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SEATTLE - Ian Spiers had just hours to finish an assignment for his photography class. He was taking shots of a railroad bridge near the Ballard Locks when an officer with a German shepherd approached him, asked him what he was doing and requested some ID....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 11:51am PDT
The outrage of the fascist tactics of the stinking, rotten Democratic Party in keeping socialist, Greeen and the Nader-Camejo ticket off ballots has now reached Illinois, proving again that the only reason the Democratic Party exists is to keep the Reds and Greens out of office so as to perpetuate capitalism and the exploitation of the workingclass....
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 8:32pm PDT
Martha Stewart sentenced to five months in federal prison....
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 5:10pm PDT
Unlike the NYU decision, which was unanimous, this decision broke along partisan lines with the 3 Republican appointees expressing the majority opinion and the 2 Democratic appointees forcefully dissenting....
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 2:22pm PDT
Senator Barbara Mikulski, whose sexual orientation is unknown, voted wrong in 1996, but redeemed herself in 2004....
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 10:26am PDT
Images of the fight for the restoration of democracy in Haiti. After the U.S. led ouster of elected Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitians in New York and other defenders of democratic rule in Haiti unite. These photographs document their ongoing struggle....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 6:33pm PDT
With the first auction of the Biscuit Sales (the largest logging project in the modern history of the Forest Service) set for Friday July 16th, it is Now or Never for Oregon's Wild Siskiyous!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 4:56pm PDT
The Vietnam war was stopped by the very GIs who were ordered to fight it...
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 11:43am PDT
Nearly 900 U.S. troops killed, more than 16,000 ill and injured. Some 9,000-11,000 Iraqis killed and an estimated 40,000 injured. The bill to U.S. taxpayers: $151 billion and counting.
These cold numbers are just the tip of the iceberg in a stunning new accounting of the devastating price we are paying for the Iraq war....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 8:14am PDT
So Peter Townshend, a Vietnam era rocker, supported the war. Hmmm? I didn't support the war. You didn't support the war. Millions around the globe didn't support the war, but he did. And now he rails against Michael Moore? Give me a break....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 8:13pm PDT
By Edward Campbell TUCSON, July 14—Fox News infotainment shock jock Scott Norvell commented on an article he never researched. Without contacting me, the Pentagon or the CNRRC he comes to the conclusion that naming a web server "Gestapo" merely suggests that one is a "geek" and not a white supremacist in an article published on FoxNews.com July 12....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 7:29pm PDT
Steven Kurtz of Critical Art Ensemble still may face 20 year sentence...
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 1:58pm PDT
U.S. Senate has indirectly rejected the anti-gay-marriage amendment, in a procedural vote, on Bastille Day. Details later....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 10:10am PDT
Despite the Boston Police Department’s stated commitment to protect people’s
First Amendment rights during the DNC, the BPD has, in conjunction with other
law enforcement officers in New York City, started a campaign of preemptive
action that could chill protest participants' lawful speech activities during
the Democratic National Convention (DNC)....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 9:45am PDT
Kucinich: "...it may not be exactly what I want, which is a withdrawal, and I'm going to keep continuing to speak for withdrawal."...
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 9:36am PDT
In this one instance, when we asked for the following language:
"[W]e must announce our intention to set a date for the withdrawal of our military forces,"
we were instead given
"[T]he U.S. will be able to reduce its military presence in Iraq, and we intend to do this when appropriate so that the military support needed by a sovereign Iraqi government will no longer be seen as the direct continuation of an American military presence."...
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 9:32am PDT
Supporters of presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, still campaigning despite Kerry's evident victory, said the language was not what they had wanted but called it a victory. They agreed to withdraw amendments to the platform on Iraq in exchange for the new language.
``What we got was a commitment to begin the process to talk about bringing the troops home......
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 9:30am PDT
We run and walk to bring focus not only on the horror of
nuclear weapons but the damage caused to the Earth by the
production not only of these weapons but also by the use of
nuclear energy....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 5:30am PDT
Senate Republicans prepared two versions of a constitutional amendment on marriage Monday, unable to agree among themselves on how best to get a vote on a measure that President Bush made an election-year priority for Congress....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:44am PDT
Fahrenheit 9/11 - A Marxist Review...
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 9:46pm PDT


