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Same-sex couples got some unexpected support Tuesday from a group that fights polygamy....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 12:30am PDT
Today Dr. William F. Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, released the following statement as the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Roper v. Simmons, a case that will decide if executing juvenile offenders is constitutional:...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 12:27am PDT
Mofilms & Americans For Safe Access are proud to
announce the world premiere movie release of
"Regarding Medical Marijuana v.2"...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 11:27pm PDT
Peter Coors is in a tight race for the US Senate in Colorado. He is also a strong supporter of lowering the drinking age.
His remarks on this have angered health professionals in a state where two underage college students were found dead in fraternity houses last month after nights of heavy drinking.
Peter Coors is a racist homophobe who appears in Coors commercials even though they pretetend to distance themselves from him when they market to the gay community. While hard-right on most i...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 9:43pm PDT
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Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 1:34pm PDT
Sponsors of the largest online effort to stop Sinclair Broadcast Group from airing
the anti-Kerry documentary, Stolen Honor announced today plans to deliver 100,000
signatures to Sinclair's corporate headquarters in Hunt Valley Maryland at noon on
Friday, October 15....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 1:13pm PDT
Below is a pledge for
people to sign, supporting efforts to mobilize and protect the vote on
November 2nd and making a commitment to protest starting on November 3rd in
the case of a fraudulent vote count. By signing this pledge, you will be
joining with thousands of others in the November 3rd Urgent Response
Network....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 1:07pm PDT
Demand that Sinclair does not grossly misuse our public airwaves. Let Sinclair and the FCC hear it!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 12:57pm PDT
By a five-to-one margin, people are much more likely to agree than disagree that AIPAC should be asked to register as an agent of a foreign government and lose its tax-exempt status...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 10:27am PDT
"Texas is as little Bush-Country as Bush born in refined Connecticut and educated at the elite Yale University is a cowboy.. Whoever arrives in deepest Texas quickly notices that this image (the Texan political-cowboy) is a myth that only still exists in films and politics.."...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 9:46am PDT
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Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 8:30am PDT
My piece explores the root causes for the U.S. health care crisis, and how each presidential candidate has failed to introduce meaningful health care reform....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 9:36pm PDT
Queer historians delete gay man who organized first known U.S. picket on a queer issue....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 9:28pm PDT
Stepped-up FBI efforts to "prevent terrorist attacks" during the November elections -- including reports of pointed political questioning -- may intimidate Arab and Muslim Americans on the eve of a close presidential race....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 7:17pm PDT
Eighty-nine-year-old Lillian Willoughby chose a week in jail over a $250 fine. She was among 107 arrested March 20, 2003, for blocking the entrance to the federal courthouse across the street from the Liberty Bell the day after the start of U.S. bombing in Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 7:10pm PDT
NEW YORK The 62 television stations owned or managed by the Sinclair Broadcasting Group - many of them in swing states - will show within the next two weeks a documentary highly critical of Senator John Kerry's antiwar activities 30 years ago, Sinclair executives said.
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Those executives said the documentary would pre-empt regular night programming, including prime time, on its stations, which include affiliates for all six of the major broadcast networks in the swing states of Florida, Oh...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 8:12am PDT
Forget the Smoke and Mirrors as Shadow Boxers, Bush and Kerry Slug it Out to Glorify Violence and War which Benefits a few Select White Males at the Expense of People, Women and Planet Worldwide.
Join Women from Around the World Nurturing an Emerging Paradigm which Honors and Nurtures Peace and Life....
Posted: Mon, Oct 11, 2004 7:36pm PDT
just in time for its 30th anniversary, a situationist classic has been translated into English....
Posted: Mon, Oct 11, 2004 6:55pm PDT
Congratulations to everyone who has worked so hard to make the MWM a reality. I look forward to seeing everyone in DC. As hard as we have worked, we must work harder still to guarantee the continuation of this great movement for the independent organization of workers and the working class....
Posted: Mon, Oct 11, 2004 4:23pm PDT
NAHRO analysis of FY 2004 changes in federal funding for the renewal of the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program indicates that nearly 500 housing agencies nationwide will be left with a shortfall of as much as $93 million for this year. The shortfall is estimated to affect housing assistance for 52,000 families....
Posted: Mon, Oct 11, 2004 10:06am PDT