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What Constitutes a Political Prisoner? The Ongoing Suppression of American Indian Activism Some might argue the point, but Indians, by our very nature, are political beings....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 9:33pm PST
Bush crushes Free Speech in Canada President of the US gets Canadian Prime minister to shut Toronto radio show down, www.cloakanddagger.ca alleges....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 2:44pm PST
Federal Gov't Subpoenas College for Info on Peace Activists The government has subpoenaed Drake University in Iowa to hand over information about who organized and who attended a National Lawyers Guild anti-war forum in November. Lawyers say they have not seen such subpoenas since the McCarthy era....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 8:21am PST
Appeals Court Blocks Execution of Kevin Cooper A federal appeals court in California blocked the execution of Kevin Cooper Monday just before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection in San Quentin Prison. The state of California then asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the execution but the high court turned down the state's appeal....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 7:43am PST
Supreme Court Rejects Lockyer's Appeal; Cooper & Workingclass Prevail At 8:19 p.m., the US Supreme Court rejected the fascist appeal of that good Democrat, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, of the 9th Circuit Stay of Execution of Kevin Cooper, thus guaranteeing that Kevin Cooper lives to see another day and signaling to the world that the workingclass prevails in this fight against the anti-labor weapon of terror of the capitalist class, the death penalty....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 11:53pm PST
Día Nacional de Solidaridad con los Inmigrantes Musulmanes, Árabes y Sudasiáticos 20 de febrero de 2004: Día Nacional de Solidaridad con los Inmigrantes Musulmanes, Árabes y Sudasiáticos...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 11:17pm PST
2/12: Same-Sex Couples to Ask SF County Clerk for Marriage Licenses DATE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH -
RALLY San Francisco CITY HALL STEPS @ NOON...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 11:06pm PST
Stay could be lifted at any moment in the next 38 hours We need to let the governor and the courts know that thousands will be marching on San Quentin if they don't stop this legal lynching...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 3:00pm PST
American Airlines Pilot Asks Non-Christian Passengers To Identify Themselves An American Airlines pilot terrified passengers on his flight when he asked Christians to identify themselves and went on to call non-Christians "crazy"....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 1:58pm PST
Appeals court grants stay to Kevin Cooper!! SAN FRANCISCO – A federal appeals court granted a stay that may block the execution early Tuesday morning of condemned killer Kevin Cooper, who has won support from celebrities including Denzel Washington and the Rev. Jesse Jackson....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 10:18am PST
9th Circuit Justice Browning Says Cooper Had Unfair Trial Ninth Circuit Justice James Browning dissented from the majority opinion of the three-judge panel in the 9th Circuit's rejection of Cooper's latest, but not last, appeal to the 9th Circuit....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 12:35am PST
Prisoner Hungerstrike in Texas prisoners in Texas are on a hungerstrike in Texas to bring awareness to their conditions....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 12:02am PST
Your Action Needed Monday Re: Kevin Cooper Rev. Jesse Jackson devoted his sermon at Allen Temple Baptist church in Oakland to the case of Kevin Cooper today. It was a deeply moving call for people to take action against the death penalty and to save the life of Kevin Cooper. Jackson announced the march and rally......
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 11:53pm PST
new poem by Sherman Austin This is a poem by Sherman submitted to the Break the Chains newsletter. Learn more about his case at www.raisethefist.com...
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 11:51pm PST
In 48 hours California will execute the wrong man! We must stop this!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 10:31pm PST
Stop the legal lynching of Kevin Cooper Hundreds protested at the California State Building in San Francisco on Feb. 3, at a media conference in conjunction with statewide actions in defense of Kevin Cooper. Cooper is scheduled to be executed by the state on Feb. 10, despite a mountain of evidence suggesting that he is not guilty of the murders he was convicted of....
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 9:47pm PST
University Ordered to Turn Over Records on Anti-War Activists In addition to records about who attended the forum, the subpoena
orders the university to divulge all records relating to the local
chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a New York-based legal
activist organization that sponsored the forum....
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 8:04pm PST
Three jurors in Kevin Cooper case urge postponement of execution SAN DIEGO - Three jurors who convicted death row inmate Kevin Cooper of mass murder stood outside a courthouse and urged that his upcoming execution be postponed....
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 3:43pm PST
New 9th Circuit Appeal for Kevin Cooper The legal community is now on at the barricades, 24 hours a day, fighting to save the life of Kevin Cooper and the good fight for all humanity as the death penalty is dead wrong. A new federal appeal has been filed in the 9th Circuit....
Posted: Sat, Feb 7, 2004 8:26pm PST
New Appeal Filed to Save Kevin Cooper The filing claims that state prosecutors and investigators used false evidence and suppressed other evidence that could be used to prove Cooper is innocent....
Posted: Sat, Feb 7, 2004 8:12pm PST
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