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Yesterday a San Francisco Superior Court Judge ruled on the side of the people. The judge threw out the argument presented by the Police Officers Union that it was too late to discipline the officers that killed this seventeen year-old child. The charges against Gregory Breslin and his cronies will not be dismissed!!!!...

It is now possible to view the text of the "California Moratorium on Execution Act" (A.B. 1121) at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_1101-1150/ab_1121_bill_20050620_amended_asm.html...

Everyday sight seeing in Finland shows us a bit different view, that reading Washington Post stories about us....

A Molotov cocktail destroyed two cars at the home of Santa Barbara County correctional officer early Sunday morning on the 400 block of Milky Way in Vandenberg Village, fire officials said....

Phyllis Walker, president of AFSCME Local 3800, was served with a summons for obstructing legal process in connection with the police brutality incident at the General College rally and sit-in on May 4.... and more...

In one of the worst cases of political repression ever seen by the author of this article, the Orange County District Attorney's Office and Garden Grove Police Department have jointly launched an unprecedented and outrageous attack against a young Vietnamese woman whose only real crime was to express her dissent with the powers that be. >>>> PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY...

LONDON, June18 , 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Amnesty International has condemned the Bush administration’s decision to expand its infamous Guantanamo detention camp, dashing hopes that the notorious facility would be shut down....

A University of Arkansas graduate student was taken into custody by the FBI on Friday after agents received reports that he could be involved in a terrorist organization. Agents arrested Arwah Jaber after receiving an anonymous tip that he was flying back to his homeland of Palestine to join an organization that supports terrorist activities. According to an FBI affidavit, Jaber sent one of his professors an e-mail saying he was taking a job with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organizati...

SACRAMENTO - Prompted by reports from the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Sacramento Valley (CAIR-SV) and the Muslim community, civil rights groups are filing a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) seeking FBI records of the procedures and policies used during the questioning and detention of dozens of Muslims in the Central Valley town of Lodi. Lodi has become the center of a FBI investigation that has led to the arrests of five Muslims, two of whom are U.S. citizens. They were...

On Thursday, June 16, supporters of journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal gathered outside Philadelphia City Hall in response to a recent decision by Judge Pamela Dembe which prohibits him from entering in 2 new pieces of evidence. That day, members of the Ossining, NY chapter of the NAACP and others visited both Mayor Street’s and Pamela Dembe’s office in downtown Philadelphia. Others conducted a “Honk for Mumia” outside of City Hall as the day’s traffic passed....