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After Judiciary Committee Vote, NOW Renews Call for Filibuster "As Sen. Feinstein said in the committee this morning, if you know someone is not going to respect the rights that are explicit in our laws, in previous court rulings, in the Constitution, then you have to stand up," Gandy said. "It's time for every senator who supports women's rights to stand up with her."...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 9:30pm PST
The life and death of an Iraq veteran who could take no more By his own admission Douglas Barber, a former army reservist, was struggling. For two years since returning from the chaos and violence of Iraq, the 35-year-old had battled with his memories and his demons, the things he had seen and the fear he had experienced. Recently, it seemed he had turned a corner, securing medical help and counselling....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 5:18pm PST
Segregation Report Sheds Light on Challenges in Diversifying U.S. Schools Schools in the Northeast and West continue to be more segregated than those in the South, with California and New York maintaining schools that are the most segregated, according to a recent report from the Harvard University Civil Rights Project....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 5:16pm PST
Army could be near breaking point, Pentagon-sponsored study says Will reality ever bear down on this President and his illegal war? To think, when W was first running for Pres he had the nerve to claim Clinton had worn out the US military on all that crazy nation-building when W knew damn well that he and Cheney would find some excuse, any excuse, to occupy Iraq and build permanent bases there....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 4:54pm PST
Latest News From Neptune 
News from Neptune is a radio program about the news of the week and its coverage by the media. News from Neptune is hosted by C. G. Estabrook and P. Mueth and produced by J. B. Nicholson-Owens at the studios of WEFT, 90.1 FM, in Champaign, Illinois USA. The show is named in honor of Noam Chomsky, who said, "Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 12:53pm PST
Auto Workers Protest Detroit Auto Show (video/quicktime 14.1MB) On January 8, 2006 over 500 auto workers protested outside the entrance of the North American
International Auto show in Detroit, Michigan. The rally which was called by Soldiers of Solidarity
included auto and parts plant workers from the US and Canada.
10 minutes 14 MB...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 12:18pm PST
NOT ONE MORE: Opposing Kerry 
Walsh: "Do we want another presidential campaign in which a hawk runs against another hawk, with the view of the majority of voters represented by neither major party candidate?.... In other states, antiwar activists are appearing at events where leading establishment Democratic hawks appear. In New York, Hillary Clinton, another pro-war Dem, faces demonstrations. In California, Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi have been the target of protests, which finally forced Pelosi to alter her p...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 11:02am PST
Asst. Labor Secretary Dye Walks Out of Mine Safety Hearing Fourteen miners have died in a span of three weeks at mines in West Virginia. On Capital Hill Monday, David Dye, the Acting Assistant Labor Secretary For Mine Safety & Health, walked out of a hearing on mine safety before he could answer further questioning and hear from other witnesses. We speak with Ellen Smith, editor of Mine Safety and Health News....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 9:04am PST
Former NSA Head Gen. Hayden Grilled by Journalists on NSA Eavesdropping on U.S. Citizens We turn to a rare news conference held by General Michael Hayden, deputy director of National Intelligence and former national director of the National Security Agency, who spoke to reporters Monday in Washington D.C. at the National Press Club. The conference was part of a public relations offensive by the Bush administration to defend the NSA’s eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without court warrants....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 9:02am PST
NSA Expert: The Bush Administration Has "Decided Simply to Violate the Law" The Bush administration has launched a public-relations offensive to defend the National Security Agency's eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without court warrants. We speak with James Bamford, author of several books on intelligence, including the first book ever written about the NSA. Bamford is also a plaintiff in an ACLU lawsuit that charges the spying program violates Americans' rights to free speech and privacy under the first and fourth amendments of the Constitution....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 8:56am PST
Muslims Sue US Gov’t for Abuse, Injustice A Muslim detained for months without charge after September 11 and then deported to Egypt has given a deposition in New York in a suit against the US government for unlawful imprisonment and abuse....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 8:43am PST
US army changes execution rules New rules covering the death penalty in military courts suggest the US army may be preparing for its first execution since 1961....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 8:42am PST
Diebold in Florida: "I Saw It Hacked" I was one of ten people present at the "hack" of the Leon County, Florida voting system, which took place on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 around 4:30 in the afternoon at the county elections warehouse. Leon County's voting system is the Diebold Accu-Vote OS 1.94w (optical scan)....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:44pm PST
Ford to cut 30,000 jobs in North America Ford Motor Company announced plans on Monday to eliminate between 25,000 and 30,000 jobs by 2012. This amounts to more than 20 percent of the company’s North American workforce, and nearly 30 percent of its manufacturing jobs, where the bulk of the reductions will take place. The Ford plan is only the latest stage in a major assault by US automakers on the jobs, wages and benefits of their workers, an assault that is having devastating consequences throughout the US, Canada and other countrie...
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:39pm PST
Tre Arrow and ELF: Radical Environmentalist on Death Row The government drops bombs on kids in the Middle East, while a hand full of activists torch some yuppie ski resort in Colorado: Bush gets reelected and the radical environmentalists are issued warrants.
Where the hell is the justice?...
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:33pm PST
Press Release - 11 Indicted in Environmental Witch Hunt On Friday the Justice Department announced that 11
individuals were being charged in a 65 count indictment handed down by a
Eugene, Oregon grand jury for a series of events from 1996 to 2001....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 9:23pm PST
WED, FEB 1: Finding Our Folk -- Oakland Send-off Wednesday, February 1st, 7-9pm
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
344 40th Street, Oakland...
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 9:19pm PST
Last Chance to Change the PATRIOT Act! Are you concerned about government spying on peaceful protestors (including
CODEPINK), wiretaps of phone calls without a court order, and FBI searches of
personal records of people who are not suspected of any wrongdoing? So are we....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 9:13pm PST
Immigration Hunts for 500,000 Absconders In an unprecedented crackdown on more than 500,000 absconders — illegal immigrants who have not followed deportation orders — U.S. authorities this year are nearly tripling the number of federal officers assigned to round up such fugitives....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 7:20pm PST
Tal Afar Sees Progress With Water Network Completed Local contractors benefit from reconstruction cooperation....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 8:42am PST
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