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National "Support the Troops Day" Congress has recently passed a resolution that calls
for a national moment of silence on Sunday March 26th, and declaring this day
"National Support the Troops Day." The resolution in part says: "All people in
the United States should participate in a moment of silence to reflect upon the
service and sacrifice of members of the Armed Forces both home and abroad."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 9:37pm PST
The Racist War on Immigrants: Jim Crow Goes Fishing Speaking in Cleveland, President Bush called on Congress to end "catch and release" practices on the border with Mexico. He wasn't referring to recreational fishing enthusiasts who catch large mouth bass, snap a picture and then release them back into the water. He was talking about INS (now Homeland Security) agents who round up undocumented workers trying to cross the border, harass and threaten them, and then issue them summons to appear in American court. President Bush and Cong...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 4:50pm PST
IMMIGRATION MATTERS -- Fortress America Is Not the Solution Virtually unnoticed in the immigration debate is the proposed expansion of the current immigrant detention system that is already rife with abuse, writes New America Media contributor Andrea Black, coordinator for the Detention Watch Network, a national coalition working to reform the U.S. immigration detention system. She was the executive director of the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in Arizona....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 4:40pm PST
March 25-28 Nationwide Weekend of Actions to Support Immigrant Solidarity! March 25-28 Nationwide Weekend of Actions to Support Immigrant Solidarity!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 2:42pm PST
IRS Audited Greenpeace At Request of ExxonMobil-Funded Group The Wall Street Journal revealed this week that a little-known watchdog group, largely subsidized by ExxonMobil, was responsible for getting the IRS to audit the environmental organization Greenpeace. We speak with the reporter who broke the story and the head of Greenpeace USA....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2006 7:12am PST
IMMIGRATION MATTERS -- Backlash Against the Backlash Grows There are clear signs that immigrants and their supporters in the religious, state government, labor and business sectors are fighting back against xenophobia being fanned by hard-line opponents of comprehensive immigration reform, writes Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum....
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 4:54pm PST
Boycott South Dakota! Please help us in Boycotting South Dakota!!!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 3:10pm PST
Oregon Attorney on Why He Feels Federal Agents Broke into His Home and Office Attorney Thomas Nelson discusses his lawsuit against the National Security Agency and his evidence that the Bush administration's secret domestic surveillance is much broader than reported and may include secret physical searches....
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 9:05am PST
The Ultimate Scapegoat: Blaming the Media for Bad War News Top officials in the Bush administration have often complained that news coverage of Iraq focuses on negative events too much and fails to devote enough attention to positive developments. Yet the White House has rarely picked direct fights with U.S. media outlets during this war. For the most part, President Bush leaves it to others to scapegoat the media....
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 8:59am PST
Political Lemmings: The Democrats and the Precipice Can you really oppose the occupation of Iraq and still call yourself a Democrat? I'm not so sure. The majority of Washington Dems continue to applaud Bush's invasion of Iraq as well as his debauched crusade against terror. A few antiwar voices have echoed though Democratic corridors, but none have produced any genuine shifts in ideology, let alone direction. Nor will they....
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 8:52am PST
GM, Delphi, US autoworkers’ union agree to massive job-cutting program The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has concluded a deal with General Motors and its former parts company Delphi Corporation that paves the way for a major contraction in the US auto industry and the permanent elimination of tens of thousands of jobs....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 10:25pm PST
Victory in New Hampshire, Progress in Connecticut Yesterday was a great day for marriage equality in
New England, as GLAD's marriage case advanced in
Connecticut, and New Hampshire's legislature
rejected an anti-gay, anti-marriage equality
constitutional amendment by a huge margin!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 10:17pm PST
Congressional Members and Staff are asked to join the call for Unity with Black Farmers Congressional Members and Staff are requested to support Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Unity Rally in Washington, D.C. This story remains painfully clear, America needs a healthy Rural America that strengthens family farmers of all races and protects American farmland for future generations....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 7:16pm PST
Philippine Hackers Target National Police, Demanding the Release of the Sagada 11! Hacktivists in the Philippines have started an electronic civil disobedience campaign against the national police, demanding the release of the Sagada 11, eleven punk food not bombs activists falsely accused of being members of the NLP....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:35pm PST
Oglala Sioux Tribe on the South Dakota Abortion Ban "To me, it is now a question of sovereignty." President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Cecilia Fire Thunder, says "I will personally establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on my own land which is within the boundaries of the Pine Ridge Reservation where the State of South Dakota has absolutely no jurisdiction."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 12:34pm PST
"My Name is Rachel Corrie" - A Debate Over Why the Play is Not Opening in New York "My Name is Rachel Corrie" - a play based on the words of the American peace activist crushed to death three years ago by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza - is causing controversy after the New York City theater that was scheduled to run it postponed production. We host a discussion with Katharine Viner, the editor of the play in London and James Nicola and Lynn Moffat, the two top directors of the New York Theater Workshop....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:50am PST
The Assault on Higher Education: The Conservative Push for the Right Student The news of right-wing assaults on higher education keeps coming: The state of Pennsylvania has a congressional board set up to investigate cases of bias in the classroom, the State University of New York System's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to allow white students to apply for scholarships originally earmarked for black, Hispanic, and American Indian students. Barely a day passes when those of us who work in higher education are not forced to face yet another example of the increasin...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:45am PST
Dissent and Iraq: To the Guy Who Called Me a Traitor I haven't heard from you for a while. Three years ago you called me a "traitor", just before the invasion of Iraq. You also wrote, "Your voice against our elected government is a voice against its people, a voice against this nation."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:32am PST
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