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Brazil imposes restrictions on US visitors
Brazil has begun fingerprinting and photographing US visitors in reponse to planned American security measures which a judge has compared to Nazi horrors....
Posted: Thu, Jan 1, 2004 2:01pm PST
Great Idea for New Year Celebration
One New Year's day, let us Peace & Civil Lib. activists all gather at City Hall & bring many copies of FARMERS' ALMANACS to pass out to all attending citizens. This is to expose the blatantly cynical attempt of the Homeland (in)Security dept. to turn law-abiding citizens into spies......
Posted: Wed, Dec 31, 2003 11:49am PST
Chowchilla inmates sue over medical abuses
Seven inmates at Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla
have sued
prison medical staff members, alleging malpractice, negligence and
unprofessional conduct....
Posted: Wed, Dec 31, 2003 12:20am PST
911 Widow Suing Bush for Attacks--Sign Petition!!!
911 Widow Suing Bush for Attacks--Sign Petition!!!...
Posted: Tue, Dec 30, 2003 3:23pm PST
How to help free Jeff 'Free' Luers
Jeff 'Free' Luers is an environmental activist who is doing hard time in the Oregon State prison system. He needs our support. The following tells how we can aid him......
Posted: Tue, Dec 30, 2003 3:09pm PST
Bush signs parts of Patriot Act II into law -- stealthily
Bush signs parts of Patriot Act II into law -- stealthily
Original Publisher: San Antonio Current
On December 13, when U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein, President George W. Bush not only celebrated with his national security team, but also pulled out
his pen and signed into law a bill that grants the FBI sweeping new powers....
Posted: Mon, Dec 29, 2003 4:03am PST
Save Kevin Cooper
We have just learned that San Quentin death row inmate Kevin Cooper has
been scheduled for execution on February 10, 2004. The Mobe has always supported
Kevin's struggle for justice and freedom. Now is the time, despite the
difficult holiday season, to do our best to stop his execution....
Posted: Sun, Dec 28, 2003 2:30pm PST
Fla. Gets Nation's 1st Faith-Based Prison
"We've developed a cocoon, a place where they can practice their faith and not have the severe negative pressures and interactions that naturally take place in some of our institutions," said Correction Secretary James Crosby Jr....
Posted: Thu, Dec 25, 2003 10:51pm PST
Ritt Goldstein: US Police State Rising?
Investigative journalist Ritt Goldstein's chronicle on the rise and ramifications of police power...from both journalistic and deeply personal perspectives....
Posted: Thu, Dec 25, 2003 10:52am PST
Chemtrails over the Bay Area!!!
Folks, if they were spraying Chemicals over Iraq, people would be marching in the streets! But they are spraying us here, virtually every day, and...silence. Please look up, wake up and SPEAK OUT!!!...
Posted: Thu, Dec 25, 2003 2:30am PST
Michael Moore Strikes Low Blow Against Mumia
In 1995 his name appeared prominently among signers of a full-page ad in the New York Times demanding a new trial for U.S. political prisoner and innocent death row inmate, African-American journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal...when a figure of Moore's standing decided to reverse his position and side with those who seek to murder Mumia...a major blow has been struck......
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 1:02am PST
Federal Appeals Court Rules Guantanamo Detainees Should Have Access To Civilian Courts
The decision, which is expected to be put on hold while the Supreme Court decides the same issue in another case, came hours after a New York-based federal appeals court said President Bush lacked authority to designate American citizens arrested in the United States as "enemy combatants" and detain them indefinitely....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 8:11am PST
"Enemy Combatant" To Receive Civilian Trial: Bush, Ashcroft and Rumsfeld Rebuked
NEW YORK (AP) - President George W. Bush does not have the power to detain American citizen Jose Padilla, the former gang member seized on U.S. soil, as an enemy combatant, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 8:06am PST
They're gonna kick your ass.
Bakersfield Sherrif's Department tells it like it is....
Posted: Sat, Dec 13, 2003 7:57am PST
The Port of Oakland in the light of Miami
The Oakland police chief attempts to soften his image...
Posted: Fri, Dec 12, 2003 6:11pm PST
Whose Police? Our Police!
"Whose fucking police? Our fucking police!" chant Philly ACT UP...“The people who chant this will never be creative. The people, bad slogans, will always be defeated.” We need new twists to tired old chants, new twists to predictable protests......
Posted: Fri, Dec 12, 2003 3:00pm PST
Police pull KKK speed stunt
Two policemen are facing the sack after they were caught on camera speeding and wearing Ku Klux Klan-style white hoods in Western Australia....
Posted: Thu, Dec 11, 2003 6:04pm PST
Demanding justice for Sheila Detoy
Sheila Detoy was killed by police five years ago. The police tried to make justice delayed an excuse for justice denied. Scores came out to the Police Commission hearing to resist. A personal account....
Posted: Thu, Dec 11, 2003 12:10pm PST
La Migra's policy of non-resuscitation
It has been revealed by a warden who didn't go along with the policy that The Bureau of Immigration + Customs Enforcement has a policy of non-resuscitation of prisoners in their custody. Story from a mainstream souce....
Posted: Wed, Dec 10, 2003 9:13pm PST
FIVE YEARS - NO JUSTICE FOR SHEILA DETOY
PLEASE COME to a rally at 4:30 pm and then the Police Commission meeting at 5:30 pm on December 10th at 850 Bryant Street to demand justice for Sheila detoy, 17 year-old who was murdered by Officer Gregory Breslin of the SFPD in 1998. The Police Officer's Association claims the statute of limitations has run out on Sheila's case and wants the Commission to cancel disciplinary action against Breslin. We can't let that happen. We demand justice for Sheila and all victims of police brutality, an...
Posted: Tue, Dec 9, 2003 12:01am PST