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Verified Voting: Diebold Vulnerabilities Affect 27 States According to the Verified Voting's preliminary information on the Diebold systems,
27 states are at risk with varying degrees of vulnerability, depending in part on
whether the jurisdiction has a voter-verified paper record....
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 10:44pm PDT
Interview with Jo Chamberlain (audio/mpeg 4.8MB) Green Party Staff Member of the Peter Camejo Campaign for CA Governor...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2006 9:44am PDT
A People's Movement in Nepal - The Promise and the Perils The Nepali revolution of Spring 2006 was a formidable show of a true people's movement. The strength of the Nepali civil society was apparent in the outpouring of a massive number of diverse peoples, with a strong contingent of youth onto the streets. Today, for the first time in Nepali history, there exists a possibility of a new constitutional parliament and Nepal is finally a secular nation. The palace has lost its power and the political parties have perhaps realized their fundamental rol...
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:52am PDT
Security cuts for New York and Washington underline fraud of war on terror New York and Washington, DC, the targets of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, will receive drastic cuts in anti-terror funding, the Department of Homeland Security announced last week. Under its Urban Areas Security Initiate program, the Department has granted New York City $124 million, down from $207 million last year and Washington, DC $46.5 million, down from $77.5 million last year....
Posted: Tue, Jun 6, 2006 8:46am PDT
US Supreme Court rules against government employees who report misconduct On May 30, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the case Garcetti v. Ceballos that government employees who report misconduct to supervisors as part of their “official duties” are not entitled to protection under the free speech clause of the First Amendment to the US Constitution....
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2006 11:26am PDT
Political crisis mounts over FBI raid on Congress The ongoing uproar in Washington over the May 20 FBI raid on Capitol Hill has produced unprecedented divisions within the Bush administration and the Republican Party. A seemingly minor event—the bribery investigation into Democratic Congressman William Jefferson of Louisiana—has erupted into a major political conflict, with the potential to set off a serious constitutional crisis in the United States....
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 10:57pm PDT
Nagin Re-Elected, but New Orleans Faces Serious Problems New Orleans (NNPA) – In what turned out to be a racially charged election, Mayor Ray Nagin defeated Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu in Saturday’s run-off but still faces an uphill battle in restoring the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans....
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2006 9:28am PDT
Electronic Voting Machine Study Exposes Most Serious Security Flaws Ever Documented A report released earlier this month details what experts say are the most serious electronic voting machine flaws ever documented. We speak with David Dill, a computer science professor at Stanford University and founder of VerifiedVoting.org as well as a former Utah county clerk who was forced out after having Diebold voting machines independently tested in his county....
Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 8:23pm PDT
Which 3 big goals should we fight for? Vote today! Nearly 10,000 of us gathered in house parties last Thursday to discuss the big goals that we want MoveOn to fight for. We compiled the 10 most popular ideas and now you can help pick the top three. Please vote today:
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Posted: Wed, May 31, 2006 10:29am PDT
Black Press News Digest: Blacks Still Disenfranchised at Polls New America Media, News Digest, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, May 30, 2006...
Posted: Tue, May 30, 2006 9:48pm PDT
Lopsided vote in US Senate to confirm NSA spy chief to head CIA General Michael Hayden was confirmed as the next CIA director on Friday by a 78-15 vote in the US Senate. Twenty-six Democrats and 1 independent joined 51 Republicans in a bipartisan show of support for George W. Bush’s nominee to head the spy agency. Hayden replaces Porter Goss, who resigned under pressure from the White House earlier this month....
Posted: Mon, May 29, 2006 9:26am PDT
Gold Star Mother Urges Americans to Sign the Voters Pledge 
No More Pro-War Candidates, No More Wars of Choice...
Posted: Mon, May 29, 2006 7:07am PDT
Constitutional crisis over FBI raid on US congressman The conflict between the US Congress and the Bush administration over the FBI raid on US Representative William Jefferson’s congressional office has rapidly escalated into a constitutional crisis. The episode highlights the contempt with which the Bush administration views such fundamental issues as the separation of powers and the autonomy of the legislative branch. It also reveals the atmosphere of crisis and tension which pervades the American political system....
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2006 6:10am PDT
Interview with Forrest Hill (audio/mpeg 12.1MB) Green Party Candidate for Secretary of State of California...
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 11:36pm PDT
Democrats ensure confirmation of NSA spy chief to head CIA The US Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday gave its support to General Michael Hayden, the principle architect of recently exposed domestic spying programs, to head the Central Intelligence Agency....
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2006 11:20am PDT
FBI stages unprecedented raid on congressman’s office The FBI conducted a search of the office of Louisiana Representative William Jefferson over the weekend in what is the first such intrusion by an agency of the executive branch into the office of a sitting congressman in US history. In a press conference on Monday, Jefferson, a Democrat, denounced the raid as an “outrageous intrusion into the separation of powers.”...
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 8:52pm PDT
Ron Luce's Holy Warriors: Meet the New Christian Conquistadors "Do you care more about the pigs around you or God?" BattleCry leader Ron Luce asked the crowd of more than 17,000 youth gathered at Wachovia Spectrum Stadium in Philadelphia on Friday, May 12. No, this wasn't a metaphor. After reading a passage from Luke 15 that mentions pigs, he actually had a bunch of those big, oinking, pink, farm animals on stage with him! Get it, you either get with Luce's hateful, hyperpatriotic, woman-bashing, racist god, or you're a ... pig?...
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 10:11am PDT
Iran Awakening -- An Interview With Shirin Ebadi Human rights champion Shirin Ebadi talks about censorship, women's rights and the dual role of her Tehran bodyguards. Ebadi was an accomplished female jurist in Iran in the 1970s; after the 1979 Islamic Revolution she was demoted to clerk in the courtroom she once presided over. Today she is a lawyer in Tehran and the author of "Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope" (Random House, 2006, with Azadeh Moaveni). In 2003, Ebadi became the first Iranian and the first Muslim wom...
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 5:57pm PDT
Senate hearing on CIA nominee: Democrats rubberstamp Bush police-state spying The Senate hearing Thursday on the nomination of General Michael Hayden to head the Central Intelligence Agency demonstrates the bipartisan congressional support for the Bush administration’s assault on the democratic rights of the American people....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2006 6:16am PDT
Mobilizing the Latino Vote A common message of the recent immigrants rights marches was “Today we March, Tomorrow we Vote.” Latino voting power has been described as an “invisible giant,” an assessment based on the 58% of eligible Latino voters who were not registered to vote for the 2004 presidential election. With a potential 12 million new Latino voters nationally, immigrant rights activists and labor unions are mounting a major drive to increase Latino voter registration in time for the 2008 elections. The impact o...
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2006 9:39am PDT
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