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UK told US won't shut Guantanamo The US has rejected the UK government's calls for closing down the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for terror suspects....
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 10:06pm PDT
Parking Garage Paranoia Law Stalls Again The Parking Lot Trespass Law as Amended and its Final Passage Again Delayed Until the Next City Council Meeting on May 23rd. It will probably happen at another hard-to-attend afternoon session....
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 9:33pm PDT
5/19 Puerto Ricans' Art Exhibit "Not Enough Space" in SF 
Coming This May
"Not Enough Space"
May 19 - June 16, 2006
An Art Exhibit Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Political Imprisonment of Oscar López Rivera and Carlos Alberto Torres....
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 8:21pm PDT
Christ Wars Bushite Enemies for the Love of our Living God The Greatest Audio Recording Ever in the History of Our Humanity.
So, don't miss it!...
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 8:17pm PDT
Operation Backfire Backfires on FBI Like the cleansing waters of Hurricane Katrina, the FBI’s attack on the environmental movement has done more for creating community and organizing resistance to government oppression than we were seemingly capable of doing ourselves. At first, everyone was hunkering down or running for cover, moving on or going on hasty, long-term vacations. You did not know who to talk to or who to trust. Except for the peaceniks, the once-radical streets of Eugene were strangely quiet. The bars are full tho...
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 10:08am PDT
The biggest con: Democrats & Republicans work together to destroy America The biggest con: Democrats & Republicans work together to destroy America, parts 1, 2 & 3
Tibor S. Friedman
Online Journal Contributing Writer...
Posted: Wed, May 10, 2006 2:16am PDT
5/11: Spying & Surveillance: A Workshop for Civil Liberties Activists Thursday, May 11th in San Francisco
5:00-7:00 PM...
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 10:23pm PDT
Rights During a Police Encounter 
A handbill in English on Rights During Police Encounters. Print out the handbill and make it available in our communities....
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 10:03pm PDT
Sus Derechos Durante un Encuentro con la Policía 
A handbill in Spanish on Rights During Police Encounters. Print out the handbill and make it available in our Spanish-speaking communities. Also included is the English version of same....
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 12:17pm PDT
A Chilling FBI Fishing Expedition Feldstein, an academic and former investigative journalist for CNN, was visited recently by FBI agents in attempts to access old files related to another (dead) journalists' sources in the 1970's. (Perhaps the phrase "get a real job" would be an appropriate subtitle of this article.)...
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 11:23am PDT
Chicago's Abu Ghraib: UN Committee Against Torture Hears Report On Police Torture For nearly two decades a part of the city’s jails known as Area 2 was the epicenter for what has been described as the systematic torture of dozens of African-American males by Chicago police officers. In total, more than 135 people say they were subjected to abuse including having guns forced into their mouths, bags places over their heads, and electric shocks inflicted to their genitals. Four men have been released from death row after government investigators concluded torture led to their...
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 8:18am PDT
In time of crisis, W resorts for more secrecy! After CIA 'head' Porter Goss was suddenly forced to resign under a cloud of secrecy & rumored link to a D.C. prostitution scandal, America's new K.G.B.(King George Bush) opted for another diehard "I Spy" stooge General Mike Hayden to lead the moribund agency......
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2006 3:09am PDT
Parking Lot Panic at City Council Tuesday May 9th The Fifteen Minute Trespass Law has its final reading as item #17 on the afternoon agenda at Santa Cruz City Council Tuesday May 9th. A protest with food and frolicking will precede the Council rubberstamp at 2:30 PM. Item #17 on the City Council agenda will come up sometime after 3 PM (anywhere from half an hour to several hours)....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 9:42pm PDT
Call for Artwork: NYC Benefit Gallery Show for Daniel McGowan 
Call for Artwork: NYC Benefit Gallery Show for Daniel McGowan
June 23, 2006 at ABC No Rio
156 Rivington Street, between Clinton and Suffolk Street in the Lower East Side
Co-sponsored by Visual Resistance and Family and Friends of Daniel McGowan
Deadline: June 1, 2006
Contact: visual.resistance@gmail.com...
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 5:50pm PDT
Heavily Armed Police Brutalize the Community and Target and Arrest Copwatch Monitors It is a Mexican community tradition to non-violently celebrate Cinco de Mayo in peace and safety; and it is also a police tradition on Cinco de Mayo to brutalize and terrorize the community. On Friday evening 5/5/06, there was a public and peaceful Cinco de Mayo music and spoken word event held on the corner of Story and King which was viciously attacked by riot police. There is a decades long pattern of police brutality on Cinco de Mayo which has gone unchecked, but this year they were cau...
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 2:36pm PDT
San Jose Police Attack Copwatchers at Cinco de Mayo Celebration; Charge "Lynching" San Jose Police attacked and arrested six people Friday night in an attempt to shut down the annual Cinco de Mayo celebration at a shopping center at Story and King in San Jose. Copwatcher is accused of "lynching"....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 1:40pm PDT
Bush CIA Pick Tied to Major Corruption Scandal The biggest US corruption scandal of the last hundred years....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 10:53am PDT
US: Legal challenges to lethal injection as “cruel and unusual” Lethal injection is the method of execution used in 37 of the 38 states that practice capital punishment in the United States. It is also applied in federal capital cases. Of the 1,022 death row inmates executed since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, 854 have died by lethal injection....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2006 8:09am PDT
Lessons from COINTELPRO: Building a Movement in the Face of Repression Recent crackdowns on the animal rights and environmental justice movements have left many activists feeling that their communities are under siege. From the prosecution of the SHAC 7 to the arrests of thirteen individuals for arsons committed over a ten-year span, a war is being waged against these movements by the U.S. government....
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2006 7:38pm PDT
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