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Can queer Republicans stomach Bush?
Log Cabin Republicans should boycott Bush and consider voting for the Libertarian Party....
Posted: Mon, Aug 30, 2004 9:29am PDT
NY Demonstration to RNC: "GOP, Bush, Ho Home!"
"Go Home!" chanted the huge crowd at NY demonstration against the RNC...
Posted: Sun, Aug 29, 2004 1:12pm PDT
Online occupation of the White House today
See below for more:...
Posted: Sun, Aug 29, 2004 7:39am PDT
Anti-Repression Contingent at 8/29 Demo in NYC
The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation has joined with the Blue Triangle Network to have an anti-Repression contingent in the August 29th march....
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 11:23pm PDT
Not in Our Name Update for 8/29
1. "NO to the Bush Agenda" Not in Our Name kick-off rally.
Sunday, August 29. 10 am. Union Square, New York City
2. History demands that we see each other in the park!
Sunday, August 29--when the whole world will be watching....
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 11:17pm PDT
8/29: People's Picnic on Central Park's Great Lawn
Join us for a "People's Picnic"? in Central Park's Great Lawn
directly following the UFPJ march!
Central Park is Manhattan's town commons! It belongs to all the people
of this city!...
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 11:06pm PDT
The Global Women's Strike to the RNC: Invest in Caring not Killing
Our multi-racial, anti-racist delegation of mothers, grand-mothers, welfare recipients, women with disabilities, lesbian/ gay people, & other activists, women & men, are in NYC for the protests around the RNC....
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 7:42pm PDT
Abu Ghraib Reports Implicate Rumsfeld and the High Command
A short article about the Abu Ghraib reports....
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 7:27pm PDT
Photos: NYC - Starbucks labor Rally
Amidst heavy police presence 5-600 people rallied outside the Starbucks on 36th & Madison in Manhatten. Two of the main organizers of the rally were areested....
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 3:16pm PDT
Palestinian Prisoners Brave on
Palestinian prisoners are on a Hunger Strike for recognition of prison torture equal to or worse than in Iraq...
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 11:10am PDT
Grand Jury Resister Jailed
Animal Advocate Jailed for Standing Up to Abuse by the Federal Grand Jury Process...
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 10:41am PDT
For those about to rock...
forke sez: Exactly what is now happening in NYC. It’s amazing. While they try to provoke people into going negative against people who have no intention or interest in being violent, the media and the Rove gang continue to feed the pessimists planted throughout the Kerry grassroots and probably even campaign staff. The idea is to make everyone feel that Kerry has lost his luster and whining and sniping him is what every angry Democrat really wants to do anyway. And if they do, then the Repub...
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 1:46am PDT
No Justice! No Peace! Help the Police
The Republican National Convention that will begin Monday in New York City has stirred up the expected buzz in the various parties gearing up for the event. From the hundreds of thousands who will flow into New York to protest one hears a variety of intentions "We're going to Central Park whether we get a permit or not!". From of the corporate press, "Hard-core anarchists plan to release live
mice on Broadway". Thanks to them the discussion has once again been reduced fro...
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 1:32am PDT
Poll: Majority of Women Do Not Feel Understood by Bush or Kerry
A survey conducted by Lifetime Television in July found that fewer than 10 percent of women feel that either President Bush or Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry understands them well. Broken down by candidate, 51 percent of the women polled said that Bush understands them not well or not at all, and 39 percent said the same about Kerry, reports KRON4.com...
Posted: Fri, Aug 27, 2004 10:48pm PDT
New Overtime Laws Devastating to Middle- and Lower-Income Americans
"Today, over 6 million working Americans will begin to feel the effects of the Bush administration's latest American holiday—'Wal-Mart Appreciation Day,'" said NOW President Kim Gandy, who joined Senators Tom Harkin and Arlen Specter, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, and hundreds of union employees in a joint press conference this afternoon outside of the Department of Labor....
Posted: Fri, Aug 27, 2004 10:45pm PDT
New York Judge Strikes Down Unconstitutional Federal Abortion Ban
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) applauded the ruling issued today in National Abortion Federation (NAF) v. Ashcroft, a lawsuit challenging the federal abortion ban passed by Congress last October and signed by President Bush....
Posted: Fri, Aug 27, 2004 10:43pm PDT
Ballot Access: Unsafe in Any State
Bush has moved past Kerry in the battleground states of Ohio, Missouri, and Wisconsin, in part because Kerry is "attracting only about four-fifths or fewer of the voters in the three states who said they want a new course." And what do the Democrats do? Crank up the Anybody But Nader campaign! In Butler, Board of Elections Deputy Director Betty McGary, a Democrat, and Board of Elections Director Robert Mosketti, a Republican, collaborated with each other to disqualify 95% [!] of ...
Posted: Fri, Aug 27, 2004 8:01pm PDT