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GM slashes, workers bleed The heartland of America skipped a beat June 6 when Rick Wagoner, chairman and CEO of General Motors, announced plans to eliminate 25,000 jobs. A few days later the corporation gave the United Auto Workers until the end of the month to accept savage cutbacks in health benefits for 1.1 million active and retired workers and their families....
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:23am PDT
Bush aide who doctored global warming documents joins ExxonMobil A Bush aide who reportedly altered government climate reports to favor the interests of the oil industry has resigned from the administration to take a job at ExxonMobil, the world’s largest energy company and most fervent opponent of carbon emissions regulations. For the aide, Philip Cooney, the move completes a cycle in which he has served the interests of the oil giants both in and out of government....
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:19am PDT
Public defense system crisis denies justice to poor in US courts Approximately 5 million people who cannot afford legal representation are processed through US courts each year as indigent defendants—accused persons too poor to hire their own lawyers—and are provided public attorneys. About 75 percent of current US prison inmates were represented by court-appointed public lawyers, while two-thirds of felony defendants are indigent. At both the federal and state level, indigent defendants are found guilty at a much higher rate than defendants who are able t...
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:18am PDT
EFF Publishes Legal Guide for Bloggers Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes
publish information that other people don't want published.
You might, for example, publish something that someone
considers defamatory, republish an AP news story that's
under copyright, or write a lengthy piece detailing the
alleged crimes of a candidate for public office....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 1:44pm PDT
Animal activist with no medical insurance needs financial assistance DawnWatch: Seattle article on Ben White -- terrific activist who needs medical bill assistance 6/16/05...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 11:55am PDT
Center for Consumer Freedom attacks PETA once again More "consumer freedom" crap attacking PETA and distracting from the CCFs' true goals of protecting the profits of their big business backers......
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 10:48am PDT
CAIR-CA: FOIA Request Filed Over Lodi ‘Harassment' SACRAMENTO - Prompted by reports from the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Sacramento Valley (CAIR-SV) and the Muslim community, civil rights groups are filing a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) seeking FBI records of the procedures and policies used during the questioning and detention of dozens of Muslims in the Central Valley town of Lodi. Lodi has become the center of a FBI investigation that has led to the arrests of five Muslims, two of whom are U.S. citizens. They were...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 9:48am PDT
PBS TV President Warns CPB Funding Cuts Will Cause Spiral of Death for Public Broadcasting On Thursday, the House Appropriations Committee voted to drastically cut funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. We host a roundtable discussion on the continuing fight over public broadcasting in this country with the presidents of two PBS stations as well as Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 9:18am PDT
PHOTOS: At Philly City Hall for Mumia! 
On Thursday, June 16, supporters of journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal gathered outside Philadelphia City Hall in response to a recent decision by Judge Pamela Dembe which prohibits him from entering in 2 new pieces of evidence. That day, members of the Ossining, NY chapter of the NAACP and others visited both Mayor Street’s and Pamela Dembe’s office in downtown Philadelphia. Others conducted a “Honk for Mumia” outside of City Hall as the day’s traffic passed....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 7:29am PDT
Boje (reefer refugee) decision Renee Boje, who is married to a Canadian citizen and is the mother of a
Canadian son, is being sent back to US authorities to serve a ten year
mandatory minimum to life sentence for her involvement in a medical
marijuana growing operation in California, shortly after the state of
California legalized marijuana for medical purposes....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:13pm PDT
Spank or Thank Your Member of Congress On June 15, 2005, following the Supreme Court's recent decision in Raich,
which urged Congressional leadership on medical marijuana, the U.S. House of
Representatives failed to pass an amendment that would have prohibited DEA
and other agents of the Department of Justice from raiding and prosecuting
medical marijuana patients and their caregivers in states with medical
marijuana laws....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:07pm PDT
VerifiedVoting.org to Brief Senators on Verifiable Elections On Tuesday, June 21, the Senate Rules
Committee is scheduled to hear testimony on publicly
verifiable elections from VerifiedVoting.org Founder David
Dill....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:05pm PDT
Watch "Downing Street" Hearing LIVE - RIGHT NOW!! Here is the link to C-Span's LIVE coverage of the "Downing Street" Hearing. Please forward to family, friends, and the media....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 12:21pm PDT
As CPB Faces Massive Funding Cuts, A Look Back at the National Media Reform Conference The House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to vote today on drastic cuts to both the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Representative Ralph Regula's proposal would eliminate $100 million in federal funding to CPB and phase out the existance of PBS. For a look at media under fire, we turn to the National Conference on Media Reform....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 9:12am PDT
Republican Lobbyists' Role for Public TV Is Investigated WASHINGTON, June 15 - Investigators at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are examining $15,000 in payments to two Republican lobbyists last year that were not disclosed to the corporation's board, people involved in the inquiry said on Wednesday....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 9:05am PDT
Congress and the Supreme Court have spoken, but WE will have the final word! Now that Congress and the Supreme Court have spoken it is time for us to
take a breath, shake off the disappointment, and take this issue to the
place that has NEVER let us down: the GRASSROOTS....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 5:17pm PDT
Gold Star and Military Families Call for Truth Regarding Downing St. Memo by MFSO
(No verified email address) 14 Jun 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 14, 2005
Contact: Cindy Sheehan 707-365-7750
Celeste Zappala 215-570-5484
Gold Star and Military Families Call for Truth Regarding Downing St. Minutes (memo),
Members to Visit Congress...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 4:50pm PDT
Downing Street Minutes Hearing on C-span Thur. author: jac
Thursday, June 16
Democratic Members of House Judiciary Cmte. Hearing on Downing St. Memo and Iraq War
On C-SPAN3 at 2:30pm ET...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 3:18pm PDT
Chances Fade for Foie Gras Bill in New York DawnWatch: New York Times, "Chances Fade for Foie Gras Bill" 6/15/05...
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 2:49pm PDT
Big Mac Attack Interview with Dave Steel and Helen Steel, subject of the new documentary McLibel, from NYC Indymedia's biweeklyn newspaper....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 1:36pm PDT
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