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ITALY, NO-TAV protests: 50.000 fight against the police! - the protesters managed to re-occupie the valley -...
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 5:59pm PST
Mon All Day Walk for Abolition of Death Penalty SF to San Quentin 
March is all day - join when you can....
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 4:06pm PST
Rockin' the Boat: Jeff Mackler on Mumia (audio/mpeg 11.5MB) This week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals expanded the basis of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s pending federal habeas corpus petition. I spoke by phone about the with Jeff Mackler, Co-coordinator of The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal. We discuss the latest news, reveiw the history of the case, and lay out some likely scenarios, as Mumia's case moves through the procees....
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 2:48pm PST
Emergency request seeks stay of execution for Williams State prosecutors asked the California Supreme Court on Sunday to dismiss former gang leader Stanley Tookie Williams' latest petition to block his Tuesday execution for murdering four people in 1979....
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 1:42pm PST
On the Youth and the California Penal System An article by a CA prisoner about the injustice of the prison industrial complex, particularly as it effects young people....
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 12:40pm PST
2 days...The clock is ticking...Save Tookie! - Reports and news about Tookie
If Stan doesn't get the clemency he deserves...Take action tomorrow!
Stan's case featured on CNN "Sunday Night"
Watsonville High School students stage walkout for Stan
International support for Stan
Growing questioning of the death penalty amid Stan's case
Rev. Jesse Jackson calls for clemency
Advocate for the condemned
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Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 12:18pm PST
Special Prosecutor Needed to Investigate SFPD As San Francisco confronts yet another police scandal, Mayor Newsom has created a “Blue Ribbon Commission” to review the standards of conduct and training at the SFPD. But such oversight bodies typically have their recommendations ignored. A more effective approach for investigating systemic and potentially criminal violations by public entities.is to appoint a Special Prosecutor and convene a grand jury. Since District Attorney Kamala Harris is too dependent on the SFPD to investigate its ab...
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 8:16am PST
Hunt the Lockheed - The Azari C-130 Crash 
The idea that a the Pentagon was not struck by a jetliner on 9/11/01 is often asserted on the basis that there was insufficient aircraft debris in front of the Pentagon following the attack. The Azari crash is one of several examples that shows crashes of large aircraft into buildings do not necessarily leave large recognizalbe pieces of aircraft....
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 10:48pm PST
Bob Avakian on Richard Pryor Recently I was reading reports of police assaults on Black people and of Black people fighting against the police in Memphis and Miami. This called to mind a story I was told a while back. A rookie cop was riding in his police car with his veteran partner when a report came in that there was a Black man in the vicinity with a gun. As their car screeched around the corner, a young Black man suddenly appeared sprinting up an alley--into a dead end. "Shoot him!", the older cop screamed...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 10:02pm PST
Sonoma man dies after shot by Taser A Sonoma man died Wednesday after being shot with a Taser stun gun while struggling with police responding to a domestic violence call placed by his mother....
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 8:35pm PST
Email Garden Grove City Council regarding Theresa Dang case If you are one of the many thousands of people outraged about what has happened to Theresa Dang, please email the Garden Grove City Council and tell them how you feel about this matter at ruths@ci.garden-grove.ca.us and pamha@ci.garden-grove.ca.us...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 8:34pm PST
Sacramento Save Tookie Rally w Bianca Jagger - Would You Execute an Austrian? 
Save Tookie rally Thursday Capitol steps...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 3:07pm PST
There's only 3 days left to save Stan Tookie Williams - Reports and news about Tookie
More than just waiting...Get ready for action
Media reports on Schwarzenegger's deliberation
Stan's supporters hold a "People's Clemency Hearing"
Report on the December 6 Save Tookie meeting in New York City
Mumia Abu-Jamal speaks out for Stan
Wife of murder victim calls for support of Stan's efforts
NAACP supports clemency
Bianca Jagger on Stan's case
Amnesty International calls for clemency
Stan's ca...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 1:56pm PST
Shooting the Mentally ill, Better than treatment? Forty-four year old Rigoberto Alpizar, an American citizen was Murdered by federal air marshals on Wednesday as he fled an American Airlines jet at Miami International Airport. Federal officials lied about him saying he had a bomb....
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 1:45pm PST
Eyewitnesses refute official story in fatal shooting of passenger at Miami airport In the days since Rigoberto Alpizar was shot and killed while fleeing an American Airlines flight in Miami, no credible evidence has materialized to back the claim by government authorities that the 44-year-old Costa Rican immigrant said he was carrying a bomb in the moments before federal marshals opened fire....
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 12:24am PST
The US has used torture for decades. All that's new is the openness about it By ignoring past abuses, opponents of torture are in danger of pushing it back into the shadows instead of abolishing it...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 12:00am PST
PoliceWatch Responds to Racist SFPD Videos Bay Area PoliceWatch is condemning the offensive videotaped “parodies,” apparently filmed by dozens of uniformed San Francisco police officers, which demean women and people of color, as well as homeless and transgender people.
PoliceWatch held a press conference at 10a.m. on Thursday, Dec 9....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 11:16pm PST
Shooting the Mentally Ill Forty-four year old Rigoberto Alpizar, an American citizen born in Costa Rica was killed by federal air marshals on Wednesday as he fled an American Airlines jet at Miami International Airport. Federal officials claim he threatened that he had a bomb and the shooting was necessary to protect passengers in the terminal....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 10:27pm PST
Press Release: With Sec. Rice in Europe, US Christians challenge US detention centers "This is the most powerful protest of US torture policy to happen since 9/11 and the 'War on Terror'"
-Gitanjali Gutierrez, attorney for Guantánamo detainees...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 10:17pm PST
UK Arrest Of Protesters: A casualty of free speech "I pass protesters every day at Downing Street, and believe me, you name it, they protest against it. I may not like what they call me but I thank God they can. That's called freedom" - Tony Blair, April 2002
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers" - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 10:07pm PST
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