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Vigil for the Constitution in San Francisco -- Stop Illegal Wiretapping! 
MoveOn & RagingGrannies & CodePink & ACLU & concerned San Franciscans at Justin Herman Plaza: Feb 22, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 6:20am PST
MICHAEL MORALES VIDEO from Feb 20 Protest (video/quicktime 31.4MB) A few of the talks delivered at San Quentin Prison Gate, Feb 20...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 11:09pm PST
Last-minute reprieve for California death row inmate The execution by lethal injection of California death row inmate Michael Morales was temporarily put on hold Tuesday, just hours before his death warrant expired. Although given a temporary reprieve, the circumstances surrounding his case speak volumes about the gruesome and sadistic practice of capital punishment in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 11:04pm PST
Stop the Wiretapping! 
The President Accused of Breaking the Law...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 9:14pm PST
NY WTC 'protected' by Kuwait company and Marvin Bush on 9/11 Those behind the scenes of this UAE corporation may not even be from UAE at all for all we know.Who ever is behind it,the CIA or far right no doubt approves.But since when has our corrupt CIA,that has been gutted by Porter Goss and his ilk as it is,had our interests at heart ? Their only interest is self enrichment and corruption and they have led our military into a trap in Iraq and Afghanistan almost willfully. Why ?...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 6:57pm PST
Tonight in Berkeley: Sister Helen Prejean Book Event A follow-up to her bestseller, "Dead Man Walking." Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley. 7:30pm...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 5:23pm PST
Vigil for the Bill of Rights (2/22) In more than 150 cities across the US, MoveOn.org is organizing a Vigil for the Bill of Rights to protest illegal wiretapping, and the errosion of our Constitutional rights. They happen Wednesday, February 22nd. Meet at 5:30 PM in Santa Cruz at the Clock Tower, and in Felton at the intersection of Highway 9 and Graham Hill Road....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 8:57am PST
Horrors of Camp Delta are exposed by British victims An award-winning film director who reconstructed scenes of torture and abuse at Guantanamo Bay has called for the immediate closure of the US-run camp....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 7:21am PST
Execution Cancelled; Victory for the Workingclass The spirit of Stanley Tookie Williams prevails: The death penalty for Michael Morales has been postponed indefinitely! Victory, Victory is our Cry! The Class Struggle is the Reason Why!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 6:29pm PST
Supreme Court Reconsiders Ban on Abortion Procedures Today the Supreme Court announced that it will consider the constitutionality of a federal abortion procedure ban -- a law identical in effect to the Nebraska ban that was struck down by the Court in 2000 because it didn't protect women's health....
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 6:29pm PST
Calif. Execution Postponed Indefinitely The state on Tuesday postponed indefinitely the execution of a condemned killer amid a court battle over the state's method of lethal injection and the role doctors may play in the death chamber....
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 6:07pm PST
Michael Morales Execution Update FEBRUARY 21, 2006 - Michael Morales was not executed last night because the anesthesiologists that had agreed to participate in the execution walked out after determining that what was being asked of them was "unethical". The state has rescheduled the execution for TODAY, FEBRUARY 21ST AT 7:30PM. The state now plans to proceed with the execution using only sodium thiopental or some combination of barbiturates. This is the first time ever that a state plans to carry out an execution ...
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 5:08pm PST
US media drops Abu Ghraib torture issue Horrifying images of systematic US military abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison were aired last week on Australian television and also published at Salon.com. The images of prisoners, naked, strapped to apparatuses on the floor, hanging upside down, wounded, threatened by snarling dogs, masturbating for their abusers, draped in women’s underwear, forced to sodomize themselves, arranged in the most degrading and painful positions, as well as photographs of dead bodies and blood-smear...
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 9:43am PST
Anesthesiologists Delay Calif. Execution The planned execution of Michael Morales was delayed until Tuesday night after two anesthesiologists refused to participate because of ethical concerns....
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 9:36am PST
Two Visions for Homicide Prevention Responding to the highest yearly total of homicides in a decade, four San Francisco Supervisors recently announced plans to create a homicide prevention fund aimed at reducing violence throughout the city. Not long after, Mayor Gavin Newsom responded with his own proposal, which must wind its way through the Board in the upcoming months. A comparison between the two efforts at solving one of the city’s most troubling and complicated problems reveals two different approaches to addressing the ...
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 9:31am PST
Calif. Inmate's Stay of Execution Denied With his execution just hours away, one of Morales' attorneys, former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, then pleaded for clemency from Schwarzenegger. But the governor refused....
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 12:13am PST
Santa Cruzans decry spying 
Posted on Sun, Feb. 19, 2006
Santa Cruzans decry spying
COPS INFILTRATED PARADE MEETINGS
By Ken McLaughlin
Mercury News
photo by Bradley. www.Indybay.org/SantaCruz...
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 11:41pm PST
CA Medical Board ignores executioner docs: "We don't get involved in ethical violations" So I have a question for the Medical Board - if cannabalism isn't illegal in California, and we have docs engaging in consensual cannabalism with patients who survive the procedure without complications - are those docs OK to practice in California?
When the physicans who aided and abetted torture of human beings in Abu Gharaib, "Gitmo", or wherever come to California after military service, will the Board allow ex-torturers to start caring for patients? Hey - Alberto Gonzales te...
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 11:08pm PST
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