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Communities United Against Police Brutality Newsletter Phyllis Walker, president of AFSCME Local 3800, was served with a summons
for obstructing legal process in connection with the police brutality
incident at the General College rally and sit-in on May 4....
and more...
Posted: Sun, Jun 19, 2005 11:51am PDT
KPFA hosts Pacifica National Board (video/quicktime 12.5MB) Go to
http://kpfa.org/lsb/
to listen online. Public comment is supposed to start at 2pm today: Sunday, June 19th. Before that the agenda
http://pacifica.org/about/pnb/meeting.php?mtg_id=150&
calls for an executive session.
See highlights of the Wednesday, June 15th, demo at
http://www.johnsheridanart.com/pacifica_6-15-05.htm
Three-minute QT movie. 13MB....
Posted: Sun, Jun 19, 2005 11:27am PDT
Biscuit Camp Update To all of y’all who are avidly keeping track of the tremendous Biscuit campaign:...
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 6:45pm PDT
Conyers Criticizes The Washington Post's Dana Milbank Over Reporting Of Downing St Memos Mr. Michael Abramowitz, National Editor; Mr. Michael Getler, Ombudsman; Mr. Dana Milbank; The Washington Post, 1150 15th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20071...
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 4:46pm PDT
Justifying the Silence on Downing Street Memos One of the features of the newfound media interest in the Downing Street Memo is a profound defensiveness, as reporters scramble to explain why it received so little attention in the U.S. press. But the most familiar line--the memo wasn't news because it contained no "new" information--only raises troubling questions about what journalists were doing when they should have been reporting on the gulf between official White House pronouncements and actual White House intentions....
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 4:36pm PDT
Relatives of some troops killed in Iraq seek hearings on Downing Street memo “I envy the parents who support this war, because if I did I’d sleep better,” said Dianne Davis Santorello, a Pennsylvania resident whose son was killed in August 2004. “But I don’t sleep well. My son died for a lie.”...
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 12:05pm PDT
Who’s to blame for the deplorable and abusive medical care in California prisons? by Corey Weinstein, MD, CCHP...
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:27am PDT
GM slashes, workers bleed The heartland of America skipped a beat June 6 when Rick Wagoner, chairman and CEO of General Motors, announced plans to eliminate 25,000 jobs. A few days later the corporation gave the United Auto Workers until the end of the month to accept savage cutbacks in health benefits for 1.1 million active and retired workers and their families....
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:23am PDT
Bush aide who doctored global warming documents joins ExxonMobil A Bush aide who reportedly altered government climate reports to favor the interests of the oil industry has resigned from the administration to take a job at ExxonMobil, the world’s largest energy company and most fervent opponent of carbon emissions regulations. For the aide, Philip Cooney, the move completes a cycle in which he has served the interests of the oil giants both in and out of government....
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:19am PDT
Public defense system crisis denies justice to poor in US courts Approximately 5 million people who cannot afford legal representation are processed through US courts each year as indigent defendants—accused persons too poor to hire their own lawyers—and are provided public attorneys. About 75 percent of current US prison inmates were represented by court-appointed public lawyers, while two-thirds of felony defendants are indigent. At both the federal and state level, indigent defendants are found guilty at a much higher rate than defendants who are able t...
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:18am PDT
EFF Publishes Legal Guide for Bloggers Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes
publish information that other people don't want published.
You might, for example, publish something that someone
considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that's
under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the
alleged crimes of a candidate for public office....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 1:44pm PDT
Animal activist with no medical insurance needs financial assistance DawnWatch: Seattle article on Ben White -- terrific activist who needs medical bill assistance 6/16/05...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 11:55am PDT
Center for Consumer Freedom attacks PETA once again More "consumer freedom" crap attacking PETA and distracting from the CCFs' true goals of protecting the profits of their big business backers......
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 10:48am PDT
CAIR-CA: FOIA Request Filed Over Lodi ‘Harassment' SACRAMENTO - Prompted by reports from the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Sacramento Valley (CAIR-SV) and the Muslim community, civil rights groups are filing a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) seeking FBI records of the procedures and policies used during the questioning and detention of dozens of Muslims in the Central Valley town of Lodi. Lodi has become the center of a FBI investigation that has led to the arrests of five Muslims, two of whom are U.S. citizens. They were...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 9:48am PDT
PBS TV President Warns CPB Funding Cuts Will Cause Spiral of Death for Public Broadcasting On Thursday, the House Appropriations Committee voted to drastically cut funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We host a roundtable discussion on the continuing fight over public broadcasting in this country with the presidents of two PBS stations as well as Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 9:18am PDT
PHOTOS: At Philly City Hall for Mumia! 
On Thursday, June 16, supporters of journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal gathered outside Philadelphia City Hall in response to a recent decision by Judge Pamela Dembe which prohibits him from entering in 2 new pieces of evidence. That day, members of the Ossining, NY chapter of the NAACP and others visited both Mayor Street’s and Pamela Dembe’s office in downtown Philadelphia. Others conducted a “Honk for Mumia” outside of City Hall as the day’s traffic passed....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 7:29am PDT
Boje (reefer refugee) decision Renee Boje, who is married to a Canadian citizen and is the mother of a
Canadian son, is being sent back to US authorities to serve a ten year
mandatory minimum to life sentence for her involvement in a medical
marijuana growing operation in California, shortly after the state of
California legalized marijuana for medical purposes....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:13pm PDT
Spank or Thank Your Member of Congress On June 15, 2005, following the Supreme Court's recent decision in Raich,
which urged Congressional leadership on medical marijuana, the U.S. House of
Representatives failed to pass an amendment that would have prohibited DEA
and other agents of the Department of Justice from raiding and prosecuting
medical marijuana patients and their caregivers in states with medical
marijuana laws....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:07pm PDT
VerifiedVoting.org to Brief Senators on Verifiable Elections On Tuesday, June 21, the Senate Rules
Committee is scheduled to hear testimony on publicly
verifiable elections from VerifiedVoting.org Founder David
Dill....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:05pm PDT
Watch "Downing Street" Hearing LIVE - RIGHT NOW!! Here is the link to C-Span's LIVE coverage of the "Downing Street" Hearing. Please forward to family, friends, and the media....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 12:21pm PDT
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