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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
Eleven new eco-vandalism indictments imminent - some indictees still free!
hi folks - apologies for msm repost - but this info may be timely this morning..........
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 8:48am PST
Google defies US over search data
The internet search engine Google is resisting efforts by the US Department of Justice to force it to hand over data about what people are looking for....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:49am PST
US university spying scandal prompts resignations
A former US Republican congressman has resigned from the advisory board of a university alumni group after it emerged the latter was offering students money to police "liberal" professors at the University of California, Los Angeles....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:28am PST
2/9: Be there or be Square! Post War Book Event at Modern Times
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH, 2006 7:30 PM
READING AND BOOK PARTY / SIGNING
for
POST WAR AND OTHER STORIES
BY F.S.ROSA (Francesca)...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 9:57pm PST
Reclaiming King Day ... from the NAACP
On January 13th I filed a request with the SC Budget and Control Board for use of the north side of the State House grounds on Monday January 15, 2007. The north side is where the Confederate flag flies. I was informed by officials at the agency that no application or written request had been made for the space at the time of my request....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 8:39pm PST
Was the 2004 Election Fixed?
As coincidence would have it, Mark Crispin Miller's new book, "Fooled Again" (Basic Books), documenting the Republican theft of the 2004 presidential election, arrived in the same mail delivery with the January 12 edition of the Defuniak Springs Herald, the locally owned weekly newspaper in a Florida panhandle county seat....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 8:37pm PST
Bush on Border Wall, Guest Workers, and Amnesty
New America Media, Transcript Excerpt, Jan 19, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 6:37pm PST
Court update for Jonathan Paul and Suzanne Savoie
A brief update on recently arrested activists Jonathan Paul and Suzanne Savoie...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 5:57pm PST
Humanitarian Aide Volunteers Face Possibility of Prison
A trial that could set a precedent for volunteers who offer humanitarian aid to undocumented migrants has been postponed until after a federal judge in Tucson, AZ decides whether or not to dismiss the charges....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 7:43am PST
Voluntarios humanitarios enfrentan la posibilidad de la carcel
El juicio que podría establecer un precedente para voluntarios que ofrecen ayuda humanitaria a indocumentados ha sido pospuesto hasta que un juez federal en Tucson, AZ decida descartar los delitos o no....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 7:42am PST
Did the president break the law?
On Monday, former Vice President Al Gore gave a speech about President Bush's recent admission that he's wiretapping American citizens without the warrants required by law. In the speech—which was sponsored by a coalition of progressive and conservative groups—Gore said it plainly: "What we do know about this pervasive wiretapping virtually compells the conclusion that the president of the United States has been breaking the law, repeatedly and persistently."...
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 12:52pm PST