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ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT 93% SUCCESSFUL IN NORTHEAST 
Tucson, Ariz. - (March 2, 2006) The Center for Biological Diversity released a report yesterday which found that no endangered species have gone extinct in the Northeast and 93 percent have increased their population size or become stable since being protected under the federal Endangered Species Act....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 1:30pm PST
TRANSGENDER SOCIAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST FILES FOR ROY BLUNT'S SEAT IN CONGRESS On Monday March 28th Midge Potts of Springfield traveled to Jefferson City to file for Missouri's 7th District U.S. Representative in the August 8th Republican primary.
Ms. Potts, whose legal name remains Mitchell, also filed the appropriate forms with the Missouri Secretary of State's office to have have he/r name listed as Midge on the official ballot. S/he has been living fulltime as a woman for more than two years.
"Anybody could represent Southwest Missouri better than Roy Bl...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 12:09pm PST
Video shows Bush was warned before Katrina struck US disaster officials warned President George Bush in dramatic and sometimes agonising terms that Hurricane Katrina could breach New Orleans levees....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:57am PST
U.S. Enters New Nuclear Age as Bush Seeks Funds for New Generation of Nukes A new nuclear age appears to be on the horizon. President Bush recently asked Congress for $27 million to help jumpstart the country's first new nuclear weapons program in two decades. As we broadcast from New Mexico - the center of the country's nuclear weapons program - we speak with Greg Mello of the Los Alamos Study Group. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:49am PST
The Navajo Nation's Ongoing Battle Against Uranium Mining We look at the ongoing battle over uranium mining in the Navajo Nation. Mining has occurred on Navajo territory for over fifty years and the impact is still being felt. We speak with the directors of the Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining and the Southwest Research and Information Center....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:47am PST
V.A. Nurse Accused of Sedition After Publishing Letter Critical of Bush on Katrina, Iraq A Veterans Affairs nurse in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was investigated for sedition after she wrote a letter to a local newspaper criticizing the Bush administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war. In her first broadcast interview, we speak with Laura Berg, as well as an attorney with the New Mexico chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:46am PST
Maxwell Wins Fight Over Liquor Stores Supervisor Sophie Maxwell triumphed yesterday in her effort to increase city enforcement over problem liquor stores. Faced with a potentially killing amendment from Supervisor Ma, Maxwell beseeched her colleagues to stand firm against rogue liquor stores wreaking havoc on low-income communities. Maxwell argued that the amendment, which would exempt city enforcement of problems caused by liquor stores that occur outside the premises, would undermine the legislation’s purpose and send a terribl...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:36am PST
Vigil for the Constitution in San Francisco V (video/quicktime 20.6MB) What this country needs is a good deal more of the Bill of Rights! Two-minute QT movie. 20MB....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 11:06pm PST
Federal Reserve report documents widening inequality in US The Federal Reserve released its “Survey of Consumer Finance” on February 23, a report that measures changes in income and other financial measures and is produced every three years. Together with a number of reports that have emerged recently, the Federal Reserve data gives a partial portrait of the state of social relations in the United States—characterized by growing social inequality and increased financial hardship for most Americans....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 10:19pm PST
AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting marks further disintegration of US labor federation The Executive Council of the AFL-CIO labor federation is holding its annual winter meeting this week in San Diego. The trade union officials assembled at a luxury Pacific Coast resort have overseen yet another disastrous year for unionized workers, as well as a further decline in their own organization....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 10:17pm PST
Most US Troops in Iraq Want to Return Home: Poll The vast majority of US troops in Iraq want to end occupation of the Arab country within a year, as public backing for the US policy in Iraq has tumbled to an all-time low, new polls have showed....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 10:15pm PST
Nudophobes versus lingerie models... + Berkeley bares + more news links for freedomseekers......
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 9:50pm PST
PETA Sues Ringling CEO Over Document Theft, Illegal Spying, Other Unlawful Acts A trial that pits the world’s largest animal rights group against the greatest "sham" on Earth starts Monday. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed a lawsuit to uncover the details of a conspiracy by Kenneth Feld, chair and CEO of Feld Entertainment of Vienna, Va. The conspiracy involved setting up and funding a phony animal protection organization and other front groups in order to gain invitations to group members’ homes, as well as taking and misusing confident...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 9:05pm PST
Planned Parenthood, NARAL and NOW sell out the movement This article is by Jane Hamsher, the very good political blogger who runs the site called FireDogLake.In this article, she tells how NARAL and Planned Parenthood failed to defend Choice during the recent battles over Samuel Alito....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 3:15pm PST
OH MY GOD (or, OH YOUR GOD) "Pizza Magnate Seeks Catholic-Governed Town" I cannot belive this shit...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 2:58pm PST
How to help + PDX and NYC events 1-Donate to his legal defense
2-Sign up to the listserve and keep up to date on case
updates
3-Check out Daniel's website at
http://www.supportdaniel.org...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 1:35pm PST
Urgent Call for Peace in Iraq: Sign on Today! Sign on today! Please join women and men from all over the world who have launched
an Urgent Call for Peace in Iraq. CODEPINK: Women for Peace, one of UFPJ’s member
groups, is gathering over 100,000 signatures on this Call....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 1:33pm PST
DP Awareness Week: Innocence and the DP During this national week of action, our CEDP list serve will highlight
one reason for each day--and highlight an event held by one of the CEDP
chapters....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 12:25pm PST
Mississippi follows South Dakota's lead, seeks to ban abortion We were told the anti-choice states would try to overturn Roe v Wade as soon as they could, and... they are....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 10:50am PST
Democracy Now: Radio Frequency Identification We speak with Liz McIntyre, author of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with RFID" that examines radio frequency identification - a technology that uses tiny computer chips to track items at distance. Major corporations are working right now to install RFIDs on all consumer products. What about in you arm? Or in your kids? We also speak with freelance journalist Annalee Newitz who recently had an RFID implanted in her arm....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 7:14am PST
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