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Stop the WTO Negotiations! Save Jobs! After ten years under the WTO, unemployment has increased everywhere in the world.. Many transnational businesses try to distance themselves from responsibility for working conditions by outsourcing work.. Joy to the world, not only to the superrich!...
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 6:29am PST
Campaign to End the Death Penalty Circular CONTENTS
-- Overview
-- Steps for chapters: Consolidate and contact
-- Stan's memorial service
-- Note from Bill Keach
-- Mumia wins an important appeal
-- Glendening's editorial
-- New Abolitionist
-- Help needed for the Campaign...
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 10:04pm PST
Bush Admits Authorizing NSA to Spy on US Citizens (audio/mpeg 2.0MB) President Bush over the weekend acknowledged that he authorized the National Security Agency to tap into international phone calls and read the emails of US citizens without a court order. Today, Bush told reporters that he had the legal authority to do it. But some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are indicating that Bush broke the law. Mitch Jeserich has more from Washington. (4:24)...
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 7:25pm PST
Defiant Bush defends wiretapping powers Democrats scent blood after reining in privileges
· Court approval would take too long, says president
Julian Borger and Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
Tuesday December 20, 2005
The Guardian...
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 5:19pm PST
Activists Vow to Continue Tookie's Legacy Community activists and supporters condemned Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger following the execution of death row inmate Stanley “Tookie” Williams but nevertheless called for calm and vowed to continue his “legacy” to end gang violence....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 5:16pm PST
Bush Domestic Spying is Old News The big puzzle is why anyone is shocked that President Bush eavesdropped on Americans. The National Security Agency for decades has routinely monitored the phone calls and telegrams of thousands of Americans. The rationale has always been the same, and Bush said it again in defending his spying, that it was done to protect Americans from foreign threat or attack....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 5:15pm PST
The Boondocks is On: Pryor's Comedic Legacy Lives On Aaron McGruder’s groundbreaking and controversial animated series The Boondocks has sparked outrage from some African Americans that take issue with the show's use of the N Word. Fans of the show are drawn to the humor that was pioneered by black comics like Richard Pryor. PNS contributor Charles Jones is an editor at YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia (www.youthoutlook.org) a project of Pacific News Service....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 5:14pm PST
Dispatch - Dec. 1, 2005 from Jeff Free Luers I write more of these things than the world will ever see. The ones I do send out get edited and rewritten until I’m satisfied it isn’t too much. I know I am intense in all my emotions and honestly that’s where my courage comes from....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 3:17pm PST
"A God damned piece of paper?” Here is a repost and link to an essay by Charles Sullivan, a prophetic voice from West Virginia....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 3:00pm PST
I’m just not the same person I was before Iraq: Spc. Mike Harmon-OIF Vet “I don’t see any solution for my PTSD. As of right now I can’t see any end to it. I don’t have anything now, because the medical benefits ran out 90 days after my discharge. As of right now I have no medical benefits, nothing I can use for counseling. I’m hoping that if I get into the VA I’ll be able to start really dealing with it. Like I said, as of right now I don’t see an end to it; it will be a lifetime of problems if it is not addressed. I don’t see any solution being offered to me to ...
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 1:51pm PST
Bush Admits Authorizing NSA to Eavesdrop on Americans Without Court Approval President Bush has admitted he secretly ordered the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans without ever seeking court approval. Famed constitutional attorney Martin Garbus and former intelligence officer, Christopher Pyle both say it is an impeachable offense. We also speak with investigative journalist James Bamford about the history of the NSA. Plus, The New York Times exposed the story, but why did they hold it for more than a year?...
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 7:22am PST
US House passes draconian anti-immigrant bill The US House of Representatives passed a sweeping anti-immigration bill on December 16, laced with measures that, if passed, would create a virtual military-police zone along the US-Mexican border. The bill would criminalize all undocumented immigrants, would vastly expand the powers of the state to target these immigrants, and poses serious threats to the democratic rights of all workers in the US....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 6:59am PST
New York City transit workers on brink of class confrontation New York City transit workers are on the brink of a historic confrontation in which every section of the working class has the most vital interest....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 6:57am PST
Bush defends illegal spying on Americans: the specter of presidential dictatorship President George Bush’s defense of his illegal authorization for the National Security Agency (NSA) to monitor phone conversations and email in the US without court approval is an assertion of unchecked executive power....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 6:53am PST
Abused Immigrants File Complaint Against Welfare Agencies in NY NEW YORK -- Thirteen immigrant women who were abused by their husbands have filed a complaint in Manhattan Federal Court against city and state agencies who denied them public assistance, reports El Diario/La Prensa. All 13 of the women are legal U.S. residents, and many are mothers who came to New York to reunite with their spouses after years of separation. Under federal and state laws, legal residents qualify for public assistance....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 6:51am PST
Danny Schechter On McChesney's Media Matters 
Author, filmmaker, and media critic Danny Schechter discusses the media and current events with the American media expert, Robert W. McChesney.
The archived program is now available to listen to....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 11:41pm PST
Beleaguered Bush steps up PR blitz with live address Quitting Iraq would be a mistake, Americans told
· Spying revelations further hit president's poll ratings
Jamie Wilson in Washington
Monday December 19, 2005
The Guardian...
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 8:44pm PST
John Brown and Tookie WIlliams: Bard's Call for Abolition Ballade of the Abolitionists Dedicated to John Brown, for the Abolition of Slavery, and to Tookie Williams, for the Abolition of the Death Penalty.
By Geoffery Bard California, USA December 11, 2005...
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 7:53pm PST
Dec. 21st National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day:::Washington, DC::: Dec. 21st National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day
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Embargoed Until: December 21, 2005
CONTACTS: Michael Stoops- 202-462-4822 x19, mstoops@nationalhomeless.org
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Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 6:22pm PST
Disabled inmate misses deadline, faces execution Though the Supreme Court has prohibited the execution of the mentally retarded, a Texas Death Row inmate who may be retarded cannot raise the issue in federal court because his lawyer missed a filing deadline, a federal appeals court ruled this week....
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 5:58pm PST
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