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April 16-18, 2004: SF Bay Area Anarchist People of Color Conference...

4/12/2004: Armed gangs still rule most of Haiti and have been taking revenge on former Aristide supporters. The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) sent a delegation to Haiti in late March to monitor human rights abuses. On April 12, Attorney Tom Griffin of the NLG reported to Democracy Now that he saw "hundreds of corpses being dumped by morgues in Haiti and describes bodies coming in with plastic bags over their heads and hands tied behind their backs, piles of corpses burning in field...

Constantly Updated Independent Blogs: A Family In Baghdad | Juan Cole | Baghdad Burning Older Independent Reports From Iraq: 1  2  3...

3/7/2003: Dictator Saddam Hussein's defector son-in-laws told the United Nations that Iraq "had destroyed its entire stockpile of chemical and biological weapons and banned missiles." The US government's campaign of dirty tricks was exposed in the European press, but ignored by the US corporate media. The FBI's own tell of a possible increase in terror attacks in the US after a war in Iraq starts. Despite these well-known facts, the US government and corporate media have already started the w...

5/10/2002 statement - On 5/2, a group of 24 international activists slipped past Israeli Defense Force roadblocks to enter Bethlehem's Manger Square. Running across the square, 10 were then able to enter the besieged Church of the Nativity through service doors to deliver food to the 200 Palestinians who have been trapped in the church for over a month. On 5/10, however, they were arrested by the IDF, apparently with the encouragement of the priests inside. Among those who took part in the ac...

10/22/2001: The US continued to bomb Afghanistan for weeks despite a dearth of Taliban military targets. The Taliban reported that as many as 1,500 civilians were killed during the five weeks of attacks and Al Jazeera showed pictures of children, women and the elderly wounded and killed in the US attacks. At the time, US military officials and the corporate media contended that these numbers were "grossly exaggerated", but independent estimates after the war ended confirm that the air a...

10/7/2001: US missiles were launched at Afghanistan cities from bombers, aircraft, ships and submarines (both US & British). The attacks began around 9:30PM (9:30AM PDT) in Kabul. When Bush's declaration of war speech was simulcast at football stadiums around the country, many Americans celebrated the attacks which would cause death and destruction. 4 UN workers have been killed by US bombs. The workers were in Afghanistan helping remove millions of mines left over by 1...

"[The road map] certainly allows the unlimited building for your children and grandchildren, and I hope even for your great-grandchildren." - Ariel Sharon 5/29/2003: In the wake of a visit by Colin Powell to the Middle East, the corporate media and U.S. Government are awash in self-congratulation over the new "road map" which is supposedly a historic concession to Palestinians who have suffered 50 years of violent occupation by Israel. But anyone familiar with the situation knows that thi...

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Deaths in Iraq Since March 2003 (Last Updated 1/24/2010) US:   4374     Coalition: 318     Iraqi Civilians:   Between 420,000-790,000 since 2003 ( 1 | 2 ) Sources: iCasualties.org, Antiwar.com, Centcom, Iraqi Body Count, Medact...

26 February update: Four anti-wall protesters have been killed by the Israeli Army after they opened fire on demonstrators in Biddu. Zacharia Mahmoud Eid, 26, from Beit Iksa and Mohamed Rayan, 26, from Beit Diggo, were killed by live ammunition. Mohamed Saleh Bedwan, 20, was shot in the head by a rubber bullet [the Israeli army often uses rubber coated metal bullets]. Abu Nabil Abu Eid died from a heart attack, provoked by an excessive amount of tear gas. Others have been shot, wounded or arr...

4/1/2004: Over 600 members of the US armed forces have died as a result of the invasion of Iraq with deaths effecting families in every US state. The Pentagon now says that in the first year of war in Iraq, the military made over 18,000 medical evacuations - representing 11,700 casualties. But even this number could be low since the military is increasingly outsourcing jobs and using private contractors as mercenaries. The exact number of Iraqis who have died as a result of the US occ...

