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textLodi terror case weakens in court by reposted
LODI, Calif. - The FBI's discovery last summer of an alleged al-Qaida cell among the Pakistani immigrants in this sleepy farm town sent a shiver through California's heartland....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 7:38pm PDT
textProtesting Yoo In Berkeley by Erin Podlipnik via sfbg.com
A small but committed group in Berkeley targets the notorious law professor who gave Bush the justification to torture detainees...
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 7:34pm PDT
textMumia Abu-Jamal Birthday Events by via Mobilization
various updates...
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 11:23am PDT
textFREE THE LAST OF THE OHIO SEVEN by MARKIN
RICHARD WILLIAMS RECENTLY DIED IN PRISON. NOW IS THE TIME TO DEMAND THE RELEASE OF LAAMAN AND MANNING. FREE ALL CLASS WAR PRISONERS....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 8:31am PDT
textMilitary Tribunals Resume at Guantanamo Despite Pending Supreme Court Case on Legality by Democracy Now (repost)
A Canadian teenager and nine other detainees are appearing before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay this week even though the legality of the pre-trial hearings remains in doubt with the Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld still pending. We speak with ACLU attorney Ben Wizner....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 6:55am PDT
textWhat do police have to do with violence in our communities? by SF Bay View (reposted)
San Francisco – Last year, Mayor Gavin Newsom said if the homicides go up in 2005, then we should recall him. Well, 2005 had the most murders in 10 years, and the mayor is still in office....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 6:34am PDT
imageHomeland Security Official Arrested For Luring Minors On the Internet
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by antispying / from usa today
Homeland Security official caught in child porn sting....a.k.a. It's Times Like These I Especially Appreciate The Police and Prisons!! Yet another reason why we need a system of firm checks and balances in all forms of government. Kudos to this Police Dept. that was not intimidated to take on Homeland Security: the President's personal security force who have the guts to issue "security memos" even though they always seem to have their head up their ass. According to many account...
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 12:45am PDT
audioEnvironment Show on the Green Scare (audio/mpeg 10.1MB) by KMUD repost
Karen Pickett was a guest on the KMUD Environment Show tonight talking about the great Green Scare, the corporate driven FBI and federal grand jury crackdown on environmental radicals, and branding them as terrorists....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 11:09pm PDT
textSupreme Court shirks Padilla appeal against “enemy combatant” detention by wsws (reposted)
In a thoroughly cowardly and unprincipled decision, the United States Supreme Court denied the latest petition by José Padilla, the US citizen who was held without charges or a hearing for 42 months—the first 22 of which were incommunicado, without access to family or lawyers—in a Navy brig....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 9:34pm PDT
text Amnesty accuses US on rendition by BBC (reposted)
Three Yemeni men allegedly abducted and mistreated by the US were probably held in eastern Europe, human rights group Amnesty International has said....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 9:28pm PDT
text Revealed: the plight of prisoners caught up in US rendition by UK Independent (reposted)
Three Yemeni prisoners who were apparently seized and held in secret jails by the CIA for 18 months have spoken for the first time about their detention - providing important new details about the systematic "rendition" of prisoners....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 5:31pm PDT
textMoussaoui Trial May Mark Last Time Bush Administration Use Courts to Try Terror Suspects by Democracy Now (repost)
Although a jury ruled Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty on Monday, Rowley says administration officials may stop using criminal courts for future cases. “If you don’t deal with them in the criminal court then you are allowed to go around all criminal procedure and the Constitution,” she said....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 5:18pm PDT
textCynthia McKinney Accuses Capitol Police of Racial Profiling by Democracy Now (repost)
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) has complained she was the victim of racial profiling that led to a run-in with a Capitol police officer last week. Prosecutors are now reviewing whether to bring charges against her. We speak with Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee about the incident and we look at when several members of the Georgia General Assembly were denied entry to Coretta Scott King's funeral in February....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 5:17pm PDT
textUPDATE ON CHARGES AGAINST THE BROWN BERETS BY THE WPD FOR PEACEFUL MARCH by BROWN BERETS
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 1:36pm PDT
imagePhotos from G8 Grand Jury Press Conference
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by Bill Carpenter
Photos from the March 30th Press Conference pertaining to Josh Wolf's subpoena to the Federal Grand Jury regarding his footage from the July 8th, G8 Protest in San Francisco....
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 9:25pm PDT
textSecret Laws in the US: The Growth of "Sensitive Security Information" Directives (SSIs) by slate (repost)
Congress has significantly broadened the scope of the SSI authority... "The number and scope of [security directives]" designated as SSI "has markedly increased" since Sept. 11, 2001.... The TSA, which is now part of the Department of Homeland Security, has deployed its new secrecy authority with gusto.... SSI authority has been used as a cudgel to impose security discipline and rein in dissent.... The challenges posed by SSI are likely to continue and to grow....
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 10:34am PDT
textFresh violence erupts in Turkey by ALJ
Turkish police have fired into the air to disperse a protest march in mainly-Kurdish southeast Turkey, killing one person....
Posted: Sun, Apr 2, 2006 10:58pm PDT
imageRevealed: victims of UK's cold war torture camp
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by UK Guardian (reposted)
Photographs of victims of a secret torture programme operated by British authorities during the early days of the cold war are published for the first time today after being concealed for almost 60 years....
Posted: Sun, Apr 2, 2006 10:54pm PDT
audioParis What would you do? (audio/mpeg 11.1MB) by da Weaz
This is a clip from Paris' Sonic Jihad about the Police arising from 9/11. This will be linked to an article entitle "Hollywood Strikes Back" regarding media artists responses to the not-so-creeping fascism at weazlsrevenge.blogspot.com...
Posted: Sun, Apr 2, 2006 9:27am PDT
textZaccarias Moussaoui case goes to the jury by wsws (reposted)
A death-penalty jury began deliberations Wednesday in the case of Zaccarias Moussaoui, only two days after Moussaoui took the witness stand, over the objections of his own lawyers, and boasted that he had been assigned by Osama bin Laden to pilot a fifth jet during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001....
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2006 9:45pm PST
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