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Abortion, Executive Power to Play Central Role in Senators' Questioning of Alito
We play excerpts of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito who President Bush has tapped to replace Sandra Day O'Connor. During their opening statements, the 18 Senators on the Judiciary Committee repeatedly said Alito's views on abortion and executive power will play a central role in their questioning which will begin today. For his part Alito used his opening statement to paint himself not as a judicial radical but as a judge with no agenda....
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2006 7:21am PST
Racism and Injustice in Alabama's Courts
"Poor, Young, Black and Victimized" By J.L. CHESTNUT, Jr....
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2006 7:19am PST
Abbas: Jerusalem vote assured by US
Mahmoud Abbas says the US government has assured him that voting in a 25 January legislative poll would be allowed in East Jerusalem, despite Israel's objection to Hamas participating....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 10:28pm PST
US media sheds crocodile tears for West Virginia miners
The US media coverage of the West Virginia mine disaster has been a spectacle of ignorance, condescension and chasing higher circulation. Unburdened with any serious knowledge of the lives of coal miners or their history, scores of highly paid, highly coiffed journalists from the cable and network news channels and print media produced little but the most superficial explanations of the tragedy and its background....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 10:27pm PST
Everyone Wants a Piece of Martin Luther King Jr.
Left, right or center, leaders of all political persuasions have sought to profit from the storied legacy of the great civil rights leader....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 10:23pm PST
Who Reads in America?
While many educators bemoan the decline of literacy in America, one writer says you can still find plenty of readers in the private corners and cracks of society....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 9:32pm PST
First Tribal Permit Used in Montana's Yellowstone Bison Hunt
GARDINER, MONTANA. In spite of continuous national public outcry calling for Montana to cancel its controversial bison hunt, the state's zero-tolerance policy against the country's last wild bison continues. Two more bull bison were killed in Gardiner on Saturday, just outside the boundary of Yellowstone National Park. The shooters included a man from Belgrade and a man from the Little Shell Tribe....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 9:17pm PST
About Mail and Books for Daniel McGowan
So, here's a new and hopefully more thorough list of
what to do and not to do when writing Daniel.
Please read every single one of these, as he just got
7 mail violations in one day!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 5:12pm PST
Atlanta High School's Vegetarian-only Lunch Line Is a Hit with Students
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Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 1:12pm PST
Democracy Now Alito Coverage
Abortion, Presidential Power and Civil rights: A Debate on the Nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 12:02pm PST
Jesse Jackson on Samuel Alito, Domestic Spying and Poverty in America
Sunday marked the start of the Rainbow/Push coalition's economic summit in New York City. We speak with the group's founder, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, about Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, the government response to Hurricane Katrina, Ariel Sharon and more....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 11:59am PST
Mine safety cuts hindered West Virginia rescue
Just as families in several West Virginia mining communities began burying the 12 miners killed in last Monday’s explosion at the Sago Mine, evidence is mounting that many of the men might have been saved if rescue efforts had not been delayed due to a shortage of manpower and the lack of the modern rescue equipment. Years of budget cuts at the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) have severely undermined the capacity of rescuers to promptly reach trapped miners, although a matter of ...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 8:25am PST
Kembrew McLeod Guest on Media Matters
Today's program focuses on Copyright Laws and the Public Domain....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 12:35pm PST
BTL:New Orleans Homeowners Coalition Stops House Demolitions in Court
Interview with Bill Quigley, attorney representing New Orleans homeowners, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 8:56am PST
Bay To Gulf People's Pipeline (video/quicktime 23.3MB)
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi asked to fill the leadership vacuum in Washington, D.C., and mobilize the nation to save people's homes in New Orleans from the bulldozers.
I. What can people in the Bay do?
Four-minute QT movie. 23MB....
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 6:52am PST
The Terrorist Worker
The New York subway strike of 2005 can be summed up by a phrase, “black workers are Evil Doers.”...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 1:12pm PST
18-year-old shot by Border Patrol
Killing fuels Mexican anger over US immigration policy...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:04am PST
IBM to freeze pension plan in 2008
In the latest attack on retiree benefits for US workers, technology giant International Business Machines (IBM) announced Thursday, January 5 that it will stop contributing to its traditional pension plan in 2008....
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:03am PST
Gary Freeman's Struggle: A Black Radical from the 1960s Fights Extradition to the US
By JOE ALLEN...
Posted: Sat, Jan 7, 2006 9:02am PST