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SF Village Voice - june 30 2006 (audio/mpeg 43.2MB) La Mesha talks with friends of Asa Sullivan who was killed by San Srancisco police earlier in the month...
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 9:41pm PDT
Bush Eyes Law to Curtail Detainees Rights The Bush administration is pushing for a Congress legislation limiting the rights granted to hundreds of terror detainees in its custody, the New York Times reported on Thursday, July13 ....
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 7:20pm PDT
Spy or Risk Green Card: How the Bush Administration 'Recruits' Muslim Informants We take a look at a largely covert aspect of the Bush administration's War on Terror - the government's aggressive solicitation of Muslim informants. We speak with Banafsheh Akhlaghi, the attorney for Yassine Ouassif - who had his Green Card confiscated and was asked by the FBI to be an informant in the Muslim community in San Francisco....
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2006 7:33am PDT
Pretending we don't live in a police state!!!!! What happened in Rampart happens everyday in police departmens across the country. The only difference is the cops in Rampart got caught and most of them got slap on the wrist punishments....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 5:11pm PDT
Prison Riots in Belgium Overcrowding, torture, injuries, lack of medical care, threats, isolation, the complete annihilation of the individual and his or her desires. This is the daily reality in the prisons....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 5:00pm PDT
Death Penalty Disquiet on High Court Echoes Earlier Time Anti-capital punishment advocates hope momentum is on their side, but for
now, the votes on the Court aren't there...
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 4:04pm PDT
CAMPAIGN TO END THE DEATH PENALTY Update -- New York Remains a Death Penalty-Free Zone
-- Darby Tillis Performs in New York
-- Stop Stalling! Release the Chicago Police Torture Report
-- Setback in the Rodney Reed Case--But We Will Keep Fighting
-- Show the Documentary "Reed vs. State"
-- July 2 Event in Washington, D.C.
-- Socialism 2006 Conference Report
-- Lethal Injection Ruling: Putting Many Executions on Hold
-- California Lethal Injection Petition...
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 4:00pm PDT
The Health Effects of Knowing Too Much About Enron Are Spreading Call me a conspiracy theorist, but . . ....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 2:25pm PDT
SF Chron excludes progressive views on prison issues The SF Chronicle ran a decent editorial Friday 7-7-06 "What they aren't saying," slamming Angelides and Schwarzenegger for failing to address sentencing reform in their proposals for dealing with the prison overcrowding crisis. Typically, they excluded the views of 'third party' candidates who have more progressive positions....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 12:41pm PDT
Indynewswire: SCPD Surveillance Policy Takes Effect (audio/mpeg 13.2MB) After numerous delays, a two-page document on SCPD spying took effect July 5. Some locals, who say the new policy does nothing to limit police monitoring of activists, spoke out at the June 27 City Council Meeting, and held a Last Rights DIY Funeral, March July 5.
TRT: 28:53...
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 10:40am PDT
Dumb ass LA cop lets his 3 year old son shoot him! The 3-year-old son of a Los Angeles police officer got hold of his father's service handgun Tuesday and shot him as they sat in the family's pickup at a traffic light near their home in Anaheim, police said....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 9:31am PDT
Bush concedes that Geneva Conventions apply in Guantanamo prisoners In a major climbdown, the Bush administration formally conceded yesterday that detainees at Guantanamo Bay and other US military prisons around the world are entitled to protection under the Geneva Conventions....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 6:39am PDT
Does a State of War Give Bush a Right to Commit War Crimes? Right-wing columnist Charles Krauthammer has weighed in against the Supreme Court's latest ruling in Hamdan, claiming that the Court erred in barring President Bush from denying Guantanamo detainees the protections of the Third Geneva Convention. The basis for his argument is that the U.S. is at war, and that traditionally "supreme courts have been loath to intervene against presidential war powers in the midst of conflict."...
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 6:31am PDT
The Last Free Fourth of July? "You Can't Stand Here. We Have Received a Complaint ... "...
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 6:21am PDT
Mumia's Fight for Justice Continues II (video/quicktime 6.4MB) Tom Lacey explains that Mumia was framed for his extraordinarily effective political work and the police officer, Daniel Faulkner, was killed because he was apparently giving evidence on corrupt Philadelphia police to the FBI. Two-minute QT movie. 6MB....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 1:33am PDT
Mumia Abu-Jamal - Legal Update re new filing deadline The United States Court of Appeals, Philadelphia, recently granted my
motion for an extension of time to file our opening brief on behalf of
Mumia Abu-Jamal. It is now due on July 20, 2006....
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 4:53pm PDT
New ACLU chapter planning meeting in Fresno Date: Monday, July 17th, 2006
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Where: Woodward Park Regional Library
944 East Perrin Avenue
Fresno, CA 93720...
Event Date: Mon, Jul 17, 2006 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 1:52pm PDT
Italian Probe of CIA Abduction Broadens to Domestic Spying Scandal Two Italian intelligence officers have been arrested on charges they helped CIA agents abduct a Muslim cleric off the streets off Milan three years ago. Italian investigators are now widening their probe into whether Italian intelligence agents were engaged in illegal domestic spying and a "black propaganda campaign of misinformation....
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 7:32am PDT
Were Black ‘Terrorists’ Entrapped? PHILADELPHIA – In the language of George Orwell’s double speak, war is peace, truth is lies....
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 10:36pm PDT
Schlund Vs. Bush Lawsuit --- Part 2 of 2 Could THIS be the end of Bush's Presidency??...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 6:24pm PDT
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