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Kembrew McLeod Guest on Media Matters 
Today's program focuses on Copyright Laws and the Public Domain....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 12:35pm PST
BTL:New Orleans Homeowners Coalition Stops House Demolitions in Court Interview with Bill Quigley, attorney representing New Orleans homeowners, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 8:56am PST
Bay To Gulf People's Pipeline (video/quicktime 23.3MB) Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi asked to fill the leadership vacuum in Washington, D.C., and mobilize the nation to save people's homes in New Orleans from the bulldozers.
I. What can people in the Bay do?
Four-minute QT movie. 23MB....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 6:52am PST
The Terrorist Worker The New York subway strike of 2005 can be summed up by a phrase, “black workers are Evil Doers.”...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 1:12pm PST
18-year-old shot by Border Patrol Killing fuels Mexican anger over US immigration policy...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:04am PST
IBM to freeze pension plan in 2008 In the latest attack on retiree benefits for US workers, technology giant International Business Machines (IBM) announced Thursday, January 5 that it will stop contributing to its traditional pension plan in 2008....
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:03am PST
Gary Freeman's Struggle: A Black Radical from the 1960s Fights Extradition to the US By JOE ALLEN...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:02am PST
The NYT's Unconscionable Decision to Sit on the NSA Story for a Year By LAWRENCE R. VELVEL...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:00am PST
More revelations of illegal spying by US government Over the past week, several new reports have emerged casting additional light on the vast extent of illegal spying carried out by the US government. It is becoming increasingly clear that the government has initiated a major project to collect and database the communications of US citizens and non-citizens, including opponents of the war in Iraq and other policies of the Bush administration....
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:00am PST
NYC Transit Strike: Union Power vs. Class Collaboration Strikers Defy Taylor Law...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 9:52pm PST
Call Feinstein Today: Protect the Supreme Court The reproductive rights of women in California and across the nation face ongoing challenges in 2006. NARAL Pro-Choice California is committed to strengthening and protecting the right to choose - and we need your help today....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 3:04pm PST
The Mileage-Per-Gallon Fraud After buying a hybrid a few months ago, I soon learned that the car was not achieving the projected miles per gallon. I heard from others that all cars fall below the EPA estimated gas mileage, but in my case the numbers were not even close. Fortunately, the current issue of Sierra magazine provides the details behind EPA’s misleading estimates, and the situation is even worse than suspected. How does the auto industry get away with this fraud, and why do legislators stand for it?...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 8:40am PST
Juan Gonzalez Hails the New York City Transit Strike as Success; Union Fought Off City Att Last month, 33,000 New York City transit workers went on strike, shutting down the country's largest public transportation system for the first time in 25 years. Pension plan demands were a central issue in the negotiations. Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez discusses the results of the negotiations and how they can impact workers nationwide....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 8:37am PST
An Imperial President? Bush Claims Right To Ignore New Law Banning Torture Five years after President Bush joked, "If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator,” we look at the growing controversy over presidential power and how it relates to many of today’s biggest stories: the Senate ban on torture, the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, domestic surveillance and the jailing of U.S. citizens as enemy combatants. Earlier this week three influential Republicans Senators condemned Bush for claiming h...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 8:36am PST
New Medicare Plan Keeps Seniors Guessing On January 1, 2006, the new Medicare prescription-drug program began. Many Black residents in New York City – especially the low-income, disabled and seniors – remain uncertain about how the law will affect them. Grappling with information, most of them are confused and swamped with questions about the registration process, which drug plan is best for them, and what's covered and what's not....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 8:33am PST
BTL:One Year Delay in New York Times' Coverage of NSA Spying Scandal Exposes... ...Flaws in U.S. Corporate Media ~ Interview with Norman Solomon, author and columnist, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 6:07am PST
Emergency Action in SF Federal Building Fri 1pm- Stop Bulldozing 9th Ward in New Orleans Friday, January 6, 2006 at 1:00pm
Federal Building
450 Golden Gate Ave.
San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 12:31am PST
Bush administration seeks dismissal of Guantánamo habeas corpus suits The Bush administration is seeking the dismissal of all habeas corpus lawsuits brought by detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp. On Tuesday, the Justice Department informed federal judges that they would be asked to dismiss more than 160 cases involving at least 300 Guantánamo detainees who are challenging the legality of their imprisonment....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 11:19pm PST
SF NORML 2006 Conference Announcement Please mark your calendar for April 20-22, 2006!
These are the dates for
NORML's
2006 annual conference in the great city of San
Francisco, California at the Holiday Inn Golden
Gateway....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 11:12pm PST
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