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Britain: Government minister admits US “rendition” planes landed in UK The government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair has admitted that aircraft believed to have been used by the CIA to transport prisoners to secret detention centres did land at British military airfields. The admission was made by Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram in a letter to Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:16pm PST
Guantánamo files offer glimpse of Pentagon’s kangaroo courts On March 3, 2006, the Pentagon was forced under the Freedom of Information Act to declassify and publish documents, numbering over 5,000 pages concerning the notorious Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:15pm PST
2 hours to Patriot Act Vote in congress 1-866-340-9281
1-866-340-9279
1-877-851-6437
1-888-355-3588
1-888-818-6641...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 1:25pm PST
Former aide to Powell: authorization for torture came from “the very top” The CBS News program, “60 Minutes”, broadcast a segment Sunday night examining the brutal deaths of two Afghan prisoners at the hands of American military jailers in December 2002. The program included the accusation that authorization for the murderous abuse came from the “very top of the United States government.”...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:33am PST
Beyond Abu Ghraib: detention and torture in Iraq "I have lost a year and a half of my life"
43-year-old former security detainee and father of three daughters following his release in September 2005; he alleged that he was ill-treated while held in US detention in Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 6:25am PST
The Death Penalty Is Not a Deterrent - DP Awareness Week Supporters of the death penalty cling to "deterrence" as a major reason for
their support. The logic goes that the death penalty will give a killer
pause before they take a life. But the claim is really built on sand....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 1:07pm PST
End the silence over Chechnya The following is an open letter from Vaclav Havel, Andre Glucksmann, Prince Hassan bin Talal, Frederik Willem de Klerk, Mary Robinson, Yohei Sasakawa, Karel Schwarzenberg, George Soros and Desmond Tutu:...
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 8:06am PST
DP Awareness Week: The Death Penalty Punishes the Poor Another grim reality of the death penalty is that it is almost exclusively
reserved for the most disenfranchised in our society....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 10:13pm PST
V.A. Nurse Accused of Sedition After Publishing Letter Critical of Bush on Katrina, Iraq A Veterans Affairs nurse in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was investigated for sedition after she wrote a letter to a local newspaper criticizing the Bush administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war. In her first broadcast interview, we speak with Laura Berg, as well as an attorney with the New Mexico chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:46am PST
How to help + PDX and NYC events 1-Donate to his legal defense
2-Sign up to the listserve and keep up to date on case
updates
3-Check out Daniel's website at
http://www.supportdaniel.org...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 1:35pm PST
DP Awareness Week: Innocence and the DP During this national week of action, our CEDP list serve will highlight
one reason for each day--and highlight an event held by one of the CEDP
chapters....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 12:25pm PST
Democracy Now: Radio Frequency Identification We speak with Liz McIntyre, author of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with RFID" that examines radio frequency identification - a technology that uses tiny computer chips to track items at distance. Major corporations are working right now to install RFIDs on all consumer products. What about in you arm? Or in your kids? We also speak with freelance journalist Annalee Newitz who recently had an RFID implanted in her arm....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 7:14am PST
U.S. Agrees to Pay Egyptian Man $300K For Post-9/11 Detention in Unprecedented Settlement The U.S. government has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by an Egyptian man who spent several months in U.S. detention even though he had been cleared of terror charges. Ehab Elmaghraby was one of over 100 Muslim men rounded up and detained after the 9/11 attacks. According to a lawsuit, he was repeatedly beaten and abused by prison guards. We go to Egypt to speak with Elmaghraby and we are joined by two of his attorneys....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 7:13am PST
Patriot Act reauthorization final vote in the Senate is TODAY! TOLL FREE...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 3:41am PST
DP Awareness Week: The DP is Cruel and Unusual Punishment DEATH PENALTY AWARENESS WEEK
February 27 to March 3...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 10:14am PST
AKBAYAN: to bury the truth, GMA killed Philippine democracy 
AKBAYAN Party today denounced anew GMA's declaration of a State of National Emergency, saying that the draconian measures that the government imposed yesterday completely exposed the despotic inclinations of the ruling regime....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:52pm PST
Memory Against Forgetting - An Open Letter on the "Green Scare" This is an excellent essay from Portland Indymedia on the current "Green Scare" arrests of eco-activists....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:43pm PST
Final Senate Patriot Act vote tomorrow! [Capitol switchboard for all Senators: 202-224-3121 Also:
888-818-6641, 888-355-3588, 800-426-8073, 800-828-0498 and 800-SOB-USOB
(800-762-8762) (that's for Senate Office Building, not what you're
thinking.... :-)]...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 1:56pm PST
Responding to Arrest in Chiapas, Mexicans Denounce Rise in Acts of Intimidation “Repression Will Not Stop the Other Campaign”
Responding to Arrest in Chiapas, Campaign Participants Denounce Nation-Wide Rise in Acts of Intimidation and Political Persecution
By Bertha Rodríguez Santos
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Chiapas...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:41am PST
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