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A lively day of anti-Bush Regime activities rocked the peaceful mid-Pac paradise of Honolulu yesterday. In the pre-dawn morning, 6 giant & colorful banners--bearing "STOP the WAR," "End the Occupation," & "Drive Out the Bush Regime" were hung over the rush-hour traffic at 3 overpasses on the H-1 freeway & the Pali Hwy. That was just the beginning of a lively & provocative Day of Resistance events......

November 3, 2005...

President George W. Bush’s announcement Tuesday of a $7.1 billion plan to combat the threat of an avian influenza pandemic has drawn criticism from scientific experts and the state and local authorities mandated to implement much of the program....

More than twenty detainees in the Guantanamo Bay prison have attempted suicide and UN investigators continue to press for visits at the prison camp despite refusals from the Bush administration. We speak with lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, who recently witnessed a client’s suicide attempt during a visit, about the ongoing desperation of prisoners and the military’s reporting of the events....

THE PRESIDENT’S men were certain that a war to topple Saddam Hussein was necessary to promote U.S. interests. And they were ready to do anything to get it. That’s the real significance behind the indictment of Dick Cheney’s top aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby and the revelations in the White House leak scandal splashed across the front pages of newspapers last week. ALAN MAASS looks at what the leak scandal represents--and what will happen next....

Use the toll free numbers to reach your Representatives 1-800-818-6641 or 1-800-828-0498 No tax cuts for the rich! Tell your Representatives that all Hou9sing Programs must be fully funded and that you oppose budget cuts to SSI, Foster Care, Food Stamps, Medicare, Children's Programs...

On Monday, thousands of mourners filled the Metropolitian AME church in Washington for a memorial service for the late Rosa Parks, who died last week at the age of 92. Over the past two days, more than 40,000 people filed past her casket in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda Monday where her body had lain in honor. She was the first civilian and only second woman or African-American to receive such an honor. Speakers at Monday's memorial included Oprah Winfrey, actress Cicely Tyson, NAACP chair Julian ...

Introducing the official H2 salute. Fuck you and your H2!...

US President George W. Bush's national security adviser has warned that a hasty US withdrawal from Iraq would embolden what he termed "extremists" who seek "the eventual destruction of Israel."...

Delphi Corporation, the largest American automotive parts maker, outlined a series of unprecedented rollbacks in the wages, benefits and working conditions of its 34,000 unionized workers and 12,000 retirees in the US, in a confidential letter sent to the United Auto Workers union on October 21. The proposal, which was posted last week on a web site belonging to UAW Local 292 in Kokomo, Indiana, sets a new benchmark for the drastic lowering of living standards for workers in the auto industry...