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An Imperial President? Bush Claims Right To Ignore New Law Banning Torture Five years after President Bush joked, "If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator,” we look at the growing controversy over presidential power and how it relates to many of today’s biggest stories: the Senate ban on torture, the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, domestic surveillance and the jailing of U.S. citizens as enemy combatants. Earlier this week three influential Republicans Senators condemned Bush for claiming h...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 8:36am PST
New Medicare Plan Keeps Seniors Guessing On January 1, 2006, the new Medicare prescription-drug program began. Many Black residents in New York City – especially the low-income, disabled and seniors – remain uncertain about how the law will affect them. Grappling with information, most of them are confused and swamped with questions about the registration process, which drug plan is best for them, and what's covered and what's not....
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 8:33am PST
BTL:One Year Delay in New York Times' Coverage of NSA Spying Scandal Exposes... ...Flaws in U.S. Corporate Media ~ Interview with Norman Solomon, author and columnist, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 6:07am PST
Emergency Action in SF Federal Building Fri 1pm- Stop Bulldozing 9th Ward in New Orleans Friday, January 6, 2006 at 1:00pm
Federal Building
450 Golden Gate Ave.
San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Jan 6, 2006 12:31am PST
Bush administration seeks dismissal of Guantánamo habeas corpus suits The Bush administration is seeking the dismissal of all habeas corpus lawsuits brought by detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp. On Tuesday, the Justice Department informed federal judges that they would be asked to dismiss more than 160 cases involving at least 300 Guantánamo detainees who are challenging the legality of their imprisonment....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 11:19pm PST
SF NORML 2006 Conference Announcement Please mark your calendar for April 20-22, 2006!
These are the dates for
NORML's
2006 annual conference in the great city of San
Francisco, California at the Holiday Inn Golden
Gateway....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 11:12pm PST
CUAPB Newsletter from 12/20 2/1: At long last, our community lawsuit is going to court. To remind you, this was the
lawsuit that was filed when it became clear that the city had hijacked the federal
mediation process. The purpose of the lawsuit has been to force policy and practice
changes within the Minneapolis police department....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 10:18pm PST
Minutement Target Day Laborers Day workers across the country will peacefully respond to coordinated vigilante actions organized by Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Control and local cells of the so-called “Minutemen.”...
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 10:13pm PST
BCA E-Alert January 2006 a collection of news, notices, and action alerts for people concerned about the
breast cancer epidemic. Welcome to any new e-alert members! If you think you've
been added by mistake, please follow the directions at the bottom of the email to
unsubscribe....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 10:09pm PST
Solidarity with Lower 9th Ward City bulldozes homes in Lower 9th without contacting owners. No support for rebuilding offered (no trash pickup, no electrical power, no roof tarping, etc.) while Army Corps of Engineers pays the bill for bulldozing....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 7:45pm PST
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update from the Field - 01/05/05 2006 began on a bitter note along Yellowstone's northern boundary. On New Years Day, in Gardiner, the 17th bull bison was killed in Montana's illegitimate bison hunt....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 2:19pm PST
Media New Year's Resolutions for 2006 
Norman Solomon, author of War Made Easy and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, tweaks some media bastions of contemporary hubris.
(links added as a suggestion by reposter)...
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 1:26pm PST
Were the Deaths of the 12 Coal Miners Preventable? A Look At the Sago Mine Last year, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration filed 200 alleged violations against the Sago mine. 46 citations were issued in the past three months - 18 of them were considered "serious and substantial." We speak with investigative reporter Ken Ward of the Charleston Gazette (WV) who closely monitors the mining industry....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 8:11am PST
Why the War is Sexist (And Why We Can't Ignore Gender Any More)
By HUIBIN AMEE CHEW...
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 7:57am PST
Top Republican lobbyist turns state’s evidence in Washington corruption scandal Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff pled guilty Tuesday to charges of fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials, setting the stage for a wide-ranging exposure of corporate corruption and influence-peddling in Washington. Abramoff signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in which he promised to testify against the congressmen, congressional aides and executive branch officials who received his cash and favors....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 7:45am PST
Big Mountain, Black Mesa Struggle Continues/Spring Caravan from the Bay & NCoast RIGHT NOW there is an amendment on the congressional floor that sets a new
timetable for the forced relocation of a number of indigenous Navajo families on
Black Mesa. This bill, S1003, comes at a time when the world's largest coal
company, Peabody Coal, prepares not only to continue, but in fact to
expand its strip mining of American Indian lands.
# This spring a caravan will be traveling to Black Mesa from Northern
California and the San Francisco Bay Area....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 12:27am PST
January 5, 2006 is National Bird Day A project of the Animal Protection Institute and the Avian Welfare
Coalition, National Bird Day "is a day to appreciate our own native
wild birds flying free outside our windows, and a day to reflect on
how we treat the native birds of other countries....
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 11:44pm PST
3/13-17th: National Week of Campus Action Against the War NATIONAL WEEK OF CAMPUS ACTION
Week of March 13-17
Students Say NO to War in Iraq!
College Not Combat, Troops Out Now!...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 11:38pm PST
Write to oppose Alito's extreme views and deception MoveOn wants to get 50,000 people to write to the Senate to express their opposition to Alito's nomination...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 11:28pm PST
Harry Magdoff 1913-2006 Marxist Economist Harry Magdoff, co-editor of Monthly Review since 1969 and one of the world's leading political economists, died on New Year's Day, 2006 at his home in Vermont. He kept the journal to the socialist principles and theoretical and pedagogical standards of its late founders, Paul M. Sweezy, who died in February 2004, and Leo Huberman....
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 9:12pm PST
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