3/8: Aristide spoke to Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! this morning in the most extensive english-language interview since his removal from Haiti. Local Haitian activist Pierre La Boissiere has also has given an interview with a local reporter on the situation in Haiti. 3/7: While the US helped support a large anti-Aristide rally in Port-au-Prince today, supporters of the democratically elected leader postponed a planned demonstration on Sunday, saying they were offered no protection. ...

4/10/2004: On Saturday, over one thousand people took to the streets of San Francisco to protest the war in Iraq. On Friday, there was a protest at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab. As a countrywide uprising sweeps Iraq, the Bush administration and the Pentagon are responding with unprecedented violence directed against the Iraqi people, and threatening to raise the number of U.S. troops. Emergency protests, demanding "U.S. Out of Iraq - Bring the Troops Home NOW!", have taken pla...

Relatives of victims of the World Trade Center bombings gasped in horror and disgust as Condoleezza Rice testified at the 9-11 Commission's ninth public hearing that she had briefed President George Bush with an August 6, 2001 CIA-memo entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside United States". As Rice danced around the majority of the questions put to her by the 9/11 Commission, several relatives yelled, "Shame!" while she continued to deny that the White House had knowledge prior to 9-1...

On Friday April 9th at noon, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) held its annual demonstration in remembrance of the Deir Yassin Massacre of 1948. Photos: 1 2 Past SJP Protests at UCB: 3/7/2001 | 4/24/2001 | 4/9/2002 Deir Yassin Protest | 10/2003 Checkpoint protest | 5/2002 Protests | 10/16/2002 | 11/19/2002 Barak Protest Students for Justice In Palestine | Deir Yassin Remembered | Stop The Wall...

4/9/2004: The first major uprising against the US occupation of Iraq has begun. The revolt was sparked by the closure of a paper tied to Al-Sadr, a Shiite fundamentalist cleric, but it has now spread across Iraq. "Al-Sadr is NOT reflecting a minority of Iraqis ... Al-Sadr has 5 to 7 million supporters. [P]eople feel that their personality, history and culture are being attacked. Everyone is defensive now...All of these military steps that Bremer is taking now remind Iraqis of the Palesti...

4/6/2004: The first major uprising against the US occupation of Iraq has begun. The revolt was sparked by the closure of a paper tied to Al-Sadr, a Shiite fundamentalist cleric, but it has now spread across Iraq. According to Raed Jarrar, "Al-Sadr is NOT reflecting a minority of Iraqis ... Al-Sadr has 5 to 7 million supporters. [P]eople feel that their personality, history and culture are being attacked ... All of these military steps that Bremer is taking now remind Iraqis of the Pales...

On Friday April 9th at noon, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) will held its annual demonstration in remembrance of the Deir Yassin Massacre of 1948. Photos: 1 2 Past SJP Protests at UCB: 3/7/2001 | 4/24/2001 | 4/9/2002 Deir Yassin Protest | 10/2003 Checkpoint protest | 5/2002 Protests | 10/16/2002 | 11/19/2002 Barak Protest Students for Justice In Palestine | Deir Yassin Remembered | Stop The Wall...

Over 600 members of the US armed forces have died as a result of the invasion of Iraq with deaths effecting families in every US state. The Pentagon now says that in the first year of war in Iraq, the military made over 18,000 medical evacuations - representing 11,700 casualties. But even this number could be low since the military is increasingly outsourcing jobs and using private contractors as mercenaries. The exact number of Iraqis who have died as a result of the US occupation is ...

4/1: Four protesters were arrested and bystanders were injured when SFPD attacked the "Pro-America" rally in Union Square. Report | Press Release | Photos | News Conference Photos | Legal Update Read More On Indybay's Police State page...

Construction of an 800 car parking garage in the heart of Golden Gate Park is about to go forward, despite a high stakes legal battle still in progress. Opponents of the development say the garage violates the city charter and Proposition J, which authorized its construction, and would destroy three historic pedestrian tunnels. It would bring urban chaos and traffic into the park, and degrade pedestrian and cyclist safety. Wealthy financier Warren Hellman is behind this ill-conceived...