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Pentagon’s domestic spying operations target opponents of Iraq war
As Congress moves toward passage of a bill to extend the USA Patriot Act, scattered reports are surfacing in the US media of a massive expansion of domestic spying operations by the US military. The reports make clear that US citizens engaged in peaceful and legal political activity in opposition to the war in Iraq and aggressive military recruiting tactics are being monitored by military intelligence agencies and included in rapidly expanding secret data banks....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 8:59am PST
PATRIOT Act Passes House, Fails American People
Today, the Republican-led House of Representatives passed the USA PATRIOT Act Reauthorization conference report. No Democrat signed the conference report, and I voted against it, because it is possible to defend our security while protecting our essential civil liberties - and this bill fails on that account....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 12:19am PST
Australian state government prepares savage attack on democratic rights
In response to racial violence last weekend in Sydney, state Labor Premier Morris Iemma yesterday called an emergency session of the New South Wales (NSW) parliament for Thursday to pass a series of repressive measures that will allow police to declare “lockdown zones” throughout the city. The laws will provide extensive new powers to police who are already engaged in sweeping and unprecedented operations....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 6:47am PST
Two Days to Stop the Patriot Act
This version of the Patriot Act will give the Government a free hand to further invade your privacy and other rights. Take action now! http://political.moveon.org/patriotact/...
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 12:59am PST
Worldwide outrage over execution of Stanley Tookie Williams
The execution of Stanley Tookie Williams just after midnight Tuesday morning was met with a mass demonstration outside the gates of California’s San Quentin prison and outrage and revulsion all over the world....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 9:05pm PST
Execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams
Stanley “Tookie” Williams, co-founder of the Crip street gang in Los Angeles, was executed in San Quentin Prison on December 13 just after midnight.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger coldly and callously refused to grant him clemency, saying that “the facts do not justify overturning the court decision.” Even though Tookie Williams had changed and became a very outspoken advocate against gang violence and for peace. They showed him no mercy. But it is deeper than this. In a highly...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 6:13pm PST
Two days to stop the Patriot Act
A bipartisan group of senators have agreed to fight the Patriot Act—by filibuster if necessary. The law currently goes too far in curtailing our civil liberties and they're fighting back. The Senate will vote as soon as Thursday. This is the time to act....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 4:50pm PST
Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man? Investigating the Details of the Cantu Case
Ruben Cantu was the fifth teenager convicted and executed by the state of Texas. Now more than a dozen years after his death, a further investigation into his case has provided new information supporting his unwavering claim to innocence. We speak with Lise Olsen, the reporter from the Houston Chronicle who has written a series of articles on the case....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 10:25am PST
Deal to renew USA Patriot Act extends police-state measures
Republican negotiators in the House of Representatives and the Senate reached an agreement last week for the renewal of the USA Patriot Act, including the permanent extension of most of the provisions that had been set to expire by the end of this year. Once it is passed into law, the bill will extend sweeping attacks on democratic rights and consolidate a vast expansion of the powers of the state to spy on law-abiding individuals....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 10:56pm PST
police brutality in buffalo ( possible mafia relations)
The police in Buffalo constists of many ( crocket cops). These cops are known around the city for brutality. officer Pernaro, and also Lutenet King. I was i victim of one of there assults on 12/10/05 and i want to help stop this racism towards are city's inacent, poor Black young men. Please E-mail me back a/s/a/p Thanks.....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 5:15pm PST
The Philly Media and Mumia Abu-Jamal
When They Don't Bash, They Ignore
By LINN WASHINGTON, Jr....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 7:04am PST
Alpizar and de Menezes: Two victims of state “anti-terror” killings
The state killings of Rigoberto Alpizar and Jean Charles de Menezes came four-and-a-half months apart, and an ocean separated the scenes of their violent deaths. Yet the similarities between their fates is undeniable. Both were innocent men brutally executed by undercover agents—in one case American, in the other British—prosecuting the so-called “global war on terror.”...
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 11:05pm PST
Another arrest and subpoena in FBI Eco witch hunt - Please write him a letter!
Former ALF prisoner Darren Thurston was arrested last Wednesday and is currently being held in an INS detention center in Tacoma. His extradition is based on his conviction for raiding a Lab in 1992. He was also subpoenaed to the Eugene grand jury for Feb. 16th, 2006
No word yet on how a subpoena can be served or enforced upon a Canadian citizen, but these are awfully strange times we are living in. Darren has been told, as most of the other recipients of the recent subpoenas, that he is a t...
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 6:03pm PST
ITALY, NO-TAV protests: 50.000 fight against the police!
- the protesters managed to re-occupie the valley -...
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 5:59pm PST
Bob Avakian on Richard Pryor
Recently I was reading reports of police assaults on Black people and of Black people fighting against the police in Memphis and Miami. This called to mind a story I was told a while back. A rookie cop was riding in his police car with his veteran partner when a report came in that there was a Black man in the vicinity with a gun. As their car screeched around the corner, a young Black man suddenly appeared sprinting up an alley--into a dead end. "Shoot him!", the older cop screamed...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 10:02pm PST
Email Garden Grove City Council regarding Theresa Dang case
If you are one of the many thousands of people outraged about what has happened to Theresa Dang, please email the Garden Grove City Council and tell them how you feel about this matter at ruths@ci.garden-grove.ca.us and pamha@ci.garden-grove.ca.us...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 8:34pm PST
Shooting the Mentally ill, Better than treatment?
Forty-four year old Rigoberto Alpizar, an American citizen was Murdered by federal air marshals on Wednesday as he fled an American Airlines jet at Miami International Airport. Federal officials lied about him saying he had a bomb....
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 1:45pm PST
Eyewitnesses refute official story in fatal shooting of passenger at Miami airport
In the days since Rigoberto Alpizar was shot and killed while fleeing an American Airlines flight in Miami, no credible evidence has materialized to back the claim by government authorities that the 44-year-old Costa Rican immigrant said he was carrying a bomb in the moments before federal marshals opened fire....
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 12:24am PST
The US has used torture for decades. All that's new is the openness about it
By ignoring past abuses, opponents of torture are in danger of pushing it back into the shadows instead of abolishing it...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 12:00am PST