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Call on Congress to End Illegal Spying Stop spying and stop lying. That's what we are demanding from the Bush Administration, and today you can add your voice to ours: Click here to sign our Demand for Truth: http://aclunc.org...
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 10:18pm PST
2/22: Attend a Vigil to Stop Illegal Wiretapping So the President is breaking the law. What can we do about it? Well, next week, MoveOn members from Orlando, Florida to Seattle, Washington are organizing Constitution Vigils to speak out on this critical issue....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 10:16pm PST
EARTH MATTERS radio - Republicans at the Trough - Pombo, Hurwitz and Abramoff (audio/mpeg 16.1MB) "EARTH MATTERS" - Environmental news for KPFA's investigative news show, "Flashpoints." Interview with "Truthout" journalist Kelpie Wilson and local organizer and director of the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, Karen Pickett. They discuss the connections between fat-cat republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Rep. Dick Pombo (R - Tracey, CA), Tom Delay and Maxxam CEO Charles Hurwitz, chief butcher of California's ancient redwood trees. mp3 audio, 17:35
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Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 4:59pm PST
Anti feminist neo-con's are going to teach Iraqi women to build Democracy Administration Chooses Anti-Feminist Group to Train Iraqi Women
Jim Lobe
OneWorld US
Tue., Oct. 5, 2004...
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 3:59pm PST
URGENT- ACT NOW 4 BIG MOUNTAIN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES STOP FORCED RELOCATION ON BIG MOUNTAIN, BLACK MESA, AZ. TARGETED NAVAJO FAMILIES SAY THAT NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION!
Something critical is about to happen concerning the traditional communities on Big Mountain & surrounding areas. Please take a moment to read and fax this letter today. It will automatically be sent to the Senate Committee On Indian Affairs, Senate & Congress. Link supplied below....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 2:19pm PST
EARTH MATTERS Radio - Interview with Mike Mease from the Buffalo Field Campaign (audio/mpeg 11.0MB) "Earth Matters" is an environmental news segment on KPFA radio's investigative news program, "Flashpoints." The Buffalo Field Campaign is the only group working in the field, everyday, to stop the slaughter and harassment of Yellowstone's wild buffalo. This year more than 900 bison have been killed. BFC founder Mike Mease is interviewed. mp3 audio, 12:03 mins.
music clip: "Cows With Guns" by Dana Lyons
www.cowswithguns.com...
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 2:17pm PST
Professor McCoy Exposes the History of CIA Interrogation We now take a look at what lies behind the shocking images of torture at Abu Ghraib prison by turning to the history of the CIA and torture techniques. Professor Alfred McCoy talks about his book “A Question of Torture”, a startling expose of the CIA development of psychological torture from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib. CIA mercenaries attempted to assassinate McCoy more than 30 years ago....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 7:36am PST
Salon.com Runs Abu Ghraib Torture Photos Leaked from Internal Army Source Salon.com published even more torture photographs from Abu Ghraib a day after the Australian report aired on SBS public broadcasting. The online publication obtained photos, video and other electronic documents from an internal Army investigation. We speak with salon.com reporter Mark Benjamin, who obtained the files and other electronic documents....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 7:35am PST
US auto union pressures Delphi workers to accept concessions deal With Delphi Corporation expected as early as Friday to ask a US bankruptcy judge to terminate collective bargaining agreements with its 35,000 unionized employees, representatives from the company, the United Auto Workers union (UAW) and Delphi’s former owner, General Motors, are involved in intense negotiations to craft a deal that would avert a strike and allow Delphi and GM to press ahead with their cost-cutting plans....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 6:32am PST
Why We Are Wary Wal-Mart refuses to stock the "morning-after" pill – a back-up birth control option that prevents unintended pregnancy if taken soon after sex. But the company has told the media that it is giving its policy “a lot of thought.”
You have a real opportunity to encourage Wal-Mart to do the right thing and change its policy. Sign our petition below. You can also call Wal-Mart on their toll-free line at 1-800-WAL-MART (1-800-925-6278)....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 10:49pm PST
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update from the Field - 02/01/06 By the time the Stephens Creek capture facility, located one mile inside Yellowstone National Park, is empty nearly 1,000 sacred buffalo will be dead. We all bear a share of responsibility for this because our federal tax dollars are footing the bill....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 10:21pm PST
URGENT! TAKE ACTION FOR BIG MOUNTAIN TODAY STOP FORCED RELOCATION ON BIG MOUNTAIN, BLACK MESA, AZ. TARGETED NAVAJO
COMMUNITIES SAY THAT NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION!...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 10:21pm PST
Safeway forms committee on humane practices after lobbying by PETA In a move described by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals as "groundbreaking," officials of Safeway Inc. have agreed to form a committee to look into some animal welfare issues....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 5:57pm PST
March 14-19, Veterans' and Survivors' March from Mobile to New Orleans Walkin' to New Orleans
Veterans' and Survivors' March from Mobile to New Orleans
March 14-19, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 4:14pm PST
Steve Kubby denied EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW compared to Vice President Dick Cheney! 
Steve Kubby still denied Constitutional right to Equal Protection Under The Law to not be persecuted and punished for using substances and products equally dangerous or less dangerous than Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting rifle....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 8:36am PST
Cynthia McKinney Blasts Government For Creating “New Underclass of Katrina Homeless" The House select committee examining the federal response to Hurricane Katrina recently released a 600-page report criticizing all levels of government for the disaster. Democrats had refused to be involved in the committee officially, but a few participated informally and released their own supplementary reports. We speak with Georgia Congressmember Cynthia McKinney, one of the participating Democrats....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 7:53am PST
Are New Orleans Evacuees Being Denied the Right to Vote? We look at how Hurricane Katrina is affecting the political power of New Orleans residents. Upcoming local elections will include a race for mayor with only one black candidate – incumbent Ray Nagin. Lawyers have filed a lawsuit alleging Louisiana’s emergency election plan will disenfranchise thousands of displaced voters, the majority of whom are African-American....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 7:52am PST
ACLU Says Critical Changes to Patriot Act Still Needed call today...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 1:31pm PST
NOW Urges Wal-Mart to Expand Emergency Contraception Access Currently Wal-Mart does not dispense emergency contraception (also known as Plan B or the "morning after pill") in any state other than Illinois, where it is required to do so by law....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 1:05pm PST
Economic Hit Man John Perkins: “We Have Created the World’s First Truly Global Empire” John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," joins us in our firehouse studio to talk about his former work going into various countries to try to strongarm leaders into creating policy favorable to the U.S government and corporations. Perkins describes himself as an economic hit man....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 7:33am PST
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