Publish to Newswire
Add an EventNewsitem List
1365 of 1438 
Hemp Food Final Victory! The Bush Administration will not appeal the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals February 6, 2004 decision in HIA v. DEA protecting sale and consumption of hemp food products in the U.S....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 11:24am PDT
D.C. Jail Stay Ends in Death For Quadriplegic Md. Man Jonathan Magbie, a 27-year-old Mitchellville man, was sent to jail in the
District last week for 10 days for marijuana possession.
He never made it home....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 11:08am PDT
Sprint reverses, offers partner benefits Sprint is the second company to change its policies after being criticized by the HRC. Home Depot changed its policies a day after the HRC criticism....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 10:24am PDT
Ralph Nader on the First Debate Jim Lehrer really narrowed the range of subjects to the debate. We didn't hear anything about the Israel/Palestine conflict; we didn't hear anything about global arms control in the broader sense; we didn't hear anything about the global trade treaties—WTO and NAFTA—nor did we hear anything about the need to do something about the military budget of the Pentagon, which is so wasteful....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 10:11am PDT
Fetishist Rumsfeld "With Rumsfeld, one enters a plane of freely-floating aggressiveness not bound to any principles or any special competence. Psychological text-books know unbridled ruthless tyrants as failures. Rumsfeld may be a successful cross-breeding.."...
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 9:39am PDT
National Guard Not Meeting Recruitment Goals But now combat veterans thinking about leaving active duty express little interest in joining the reserve components due to the likelihood of another long-term combat tour....Observers inside and outside government have voiced concern over the Pentagon’s extensive use of reservists in Iraq and Afghanistan....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 9:43pm PDT
Pelosi says gay marriage amendment distracts from gov't failures House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi today spoke late this afternoon in strong opposition to a Republican proposal to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 9:14pm PDT
Vote for Change Update Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Bonnie Raitt, Eddie Vedder and Others Address Why There Needs to be a Vote for Change...
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 9:12pm PDT
Open Debates.org Pressure by Open Debates and other groups has led to some significant changes in the 2004 debates. For the first time in 16 years, the contract drafted by the Republican and Democratic campaigns — the 2004 Memorandum of Understanding — has been made public. Now, the general public and the media can hold the candidates accountable for the debates they have designed. [that is, if we *had* a media or a non-sheeple public!]...
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 4:19pm PDT
Starving Amid Plenty With society awash in cash workers are expected to take cuts and be thankful...
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 4:18pm PDT
Gay Marriage Amendment Fails The US House of Representatives failed Thursday to get enough votes to pass a proposed amendment to the Constitution to bar same-sex marriage....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 3:50pm PDT
UGSOA Members Vote to Stop the Payment of Dues to UGSOA UGSOA Members are Fighting Back Against UGSOA...
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 1:55pm PDT
TipTheElection.org launched New site uses social networking and viral marketing to defeat Bush...
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 11:26am PDT
Families with Loved Ones Killed, Wounded or Serving in Iraq Join Oct. 2 Memorial Processio On Oct. 2, Military Families Speak Out will join Veterans, including those who fought in Iraq, religious and peace groups in a National Memorial Procession from Arlington National Cemetery to the White House. Those gathered, including families whose loved ones were killed in Iraq, will be mourning the fallen, demanding necessary support for the wounded and calling for an end to the war. Sixty Military Families from across the country will participate in the Memorial Procession....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 11:25am PDT
Punkvoter.com Honors Gloria Steinem and Unveils New Print Ad Campaign Life long women's rights advocate Gloria Steinem joins Punkvoter.com tour members, Young Voter Alliance and Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates as they sound off about how critical the Choice issue is and unveil Punkvoter.com's newest print ad campaign....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 11:23am PDT
House Begins Debate On Gay Marriage Amendment The US House of Representatives began debate Thursday afternoon of a proposed amendment to the Constitution to bar same-sex marriage with a vote expected later today....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 11:21am PDT
KERRY OFFERS HOPE FOR MEDICAL POT OK I attended his recent rally at the Alliant Energy
Center and while my wheelchair prevented me from meeting him, a friend did
and he asked Kerry when patients like me would receive legal access to
medical marijuana. Kerry replied, "When I'm president."...
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 10:07am PDT
CBS cancels broadcast on Bush’s use of forged Iraqi WMD documents n a development that highlights the cowardice and subservience of the US media—and suggests there is far more to the so-called “memogate” affair at CBS News than has so far been made public—the network confirmed September 27 that it had cancelled a planned “60 Minutes” broadcast exposing the use of forged documents by the Bush administration in the run-up to the Iraq war....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 9:31am PDT
New Book Breaks Censorship on Palestinian Issue In a groundbreaking departure, a recently released book by a major progressive
institution dedicated to exposing "censorship" in the American media reveals that
the organization itself also omitted information on the Israeli-Palestinian issue
over its 20-plus years of operations....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 12:07am PDT
1365 of 1438