Newsitem List
1125 of 1264
No on Y Meeting Tonight
No on Y Meeting, 743 Warfield Avenue, 8:30-10pm, Tuesday, Oct. 12...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 9:33am PDT
No on Y: Debate Today!
Former Councilmember Wilson Riles Jr., Debates Police Chief Richard Word on Measure Y, November ballot Initiative that puts funding police ahead of funding program for town hall meeting of Voter Education and Solidarity.
WHEN:
Tuesday, October 12th, 6PM- 8PM
WHERE:
Sweet Jimies Entertainment Center, 1730 San Pablo Ave....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 8:39am PDT
U.S. Treatment of Detainees Defies Intl. Law - Group
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States is violating international law by holding prisoners in its war on terror incommunicado and in secret hiding places, Human Rights Watch said in a report to be published on Tuesday calling for an end to such practices.
The New York-based rights organization profiles 11 al Qaeda suspects being detained without concern for their rights under international law in a 46-page report....
Posted: Mon, Oct 11, 2004 9:18pm PDT
Measure Y Debate Tuesday, 6PM
Former Councilmember Wilson Riles Jr., Debates Police Chief Richard Word on Measure Y, November ballot Initiative that puts funding police ahead of funding program for town hall meeting of Voter Education and Solidarity.
WHEN:
Tuesday, October 12th, 6PM- 8PM
WHERE:
Sweet Jimies Entertainment Center, 1730 San Pablo Ave....
Posted: Mon, Oct 11, 2004 1:24pm PDT
What are You doing in the Hall
One Black youth speaks out against Proposition Y and the march toward a whiter, richer more militarized Oakland...
Posted: Sun, Oct 10, 2004 11:47am PDT
Police Harass Ceres Food Not Bombs
Police harassment of Ceres Food Not Bombs, as they protest police abuse of homeless and poor in Ceres....
Posted: Sat, Oct 9, 2004 5:42pm PDT
National ID Update: The Second Bill Passes
an urgent National ID Update...
Posted: Sat, Oct 9, 2004 2:09pm PDT
Civil Liberties Update
1) DHS Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: Legislative Update
2) ICE Says Special Registration Not Over
3) DHS and FBI Launch "October Plan"...
Posted: Sat, Oct 9, 2004 12:16am PDT
Faulty 'No-Fly' System Detailed
The federal government's 'no-fly' list had 16 names on it on Sept. 11, 2001. Today, it has more than 20,000.
The list, which identifies suspected terrorists seeking to board commercial airplanes, expanded rapidly even though the government knew that travelers were being mistakenly flagged, according to federal records. The records detail how government officials expressed little interest in tracking or resolving cases in which passenger names were confused with the growing number of names ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 10:51pm PDT
NYT Reporter To Be Jailed For Not Outing CIA Agent While Robert Novak Faces No Charges
New York Times reporter Judith Miller faces jail for refusing to testify.
Ms Miller, who gathered material for a story but never wrote one, was held in contempt by a judge in Washington....
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 9:42pm PDT
Sproul Savio speech on car memorial
Here are my pictures from the Free Speech movement 40th anniversary event of the climaxing moment in 1964 when the administration ordered math graduate student Jack Weinberg to be arrested at noon on Sproul plaza, and several thousand regular students surrounded the car and listened to cool speeches by Mario Savio and others....
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 5:00pm PDT
recent unreported bio attacks in south bay?
Looking for information on a rumor of up to 3 separate bio/chem weapon releases in the Bay Area recently...
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 1:24pm PDT
The FBI Is Waging War On Americans
The FBI has been waging war on Americans for decades. Occasionally their illegal and unconstitutional activities have been curtailed by congress and the courts. Now that there is no separation of powers, the FBI and it's anti-American Attorney General, John Ashcroft, have pulled out the stops and are escalating their offensive....
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 7:05am PDT
Police Chief and Former Mayoral Candidate to Debate Measure Y
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wilson Riles Jr. of "No on Measure Y" Campaign Debates Oakland Police Chief at Local School on Misleading November Ballot Initiative – Measure Y...
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 6:45am PDT
Guantanamo: Caged Prisoners
Cageprisoners.com is a web-site that exists solely to raise awareness of the plight of the cage prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, through effective legal means....
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 10:12pm PDT
10/13: John Ashcroft in San Jose
Attorney General John Ashcroft will be in San Jose on Wednesday,
October
13 for a luncheon with SIIA, a software trade association. The event
will take place at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel, 170 South Market
Street,
San Jose, starting at noon....
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 6:07pm PDT
ACT NOW--NEW PATRIOT ACT
Act today -- House is voting on H.R. 10, trying to sneak in "PATRIOT Act II" powers under the guise of responding to the 9/11 Commission (which didn't endorse this legislation)....
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 2:38pm PDT
Latest Revelations on next "9-11"
She has figured out the next major 9-11 style attack will be on Novemeber
1st or 5th with nukes in various locations (although there is also a
possibility of a "rush" job on October 8...
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 1:46pm PDT