night of April 30, 2003, in the Cabanal district of Valencia, Spain, 3 banks were totally destroyed....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 1:38pm PDT
Sat. May 17th- War at Home Event! Saturday May 17th- An interactive panel discussion with community organizers and activists Breaking Down the War at Home. Hosted by Right to a Roof (SF Coalition on Homelessness) and the Active Solidarity Collective....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 1:16pm PDT
Christian Right Talks Of Dumping Bush In 2004?? Leaders of the Christian right are thinking of bolting the Republican Party in 2004. Such a move would deal a severe blow to President Bush’s re-election effort....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 1:07pm PDT
apartment vacancies near 10% several bay area cities, including Berkeley, and Sonoma have apartment vacancy rates near 10%....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 12:52pm PDT
US try to end Nepals peace proces The US government has put the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and its mass front, United People's Front in the category of terrorists, while Nepalese goverment itself does not regard them as terrorists any more. The USA try to stop the peace process in Nepal to prepare the ground for a US military intervention in the South Asian country....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 12:35pm PDT
Israeli Flag to Be Raised Over City Hall Wednesday May 7 The raising of the Israeli flag at City Hall will be first time in the USA....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 12:05pm PDT
Oakland Docks forum (City Council) May 13 The Apr 29 hearing on the Oakland docks is being continued on May 13, City Hall, in City Council chambers....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 11:58am PDT
SAVE OUR SCHOOLS - NATIONALLY! Save Our Schools on a national level woth MoveOn.org's petition...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 11:05am PDT
Apartheid in Canada Canada imposes an apartheid situation on its indigenous people. Most native people live on isolated northern reserves without basic necessities of life; the rest live in urban poverty. Native people did not receive the right to vote until 1961 (40 years after women) and were removed from their families and forced to attend residential schools in an attempt to assimilate them to white culture....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 10:35am PDT
THE SARS PANIC IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE- WILL PRESIDENT BUSH NOW BOMB CHINESE FARMS? There is of course a lot more talk about the threat of SARS. It’s causing problems for many economies and fear among millions of people. However the fact is that according to the WHO under 400 people have actually died....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 10:31am PDT
Cuba y la izquierda 
Analisis de los acontecimientos en Cuba, del debate y las reacciones en la izquierda y posicionamiento...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 10:20am PDT
Community Residents Challenge Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's Smear Campaign Timber Company Branding Young Forest Protesters as Terrorists...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 9:23am PDT
The Responsibility of the Intellectuals: Cuba, the U.S. and Human Rights Isn’t it time that we, in the United States, with our illustrious and prestigious progressive intellectuals with all our majestic moral sensibilities recognize that there is a vital, heroic revolution struggling to defend itself against the U.S. juggernaut and that we modestly set aside our self-important declarations, support that revolution and join the one million Cubans celebrating May Day with their leader Fidel Castro?...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 9:18am PDT
Vote on release of illegally held terrorist suspects Please go to www.vote.com. A very right-wing website that sends their poll results to Washington....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 9:00am PDT
Israelis fire on parents of injured British peace activist It was a measure of the insanity that can take hold here." said British diplomats who were fired upon by the Israeli soldiers.
The 21-year-old student, Tom Hurndall, is in a coma in an Israeli hospital after he was shot three weeks ago. He was hit by a high-velocity bullet fired by an Israeli sniper as he moved towards two frightened Palestinian children in daylight....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 7:47am PDT
Update on Legal Issues for M20-M21 arrestees Legal update from the DASW website for any and all who were arrested and received their courtesy letters (or those waiting and interested on what is going on)...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 7:40am PDT
Editor of Serbian Holocaust Education Project Receives Death Threats "Most of the threats I've received in the past were vague -just 'I'm going to get you,'" editor Cali Ruchala says. "This one said, directly, 'Delete this website or you'll end up with a bullet in your head.'"...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 7:40am PDT
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