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At Pentagon's Request the Washington Post Refuses To Report Location Of Secret CIA Jails We speak with Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archives on the paper's decision to abide by a Pentagon request not to name which European nations house these secret facilities. Kornbluh compares this decision to the New York Times' refusal to report on details of the U.S. invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba in 1961....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 7:34am PST
Former US public broadcasting chairman Kenneth Tomlinson resigns in disgrace Right-winger Kenneth Tomlinson resigned from the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) November 3, after a report by the agency’s inspector general sharply criticized his performance. Tomlinson has been at the center of efforts to transform public broadcasting into a mouthpiece for the Bush administration....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 7:24am PST
Rosa Parks and the lessons of the civil rights movement Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks became a symbol of the mass movement against racism that eventually forced the dismantling of the system of official segregation in the American South. Her arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, triggered a year-long bus boycott, an event that is generally seen as the beginning of a decade-long battle against segregation that mobilized millions and won the support of workers all ov...
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 7:23am PST
stop the eviction of the 'welcome home' kitchen The only kitchen serving fresh, nutritious meals to the people of New
Orleans east of Canal St. is being threatened with closure by city
officials....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 5:37am PST
The Fox In The Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy We speak with Si Kahn and Elizabeth Minnich, authors of the new book, "The Fox In The Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy" that exposes the damage privatization has done in several areas of society including, schools, prisons and the military....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 7:25am PST
IRS Targeting Pro-Peace Churches; Pro War, No Problemo You can't make this stuff up....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 7:16am PST
Bush sinks in opinion polls, but Democrats offer no alternative A series of opinion polls published this week demonstrate that the American people decisively oppose the Bush administration and its policies. A Washington Post-ABC News poll found only 39 percent approval for the Bush presidency, with 60 percent opposed. A separate Associated Press-Ipsos poll found Bush’s support even lower, at 37 percent, with 59 percent disapproving....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 7:16am PST
BAYCORR Stop The War on Reproductive Rights Rally at Dolores Park (audio/mpeg 46.8MB) An hour of uncut audio from The Bay Area Coalition For Our Reproductive Rights Rally at Dolores Park, San Francisco, Saturday Nov. 5th. A Take Back The Night march followed. All are urged to vote No on Proposition 73 - the Parental Notification initiative - in the Special Election this Tuesday. (67 minutes)...
Posted: Sun, Nov 6, 2005 2:00pm PST
Record numbers in US prisons The number of people in US prisons and jails rose again last year to 2,267,787 people, continuing a trend of increasing incarceration rates that has gone on unabated for more than two decades. According to a report released in October by the US Department of Justice, by the end of 2004 there were 1.4 million prisoners in federal and state facilities and 700,000 in local jails....
Posted: Sat, Nov 5, 2005 9:23am PST
US Labor Department and Wal-Mart’s secret agreement on child labor Sometimes the intimate collaboration between government and business in the United States is surprising even for those well schooled in the corruption of American capitalism. Such is the case with the recent agreement between retail giant Wal-Mart and the Labor Department, an agreement that came to light following an audit by the Labor Department’s inspector general....
Posted: Sat, Nov 5, 2005 9:22am PST
Join the O2 Collective For a Relief Trip to New Orleans! 
The Oxygen Collective is organizing a trip in our biodiesel bus for the first three weeks of December to bring supplies and volunteers to offer direct aid and relief work for people in the New Orleans area. We will be joining with an inspiring grassroots effort spearheaded by the Common Ground Collective (http://www.commongroundrelief.org) in the Algiers Neighborhood, where one of the O2's founding members, Kerul Dyer, is working as their unofficial Director of Operations....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 2:06pm PST
11/5: Bay Area Caravan to New Orleans Meeting Common Ground has
called a National Caravan to go to New Orleans for a
massive rebuild/repair/clean-up in the 9th Ward over
the Thanksgiving week, Nov. 20-27. The meeting
mentioned below represents the
organized Bay Area response to the call...
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 11:45am PST
Was the 2004 Election Stolen?: A Debate on Ohio One Year After Bush's Victory A year later, questions remain over the outcome of the Ohio election and whether George W. Bush fairly won the state and the presidency. We explore some of these questions with a debate between Mark Crispin Miller and Mark Hertsgaard....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 7:40am PST
Blood on the Tundra, Betrayal in the Rotunda November 4, 2005
Oil's Victory in Alaska, with a Dem Assist
Blood on the Tundra, Betrayal in the Rotunda
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR...
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 7:28am PST
Death row inmate escapes in Texas A manhunt is under way in Texas after a death row inmate walked out of a Houston jail in civilian clothes and with a fake badge....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 6:50am PST
Buy Nothing Day ~ TARGET WAL-MART 
The Buy Nothing Day holiday (BND) has caught on somewhat and may very
well be one of the best vehicles we have in terms of getting to a
healthier, happier, saner, sustainable way of life. With that in mind
the following is a collection of ideas about what we can do to make
BND more effective by bringing it to America's largest corporate
retailer known as WalMart. If you are down with these ideas (and want
to make them more effective) please repost and forward this article by
email and/...
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 2:44am PST
Join the O2 Collective For a Relief Trip to New Orleans! 
The Oxygen Collective is organizing a trip in our biodiesel bus for the first three weeks of December to bring supplies and volunteers to offer direct aid and relief work for people in the New Orleans area. We will be joining with an inspiring grassroots effort spearheaded by the Common Ground Collective (www.commongroundrelief.org) in the Algiers Neighborhood, where one of the O2’s founding members, Kerul Dyer, is working as their unofficial Director of Operations....
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 4:28pm PST
More Photos from "World Can't Wait" Mobilization in S.F. 
Photographs of the rally, march, & non-violent direct action at "World Can't Wait" mobilization in San Francisco on November 2, 2005. The chant of the day was "Drive Out the Bush Regime, the World Can't Wait!"...
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 1:31pm PST
Nov. 2, 2005, a Glorious Day to Drive Out the Bush Regime in mid-Pac 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......
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 1:30pm PST
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