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South Dakota bans all abortions. reject exceptions for Women' health February 23, 2006
Ban on Most Abortions Advances in South Dakota...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 1:01pm PST
Ecosystem and labor under attack in Florida Florida's ecosystems, human and civil rights all coming under attack by corporate influenced development. Some ideas for local communities in FL to regain their health, land and dignity from profit hungry corporations....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 8:41am PST
Alistair Sparks on Wiretapping and Torture, Under Apartheid and Bush We spend the hour with legendary South African editor and reporter Allister Sparks. Sparks gained fame as editor of South Africa's Rand Daily Mail in the late 1970s where he helped bring down a South African Prime Minister. He also helped expose the death of anti-apartheid activist Stephen Biko at the hands of South Africa's security forces. In 1995, South African president Nelson Mandela appointed Sparks to the Board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
Sparks discusses wiretapp...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 7:02am PST
Immigration Matters: America Needs the Dream Act for Undocumented Students Denying educational opportunities to children of undocumented immigrants is un-American and self-destructive. Congress must pass the DREAM Act for the country’s sake....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 7:00am PST
Dubai's Port of No Return Don't jump to conclusions, but there are ties between the UAE, bin Laden, and the Taliban...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 6:39am PST
Wild Yellowstone Buffalo in Peril! Urgent Help Needed nps.gov kills...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 2:56am PST
Wild Yellowstone Buffalo in Peril! Urgent Help Needed 
In the past two months, Yellowstone National Park rangers have captured and slaughtered nearly 900 wild buffalo....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 10:24pm PST
Populist #23 On the Executive Branch; Relating to War Powers, continued...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 9:34pm PST
Sacred Run from California to Washington, DC 
All Life is Sacred Run...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 9:25am PST
10-Year U.S. Strategic Plan For Detention Camps Revives Proposals From Oliver North A recently announced contract for a Halliburton subsidiary to build immigrant detention facilities is part of a longer-term Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists." Scott is author of "Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). He is completing a book on "The Road to 9/11." Visit his Web site at http:/...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 7:26am PST
Right-wing posturing from Congress on Arab firm’s role at US ports Congressional leaders of both parties are engaged in a cynical publicity stunt in their criticism of the Bush administration for approving the takeover of commercial operations at six Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports by a port management company owned by the government of Dubai, a Persian Gulf sheikdom that is part of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 7:23am PST
Supreme Court Reconsiders Ban on Abortion Procedures Today the Supreme Court announced that it will consider the constitutionality of a federal abortion procedure ban -- a law identical in effect to the Nebraska ban that was struck down by the Court in 2000 because it didn't protect women's health....
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 6:29pm PST
Four Directions Urgently Seeks Long Term Organizers FOUR DIRECTIONS SOLIDARITY NETWORK
For Immediate Release: 21 February 2006
Contact: Naomi Archer at 828.230.1404
Website: www.eswn.org...
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 3:39pm PST
SWARM the Minutemen - New Actions, Archives Phone Jam to stop the Minutemen in Philadelphia!
http://deletetheborder.org/node/669
Call the Valley Forge Convention Center and demand that this meeting be canceled: 610-354-8212 and 610-354-8213. Also, please call GF Management. they help to manage the Valley Forge Convention Center:
215-972-2222 and express your displeasure!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 11:02am PST
41st Anniversary of the Assassination of Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet” We turn now to the words of Malcolm X, who was assassinated 41 years ago today in New York City as he spoke before a packed audience in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. He was just 39 years old. This is an excerpt of a speech he gave in Detroit on April 12, 1964 - just a year before he was gunned down. It is known as “The Ballot or the Bullet.”...
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 9:27am PST
Yuri Kochiyama Remembers Her Life: From Internment Camps in the U.S. to the Assassination Longtime activist Yuri Kochiyama talks about the assassination of Malcolm X, who she was with 41 years ago as he lay dying, and her own life championing civil rights. Kochiyama’s story begins with World War II, when she and her family were held in an internment camp along with more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States....
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 9:26am PST
Readings From Howard Zinn's "Voices of a People's History of the United States" Today we spend the hour with readings from a Voices of a People's History of the United States edited by historian Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. It is the companion volume to Zinn’s legendary People’s History of the United States – which has sold over a million copies....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 11:18am PST
Police Brutality Strikes Filipino Youth in Jersey City Jersey City, NJ-- Filipino groups are outraged over what many are calling "a blatant act of police brutality, racial discrimination, and anti-immigrant sentiment" on the part of two Jersey City police officers who arrested and detained a young Filipino who was about to file a complaint against an erring cab driver.
Alan James Alda, 25, a Jersey City warehouse worker originally from Manila, was startled when police suddenly "arrested and threw him into a detention cell" ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 12:46am PST
Upsurge defends immigrant rights. Movement focuses on Senate 
Immigrant rights activists speak out Feb. 9 in Los Angeles at citywide protest of members of Congress who voted for HR 4437....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2006 10:26pm PST
Mining families still gripped with grief, anger Once the CNN trucks roll out, the national story dies on the vine, but for mining families and the United Mine Workers union in West Virginia, the recent coal mine disasters just won’t go away....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2006 10:24pm PST
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