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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
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update from the Field - 01/12/06 
On Friday(01/06/06) in Gardiner, the National Park Service (NPS) was busy harassing wild buffalo, protecting livestock interests instead of the flora and fauna they are mandated by the American people to protect. Park Rangers came out on horseback, dressed in cowboy finery, just miles from the hunt zone, and forced wild buffalo off of their winter range. Two groups were hazed into the Park and then the rangers picked up another large group that had never even left the Park's boundaries....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 1:45am PST
Demand the Extradition of the Terrorist Luis Posada Carriles (video/x-ms-wmv 14.8MB) The United States is supposed to be in an all-out struggle against terrorism. As part of that, President Bush has said over and over again that anyone who shelters terrorists or gives aid to terrorists is a terrorist. But the Bush administration and influential members of the Florida congressional delegation are again in the process of giving shelter to Cuban exile terrorists, most prominently to one Luis Posada Carriles. The latter is accused of being one of the masterminds of the bombing o...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 12:03am PST
Why the Bush Doctrine Violates the Constitution When President Bush signed the new law, sponsored by Senator McCain, restricting the use of torture when interrogating detainees, he also issued a Presidential signing statement. That statement asserted that his power as Commander-in-Chief gives him the authority to bypass the very law he had just signed....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:27pm PST
Wall Street grabs $21.5 billion in bonuses In what amounts to a massive misappropriation of social wealth, Wall Street’s major investment banks and trading firms are handing out $21.5 billion in year-end bonuses for 2005....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:23pm PST
Detained, Not Rescued: Katrina Survivors Testimony to Congress (AUDIO) 
On Dec 6, 2005 several Katrina Survivors testified before Congress- their testimony should have been headline news across America… You can still watch the testimony at C-span (12/6/05), but if you don’t have 4 hours, these four mp3s contain some of the best clips of the hearing.
These are just a few of the Katrina stories that BushCo doesn’t want America to know....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 11:35am PST
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