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Hacktivists Deface Dare.com in Act of Electronic Civil Disobedience
Hackers have targeted dare.com in political protest of the criminalization of marijuana, the hypocrisy of the war on drugs, and the indoctrination of today's youth through the DARE program....
Posted: Sun, Feb 29, 2004 10:53pm PST
Tell the MS Society to Stop Playing Politics with Patients
Despite endorsements of medical marijuana from the MS Societies
in Canada and Great Britain, the U.S. National MS Society is playing
politics with the lives of seriously ill patients, and refuses to
acknowledge marijuana's therapeutic value in the treatment of MS....
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 7:00pm PST
Narco News Reborn
A $30,000 Matching Grant, and a New Model for Authentic Journalism...
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 9:26am PST
ACLU, Marijuana Rights Groups Sue U.S. Over Ads
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union and groups that want to reform U.S. marijuana laws filed suit on Wednesday to challenge a new law that bans advertisements on public transit if the ads criticize the government's war on drugs....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 2:47pm PST
Drug War Film Festival Fund Raiser
On March 12/2004 in Seattle at the 911media.org location at 8pm a most extraordinary film festival event will take place.911media and the British Columbia Compassion Club Society www.thecompassionclub.org are presenting the Drug War Film Festival, a fund raiser for the society....
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 2:31pm PST
Higher Education Act Action Alert
SSDP has campaigned against a 1998
amendment to the Higher Education Act that denies federal financial aid to
anyone convicted of a drug-related offense, no matter how minor....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 9:23pm PST
National Student Group Demands Protection of Students' Civil Rights
Washington, DC - Students across the nation are outraged over the Berkeley County School District's response to a lawsuit filed by Stratford High School students and their families....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 12:33pm PST
Montesinos in Court on FARC Gun-Running Charges
Rightwing Peruvian spymaster Montesinos is being accused of running guns to the FARC. In Peru Montesinos was known for his violent anti-Communist views and is thought to have been working for the CIA. Does this mean the CIA is/was secretly funding both sides in the war in Colombia?...
Posted: Tue, Jan 20, 2004 9:27am PST
Top Colombia rebel leader seized
Colombia has announced the capture of a top commander of the main left-wing rebel group, the FARC....
Posted: Sat, Jan 3, 2004 9:49am PST
Medical Racism, Bush Bans Chinese Herb
With the banning of Ma Huang (Ephedra) a Traditional Chinese Medicinal herb without any real medical evidence of harm to the public and against the recommendations of an independent medical and scientific body, the Bush administration is committing an act of medical racism against the Chinese American community that relies on Ma Huang as a part of highly effective medical patent herbal remedies....
Posted: Tue, Dec 30, 2003 2:05pm PST
Macabre collection (by Latuff)
Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Sun, Nov 23, 2003 7:11pm PST
Children Terrorized In S.C. School Drug Raid
Fascism Amerikan Style Terrorizes Children Over Alleged Drug Activity!...
Posted: Sat, Nov 8, 2003 3:08am PST
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Govt. Medical Marijuana Appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Tuesday a ruling that the government cannot revoke the federal prescription licenses of doctors who recommend medical marijuana to sick patients....
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2003 4:10pm PDT
Rush Limbaugh drug-war quotes. Hypocrite windbag! Audio and banners, too!
It is funny to watch the wrong wing fall over themselves in their care and concern for the addiction of Rush Limbaugh. Even funnier still to read the previous drug warrior tirades from Rush. Check out the audio clip and banner, too....
Posted: Sun, Oct 12, 2003 11:27pm PDT
Ghettopoly should spark more white outrage
But the game's inventor, 28-year-old David Chang, has brushed aside all the charges, saying that Ghettopoly is just a fun game, satirising modern urban stereotypes....
Posted: Fri, Oct 10, 2003 2:25am PDT
Malfeasant Federal Judges In Medical Marijuana Harassment
This is "judicial activism" at its worst -- using unconstitutional judicial rulings to nullify Constitutional civil liberties. More importantly, the malfeasant, misfeasant, and misfeasant federal judicial rulings against medical marijuana are obviously a part of a criminal conspiracy against the rights of citizens, as defined in federal law at 18 USC Section 241....
Posted: Sat, Oct 4, 2003 3:20pm PDT
Giordano Interviews Latuff on IMC NYC Censorship
Strange, but this really interesting and newsworthy interview was "hidden" over at NYC IMC... to whom both Latuff and Giordano have been good friends over many years. What's going on over there? It does appear - with links and comments - at the BigLeftOutside blog, link below....
Posted: Tue, Aug 26, 2003 8:15am PDT
Drug Users make tracks to Australia's Northern Territory
A different kind of tracks will be laid in Darwin, Australia in September....
Posted: Tue, Aug 12, 2003 7:38pm PDT
FIFTEEN REASON TO LEGALIZE DRUGS
There are no panaceas in the world but, for social afflictions, legalizing drugs comes possibly as close as any single policy could. Removing legal penalties from the production, sale and use of "controlled substances" would alleviate at least fifteen of our biggest social or political problems. Select this, cut it out, paste it and read carefully. Then pass it along!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 24, 2003 4:36pm PDT
Act now to support medical marijuana
CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE. Tell him or her to vote in favor of the
Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment....
Posted: Tue, Jul 22, 2003 11:12am PDT