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Flashpoints May 14: Anne Gwynne in Nablus, eyewitness to murder
KPFA Flashpoints Radio, Wednesday May 14, 2003
-A series of late night phone messages from Anne Gwynne pinned down in Nablus, witnessing Israeli soldiers entrapping and shooting children for sport'
-Later in the day, a followup phone interview with Anne by Flashpoints host Dennis Bernstein
-Barbara Lubin, Pacifica pledge break...
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2003 10:45pm PDT
ADAPT Gridlock Forces DOJ Talks & Commitment to Review Institutions and States’ ADA Plans
ADAPT stopped traffic on busy Constitution Avenue, and on surrounding streets including an entrance to I395, for seven hours Monday to gain a meeting with U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officials....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2003 9:36pm PDT
100 from ADAPT Arrested at White House Demanding Apology from President for “Stolen Lives”
100 from ADAPT Arrested at White House Demanding Apology from President for “Stolen Lives”...
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2003 9:30pm PDT
Brazilians write to President Lula : Don't join FTAA
As the so-thought leftist brazilian government moves steadily towards neoliberalism, some respected intellectuals and social leaders appeal to their president to steer back into course......
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2003 8:12pm PDT
GAO Report Shows that 95% of Forest Service Fuel Reduction Projects Get Green Light
New GAO Report Shows that 95% of Forest Service Fuel Reduction Projects Get Green Light within Standard 90 day Review Period...
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2003 3:56pm PDT
The War Is Not Over Until The U.S. Leaves Iraq
The U.S. and Britain have declared victory in their war against Iraq and a despicable imperialist occupation is underway. A U.S.-occupied Iraq can never be a "liberated" Iraq. The Iraqi people can only be free to forge their own future when the U.S. and all foreign invaders get out of their country...
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2003 3:45pm PDT
Illinois House passes bill to allow over-the-counter syringe sales
Illinois House passed bill to allow purchase of syringes without a prescription. The governor is expected to sign the bill. Currently, only Illinois, California, Delaware, New Jersey, and Massachusettes require a prescription for the purchase of syringes....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2003 2:09pm PDT
Saudi Firm Bombed was Cover for CIA, Once Owned by Carlyle Group, Original Owners Unknown
beautiful work . . ....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2003 9:02am PDT
The truth behind the reconstruction of Iraq
A designer regime, concocted behind closed doors by Pentagon and State Department planners, is now being imposed on Iraq with great speed and without any kind of popular consent....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2003 5:34am PDT
SAMUEL SHAHID: CRUSADING CHRISTIAN BIGOT SPREADING HATE WHEREVER HE GOES
Greg Self, the first graduate of Shahid's program, runs a nonprofit in Arlington called Good News for the Crescent World. Muslims are going to hell, he says. "That's why it's so urgent for me to go out and tell them." "We are a seminary, not a university," says Samuel Shahid, a Palestinian-born Christian who heads the program. Students in Fort Worth say they expect to take similar paths--going undercover with jobs as teachers, translators, business people, relief workers, ...
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2003 3:37am PDT
Iraq: Political crisis of occupation
Between the collapse of Garner's administration and the bombings in Riyahd...
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2003 9:05pm PDT
Support prisoners in West Virginia
The Mount Olive Correctional Complex / WV Dept of Corrections inmate regulations call for a 90 day Loss of Privileges for an inmate's name being found on the Internet through search engines....
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2003 7:39pm PDT
Two FCC commissioners seek to postpone vote on media ownership rules
Two commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission asked for a "public airing" before the FCC votes on controversial rule changes on media ownership....
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2003 7:35pm PDT
Shots fired over unpaid parking tickets
Councilwoman criticizes action by constables
They shot three dogs, two fatally, when they went to serve warrant in Allentown for unpaid parking tickets.
By Joe McDonald, The Morning Call (Pennsylvania)
May 12, 2003...
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2003 7:10pm PDT
Racial, Gender Discrimination Persists in the Workplace
African Americans and whites continue to show dramatic differences in unemployment rates, wages, health, mortality, and incarceration rates, with blacks comprising a disproportionate component of the lower class....
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2003 3:52pm PDT
MAINSTREAM CANADIAN NEWSPAPER STARTS TO QUESTION OFFICIAL AMERICAN LIES ON 9-11
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Posted: Tue, May 13, 2003 3:50pm PDT
God Forgive Us for Guantanamo Bay
For nearly two years, some hundreds of Muslim men and boys are illegally imprisoned in cages in an American prison. Their only crime was a fervent belief in a religion. Their captor is a country that pretends to defend the right to practice any religion. When will the world insist on justice?...
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2003 2:07pm PDT
Earth First! Northwest Regional Rendezvous May 23-26
Memorial Day Weekend, Western eco-activists will host the Earth First! Northwest Regional Rendezvous in Southern Oregon with location to be announced. The event will kick off Cascadia Summer, a coordinated call to action to protect Casacadia’s ecosystems through education and creative direct action....
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2003 1:50pm PDT