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WED, FEB 1: Finding Our Folk -- Oakland Send-off
Wednesday, February 1st, 7-9pm
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
344 40th Street, Oakland...
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 9:19pm PST
Last Chance to Change the PATRIOT Act!
Are you concerned about government spying on peaceful protestors (including
CODEPINK), wiretaps of phone calls without a court order, and FBI searches of
personal records of people who are not suspected of any wrongdoing? So are we....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 9:13pm PST
Immigration Hunts for 500,000 Absconders
In an unprecedented crackdown on more than 500,000 absconders — illegal immigrants who have not followed deportation orders — U.S. authorities this year are nearly tripling the number of federal officers assigned to round up such fugitives....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 7:20pm PST
Tal Afar Sees Progress With Water Network Completed
Local contractors benefit from reconstruction cooperation....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 8:42am PST
New York City transit workers reject contract
The announcement on Friday that rank-and-file New York City transit workers had rejected the contract settlement that followed last month’s two-and-a-half day strike highlights the crucial political issues posed by the walkout. The first New York transit strike in 25 years was not some fluke or misunderstanding. It was in fact part of a broader struggle of the American working class, and a harbinger of coming battles over jobs, living standards and social conditions....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 7:32am PST
Matriotism
In a Truthout Perspective, Cindy Sheehan says it is time to reframe our allegiances to a healthier paradigm....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:43pm PST
Roe v. Wade Anniversary Comes at Critical Time for Future of Women's Health
We are standing here today in the shadow of the Supreme Court, in solidarity, as a reminder of the lives that have been saved because of Roe v. Wade and the lives that will be lost if this critical decision is further weakened....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 8:27pm PST
Google subpoena roils the Web
The US government's demand for millions of Internet search records from Google Inc. and other prominent search firms has raised new questions about the vast amounts of personal information collected by companies....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:26am PST
Brutality in a U.S. uniform
Sleeping-bag trick killed Iraqi general
Every American should be forced to see the autopsy pictures of Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush on display at the trial of Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:26am PST
Anti-immigrant bill moves to Senate
The Senate Judiciary Committee will shortly begin debate on the measures it will send to the Senate floor on immigration law, one of the key legislative and electoral issues of 2006....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:20am PST
Maryland makes Wal-Mart pay
Health care drive expands to 30 more states...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:19am PST
Bush spying called threat to the republic
In a Martin Luther King Day speech at Constitution Hall Jan. 16, Al Gore drew cheers as he called for appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate George W. Bush’s “strongman” abuses of power, including spying on the American people and other impeachable offenses....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:18am PST
Powell: US will pull troops out this year
Former Bush aide who urged caution over Iraq signals start of withdrawal by end of 2006...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:11am PST
BTL:Filibuster is Last Hope for Opponents of Alito Supreme Court Confirmation
Interview with Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 5:58am PST
8th National Black Land Loss Summit ~ "The Value of Land in a Post-Katrina America
The Concern Citizens of Tillery, North Carolina and the National Black Farmers and Agriculturalist Association host the 8th National Black Land Loss Summit...
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 3:39pm PST
Bush uses Gulf Coast reconstruction to push for dismantling public education
Over the past four months, the Bush administration and sections of both the Democratic and Republican parties have used the devastation inflicted upon the Gulf Coast during last year’s hurricane season as a justification to push through a broad range of right-wing policies. Among these reactionary projects is the drive to undermine the public education system through the promotion of charter schools and voucher programs....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 8:23am PST
People attack cops and burn down police chiefs' home after cops murder Black man
Another example of direct action....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 2:22am PST
Environmental + Anarchist witch-hunt under way, a very coherent summary
Environmentalist Witch-Hunt Underway. (Hopefully) Coherent Summary.
author: my name is ruth
Fight the Corporate Media Spin. This summary was written to help spread the word to family, friends, progressively minded comrades about the Green Witch Hunt currently underway. So get to it - spread the word
Environmental Witch-Hunt Under Way!
Re-posted by deanosor who is responsible for the changed title...
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 2:03am PST
3rd strike sentence reinstated
The U.S. Supreme Court reinstated a Southern California man's drug
conviction and sentence of 25 years to life Wednesday, ruling that an
appeals court had erred in overturning the sentence on grounds that
the prosecutor improperly barred a black woman from the jury....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:35pm PST
H. Res. 635 might impeach Bush & put him in cell w/Steve Kubby & Marc Emery
House Resolution 635 in U.S. Congress might impeach President Bush on federal criminal charges and put the Leader of the Drug War in prison with Steve Kubby and Marc Emery, most famous marijuana defendants....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:32pm PST