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Kent State May 4 Protest Defies Repression, Suffers Arrests
Defying a university and city refusal to grant a permit, 300-600 people honored the memory of those shot on May 4, 1970, by continuing to demand an end to global war. Hundreds of police blocked the march from entering downtown, arresting at least 6....
Posted: Sun, May 4, 2003 6:53pm PDT
Arrested outside of Bush's ranch
Peace Demonstrators arrested outside of Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, Saturday, May 4....
Posted: Sun, May 4, 2003 6:28pm PDT
HONOR DR KING! FREE MUMIA! NO WAR! by Herb Avram/INSUBORDINATION mag.
Publicizing the release of the new issue of Philadelphia’s INSUBORDINATION magazine, this photo-essay features an essay by INSUB editor Herb Avram drawing the connections between Martin Luther King, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the US war on the world. Accompanying the essay are photos taken by INSUBORDINATION photographer Hans Bennett from the April 4, 2003 demonstration for Mumia Abu-Jamal commemorating the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination....
Posted: Sun, May 4, 2003 2:37pm PDT
Claims and Allegations and Still No Signs of Iraq's Alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction
Is the Bush administration sufficiently challenged or so blatantly confident that they do not feel obligated into producing such evidence that justified an invasion into Iraq?...
Posted: Sun, May 4, 2003 2:29pm PDT
Mumia’s Life Is Not Safe!
Racist Governor Ed Randell Promises The Execution Of Mumia Abu-Jamal,...
Posted: Sun, May 4, 2003 2:13pm PDT
Why Is This News Not On FOX, CNN, BBC ?
The whole Israeli public supports the Separation Wall. It has no idea what it is supporting. One has to come to the place in order to understand all the implications of the project.
First of all, it has to be said unequivocally: this wall has nothing to do with security
"First they came to destroy our livelihood," the village chief, Anwar Amar, says bitterly. "Now they come again to take away our land."...
Posted: Sun, May 4, 2003 2:02am PDT
Israeli Death Wish (by Latuff)
Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of brave Palestinian people and their struggle against U.S. backed Israeli terror....
Posted: Sun, May 4, 2003 12:30am PDT
Americans split over marine's 'war crimes'
A US marine under investigation for war crimes, after he told his local newspaper that he had executed an Iraqi soldier, has become a cause célèbre in his home town, Las Vegas, and has announced his intention to become a policeman....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 10:33pm PDT
Dead cameraman 'carried white flag' - independent.co.uk
Israeli soldiers who killed a British television cameraman, James Miller, in southern Gaza could have been in no doubt about his identity as a journalist, according to witnesses. They said yesterday that he was shot at close range while in a group carrying a large white flag and shouting repeatedly that they were journalists....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 10:14pm PDT
James Miller 'carried white flag'
Zionazi assassins who murdered a British television cameraman, James Miller, in southern Gaza could have been in no doubt about his identity as a journalist, according to witnesses. They said yesterday that he was shot at close range while in a group carrying a large white flag and shouting repeatedly that they were journalists....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 10:11pm PDT
Iraqi rage grows after Fallujah massacre - independent.co.uk
Nearly a week after troops from the 82nd Airborne Division randomly opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators here, prompting the US military to announce an inquiry, commanders have yet to speak to the doctors who counted the bodies.............The affair has angered British Army officials who believe that the US troops lack the vital experience which the British acquired – painfully at first – in Northern Ireland. "Don't talk to me about the US army," said one British military source...
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 10:04pm PDT
Interview w/Marine who murdered iraqi soldiers execution style
Two unknown Iraqi soldiers were shot, execution-style, by vengeful Marine, Gus Covarrubias, after mortar shell exploded near him.
What happened: Covarrubias himself told the story to his local paper in Las Vegas, saying he ordered soldier he believed to have fired the mortar to turn around, then shot him in the back of the head. He then chased and shot a second man.
Since then: Covarrubias interviewed by Naval Criminal Investigative Service, but no decision yet made whether to investiga...
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 9:59pm PDT
Update: 7th National Conference On Raza Prisoners
For over 10 years, the Chicano Mexicano Prison Project (a project of Union del Barrio) has been one of the few Mexicano-Raza organizations working to expose the role that the Prison Industry plays in oppression and exploitation of Mexicanos. On May 10, 2003, the Chicano Mexicano Prison Project will organize the 7th National Conference On Raza Prisoners and the 10th Anniversary of CMPP....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 8:31pm PDT
Banned from US textbooks: owls, ketchup, dinosaurs and old ladies with cats
Fictional tales involving dinosaurs, disobedient children, coffee, Irish-American policemen and "exemplary upper-class people of bygone days" are being excised from American schoolbooks, according to a newly-published study on classroom policy in the United States....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 6:48pm PDT
Fla. Deputy Pepper Sprays 12-Year-Old Girl for Jaywalking
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A deputy used pepper spray on a 12-year-old girl and wrestled her to the ground when she ignored repeated orders to stop jaywalking, the sheriff's office said Friday....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 6:30pm PDT
Stunning Socialist victories in Scotland; articles on Argentina, Iraq ...
Six members of the Scottish Socialist Party elected to parliament; Balance-sheet of the April 27 Argentinean elections and the role of the left organizations; the war against Iraq is over ...is it? And other articles....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 3:49pm PDT
We Veterans Don't Support the Troops!
War on and occupation of Iraq is unjust, illegal. To support the troops is to support the war which we vets refuse to do! Support the troops who do the right thing __ support GI resistance!...
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 1:50pm PDT
ALLIED COALITION MUST WITHDRAW FROM IRAQ
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS UNION STATEMENT ON IRAQ...
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 1:17pm PDT
Pete Seeger come back with an anti-military song
Legendary folk music singer Pete Seeger has recorded a new version of his protest song "Bring Them Home", originaly recorded during the Vietnam War....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 12:21pm PDT