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There is no time for activist Brother Ace Washingon for much reprieve or fun within his tight schedule...You would assume that this well respected and dedicated member of our community would be shielded from injustice.... Guess again....

Recent articles in the US media indicate that the illegal spying organized by the Bush administration has extended far beyond what was initially reported. It is becoming increasingly clear that the US government has been engaging in a massive operation that violates fundamental democratic and constitutional rights....

Pollycarpus Budihari Priyato, a pilot for the Indonesian state airline Garuda, was found guilty on December 20 of the murder of the internationally respected Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib and sentenced to 14 years imprisonment by the Jakarta Central District Court. The court dropped a political bomb shell, however, when it implicated members of the Indonesian State Intelligence Agency (BIN) in the murder despite neither the prosecution case nor the accused himself making ...

African-Americans who rallied for clemency for Stanley "Tookie" Williams must do the same for Clarence Ray Allen, a non-black, 76-year-old blind man just weeks away from execution, the writer says....

Stanley Tookie Williams, one of the founders of the Crips, was murdered by way of the death penalty's lethal injection, by the state of California, under the governance of Arnold Schwarzenegger, on Dec. 13 '05, at San Quentin Concentration Camp on the shore of San Francisco Bay. He had been convicted of multiple murders on no evidence but the testimony of a police informant, who was given a more lenient sentence after he lied to convict Tookie Williams....

The self-proclaimed "sausage king" Stuart Alexander died Tuesday morning in San Quentin State Prison while on death row for killing three meat inspectors....

Last week Congress finally approved a ban on all forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by US interrogators anywhere in the world. This new law was sponsored by Senator John McCain and ultimately supported by 90 Senators and more than 300 members of the House of Representatives....

Cycling advocates have faced targeted surveillance and policing over the past year. We bring you excerpts from the documentary "Still We Ride," which traces the police crackdown on Critical Mass bike rides in New York City since the Republican National Convention....

California peace groups including CodePink, Raging Grannies, War Resisters League, Quakers. Food Not Bombs and more have been under government surveillance. See photos by Jackie Thomason and links here, and the full text of Dec 21 press release from ACLU California affiliates seeking information about government spying....

Clarence Ray Allen, a Choctaw Indian, will turn 76 years old on Jan. 16, 2006, the day before the state intends to execute him on January 19, in San Quentin. A few months ago, Mr. Allen "flatlined" (died) from a heart attack... and was resuscitated by the medical staff, so that he can be properly executed in January 06! San Quentin Correctional Facility has issued a statement that Mr. Allen, although wheelchair bound, will have to walk 15 feet to the death gurney, because the death ...