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Pupl strike causing national emergency threath Finland’s Paper Union has been having and still is having a strike at the moment. The strike is causing severe damage to labor buttocks....
Posted: Sun, May 22, 2005 11:49pm PDT
Washington Retains Strong Ties With Uzbekistan Despite Notorious Human Rights Record Uzbek President Islam Karimov has rejected calls for an international inquiry into a bloody crackdown on protesters in the town of Andijan last week that left up to 750 dead. Washington has close links with Uzbekistan despite the country's notorious human rights record. We speak with a researcher with Human Rights Watch, the editorial director of Antiwar.com and we go to Andijan to get a report from the ground....
Posted: Fri, May 20, 2005 9:06am PDT
NYC on 5/24: PACK THE COURTROOM IN SUPPORT OF JUANITA YOUNG! ** Before the court date, meet at 8:30 AM in front of the Bronx District Attorney's
Office, 198 East 161st Street, Bronx, for a protest vigil. (4/D to 161st Street)...
Posted: Thu, May 19, 2005 10:49pm PDT
CRITICAL MOMENT FOR CAMPAIGN: Sign Our Online Petition! PETITION to Governor Schwarzenegger
urging him to close the youth prisons of the California Youth Authority (CYA)....
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 9:45pm PDT
THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH IN CENTRAL PARK *Lawsuit update* Faced with a federal lawsuit that originally exposed and is seeking to
prevent the City of New York's plans to privatize Central Park
and banish mass assembly protest from Manhattan, the City is speedily
moving to cover its tracks and push through "new regulations."...
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 6:43pm PDT
Documents Obtained by ACLU Expose FBI and Police Targeting of Political Groups The American Civil Liberties Union charged today that the FBI and local police are engaging in intimidation based on political association and are improperly investigating law-abiding human rights and advocacy groups, according to documents obtained through a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests....
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 3:09pm PDT
Attorney: Former Detainees Have Repeatedly Accused U.S. of Desecrating Koran at Guatanamo In August 2003, 23 Yemeni detainees reportedly tried to commit mass suicide after a guard stomped on the Koran. In addition, the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights reported former detainees said they saw the Koran being thrown into the toilets. Three British citizens released last year from Guantanamo reported similar treatment of the Koran in a 115-page dossier on the conditions at the detention camp....
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 8:01am PDT
Prison Reform March On Washington D.C. - August 13th, 2005 Individuals and groups will begin meeting on Friday evening, August 12th. On Saturday morning, August 13th, people will assemble at Lafayette Park (north side of the White House). Programming will begin at 9am and conclude at noon....
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 12:26am PDT
Injustice Regarded as Normal With Native Americans Donny has been deprived of his rights, framed up for a killing committed by the police, has been sentenced to prison. Now the Prosecutor, the U.S. Assistant Attorney, has filed a motion to dismiss his appeal rights!!...
Posted: Tue, May 17, 2005 7:02pm PDT
Urge your members of Congress to oppose harsh new mandatory minimum sentences Urge your members of Congress to oppose harsh new mandatory minimum sentences !...
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2005 2:17pm PDT
Guantanamo Abuses Show US Needs a Dose of Truth Sometimes when I've been too critical of my children, I realize that, for their own emotional well-being, they tune me out. When I notice that glazed look, I jump to revise how and what I say. After all, some of my messages are essential to their safety and well-being. I need to make sure they can hear me....
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2005 8:59am PDT
Young anarchist wounded by the police in Colombia a young anarchist was wounded by police during may day demonstrations in bogota, colombia....
Posted: Fri, May 6, 2005 3:09pm PDT
kent / jackson state killings remebered (audio/mpeg 5.5MB) AUDIO OF MAY 4TH / KENT STATE MEMORIAL GATHERING...
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 10:08pm PDT
A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo We speak with former army sergeant, Erik Saar who served as an Arabic translator at Guantanamo Bay for six months. Among the abuses he says he witnessed was sexual abuse, mock interrogations, the use of dogs and a female interrogator smearing what looked like menstrual blood on a Muslim prisoner. He also says children were imprisoned at Guantanamo and that the military ordered them not to speak to the Red Cross....
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2005 9:53pm PDT
May 14th 2005 Demonstration for the 20th Year Since May 13th 1985 Massacre of MOVE!! 20th year since the government's massacre on innocent men, women, and children in Philadelphia. Free the MOVE 9!!!...
Posted: Tue, May 3, 2005 3:14am PDT
LEIU in Virginia LEIU 50th Annual Training Seminar
May 23rd - 27th, 2005
Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria Virginia...
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2005 10:18am PDT
Lynne Stewart Interview (audio/mpeg 11.9MB) Interview with Attorney Lynne Stewart, accused by the Bush administration of aiding terrorists....
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2005 2:26am PDT
Human Rights Watch Calls for Accountability Into U.S. Abuse of Detainees Human Rights Watch is demanding that a special prosecutor be named to investigate Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former CIA director George Tenet and other top officials for possible war crimes related to the torture and abuse of prisoners. We speak with Human Rights Watch special counsel Reed Brody....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2005 10:05am PDT
BTL:Sister Helen Prejean Recounts How She Became a Leader of... ...the U.S. Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty ~ Excerpts of a speech by Sister Helen Prejean, death penalty opponent, produced by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, Apr 24, 2005 6:09am PDT
ACLU/SC Sues Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff For Infringing on Whistleblower Rights Aviation security experts and whistleblowers lend support for Federal Air Marshals' rights to expose security lapses and increase public safety...
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2005 11:23pm PDT
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