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Media Release: Former ELF Spokesperson Subpoeaned to Federal Grand Jury: Protest Planned The "Green Scare' Continues......
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 9:02am PST
Depleted Uranium - US Lung Cancer Rates Soar 3-9-6
So, what is the plan?
On the March 8, 2006 edition of the CNN American Morning program with Miles O'Brien and Soledad O'Brien, they made a startling announcement. On average there are 175,000 new cases of lung cancer each year in the United States. For just the months of January and February 2006 there are 172,000 confirmed, newly diagnosed cases of lung cancer. This is not just a little spike on the charts and much worse news is coming. That is already averaging this year a...
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 7:34am PST
Workers’ Rights Groups Join Lawsuit Challenging Inhumane Slaughter of Birds Groups Representing Poultry Workers Cite Slaughterhouse Heath and Safety Concerns...
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2006 12:05pm PST
3/14-19: Walkin to New Orleans at the call of the Mobile Veterans For Peace Chapter #130, (people) will conduct a march between Mobile, AL, and New Orleans,
LA, from March 14-19, 2006...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:54pm PST
US: AK Steel lockout enters second week AK Steel’s lockout of 2,700 workers at its Middletown, Ohio, mill entered its second week Thursday as evidence mounts that the company’s provocative actions and its sweeping demands for job cuts and wage and benefit concessions are aimed at making it more attractive to a potential buyer....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:48pm PST
Going Bigger Bigger and Better Plan
We're making our election plan bigger and better with a new Spring TV ad program that will help break the Republican stranglehold on Congress. The blitz this Spring will cost $2 million. To get started we need to raise $500,000 this week. Can you join us?...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:47pm PST
FCC says it will act "in the best interest of consumers" regarding AT&T/BellSouth union AT&T has yet to file an application with the FCC for its proposed acquisition of BellSouth, but FCC Chair Kevin Martin has already issued a public statement promising to examine "any allegations of specific harm in individual markets" caused by the union of the two telephone companies....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 4:47pm PST
National Call-In Day to Save the Endangered Species Act! Senator Dianne Feinstein:
(202) 224-3841
Senator Barbara Boxer:
(202) 224-3553
U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 2:28pm PST
The Green Scare On January 20th, eleven people were indicted in Oregon by a grand jury
investigating acts of sabotage linked to the underground Earth Liberation
Front (ELF)....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 1:41pm PST
Women Celebrate International Women's Day by Rallying for Peace Statement of NOW President Kim Gandy...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:10am PST
Theater Still Hopeful on 'Rachel Corrie' NEW YORK -- A prominent off-Broadway theater says it still hopes to present "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," a politically charged play about a young American student who was killed while trying to stop the Israeli destruction of a Palestinian home in Gaza....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 7:06am PST
Who is Afraid of Rachel Corrie? An Open Letter to Jim Nicola, Artistic Director, New York Theater Workshop...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 6:25am PST
It's an Awful Lot of Money to Makes Us Less Safe and Less Free Ever since President Eisenhower's farewell address, there have been sporadic warnings about the Military Industrial Complex. Over the last couple of decades, critics like Ernest Fitzgerald and Chuck Spinney have performed a valuable public service by uncovering the Pentagon's lunatic potlatch schemes and dragging them before the bar of public opinion. Lately, organizations such as the Project on Government Oversight, the Center for Defense Information, and the Committee against Government Was...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 6:17am PST
ACTIVISM: Congress Poised to Pass Bill Taking Away Your Right to Know What's in Your Food TOLL FREE...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 1:10am PST
Pesticides - A Greater Threat to Children A new scientific study shows that children can be up to 164 times more sensitive than adults to pesticides that frequently contaminate agricultural communities. The findings strengthen an ongoing lawsuit alleging that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not adequately protecting children from pesticide exposures....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:47pm PST
Marking the 3rd Anniversary of the War in Iraq If you want to find out if there is an MFSO chapter near you that may have
activities to link up with, go to the MFSO website chapter section at:
http://www.mfso.org/article.php?list=type&type=28...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:37pm PST
Action Alert: The New York Times Distorts Cancellation of Rachel Corrie Play New York Times cultural critic Edward Rothstein comments on the New
York Theatre Workshop's "postponement" of the play "My Name is
Rachel Corrie", about American activist Rachel Corrie who was crushed
to death by an Israeli bulldozer while attempting to prevent the
demolition of Palestinian homes in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on March 16,
2003....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:36pm PST
Right-wing campaign targets Colorado teacher for anti-Bush remarks A Colorado high school teacher is under attack for anti-Bush and anti-capitalist statements he made during a class last month. Jay Bennish, a 28-year-old teacher at Overland High School, near Denver, has been suspended by his school pending an investigation into the remarks....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:34pm PST
UN: Women denied representation, making war on poverty hard to win Millions of women around the world, including those in the UK and other Western countries, are being denied effective representation because of the low numbers of female politicians, judges and employers, the United Nations has warned....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:23pm PST
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