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AWOL-Gate: Were Portions of Bush's Military Record Scrubbed in 1997?
As scrutiny increases over President Bush's National Guard record, we talk with longtime Texan journalist James Moore, author of the forthcoming Bush's War For Re-election. The book reports that a Lt. Col. Bill Burkett overheard Bush aides ask the head of the Texan National Guard to throw out portions of his military record....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 5:31pm PST
Bush Administration Violates Doctor-Patient Confidentiality
The Bush Administration has claimed in recent legal proceedings that it does not believe that there is any legal protection for the confidentiality of the doctor-patient relationship, according to recently released court documents....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 9:47am PST
What Constitutes a Political Prisoner? The Ongoing Suppression of American Indian Activism
Some might argue the point, but Indians, by our very nature, are political beings....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 9:33pm PST
Peltier's Reaction to Kamook and the Arlo Looking Cloud Trial
The Arlo Looking Cloud trial was nothing more than an indirect presentation of another Myrtle Poorbear to discredit AIM and myself, and to extradite John Graham. I am an innocent man....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 9:30pm PST
Higher Education Act Action Alert
SSDP has campaigned against a 1998
amendment to the Higher Education Act that denies federal financial aid to
anyone convicted of a drug-related offense, no matter how minor....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 9:23pm PST
Activists to Organize for Media Justice
People of color producing independent media are set to launch a media justice effort, including a gathering in the next six months. In this article they critique the mainstream media support for racism, and the failures of independent media to fully challenge this and stand with people of color....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 3:57pm PST
Petition to Encourage Discussion and Debate at NYU
Tell your friends, classes, parents, family, friends......
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 10:49am PST
Report from Vieques Peace and Justice Camp
Following we share a note prepared and sent by the law firm of John Arthur Eaves, representing more than 6 thousand Viequenses in a legal case against the US Navy for health damages...
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 10:44am PST
Federal Gov't Subpoenas College for Info on Peace Activists
The government has subpoenaed Drake University in Iowa to hand over information about who organized and who attended a National Lawyers Guild anti-war forum in November. Lawyers say they have not seen such subpoenas since the McCarthy era....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 8:21am PST
Día Nacional de Solidaridad con los Inmigrantes Musulmanes, Árabes y Sudasiáticos
20 de febrero de 2004: Día Nacional de Solidaridad con los Inmigrantes Musulmanes, Árabes y Sudasiáticos...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 11:17pm PST
About : California Safe Schools Environmental Non-Profit
KIDS GET MORE THAN CALCIUM WITH MILK!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 7:04pm PST
Impeachment Not Censure, You Morons!
Once again Liberals are showing their total lack of spine and total lack of ability to strike the iron while the iron is white hot. This is what happened when they declared their control over the peace movement that rose up against the war in Iraq by stating they were "backing away from more confrontational forms of protest like non-violent civil disobedience like blocking traffic in the streets of major cities" in the U.S. in March and April of last year....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 2:44pm PST
In 48 hours California will execute the wrong man!
We must stop this!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 10:31pm PST
University Ordered to Turn Over Records on Anti-War Activists
In addition to records about who attended the forum, the subpoena
orders the university to divulge all records relating to the local
chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a New York-based legal
activist organization that sponsored the forum....
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 8:04pm PST
New York flips as penguins come out in Central Park
As gays go, Roy and Silo are not unusual. They cohabit, are affectionate in public and have been inseparable for years. Only their species marks them out. The New York pair are chinstrap penguins...
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 9:47am PST
Food not Lawns; Prepare 4 oil collapse
Peak oil is declining, we are heading 4 petroleum collapse. After Iraq's oil wells dry out, Syria will be targeted in the "war on terror". After the oil collapse, people will need alternative means of survival. Growing food in urban gardens on wasted space like lawns and parking lots would help people survive the food shortage.....
Posted: Thu, Feb 5, 2004 9:41pm PST
Seattle General Strike Anniversary + Seattle IMC shut down
February 6th is the 85th Anniversary of a successful General Strike in Seattle in 1919, one of the major cities in the United States where this has been successful. http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2004/02/238092.shtml Here is a great account of what happened, how the citizens lived during that time, and the great independent newspapers that were printed. It's very inspiring...
Posted: Thu, Feb 5, 2004 9:04pm PST
Sewage sludge: Fertilizer or public menace?
The application of sludge to farmland--a practice that dramatically increased over the past decade thanks to aggressive promotion by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency--has come under heavy attack of late....
Posted: Thu, Feb 5, 2004 11:09am PST
2/4 Haiti Update
1. An open letter to Caricom by Randall Robinson (The Jamaica Gleaner)
2. The end of nationhood, by John Maxwell (The Jamaica Observer)
3. Travel Safety Report by Pax Christi USA Haiti Task Force, February 3, 2004...
Posted: Wed, Feb 4, 2004 4:39pm PST
Ohio governor poised to sign "super DOMA"
Gov. Bob Taft, who received thousands of phone calls, letters, and e-mails for and against a far-reaching "super" defense of marriage act, plans to sign a bill enacting the ban. The house voted 72-22 on Tuesday in favor of accepting senate changes to the bill and sending the legislation--considered one of the country's strictest same-sex marriage bans--to Taft, who will sign it, spokesman Orest Holubec said. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican, puts into ...
Posted: Wed, Feb 4, 2004 12:49pm PST