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Oakland Renters Targeted As Being A Nuisance
On Febuary 17 2004, The Oakland City Council Is Voting On An Ordinance Intended To Grant The City Of Oakland The Power To Evict Individual Renters That May Be Accused Of Being A Nuisance By The City Of Oakland!...
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 1:10am PST
Out Of The Strollers and Into The Streets!
Out of the Strollers and Into the Streets- Baby Bloc at Reclaim The Streets!...
Posted: Thu, Feb 12, 2004 3:06pm PST
Bill would require fingerprinting of undocumented aliens by ER staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Emergency room staff would have to fingerprint or photograph any undocumented immigrant they treat and report the patient to the Department of Homeland Security to begin deportation procedures if a bill introduced here Wednesday is enacted....
Posted: Thu, Feb 12, 2004 9:42am PST
What Constitutes a Political Prisoner? The Ongoing Suppression of American Indian Activism
Some might argue the point, but Indians, by our very nature, are political beings....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 9:33pm PST
Bush crushes Free Speech in Canada
President of the US gets Canadian Prime minister to shut Toronto radio show down, www.cloakanddagger.ca alleges....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 2:44pm PST
Federal Gov't Subpoenas College for Info on Peace Activists
The government has subpoenaed Drake University in Iowa to hand over information about who organized and who attended a National Lawyers Guild anti-war forum in November. Lawyers say they have not seen such subpoenas since the McCarthy era....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 8:21am PST
Appeals Court Blocks Execution of Kevin Cooper
A federal appeals court in California blocked the execution of Kevin Cooper Monday just before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection in San Quentin Prison. The state of California then asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the execution but the high court turned down the state's appeal....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 7:43am PST
Supreme Court Rejects Lockyer's Appeal; Cooper & Workingclass Prevail
At 8:19 p.m., the US Supreme Court rejected the fascist appeal of that good Democrat, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, of the 9th Circuit Stay of Execution of Kevin Cooper, thus guaranteeing that Kevin Cooper lives to see another day and signaling to the world that the workingclass prevails in this fight against the anti-labor weapon of terror of the capitalist class, the death penalty....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 11:53pm PST
Día Nacional de Solidaridad con los Inmigrantes Musulmanes, Árabes y Sudasiáticos
20 de febrero de 2004: Día Nacional de Solidaridad con los Inmigrantes Musulmanes, Árabes y Sudasiáticos...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 11:17pm PST
2/12: Same-Sex Couples to Ask SF County Clerk for Marriage Licenses
DATE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH -
RALLY San Francisco CITY HALL STEPS @ NOON...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 11:06pm PST
Stay could be lifted at any moment in the next 38 hours
We need to let the governor and the courts know that thousands will be marching on San Quentin if they don't stop this legal lynching...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 3:00pm PST
American Airlines Pilot Asks Non-Christian Passengers To Identify Themselves
An American Airlines pilot terrified passengers on his flight when he asked Christians to identify themselves and went on to call non-Christians "crazy"....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 1:58pm PST
Appeals court grants stay to Kevin Cooper!!
SAN FRANCISCO – A federal appeals court granted a stay that may block the execution early Tuesday morning of condemned killer Kevin Cooper, who has won support from celebrities including Denzel Washington and the Rev. Jesse Jackson....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 10:18am PST
9th Circuit Justice Browning Says Cooper Had Unfair Trial
Ninth Circuit Justice James Browning dissented from the majority opinion of the three-judge panel in the 9th Circuit's rejection of Cooper's latest, but not last, appeal to the 9th Circuit....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 12:35am PST
Prisoner Hungerstrike in Texas
prisoners in Texas are on a hungerstrike in Texas to bring awareness to their conditions....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 12:02am PST
Your Action Needed Monday Re: Kevin Cooper
Rev. Jesse Jackson devoted his sermon at Allen Temple Baptist church in Oakland to the case of Kevin Cooper today. It was a deeply moving call for people to take action against the death penalty and to save the life of Kevin Cooper. Jackson announced the march and rally......
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 11:53pm PST
new poem by Sherman Austin
This is a poem by Sherman submitted to the Break the Chains newsletter. Learn more about his case at www.raisethefist.com...
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 11:51pm PST
In 48 hours California will execute the wrong man!
We must stop this!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 10:31pm PST
Stop the legal lynching of Kevin Cooper
Hundreds protested at the California State Building in San Francisco on Feb. 3, at a media conference in conjunction with statewide actions in defense of Kevin Cooper. Cooper is scheduled to be executed by the state on Feb. 10, despite a mountain of evidence suggesting that he is not guilty of the murders he was convicted of....
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 9:47pm PST
University Ordered to Turn Over Records on Anti-War Activists
In addition to records about who attended the forum, the subpoena
orders the university to divulge all records relating to the local
chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a New York-based legal
activist organization that sponsored the forum....
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 8:04pm PST