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Disaster Profiteering: Purging the Poor in the New New Orleans We speak with writer and author Naomi Klein about what some are calling the real looting of New Orleans. In this week's cover story in The Nation magazine, Klein reports on how the city's poorest evacuees are being kept out of thousands of perfectly livable empty homes....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 7:02am PDT
Poll: Fewer than half think U.S. will win in Iraq A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Thursday indicated fewer than half of Americans believe the United States will win the Iraq war, and 55 percent of those surveyed said it should speed up withdrawal plans....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 6:57am PDT
Lodi man faces terrorist charges A 23-year-old Lodi man already facing charges for lying to FBI agents was indicted Thursday on a charge of providing material support to a terrorist organization.
Hamid Hayat, one of five Lodi men arrested in early June during a terrorism investigation in the city, is the first one to face criminal charges of terrorism.
The charge carries a penalty of 15 years in prison. Combined with two counts of lying to investigators, Hayat faces a maximum sentence of 31 years in prison.
A federa...
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 6:38am PDT
Democrats cave on reactionary chief justice: Senate panel rubberstamps Roberts nomination By a vote of 13-5, the Senate Judiciary Committee ratified the nomination of right-wing jurist John Roberts to be the next chief justice of the US Supreme Court. Three of the eight Democrats on the panel—Patrick Leahy of Vermont, and Russ Feingold and Herbert Kohl, both of Wisconsin—joined with a unanimous Republican majority to endorse Roberts, whose confirmation by the full Senate is now effectively assured....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 6:34am PDT
War protesters tried on federal conspiracy charges in New York Four Catholic activists went on trial this week in the upstate New York town of Binghamton, the first antiwar protestors to be indicted on federal conspiracy charges since the Vietnam War era....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 6:29am PDT
Fatal bus fire snarls Rita evacuation The evacuation of the U.S. Gulf Coast turned deadly on Friday when a bus carrying people fleeing Hurricane Rita caught fire a Texas highway, killing at least 20 people along a major escape route, local officials and news reports said....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 6:26am PDT
Food Not Bombs Needs Help Feeding Katrina's Victims Repost from LA indymedia...
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 1:27am PDT
9/26: Call Your Regional Health Director on Monday Urge a Response to the DQA Appeal! HHS ACTION ALERT: CALL YOUR
REGIONAL HHS DIRECTOR ON
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2005.
URGE RESPONSE TO THE DQA
APPEAL!...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 10:56pm PDT
Rita's rains start falling on New Orleans In a grim opening salvo from Hurricane Rita, a steady rain began falling Thursday on New Orleans for the first time since Katrina laid waste to the city, and engineers rushed to shore up the broken levees for fear of another ruinous round of flooding....
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 8:38pm PDT
The Truth About the Green Party What happened to the Green Party? Where is the alternative to the Republican/Democrat duopoly? The answer is complicated. This article goes a long way to explaining What Happened, What Is, and What Could Be.
Read this:...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 5:21pm PDT
Final Details on Sept 24-26 Mobilization in DC 1. Mobilization Overview
2. Housing & Volunteers Needed!
3. Getting There
4. What to Bring
5. Contingents in the March
6. Tabling at the Peace & Justice Festival
7. We Need Your Financial Support...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 1:05pm PDT
People's Hurricane Fund Releases Action Plan The People's Hurricane Relief Fund and Community Labor United of New
Orleans have issued an Action Plan detailing the formation of a national
coalition for rebuilding the city and a committee structure to implement
the coalition's goals....
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 11:15am PDT
Police Mistreatment and Abuse Widespread in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communi Police Mistreatment and Abuse Widespread in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Communities Nationwide; New Amnesty International Study Focuses on Chicago Police Department's Treatment of LGBT People...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 10:54am PDT
National Abortion Federation Urges Senators to Reject Nomination of Judge John Roberts The National Abortion Federation is extremely concerned that the Senate Judiciary Committee has accepted John Roberts' nomination to be the next Chief Justice of the United States. Even though, NAF believes, John Roberts failed to adequately answer questions about Roe v. Wade, the constitutional right to privacy and other matters, the Judiciary Committee has passed Roberts' nomination to the Senate floor....
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 10:53am PDT
Our work together, after Katrina Hurricane Katrina exposed the deep poverty and racism that remains in our country.
It showed that the President failed to deliver on his central promise—to keep us
safe. But more broadly, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that a right-wing "sink or
swim" ideology is a disaster for America....
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 10:16am PDT
No post-Katrina letup in assault on wages US Federal Reserve hikes interest rates...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 6:32am PDT
Struggling for a Home After Hurricane Katrina 
On September 20, after Vinny and I visited the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, we headed over to the Reliant Arena to find out more information about Katrina survivors being transfered from the Arena to Fort Chaffee, a military base in Arkansas....
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 3:03am PDT
Exit Only at the George R. Brown in Houston 
On September 20, Vinny and I returned to the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston to find out what was happening with the Katrina survivors since the Convention Center was closing it's doors as a shelter. An "Exit Only" sign on the doors made it clear that Katrina survivors were no longer welcome at the Convention Center. According to Anna Holly, Onsite Public Information Officer, it was time to "get back to business, back to conventions."...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 1:25am PDT
Texas animals need our help - Category 5 Rita headed their way Please get the word out that the animals of Texas are in dire need of transport, if they are not helped, we will have another Katrina mess going on in Texas....
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 4:49pm PDT
Altamont Wind Farm Vote this Thursday - help reduce bird kills The Altamont Wind Farm has killed an estimated 17,000-26,000 raptors since the project began and at least 11 state-designated species of special concern....
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 10:07am PDT
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