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Guantánamo abuse same as Abu Ghraib, say Britons Two British men who were held at Guantánamo Bay claimed that their US guards subjected them to abuse similar to that perpetrated at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
In an open letter to President George Bush, Britons Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal accused US military officials of deliberately misleading the public about procedures at Guantánamo....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 8:51am PDT
FBI and Oakland Police Pay Earth First! $4 Million to Conclude Lawsuit Unanimous 2002 Jury Verdict Remains Intact for Violation of Civil Rights...
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 8:15am PDT
ACTION ALERT HR 3722: Requires Emergency Rooms to Report Undocumented Immigrants US House of Representatives to vote on HR 3722, requiring emergency
room health workers to fingerprint or photograph undocumented
immigrant patients and then call Homeland Security to begin
deportation proceedings...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 7:01pm PDT
5/14, 10am Press Conference about INS Raids >
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Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 6:58pm PDT
Recent News From The Homeland Atrocity Department Recent items culled from Google News concerning various ALLEGED official misdeeds, high crimes, misdemeanors and atrocities....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 3:02pm PDT
5/16/04 Oakland 25 Victory Party (Corrected Date) Bring your pictures, songs, spent police cartridges and other paraphernalia....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 5:29am PDT
U.S. Rejects Rights Group Access to Afghan Prisoners KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. military, under fire for its treatment of prisoners in Iraq, Tuesday turned down a request by Afghanistan's human rights body for access to Afghans in its custody.
Concerned that local prisoners may be treated like those in Iraq, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission has sought access to Afghans detained for suspected Islamic militant links and held at various U.S. bases in Afghanistan. "We have no intention right now of changing our policy with re...
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 6:24pm PDT
Lt. Gen. William Boykin Who Made Anti-Islam Remark Tied to POW Case WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army general under investigation for anti-Islamic remarks has been linked by U.S. officials to the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, which experts warned could touch off new outrage overseas....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 5:29pm PDT
Change in Plans for Weds CYA Demo going to Sacto As you know, we've been planning to go to Sacramento on Wednesday morning. Instead,
we will get together in OAKLAND on Wednesday AFTERNOON. That's right — we're meeting at 1.30 p.m. in West Oakland....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 9:53am PDT
5/12: Sacramento Showdown with AG Bill Lockyer 7.30 AM -- OAKLAND DEPARTURE
Youth Empowerment Center
1357-A 5th Street at Mandela
(near West Oakland BART)
11.30 AM -- SACRAMENTO MEET-UP
Bill Lockyer's Office
1300 I Street, Suite 1120...
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 1:03am PDT
5/12, SF: "STAND UP & SPEAK OUT AGAINST VIOLENCE" HEARING! Youth Commission to hold
"STAND UP & SPEAK OUT AGAINST VIOLENCE" HEARING!
Wednesday, May 12th at 4:30pm
1800 Oakdale
Join the Youth Commission for a youth-led hearing in an attempt to stop the
violence in Bayview/Hunter's Point....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 11:22pm PDT
5/12: Rally at the SF Police Commission for Cammerin Boyd Rally at the San Francisco Police Commission. Demand a full, fair and
independent investigation into Cammerin Boyd's death at the hands of SFPD....
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 10:28pm PDT
Recent News From The Homeland Atrocity Department Recent news items culled from Google News concerning a variety of crimes and atrocities perpetrated by our diligent Public Servants. Remember: all persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, no matter what Bush and Ashcroft believe!...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 10:03pm PDT
Former Military Police Officer Jailed for 17 Yrs Describes Routine Mistreatment We speak with former military police officer Paul Wright, editor and founder of Prison Legal News, who was recently released from prison after serving 27 years for murder about the physical and sexual abuse of that regularly takes place in American prisons with little public knowledge or concern. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 3:45pm PDT
The Sentencing of Arlo Looking Cloud I am an artist and writer living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. I am writing about the Lakota civilization and issues. Recently, I have been writing about the trial of Arlo Looking Cloud from the Lakota Perspective. Someone has shut down my web site www.lakotaperspectives.com in order to silence my voice and that of the Lakota people because I implicate the FBI and US gov role in the destruction of a people and a culture. But I will still write and let the truth be known a...
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 12:04pm PDT
Prison officials declare ‘state of emergency,’ CURB proposes closing 4 prisons “Polls show that three out of four Californians prefer rehabilitation and prevention over sending more young people to prison. But neither political party seems willing to stand up to the prison guards union, whose jobs and million-dollar annual war chest depend on the size of the inmate population,” says Hayden....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 6:14pm PDT
BVHP under siege by occupying army The young man accused of killing Officer Espinoza is Hunters Point resident David Hill, 21, but the SFPD is retaliating against the entire neighborhood....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 6:09pm PDT
Boston, Police Shut Down Bl(A)ck Tea Society Meeting at MIT On Wed, May 5th the group organizing protests for the Democratic National Convention --Bl(A)ck Tea Society-- had there meeting shut-down by the Cambridge police dept....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 1:20pm PDT
Death Penalty Democrat AG Lockyer Caters to Lynch Mob; Nazi Newsom Attacks Arts Death Penalty Democrat Attorney General Bill Lockyer won great applause from the barbaric death penalty lynch mob, the Califorina "peace" officers, aka the Gestapo, for promising to take the case of a person accused of killing a cop from the San Francisco DA who refuses to ask for the death penalty....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 11:35am PDT
5/14 Police Accountability Press Conference At the Community's request, ISF (Idriss Stelley Foundation) will be hosting a
press conference at the Green House at 4929 3rd street, Friday 5 -14-04
from 2
to 4 P.M....
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 8:56pm PDT
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