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Oglala Sioux Tribal Council votes to ban abortions, suspends Cecelia Fire Thunder Repost from The Black Hills Pioneer....
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 1:25pm PDT
Help Farm Workers Win Fair Immigration Reform And today especially, we fight for humane immigration reform, for bills like the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act. We must insist that the people who feed us not be considered criminals. We must work even harder to ensure that the few protections farm workers have are not taken away....
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 10:50am PDT
Bush Bows to Extremist Pressure and Schedules Press Conference on Marriage Amendment President
Bush has decided to bow to the weeks of demands from the right-wing
extremist groups and hold a press conference in the Rose Garden of the
White House to reiterate his support of the Federal Marriage Amendment....
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 10:48am PDT
Breaking News from South Dakota: Ballot Battle Begins Yesterday, the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families
delivered 38,000 signatures to the South Dakota Secretary of
State - more than twice the number needed to challenge the
state's abortion ban on the November ballot....
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 10:44am PDT
Which 3 big goals should we fight for? Vote today! Nearly 10,000 of us gathered in house parties last Thursday to discuss the big goals that we want MoveOn to fight for. We compiled the 10 most popular ideas and now you can help pick the top three. Please vote today:
'http://political.moveon.org/positive/ballot/?id%3d7812-6730547-Li7bmQOQ52s.73qFLq8tYQ%26t%3d1...
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 10:29am PDT
Stop the Politics of Hatred against LGBT Families Please take a minute to contact your Senators THIS WEEK in the name of justice, tolerance and equality. The mis-named "Marriage Protection Amendment” (S.J. Res. 1) is an attempt to etch discrimination into our Constitution and declare second-class status for LGBT individuals, especially those who want to marry the person they love. On a straight party-line vote of 10 - 8, S.J. Res. 1 was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 18, where Senator Feingold (D-WI) left the "ma...
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 10:26am PDT
Black Press News Digest: Blacks Still Disenfranchised at Polls New America Media, News Digest, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, May 30, 2006...
Posted: Tue, May 30, 2006 9:48pm PDT
Next Great Immigration Hurdle -- The Right to a Medical Interpreter Today, millions of U.S. citizens and non-citizens who speak limited English have the legal right to free medical interpreting. But tomorrow could tell a different story. The Senate immigration bill sent to the congressional conference committee last week included one amendment that would uphold the right and another that could kill the right by making English the official language of the land. The conference committee -- expected to act by the end of the summer -- can only choose one version ...
Posted: Tue, May 30, 2006 9:47pm PDT
Gore: Bush is 'renegade rightwing extremist' Al Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush presidency, describing the current US administration as "a renegade band of rightwing extremists"....
Posted: Tue, May 30, 2006 9:41pm PDT
Down with Senate Bill 2611! In recent months millions of immigrants have been in the streets protesting the vicious attacks that Bush and Congress are preparing to legislate against them, while local governments also formulate attacks. Behind this reactionary onslaught is the fact that the capitalists want immigrant labor, but they want it without rights so that they can more profitably exploit it....
Posted: Tue, May 30, 2006 8:44pm PDT
Divine Strake Stopped! 
From May 27-28, they camped by the dozens. Nearly 200 people gathered outside of the Nevada Test Site, located in the occupied Western Shoshone Nation, for a weekend of workshops, ceremonies, rituals, and a rally and march to the Test Site main gate. The “Stop the Strake!” gathering was called for by Western Shoshone spiritual leader Corbin Harney, originally as a demonstration against the US federal government’s planned 700-ton nuclear weapon simulation bombing of Shoshone land, using Ammon...
Posted: Tue, May 30, 2006 6:42pm PDT
War costs The $69 billion tax cut bill that President Bush recently signed tripled tax rates for teenagers with college savings funds, despite Mr. Bush’s 1999 pledge to veto any tax increase....
Posted: Tue, May 30, 2006 3:17pm PDT
Students face 15 years in prison fro saving lives of undocumented immigrants A story from the Organizer Newspaper along with an annoucement of a meetign where the students will appear....
Posted: Tue, May 30, 2006 1:09am PDT
7/28-30 Washington DC: National Grassroots Immigrant Strategy Conference Together, We Build A New National, Broad-Based, Immigrant Rights / Civil Rights Movement!...
Posted: Tue, May 30, 2006 12:30am PDT
BOYCOTT ORGANIC DAIRY FEEDLOTS & TELL USDA NOT TO LOWER STANDARDS Horizon Organic (owned by food giant Dean Foods) and Aurora are currently taking advantage of loopholes in organic regulations by purchasing the majority of their milk from intensive confinement dairy feedlots where the cows have little or no access to pasture....
Posted: Mon, May 29, 2006 11:44pm PDT
Center for Human Rights & Consti Law's Response to Senate Immigration Bill people should really proofread before sending things like this around, ie, "principle" instead of principal...
Posted: Mon, May 29, 2006 10:55am PDT
Bush 'planted fake news stories on American TV' Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies' products....
Posted: Mon, May 29, 2006 9:38am PDT
Lopsided vote in US Senate to confirm NSA spy chief to head CIA General Michael Hayden was confirmed as the next CIA director on Friday by a 78-15 vote in the US Senate. Twenty-six Democrats and 1 independent joined 51 Republicans in a bipartisan show of support for George W. Bush’s nominee to head the spy agency. Hayden replaces Porter Goss, who resigned under pressure from the White House earlier this month....
Posted: Mon, May 29, 2006 9:26am PDT
The Enron verdicts: corruption and American capitalism The guilty verdicts handed down by a Houston jury last week against former Enron chiefs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling provide an opportunity to evaluate the significance of the company’s rise and fall within the context of American capitalism....
Posted: Mon, May 29, 2006 9:23am PDT
Gold Star Mother Urges Americans to Sign the Voters Pledge 
No More Pro-War Candidates, No More Wars of Choice...
Posted: Mon, May 29, 2006 7:07am PDT
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