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Editorial: Clamming up on the Ujaama case
We've worried before about the Bush administration's belief that it can detain an American citizen indefinitely simply by designating him a material witness or "enemy combatant" (the latter argument was offered, for example, in the case of Yaser Hamdi). Because whatever Ujaama may have done, he still retains his rights. Or at least we hope he does. Because if he doesn't, then neither do we....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 10:51am PDT
8/15 Assembly For People's Plan For The Mission District
Help fight gentrification! People's Plan proposes an alternative vision for the Mission District......
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 10:48am PDT
Editorial: Clamming up on the Ujaama case
We've worried before about the Bush administration's belief that it can detain an American citizen indefinitely simply by designating him a material witness or "enemy combatant" (the latter argument was offered, for example, in the case of Yaser Hamdi). Because whatever Ujaama may have done, he still retains his rights. Or at least we hope he does. Because if he doesn't, then neither do we....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 10:48am PDT
PBNBerkeley NOTICE - 7/26/02
Publishing, re-publishing and compiling community news and events promoting peace....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 10:32am PDT
V. SF Day Laborers Fight Back! (video/quicktime 3.3MB)
Ana Maria Loya and Marcia Perez spoke out (1.8min/3.3MB and 1.5min/2.6MB respectively) at the July 15th rally protesting Mayor Willie Brown's threat to cut SF Day Labor Program funds. Also, a third slideshow: 1.3min / 1.2MB...
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 10:14am PDT
Watched Society soon becomes a criminalsociety....
From the book "The Dictocrats" Our unelected Rulers" by Omar V. Garrison....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 10:12am PDT
Immigrants from former Soviet Union behind racist acts
Russian Israeli immigrant's hatred of Jews getting worse....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 10:06am PDT
Immigrants from former Soviet Union behind racist acts
Russian Israeli immigrant's hatred of Jews getting worse....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 10:05am PDT
San Francisco ILWU rally
A surprise speaker (can't hardly call him a "guest" speaker) at the ILWU rally challenging the Pacifica Maritime Asso. July 24th at Calif.&Kearney. 25 sec. preview (.7MB) version; & full length version: 5 min. (9.5MB). Bigger versions on my web site....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 9:25am PDT
Forbidden Truth:Mainstream Media Sellout
That Washington's media elite appears to be anesthetized to Bush's current drive to turning the United States into some mirror image of East Germany, China, or Pinochet's Chile cannot be overstated....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 8:42am PDT
Forbidden Truth:Mainstream Media Sellout
That Washington's media elite appears to be anesthetized to Bush's current drive to turning the United States into some mirror image of East Germany, China, or Pinochet's Chile cannot be overstated....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 8:41am PDT
AFL-CIO to Wall Street: No more business as usual
George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney faced sharp new questions about their role in Enron-style corporate fraud as the stock market continued to plummet and WorldCom went belly-up July 22, the largest corporate bankruptcy in history....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 7:53am PDT
Coup-making in Venezuela: the Bush and oil factors
As efforts to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez intensify, two facts are inescapable: the power elite in the United States has never been happy with democratically-elected Chávez, but it took the Bush administration, with its corporate oil and energy connections, to turn up the heat against him....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 7:46am PDT
Bill in Congress allows music industry to sabotage everyone's computers - including yours
Rep. Howard L. Berman, D-Calif., formally proposed legislation that would give the industry unprecedented new authority to secretly hack into consumers' computers or knock them off-line entirely. Berman is the leading entertainment industry whore, receiving more contributions from them than any other member of Congress. The head of the Recording Industry Association of America, Hilary Rosen, called the Berman bill an "innovative approach to combating the serious problem of Internet pirac...
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 4:40am PDT
Protest General Myers in SF 7/31!!!
General Myers will be speaking to the Commonwealth Club at the Fairmont Hotel, Wednesday, July 31st. Time to protest and educate the media and public about him and his supporting role in 9-11 and the subsequent spurt in military spending, implementation of military repression within the U.S....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 12:07am PDT
The politics of murder
Pressed as to why the U.S. has not done so after twenty two months in which barely a day has passed without U.S. weapons being used to add to the mounting list of Palestinian victims in the Occupied Territories, Boucher said:
"All we've ever really answered in response to these questions is to note that we have not made such a report, and should we do so we'll tell you. At this point we haven't."...
Posted: Thu, Jul 25, 2002 11:11pm PDT
San Francisco ILWU rally
Seven hundred supporters of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union rallied in front of the Pacific Maritime Association's office in San Francisco's Financial District Wednesday at noon. Contract negotiations have stalled....
Posted: Thu, Jul 25, 2002 10:25pm PDT
IAP Action Alert
SPEAK OUT AGAINST ISRAELI TERRORISM:
CONTACT THE US PRESIDENT AND CALL CONGRESS TODAY!!!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 25, 2002 9:39pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 7/26/02 ¡Listen Globally!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.4MB) and quick download (3.4MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. China, Cuba, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Russia...
Posted: Thu, Jul 25, 2002 8:36pm PDT