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Tipping the Scales: Conservative Appointments Threaten Supreme Court's Balance New Supreme Court appointments will pose challenges to more than just individual and civil liberties; it will also directly impact key federal issues that eked by on 5-4 rulings, where O’Connor’s vote determined the outcome. The results of some of these key cases are outlined below....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 5:44pm PDT
2,000 Too Many! Call for Peace Upon 2,000th U.S. Death in Iraq Organize an Anti-War Action (for) the Day After the U.S. Announces the 2,000th U.S.
Soldier Death in Iraq...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 2:44pm PDT
Legislation in Washington Attacks Public Access TV Three Bills now in the House and Senate could end public access TV in America....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 1:18pm PDT
War in Iraq is Really All About Soil and Oil Published on Monday, October 10, 2005 by the Madison Capital Times (Wisconsin) by Robert Kimbrough...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 8:31am PDT
Texan Environmental Activist Diane Wilson: Why I Refuse to go Jail Three years ago Wilson was arrested for committing civil disobediance at a Dow Chemical plant to protest the company's connection to the Bhopal chemical disaster. She’s now refusing to go to prison until former Union Carbide CEO Warren Andersen is jailed for his role in Bhopal....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 8:06am PDT
Subject of Taped New Orleans Beating Says He Was Sober photos, etc on corporate news websites...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 12:15am PDT
Death toll rises for U.S. military reservists as their role grows in Iraq The National Guard and Reserves are suffering a strikingly higher share of U.S. casualties in Iraq, their portion of total American military deaths nearly doubling since last year....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 11:36pm PDT
Reborn New Orleans shocked by alleged police beating of black man Three New Orleans police officers have been placed under arrest for the alleged beating of a black man in the French Quarter at the weekend - a brutal mêlée that was captured by a film crew....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 11:33pm PDT
Delphi outlines plant closings, wage-cutting in US bankruptcy filing In its filing before the Federal Bankruptcy Court Saturday, the US automotive parts giant Delphi Corporation outlined its plans to shut down or sell off dozens of plants in the US and Canada, destroy thousands of jobs and impose sweeping wage, health-care and pension cuts on its 33,000 union employees and 12,000 retirees....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 11:31pm PDT
Animal rights, moral rights, and the law DawnWatch: New Scientist Piece on Animal Rights by Gary Francione 10/8/05 edition...
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 6:46pm PDT
Christian vegetarians and PETA's use of religious symbols DawnWatch: Lead article in Cleveland Plain Dealer on Christian Vegetarian Association 10/8/05...
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 6:46pm PDT
Cockburn's Slow Burn KPFA hard-hitting program Against the Grain features Counterpunch co-publisher and Nation essayist Alexander Cockburn on today's program. (Downloadable mp3.)...
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 2:58pm PDT
BTL:Groups Campaign to End Veneration of Columbus and Transform Holiday Interview with Glenn Morris, of the Colorado American Indian Movement, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 9:38am PDT
Bush White House crisis deepens: The contradictions of the Miers nomination The intensifying conflict within the Republican Party over the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court has put on display the weakness and instability of the Bush administration, and the isolated and unpopular character of the right-wing elements who now dominate in official Washington. There is more than a little resemblance to a battle of scorpions in a bottle—both in terms of the narrow confines within which this conflict takes place, and in the intellectual and moral stature of t...
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 7:32am PDT
Indian Tribes and Katrina: Overlooked by the Government, Relief Organizanations, ... We take a look the plight of American Indians living in southeast Louisiana weeks after hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast. Tribal leaders say they have been overlooked by the media, relief organizations and the federal government....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 7:25am PDT
Indigenous Activists Blast Columbus Day as "Propping Up of Racist Propaganda" Today is known as Columbus Day - we take a look at why some people are not commemorating the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the so-called "new world."...
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 7:22am PDT
Hurricane Relief Needed in Native American Communities of Southern Louisiana The Native American tribes of the Houma, Pointe-au-Chien, and Biloxi Chitimacha of southern Louisiana have faced a monumental struggle in channeling relief efforts to their tribal members devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita....
Posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2005 7:37pm PDT
War-dead Web site leads to Polk obscenity arrest Polk County officials arrested a Lakeland man on obscenity charges Friday after investigating his graphic Web site, which has gained international attention for allowing U.S. soldiers to post pictures of war dead on the Internet. (nowthatsfuckedup.com)...
Posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2005 1:35pm PDT
Tito Kayak and Jorge Farinacci in NYC (10/11 court date) The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign is calling on all of your allies to support
TITO KAYAK on the morning of Oct. 11th at his court hearing. In this time
of repression, tragedy and uncertainty, we have to keep the pressure and
support on; TITO needs us to stand with him....
Posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2005 12:39pm PDT
Specter to Ask Whether Rove Gave Private Assurances on Miers' Abortion Stance to Dobson Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said he wants to know whether presidential adviser Karl Rove privately assured a conservative activist of how Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would rule on the court. Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said he will would look into a statement by James Dobson, president of the Colorado Springs, Colorado-based advocacy group Focus on the Family, that Dobson has had ``conversations'' with Rove about the woman nominated to replace retiring J...
Posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2005 11:37am PDT
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