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End the silence over Chechnya The following is an open letter from Vaclav Havel, Andre Glucksmann, Prince Hassan bin Talal, Frederik Willem de Klerk, Mary Robinson, Yohei Sasakawa, Karel Schwarzenberg, George Soros and Desmond Tutu:...
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 8:06am PST
Guantanamo man tells of 'torture' A Kuwaiti man being held at Guantanamo Bay has told the BBC in a rare interview that the force-feeding of hunger strikers amounts to torture....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 7:12am PST
DP Awareness Week: The Death Penalty Punishes the Poor Another grim reality of the death penalty is that it is almost exclusively
reserved for the most disenfranchised in our society....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 10:13pm PST
San Jose Mardi Gras riot police video link On the night of Fat Tuesday, police gave out about 240 citations and made 30 arrests for vandalism to cars and businesses, and drunk in public. http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_061212445.html
KPIX TV station (CBS 5) has a link to a fairly unedited video of a line of riot police chasing a group of women down the street, and one woman in particular looks like she is unfairly hit with a baton, with a clear camera shot....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 6:53pm PST
V.A. Nurse Accused of Sedition After Publishing Letter Critical of Bush on Katrina, Iraq A Veterans Affairs nurse in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was investigated for sedition after she wrote a letter to a local newspaper criticizing the Bush administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war. In her first broadcast interview, we speak with Laura Berg, as well as an attorney with the New Mexico chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:46am PST
Vigil for the Constitution in San Francisco V (video/quicktime 20.6MB) What this country needs is a good deal more of the Bill of Rights! Two-minute QT movie. 20MB....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 11:06pm PST
PUEBLO hosts Community Speak Out PUEBLO hosts Community Speak Out...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 10:02pm PST
Death Penalty Panel Discussion 3/6 @ 12:45pm, Room 212 Please join us at the New College of California School of Law for a National Lawyers Guild Student Day of Action Against the Death Penalty event. We will hold a panel discussion: California Meets the World with speakers from Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 9:11pm PST
'9/11 GUILT': New Video From Local 9/11 Truth Researchers, Don Paul & Jim Hoffman 
"This documentary does an excellent job of connecting the dots about 9/11 and the possible political blueprint and financial reasons leading to that momentous event-- detailed and chilling." -- ED ASNER...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 5:34pm PST
SEC Covers Up UAE Money Laundering with U.S. Stocks And some of that money laundering with this unaudited U.S.penny stock fraud's shares has been in the UAE's Dubai,Kuala Lumpur,Nicosia and through a California bank while W Bush has assured us, in order to run his deal with whoever in the UAE to surrender our ports,that the UAE has cleaned up its act and this kind of thing no longer occurs ! And the Securities Exchange Commission is harrassing business journalists to cover up such stock fraud and thus are also covering up money laundering and ...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 3:04pm PST
How to help + PDX and NYC events 1-Donate to his legal defense
2-Sign up to the listserve and keep up to date on case
updates
3-Check out Daniel's website at
http://www.supportdaniel.org...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 1:35pm PST
DP Awareness Week: Innocence and the DP During this national week of action, our CEDP list serve will highlight
one reason for each day--and highlight an event held by one of the CEDP
chapters....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 12:25pm PST
Only 25% of Americans know First Amendment Rights The AP is reporting that only 25% of Americans can name their 1st Amendment rights of free speech, press, religion, assembly and petition for redress of grievances while 50% can name the characters on a garbage TV show, the Simpsons. This is called preparing Americans for war and fascism by keeping them ignorant. Why is there no mandatory high school civics exam?...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 7:59am PST
Democracy Now: Radio Frequency Identification We speak with Liz McIntyre, author of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with RFID" that examines radio frequency identification - a technology that uses tiny computer chips to track items at distance. Major corporations are working right now to install RFIDs on all consumer products. What about in you arm? Or in your kids? We also speak with freelance journalist Annalee Newitz who recently had an RFID implanted in her arm....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 7:14am PST
U.S. Agrees to Pay Egyptian Man $300K For Post-9/11 Detention in Unprecedented Settlement The U.S. government has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by an Egyptian man who spent several months in U.S. detention even though he had been cleared of terror charges. Ehab Elmaghraby was one of over 100 Muslim men rounded up and detained after the 9/11 attacks. According to a lawsuit, he was repeatedly beaten and abused by prison guards. We go to Egypt to speak with Elmaghraby and we are joined by two of his attorneys....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 7:13am PST
Why You Should Oppose the USDA's Mandatory Property and Animal Surveillance Program Those who value their freedom will be incensed at the latest intrusion upon basic individual liberties being perpetrated by Big Government. Under the proposed National Animal Identification System (NAIS), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) threatens to make you a criminal if you have a few chickens in your yard for subsistence farming!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 4:34am PST
Patriot Act reauthorization final vote in the Senate is TODAY! TOLL FREE...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 3:41am PST
UK Muslims Blast "Flawed" Terror Glorification Bill Forty-two British Muslim organizations have pressed for the exclusion of "glorification" provisions in the recently adopted "flawed" anti-terror law....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 10:14pm PST
DP Awareness Week: The DP is Cruel and Unusual Punishment DEATH PENALTY AWARENESS WEEK
February 27 to March 3...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 10:14am PST
New Horowitz Book: "The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America" Nice: "The book's jacket warns: "We all know that left-wing radicals from the 1960s have hung around academia and hired people like themselves. But if you thought they were all harmless, antiquated hippies, you'd be wrong.""...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 10:01am PST
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