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RNC - Feds consider bringing in troops Do I smell Martial Law?...
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 7:34pm PST
Other Cities Taking SF's Lead: Gay Couples Exchange Vows In Bernalillo, N.M. BERNALILLO, N.M. -- Gay and lesbian couples lined up Friday outside a courthouse to tie the knot after a county clerk said she would grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples....
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 1:55pm PST
Why The Corporate Media Shot Down Howard Dean 
...Like a virus, the Dean campaign also represented a fundamental threat to the health of powerful forces in Washington - the national political media and the city's professional political establishment.
Its rapid rise, independent of the anointing touch of these two pillars of political power, threatened both institutions...
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 12:28pm PST
Anti-immigration bigots trying to take over the Sierra Club "Anti-immigration candidates trying to take over the Sierra Club's governing board have filed a lawsuit against the national environmental organization, alleging that its leaders are breaking state law by using club money and resources to oppose them in upcoming board elections."
-- Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2004...
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 9:58am PST
Bush and Senate Republicans Obstruct Unemployment Extensions A short article about unemployment extensions....
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 8:06am PST
Chicago - Police spying on antiwar and anarchist groups Police infiltration of protest groups upsets rights activists...
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 12:13am PST
Comparison of phone companies' profit$ in 2002 
This chart shows that SBC is the most profitable of the biggest phone companies...
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 10:15pm PST
Breakthrough in struggle for same-sex marriage rights While the Massachusetts Legislature adjourned Feb. 13 without having added an amendment to the state’s constitution banning same-sex marriage, the nation’s attention swung to the other coast when San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples....
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 10:15pm PST
Tell the MS Society to Stop Playing Politics with Patients Despite endorsements of medical marijuana from the MS Societies
in Canada and Great Britain, the U.S. National MS Society is playing
politics with the lives of seriously ill patients, and refuses to
acknowledge marijuana's therapeutic value in the treatment of MS....
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 7:00pm PST
Calif. Safe Schools Supports Beyond Pesticides- Safer Alternatives LAWN CARE: PESTICIDES AND ALTERNATIVES POSTED BY: CALIFORNIA SAFE SCHOOLS WWW.CALISAFE.ORG...
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 12:36am PST
Act Now to Stop an Appalling CAFTA, FTAA Sneak Attack Heads Up: You Must Act Now to Stop an Appalling CAFTA, FTAA Sneak Attack on State Purchasing Policy!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 8:29pm PST
ACLU, Marijuana Rights Groups Sue U.S. Over Ads WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union and groups that want to reform U.S. marijuana laws filed suit on Wednesday to challenge a new law that bans advertisements on public transit if the ads criticize the government's war on drugs....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 2:47pm PST
Virginia Man Sentenced To Six Months In Jail For Soliciting Sodomy (Virginia Beach, Virginia) A Virginia Beach man has been sentenced to six months in jail for trying to pick up an undercover police officer in the restroom of a department store...
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 12:17pm PST
Appeals Court Asked To Reconsider Florida Anti-Gay Adoption Ruling (New York City) The American Civil Liberties Union today asked the United States Court of Appeals in Atlanta to reconsider its recent ruling upholding a Florida law that excludes gays and lesbians from adopting....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 12:15pm PST
Dangers Of Electoralism :Kerry Tells Anti-War Movement to Move On Kerry and his comrades in the progressive internationalist movement are as gung-ho about U.S. military action as their counterparts in the White House. The only noteworthy difference between the two groups battling for power in Washington is that the neocons are willing to pursue their imperial ambitions in full view of the international community, while the progressive internationalists prefer to keep their imperial agenda hidden behind the cloak of multilateralism....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 12:02pm PST
Medical marijuana advocates spread pot seeds Medical marijuana advocates spread pot seeds on the lawn of City Hall to protest a proposal to tighten restrictions on what have been called "Oaksterdam" cannabis clubs....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 10:07am PST
John Kerry Against Same-Sex Marriage Leading Democratic presidential contender Sen. John Kerry is not necessarily opposed to a constitutional amendment to permanently ban same-sex marriage, he told National Public Radio’s All Things Considered Feb. 9....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 10:03am PST
California Safe Schools celebrates www.nopoison.org SCHOOL PESTICIDE REFORM COALITION
LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE:
WWW.NOPOISON.ORG...
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 8:52am PST
Call for Nonviolent Direct Action in SOA Watch Spring Mobilization As
part of our 2004 Spring Mobilization and Lobby Day, we are calling for
independent and autonomous actions around Capitol Hill on Monday, March
29th....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 10:47pm PST
Survival Trumps Marriage for Local Queer Youth Opponents and advocates of gay and lesbian marriage have been mobilizing in the past weeks, following the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling that only marriage, not civil union, would satisfy its initial decision. While all mainstream attention continues to focus on the issue of gay marriage, a recent report issued in Washington, D.C. puts day-to-day survival as the number one priority for youth of color who are transgender, bisexual, lesbian, gay, or queer. Darby Hickey of the D.C. Radio Coo...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 9:44am PST
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