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Guantanamo Bay: A "Gulag Of Our Times" or a "Model Facility"? A week ago Amnesty International accused the Bush administration of being a "leading purveyor and practitioner" of human rights violations, debate has intensified over the U.S. war on terror. On Tuesday, Bush described the Amnesty report as "absurd." Today we host a debate between Amnesty's William Schulz and attorney David Rivkin....
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 9:49am PDT
Free Radio Santa Cruz: Critical Mass Sacramento attacked by Police Audio Interview with Peter of Critical Mass Sacramento one of 4 arrested at CM bike ride on 05-27-05 describes the violent harrassment and attack of Police as CM attempted its monthly ride....
Posted: Tue, May 31, 2005 3:14pm PDT
Hands off Assata! events and background 2 events a demonstration/press confereence on Friday and a program with more info on Saturday. in the ongoing campaingn to allow Assata Shakur to live in exile in Cuba free from U.S. harassment; and background material on Assata Shakur...
Posted: Tue, May 31, 2005 1:48pm PDT
6/4 Vigil in San Jose to Protest Police Killing of Samuel Martinez VIGIL
UNNECESSARY POLICE KILLING OF
SAMUEL MARTINEZ
Saturday, June 4, 2005 at 3:00 p.m. corner of Countrywalk Circle and Creekside Drive, North San Jose...
Posted: Mon, May 30, 2005 11:38pm PDT
4 de Junio: VIGILIA Para Samuel Martinez en San Jose Sabado, Junio 4, 2005 a las 3:00 p.m., esquina con Countrywalk Circle y Creekside Drive, Norte San José...
Posted: Mon, May 30, 2005 11:33pm PDT
Conflict continues in Benton Harbor, Michigan May 21 Benton Harbor rally defends community leader, condemns brutality and racism. Hundreds of young people attack cops in early May....
Posted: Mon, May 30, 2005 5:39pm PDT
Scientific American's Dishonest Attack On 911Research This is an initial version of the SciAm debunking and may be revised - check back for updates....
Posted: Mon, May 30, 2005 12:26pm PDT
Travelling Criticla Mass Video! Call for Interviewees and footage! We will be traveling to cities whose critical mass bike rides have, in the past ten years,
encountered repressive interference from police, motorists, or media. We want to interview you!...
Posted: Sun, May 29, 2005 9:14pm PDT
Sacramento Police Meets Critical Mass With Brutal Force. 4 arrests. 1 Felony last night at critical mass in sacramento, 4 people were arrested. one is being charged with a felony and a misdemeanor, one with a misdemeanor, and two were let off with infractions....
Posted: Sat, May 28, 2005 9:10pm PDT
Justice4EverardoTorres ! 2 1/2 years later, the Family of Everardo Torres, murdered by Officer Marcie Noriega in Madera on 10-27-02, is still crying out of justice...
Posted: Sat, May 28, 2005 9:03pm PDT
New PATRIOT Act Legislation Destroys Liberty The Fourth Amendment reads as follows:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."...
Posted: Sat, May 28, 2005 8:57pm PDT
Filibuster Wars 
Filibuster Wars
Power Grab at the Height of the Empire
http://rwor.org/a/004/filibuster-wars.htm
The Senate was heading for a major showdown, as the Republican majority and Vice President Cheney conspired to strip the Democrat minority of their ability to even filibuster the most extreme judicial nominees.
Then, after playing chicken for two weeks, a "Gang of 14" Senators suddenly announced they had reached a "historic compromise based on mutual trust" -- and they ...
Posted: Sat, May 28, 2005 5:23pm PDT
US press takes umbrage at Amnesty‘s ”gulag” charge The American establishment press has reacted to the human rights report issued by Amnesty International with a combination of indignation and verbal mudslinging. The editorial boards of the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post have taken particular offense at the statement by Amnesty International’s secretary general calling the US-run prison camp in Guantánamo Bay “the gulag of our times.”...
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 11:10pm PDT
Alameda County District Attorney violates Public Records Act A short article about the Alameda DA refusing to release records which show a pattern of nepotism in hiring by his office...
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 7:48am PDT
Portland pullout from FBI task force hailed PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland, City of Roses, won a proud distinction last month. It is the first municipality in the nation to pull out of the Justice Department’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), a clear rejection of the Bush administration’s politics of fear.
“I think the City Council and Mayor (Tom) Potter are so courageous,” said Alan Graf, a National Lawyer’s Guild lawyer who serves as interim director of the Portland-based Northwest Center for Constitutional Rights (NCCR)....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 11:01pm PDT
Worse than Abu Ghraib The desecration of the Quran is a far worse insult to Islam and Arabs than even the indignities suffered by Iraqis at the hands of American troops in Abu Ghraib, writes Muqtader Khan*...
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 10:44pm PDT
Sacramento Weekend of Resistance Flyer 
New flyer for the sacramento weekend of resistance for Jeff 'Free' Luers...
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 6:50pm PDT
Trial by Ordeal: The Modern-Day Witch Hunt 
Nine activists subpoenaed by repressive grand jury in San Francisco....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 4:36pm PDT
STATEWIDE PROTESTS TO THE OPENING OF DELANO II CALIFORNIANS UNITED FOR A RESPONSIBLE BUDGET (CURB)
invite you to...
A 'Reverse Ribbon Cutting' to
Protest the Opening of the Delano II Prison
in several cities around the state...
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 11:58am PDT
Join the Virtual Sit-In against the MinuteMen/Una el "Virtual Sit-In" contra los MinuteMen 
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY / Páselo por favor....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 5:13pm PDT
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