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Delphi demands US auto workers accept poverty wages Delphi Corporation, the largest American automotive parts maker, outlined a series of unprecedented rollbacks in the wages, benefits and working conditions of its 34,000 unionized workers and 12,000 retirees in the US, in a confidential letter sent to the United Auto Workers union on October 21. The proposal, which was posted last week on a web site belonging to UAW Local 292 in Kokomo, Indiana, sets a new benchmark for the drastic lowering of living standards for workers in the auto industry...
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 7:31am PST
Bush names favorite of Christian right to Supreme Court President George W. Bush’s nomination Monday of Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court signals that his administration is responding to its deepening political impasse by shifting even further to the right....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 7:30am PST
Communities of color unite behind Prop. 79, say no to drug companies’ big money campaign Organizations and lawmakers representing communities of color urged California voters today to approve Proposition 79 – the enforceable prescription drug discount measure sponsored by consumer, senior and health groups. The advocates emphasized that drug companies cannot buy their communities’ votes and that low and moderate income people of color stand to benefit greatly from Prop. 79....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 7:28am PST
The World Can't Wait - a Call from Malik Rahim to Act on Nov 2nd A Call for Everyone, and Especially People Dispersed from New Orleans, to Act on Nov 2nd to Drive Out the Bush Regime by Malik Rahim, Common Ground Collective, New Orleans...
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 7:15am PST
10/26 Communities United Against Police Brutality E-Newsletter Communities United Against Police Brutality
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Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 12:57am PST
USA Today editorial on CIA leak case riddled with false, misleading claims An October 31 USA Today editorial made false, baseless, and misleading claims about special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the alleged leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was indicted on October 28 for obstruction of justice, perjury, and false statements in connection with the investigation....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:49pm PST
Thousands Face Eviction in New Orleans The scheme to flush the remaining poor out of New Orleans and grab their land is quickly moving into a new phase with a lockout of public housing tenants....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:47pm PST
NPR failed to note contradictory statements from "liberal" Alito supporter As part of their coverage before and immediately after the October 31 Supreme Court nomination of federal appeals court judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., CNN and National Public Radio (NPR) featured commentary from Lawrence Lustberg, a criminal defense lawyer and acquaintance of Alito who claimed on NPR that Alito "will not overrule precedent lightly" and who on CNN openly supported the nomination. However, neither NPR nor CNN challenged Lustberg with prior statements he has made about Ali...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:30pm PST
We Can Win; Now When We Take a Stand for Human Rights It Means More. . . With legislation on the verge of passing to close the "School of the Assassins", the time has come this November to stand up against violence, torture, and war!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 10:56am PST
Judge Alito is Far Right's Choice "President Bush chose to placate the far right instead of appealing to
the fair-minded values of the American people," said Human Rights
Campaign President Joe Solmonese....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 9:50am PST
interview with jenka from algiers / new orleans part 2 (audio/mpeg 12.2MB) great phone interview and update.
26min 39sec 64kb great quality for a ph interview...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 9:00am PST
The World Can't Wait! Drive out the Bush Regime! World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime has called for nationwide protests and student walkouts on Nov. 2, the first anniversary of Bush's "re-election." At last count people in 67 cities, at 43 colleges and universities, and 90 high schools (at last count) will leave work and school and gather in the city centers to declare No! This Regime Does Not Represent Us! and to launch a movement to drive Bush from power. (www.worldcantwait.org). San Francisco convergence point is Civic ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 8:49am PST
Former CIA Agent Larry Johnson: Bush Should Ask for Karl Rove's Resignation Over CIA Leak Lewis "Scooter" Libby resigned on Friday after being indicted on five counts of obstruction of justice, perjury to a grand jury and making false statements to FBI agents during the CIA leak investigation. President Bush's chief advisor Karl Rove has so far escaped indictment for his role in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. We speak with former CIA agent, Larry Johnson....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:38am PST
Bush Picks Conservative Judge Alito Who Endorsed Abortion Restrictions for Supreme Court President Bush nominated federal appeals judge Samuel Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court Monday, just four days after Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination. The 55-year-old Alito is widely seen as a judicial conservative who has been nicknamed "Scalito" for his philosophical similarities to Justice Antonin Scalia. In 1991, Alito backed a Pennsylvania law that required women to inform their husbands before they sought an abortion. His support came in the form of a dissenting vote in the ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:37am PST
Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Lies in Honor in Capitol Rotunda The body of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was flown to Washingon DC Sunday night to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. She is the first woman and second African American to lie in state. We speak with the Rev. Joseph and author Diane McWhorter and we go back to 1956 to air a rare interview with Parks aired on Pacifica Radio's KPFA....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 7:36am PST
Bush picks conservative judge Alito for supreme court 
George Bush today put forward a judge with a well-attested conservative track record to replace Harriet Miers as his nominee for the US supreme court....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 6:39am PST
Bush Puts Demands of Far-Right Above Interests of Americans with Nomination of Alito Bush Puts Demands of Far-Right Above Interests of Americans with High Court Nomination of Right-Wing Activist Alito...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 6:37am PST
October 05 U.S. Immigrant News Alert! First They Come to the "Illegals"....
The worsen situations of U.S. immigrant rights
"Injury To One Is Injury to All!"...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 1:08am PST
Stop The War On Reproductive Rights - BAYCORR discussion (audio/mpeg 19.8MB) Bay Area Coalition On Reproductive Rights activists Toni Mendocino and Elizabeth Creely discuss BAYCORR organizing efforts demanding full reproductive justice and building a grassroots movement to end the current surge in repressive attacks on women's rights, including the upcoming Nov. 5th rally in Dolores Park, San Francisco. DJ Rubble interviews. (21 minutes)...
Posted: Sun, Oct 30, 2005 11:33pm PST
Tell Congress to Stop War on Hurricane Victims Now, we need your help to stop the war on drugs from becoming a war on
hurricane victims....
Posted: Sun, Oct 30, 2005 10:10pm PST
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