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Act today -- House is voting on H.R. 10, trying to sneak in "PATRIOT Act II" powers under the guise of responding to the 9/11 Commission (which didn't endorse this legislation)....
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 2:38pm PDT
She has figured out the next major 9-11 style attack will be on Novemeber
1st or 5th with nukes in various locations (although there is also a
possibility of a "rush" job on October 8...
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 1:46pm PDT
This special edition of the CUAPB newsletter will explore areas of interest
related to the use of the electric stun weapon known as the Taser. Touted
by its manufacturer and revered by law enforcement agencies as a "less
lethal" alternative, we are just starting to see the practical effects of
widespread use of these devices...
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 1:16pm PDT
No on Measure Y Updates...
and Get Out the Jail Vote (below)...
Posted: Wed, Oct 6, 2004 9:00pm PDT
Conservative Writer Michelle (suck Bush's dick) Malkin wants to intern Arabs and Muslims....
Posted: Tue, Oct 5, 2004 5:48pm PDT
NO ON MEASURE Y CAMPAIGN TURNS UP THE HEAT, AS POLICE CHEIF WARD AND FORMER CITY-COUNCILMEMBER WILSON RILES DEBATE
Saturday, 10AM, Peralta Elementary School, 460 63rd Street in North Oakland, just East of Telegraph Ave.
PLEASE COME AND BRING SIGNS!!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 5, 2004 3:58pm PDT
"What was wrong with your intelligence? Why didn't you know this was going to happen? You spend billions and billions with spooks all over the world and surely you should have known what was going on. And, so I began to be concerned about that. And then questions were raised by others. Why did the President just sit in the schoolroom when he heard the news? Why did he not
acknowledge that he already knew what was going on? As a former Minister of National Defense, when the news came ou...
Posted: Tue, Oct 5, 2004 10:09am PDT
This summer, I was able to gather enough money for a roundtrip ticket to Boston, where the democrats were holding their national convention. I had been misinformed that there would be many protesters on the Boston Common that particular day. In all of my worst nightmares, I never would have dreamed that I would have my 1st Admendment right of freedom of assembly, attacked in such an crude and unjustified manner, right on the Boston Commons, where American liberty was born!!!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 4, 2004 11:59am PDT
As you read this letter, a swiftly changing collage of Patriot II
provisions, repressive immigration changes, and privacy invasions is
rushing though Congress embedded in and under the disguise of legislation
responding to The 9/11 Commission Report....
Posted: Mon, Oct 4, 2004 1:04am PDT
It is the 40th anniversary of the peak of the Free Speech Movement, when the administration ordered students pamphleting on Sproul plaza to be arrested, Jack Weinberg was placed in a police car, and it was then surrounded by thousands of students, and Mario Savio gave his famous speech...
Posted: Sun, Oct 3, 2004 5:25pm PDT
Take part in the Walk for Abolition in Montreal, Canada October 9!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 3, 2004 10:24am PDT
Sunday, October 10, 2004
5:00-7:30 PM
La Pena Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley...
Posted: Sun, Oct 3, 2004 1:10am PDT
NEW YORK - Saying that "democracy abhors undue secrecy," a federal court today struck down an entire Patriot Act provision that gives the government unchecked authority to issue "National Security Letters" to obtain sensitive customer records from Internet Service Providers and other businesses without judicial oversight. The court also found a broad gag provision in the law to be an "unconstitutional prior restraint" on free speech....
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 12:03pm PDT
NEW YORK -- The American Civil Liberties Union today said that it will be monitoring a new plan by the FBI to, among other things, use "aggressive - even obvious - surveillance" techniques on individuals who are not even suspected of having committed a crime, in advance of the November 2 general election....
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 12:02pm PDT
LINCOLN, Neb. - The head of the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said Friday that two Nebraska state troopers tried to intimidate him after he screened a documentary film critical of the federal Patriot Act.
Tim Butz, who filed a complaint Wednesday with State Patrol chief Col. Tom Nesbitt, alleged the troopers approached him after he screened the documentary film "Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties" at a community college in North Platte on Sept....
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 11:09am PDT
Get Out the Jail Vote
with Proyecto Common Touch
When: Wednesday and Sunday evenings, 6-9pm, @ Santa
Rita Jail in Pleasanton
Need a ride? Meet at Fruitvale BART @ 5:15pm....
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 9:34am PDT
A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay has revealed how he saw two prisoners die at the hands of their American captors, before making a plea for his release in the first letter from a serving prisoner at the camp to be made public.
Moazzam Begg, held on suspicion of having links with al-Qa'ida, added that he had been tortured and subjected to death threats by his captors....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 11:46pm PDT
The man who's book review required a a CIA agent to write (in the most recent 'Nation'), will be speaking in Santa Rosa this weekend....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 5:34pm PDT
Jonathan Magbie, a 27-year-old Mitchellville man, was sent to jail in the
District last week for 10 days for marijuana possession.
He never made it home....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 11:08am PDT