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Part-Time Work for Everyone The advantages of part-time work mu8st gain general approval.. When the just distribution of work makes headway, the state and the economy will be freed from a considerable part of social expenditures and cuts in individual living standards will be balanced....
Posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2004 8:12am PST
An Open Letter fr. Martha Stewart re: Drug Policy Reform I beseech you all to think about these women -- to encourage the American people to ask for reforms, both in sentencing guidelines, in length of incarceration for nonviolent first-time offenders, and for those involved in drug-taking....
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 11:49pm PST
Arizona: Judge lifts order blocking immigration initiative A federal judge cleared the way Wednesday for an Arizona initiative to become law, more than a month after voters decided to deny some public benefits to illegal immigrants....
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 11:23pm PST
American Coll. of Rheumatology Offers Guidance for Assessing Arthritis Pain Medication Use American College of Rheumatology Offers Guidance for Assessing Arthritis Pain Medication Usage...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 11:11pm PST
Weed Delivery Guy Saves Christmas MADISON, WI—The holidays evoke images of carolers and hot cocoa, sleigh rides through the crisp country air, and chestnuts roasting on an open fire. But for the four residents of a drafty little apartment on Johnson Street, such holiday traditions seemed nothing more than fairy tales. For, through a combination of poverty, circumstance, and plain old bad luck, these young gentlemen nearly saw their holiday dreams shattered like so many fallen ornaments....
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 11:03pm PST
American Coll. of Rheumatology Offers Guidance for Assessing Arthritis Pain Medication Use American College of Rheumatology Offers Guidance for Assessing Arthritis Pain Medication Usage...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 10:02pm PST
Presidential Inaugural Committee Announces Media Credentialing Process 55th Presidential Inaugural Committee Announces Media Credentialing Process...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 10:00pm PST
NCPA: HHS Importation Report Focuses on Costs, Ignores Savings NCPA: HHS Importation Report Focuses on Costs, Ignores Savings; NCPA Expert Says Shopping for Drugs Makes Importation Unnecessary...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 9:58pm PST
First Annual 'Misinformer of the Year' Award Winner; Top 10 Outrageous Statements in Media Media Matters for America Announces First Annual 'Misinformer of the Year' Award Winner; MMFA Also Releases 'Top 10 Most Outrageous Statements' Made by Media Figures in 2004...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 9:56pm PST
Bipartisan Chicanery: Fannie Mae and Baseball in DC interesting summary of articles related to outgoing Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines, his bipartisan political ties and the return of professional baseball to DC; from The Progressive Review
http://prorev.com/2004/12/reign-of-rainesfalls-mainly-without.htm...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 2:30pm PST
Too Many Logs in the Catalog - "Victoria's Dirty Secret" Fights Massive Deforestation ...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 12:23pm PST
Clouds on the Organic Horizon - Is Organic Farming Becoming the Victim of its Own Success? ...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 11:54am PST
Paid Work and Basic Income The goal of basic income advocates is to neutralize capitalism in one of its central premises: the generalization of paid labor as the only or at least dominant path of securing existence. The future would be brighter if this were on the agenda....
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 9:21am PST
President Authorized Abu Ghraib Torture, FBI Email Says Repeated references in an internal FBI email suggest that the president issued a special order to permit some of the more objectionable torture techniques used at Abu Ghraib and other US-run prison facilities around Iraq....
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 2:34am PST
Remembering Gary Webb - by Alan Goodman When a friend called to tell me the news that Gary Webb died, I flashed back to the day in 1997 when I interviewed him in a park near his house outside Sacramento. After finding out that I had played a little organized hockey as a kid, Gary wouldn’t stop trying to sign me up for his over-40 hockey league.
I was struck by what seemed to be an odd mismatch. Here was the guy who had become a hero in the ghettos for exposing the CIA-crack connection. But here he was living deep in conservative...
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 11:21pm PST
Anti-Refugee Provisions Struck from Intelligence Bill - More Battles Expected in 2005 Earlier this month, the House and Senate overwhelmingly approved
the "Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004,"
which enacts most of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 5:48pm PST
AGAINST THE HOUSE: It's a Rigged Game - BLOCK BUSH INSURRECTION RALLY - DC Capitol, Jan 6 Until a majority of progressive activists and intellectual opinion-makers drop the delusions and cop to the fact that we are playing in a game intentionally and adroitly rigged against us, we will not win, we will not govern, we will not be prepared to govern, because we will not deserve to govern....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 3:37pm PST
1st RNC Jury Trial ends with dismissal First Jury Trial Arising from the RNC Protests Ends in
Dismissal as D.A. Drops All Charges Against Gulf War I
Veteran and Anti-Depleted Uranium Activist Dennis Kyne
Mid-Trial...
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 2:29pm PST
Press Conference Announcement The United Workers Association will be participating in the release
of the Day Laborer Report "Their Stolen Sweat"... the first ever in
depth report on the day labor industry in Baltimore, produced by our
allies Homeless Persons Representation Project and Casa De Maryland.
This report uncovers the day labor industry's systematic abuses:
poverty wages, off-the-charts safety issues, and ill treatment
including gender discrimination....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 2:27pm PST
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