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Communities United Against Police Brutality Newsletter (MN) The family of a man who died after a jailer shocked
him with a stun gun has reached a $500,000 settlement over his death....
Posted: Thu, Jan 27, 2005 5:21pm PST
The Stone of Sisyphus The government must act when entrepreneural rationality leads to undesired results. Who else can act? The government must renew the jobs program.. The capitalist world economy is in an over-production crisis.. Businesses with their jobs and goods are part of social life....
Posted: Thu, Jan 27, 2005 11:05am PST
Renew your commitment to the fight! But, we are not waiting to move forward in the Americans for Safe Access
(ASA) campaign to defend medical cannabis rights! Over the past two and half
years, ASA has worked hard to protect the rights of patients, and the next
year will be no different....
Posted: Thu, Jan 27, 2005 10:04am PST
Democrats divided over rethink on abortion The Democratic party, shaken by its loss on "moral values" in last November's elections, has embarked on a rethink of its approach to the core issue of abortion rights....
Posted: Thu, Jan 27, 2005 7:45am PST
Breaking news in the campaign to repeal the HEA Drug Provision Congressionally-Appointed Committee Calls for
Repeal of Anti-Education Policy...
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 11:48pm PST
Queering Femininity: A National Femme Conference 5/27-30, 2005 The conference will be held on Memorial Day Weekend, May 27 – 30th, 2005. Queering Femininity is a national conference to explore and celebrate the many ways queers consciously construct femininity....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 9:35pm PST
Feb. 25 Annual Update on Sexual Orientation Law, Book Party and Moot Court Competition Fourth Annual Update on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy
February 25, 2005...
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 9:23pm PST
11 Peace Activists Headed for Prison udge Faircloth sentenced six more of the "SOA 14" yesterday and today,
bringing to 11 the total number of activists ordered to serve prison
terms of three to six months and to pay fines of up to $500. Each of the
defendants was on trial for acts of nonviolent civil disobedience
calling for the closure of the School of the Americas (SOA/ WHINSEC)....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 9:21pm PST
Perils of Fast-Growing Aquaculture Industry There was a story on the front page of the Monday, January 24, Washington Post, headed "Fish Farming's Bounty Isn't Without Barbs." It discusses the environmental impact of aquaculture -- the factory farming of fish....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 1:54pm PST
Greyhounds front page in Florida and column following article in UK The Monday, January 17 Independent, in the UK, ran a beautiful piece based on a memorial being organized, to take place on May 1, for a dog named Rusty. It is followed up in the Tuesday Independent with an op-ed discussing not just greyhound racing, but wider animal protection issues. And today (Tuesday 1/18) the Miami Herlad ran a front page story on the attempts to bring slot machines, and thereby many more patrons, to dog tracks....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 1:36pm PST
"The Cruelty Connection", A&E special presentation, 1/26/05 The connection between violence towards animals and violence towards people will be drawn tonight on TV in A&E special presentation....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 11:58am PST
What is Socialism Over 150 years ago, a small pamphlet was published that opened “a ghostis haunting Europe, the ghost of communism”. (This was before the rise of the Soviet Union and its bureaucracy. At that time, “communism” had a wholly different meaning; it meant a workers’ revolution and a worker-run society.) It was true; within months the whole continent was ablaze with revolution....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 11:32am PST
Beyond Kyoto The predicted consequences of global warming are manifest. In 2050 England will be half under water.. Production shifts to low-wage countries. Instead of preventing this shift, politics still urges all people to adjust to the little group of egoists....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 11:09am PST
1/26 6 AM ET Alert! "Suspended Indefinitely!!!" - New York Hot 97 "Miss Jones in the Jay of HipHopMusic.com notified us that the Hot 97 "Miss Jones in the Morning Show" is "suspended indefinitely" over her recent racist "Tsunami Song"...
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 5:50am PST
HHS Promises to Review MJ Rescheduling Petition Steph Sherer (of Americans for Safe Access) and I took the opportunity of the confirmation hearing of
HHS-nominee Michael Leavitt to raise awareness of the marijuana
rescheduling petition and to put the future Secretary on notice that
the Senate was watching to see whether the Department would
unreasonably delay its response to the DEA....
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 11:16pm PST
Call Wed. to Stop Gonzales for Attorney General! It appears that the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on the nomination of
Alberto Gonzales for U.S. Attorney General on Wednesday, January 26, with the full
Senate voting early next week. There is an urgent need to flood the Senate with
phone calls urging that Gonzales be rejected....
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 11:11pm PST
Abuses Against Workers Taint U.S. Meat and Poultry (Chicago, January 25, 2005)—Workers in the U.S. meat and poultry industry endure unnecessarily hazardous work conditions, and the companies employing them often use illegal tactics to crush union organizing efforts, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today....
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 8:28pm PST
Bush's Mythical Mandate & Social Security Piratization Bush's claimed mandate is being used to deflect Iraq War criticism and to justify Corporate looting of Social Security fund by his Wall Street backers. They are falsely claiming sinificant Democratic support when the Democrats and labor unions are really the strongest opponents of Bush's "piratization."...
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 6:27pm PST
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