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Anti-immigrant bill moves to Senate The Senate Judiciary Committee will shortly begin debate on the measures it will send to the Senate floor on immigration law, one of the key legislative and electoral issues of 2006....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:20am PST
Maryland makes Wal-Mart pay Health care drive expands to 30 more states...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:19am PST
Bush spying called threat to the republic In a Martin Luther King Day speech at Constitution Hall Jan. 16, Al Gore drew cheers as he called for appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate George W. Bush’s “strongman” abuses of power, including spying on the American people and other impeachable offenses....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:18am PST
Powell: US will pull troops out this year Former Bush aide who urged caution over Iraq signals start of withdrawal by end of 2006...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:11am PST
BTL:Filibuster is Last Hope for Opponents of Alito Supreme Court Confirmation Interview with Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 5:58am PST
8th National Black Land Loss Summit ~ "The Value of Land in a Post-Katrina America The Concern Citizens of Tillery, North Carolina and the National Black Farmers and Agriculturalist Association host the 8th National Black Land Loss Summit...
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 3:39pm PST
Bush uses Gulf Coast reconstruction to push for dismantling public education Over the past four months, the Bush administration and sections of both the Democratic and Republican parties have used the devastation inflicted upon the Gulf Coast during last year’s hurricane season as a justification to push through a broad range of right-wing policies. Among these reactionary projects is the drive to undermine the public education system through the promotion of charter schools and voucher programs....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 8:23am PST
People attack cops and burn down police chiefs' home after cops murder Black man Another example of direct action....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 2:22am PST
Environmental + Anarchist witch-hunt under way, a very coherent summary Environmentalist Witch-Hunt Underway. (Hopefully) Coherent Summary.
author: my name is ruth
Fight the Corporate Media Spin. This summary was written to help spread the word to family, friends, progressively minded comrades about the Green Witch Hunt currently underway. So get to it - spread the word
Environmental Witch-Hunt Under Way!
Re-posted by deanosor who is responsible for the changed title...
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 2:03am PST
3rd strike sentence reinstated The U.S. Supreme Court reinstated a Southern California man's drug
conviction and sentence of 25 years to life Wednesday, ruling that an
appeals court had erred in overturning the sentence on grounds that
the prosecutor improperly barred a black woman from the jury....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:35pm PST
H. Res. 635 might impeach Bush & put him in cell w/Steve Kubby & Marc Emery 
House Resolution 635 in U.S. Congress might impeach President Bush on federal criminal charges and put the Leader of the Drug War in prison with Steve Kubby and Marc Emery, most famous marijuana defendants....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:32pm PST
N.Y. Transit Workers Reject New Contract The city's 33,000 union transit workers,
one month to the day after they stranded 7 million riders
with a crippling three-day strike, voted Friday to reject
their new three-year contract...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:12pm PST
CALL FOR DEATH PENALTY RELATED ART This is an international, all-media, juried exhibition on view May 6 through
May 22, 2006 at Gallery Lombardi in Austin, Texas and online for at least
one year at http://www.deathpenaltyartshow.org.
Work in all media is eligible....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:09pm PST
Happy Pills Don't Make Me Happy A young woman who's taken dozens of powerful prescription medicines says Americans must learn to stop popping pills....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:03pm PST
Abortion Before Roe: Is the Past a Prologue for the Roberts-Alito Court? Throughout history, women have had unplanned and unwanted pregnancies. And throughout history, women have found ways to terminate those pregnancies....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:01pm PST
Google Defies US Over Search Requests Internet search giant Google is vowing to "vigorously" fight a legal challenge by the Bush administration to reveal details about online searches, a request privacy advocates warn underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 5:59pm PST
Man related to OK City bombing is free while supposed ELF & ALF members now on the hook Irony of Ironies:
Michael Fortier, who was in on the plot to kill over 150 people in Oklahoma City and did nothing to stop it, is out of jail in just over 10 years.
Meanwhile, Jeff Free Luers is sentence to 20 years for torching 3 SUVs, that were later repaired and sold, and over a dozen other activists have recently been indicted or arrested across the country for property destruction (http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/01/1796764.php & http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.p...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 1:59pm PST
Vote online now! Eco-saboteurs are NOT terrorists. It's corporate profits the FBI is protecting, not people: http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/01/1796764.php....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 12:04pm PST
Maryland ban on gay marriage is struck down “Although tradition and societal values are important, they cannot be given so much weight that they alone will justify a discriminatory” law, the judge wrote....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 11:59am PST
Google Defies Bush Data Demand; Yahoo and Microsoft Have Already Sold You Out Companies often boast of the data they collect, which they call particularly useful in providing customized search results for users and targeted advertising. Now the Justice Department also wants to have that information and is getting it from compliant corporations....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 10:45am PST
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