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According to the Verified Voting's preliminary information on the Diebold systems,
27 states are at risk with varying degrees of vulnerability, depending in part on
whether the jurisdiction has a voter-verified paper record....
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 10:44pm PDT
Locally, I've heard criticisms of those of us to choose to hide our identity and question the practice of police filming of protests and demostrations. This is why. Shout out to all the citizens of Portland, OR and the world who continue to resist the police state, which is not on its way, but already here and firmly established....
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 3:47pm PDT
Sometime between now and the 2006 elections in November, the U.S. Senate will debate one of the most pressing questions facing the American people. No, they will not debate the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and possible U.S. withdrawal. They will not take up the Bush regime’s preparations for war, possibly even nuclear war, against Iran. They will not seriously talk about global warming, the degradation of the environment, preparations for the coming hurricane season, or the Bush regime’s mass...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 2:01pm PDT
We speak with Father Daniel Berrigan, one of the country's leading peace activists of the past half-century. Hundreds of people are gathering in New York this weekend to celebrate his 85th birthday. We discuss his life as a Jesuit priest, poet, pacifist, educator, social activist, playwright and lifelong resister to what he calls "American military imperialism."...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 7:24am PDT
For the first time since the start of the war, a commissioned officer is refusing deployment to fight in Iraq. On Wednesday U.S. Army 1st Lieutenant Ehren Watada announced his intention to disobey what he says are illegal orders to deploy to Iraq. We speak with 1st Lieutenant Watada and his lawyer, Legrand Jones....
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 7:23am PDT
NEW YORK --When a strange disease, later known as AIDS, was first detected at UCLA 25 years ago, it was difficult to get African-Americans interested in what was largely dismissed as ''White gay disease.''...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 6:17am PDT
This article was printed in the May 25, 2006 issue of the Linewaiters’ Gazette of the Park Slope Food Coop. See the website of the largest food coop in the nation at http://www.foodcoop.com...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 1:35am PDT
Interview for KPFA's Flashpoints with Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters' director Karen Pickett, about the FBI and federal government's targeting, arrests, grand jury proceedings and draconian prosecutions of environmentl and animal rights activists. MP3 audio, 12:44. Music clip: "23 Years" by David Rovics. http://www.davidrovics.com...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 6:42pm PDT
TACOMA, WA – Today, June 7, 2006, Lt. Ehren Watada from the 3rd Stryker Brigade, announced his refusal to redeploy to Iraq because the war is illegal. This makes Watada the first soldier to resist his orders on these grounds. Press from all the major media outlets showed up for the press conference that happened today at noon. Watada had planned to be at his press conference during his lunch break, but was prohibited to leave Fort Lewis by his superior officers....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 4:51pm PDT
For months we've been pressuring members of Congress to sign on to a petition
calling for a full and inclusive debate about the war in Iraq. All we need are 96
more signatures for the debate to begin. We need your help TODAY....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 11:21am PDT
People in South Dakota are taking the state's abortion ban into their own hands in
November. Kimberly Gadette says this exercise of grassroots democracy is part of a
resurgence of "purple" people power that can be assisted by the Internet....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 11:19am PDT
momentum is growing to force a full, open
debate in the House of Representatives about U.S. policy toward Iraq through a
measure called a "discharge petition."
in the next two days, Congress will vote on an amendment to close the
notorious School of the Americas/WHINSEC. The School of the Americas (SOA)...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 11:10am PDT
As early as Thursday of this week (6/8), Congressman Jim
McGovern (D-MA) will offer an amendment to the House Foreign
Operations Appropriations Bill to take $30 million away from
aerial fumigation of drug crops in Colombia and transfer it to
emergency humanitarian relief for refugees....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 10:50am PDT
Politics of Discrimination and Distraction Fail as Senate Resoundingly
Defeats Federal Marriage Amendment...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 10:46am PDT
We speak with journalist Eric Boehlert about his new book, "Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush." In it he argues that the mainstream media essentially gave up its role as defenders of the public interest and instead succumbed to pressure from the Bush White House and the conservative right....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 7:29am PDT
Gays have a new role: uniting the Republican Party and protecting innocents from diversionary U.S. bombs. Surely the president, the writer says, is finally finding his stride. Sandip Roy is an editor for New America Media and host of "UpFront," a NAM weekly radio program on KALW-91.7 FM, San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 6:47am PDT
On June 1, Flor Crisostomo and Elvira Arellano annnounced the end of a hunger strike they began May 10, seeking a moratorium on raids and deportations. "We are ending the strike for the sake of our health," said Arellano. "Also to have the strength to return to Washington to lobby and prepare ourselves to support the next workers who will appear in court."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:13pm PDT
This is a short documentary about military recruitment and counter-recruitment in colleges and high schools. About 6.5 minutes long in MP4 (QuickTime)....
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:13pm PDT