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The new McCarthyism: the witch-hunting of Ward Churchill The witch-hunt spearheaded by the ultra-right, with the assistance of the media, against University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill has dangerous implications for academic freedom and free speech in the US. It represents the latest manifestation of the new McCarthyism, the drive to suppress and silence critics of Bush administration policy and its “global war on terror” in particular....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:50pm PST
Response to Stewart Frameup: Expose 9/11 Hoax The frameup and unjustifiable conviction of outstanding workingclass attorney, Lynne Stewart, is not only an outrage that must be protested, and the conviction must be appealed, but it must be a wakeup call that EXPOSING THE 9/11 HOAX is just as important as all other activities of the peace and labor movements....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 8:05pm PST
NLG Condemns Verdict In Lynne Stewart Trial National Lawyers Guild Condemns Verdict In Lynne Stewart Trial
Urges Defense Attorneys to Continue Representing Unpopular Clients...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 5:20pm PST
Lynne Stewart Falsely Convicted on Aiding and Abetting Terrorism Charges! In a travesty of justice and after a seven-month trial progressive New
York attorney Lynne Stewart was convicted today on conspiracy to aid and abet terrorism charges...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 3:03pm PST
A New World in Our Hearts: Building for Revolution May Day Conference in NYC A May Day Conference in NYC with workshops, skill shares, music, a really free market, a critical mass bike ride, parties, speakers, films, a soccer tournament and more....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 2:28pm PST
Lynne Stewart Convicted of "Helping Terrorists" For Acting As Lawyer For Egyptian Sheik NEW YORK (AP) - A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients - a radical Egyptian sheik - to his terrorist disciples on the outside.
The jury has been deliberating off-and-on over the past month in the case of Lynne Stewart, 65, a firebrand, left-wing activist known for representing radicals and revolutionaries in her 30 years on the New York legal scene....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 12:44pm PST
Still Time to Urge Congress to Oppose the REAL ID Act There is still time to oppose the REAL ID Act. The House of
Representatives is expected to vote on this bill this afternoon....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 10:10am PST
Robert O'Harrow Goes Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society O'Harrow explores how the government is teaming up with private companies to collect massive amounts of data on citizens and how, he writes, "More than ever before, the details about our lives are no longer our own. They belong to the companies that collect them, and the government agencies that buy or demand them in the name of keeping us safe."...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:08am PST
Chronicle of Actions Against Global Capitalism A short descriptions of actions against blood-sucking capitalist parasites....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 2:59am PST
Gays: More cases of rare disease Lymphogranuloma venereum, or LGV, is a form of chlamydia that can damage the bowels and scar the anus. Among the few patients that have been identified in the United States, most also had the AIDS virus....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 1:09am PST
Seeking Submissions for Queer Women Anthology What I am looking for: personal essays written by lesbian, bisexual,
and
transgender women (in their late teens to early thirties) on their
participation
in queer activism(s)....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 11:25pm PST
New York’s public schools marred by corporate model, police repression On February 3, a New York City school principal and an aide were arrested for defending a student against a cop in a school located in the borough of the Bronx....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 10:56pm PST
Poor, distraught and desperate: Oregon man threatens suicide on floor of state Senate As he was escorted handcuffed down the capitol steps, Owens turned to reporters and TV cameras. “I’m disabled!” he screamed. “I need housing! That’s all!”...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 10:55pm PST
Canadian Wal-Mart Seeking Union to Close Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) said Wednesday it will close a Canadian store whose workers are on the verge of becoming the first ever to win a union contract from the world's biggest retailer....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 8:58pm PST
Too long and too painful "Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and ex...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 3:33pm PST
pig farms There is a story on the front page of the Monday, February 7, Chicago Tribune headed "Village in Poland clashes with U.S. pork giant; America's top hog producer wants to create `the Iowa of Europe'; residents gag on transformation." It discusses the nightmare people go through when modern pork producers move into their neighborhoods....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 3:07pm PST
canned hunting The Magazine section of the Sunday, February 6, Washington Post has a lengthy fluff piece on canned hunting, headed "They Shoot Zebras, Don't They? These days, you don't have to go to the African veldt to hunt gazelle, kudu and zebra. Set your sights on Texas." (Page W21) It includes a couple of quotes from animal rights activists -- a couple of lines in a 4,300 piece on the sport....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 3:06pm PST
wild horses facing slaughter The February 7 edition of Newsweek, (on stands till the afternoon of the 7th) has an article headed "A New Range War: A change in the law, and wild horses face slaughter." (Page 51.)...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 3:03pm PST
What You Know About 9/11, If You're Like Me If you're like me, you noticed these individual oddities, but you never thought to lay them all out side by side....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 2:03pm PST
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