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Community Activist Calls New Orleans Police Beating "Typical Behavior" Three New Orleans police officers plead not guilty to assaulting African-American Robert Davis in the French Quarter, caught on videotape by journalists. We speak with longtime New Orleans activist who has led the struggle against police brutality in the city for more than 25 years....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 7:29am PDT
Live from New Orleans: Abu Ghraib! "The Public Torture of Robert Davis" by Lila Rajiva...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 6:57am PDT
Enemy Combatant Civil Rights Complaint Against the Executive Branch Filed With FBI Jose Padilla / Enemy Combatant Civil Rights Complaint Against the Executive Branch Filed With FBI Civil Rights Enforcement Division In San Francisco
1st amendment argued heavily. Admin will respond :We must prevent coded "go" signal. Go signal already given by every high level operative there is. Alternative press access methods could be used. Obstruction of justice. Preventing victims of illegal activities from reaching tribunal of records in secret by military force....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 5:25am PDT
American Library Association leader: “This government stands completely exposed” Interview with American Library Association leader: “This government stands completely exposed”
By Sandy English
12 October 2005...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 11:14pm PDT
Law and Order in NoLa bay area residents witness community organizing in the face of disaster...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 11:01pm PDT
Tito Kayak and Jorge Farinacci in NYC (10/11 court date) The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign is calling on all of your allies to support
TITO KAYAK on the morning of Oct. 11th at his court hearing. In this time
of repression, tragedy and uncertainty, we have to keep the pressure and
support on; TITO needs us to stand with him....
Posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2005 12:39pm PDT
Turkey: trampling on free speech continues The prominent Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk will be tried on December 16 and faces up to four years imprisonment on charges of “public denigration” of Turkish identity for publicly speaking out about the Armenian genocide. It is estimated that more than one million Armenian were killed between 1915-1918 during World War I when the Ottoman Empire—the precursor of the Republic of Turkey—was crumbling....
Posted: Sat, Oct 8, 2005 10:20am PDT
“Do It or Shut the Fuck Up” 
That blunt statement basically sums up this recently released zine by political prisoners Jeffrey ‘Free’ Leurs and Rob ‘Los Ricos’ Thaxton....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 3:38pm PDT
Utah Cops Squash Legal Rave 
A DJ DESCRIBES THE POLICE BRUTALITY AT DANCE PARTY...
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 3:13pm PDT
BTL:Library Challenge to Patriot Act Gag Rule Appealed to Supreme Court Interview with Michael Gorman, president of the American Library Association, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 7:16am PDT
Bush seizes on flu threat to press for martial law power President Bush Tuesday seized on the threat of a global bird flu pandemic to press yet again for the legislative changes to grant him power to deploy US combat troops in police operations on American soil....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 6:33am PDT
Bush White House declares torture vital to US security policy In an extraordinary declaration of the brutality of American foreign policy, the Bush administration denounced a Senate vote to bar the use of torture against prisoners held by the US military. Responding to the passage of an amendment to a Pentagon spending bill—approved by an overwhelming 90-9 vote Wednesday, the White House said the proposal would “restrict the president’s authority to protect Americans effectively from terrorist attack and bring terrorists to justice.”...
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 6:32am PDT
Fmr. Army Chaplain James Yee on the Guantanamo, His Wrongful Imprisonment ... We spend the hour looking at the extraordinary case of Chaplain James Yee - one of the first Muslim Chaplains commissioned by the U.S Army. Yee was posted in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2002, but less than a year after serving there, he was accused of espionage by the military and faced charges so severe, that he was threatened with the death penalty....
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2005 6:52am PDT
New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters “Of all the nightmares during Hurricane Katrina, this must be one of the worst,” said Corinne Carey, researcher from Human Rights Watch. “Prisoners were abandoned in their cells without food or water for days as floodwaters rose toward the ceiling.”...
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 8:24am PDT
Utah Cops Squash Legal Rave with Teargas, Helicopters 
A DJ Describes the Brutality at Dance Party...
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 9:05pm PDT
The Butcher of New Orleans 9-11 Insider & Director of "Homeland Security" Michael Chertoff...
Posted: Sun, Oct 2, 2005 5:28pm PDT
More Than 500 From New Orleans Jail Still Unaccounted For A month after Hurricane Katrina, serious questions remain about the fate of hundreds of prisoners in New Orleans. Human Rights Watch says there are 517 unaccounted for, while prisoners and their lawyers say many were abandoned in the flooding jails. We'll speak with Human Rights Watch's researcher, as well as a man who was in the Orleans Parish Prison during the storm, and two lawyers fighting to discover what exactly happened inside the jails....
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2005 6:38am PDT
Racism Rears Its Ugly Head I could say that the Bush mentality has unleased a lot of evil by evil doers. But I think the problem has always been there. Native American have gone from 30 to 50 million people strong in 1600 to about 100,000 in 1890. Their numbers today are still less than one million in America. No other group of people have sustained such a huge loss due to genocide. This was all committed by Americans and their Europeon ancesters. Kinda makes Hitler look like a boy scout. Let us start looking in...
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2005 4:43pm PDT
Fresh From Iraq, Private Security Forces Roam the Streets of an American City With Impunit In this week's cover story in The Nation, Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reports on how mercenaries from private security firms like Blackwater USA and BATS are patrolling the streets in New Orleans....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 7:05am PDT
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