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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
Summary/Analysis of "Operation Backfire": FBI's ELF/ALF Witch Hunt Below is a compilation of information relating to the recent arrests of eco/animal activists in the U.S. The sources are from the internet and court documents. I put it together because i felt like it would be helpful to have a place for people to read about the case as a whole, and about how to support the incarcerated activists. Also, it was clear that some important information wasn't getting out there enough....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 4:45am PST
Can Bush seize absolute control of U.S. government? Yes he can!
And I've tried to warn everyone about this ever since the U.S. invasion of Iraq. This shouldn't come as such a surprise to anyone with all that is unfolding regarding:
* CIA run torture camps all over the globe
* military spying on Americans
* decreasing support for the President and his war on terror
* recruitment levels at an all time low
* increase suspicion of the official 911 story including New Orleans tragedy
* growing frustration over the slow economy
Yes, ...
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 5:40pm PST
California's movie star governor refuses to spare elderly killer Celebrity governor Arnold Schwarzenegger refused on to spare the life of a frail, elderly killer set to be executed in a California prison a day after his 76th birthday....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 10:23pm PST
Europe 'complicit over CIA jails' A Swiss senator carrying out an inquiry into claims the CIA has run illegal secret detention centres in Europe has said he has no doubt they exist....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 8:06pm PST
Dead Man Wheeled In -- The Graying of Death Row The aging and often sickly death row population nationwide, including San Quentin prisoner Clarence Ray Allen, scheduled for death Jan. 17 -- shows further the cruelty of capital punishment, the writer says....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 7:40pm PST
LIVE VIDEO STREAM CLARENCE ALLEN EXECUTION PROTEST EXECUTIONS R US
Blind, Wheelchair bound, sick and elderly...don't matter to the state of Executionalifornia.
I will be LIVE streaming the Clarence Allen Execution Protest outside the gates of San Quentin on Monday night Jan 16, starting at 9pm Pacific....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 6:34pm PST
UPDATE on my taxpayer-funded persecution in Fremont I thought I would be entering a plea, but
apparently that happens at my next court date, which is scheduled for
this coming Friday, January 13 (same place, 39439 Paseo Padre Parkway
in Fremont, at 9:00 a.m., this time in department 602)....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 4:54pm PST
Major court ruling on protestor mass arrest lawsuit in DC Court also rules that the Sept. 2002 mass arrest of protestors and
passers-by violated the Fourth Amendment rights of the plaintiffs...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 4:37pm PST
Former Black Panthers considered terrorists under Patriot Act Undaunted by what they call "unconstitutional" methods used under the guise of the Patriot Act, three former Black Panthers are touring the country to bring awareness to their recent interrogation by anti-terrorist law enforcement....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 11:46am PST
Schwarzenegger's budget: up with prisons, down with communities Sacramento - In his budget released today, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stuck to an old script: increasing funding for the state's massively troubled prison system. Elected on a platform that promised to "blow up boxes," the governor continues to fall in line with expensive and ineffective "tough on crime" policies despite widespread voter frustration at pouring ever more resources into a failed prison system....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:25am PST
Counterpunch: How the FBI Spied on Edward Said The FBI has a long, ignoble tradition of monitoring and harassing America's top intellectuals. While people ranging from Albert Einstein, William Carlos Williams to Martin Luther King have been subjected to FBI surveillance, there remains an under-accounting of the ways in which this monitoring at times hampered the reception of their work....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:07am PST
Fremont Mosque Under Surveillance as Spying Targets Muslims FREMONT, Calif. - On the back wall of a store in a shopping complex on Fremont Boulevard, a surveillance camera points directly at the parking lot of a local mosque....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 7:38am PST
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