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Friends of Tookie Facing Charges On December 8, 2005, these men (including my uncle) were taken from their cells by guards in riot gear and told that they were going to be questioned and investigated under the charges that they were conspiring to incite a riot and harm guards following the execution of Tookie...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 3:23pm PST
Hundreds protest as state kills Clarence Ray Allen 
San Quentin Prison (January 17, 2006) – About 400 people gathered at the gates of San Quentin Prison last night to protest the execution of 76-year-old inmate Clarence Ray Allen shortly past midnight this morning....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 11:18am PST
Two Documents (audio/x-wav 21.1MB) Tying decades-old terror plan "Operation Northwoods" with PNAC's modern empire-building agenda....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 10:02am PST
Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuits Challenging Bush on NSA Wiretaps Former Vice President Al Gore gave a major speech in Washington Monday accusing President Bush of "repeatedly and persistently" breaking the law by authorizing the NSA wiretaps. We play an excerpt of the address and the Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union are filing separate lawsuits challenging President Bush's order for the NSA to conduct domestic spy operations without legally-required court warrants. We speak with a staff attorney for the Cent...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 8:53am PST
Is Finland going to be part of Russia? How about Texas selecting Tarja, who told on his speech "It would be a blessing for Finland to join Soviet Union in a peaceful manner. At the same time we would be able to get rid of capitalist yoke, since capitalism will die anyway in the next 20 years. Finland together with Soviet Union cold be forerunner towards a communist society"....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 8:34am PST
India: twelve protestors killed in police shooting Twelve tribal villagers in India were shot dead by police on January 2 during a demonstration against the development of the Kalinga Nagar steel complex in the eastern state of Orissa. The impoverished protestors were demanding a halt to construction by steel developers on their traditional land. A 13-year-old boy and three women were among those killed....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 7:58am PST
California governor denies clemency: 76-year-old dies by lethal injection California death row inmate Clarence Ray Allen was put to death just after midnight Tuesday at San Quentin State Prison. His execution by lethal injection went ahead after Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger denied his clemency bid. He was the 14th person put to death in California since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977, and the second person to be executed in little more than a month....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 7:54am PST
Russian president secretly signed law on public groups Today, January 17, 2006, Russian governmental newspaper published new law on public (so-called non-governmental) groups. It appears from publication that Russian president signed controversial law a week ago which remained a secret so far. stricter gov't control on all kinds of public groups. Some human rights activists compare it to similar law of Soviet times....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 7:39am PST
Live San Quentin Protest Now Live right now. Windows media player required...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 8:55pm PST
To End Death Penalty: Vote for Anti-Death Penalty Candidates & Parties If you are serious about ending the death penalty, you have to vote for candidates of the socialist Peace & Freedom Party or the Green Party as those are the 2 anti-death penalty parties. Democrat Atty Gen Lockyer enthusiastically joins Republican Schwarzenegger in murdering human beings with our tax dollars, and is supported by pro-death penalty Senators Boxer and Feinstein, all Democratic candidates for President, the Democrats sitting on the US Supreme Court (Breyer dissented this time on...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 6:42pm PST
Elderly Convict's Clemency Plea Rejected by Supreme Court The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from a 76-year-old convicted killer who argued that he was too old and feeble to be executed....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 6:06pm PST
Execution Tonight! Please attend one of these very important events today, Monday, January 16th, to show your opposition to the scheduled execution of Clarence Ray Allen....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 4:18pm PST
Three more ELF arrests in Sacramento: Support Information This is an announcement from Sacramento Prisoner Support about the three recent arrestees......
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 4:06pm PST
California Death Chamber Violates Americans With Disabilities Act California heads for a low point in human rights and human decency...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 10:46am PST
Collaboration with CIA renditions highlights France’s assault on democratic rights The International Federation of Human Rights (IFHR) and the French League for Human Rights (LHR) last month announced they were “filing a complaint with the Public Prosecutor of the Administrative Court of the City of Bobigny against arbitrary detentions, illegal confinement, torture, and violations of the Third Geneva Convention on the fate of prisoners of war.”...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 9:04am PST
All of Us or None and City of San Francisco Find Common Ground To End Discrimination In a victory for civil rights advocates everywhere, formerly-incarcerated activists with All of Us or None and officials in the San Francisco Department of Human Resources collaborated to reach an agreement that significantly reforms the City’s hiring process, to reduce prejudice and discrimination against people based on past convictions....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 7:29pm PST
Court Date for Bicycle Rider attacked by CHP: Wed. Jan 18 
On November 2nd 2005, the California Highway Patrol attacked 40 bicycle riders on highway 101 as they rode from Arcata to Eureka where a demonstration was taking place....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 6:28pm PST
RFID's Can Be Disabled With a "Zapper" Security expert Bruce Schneier (http://www.counterpane.com/schneier.html) relays this news about a product that disables RFID (Radio frequency Identification) tags....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 12:56pm PST
Alan Dershowitz Wants A Warrant Before We Torture 
Alan Dershowitz says he isn't isn't always for torture.
Read his own words in a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Only problem for Americans who see the evil behind his cant:
Torture has become a normative matter under the Bush Administration....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 12:27pm PST
Friends of Tookie Facing Charges On December 8, 2005, these men (including my uncle) were taken from their cells by guards in riot gear and told that they were going to be questioned and investigated under the charges that they were conspiring to incite a riot and harm guards following the execution of Tookie...
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 12:26pm PST
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