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RACE CLASS AND THE WAR ON DRUGS
The history of repression against marijuana users, typically poor and non-white get a jail sentences....
Posted: Sat, Dec 14, 2002 11:48am PST
FCC Agents Raid Berkeley Liberation Radio
Press release issued by Berkeley Liberation Radio on Thursday, Dec. 12 in response to the FCC raid....
Posted: Fri, Dec 13, 2002 10:36pm PST
BUDGET HEARINGS NEXT WEEK ACROSS THE STATE Stop the Prison Boom
Prison construction and Prison Guard salaries are one of the only areas receiving a de facto exemption from severe budget cuts occurring in other areas such as k-12 and higher education, mental health, and economic assistance to the poor....
Posted: Fri, Dec 13, 2002 2:37pm PST
Call out for submissions - police accountability documentary
For your input and support in making an independent documentary on policing issues in Toronto. This is a not-for-profit, d.i.y. project that was envisioned last spring, shortly after the police crackdown during the Tory convention protests....
Posted: Fri, Dec 13, 2002 2:13pm PST
Tibet: Nephew makes plea against China death sentence
The nephew of one of the two Tibetan separatists sentenced to death by China last week made an impassioned plea Tuesday to the global community to intervene in the case.
The deadline for appeal expires today....
Posted: Wed, Dec 11, 2002 8:47pm PST
Junior IMC Members Arrested in Florida!
PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (CNN) --Two third-graders at a Florida elementary school are facing felony charges Wednesday after police said they were found to have 15 plastic bags of marijuana....
Posted: Wed, Dec 11, 2002 4:00pm PST
Protest for Gay Rights In Saudi Arabia
Please help us protest in support of Homosexual Rights in Saudi Arabia....
Posted: Sun, Dec 8, 2002 8:36pm PST
Officer Fagan, Son Of SFPDs Second In Command, Involved in Gay Bashing Incident
Kevin Jordan, a 26-year-old San Francisco man said Friday that he was called a "faggot" while being beat up for no reason by SFPD officers Kristal and Fagan in the parking lot of the Toys R Us on Geary Boulevard. .... He characterized both Kristal and Fagan by saying, "It's a high school bully with a badge who has issues about homosexuality."...
Posted: Sat, Dec 7, 2002 8:21pm PST
SF cop commits suicide after child porn investigation
SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco police say officer Michael Block committed suicide this afternoon after being suspended for allegedly possessing child pornography...
Posted: Sat, Dec 7, 2002 8:08pm PST
Democracy Now!: Full Coverage of Central Park Jogger Case
The Manhattan district attorney has called for the full dismissal of charges against the five African-American and Latino young men who were convicted in the notorious 1989 Central Park jogger case....
Posted: Fri, Dec 6, 2002 11:03am PST
Screams and Cries: Prison Camp Lora and the Trial of the Lora 8
Barbarity kept under the radar screen: an investigative report on
torture and the travesty of justice. This is not an article for the faint
of heart. Yet the story must be told....
Posted: Wed, Dec 4, 2002 2:30pm PST
An Inside Look at China Filters
Noah Shachtman:Wired News: Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman -- the Harvard Law School researchers who detailed the Saudi government's Internet filtering -- have produced the first comprehensive, empirical look at China's blocking policy....
Posted: Wed, Dec 4, 2002 11:05am PST
A COP SAVED MY LIFE IN THE MISSION LAST NIGHT IN SF -- not all cops are bad....read on...
A COP SAVED MY LIFE LAST NIGHT IN SF...
Posted: Sun, Dec 1, 2002 9:25am PST
Quick Link To Confession Hidden, Look Here (Free Art & Music & News links)
SF Indymedia burying link to "Actual" letter by MacRae. Find it at this link, two paragraphs down, under title, "Actual Letter". You will also find details of ignored assassin attempts by government against honest auditors....
Posted: Sat, Nov 30, 2002 5:48pm PST
Press Advisory/demand letter/call to action
Another State Murder - the UNION has appeared before the Senate Rules Committee, participated in talks with Adult and Youth Corrections Agency Secretary Robert Presley sent a demand letter and a statewide meeting of all the wardens was held Nov. 19. It is time that we picket Sacramento and end this needless suffering and dying....
Posted: Fri, Nov 29, 2002 11:01am PST
Interpol Corruption.
I have asked Berkeley's Human rights group to help with the crimes of interpol, one of the oldest, powerful and most corrupt International Corporations....
Posted: Wed, Nov 27, 2002 2:55am PST
Interpol Corruption.
I have asked Berkeley's Human rights group to help with the crimes of interpol, one of the oldest, powerful and most corrupt International Corporations....
Posted: Wed, Nov 27, 2002 2:54am PST