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No on Measure Y: Home Stretch
Here is a schedule of events for the last 3 weeks of
No on Measure Y: Healthy Communities, Not 63 More Cops
Events will likely be added, but these are definite:...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 6:00pm PDT
10/21: Families impacted by Police Shootings to Share Concerns
Families impacted by Police Shootings to Share Concerns
At the Justice Review Committee of the Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 4:33pm PDT
Know Your Rights Information 4 Arabs and Muslims in US
ADC would like to remind members of the Arab, Muslim, and Arab-American communities that equal protection and due process rights are afforded to everyone, including non-citizens, in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 4:29pm PDT
Detroit: North African Man Falsely Convicted for "Terrorism" Released
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Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 1:34pm PDT
10/21 and 10/22: Stop Police Brutality events
October 22nd is the national day of protest to stop police brutality, repression, and the criminalization of a generation. A lot of work against police brutality has been done in the San Jose area recently, since there were several killings by police this year, and there will be an event the evening of 10/21. As expected, there will also be an event in SF on Friday, but in a NEW LOCATION and at a new time. WEAR BLACK on October 22nd, even if you can't make it to the protest! Bring a cand...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 1:08am PDT
A strange and bitter crop: the spectacle of torture
Do the terrible images from Abu Ghraib represent break or continuity in American tradition? Hazel Carby excavates the history of lynching in the United States and finds disturbing parallels between Mississippi's past and Iraq's present...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 9:31pm PDT
CIA has 11 Al-Qaida suspects in Jordan facility
The Central Intelligence Agency runs a top secret interrogation facility in Jordan, where at least 11 detainees who are considered Al-Qaida's most senior cadre are being held, Haaretz has learned from international intelligence sources....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 8:43pm PDT
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