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Virginia Man Sentenced To Six Months In Jail For Soliciting Sodomy (Virginia Beach, Virginia) A Virginia Beach man has been sentenced to six months in jail for trying to pick up an undercover police officer in the restroom of a department store...
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 12:17pm PST
Appeals Court Asked To Reconsider Florida Anti-Gay Adoption Ruling (New York City) The American Civil Liberties Union today asked the United States Court of Appeals in Atlanta to reconsider its recent ruling upholding a Florida law that excludes gays and lesbians from adopting....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 12:15pm PST
Dangers Of Electoralism :Kerry Tells Anti-War Movement to Move On Kerry and his comrades in the progressive internationalist movement are as gung-ho about U.S. military action as their counterparts in the White House. The only noteworthy difference between the two groups battling for power in Washington is that the neocons are willing to pursue their imperial ambitions in full view of the international community, while the progressive internationalists prefer to keep their imperial agenda hidden behind the cloak of multilateralism....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 12:02pm PST
Medical marijuana advocates spread pot seeds Medical marijuana advocates spread pot seeds on the lawn of City Hall to protest a proposal to tighten restrictions on what have been called "Oaksterdam" cannabis clubs....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 10:07am PST
John Kerry Against Same-Sex Marriage Leading Democratic presidential contender Sen. John Kerry is not necessarily opposed to a constitutional amendment to permanently ban same-sex marriage, he told National Public Radio’s All Things Considered Feb. 9....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 10:03am PST
California Safe Schools celebrates www.nopoison.org SCHOOL PESTICIDE REFORM COALITION
LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE:
WWW.NOPOISON.ORG...
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 8:52am PST
Call for Nonviolent Direct Action in SOA Watch Spring Mobilization As
part of our 2004 Spring Mobilization and Lobby Day, we are calling for
independent and autonomous actions around Capitol Hill on Monday, March
29th....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 10:47pm PST
Survival Trumps Marriage for Local Queer Youth Opponents and advocates of gay and lesbian marriage have been mobilizing in the past weeks, following the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling that only marriage, not civil union, would satisfy its initial decision. While all mainstream attention continues to focus on the issue of gay marriage, a recent report issued in Washington, D.C. puts day-to-day survival as the number one priority for youth of color who are transgender, bisexual, lesbian, gay, or queer. Darby Hickey of the D.C. Radio Coo...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 9:44am PST
The Ruckus Society rethinks the U.S. anti-globalization movement “Close your eyes,” directs a young workshop facilitator. In the sticky heat of a secluded Florida campground, under a large open-air tent, a group of activists closes their eyes. “Now I want you to picture an anti-corporate globalization activist.” The campers furrow their collective brows. “Okay,” says the facilitator, after a brief pause, “how many saw a white person?”...
Posted: Mon, Feb 16, 2004 2:36pm PST
Benefit for political prisoner Jeff 'Free' Luers 
Thursday, February 19th 2004
Artist Television Access 922 Valencia, San Francisco, http://www.atasite.org
8PM
$5
Contact: (local) veganverna@riseup.net or freefreenow@mutualaid.org...
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 7:01pm PST
Drug War Film Festival Fund Raiser On March 12/2004 in Seattle at the 911media.org location at 8pm a most extraordinary film festival event will take place.911media and the British Columbia Compassion Club Society www.thecompassionclub.org are presenting the Drug War Film Festival, a fund raiser for the society....
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 2:31pm PST
Pledge to Support Grocery Workers Dear friend,
I won't cross a grocery store picket line. And I'm asking my friends to pledge to do the same....
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 12:54pm PST
Religious rightist to head FDA’s Reproductive Committee Dr. Hager is a practicing OB/GYN who describes himself as "pro-life" and refuses to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women...
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 12:24pm PST
2/15 5 pm KQED Arthur Kinoy, Civil Rights Lawyer Arthur Kinoy, the famous civil rights lawyer who died September 19, 2003 at age 82, is the subject of a documentary, "Doing Justice: The Life and Trials of Arthur Kinoy" on KQED-TV, Sunday, 2/15/04 at 5 p.m. His life story is the history of a variety of workingclass struggles....
Posted: Sat, Feb 14, 2004 4:32pm PST
White House Admits Bush Lied in 2002 Over Al Qaeda Obtaining U.S. Nuke Plant Plans President Bush claimed in his 2002 State of the Union address that the U.S. discovered in Afghanistan detailed plans of U.S. nuclear plants. The Bush administration was forced to admit this week that the claim was not based on factual evidence after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said there was no evidence any such plans were found in Afghanistan....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 5:35pm PST
AWOL-Gate: Were Portions of Bush's Military Record Scrubbed in 1997? 
As scrutiny increases over President Bush's National Guard record, we talk with longtime Texan journalist James Moore, author of the forthcoming Bush's War For Re-election. The book reports that a Lt. Col. Bill Burkett overheard Bush aides ask the head of the Texan National Guard to throw out portions of his military record....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 5:31pm PST
Bush Administration Violates Doctor-Patient Confidentiality The Bush Administration has claimed in recent legal proceedings that it does not believe that there is any legal protection for the confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship, according to recently released court documents....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 9:47am PST
What Constitutes a Political Prisoner? The Ongoing Suppression of American Indian Activism Some might argue the point, but Indians, by our very nature, are political beings....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 9:33pm PST
Peltier's Reaction to Kamook and the Arlo Looking Cloud Trial The Arlo Looking Cloud trial was nothing more than an indirect presentation of another Myrtle Poorbear to discredit AIM and myself, and to extradite John Graham. I am an innocent man....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 9:30pm PST
Higher Education Act Action Alert SSDP has campaigned against a 1998
amendment to the Higher Education Act that denies federal financial aid to
anyone convicted of a drug-related offense, no matter how minor....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 9:23pm PST
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