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9 months? 
It seems there are changes in the works. A lame duck prezzy will get to replace a moderate voice of reason on the Supreme Court with handpicked right-white-man who thinks he knows what's best for the rest of us. Now there are ads on BART from the rightwingers.
Well we got our own ads!...
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 11:21pm PST
"Airline Workers United" Forms to Fight Concessions Industry-Wide Things seem to keep going from bad to worse for workers at Northwest Airlines (NWA). While striking mechanics and cleaners face a bitter winter after more than four months on the picket line, pilots, flight attendants, gate/ramp agents, baggage handlers, customer service reps, and other union workers face a fresh round of givebacks against the backdrop of a bankruptcy court....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 10:07pm PST
Safety reports document deadly conditions at West Virginia mine Newly released reports from state and federal safety inspections of the Sago Mine prior to the January 2 explosion that killed twelve West Virginia coal miners detail a rash of potentially deadly safety violations and a pattern of negligence, if not criminal disregard, by company officials....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:59pm PST
City residents denounce “Bring New Orleans Back” rebuilding plan New Orleans residents reacted with anger and defiance Wednesday to a proposed rebuilding plan for the city devastated by Hurricane Katrina more than four months ago. The “Bring New Orleans Back” Commission, created by Mayor Ray Nagin, unveiled the plan at a standing-room-only meeting attended by hundreds of residents. The audience was too large for the meeting room and spilled out into the corridors of the Sheraton Hotel where it was held....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:57pm PST
Indianapolis Gay Rights Law Signed Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson has signed the city's gay rights into law.
LGBT civil rights leaders looked on as the mayor put his pen to document in a ceremony at the City-County Building.
City-County Council voted last month to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in the areas of employment, education, public accommodations, and housing....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 8:09pm PST
Dead Man Wheeled In -- The Graying of Death Row The aging and often sickly death row population nationwide, including San Quentin prisoner Clarence Ray Allen, scheduled for death Jan. 17 -- shows further the cruelty of capital punishment, the writer says....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 7:40pm PST
Girls Don't Need Weighlifting - Top Ten Reasons Earlier this week Ambrea Phillips, a senior at Anderson County High in Tennessee, was involuntarily removed from a weight training class because she was the only girl. Below are some reasons school officials might have cited to explain....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 4:39pm PST
Major court ruling on protestor mass arrest lawsuit in DC Court also rules that the Sept. 2002 mass arrest of protestors and
passers-by violated the Fourth Amendment rights of the plaintiffs...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 4:37pm PST
Bay To Gulf People's Pipeline Part 2 (video/quicktime 19.3MB) Activists tell Pelosi's aide what needs to be done.
Three-minute QuickTime movie. 19MB....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 4:12pm PST
Pro-choice Messages on Indybay Anger Catholic League The following is an email that the Catholic League sent out to its email list today criticizing Indybay because "the website embraces every conceivable anti-American, left-wing cause, including issues that are positively insane." Special thanks to Catholic League president Bill Donohue for addressing the issue in such a professional and enlightened manner. Thanks as well for sending out the email recommending your flock visit here....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 3:42pm PST
UFW Exposé Lacks Historical Perspective One of the most difficult positions a newspaper can find itself in is that of defender, protector, or the lone public voice of a movement that has come under attack....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 2:15pm PST
Ralph Nader's Questions For Alito 
Ralph Nader-- as concise and sharp as ever....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 12:14pm PST
Maryland forces Wal-Mart to pay for employee health care -- Will California be next? The Maryland General Assembly became the first state legislature in the nation Thursday to approve legislation forcing Wal-Mart (WMT) to pay more for its employee health care, potentially paving the way for other states to follow suit....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 10:10am PST
Boycott student loans from 'slavery banks'! Since JP Morgan Chase refuses to do the decent thing - settle a slavery restitution case pending in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago - students, hip hop artists, church leaders, elected officials and reparationists are trying to reach the corporation through the only thing it seems to value: its bottom line....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:25am PST
'Fire on the Bayou': African American leaders converge on New Orleans African American leaders from all over the United States and from as far away as Canada are meeting for the Institute of the Black World 21st Century-sponsored Martin Luther King Holiday Weekend Initiative, entitled "The Struggle Against Racism and Inequality in New Orleans: National Days of Return and Action," set for Jan. 12-14 in the beleaguered Crescent City....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:23am PST
Belafonte calls Bush 'greatest terrorist in the world' "No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush, says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution," Harry Belafonte told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during the broadcast Sunday of his weekly talk show, "Aló Presidente" ("Hello, President")....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:21am PST
Counterpunch: How the FBI Spied on Edward Said The FBI has a long, ignoble tradition of monitoring and harassing America's top intellectuals. While people ranging from Albert Einstein, William Carlos Williams to Martin Luther King have been subjected to FBI surveillance, there remains an under-accounting of the ways in which this monitoring at times hampered the reception of their work....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:07am PST
Support Locked Out Meredosia Boilermakers Local 484 Celanese Corporation in June sought to cut the wages of their workers in Meredosia, Illinois by 33%
and when the workers refused they locked them out in June 1995. They need the support of all
working people....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 8:19am PST
FCC vs. The League of Women Voters: the Case That Pitted Samuel Alito Against Pacifica On the final day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on Capitol Hill, we look at the 1984 case of that pitted Samuel Alito against Pacifica Radio. The case - known as the FCC v. League of Women Voters - centered on the constitutionality of a law that prohibited the airing of editorials by any public radio and TV outlet that received funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We speak with the attorney in the case, Frederic Woocher....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 8:11am PST
2005: The Year Hatred Went Mainstream Along U.S-Mexico Border Christian Ramirez is the director of the American Friends Service Commitee in San Diego, a human rights organization offering job placement, legal advice and housing leads to undocumented people crossing into the United States....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 7:38am PST
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