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Memory Against Forgetting - An Open Letter on the "Green Scare"
This is an excellent essay from Portland Indymedia on the current "Green Scare" arrests of eco-activists....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:43pm PST
Final Senate Patriot Act vote tomorrow!
[Capitol switchboard for all Senators: 202-224-3121 Also:
888-818-6641, 888-355-3588, 800-426-8073, 800-828-0498 and 800-SOB-USOB
(800-762-8762) (that's for Senate Office Building, not what you're
thinking.... :-)]...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 1:56pm PST
DFO admits to encouraging sealers to break the law
Nine Cape Breton fishermen facing charges of hunting seals in a wildlife sanctuary were encouraged to harvest there by both the federal and provincial fisheries departments....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 12:28pm PST
Call to boycott Boston University
A call for a student boycott of Boston University due to their proposal to build a biosafety level 4 (highest level) biolab in Roxbury, the poorest, minority neighborhood in Boston....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:11am PST
Total Information Awareness Lives On Inside the National Security Agency
More than two years ago Congress halted plans for a controversial plan called Total Information Awareness to create the world's largest surveillance database to track your phone calls, purchases, Internet usage, reading material, banking transactions. The National Journal has now revealed the program has quietly continued inside the NSA....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:37am PST
Cheney Exposed? White House "Discovers" 250 Emails Related to Plame Leak
The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney's office senior aides had sent in the spring of 2003 related to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed during a federal court hearing Friday....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 6:56am PST
Katrina: Where Did the Money Go?
Last year Hurricane Katrina blasted the southern coast of the United States, devastating three states in what was considered the worst storm in US history.
The response of the US government to the emergency was, by any measure, a scandal of inefficiency and bureaucratic indifference....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 6:54am PST
Vigil for the Constitution in San Francisco III (video/quicktime 21.6MB)
Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange. Four-minute QuickTime movie. 21 MB...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 10:36pm PST
Belarus: My Country, My Hope
I am from Belarus and live in USA for one year. I wrote some articles in local newspapers about my country. I am looking for others who care- who worry and want to do something about the state of affairs in my native country. I hope you can help to me with it....
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 2:59pm PST
The Green Scare and the Government’s “Case” Against Rod Coronado
The federal government has been chomping at the bit to put Rod Coronado back in prison since the moment he got out, and his indictment in San Diego for an exercise of pure speech is a flimsy pretext to do just that. [ed: Updated 02 March 2006]...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 12:45am PST
CIW MEMBERS, ALLIES GEAR UP FOR McDONALD'S TRUTH TOUR 2006
On April 1st – the fifth anniversary of the launch of the successful Taco Bell Boycott – the caravan will be joined by supporters from throughout the region for a major rally in Chicago, where they will call on the fast-food giant McDonald’s to work with the CIW and help establish real labor rights for the workers who pick tomatoes for McDonald’s suppliers....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 8:27pm PST
FBI Green scare continues more arrests this week
Repost, please educate yourselves and support these victums of state scapegoating.
The “green scare” intensifies across the nation this week as eighteen people have now been indicted for more than a dozen actions of property damage and one incident of "teaching and demonstrating."...
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 3:14pm PST
Telecom Companies Participated in NSA Spy Ring
A short article about telecom companies participating in the NSA's illegal
spy scheme....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 2:56pm PST
Bush administration shields corporations from safety rules, lawsuits
Federal agencies under the Bush administration are systematically gutting state regulations aimed at safeguarding the public and consumers from corporate wrongdoing, while imposing new rules to protect private industry from civil lawsuits, according to an investigation published in the February 19 edition of the Los Angeles Times....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 9:36am PST
White House report on Katrina: no blame, no accountability for hurricane disaster
At a press conference on Thursday, Bush domestic security adviser Frances Townsend unveiled a White House report entitled “The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned.” It should come as no surprise to anyone who follows the Bush administration that the document—billed as a comprehensive review of the government’s response and a list of measures to prevent a similar debacle in the future—is a transparent cover-up....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 9:33am PST
What the ports controversy says about Washington’s “war on terror”
The political uproar in Washington over the sale of cargo facilities in six US ports to an Arab-owned company has exposed the cynicism of the Bush administration’s so-called “war on terror” and its claim that military aggression abroad and attacks on democratic rights at home are aimed at protecting the American people from new terrorist attacks like those of September 11, 2001....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 9:32am PST
Singer Morrissey Quizzed By FBI
British pop star Morrissey was quizzed by the FBI and Britain's Special Branch after he called President Bush a "terrorist".The singer said he was "baffled" to be held and interviewed by the authorities. But he was released when they realised the melancholic warbler was not a threat to the free world....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 9:07pm PST
MJ Urine Detection Time Shorter Than Previously Assumed
Marijuana Detection Time Shorter Than Previously Assumed
Maternal Marijuana Use Not Associated With Childhood Leukemia, Study Says...
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 3:30pm PST
Danny Schechter Calls For March 21 Protests Targeting Media's Complicity in the Iraq War
We are joined today in our Firehouse studio by Danny Schechter the News Dissector – veteran journalist, media critic and co-founder of mediachannel.org, the world’s largest online media issues network. Schechter discusses the upcoming anti-war and media protest day, dangers journalists face in Iraq, coverage of the war, and more. And we play an excerpt of his documentary "Weapons of Mass Deception."...
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 7:35am PST
Financial Times columnist warns about social inequality in US
The Financial Times columnist Samuel Brittan, one of the first monetarist economists in Britain, has issued a warning that the United States cannot allow the gap between the pay of top executives and the rest of society to continue to grow on the present scale. He calls for redistributive taxation to redress the situation....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 6:22am PST