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Thaw Out the Snowman: Demo and Meal Noon at City Attorney's Friday the 22nd
Gather and gobble at 333 Church St. Friday noon in front of the City Attorney's office (across from the City Council parking lot and down from the Civic Auditorium). The goal: to ask Barisone to recommend what the LA City Attorney and Police Chief have done--suspend sleeping ban tickets so people can sleep safely in some part of the city....
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2006 2:13pm PST
AJLLPP Solidarity Statement on the Mass Rally in Manila, December 17, 2006
The Alliance for a Just and Lasting Peace(AJLPP-United States, is one and united with the Filipino people and all the religious groups that finally saw the light and now united in converging and expressing their joy in ther tactical victory against the machinations of the US-Arroyo regime to change the constitution through nefarious and blatant means.
The sacrifices of more than 800 mass leaders, peasants, workers, students, lawyers, lay and
bishop and all those who upheld the truth ...
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 1:54pm PST
Building Progressive Populist Possibilities w/Ralph Nader, Peter Camejo, Matt Gonzalez
The Roxy Theater
3117 16th Street [at Valencia]...
Event Date: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 7:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 12:47pm PST
Cash for honours: donors say Blair 'misled' police
Millionaire Labour Party donors have contradicted Tony Blair's evidence to the police in the cash-for-honours affair - saying that they were nominated for their public service to the nation, and not for services to Labour, as claimed by the Prime Minister....
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 12:43pm PST
Hardliners fail to sweep Iran vote
Candidates allied to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, have failed to score a resounding victory over moderate forces in twin Iranian elections, according to initial results....
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 12:42pm PST
BTL:Grassroots Impeachment Campaign Launches Drive to...
...Remove Bush & Cheney from Office~Interview with Tim Carpenter, director of Progressive Democrats of America, conducted by Between the Lines'Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 6:41am PST
Signs Signs Everywhere there's signs - a response to Mike Rotkin
Response to Mike Rotkin's article regarding signs and fliers....
Posted: Sat, Dec 16, 2006 9:40pm PST
Blair questioned in cash for peerages probe
The interviewing of Prime Minister Tony Blair by two police officers in an ongoing criminal investigation into the alleged sale of honours is historically unprecedented....
Posted: Sat, Dec 16, 2006 3:50pm PST
Impeachment: 'It's Not Up to Pelosi,' Say Grassroots Leaders
Recently, Democratic legislator Nancy Pelosi, the incoming speaker of the House of Representatives, indicated she would not support the idea of impeachment, even though most voters in her constituency wanted her to take the lead on this issue. Many constitutional experts believe that there is a strong case for the impeachment of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney because both allegedly put themselves above the rule of law by failing to substantiate the justifications for war on Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 11:32am PST
Oaxaca Governor Ruiz Sends Massive Police Force to Crack Down on Protesters Demanding His
We go to Mexico and our continuing coverage of the popular uprising in Oaxaca. On Sunday thousands of people marched to demand the resignation of State Governor Ulises Ruiz and the withdrawal of federal police. Ruiz sent a massive police force to crack down on the protests -- led by the Popular Assembly of the Oaxacan People -- APPO. We get a report from the streets of Oaxaca....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 6:59am PST
Democrats poised to lose control after Senator falls ill
Senior Democrats were in a state of high anxiety last night as a Senator remained in hospital after undergoing emergency brain surgery - his condition raising the prospect that the Republicans could regain control of the chamber just weeks after they lost it in the mid-term elections....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 6:38am PST
Iranians go to the polls
Iran is to hold elections for its municipal councils as well as the Assembly of Experts, the body that selects and supervises the supreme leader....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 6:31am PST
“Antiwar” candidate boosts illusions in a pro-war party: Kucinich runs again for Democratic presidential nomination
Ohio Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich announced Tuesday he is once again seeking the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, preparing to repeat in 2008 the role he played in 2004 as a “left” prop for a thoroughly right-wing, pro-war party....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 6:25am PST
New Zealand opposition leader quits
New Zealand opposition leader Don Brash quit politics late last month in the wake of damaging speculation over his future, and days before the release of a book that alleged links between him and the Exclusive Brethren religious sect. Brash had led the conservative National Party for three years, having been recruited from governorship of the Reserve Bank, but failed to oust the Labour government in last year’s election....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 6:23am PST
Blair questioned by police on day of 'burying bad news'
Downing Street faced accusations of trying to "bury bad news" by using the release of the report on the death Diana, Princess of Wales, to overshadow a two-hour grilling of the Prime Minister by police as part of the "cash-for-honours" investigation....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 6:21am PST
Bakker, Brown: What the hell happened to Christianity?
Jay Bakker, son of former Praise The Lord leaders Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner, is minister of Revolution Church and subject of a new documentary series, "One Punk Under God," on Sundance Channel. Marc Brown is a Revolution staff member....
Posted: Thu, Dec 14, 2006 11:55am PST
Third generation political Islam
In the Arab world there exists a range of centrist Islamist parties that have harmonised democratic aspirations with the moral foundations of Islam, writes Khalil El-Anani*...
Posted: Thu, Dec 14, 2006 9:41am PST
The end of Annan
The outgoing UN secretary-general bowed out with a pugnacious speech at the Truman Library in the US, yet the world remains divided on the worth of his legacy, writes Gamal Nkrumah...
Posted: Thu, Dec 14, 2006 9:40am PST
A Senator's Illness Threatens the Democratic Majority
Tim Johnson of South Dakota undergoes emergency brain surgery, as Washington waits for a prognosis that could affect the balance of power...
Posted: Thu, Dec 14, 2006 9:36am PST
Latino Voters Bring Victory to Texas Democrats
Democrat Ciro Rodriguez’s upset victory over Republican Congressman Henry Bonilla in the December 12th run-off election has huge national implications – in light of this year’s massive immigration protests. What it demonstrated, more than anything else, is how Latinos are leaving the Republican Party in droves. While it was also an embarrassing set-back for Tom DeLay’s partisan re-districting shenanigans, Bonilla did not just lose because the 23rd Congressional District in Texas was re-drawn ...
Posted: Thu, Dec 14, 2006 9:11am PST