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Palo Alto Police Postpone Taser Plans
Palo Alto police are indefinitely postponing plans to arm each officer with Taser electroshock weapons. We urge other communities to continue to organize resistance to these remote-control tools of torture....
Posted: Wed, Nov 10, 2004 12:35am PST
Weapons of Mass Destruction: Falluja under attack
Update on Iraq...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 8:07pm PST
Ashcroft Resignation Presents Major Test For Bush
John Ashcroft's resignation is the first major test of whether President Bush meant what he said last week about uniting Americans. The President says he wants to earn the trust of those who voted against him....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 6:03pm PST
Call to Action: TURN EVERY LIGHT ON OHIO
ACT NOW:
*Support efforts to make every vote count in Ohio
*Hold public hearings in your community
*Wake up the media
CALL TO ACTION:
TURN EVERY LIGHT ON OHIO...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 5:58pm PST
Indymedia Subject of Secret "Criminal Terrorism Investigation"
In a response to EFF's motion to unseal, the U.S. government claims that Indymedia hard drives were seized as part of an international "criminal terrorism investigation," and thus the U.S. District Court's gag order should be upheld....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 4:32pm PST
FBI Seized UK Indymedia Disks. Blocking Some Peoples Posts. Software?
The UK Indymedia harddrives seem to be blocking my posts. That is unusual. Is it software put on by the FBI, or is it targeted silence. An email was sent to Cat Stevens and Muslim Aid organization and needed relay. Had to use Lebanon Indymedia...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 3:43pm PST
Queer activist hid within white labcoat
Professor Kinsey, closet bisexual hero.
Watch the new movie? Expect attacks by fundis, again........
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 1:27pm PST
Urgent: Act Now (!) to Unhijack the Presidential Election
The 2004 Presidential election is NOT over! There's evidence the election may have been "hijacked" by fraud and that Bush has NOT won. A nationwide grassroots movement is underway to uncover the fraud, get the votes counted (or recounted) and file lawsuits, and YOUR HELP IS NEEDED NOW. Please spread the word, pitch in some volunteer time, help recruit volunteers with legal and/or computer expertise, and consider donating money. The Presidency won't be decided until the Electoral Co...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 12:24pm PST
Rove: Bush To Push Gay Marriage Amendment
President Bush's senior political adviser said Sunday that an amendment to the US Constitution to ban same-sex marriage is high on the Presidents agenda for the first year of his new mandate....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 10:41am PST
Ignoring Tired Pleas
Democrats succeeded in getting Greens and Independents to vote for John Kerry, but will we be asked to do the same thing four years from now?...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 10:07am PST
Take Action: Protest the Attack on Falluja!
€ THURSDAY SATURDAY: Organize actions outside and inside Congressional
offices to demand an end to the assault on Falluja and an end to the
occupation (action ideas below)
€ NEXT TUESDAY, 11/16: Protest in Washington, DC on the day that Congress
goes back into session; details to be announced...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 12:04am PST
Counter Inauguration
Millions of us turned out to oppose George W. Bush. We stood in lines for hours, in the rain, as part of the largest electoral turnout in our history. Bush received a record number of votes. So did John Kerry.
I am asking you to turn out again....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 6:33pm PST
Andean Free Trade Negotiations Coming to Tucson, AZ
Andean Free Trade Negotiations coming to Tucson, 11/20-12/4/04. We need to organize around this....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 3:13pm PST
Shooting Back as War Propaganda
The Enlightenment hoped that there would be fewer wars and less disastrous wars when the people decided over warfare. that the propaganda machine could destroy this hope was not foreseeable in the 18th century....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 11:01am PST
Dear Michael Moore
I am writing you this “open letter” in friendship and solidarity. You are famous, rich and powerful. I am none of the above. But we both belong to the anti war movement and both are working to contribute to a better and more just world....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 10:05am PST
Vote Count "Glitches" Haunt Bush's Supposed Mandate
While Democratic leaders have gone missing since the November 2nd election, activists on the web and radio have overcome their post election depression and are beginning to investigate the vote count irregularities across the nation.
Due to a discovery by members of DemocraticUnderground.com, the City of Gahanna in Ohio discovered a discrepancy that gave 4,000 votes to George Bush. After media scrutiny, city officials have admitted to an electronic "glitch" that caused the proble...
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 9:15am PST
The E-Vote Factor: Kerry Conceded But Did He Really Lose?
Serious questions are being raised about the use of electronic voting machines in the 2004 presidential election. In an Ohio county, Bush mistakenly received some 3,900 extra votes. We speak Johns Hopkins University professor Aviel Rubin and investigative reporter Bev Harris....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 9:03am PST
Diminishing Respect for the Black Vote
Democrats will wince at my metaphor, but I can't help thinking that black voters are the elephant in the room. The party talks about faring poorly with churchgoing people although 88 percent of black voters -- a religious group if ever there was one -- cast their votes for Kerry. Party officials fear that liberal values have acquired a "very upper-middle class flavor," to borrow author Thomas Frank's phrase, which undoubtedly confounds the many poor and working-class blacks who have...
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 9:00am PST