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Districting Divide and Conquer: CASTRO STREET
Senate redistricting splits Castro: Gays accuse Burton of smoothing
political path for Willie Brown...
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 5:06pm PDT
EVIL NEWS NETWORK SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY
CNN was approached with the offer to act as bin Laden's mouthpiece by a man connected with the al Qaeda terror squad. The deal was brokered by the bin Laden-friendly Al-Jazeera TV network....
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 4:17pm PDT
GOOD RIDDANCE TO THE HENCHMEN OF HORROR
Schmidt actually argued that his client hadn't meant to harm innocent civilians. He "only joined this conspiracy to kill soldiers," the lawyer said....
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 4:11pm PDT
LAMEST OF THE FAMOUS
THEY come off tough when defending the rights of farm animals not to be ground into veal. So where are the stars, now that humans need them?...
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 4:08pm PDT
A WONDERFUL DAY FOR A HANGING
Under the guidelines of the court, he could do little else because the jurors - who didn't want terrorists to turn into martyrs - decided against the death penalty....
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 4:02pm PDT
HOW TO WIN ANTI-TERRORIST FRIENDS? PAY BIG
Who cares about a few cowardly movie stars who are afraid to travel here, or worse, leave here on a plane? I'll personally drive you home to L.A. - just to get rid of you....
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 3:45pm PDT
FIREFIGHTER DAD WAS PERFECT 10
Frank Palombo, of Ladder Co. 105, was lost somewhere near the Marriott Hotel on that terrible day....
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 3:42pm PDT
WOMEN OFF FRONT LINES
"They will slowly be minimalized and marginalized," says the Pentagon official about the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services...
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 3:07pm PDT
Saddam moved chemical weapons
"The entire contents of their chemical weapons factories around Baghdad have been moving through the nights to specially built bunkers," he said....
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 3:04pm PDT
Afghani Civilian Toll: Abunimah on Al-Jazira
Abnumiah's website is carrying news from the famous Al-Jazira (or Al-Jazeera) satellite TV broadcasts, translated from the Arabic, which are received in the US via cable. See: http://www.abunimah.org/features/011021jazira.html...
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 12:26pm PDT
Bin Laden's Location Pinned Down
top intelligence officials in the administration concluded that they had pinned down Osama bin Laden's location to what one called a ``20-by-20 mile area'' in Afghanistan. But the area was so full of caves and tunnels that it was, in the words of one source, ``impossible to seal.''...
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 11:21am PDT
THE DEATH OF RACISM
To bring down a structure,to irrevocably destroy it,a clear understanding of its material base is required,and it is towards this foundation that the coupe de grace must be dealt.Any other strategy will merely be absorbed or deflected,the base remaining unaltered.This is how we must also approach racism....
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 11:03am PDT
15 nights of bombing Afghani civilians
More civilians were murdered by the US military during the 15th night of bombing Afghanistan. Pertinent quote from linked BBC article: "This pilot was like he was blind," said neighbour Haziz Ullah. "There are no military bases here - only innocent people." See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1612000/1612212.stm...
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 7:32am PDT
Labor and Environmental Groups Fight GOP-Spon
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Thea Lee, chief international economist with the AFL-CIO, who discusses the campaign to defeat Fast Track trade legislation now being considered in the House of Representatives....
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 4:51am PDT
YOU CAN STOP THE WAR: A MILLION VOICES
Preventionist Dupre' Wheeler of LIVE!, a Pacific Island Prevention of Violence Against Self and Others Programme and co-author of "Before Hitting Bottom" in which the 'War Against Drugs' myth is dispelled (available at djmckay@free2air.com.au) presents a petition urging IMMEDIATE UN Security Council Action to enact International Law, stop the violence and restore peace. Included are each UN representative contact details including FAX numbers PLUS Columbia Univ. and GSN EMAIL ADDRESSES to us...
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2001 1:29am PDT
Space Command Resisters Sentenced
News of the sentence pronounced against prayer-activists--the first group to go to trial against the USA in several years for working against star wars & globalization @ Vandenberg Air Force Base....
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 11:07pm PDT
CIA Told to Do 'Whatever Necessary' to Kill
When specific facilities or locations are threatened, as they have been repeatedly in the last month, the FBI informs local law enforcement authorities or foreign intelligence services that are supposed to increase security and take protective measures....
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 10:59pm PDT
Don't Go To Starbucks On November 26!
Rumor has it that al-Queda operatives have something special planned for Starbucks locations across the country on the first business day after Thanksgiving! Something very, very bad could happen so tell everybody you know to stay away from their local Starbucks!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 10:36pm PDT
10/20 Beautiful SF Peace March
On a beautiful fall day, October 20, 2001, thousands of people turned out for an energetic peace march from the foot of Market to the Civic Center, San Francisco's primary parade route. We were of all colors, sexual orientations and generations, from infant to over 80, with a wide variety of peace and anti-racist signs, including signs in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal....
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 9:31pm PDT