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Janis Karpinski, the Former Head of Abu Ghraib, Admits She Broke the Geneva Conventions # Karpinski, the highest-ranking officer demoted in connection with the torture scandal, speaks out about what happened at the Abu Ghraib prison. She discusses: How the military hid "ghost detainees" from the International Red Cross in violation of international law;
# Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller calling for the Gitmoization of Abu Ghraib and for prisoners to be "treated like dogs";
# Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's secret memos on interrogation policies that hung on t...
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2005 6:27pm PDT
PBS film documents Rumsfeld’s role in authorizing torture The Public Broadcasting Service’s October 18 edition of “Frontline” aired a documentary on US torture of detainees held in American prison camps in Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq. Entitled “The Torture Question,” the report makes clear that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the brutal methods of interrogation used against US prisoners. In a climate where the mass media functions primarily as a White House and Pentagon propaganda tool, the PBS investigation is a ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2005 6:39am PDT
Order broadens surveillance of Internet users In a serious attack on democratic rights, the US government has greatly increased the scope of legislation introduced in 1994, regarding the electronic monitoring of telecommunications providers....
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2005 6:35am PDT
URGENT SOLIDARITY NEEDED: SUPPORT THOSE ARRESTED PROTESTING NEO-NAZIS IN TOLEDO, OH! This is an emergency request for bail money for people arrested at the
anti-Nazi demonstration in Toledo, OH. Please Western Union money to
Chris Fox in Kent, OH. Call him at 330-389-0891 once the money is
wired....
Posted: Sat, Oct 22, 2005 12:02pm PDT
Guantanamo Detainees on Hunger Strike Tortured and Violently Force-Fed by Guards, Medical We speak with attorney Julia Tarver who is representing detainees at Guanatanamo Bay. She says her clients - who are participating in a hunger strike to protest their mistreatment indefinite detention - told her guards and medical staff forcibly shoved large feeding tubes up their noses and down into their stomachs, and used the same tubes from one patient to another....
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 10:44pm PDT
Assembly Points for the Tenth Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Assembly Points for the Tenth Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police
Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
(list in formation)...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 9:31pm PDT
National List of Endorsers for the 10th Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police... Endorsements for the 10th Annual National Day of Protest to
Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
October 22, 2005...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 9:26pm PDT
Twenty-Seven Detainee Homicides in U.S. Custody Lax Policies and Inadequate Investigations Create
Culture of Impunity, Human Rights First Research Shows...
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 11:04pm PDT
Communities United Against Police Brutality Newsletter In a previous edition of this newsletter, we reported that the MN
legislature passed a new law during the last session that criminalizes
so-called "false" reporting of police brutality incidents......
Posted: Thu, Oct 20, 2005 7:51pm PDT
Guantánamo Bay hunger strike enters third month The latest in a series of increasingly determined hunger strikes by Guantánamo prisoners entered its third month last week. The protest began on August 8 and has involved over 150 men, or more than a third of all detainees in the US navy prison....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 11:11pm PDT
5 Arrested Protesting Torture&Guantanamo Bay 
http://www.worldcantwait.org...
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 3:59pm PDT
Resistance: When is enough enough? After the execution in March 2000 of my son Malcolm Ferguson by Street Crimes Unit cop Louis Rivera, I started seeking justice for his execution. As a result of me seeking justice, I've learned that dealing with DAs, especially Robert Johnson of the Bronx - one who does not believe in prosecuting cops - is always going to be a difficult battle....
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2005 11:35pm PDT
Photos from Juanita Young's Victory Party 
w/her lawyers Lynne, Geoff, w/Nicholas Heyward, Sr., and addressing everyone...
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2005 11:02pm PDT
See Full New Orleans Police Beating Video Just Released The full version of the video runs just over five minutes...
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2005 9:34am PDT
Community Activist Calls New Orleans Police Beating "Typical Behavior" Three New Orleans police officers plead not guilty to assaulting African-American Robert Davis in the French Quarter, caught on videotape by journalists. We speak with longtime New Orleans activist who has led the struggle against police brutality in the city for more than 25 years....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 7:29am PDT
Live from New Orleans: Abu Ghraib! "The Public Torture of Robert Davis" by Lila Rajiva...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 6:57am PDT
Enemy Combatant Civil Rights Complaint Against the Executive Branch Filed With FBI Jose Padilla / Enemy Combatant Civil Rights Complaint Against the Executive Branch Filed With FBI Civil Rights Enforcement Division In San Francisco
1st amendment argued heavily. Admin will respond :We must prevent coded "go" signal. Go signal already given by every high level operative there is. Alternative press access methods could be used. Obstruction of justice. Preventing victims of illegal activities from reaching tribunal of records in secret by military force....
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 5:25am PDT
American Library Association leader: “This government stands completely exposed” Interview with American Library Association leader: “This government stands completely exposed”
By Sandy English
12 October 2005...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 11:14pm PDT
Law and Order in NoLa bay area residents witness community organizing in the face of disaster...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 11:01pm PDT
Tito Kayak and Jorge Farinacci in NYC (10/11 court date) The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign is calling on all of your allies to support
TITO KAYAK on the morning of Oct. 11th at his court hearing. In this time
of repression, tragedy and uncertainty, we have to keep the pressure and
support on; TITO needs us to stand with him....
Posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2005 12:39pm PDT
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