Publish to Newswire
Add an EventNewsitem List
1339 of 1464 
US press takes umbrage at Amnesty‘s ”gulag” charge The American establishment press has reacted to the human rights report issued by Amnesty International with a combination of indignation and verbal mudslinging. The editorial boards of the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post have taken particular offense at the statement by Amnesty International’s secretary general calling the US-run prison camp in Guantánamo Bay “the gulag of our times.”...
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 11:10pm PDT
Velvet Revolution Calls for Congressional Investigation Into Downing Street Memo Velvet Revolution -- http://www.velvetrevolution.us -- has joined a broad coalition of veterans, peace, and political activist groups to announce a campaign today to urge that the U.S. Congress launch a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war....
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 10:49pm PDT
KPFA Manager's report part2 (video/quicktime 40.5MB) Part 2 of the May 21 KPFA board meeting with manager's report and board member feedback and Q&A...
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 9:18pm PDT
KPFA manager's report (video/quicktime 41.2MB) Part 1 of manager's report...
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 7:37pm PDT
TODAY: Join the Virtual Sit-In against the MinuteMen JOIN THE VR SWARM ACTION
ON
THE MINUTEMEN PROJECT
FROM MAY 27th to MAY 29th 2005
JOIN THE ACTION NOW! AND SAY YA BASTA!
To the Minutemen Project
SWARM NOW!
CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE VR SIT-IN
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html
YOU CAN ALSO DOWNLOAD A .zip or .sit
OF THE VR SIT-IN (5 HTML PAGES)
THEN CLICK *Start.html*
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/SWARM2005.sit
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/SWARM2005.zip
AND DO THE ACTION FROM YOUR MACHINE!
FOR MOR...
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 11:34am PDT
Tune in to the Critical Mass Radio Network today (audio/x-mpegurl 0.0KB) The Critical Mass Radio Network presents a coast-to-coast coordinated broadcast on the last Friday of each month. This month's theme is "youth organizing and activism."...
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 10:37am PDT
Dying in Iraq is not a career choice Military recruiting has to be one of the most demanding and stressful jobs in America today. Try as they may, the 7,500 military recruiters are hard-pressed to sign up even two-thirds of the 80,000 quota they have been given this year by the Defense Department to meet the demands of the current and planned operations....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 11:03pm PDT
Portland pullout from FBI task force hailed PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland, City of Roses, won a proud distinction last month. It is the first municipality in the nation to pull out of the Justice Department’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), a clear rejection of the Bush administration’s politics of fear.
“I think the City Council and Mayor (Tom) Potter are so courageous,” said Alan Graf, a National Lawyer’s Guild lawyer who serves as interim director of the Portland-based Northwest Center for Constitutional Rights (NCCR)....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 11:01pm PDT
Activist Peter Young pleads not guilty to domestic terror charges Be sure to attend the SF: EMERGENCY GRAND JURY TEACH-IN, Tuesday May 31st, 7pm. Details below....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 9:53am PDT
The Myth of the “Fiscal Crisis” The first step that must be taken if we are to reverse the cuts and prevent the destruction of the New Deal’s gains is to understand in our own minds that there is no fiscal crisis....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 9:29am PDT
Minutemen Car Hits 5 Protestors - 8 Felony Charges Chican@ protestors + allies show fierce determination in the face of attempted murder by Minutemen and brutal suppression by police....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 6:39am PDT
NOW Condemns Senate Confirmation of Priscilla Owen Today the Senate approved the controversial nomination of Priscilla Owen after a filibuster was ended — the result of a "compromise" by 14 senators Monday night....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 12:10am PDT
Anti-Military Recruiting Campaigns Heats up At Seattle Schools On Monday, four US military recruiting offices in Seattle were shut down when students blocked the entrances to protest recruitment practices and to oppose the occupation of Iraq. Meanwhile the Parent Teacher Student Association at one school has passed a resolution recommending that military recruiters be barred from the campus....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 11:35pm PDT
Senate “compromise” on judicial nominations The agreement by 14 US senators Monday to stave off a full-scale battle over the filibuster of Bush judicial nominations is a textbook illustration of how spinelessness and lack of principle on the part of the Democratic Party prop up the Bush administration....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 11:33pm PDT
Real ID Act: Congress takes another step toward a police state When President Bush signed into law earlier this month the $82 billion bill to fund ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, incorporated within it was a second piece of legislation known as the REAL ID Act. When implemented three years from now, it will enable the government to follow the daily comings and goings of every US resident, citizen and non-citizen alike....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 11:31pm PDT
New Biscuit Media Available! Update from the Campaign 
Two new flyers are now available to print for biscuit outreach....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 6:40pm PDT
Southern Oregon U. Student Senate Bans Military Recruiters from Student Union Southern Oregon University's Student Government (ASSOU) passed a resolution last night banning military recruiters from the Student Union. The US Military's discrimination against homosexuality, the so-called "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, is in direct conflict with SOU's anti-dicrimination policy. The resolution was carried 8 votes to 2.
Steve Ryan, student senator and sponsor of the resolution said of its passage, "SOU's Student Government is taking a proactive role in p...
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 5:26pm PDT
Join the Virtual Sit-In against the MinuteMen/Una el "Virtual Sit-In" contra los MinuteMen 
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY / Páselo por favor....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 5:13pm PDT
NW In Defense of Animals: No Chained Dogs, Protect Oregon's Public Lands, & Upcoming Event This is a quick note on two very important action alerts and an upcoming event in the Portland area....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 10:13am PDT
Media Matters launches "Hands Off Public Broadcasting" campaign Since the signing of the Public Broadcasting Act more than 35 years ago, Americans have relied on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio (NPR), and other public broadcasting outlets to provide quality programs and independent journalism free from political or commercial pressure....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 12:32am PDT
1339 of 1464