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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
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
TOLL FREE...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 3:41am PST
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
DEATH PENALTY AWARENESS WEEK
February 27 to March 3...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 10:14am PST
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
MANILA, 28 February 2006 — The Philippine administration yesterday widened its crackdown on the opponents of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo while a group of lawyers challenged her proclamation of emergency in court....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 7:52am PST
Join us at tonight's City Council meeting to remind the Council that it is still up to them to put limits on their police force....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 4:58am PST
AKBAYAN Party today denounced anew GMA's declaration of a State of National Emergency, saying that the draconian measures that the government imposed yesterday completely exposed the despotic inclinations of the ruling regime....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:52pm PST
An open letter on how to resist the "Green Scare" and support those incarcerated, subpoenaed, or harrassed in the FBI's so-called Operation Backfire targeting Earth Liberation activist....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 5:39pm PST
Indynewswire is on Mondays, 1-3 pm on FRSC 101 FM. We hear reports on NSA spying, SCPD spying, and a rant. Plus Simon Sedillo on his film el Enimigo Comun, and live music by Ryan Harvey; Fugazi, Anti-Flag, Bauhaus....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 3:13pm PST
In this exclusive extract from his forthcoming memoirs, Kurt Vonnegut is horrified by the hypocrisy in contemporary US politics (Buy A Man Without a Country at the Guardian bookshop)...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 3:09pm PST
Political commentator Peter Hitchens takes a look at how the recent avalanche of security legislation has affected the civil liberties of ordinary people in Britain. [48 minutes]...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 3:08pm PST
Jeff Mittman of the ACLU of Northern California. Four-minute QuickTime movie. 15MB....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:45pm PST
This is an excellent essay from Portland Indymedia on the current "Green Scare" arrests of eco-activists....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:43pm PST
[Capitol switchboard for all Senators: 202-224-3121 Also:
888-818-6641, 888-355-3588, 800-426-8073, 800-828-0498 and 800-SOB-USOB
(800-762-8762) (that's for Senate Office Building, not what you're
thinking.... :-)]...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 1:56pm PST
We open state HQ of National Action Network in Fresno. 3.5 minute video...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 1:47pm PST
Bang4Change Brings Together Many Progressive, Community and Anti War Groups With a Message of the Need for Social Change...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:16am PST
“Repression Will Not Stop the Other Campaign”
Responding to Arrest in Chiapas, Campaign Participants Denounce Nation-Wide Rise in Acts of Intimidation and Political Persecution
By Bertha Rodríguez Santos
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Chiapas...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:41am PST