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Crime without Conviction: U.S. Makes Deals With Corporate Criminals Instead of Prosecuting Corporations that commit securities and accounting fraud can now expect to get sweetheart deals from the Justice Department, and they don't face public exposure for their misdeeds. We speak with Russell Mokhiber of Corporate Crime Reporter....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 7:53am PST
Journalist Robert Bryce Discusses the Death of Enron and the Firm's Close Ties to Bush Enron's former chief accountant Richard Causey may now testify against Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. We look at the fate of President Bush's corporate biggest campaign donor with the author of "Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron."...
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 7:52am PST
New Orleans police gun down mentally ill man A New Orleans man, described by relatives as mentally ill, was gunned down by police on Monday. Anthony Hayes, 38, was killed after allegedly lunging at police with a three-inch blade. Three bystanders videotaped part of Hayes’s confrontation with some 18 police officers, three of whom fired nine shots at the man....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 7:51am PST
Tentative contract a setback for New York City transit workers The tentative settlement announced by Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 President Roger Toussaint Tuesday night represents a significant setback not only for New York City’s 34,000 bus and subway workers who struck the city’s transit system for two-and-a-half days last week, but for the working class as a whole....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 7:49am PST
Cindy Sheehan's Message For the New Year 
Cindy Sheehan: "Like Michael Moore, I want to be a fly on the wall when Bush and company are hauled out of the White House in handcuffs. Impeachment is not necessary for people who never were elected - eviction is what is needed. If you can't join us in Crawford, set up your own Camp Casey near you."...
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 12:08am PST
Support for Indymedia reporters We have got to start acknowledging indy reporters as professionals. To only pay middle class male organizers and attorneys in activism is not good. I am an indy media reporter. I am low income. I would like very much to cover the trials in Eugene of the environmental activists. But I simply cannot afford it, which leaves me sad......
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 11:40pm PST
Bush Step Down! Protest Jan. 31st and Feb. 4th! Begin organizing your community to drown out Bush's State of the Union on Tuesday, Jan. 31st! Demonstrations followed by mass protest in Washington, DC on Feb. 4th. www.worldcantwait.org for info on what's going on in your community!...
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 9:03am PST
JANUARY 31 State of the Union Date Set! 1) State of the Union date is set!
2) WCW OpEd in this week's Bay Guardian!
3) Copies of NYTimes ad available
4) DVDs available...
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 8:09pm PST
US Xmas Ornaments Urge Pullout of Iraq Troops Dozens of Americans opposing the US-led occupation of Iraq had gathered over the past two days in Washington, D.C., and placed toy soldiers labeled "Bring Me Home" around each of the 56 Christmas trees in front of the White House....
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 7:30am PST
"It's An Excellent Relationship": NYPD on Police - CIA Links New York Police Department Deputy Commissioner for Public Information, Paul Browne, described the ties between the NYPD and the the CIA as "an excellent relationship" on today's edition Democracy Now!...
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 7:24am PST
Critical Mass Bike Rides Face Police Crackdown Cycling advocates have faced targeted surveillance and policing over the past year. We bring you excerpts from the documentary "Still We Ride," which traces the police crackdown on Critical Mass bike rides in New York City since the Republican National Convention....
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 7:22am PST
1/8: No to Concessions March in Detroit "NO TO CONCESSIONS"
March In Detroit January 8, 2006...
Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2005 9:34pm PST
California Poet-Activist Renews Holiday Protest A California human rights activist, writer and education critic has renewed his Ghandian nonviolent tactic of fasting on major holidays this Hanukah/Christman/Kwanza. Occasionally critical of UCSC for free speech abridgements, Arjuna has drwan the wrath of Santa Barbara Community College official who issued an edict banning him from campus on "utterly trumped up charges that read like they are straight from the Keystone Cops."...
Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2005 5:50pm PST
Jeff "Free"Luers Legal Update & Dispatch 
Jeff has new information about his legal battle and a dispatch for his supporters....
Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2005 5:00pm PST
Impeachment March on State of the Union Jan 31 
We The People remind Congress that they too took an oath to defend the Constitution, from both enemies foreign and domestic. 1. Call or Fax Congress and let them know, impeachment or else. 2. Organize State of the Union MOSH II protest, gather in DC to put the pressure on Congress the week before the SOTU. 3. Jan 31st, surround the capitol building, project truth videos to the riot cops, remind them that they too took an oath to defend the Constitution....
Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2005 3:42pm PST
Letter From A Military "Mom": Domestic Spying & Incident of Intimidation of Military Famil author: Written by: Robin Vaughan...
Posted: Sun, Dec 25, 2005 4:00pm PST
Senate Relaxes Ban on Student Aid for Drug Offenders This Week's News from NORML
Senate Amends Ban On Student Aid For Marijuana Offenders
Student Drug Survey Highlights Drug War's Failings
Synthetic Cannabinoid Is Neuroprotective, Study Says...
Posted: Sun, Dec 25, 2005 1:30pm PST
Oscar Lopez and Jose Velez Acosta The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign is calling on all our allies and supporters
to join us in wishing Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera a
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND HAPPY THREE KINGS!!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 11:18pm PST
I'm obsessed with prisons these days Let me say that again – four years, no charges, no
lawyers, no trials....
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 10:10pm PST
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