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CAGW Highlights Wasteful Spending in War on Drugs
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today called upon the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to significantly reduce funding and re-organize its high-intensity drug trafficking program, which has devolved into little more than another method for members of Congress to bring tax dollars home to fund superfluous projects....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 11:36pm PST
Ex-S.F. supervisor named to civil rights panel
Washington -- Former San Francisco Supervisor Michael Yaki was named Tuesday to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, where he will be one of the few liberal and Democratic voices on a panel that under President Bush has come under solid conservative control...
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 11:11pm PST
Proposal would house prisoners in Mexico
PHOENIX (AP) -- Some lawmakers want to explore the possibility of the state contracting to have a private prison built in Mexico to house illegal immigrants now incarcerated in Arizona....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 10:59pm PST
Call for Feb. 20th National Day of Solidarity
ON FEBRUARY 20TH, TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES WEAR A BLUE TRIANGLE WITH THE NAME OF A MUSLIM, ARAB OR SOUTH ASIAN IMMIGRANT ROUNDED UP AND JAILED IN SECRET BY THE US GOVERNMENT AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 9:49pm PST
Bay Area Lawyers Guild Rallies Around Lynne Stewart
Members of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) in the Bay Area are calling on local attorneys, legal workers, law students as well as legal and social justice organizations to sign on to a Pledge Of Resolve in solidarity with a “National Day of Outrage” across the country to protest the conviction of NLG Member Lynne Stewart....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 7:35pm PST
Special Forces GI dies of illness after Iraq visit
Munoz died last week of a staph infection, two weeks after returning from Iraq and two days after his first wedding anniversary. He was 29....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 6:18pm PST
Tenth Pittsburgh Restaurant Ditches Foie Gras
More victories in Pittsburgh......
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 6:08pm PST
SAMHSA Suicide Prevention: no gay, lesbian, bi or transgender
Feds refuse to allow "gay" "lesbian" and "transgender" in federally funded suicide prevention workshop...
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 2:53pm PST
Blast from the Past: Choicepoint and the 2000 election
in 2000, Katharine Harris and Jeb Bush used ChoicePoint to purge the voter rolls of Florida of tens of thousands of African American "felons", and here they are, back in the news again, pay particular scrutiny to the description of their database...
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 12:18pm PST
Importance of French Workers' Struggle to Keep 35 Hour Week Shouldn't be Underestimated
The real reason for U.S. capitalism's attempt to create anti-French sentiment is the French workers' stand for the 35 hour week at a time when U.S. and global capitalism is trying to normalize going backwards....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 9:32am PST
The End of Globalization
The economy ought to serve humanity; humanity should not serve the economy. Beware the neo-liberal idolization of growth and competition! If growth becomes a law, ecological collapse is unavoidable. If competition is made absolute, mass unemployment will occur everywhere....
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 7:35am PST
Yusuf Islam Updates
SINGER ISLAM GETS LIBEL DAMAGES
and
THE SUN AND SUNDAY TIMES AGREE TO PAY SUBSTANTIAL LIBEL DAMAGES TO
YUSUF ISLAM...
Posted: Wed, Feb 16, 2005 12:03am PST
Supremacist Charged in Machine Gun Sales
SEATTLE -- Federal agents arrested three men on gun and explosives charges Tuesday, including a white supremacist who once served time for plotting to kill Martin Luther King Jr....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 7:44pm PST
Study: Homeless Shelters, Food in Demand
-- Many homeless shelters and soup kitchens faced with more requests for emergency services are turning people away because they lack the beds, food and money to meet the demand, says a survey from an advocacy group for low-income Americans....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 7:37pm PST
Patriots and Parrots: Imprisoning Tongues in America
It can be dangerous to engage in free speech. This year alone, 242 journalists, in countries such as Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, have been tossed into jail for their words, and one has been killed....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 7:29pm PST
Greenpeace Protesters Get Jail Terms
PITTSBURGH -- Six Greenpeace activists were sentenced Tuesday to jail terms ranging from five to 30 days for climbing a smokestack at a coal-fired power plant in protest of President Bush's energy policy....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 7:23pm PST
Black History Month
This should have preceded the piece Black History Month/White History Month but for some resason it wasn't posted....
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 1:51pm PST
"We Refuse to be Buried by Globalization"
"The theory of the end of work is nonsense. It is part of an ideology. We are not in a crisis but in a process of change in which the whole labor force is no longer needed.. Our problem is that we stubbornly cling to an old concept of work.."...
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 7:21am PST
Wal-Mart Agrees to Pay Fine for Violating Child Labor Laws
Wal-Mart Agrees to Pay Fine for Violating Child Labor Laws; Company Signs Settlement Agreement with Labor Department...
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 1:07am PST
Preliminary Analysis of Bush's Budget
NCLR RELEASES PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF PRESIDENT BUSH'S BUDGET
Expresses Strong Concern Over Budget Priorities...
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 12:58am PST