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The Cabrillo Student Body President and the Head of the Cabrillo Democrats testified at the last City Council meeting against the Public Works Department's latest shutdown of public space. The law to ban everyone (but especially homeless people) from parking garages entirely, and limit motorists to fifteen minutes, passed City Council on May 9th 6-1, and comes back for a final reading on May 23rd....

This report is a year old, but I cannot recall hearing anything about it at the time or since. I definitely remember reports of Israeli security people making mint over here training governmental and corporate powers that be in supposed anti-terrorism techniques after 9/11. But this? And in the last week we have learned that the NSA has been tracking hundreds of millions of US citizen phone calls for years and the FBI is now spying on journalists at ABC, the New York Times, and other major...

"In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities." -- ABC News, 5/1/01...

ABC News reported on Monday that a senior federal law enforcement had revealed that the government is now tracking phone calls made by journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post and ABC News. We speak with Brian Ross, chief investigative reporter at ABC News....

Wisconsin Death Penalty Vote Tomorrow!...

We should be terrified that Congress has not been doing its job and because all of the checks and balances put in place to prevent this have been deliberately obviated. In order to get this done, the NSA and White House went around all of the checks and balances. I'm convinced that 20 years from now we, as historians, will be looking back at this as one of the darkest eras in American history. And we're just beginning to sort of peel back the first layers of the onion. We're hoping against ho...

In the wake of the May 11 revelation by USA Today of a massive telephone spying program by the National Security Agency, directed against nearly every American citizen, the media commentary has deliberately downplayed the sinister nature of the program. This is a deliberate cover-up of what is without question the most wide-ranging invasion of privacy by the federal government in US history....

One day after the revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly compiling a data base of the telephone calls of some 200 million Americans, the response from the media and both Democratic and Republican politicians already makes clear that there will be no serious opposition from within the political establishment to this further step in the direction of a police state....

Isn't it time SF elect someone better able to stand up to Bush? Matt Gonzales, running as a Green, got 47% of the vote for mayor and almost won in a short and underfunded two-month campaign. Can't another Green do as well or better with more time and planning? SF can then send the first Green to Congress this fall and set an example for the nation. If not here, where? Everyone disappointed with Democrats in SF should register and vote for the alternative candidate with the best chance of...

Everything Samuelson told the jury that Morales told him was a lie....