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Bush aides fear indictment after CIA leak inquiry A nervous White House is bracing itself for the worst as the inquiry into the leak of the identity of a CIA agent reaches its climax, possibly with the indictment of one or more officials as early as this week....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 7:05am PDT
New Orleans: school staff face massive cuts in jobs, benefits The New Orleans Public School (NOPS) board is moving to break up the city’s public school system and force though massive cuts to the jobs, pay and benefits of its workforce in the wake of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 7:00am PDT
GATS as a Political Project The goal of GATS is promoting worldwide liberalization in trade and investments in the service sector..GATS encourages expropriation of public property through privatizations. Call 1-800-828-0498 amd urge your senators to reject any budget reconciliation that includes Medicade cuts....
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 6:12am PDT
Over 100 Arrested in Toledo, Ohio After Neo-Nazi March Prompts Counter-Protest & Riot Over one hundred people were arrested this weekend in Toledo, Ohio after a riot broke out in the North section of the city where a Neo-Nazi group planned to march through a predominately African-American neighborhood....
Posted: Tue, Oct 18, 2005 7:49am PDT
Refco collapse in US poses some troubling questions The demise of US brokerage firm Refco has sent a tremor through financial circles, posing the question as to whether this is merely a “one off” event caused by circumstances peculiar to the company, or a symptom of bigger problems to come....
Posted: Tue, Oct 18, 2005 7:47am PDT
US auto union in deal with GM to slash health benefits General Motors announced Monday that it had reached a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers union (UAW) to drastically reduce the company’s health care costs for hundreds of thousands of hourly workers, retirees and their dependents....
Posted: Tue, Oct 18, 2005 7:45am PDT
NORML News: Marijuana Arrests in The U.S. Reach A New Record High NORML Special News Release:
Marijuana Arrests For Year 2004: 771,608, Record High; FBI Report Reveals
Pot Smokers Arrested In America At A Rate Of One Every 41 Seconds...
Posted: Mon, Oct 17, 2005 11:26pm PDT
10/26: NATIONWIDE PROTESTS TO DEMAND HHS RECOGNIZE THE MEDICAL VALUE OF MARIJUANA WHERE: Health and Human Services (HHS) offices in Washington DC,
Philadelphia, Dallas, Kansas City, Denver, San Francisco & Seattle. (For
addresses, see http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=2564)
WHEN: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 12 Noon...
Posted: Mon, Oct 17, 2005 11:15pm PDT
We Still Need Help With Animal Rescues In New Orleans We are in a race against time......
Posted: Mon, Oct 17, 2005 1:57pm PDT
Gay Speaker Exclusion at Million More March Breaks Promise Gay Speaker Exclusion at Million More March Breaks Promise
Organizers of Million More March break Oct. 12 agreement to feature
openly gay speaker...
Posted: Mon, Oct 17, 2005 10:48am PDT
Barbara Ehrenreich: "Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream" The best-selling author discusses going undercover as a middle-aged professional trying to get a white-collar job in corporate America. She finds that the people who are playing by the rules -- going to college, being loyal to the to their employer -- are too often ending up in financial ruin....
Posted: Mon, Oct 17, 2005 7:31am PDT
Should The New York Times Fire Judith Miller and Apologize to Readers? On Sunday, Miller revealed that she spoke with Scooter Libby about undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame weeks before her name appeared in the press, but Miller claims she can't remember who leaked the name. Meanwhile it has been revealed Miller had a special Pentagon security clearance and was removed from covering Iraq and WMD stories by her editors. This weekend, The New York Times published its long awaited account of Judith Miller's involvement in the Valarie Plame affair. Miller, a New Yor...
Posted: Mon, Oct 17, 2005 7:29am PDT
Resistance: When is enough enough? After the execution in March 2000 of my son Malcolm Ferguson by Street Crimes Unit cop Louis Rivera, I started seeking justice for his execution. As a result of me seeking justice, I've learned that dealing with DAs, especially Robert Johnson of the Bronx - one who does not believe in prosecuting cops - is always going to be a difficult battle....
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2005 11:35pm PDT
Photos from Juanita Young's Victory Party 
w/her lawyers Lynne, Geoff, w/Nicholas Heyward, Sr., and addressing everyone...
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2005 11:02pm PDT
The Employers Can Be Stopped Starting With Delphi The Capitalist's offensive against Delphi workers can be thrown back but not without returning to the methods of the thirties...
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2005 5:53pm PDT
Farrakhan: 'We charge America with criminal neglect' Railing against the delayed relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Saturday that the federal government should be charged with "criminal neglect of the people of New Orleans."...
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2005 11:15am PDT
Black Community, others shut down Nazi march, riot against police in Toledo, Ohio Two reports from the major media of a situation in Toledo Ohio. A Nazi group called for a march thru Toledo's Black neighborhood. This is the result. More info to ccome later....
Posted: Sat, Oct 15, 2005 12:20pm PDT
Search for Lost Katrina Pets Continues, Evacuees' Shocking Tales, & Petition for PETS Act DawnWatch: NPR's "Morning Edition" coverage of Katrina animal victims 10/14/05...
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2005 10:55am PDT
Open Letter to Amnesty International on the Iraqi Constitution "There are so many problems in Iraq now, so many crimes committed daily, where innocent people are killed, arrested, tortured. Why is it so important to neglect all these crimes and be busy with the constitution? Why is it so urgent?" The Brussels Tribunal decries US "legal nihilism"....
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2005 10:46am PDT
Michael Eric Dyson "Some of Us are In First Class, But The Plane Is In Trouble" We play an address by professor and preacher Michael Eric Dyson speaking at the first annual Unvarnished Truth Awards in Washington D.C. Dyson says, "If you're in the plane, being in first class ain't going to stop you from going down with the rest of us. When there is turbulence, there is turbulence everywhere. Everybody be shaking. If that plane goes down, you might die first in first class. Yes, some of us are in first class, but the plane is in trouble."...
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2005 7:13am PDT
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