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textWorkers in New Orleans Denied Pay, Proper Housing and Threatened with Deportation by Democracy Now (reposted)
In the clean-up efforts following the devastation of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, many undocumented workers and homeless people were recruited to the area to work under large companies contracted by the federal government. We speak with Newsday reporter Tina Susman, who has investigated the case of a group of homeless men, and Bill Chandler, about subcontractors and workers' complaints....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 7:20am PST
textHouse Debates Immigration Laws, Including Making it a Felony to be an Undocumented Worker by Democracy Now
The House debates a bill that would rewrite the nation's immigration laws. The legislation makes it a felony to be an undocumented worker to be in the United States without authorization and requires all employers to verify the legal status of their workers. We speak with the general counsel of the immigration worker program at the AFL-CIO and a member of the Border Network for Human Rights....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 7:19am PST
textThe political issues confronting New York City transit workers by wsws (reposted)
The confrontation between New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and the city’s 38,000 bus and subway workers poses in the sharpest manner critical political questions facing transit workers and working people generally in New York and throughout the US....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 7:11am PST
textBlack buying blackout - Christmas 2005 by Bay View (reposted)
Blacks urged not to spend money on Saturday, Dec. 17 and 24...
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 6:59am PST
textUndercover informant said to be used in ecoterrorism investigation by deanosor (from sources)
Thw government has claimed it has used an undercover informant in its investigation intop the Elf. This story from the Arizona Daily has information on the governemnt's case, and more details about what's happening today especially to one fo the defendants, Daniel McGowan....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 5:11am PST
imageBuffalo Field Campaign - Update from the Field - 12/15/05
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by Buffalo
Often times we here at the BFC tend to focus on the harder side of life. It is news and unfortunately for all of us involved a fact of daily life....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 11:05pm PST
textKatrina’s Aftermath: The Catastrophe Continues by richard Mellor
Katrina was not a natural disaster; it was and still is a social disaster....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 9:28pm PST
textCounty's experiment shows Diebold Machines very hackable by blackbox voting
Permission to reprint granted by http://blackboxvoting.org Due to contractual non-performance and security design issues, Leon County (Florida) supervisor of elections Ion Sancho has announced that he will never again use Diebold in an election. He has requested funds to replace the Diebold system from the county. On Tuesday, the most serious “hack” demonstration to date took place in Leon County. The Diebold machines succumbed quickly to alteration of the votes. This comes on the heels of t...
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 8:59pm PST
textWhy Did Americans Turn Against War in Iraq So Quickly? by New America Media (reposted)
On the home front, at least, Iraq is no Vietnam, writes PNS contributor Sanford Gottlieb. In just two short years, American support for war in Iraq has waned. No missing WMD, several early, prominent war critics, more middle-of-the-road protesters than in Vietnam and even Hurricane Katrina helped turn the tide....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 7:24pm PST
textBush to accept new torture policy by ALJ
After months of resistance, the White House has agreed to accept Senator John McCain's call for a law specifically banning cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of foreign suspects in the war on terror, several congressional officials say....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 7:23pm PST
textClear Channel Censors the Truth about Wal-Mart by J.C.
After allowing The Campaign For America's Future to reserve a billboard less than a mile from Wal-Mart’s World HQ, Clear Channel has refused to accept their ad, censoring the message that the public selected about Wal-Mart....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 6:03pm PST
imageNew York Activist Faces Life in Prison; Feds Accuse Him of Eco-Terrorism
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by Democracy Now (reposted)
Daniel McGowan was one of six environmental activists arrested last week in a series of coordinated raids across four states. He is accused of setting a pair of arsons in Oregon in 2001 and is being held without bail....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 9:44am PST
textPentagon Caught Spying on U.S. Anti-War and Anti-Nuclear Activists by Democracy Now (reposted)
Newly leaked Pentagon documents have confirmed the military has been monitoring and collecting intelligence on anti-war groups across the country. Peace protests are being described as threats and the military is collecting data on who is attending demonstrations. We speak with William Arkin, the former Army intelligence officer, who obtained the secret Pentagon documents....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 9:38am PST
textAs Torture Amendment Nears Passage, Pentagon Rewrites Army Detainee Standards by ThinkProgress.org
Stopping torture in the gulag is like squeezing jello....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 9:19am PST
textPentagon’s domestic spying operations target opponents of Iraq war by wsws (reposted)
As Congress moves toward passage of a bill to extend the USA Patriot Act, scattered reports are surfacing in the US media of a massive expansion of domestic spying operations by the US military. The reports make clear that US citizens engaged in peaceful and legal political activity in opposition to the war in Iraq and aggressive military recruiting tactics are being monitored by military intelligence agencies and included in rapidly expanding secret data banks....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 8:59am PST
text Wikipedia survives research test by BBC (reposted)
The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 8:29am PST
textPATRIOT Act Passes House, Fails American People by Rep. Pelosi
Today, the Republican-led House of Representatives passed the USA PATRIOT Act Reauthorization conference report. No Democrat signed the conference report, and I voted against it, because it is possible to defend our security while protecting our essential civil liberties - and this bill fails on that account....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 12:19am PST
textHelp Defeat Unrealistic & Dangerous Immigration Legislation by via a list
In just a few days the House of Representatives will vote on a misguided and harmful immigration proposal that would, among other things, make unlawful presence a crime....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 10:34pm PST
textArab American Group Protests Hate Messages by The Arab American News (reposted)
An Arab American defense organization is challenging a new billboard campaign in New Mexico and North Carolina, which they say utilizes negative, racist images of Arabs and Arab cultural symbols....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 8:07pm PST
textRacism Spares the Killers of Blacks by New America Media (reposted)
In a tense juvenile hall in California following the execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the writer explores with several youths the prejudices exposed by death penalty statistics. Had Williams killed four black people, he would likely be alive today....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 8:06pm PST
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