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"Human rights group Amnesty International has called for the US to charge or release all of the prisoners held at its base at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay."...
Posted: Sat, Jan 11, 2003 11:00am PST
bring to the awareness of SF-IMC readers ... Moussaoui: FBI Planted Tracking Device. ...
would it be fair for sfindy to spread it to its readers by placing this news on the front page of SF indy home page?????? First Amendment...
Posted: Fri, Jan 10, 2003 9:15pm PST
BBC Coverage of INS Detentions and SF Protests...
Posted: Fri, Jan 10, 2003 9:45am PST
At least 77 police officers have been under investigation for alleged brutality, and three police chiefs have been moved to other jobs....
Posted: Wed, Jan 8, 2003 9:32am PST
... you know the government doesnt give a shit about smoking. What they want is to impose Giuliani-style quality of life laws which drive out the poor and replace them with Starbucks-ready shoppers. Below is a report seen on Copwatch mailing list....
Posted: Wed, Jan 8, 2003 12:12am PST
Long, disjointed rant about the US Police State, vile Bush Regime., and the evils of Bad Pork burritos....
Posted: Tue, Jan 7, 2003 4:51pm PST
"The officer shot him, just blew his head off"...
Posted: Sun, Jan 5, 2003 2:13am PST
Two thousand landless families in Guarulhos, Brazil are facing the risk of
eviction on Monday morning. Your international solidarity may be decisive....
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 4:44pm PST
California has a $21 billion deficit and the good Democrat, Gov Gray Davis, wants to make the workingclass pay with budget cuts and hire fees. We need the loudest fightback possible against these attacks on the workingclass and to demand that most of the 33 prisons in California be closed, transferring the prison budget to the grossly underfunded education budget. Top priority must also be given to abolishing the death penalty....
Posted: Wed, Jan 1, 2003 9:07am PST
Thu December 26, 2002 07:38 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA interrogators have been using "stress and duress" techniques on captured enemies in Afghanistan that blur the line between legal and inhumane, the Washington Post reported Thursday....
Posted: Thu, Dec 26, 2002 2:17pm PST
US Muslim groups have launched a class action lawsuit against Attorney General John Ashcroft and federal immigration officials over the detention of hundreds of Muslim men....
Posted: Tue, Dec 24, 2002 5:37pm PST
What's next?
Photo essay: L.A. protests against detention of Iranians
Photos by Ramin Tabib and Dorna Khazeni
December 19, 2002
The Iranian...
Posted: Mon, Dec 23, 2002 10:35pm PST
Get involved, or perish...
Posted: Mon, Dec 23, 2002 10:31pm PST
SF based Iranian lawyer, Banafsheh Akhlaghi met with several of the Iranian detainees, whom she is representing, at the San Diego INS offices today (Sunday Dec. 22.) The interviews came after days of the detainees being held in isolation with no opportunities to speak with either their Akhlaghi or their families. The detainees reported severe human rights abuses, which were confirmed upon Akhlaghi's visit....
Posted: Mon, Dec 23, 2002 12:17am PST
Demonstrate FOR civil liberties to all and AGAINST police state detentions and roundups tomorrow (12/23) at the INS office in San Francisco....
Posted: Sun, Dec 22, 2002 9:40pm PST
This is the very informative ACLU 12/19/02 Press Release on the INS-Gestapo Terror against immigrants. Note the 5th paragraph where the INS dumps records, thus threatening the lives of immigrants. Please also note our tax dollars pay for this fascist terror. And, finally, note, it is first the immigrants, then everyone else. KPFA reported the INS hurled racist epithets at their victims. It will not be long before federal officials on the job hurl anti-Semitic, anti-black, anti-women and ...
Posted: Sat, Dec 21, 2002 1:48pm PST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of Iranian and other Middle East citizens were in southern California jails on Wednesday after coming forward to comply with a new rule to register with immigration authorities only to wind up handcuffed and behind bars....
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2002 12:54am PST
Please pass this alert along to friends and associates...
Posted: Wed, Dec 18, 2002 7:19pm PST
"THREE WISE MEN IN PLOT TO KILL JESUS."...
Posted: Tue, Dec 17, 2002 8:55pm PST