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Six Months After Katrina, New Report Shows Poor Still Being Left Behind On the six month anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we get a report from Oxfam America on the recovery of the Gulf States. Oxfam director says, “Despite critical reports and investigative hearings of government failures, despite the flurry of commitments to confront poverty in the U.S. - six months after Katrina, little has changed.”...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 8:07am PST
State of Mandatory Motherhood: Sleeper Cells in South Dakota? Attention Homeland Security: The Taliban may have sleeper cells in South Dakota!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 7:53am PST
As New Orleans Mayoral Race Looms, Displaced Residents Urged to Vote Absentee The race for the mayor’s office in storm-ravaged New Orleans may take on a different tone next month, with incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin trying to reach city voters strewn across the country while fighting a challenge from a feisty black minister, Louisiana’s lieutenant governor and a host of other candidates....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 7:40am PST
Black America's Infatuation With Butch Men Up in Heels -Images of black men dressed as women have become a popular part of black American entertainment culture. But does the success of the black actor who plays a drag role depend on that actor's real-life heterosexism?...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 7:37am PST
Cindy Sheehan: Speaking For Herself Speculation that Cindy Sheehan would run against Dianne Feinstein is over. Now she is back to being a "Mom with a hole in her heart"-- as Bush would crudely put it.
Meanwhile Dianne pretends the war does not exist by trying to distract voters with other issues: clamping down on illegal immigration... planning future fundraisers in her new home with a view.
We love Cindy Sheehan-- this must be a terrible time for her: but she will not give up. And neither will we....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 6:01pm PST
Vigil for the Constitution in San Francisco IV (video/quicktime 15.0MB) Jeff Mittman of the ACLU of Northern California. Four-minute QuickTime movie. 15MB....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:45pm PST
Memory Against Forgetting - An Open Letter on the "Green Scare" This is an excellent essay from Portland Indymedia on the current "Green Scare" arrests of eco-activists....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:43pm PST
Final Senate Patriot Act vote tomorrow! [Capitol switchboard for all Senators: 202-224-3121 Also:
888-818-6641, 888-355-3588, 800-426-8073, 800-828-0498 and 800-SOB-USOB
(800-762-8762) (that's for Senate Office Building, not what you're
thinking.... :-)]...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 1:56pm PST
DFO admits to encouraging sealers to break the law 
Nine Cape Breton fishermen facing charges of hunting seals in a wildlife sanctuary were encouraged to harvest there by both the federal and provincial fisheries departments....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 12:28pm PST
Call to boycott Boston University A call for a student boycott of Boston University due to their proposal to build a biosafety level 4 (highest level) biolab in Roxbury, the poorest, minority neighborhood in Boston....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:11am PST
Total Information Awareness Lives On Inside the National Security Agency More than two years ago Congress halted plans for a controversial plan called Total Information Awareness to create the world's largest surveillance database to track your phone calls, purchases, Internet usage, reading material, banking transactions. The National Journal has now revealed the program has quietly continued inside the NSA....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:37am PST
Cheney Exposed? White House "Discovers" 250 Emails Related to Plame Leak The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney's office senior aides had sent in the spring of 2003 related to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed during a federal court hearing Friday....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 6:56am PST
Katrina: Where Did the Money Go? Last year Hurricane Katrina blasted the southern coast of the United States, devastating three states in what was considered the worst storm in US history.
The response of the US government to the emergency was, by any measure, a scandal of inefficiency and bureaucratic indifference....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 6:54am PST
Vigil for the Constitution in San Francisco III (video/quicktime 21.6MB) Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange. Four-minute QuickTime movie. 21 MB...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 10:36pm PST
Belarus: My Country, My Hope 
I am from Belarus and live in USA for one year. I wrote some articles in local newspapers about my country. I am looking for others who care- who worry and want to do something about the state of affairs in my native country. I hope you can help to me with it....
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 2:59pm PST
The Green Scare and the Government’s “Case” Against Rod Coronado 
The federal government has been chomping at the bit to put Rod Coronado back in prison since the moment he got out, and his indictment in San Diego for an exercise of pure speech is a flimsy pretext to do just that. [ed: Updated 02 March 2006]...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 12:45am PST
CIW MEMBERS, ALLIES GEAR UP FOR McDONALD'S TRUTH TOUR 2006 On April 1st – the fifth anniversary of the launch of the successful Taco Bell Boycott – the caravan will be joined by supporters from throughout the region for a major rally in Chicago, where they will call on the fast-food giant McDonald’s to work with the CIW and help establish real labor rights for the workers who pick tomatoes for McDonald’s suppliers....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 8:27pm PST
FBI Green scare continues more arrests this week Repost, please educate yourselves and support these victums of state scapegoating.
The “green scare” intensifies across the nation this week as eighteen people have now been indicted for more than a dozen actions of property damage and one incident of "teaching and demonstrating."...
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 3:14pm PST
Telecom Companies Participated in NSA Spy Ring A short article about telecom companies participating in the NSA's illegal
spy scheme....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 2:56pm PST
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