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Eric McDavid Needs Vegan Food + phone calls on Monday Eric's health is deteriorating and it is critical that he be
provided vegan food as soon as possible....
Posted: Sun, Mar 19, 2006 11:19pm PST
Parade spying undermines community trust in police Keith Sugar, Santa Cruz mayor blasts SCPD and City Council for indiference to constitutional violations in police spying scandal...
Posted: Sun, Mar 19, 2006 10:35pm PST
Ten Minute Trespass Law + Protest March 23 8:30 AM The repressive Ten Minute Trespass Law proposed for all city garages and parking lots received an initial hearing before the advisory Downtown Commission last Thursday. On Thursday March 23 8:30 AM, the public hearing will continue (though with additional public testimony banned or restricted) at 809 Center St. in City Council Chambers. Activists will supply chow; you supply the bodies!...
Posted: Sun, Mar 19, 2006 7:41pm PST
Michael Chertoff's San Francisco Unwelcome! (video/quicktime 16.9MB) Outside the Nikko Hotel where Chertoff addressed the Commonwealth Club, there was a speak-out. Four-minute QuickTime movie. 17MB....
Posted: Sun, Mar 19, 2006 3:46pm PST
Prisoners Abused Before, After Abu Ghraib: Report CAIRO, March19 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – Iraqi detainees were repeatedly abused by an elite US Special Operations force unit before and after the outbreak of the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal, revealed a leading US newspaper Sunday, March19 ....
Posted: Sun, Mar 19, 2006 2:29pm PST
“Hey you! Stop!” 
NYC activist Dave Segal reported to prison Monday, where he will serve six months for actions he took to protest the war in Iraq. These are his words about the experience that took him there....
Posted: Sun, Mar 19, 2006 2:00pm PST
High-Tech Torture Lawsuit [Schlund vs. Bush] Headed To Appeals Court Federal Judge Virginia A. Mathis dismissed Charles A. Schlund's lawsuit against George W. Bush
late last year – without a legitimate reason for doing so. Charles Schlund is going to appeal Judge
Mathis' decision.
Charles Schlund is a whistleblower and political witness who is being subjected to *high-tech*
[i.e. electronic] torture by the U.S. government, in order to prevent him from exposing the
*massive* corruption of the Bush administration.
The information that Charles Sch...
Posted: Sat, Mar 18, 2006 12:08pm PST
Fresno Pitbull Gets Cop's Bullet 
This is a forwarded email from a pitbull email list.
Officer in Fresno shoots loose family dog. Vets deny treatment to dying dog because it was shot by an officer of the law....
Posted: Sat, Mar 18, 2006 10:00am PST
THE US GULAG PRISON SYSTEM - THE SHAME OF THE NATION AND CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY AN EXPOSE OF THE US GULAG PRISON SYSTEM AT HOME....
Posted: Sat, Mar 18, 2006 5:19am PST
US-Backed Repression Soars Under President Gloria Macapagal Since President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo joined the US global "War on Terrorism", the Philippines has become the site of an on-going undeclared war against peasant and union activists, progressive political dissidents and lawmakers, human rights lawyers and activists, women leaders and a wide range of print and broadcast journalists. Because of the links between the Army, the regime and the death squads, political assassinations take place in an atmosphere of absolute impunity. The v...
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 10:45pm PST
CIA Contractor Accused Of Beating Prisoner To Death, Arrested For Assaulting Girlfriend RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A former CIA contractor charged with beating an Afghan man who later died was released from jail Friday to help prepare his defense and was promptly arrested on charges of assaulting his former girlfriend....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 10:24pm PST
Muslim Teen Arrested Over Minor Fender Bender 
Interesting story from Davis about a young Muslim woman who was arrested for a fender bender....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 4:21pm PST
Solidarity is a Weapon: on the Recent Wave of Repression Thus we are faced with a dilemma, what to do in the face of repression? We can run and hide or fight back. If we give the state an inch, it will certainly take a mile, therefore we must stand firm in the face of repression....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 1:55pm PST
FLASHPOINTS: The 25th Anniv. of the H-Blocks Hunger Strikes in the North of Ireland (audio/mpeg 19.0MB) This interview aired on KPFA/Pacifica radio's investigative news show, "FLAShPOINTS," on March 16th. I spoke with Bobby Lavery, Sinn Fein representative for North Belfast from 1985-89, and from '93-2000, also an ex-prisoner of Long Kesh. The other voice is that of Terry Kirby, who was imprisoned in Long Kesh during the Blanket Protest and the Hunger Strike of 1981. Terry was one of 38 men who managed to escape Long Kesh in 1983. mp3, 21 minutes...
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 1:39pm PST
Venezuelan Prof. Visited by Feds in Pomona, Bolivian Prof. Denied U.S. Entry Visa We look at two cases of U.S. government crackdown on university professors: A prominent Bolivian scholar who was recently barred from entering the U.S. while a Venezuelan-born professor comes under the watch of federal agents in California....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 7:35am PST
Transcripts of Guantánamo hearings: a window into Washington’s gulag The Associated Press published on March 15 its preliminary analysis of thousands of pages of documents on prisoners held by the US at Guantánamo Bay. The analysis gives a glimpse into the lives of hundreds of people who have been arbitrarily swept up and held without cause for years, subjected to abuse and wretched conditions....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 6:32am PST
PROTEST! MICHAEL CHERTOFF! TOMORROW MORNING! Friday, March 17, 2006 11:15 AM: Rally Press Conference
Speak-out Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street, Downtown San Francisco
Powell BART Station...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 8:12pm PST
Monterey Sherriff break arm and attempt coverup So you break an arestees arm, what do you do. Well most times they would whip up a good story,
but this time they try and cover it up...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 7:57pm PST
Idriss Stelley Foundation home office in Bayview under attack. AGAIN. This is the 3rd attack on Idriss Stelley's home since December 04....
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 7:04pm PST
Lebanese forces stifle anti-US protest Thousands of Lebanese security forces mobilised outside the US embassy to block a demonstration against "American-British collusion" with Israel in a prison raid in Jericho earlier this week....
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 10:26am PST
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