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America's Secret Police: Pentagon creating a secret police force Senior Pentagon officials have been holding private meetings during the past several weeks about how to proceed with a possible merger between the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA), a post-9/11 Pentagon creation that has been accused of domestic spying, and the Defense Security Service (DSS), a well-established older agency responsible for inspecting the security arrangements of defense contractors. CIFA (whose mission, according to its own officials, is supposed to be limited to ana...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 10:09am PDT
Police open fire on Nepal lawyers Police in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, have opened fire on a group of lawyers protesting against King Gyanendra....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 8:45am PDT
UK Terror law an affront to justice - judge A high court judge branded the government's system of control orders against terrorism suspects "an affront to justice" yesterday and ruled that they breached human rights laws....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 6:47pm PDT
Jeff Free Luers writes about State Repression - April 2006 By now everyone knows about the arrests and indictments handed down to 11 people charged with ELF actions. The SHAC 7 have been convicted on all counts for maintaining a website. Rod Coronado has been arrested for explaining how he committed his arsons. Activists have been arrested in Sacramento charged with thought crime. Not to mention the various Grand Jury investigations around the country....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 1:05pm PDT
Troops fire on Nepal protesters Nepali troops have opened fire on protesters after they burnt tyres, chanted slogans and clashed with police in defiance of a curfew in the sixth day of mass protests against the king....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 5:41pm PDT
MI5 colluded with CIA extraordinary renditions from Britain On March 29, Britain’s Independent newspaper revealed how Britain’s intelligence services colluded in the “extraordinary rendition” of terror suspects by the US, whereby captives are flown to secret locations to countries notorious for human rights abuses. It published an account of the fate of one British citizen, one of four men arrested by the US military in November 2002 in Gambia—two of whom were eventually transferred to the military camp at Guantánamo Bay....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:44am PDT
Announcing the First Annual Flim Flam Film Fest (4/13) 
An evening of good, informative, entertaining, indignant, funny, and inspiring short films dealing with repressive laws locally and elsewhere, as well as resistance to oppressive laws...
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 8:35am PDT
Nepalese police kill protesters calling for democratic rule Police in Nepal opened fire on protesters demonstrating against the rule of the king, killing at least three. Thousands of Nepalis had defied a curfew in Kathmandu and other cities and took to the streets to demand King Gyanendra give up the absolute powers he seized last year....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 7:26am PDT
Anti-Homeless "Parking Lot Peril" Law at Council 3 PM 4-11 Ignoring public requests for a thorough examination of alternatives, lacking substantiation that there's a "crime wave" downtown, reversing decades of Santa Cruz traditional use, directly targeting the homeless, but impacting every member of the community, Councilmember Coonerty's "Fifteen Minute Trespass" law will slide through City Council Tuesday Aprill 11th shortly after 3 PM. Be there to give them some indigestion as they chew up and swallow public spaces and human r...
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 8:48am PDT
The Moussaoui Trial: What Kind of Justice is This? On April 3, after four days of deliberation, an Alexandria, Virginia federal court jury found Zacarias Moussaoui eligible for the death penalty -- on the ground that he had conspired to use airplanes as weapons of mass destruction, resulting in the deaths of Americans on September 11. (The jury still must decide whether to impose the death penalty.)...
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 8:29am PDT
Nepal protesters defy curfew Police firing tear-gas canisters have clashed with thousands of pro-democracy protesters in Nepal....
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 8:24am PDT
Becky Johnson of Santa Cruz: A Spy in Our Midst! Local Santa Cruz So-Called Homeless Advocate, Is Actually A Right-Wing Spy And Defender Of A Child's Murder!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 1:13am PDT
Proof of Civil Rights Abuse by Police Association Long before 911, nationally networked police associations - private associations that often call you on the phone for contributions - have been using public resources for vengeance against their personal enemies, and often with federal funds kept secret from local municipal control. And your local police department is expected to report it's budget - BOTH INCOME AND EXPENSES to your city government. But they often do not, and abuses have become so egregious that now, at last, concrete evidenc...
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 3:15pm PDT
Iranian Opposition Leader Feyz-Mahdav On Verge of Execution “I am concerned over reports noting that he was not granted access to a lawyer (South Carolina is not so clean on this issue either!) during his trial and as such his trial did not meet international standards for fair trial, as laid down by Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which Iran is a State Party”, according to former Norwegian P.M. Kjell Magne Bondevik....
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 12:30pm PDT
Protester killed in Nepal rally A protester against King Gyanendra's absolute rule in Nepal has been shot dead in the west of the country while the capital Kathmandu is under curfew....
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 10:05am PDT
New Case Says AT&T Is Helping the NSA Spy on Americans It's not just the government spying on you: Corporate America is getting in on the act, according to a new court filing by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
On Wednesday, the EFF filed briefs supporting a preliminary injunction to stop AT&T from disclosing consumer communications to the government for the illegal NSA spying program....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 8:45pm PDT
What Was Left Untold We mark the three year anniversary of the violent attack by the OPD at the Oakland Docks with the absence of any public disclosure regarding the events that led up to the firing of "non-lethal" projectiles at non-violent political activists and union workers....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 10:43am PDT
Over 1,000 arrested as Nepal opposition holds anti-King strike Over 1,000 protestors, including journalists, were arrested on the first day of the four-day nationwide general strike called by opposition parties against King Gyanendra's direct rule in Nepal, where Maoist raids on government establishments and an Army chopper crash left 21 people dead....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:39pm PDT
NY police guilty of mafia murders Two retired New York policemen have been convicted of murder for participating in mafia killings....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:27pm PDT
Judge Denies Motion To Quash Grand Jury 
On April 5, 2006, Judge James delivered her order denying my motion to quash the subpoena. I am still consulting with my lawyers as to what our next steps will be. A PDF file of the Judge's ruling is attached....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:14pm PDT
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