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Buffalo Field Campaign - Update from the Field - 02/01/06 By the time the Stephens Creek capture facility, located one mile inside Yellowstone National Park, is empty nearly 1,000 sacred buffalo will be dead. We all bear a share of responsibility for this because our federal tax dollars are footing the bill....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 10:21pm PST
URGENT! TAKE ACTION FOR BIG MOUNTAIN TODAY STOP FORCED RELOCATION ON BIG MOUNTAIN, BLACK MESA, AZ. TARGETED NAVAJO
COMMUNITIES SAY THAT NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION!...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 10:21pm PST
Safeway forms committee on humane practices after lobbying by PETA In a move described by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals as "groundbreaking," officials of Safeway Inc. have agreed to form a committee to look into some animal welfare issues....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 5:57pm PST
March 14-19, Veterans' and Survivors' March from Mobile to New Orleans Walkin' to New Orleans
Veterans' and Survivors' March from Mobile to New Orleans
March 14-19, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 4:14pm PST
Steve Kubby denied EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW compared to Vice President Dick Cheney! 
Steve Kubby still denied Constitutional right to Equal Protection Under The Law to not be persecuted and punished for using substances and products equally dangerous or less dangerous than Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting rifle....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 8:36am PST
Cynthia McKinney Blasts Government For Creating “New Underclass of Katrina Homeless" The House select committee examining the federal response to Hurricane Katrina recently released a 600-page report criticizing all levels of government for the disaster. Democrats had refused to be involved in the committee officially, but a few participated informally and released their own supplementary reports. We speak with Georgia Congressmember Cynthia McKinney, one of the participating Democrats....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 7:53am PST
Are New Orleans Evacuees Being Denied the Right to Vote? We look at how Hurricane Katrina is affecting the political power of New Orleans residents. Upcoming local elections will include a race for mayor with only one black candidate – incumbent Ray Nagin. Lawyers have filed a lawsuit alleging Louisiana’s emergency election plan will disenfranchise thousands of displaced voters, the majority of whom are African-American....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 7:52am PST
ACLU Says Critical Changes to Patriot Act Still Needed call today...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 1:31pm PST
NOW Urges Wal-Mart to Expand Emergency Contraception Access Currently Wal-Mart does not dispense emergency contraception (also known as Plan B or the "morning after pill") in any state other than Illinois, where it is required to do so by law....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 1:05pm PST
Economic Hit Man John Perkins: “We Have Created the World’s First Truly Global Empire” John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," joins us in our firehouse studio to talk about his former work going into various countries to try to strongarm leaders into creating policy favorable to the U.S government and corporations. Perkins describes himself as an economic hit man....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 7:33am PST
Phyllis Bennis On The Third Anniversary of Global Protest Against Iraq War Today marks the third anniversary of the February 15th global anti-war protest, the day tens of millions of people took to the streets in some 600 cities around the world to protest the Bush Administration’s plans to invade Iraq. Author Phyllis Bennis talks about how the anti-war movement has evolved into a major force for global change....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 7:32am PST
As Cheney Victim Suffers Heart Attack, Questions Raised About Secrecy and Cronyism Harry Whittington, the Austin lawyer and Republican fundraiser V.P. Dick Cheney shot during a hunting trip, has suffered a heart attack. The incident has embarrassed the White House and made headlines around the world, among them: "We are all Harry Whittington.” The Bush administration has come under criticism for its long delay in informing the public on both the incident and Whittington’s condition. The incident has also raised new questions about cronyism and lobbying at the White Hou...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 7:31am PST
Mass. Wal-Mart Must Stock Emergency Pill The state pharmacy board ordered Wal-Mart on Tuesday to stock emergency contraception pills at its stores in Massachusetts....
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 11:32pm PST
Bush appointees censor scientists at government agencies Last month, James E. Hansen, a senior scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), accused appointees of the Bush administration in the agency’s public affairs department of attempting to prevent him from publicly discussing the role of fossil fuel emissions in climate change....
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 11:23pm PST
New Orleans Justice System Scrutinized Two criminal court judges have opened investigations into whether indigent
suspects are adequately represented....
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 11:20pm PST
Judge Lets FEMA Evict 12,000 Families at Hotels A restraining order to halt the evacuees' removal is denied and the second wave of ejections begins, in some cases under guard....
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2006 11:17pm PST
Happy Contraceptive Awareness Week! Support The Prevention First Bill In recognition of National Contraceptive Awareness Week, Feb. 13-19, 2006, please urge your Senators and Representatives to sponsor legislation to promote improved family planning and health care for women and families....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 11:09pm PST
"Have a Heart" Katrina Evacuee Press Conference TUESDAY "Have a Heart" Katrina Evacuee Press Conference
February 14th, Valentine's Day 4:00pm...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 10:32pm PST
YELLOWSTONE BUFFALO SLAUGHTER NEARS 800 GARDINER, MONTANA. On Friday, February 10, the National Park Service (NPS) captured 193 buffalo inside Yellowstone National Park and plans to slaughter them all, bringing the number captured in the last month to 865 and the number killed to 779. 86 calves were sent to the Corwin Springs quarantine facility earlier this year....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 1:35pm PST
"I am a Renegade, an Outlaw, a Pagan" - Author, Poet and Activist Alice Walker in Her Own February is African-American History Month. To honor it, we bring you a conversation with the renowned author, poet and activist Alice Walker. She is perhaps best known for her book "The Color Purple" for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983, becoming the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer for fiction. The novel was adapted into an Oscar-nominated feature length film and has been recently made into a Broadway musical. Alice Walker's latest novel is "Now is the...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 7:47am PST
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