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Cindy Sheehan joins Thanksgiving Camp Casey anti-war protest in Crawford, Texas 
Crawford, Texas (November 24, 2005) - Returning from his China getaway, Bush has again been met outside his ranch near Crawford, Texas by people from across the state and country, demanding an immediate end the US occupation of Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Nov 24, 2005 8:25pm PST
GM job cuts will devastate North American cities General Motors’ plan to eliminate 30,000 hourly jobs by 2008, announced Monday in Detroit, will have devastating consequences for cities in the United States and Canada, and its ripple effects will hit working class communities throughout the two countries. The closure of twelve facilities will reduce the auto maker’s manufacturing jobs in North America by nearly a third....
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 9:20pm PST
Why did the Bush Administration Hold Jose Padilla for 3 Years as an Enemy Combatant? The Justice Department announced Tuesday criminal charges have been filed against Jose Padilla - the U.S. citizen who had been held for over three years in solitary confinement on a military brig in South Carolina. We speak with one of Padilla's attorneys and the legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights....
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 9:15pm PST
Sub-Committee Hears Legislation That Could Dismantle Community Access TV. 
House Subcommittee on Commerce hears legislation that could severely damage local community access TV. Community media advocates call for intensification, in the coming weeks, of efforts to defeat this legislation....
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 8:04pm PST
PETA "naked" fur protest in Times Square DawnWatch: New York Times on PETA "naked" fur protest 11/23/05...
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 1:08pm PST
11/23 Alert! Carwford Anti-War Protesters Arrested Near Bush's Ranch! Please call Crawford Police Department: (254) 486-2678
Demand Their Release peace Activists ASAP! and Stop harassing them!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 11:05am PST
U.S. gov't uses 'Bait-N-Switch' trick to charge Padilla 3 years ago, with great fanfare & sycophantic coverage by corporate media, U.S. gov't dramatized the arrest of Jose Padilla & labeled him an 'enemy combatant.' He was alleged to be planning to set off a 'dirty bomb' to kill U.S. citizens and also was said to conspire to blow up an apartment building in NYC. Yesterday, the Feds changed their tune completely when they charged Padilla with planning to kill & maim people overseas!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 1:39am PST
Wake-up Walmart Black Friday Nov 26 Action Send Walmart corporation the message that we don't want sweatshop products and a union busting corporation in our local community!!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 22, 2005 4:42pm PST
Colin Powell's Former Chief of Staff Col. Wilkerson on Prewar Intel, Torture... We spend the hour with a former senior member of the Bush administration: Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. He served as chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005. In the interview, Wilkerson discusses what he calls a "White House cabal", led by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld; pre-war intelligence and Powell's February 2003 speech before the United Nations; the "memory lapse" by Gen. Peter Pace, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and much...
Posted: Tue, Nov 22, 2005 7:55am PST
General Motors to close 9 plants, slash 30,000 North American jobs General Motors announced plans Monday to close or eliminate shifts at nine assembly, stamping and powertrain plants and cut 30,000 hourly workers’ jobs in the US and Canada by the end of 2008. The cost-cutting measures by the world’s largest auto maker will have a devastating impact on workers, their families and communities across North America....
Posted: Tue, Nov 22, 2005 7:50am PST
Introducing Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, #60 
Every time an anarchist says, “I believe in democracy,” there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
(from MD's Democracy)...
Posted: Tue, Nov 22, 2005 7:02am PST
Car giant GM to cut 30,000 staff US carmaker General Motors is to cut 30,000 jobs in North America under a restructuring drive that aims to revive the company....
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2005 7:05pm PST
The Independent Media, the GAO report and "Invisible Ballots" The mainstream media has virtually ignored the release of the recent GAO report critical of the electronic voting machines, despite a bi-partisan Congressional press conference (novel in itself these days). The combination of Democratic paralysis, the silent press and the hammering by the Republicans of any dissenters have created a blackout which keeps the public ignorant about the now validated concerns regarding the new voting technology. "Invisible Ballots" examines the perils...
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2005 5:38pm PST
The Man Who Sold the Iraq War: John Rendon, Bush's General in the Propaganda War Investigative journalist James Bamford examines how the Bush administration and Iraqi National Congress used the PR firm Rendon Group to feed journalists - including Judith Miller -- fabricated stories in an effort to sell the war. The firm has received millions in government contracts since 1991 when it was by the CIA to help "create the conditions for the removal of Hussein from power." Iraq wasn't the first regime change case for Rendon. In 1989 the CIA turned to Rendon to use a ...
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2005 7:34am PST
Sen. George McGovern Discusses the Lies of War from the Gulf of Tonkin to Iraq's WMDs The 1972 presidential candidate looks back at how the U.S. entered the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. We also play an excerpt from the new documentary "One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern."...
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2005 7:33am PST
White House used 'gossip' to build case for war The controversy in America over pre-war intelligence has intensified, with revelations that the Bush administration exaggerated the claims of a key source on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, despite repeated warnings before the invasion that his information was at best dubious, if not downright wrong...
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2005 6:36am PST
This week on Media Matters: Mark Crispin Miller Nov 20, 2005 Program from WILL-AM Champaign-Urbana...
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2005 3:52am PST
CALL FOR ACTION - Swing Club in Philadelphia Raided. Police raided a private swing club in Philadelphia Saturday evening,
November 12th after an undercover police officer carrying a
concealed camera came into the club posing as a patron......
Posted: Sun, Nov 20, 2005 10:51pm PST
Peace Community Leader Murdered by Army On Thursday,
November 17, 2005, troops commanded by General Luis Alfonso Zapata Uribe*
attacked and killed Arlen Salas David, a leader of the peace community...
Posted: Sun, Nov 20, 2005 10:48pm PST
Sorry, George, I'm In the Majority ...from Michael Moore I would like to extend my hand and invite you to join us, the mainstream American majority. We, the people -- that's the majority of the people -- share these majority opinions:...
Posted: Sun, Nov 20, 2005 10:42pm PST
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