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Army Lies to Mother of Slain Guardsman for Two Years Two years after National Guardsmen Spc. Patrick McCaffrey and 1st Lt. Andre Tyson were killed in Iraq, the truth about their deaths has been exposed. Military officials initially told the families that the two men had been killed in an ambush by insurgents but an Army investigation concluded that they were in fact murdered by members of the allied Iraqi Civil Defense Corps. The military only told the families the truth this week. We speak with Nadia McCaffrey - the mother of Spc. Patrick McCa...
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 7:40am PDT
US Senate backs indefinite occupation of Iraq After a two-day debate, the US Senate voted Thursday to reject two efforts to set limits on the duration of the US occupation of Iraq. An overwhelming bipartisan majority voted by 86-13 to reject a resolution setting a deadline of July 1, 2007 for withdrawal of US troops. Leading Democrats, including Hillary Clinton and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, lined up with the White House against the measure introduced by John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004....
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 6:48am PDT
Help stop the Mexican wolf slaughter! 
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is destroying yet another family of Mexican gray wolves – even though the agency has identified the species as the most endangered mammal in North America. The male of the recently released Nantac Pack was just shot and killed, and the female is being hunted down right now. Both members of this pack were survivors of past predator control actions....
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 12:46am PDT
Reclaim Our Fate! Climate, Energy and Global Justice Sun July 9 in DC Join activists speaking out on the Climate Change and Energy Crises!...
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 12:00am PDT
Atlanta: United Stated Social Forum Atlanta
see http://www.ussf2007.org/accom.html for more details...
Event Date: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 12:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 4:10pm PDT
House Leadership Pulls Voting Rights Act From Floor Vote Despite overwhelming bipartisan support, renewal of the venerable civil rights legislation was postponed this week. Some Capitol Hill observers point to language-access provisions in the act as the sticking point. Khalil Abdullah is director of the Washington, D.C., office of New America Media....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 3:59pm PDT
New Wave of Migrants: Under 21 Last week Diego Hernandez and his cousin Jose, both 16, left their hometown of Salvatierra in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. They headed north to the border city of Tijuana on their way to Los Angeles, where Diego’s older sister was waiting for him....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 3:58pm PDT
Congress Must Fix Inhumane Detention System There are more humane and less costly alternatives the current system for detaining immigration violators, which is in disrepair, says Elizabeth McGrail, staff attorney and director of the Detention Project for the Capital Area Immigrants' Rights (CAIR) Coalition. The CAIR Coalition is a member of the Detention Watch Network, a national coalition of organizations and individuals working to reform the U.S. immigration detention system....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 3:57pm PDT
A Call to Action: October 28 Locally Coordinated Antiwar Activities Locally Coordinated Antiwar Activities...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 28, 2006 12:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 3:46pm PDT
Support Type-writers for Tennessee Prisoners Harold H. Thompson, an anarchist prisoner in Tennessee, USA, has requested that supporters send letters to the Tennessee Department of Corrections registering complaint with the current ban on type-writers from prisoners' authorized property list....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 2:37pm PDT
USDA accepting comments on GE plum trees, the first temperate GE tree The US Department of Agriculture is accepting public comments between now and July 17, 2006 on a petition that would allow commercial growing and marketing of the first genetically engineered (GE) plum trees. If approved, this would remove all regulatory oversight of this GE variety, a virus-resistant plum tree known as the Honey Sweet Pox Potyvirus Resistant plum....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 2:01pm PDT
Frank Moore Announces Run for President in 2008! 
Frank Moore for President 2008. Candidate of the Just Makes Sense Party. Vote for Frank Moore. He gets results!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 11:29pm PDT
A Call to Action: October 28 Locally Coordinated Antiwar Activities From the ANSWER Coalition -- A Call to Action: October 28 Locally Coordinated Antiwar Activities...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 10:17pm PDT
Hip Hop Call Your Senators-Big Vote on Net Neutrality is Tomorrow Folks the big vote on this Net Neutrality thing is tomorrow . June
22. Please call Your Senators... The Url to their websites and
offices are provided below...
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 6:28pm PDT
Stop Animal Abuse at Threemile Canyon Farms A report prepared by the Humane Farming Association (HFA)
documents cruel and inhumane treatment of cows at Threemile
Canyon Farms in Boardman, Ore., including statements from
workers. Months ago, HFA filed a formal petition with Oregon
Attorney General Hardy Myers formally demanding criminal charges
be brought against Threemile Canyon Farms for animal abuse. Yet
in spite of extensive documentation, Myers has yet to take
action. The extensive report documents widespread animal abuse....
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 3:04pm PDT
Trial against Notorious Border Vigilante Begins Today Cochise County, Arizona-Business owner and former Sheriff's deputy Roger Barnett goes on trial today for detaining a group of migrants at gunpoint on his neighbor's property. The civil suit, filed by Donald MacKenzie with the support of Border Action Network a local human rights group, claims Barnett impersonated a law enforcement officer and trespassed on private property in order to detain the group....
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 11:40am PDT
National Day of Action to Support LT Watada June 27th Go to your Post office. All over the country, this is a vigil/ritual to support the lieutenant. See: www.thankyoult.org, www.couragetoresist.org and order Peter Lofert's Book Mission Rejected 800-801-BOOK...
Event Date: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 10:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 10:01am PDT
Eve Ensler and Kimberle Crenshaw on V-Day, Women in Prisons and Breaking the Silence We spend the hour looking at the movement to end violence against women across the globe. We spend the hour with playwright and activist Eve Ensler and prisoner rights activist Kimberle Crenshaw. Ensler is creator of "The Vagina Monologues" - the off-Broadway show that has grown into an international movement to end violence against women and girls. She helped kickoff a two-week festival last Monday in New York City called "Until the Violence Stops: NYC." Events include theater performances, ...
Posted: Wed, Jun 21, 2006 7:22am PDT
Stop Fake Clinics from Providing Women with Deceptive Information While these so-called clinics claim to offer help for women facing unplanned pregnancies, they are in fact run by anti-abortion organizations with the aim of preventing women from obtaining abortions....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 11:51pm PDT
Networking: Syndicated online content Chimpy W. Von Bushitler's (Bush) friends make loads of money from the Internet - BOGUS....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 4:46pm PDT
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