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Federal Judge Orders Government to Explain Continued Detention of Palestinian Immigrant On January 21, 2004, US District Judge Yvette Kane ordered the government to explain, within 10 days, its rationale behind the continued detention of
New York-based Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti....
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 6:29pm PST
Lynne Stewart in Bay Area this Weekend and in Feb Here is the Bay Area tour schedule of progressive attorney Lynne Stewart
who has been re-indicted by the U.S. government on frame-up charges of terrorism. Stewart again faces 40 years in prison....
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 10:53am PST
outFarpress presents "Reining In The Patriot Act" with ACLU Lawyer A 59 minute speech by Judith Volkart of the N CA ACLU. An update on what is known and being done to "rein in" the Patriot Act. 2 files- broadcast and slow modem. Free to rebroadcast upon notification....
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 1:04am PST
2/20: National Day of Solidarity with Muslim, Arab and South Asian Immigrants We call on people everywhere to come together on the 3rd National Day of Solidarity
to resist the scapegoating and criminalization of Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants! Take action and speak out on February 20th, 2004!...
Posted: Tue, Jan 27, 2004 5:35pm PST
Painful Deceptions (video/x-ms-wmv 25.7MB) Eric Hufschmid provides expert analysis of the suspicious collapses of World Trade Center towers and other aspects of 9/11 in this 40-minute segment of his video documentary....
Posted: Tue, Jan 27, 2004 1:10am PST
2/10: Primaries, AIDS, debt, and trade You are invited to a strategy meeting on inserting Global AIDS, debt and trade into the CA Primary debate. If you can't come, but want to raise the issue with candidates in CA in February, here is a sample list of questions....
Posted: Mon, Jan 26, 2004 9:28pm PST
Operation Save a Life : Protest 4 Kevin Cooper To organize a Boycott beginning feb 1, 2004...
Posted: Mon, Jan 26, 2004 12:20pm PST
Lynne Stewart to Talk in Sacramento, Davis Feb. 3 Attorney Lynne Stewart, who was falsely charged with aiding and abetting terrorism, will appear in Sacramento and Davis at different times on February 3. This will give you the opportunity to also attend the talk by Alberta Lee in Davis the same day. Please distribute widely....
Posted: Sat, Jan 24, 2004 9:43pm PST
Anniversary Statement from Leonard Peltier Below is Leonard Peltier's annual message delivered in conjunction with the
anniversary of his incarceration on February 6th. Please broadcast as widely
as possible to as many groups as possible. This is a message to all people
regardless of color:
Leonard Peltier
PO Box 583
Lawrence, KS 66044
www.leonardpeltier.org
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee...
Posted: Sat, Jan 24, 2004 2:24pm PST
Juan Segarra Palmer Freed!! PUERTO RICAN POLITICAL PRISONER JUAN SEGARRA PALMER WAS FREED FROM JAIL ON
FRIDAY JANUARY 23, 2004 AND IS GOING HOME TO PUERTO RICO ON SATURDAY JANAURY
24TH!!...
Posted: Sat, Jan 24, 2004 8:49am PST
Don’t execute Kevin Cooper! OAKLAND, Calif.--With a February 10 execution date looming, the Committee to Save Kevin Cooper and other activist coalitions in California are in high gear to stop the execution of this innocent man. Because Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is an open supporter of capital punishment, it’s critical to build a loud and high-profile movement to put pressure on him. Will the "Governator" kill a Black man during Black History Month, while also gutting the budget for education and social servic...
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 4:28pm PST
A special report on Migrant Rights at the World Social Forum A special report for the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights direct from Mumbai, India...
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 10:43am PST
The 13th Annual Sparks Fly event benefiting women political prisoners Come out and support women political prisoners. Hold the date! Pass this on!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 12:37am PST
La Resistencia Denounces Bush's New Plan Clearly, it amounts to nothing more than a plan for more extreme
suffering and exploitation of immigrants trying to work in the U.S. It
is a plan to intensify repression, a plan to track and control....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 11:47pm PST
Republican Infiltration of Files WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 3:44pm PST
Police corruption abusing children A night club owner uncovers a ring of corruption involved in prostitution, extortion, narcotic trafficking, and protection for sexual predetors working for the police....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 2:11pm PST
Corruption in California's Prison Industry Sacramento -- Whistleblowers leveled allegations of corruption, coverup and an omnipresent code of silence within California penitentiaries at a legislative hearing Tuesday as corrections officials announced changes at embattled Folsom State Prison and pledged to clean up a department characterized by two lawmakers as morally bankrupt....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 12:44pm PST
French Bigotry Getting Worse: Sikh forced to take off turban to enter government building LONDON: A Sikh man has been forced to take off his turban in order to enter a Paris government building, appalled British Sikhs have reported, as France prepares to introduce a controversial law banning the Sikh turban, Muslim hijab and Jewish yarmulke....
Posted: Thu, Jan 22, 2004 10:32am PST
End Police Discrimination Against Poor Filipino Children Each day, 36 to 54 Filipino kids languish and get mixed up with adult prisoners in cramped police jails where a number of them get raped, tortured, and tattooed and deprived of access to legal, medical, social, and psychological assistance and services in an institutionalized act of unlawful discrimination by the Philippine government against the children of the poorest of the poor...
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 11:47pm PST
TV Execs meet to discuss coverage of next attack ... a summit meeting of TV anchormen and their bosses... with Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to discuss how they'll cover the next terrorist attack....
Posted: Wed, Jan 21, 2004 10:20pm PST
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