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Frances Newton Lynched by Barbaric USA The backward, barbaric, anti-labor, racist, sexist United States just murdered another innocent African American woman, Frances Newton, in the State of Texas. This is the real United States, not a land of freedom, democracy and opportunity, but one of war, fascism and barbarism....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 5:43pm PDT
Texas Death Row Prisoner Frances Newton Scheduled to Die Today Frances Newton, death row prisoner in Texas, is scheduled to be executed later today but lawyers are seeking a last-minute stay on her execution. We speak to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D - Texas) and an anti-death penalty activist about the case....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 7:23am PDT
Save Frances Newton Phone Call Today for Clemency Save Frances Newton Many phone numbers you can call now for clemency...
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 8:03pm PDT
US media hails martial law general in New Orleans The abject failure of American capitalist society in face of the human tragedy in New Orleans, and the disaster’s exposure of the stark social polarization in the US, have proven deeply unsettling for the ruling elite and the more comfortable sections of the upper middle class....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 8:11am PDT
Great News! Juanita Young Found 'Not Guilty!' Juanita Young was found not guilty today in Bronx Supreme Court by Judge P. Benitez after a four day trial taking place more than two years after the initial incident....
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 11:05pm PDT
Urgent: 3 Days to Execution of Frances Newton Please join Frances' in-laws in asking that her life
be spared. Follow the instructions at
http://www.freefrances.org ....
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 4:47pm PDT
New Orleans Evacuee Compares Louisiana Shelter to Jail We go to Gonzales - between Baton Rouge and New Orleans - where a shelter has been set up for evacuees. One New Orleans evacuee compares the shelter to jail and says, "It ain't our fault that the hurricane came and we had to come here. Like we had to end up in a place that we got to be told what to do."...
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 7:50am PDT
Road to Freedom All are invited to learn about a crime affecting an estimated one person in 100, and which has yet to be acknowledged by the justice system....
Posted: Sun, Sep 11, 2005 12:36pm PDT
Prisoners were abandoned in Orleans Parish Prison Ahmad Nelson, a native of New Orleans, was in the Orleans Parish Prison on the day the Hurricane hit. He was there on trumped up charges of trespassing. He is a Black male, and this happens to him all too frequently....
Posted: Sun, Sep 11, 2005 9:48am PDT
Cynthia McKinney: Gov't report called for martial law if black uprising (audio/mpeg 1.8MB) "A copy of the memo was obtained by The Herald. The scenario outlined in the Brinkerhart(sp?) memo resembles somewhat a paper Jufrida(sp?) had written in 1978 at the Army War College in Carlyle(!), Pennsylvania in which he advocated martial law in case of a national uprising by black militants."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 4:35am PDT
Call for the 10th Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality 
Call for a national day of protest for October 22nd...
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 5:37pm PDT
Interview with SHU prisoner MIM is waging a campaign to abolish the Security Housing Units (SHU) in the California prisons. These torture units house prisoners labeled as "gang members" including many who are active organizers helping others to fight for their rights, those who fought legal battles, and others targeted by guards as "troublemakers." The prison collects evidence against prisoners, using informants. Then, during closed-door hearings where no self-defense is allowed, it routinely convict...
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 4:54pm PDT
9/11 - Truth for Peace and Justice Promo Intvw (audio/mpeg 17.1MB) Interview with David Kimball of Sacramento's 9/11 Truth Forum - Pending the Fourth Anniversary of Sept 11, 2001...
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 4:04pm PDT
Total Gun Confiscation of Law Abiding Citizens Begins Federal forces lead criminal gangs of police is America-killing gun grab...
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 11:26am PDT
New York City police continue arrests of bicyclists The arrest of 48 bicyclists in downtown Manhattan on August 26 marks a continuation of the assault by the New York City Police on democratic rights. These arrests took place in several locations as police corralled a monthly ride promoting bicycling that has been taking place for 10 years. They spotlight the increasing suppression of some of the most harmless and routine activities for fear that they could become rallying points for the seething hostility that exists to social inequality and ...
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 6:55am PDT
California Grand Juries Lock Up Witnesses In San Diego, a federal judge ruled yesterday two activists must
stay in jail in an effort to get them to testify before a grand jury
investigating arson and a controversial speech from two years ago....
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2005 11:21pm PDT
Inside a FEMA Detainment Camp 
I just got back from a FEMA Detainment Camp...
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2005 5:41pm PDT
New Orleans becomes a war zone A dress rehearsal for martial law?...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 9:38pm PDT
Political Persecution of Anti-Police Brutality Juanita Young Continues POLITICAL PERSECUTION OF POLICE BRUTALITY ACTIVIST CONTINUES – TRIAL FOR JUANITA
YOUNG POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER 6, 2005...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 11:23pm PDT
Policing the Poor amidst Flood Disaster The official response to Louisiana's flood disaster has been dominated by policing the state's poor black population while thousands more are still waiting to be rescued....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:47pm PDT
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