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Diebold in Florida: "I Saw It Hacked" I was one of ten people present at the "hack" of the Leon County, Florida voting system, which took place on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 around 4:30 in the afternoon at the county elections warehouse. Leon County's voting system is the Diebold Accu-Vote OS 1.94w (optical scan)....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:44pm PST
Ford to cut 30,000 jobs in North America Ford Motor Company announced plans on Monday to eliminate between 25,000 and 30,000 jobs by 2012. This amounts to more than 20 percent of the company’s North American workforce, and nearly 30 percent of its manufacturing jobs, where the bulk of the reductions will take place. The Ford plan is only the latest stage in a major assault by US automakers on the jobs, wages and benefits of their workers, an assault that is having devastating consequences throughout the US, Canada and other countrie...
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:39pm PST
Tre Arrow and ELF: Radical Environmentalist on Death Row The government drops bombs on kids in the Middle East, while a hand full of activists torch some yuppie ski resort in Colorado: Bush gets reelected and the radical environmentalists are issued warrants.
Where the hell is the justice?...
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:33pm PST
Press Release - 11 Indicted in Environmental Witch Hunt On Friday the Justice Department announced that 11
individuals were being charged in a 65 count indictment handed down by a
Eugene, Oregon grand jury for a series of events from 1996 to 2001....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 9:23pm PST
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
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