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textNew Orleans Justice System Scrutinized by LA Times
Two criminal court judges have opened investigations into whether indigent suspects are adequately represented....
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 11:20pm PST
textJudge Lets FEMA Evict 12,000 Families at Hotels by LA Times
A restraining order to halt the evacuees' removal is denied and the second wave of ejections begins, in some cases under guard....
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 11:17pm PST
textHappy Contraceptive Awareness Week! Support The Prevention First Bill by NOW
In recognition of National Contraceptive Awareness Week, Feb. 13-19, 2006, please urge your Senators and Representatives to sponsor legislation to promote improved family planning and health care for women and families....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 11:09pm PST
text"Have a Heart" Katrina Evacuee Press Conference TUESDAY by nat
"Have a Heart" Katrina Evacuee Press Conference February 14th, Valentine's Day 4:00pm...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 10:32pm PST
textYELLOWSTONE BUFFALO SLAUGHTER NEARS 800 by BFC Repost
GARDINER, MONTANA. On Friday, February 10, the National Park Service (NPS) captured 193 buffalo inside Yellowstone National Park and plans to slaughter them all, bringing the number captured in the last month to 865 and the number killed to 779. 86 calves were sent to the Corwin Springs quarantine facility earlier this year....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 1:35pm PST
text"I am a Renegade, an Outlaw, a Pagan" - Author, Poet and Activist Alice Walker in Her Own by Democracy Now (reposted)
February is African-American History Month. To honor it, we bring you a conversation with the renowned author, poet and activist Alice Walker. She is perhaps best known for her book "The Color Purple" for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983, becoming the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer for fiction. The novel was adapted into an Oscar-nominated feature length film and has been recently made into a Broadway musical. Alice Walker's latest novel is "Now is the...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 7:47am PST
textBillionaire investor demands General Motors slash jobs, health care, pensions by wsws (reposted)
Last week the board of directors of General Motors voted to give a seat to Jerry York, a senior advisor to billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian and a former chief financial officer known for his drastic cost-cutting measures at Chrysler Corporation and International Business Machines. Kerkorian is a Las Vegas casino mogul who owns nearly 10 percent of the automaker’s stocks....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 7:29am PST
textBush budget targets 141 programs for elimination or drastic cutbacks by wsws (reposted)
The Bush administration released a detailed list Thursday of the federally funded programs it wants to cut or eliminate outright from its proposed 2007 budget. The White House has embarked on a public relations campaign to promote its budget plan, which must be approved by Congress....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 7:27am PST
imageBureaucrash Inside CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference
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by sh(A)ne
(...they're even worse when they think they'e among friends.)...
Posted: Sun, Feb 12, 2006 9:29pm PST
textCIA: Bush Lying about Foiled 2002 Terror Attack by Doug Thompson (repost and link)
Is there no end to the lies?...
Posted: Sun, Feb 12, 2006 2:09pm PST
imageCheney accidentally shoots lawyer
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by reposts
Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured Texas lawyer during a weekend quail hunting trip, his spokeswoman said Sunday....
Posted: Sun, Feb 12, 2006 1:12pm PST
textURGENT PATRIOT Act alert by act nolw
bad...
Posted: Sun, Feb 12, 2006 9:23am PST
textModerates propose .XXX domain by ImpeachCheneyFirst
-- which fascists and pornographers oppose....
Posted: Sun, Feb 12, 2006 6:30am PST
text7/4: Push for Peace by via list
Push For Peace is a collective of veterans, progressive activists, and everyday citizens working together through education, motivation, and truth to bring America's troops home from the war in Iraq and to help bring healing and peace to our nation....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 3:38pm PST
textJohn Boehner's Dirty Little Secret: Flying Lobbyist Air at $4,000 a Junket by CounterPunch (reposted)
Mark Twain could have been addressing the new House Majority Leader Congressman John Boehner when he wrote: “Don’t reform any more. It’s not an improvement."...
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 3:29pm PST
textNew York Times columnist David Brooks proposes the ‘good crusade’ by wsws (reposted)
Right-wing columnist David Brooks of the New York Times has weighed in on the anti-Muslim cartoon furor. In a piece entitled “Drafting Hitler,” Brooks offers himself as a spokesman for Western Civilization against Muslim Savagery....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 3:24pm PST
textCKUT Radio: Crossing the Country for Migrant Justice by via list
Listen to an interview with Enrique Morones, a founder of the group Border Angels, and an organizer of a cross-country migrant caravan from San Diego to Washington, DC....
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 12:44pm PST
textBTL:Critics Concerned Over Possible White House Plan to Resume Dangerous... by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
...Plutonium Reprocessing. ~ Interview with Ed Lyman, senior staff scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 4:25am PST
textConstitutional SOS: Worried Politicians Back Bill to Thwart Third Parties by Green Party Press Release
"An obvious motivation behind HR 4694 is panic over a Green insurgency. Voters have realized that the Democratic Party has given President Bush and the GOP a pass on various abuses of power and radical actions, such as the invasion of Iraq and the confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito, which most Democrats declined to filibuster. The time is ripe for a noncorporate independent third party, and many Democrats are worried."...
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 4:04am PST
textStarbucks Engaging in Religious Persecution of IWW Barista by Steve Ongerth
For the second time in as many months, Starbucks management has kicked SWU member Suley Ayala out of the workplace for wearing her modest Pentagram necklace....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 12:30pm PST
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