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Shooting the Mentally Ill Forty-four year old Rigoberto Alpizar, an American citizen born in Costa Rica was killed by federal air marshals on Wednesday as he fled an American Airlines jet at Miami International Airport. Federal officials claim he threatened that he had a bomb and the shooting was necessary to protect passengers in the terminal....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 10:27pm PST
Press Release: With Sec. Rice in Europe, US Christians challenge US detention centers "This is the most powerful protest of US torture policy to happen since 9/11 and the 'War on Terror'"
-Gitanjali Gutierrez, attorney for Guantánamo detainees...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 10:17pm PST
UK Arrest Of Protesters: A casualty of free speech "I pass protesters every day at Downing Street, and believe me, you name it, they protest against it. I may not like what they call me but I thank God they can. That's called freedom" - Tony Blair, April 2002
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers" - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 10:07pm PST
Poland 'key base for CIA jails' Poland was the heart of the CIA's secret detention network in Europe until recently, a human rights organisation has claimed....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 9:58pm PST
12/14 and 15th Upcoming Events Related to the Cammerin Boyd Case Upcoming events: Police Commission on 12/14 at 5:30 and Police Watch Event on
12/15 at 6:00 p.m...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 9:46pm PST
Brooklyn activist faces life in prison on 16-count arson indictment Federal marshals arrested six environmental activists in a series of coordinated raids in four states yesterday, Dec. 8, in apparent response to a string of arsons in Oregon and Washington attributed to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), including simultaneous attacks in 2001 at the University of Washington's Urban Horticulture Center and the Jefferson Poplar Farms in Clatskanie, Oregon. Daniel McGowan, 31 was arrested in New York City....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 12:09pm PST
4 days...The clock is ticking...Save Tookie! - Reports and news about Tookie
Report from the Nobel Prize/Educators for Tookie press conference
Interview with Snoop Dogg and Stan Tookie Williams
The voices supporting Stan
Hear the Save Tookie teach-in at UC-Santa Cruz
America's "strange fruit"
The evidence of a frame-up
National Lawyers Guild urges clemency
Protect the accused, protect justice
Donate much-needed funds for our efforts
- Upcoming events
- Where to find more informati...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 9:38am PST
Look Homeward for Proof of Prison Torture You don't have to look abroad for "secret prisons" to know that the U.S. government resorts to torture. Just ask residents of the California prisons, writes PNS contributor Dwight Abbott, who has spent more than half his life in the California penal system....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 7:11am PST
Video Evidence of the Twin Towers and Building 7 Collapses 
It has been claimed that the explosions of dust that span the east face of the South Tower were caused by air being forced from the windows as each of the floors above collapsed. This explanation is obviously incorrect. If it was correct, such lines of dust would have been expelled from the windows of each floor in succession. That is, we would have seen such lines of dust expelled from floors 79, 78, 77, 76 and 75 in succession, but what we observe is an explosion of dust at floor 79, no new...
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 11:05pm PST
12/6 Court Decision Details;12/9 Philly Mtg, Films;12/10 NYC Event The Third Circuit's December 6 rulings granted "certificates of
appealabilty" to Jamal to challenge alleged race and judicial bias in the
1995 Post Conviction Relief Action proceedings overseen by Mumia's original
1982 trial court "hanging" judge, Albert Sabo. Sabo went to extreme lengths
to keep evidence of innocence out of the court record....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 10:53pm PST
US blocks ICRC access to suspects The US has admitted for the first time that it has not given the Red Cross access to all detainees in its custody....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 9:00pm PST
Brother of man shot dead in Miami demands answers SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The brother of a man shot to death by air marshals at Miami airport expressed anger at the killing on Thursday and said his family in Costa Rica would demand an explanation from the U.S. government....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 8:58pm PST
German Chancellor Merkel covers up for illegal CIA practices The German-American partnership is based on “common democratic convictions and values,” and on the basis of these values Germany and the US are seeking “to master together the new challenges and threats of the twenty-first century.” These were the words used by German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) as she welcomed US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday during the latter’s stopover in Berlin. The words used say a great deal about Merkel and the character ...
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 8:56pm PST
Miami airplane shooting: Washington’s ‘war on terrorism’ comes home The most chilling aspect of the brutal state killing of Rigoberto Alpizar, the 44-year-old Costa Rican immigrant gunned down while fleeing an American Airlines Boeing 757 in Miami Wednesday, is the utter absence of any statement of remorse by government officials....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 8:49pm PST
Case of killing in line of duty sent to jury The historic case against Walker, California's first drug enforcement agent charged with killing in the line of duty, ended on Wednesday as dramatically as it began...
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 5:26pm PST
Evidence at Trial (Michael Walker Case) Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement agent Mike Walker is charged with voluntary manslaughter for the February 2004 killing of Rodolfo ``Rudy'' Cardenas. He faces up to 11 years in prison if convicted. The jury deliberating the case must consider key evidence presented by the prosecution and defense....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 5:23pm PST
DNA tests clear Georgia inmate of rape charges; other innocents in jail and on death row This has got to be the number one reason to ban the death penalty once and for all, the proven fact that innocent people are convicted of crimes they did not commit....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 4:49pm PST
Prison Violence Video Sparks Sheriffs Debate on Internet Full Disclosure Network™ takes on “Prison Violence” with L.A. County Sheriff Lee
Baca and Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona regarding the causes of jail house
violence...
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 1:14pm PST
Yet more photos from 11/19 Save Tookie Rally at San Quentin 
Signs and people at the rally...
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 1:09pm PST
More photos from 11/19 Save Tookie Rally at San Quentin 
Photos of some of the speakers at the Save the Peacemaker Rally at San Quentin...
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 1:02pm PST
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