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A special report on Migrant Rights at the World Social Forum
A special report for the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights direct from Mumbai, India...
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 10:43am PST
The 13th Annual Sparks Fly event benefiting women political prisoners
Come out and support women political prisoners. Hold the date! Pass this on!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 12:37am PST
La Resistencia Denounces Bush's New Plan
Clearly, it amounts to nothing more than a plan for more extreme
suffering and exploitation of immigrants trying to work in the U.S. It
is a plan to intensify repression, a plan to track and control....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 11:47pm PST
Republican Infiltration of Files
WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 3:44pm PST
Police corruption abusing children
A night club owner uncovers a ring of corruption involved in prostitution, extortion, narcotic trafficking, and protection for sexual predetors working for the police....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 2:11pm PST
Corruption in California's Prison Industry
Sacramento -- Whistleblowers leveled allegations of corruption, coverup and an omnipresent code of silence within California penitentiaries at a legislative hearing Tuesday as corrections officials announced changes at embattled Folsom State Prison and pledged to clean up a department characterized by two lawmakers as morally bankrupt....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 12:44pm PST
French Bigotry Getting Worse: Sikh forced to take off turban to enter government building
LONDON: A Sikh man has been forced to take off his turban in order to enter a Paris government building, appalled British Sikhs have reported, as France prepares to introduce a controversial law banning the Sikh turban, Muslim hijab and Jewish yarmulke....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 10:32am PST
End Police Discrimination Against Poor Filipino Children
Each day, 36 to 54 Filipino kids languish and get mixed up with adult prisoners in cramped police jails where a number of them get raped, tortured, and tattooed and deprived of access to legal, medical, social, and psychological assistance and services in an institutionalized act of unlawful discrimination by the Philippine government against the children of the poorest of the poor...
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 11:47pm PST
TV Execs meet to discuss coverage of next attack
... a summit meeting of TV anchormen and their bosses... with Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to discuss how they'll cover the next terrorist attack....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 10:20pm PST
The US is the only country which openly acknowledges executing child offenders
Amnesty International has launched a two-year campaign to ban the execution of child offenders worldwide....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 3:48pm PST
The REAL State of the Union...
Last night the President gave his "State of the Union" address on over 40 channels nationwide. Here is the "REAL" State of the Union as Outlined by the UK Independent....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 3:08pm PST
The End of Freedom
Assessing the demise of freedom with some help from Hannah Arendt....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 12:18pm PST
Cuba tightens its control over Internet
Cuba tightens its control over Internet...
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 8:34am PST
Fresno Woman Arrested For Having a Bad Dream
Denise Martin shared a dream she had with a friend. Her friend told the dream to Martin’s former employer and this led to Martin’s arrest and imprisonment....
Posted: Sun, Jan 18, 2004 8:42pm PST
CONFESSION IN MIAMI
FBI Special Agent in Charge Hector Pesquera confess he had to “persuade” Janet Reno to arrest five Cubans fighting anti-Cuba terrorism...
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2004 9:43am PST
When Are Nazi Comparisons Deplorable?
Bush supports object to MoveOn.com's Hitler ad, yet Rush Limbaugh routinely calls women's rights advocates "femi-Nazis" and the NY Post ran a column describing Howard Dean as a Josef Goebbels follower....
Posted: Fri, Jan 16, 2004 5:11pm PST
Censored Bush Hitler Video
Where is the Move-on Video with Hitler and Bush It appears to have dissapeared from everywhere including the SF indy site. Anyone know why?...
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 4:46pm PST
AZ: Undocumented prisoners forced to register for draft
UNDOCUMENTED, JAILED MIGRANT WORKERS
TOLD THEY MUST REGISTER FOR MILITARY DRAFT...
Posted: Wed, Jan 14, 2004 10:03am PST
The Case of Leonard Peltier
Below you will find a new detailed article on the case of Leonard Peltier. This article explains why Leonard’s case is so important to all of us and why support events like the Feb. 7th Tacoma Peltier March are needed to be supported by all who believe in social justice and peace....
Posted: Mon, Jan 12, 2004 3:21pm PST
Police State Links
This page is under construction. Feel free to post links you would like to see on this page. (also if you have any suggestions about how the links are arranged please post those suggestions too)...
Posted: Mon, Jan 12, 2004 12:37pm PST