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Beached Whales and Navy Sonar
DawnWatch: CSM lead editorial - "Beached Whales and Navy Sonar." 3/8/05...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 5:31pm PST
Putting William Rivers Pitt in Charge of the Occupation
Most Iraqis want the US to leave now. Every survey has shown that, and the only Iraqis clamoring for us to stay are the politicians who are in the US' pockets. Yet Mr. Pitt says that we should ignore the will of the battered Iraqis and continue to try to "fix" their problems....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 4:54pm PST
Bush Chief of Staff Sponsored a Mass. Tax and Regulate Bill
In 1981, State Representative Andrew Card, Jr. introduced, by request,
Massachusetts House Bill 1737, the Massachusetts Cannabis Revenue and
Education Bill, to create a Cannabis Control Authority to regulate the
commercial production and distribution of marijuana, with different
licenses required for importation, cultivation, processing and retailing
activities...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 4:40pm PST
AK Press Interview on 'In The Meantime' (audio/mpeg 42.7MB)
Interview on February 1, 2005 with Lani Riccobuono and Zach Blue from AK Press, "a workers’ co-operative wholly owned by its members. All decision-making, including which titles we distribute and what we publish, is made collectively. Our goal is to make available radical books and other materials, titles that are published by independent presses, not the corporate giants, titles with which you can make a positive change in the world. The sorts of books we stock are less and less availab...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 4:40pm PST
HRC Praises Marriage Decision
"The judge's decision is clear: there's no rational reason for denying
marriage and the promise of equality to same-sex couples," said HRC's
Seth Kilbourn....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 4:17pm PST
save tennessee mountains with a phone call
Phil Bredesen, the 48th governor of Tennessee, took office in 2003, with a promise be the "environmental governor" and "to make government work on behalf of its citizens for the betterment of the entire state." Instead Bredesen and his administration have flung open the door to mountain top removal mining in clear violation of the laws they swore to uphold....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 2:02pm PST
Move On Moves To the Right?
Media Activist Danny Schecter Notes Odd Behavior at Move On...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 1:35pm PST
"The Unkindest Cut" and other farming cruelties
DawnWatch: New York Times op-ed on cruel farming practices 3/7/05...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 9:59am PST
How Government Agencies Produce Pre-Packaged TV Segments the Media Runs as News
According to a major expose in The New York Times, federal agencies under the Bush administration - from the State Department to Agriculture to the Transportation Security Administration - have been producing hundreds of pre-packaged TV segments that have been broadcast on local stations as real news. We speak with John Stauber of PR Watch, which has been tracking the rise of government and corporate-produced news for years....
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 9:30am PST
"When You See News As a Product...It's Impossible To Really Serve Democracy"
We speak with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Laurie Garrett, who resigned from Newsday and ripped the paper's parent company, the Tribune Company, for putting profit over quality journalism. Garrett says, “If you trim back your staff, if you trim back your costs, and you put out a lower quality product, your stock value goes up. All across the news industry, we have seen this same phenomenon."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 14, 2005 9:29am PST
Mountain Justice Summer 2005 - Stop Mountain Top Removal in Tennessee
You can help save entire mountain ranges and mountain sides in
Tennessee with a few calls, emails and a fax or two....
Posted: Sun, Mar 13, 2005 6:58pm PST
Bush's Grand Plan For Blacks: Put New Leaders In Charge
It is a great mistake to view the Bush regime’s ferocious assaults on Black and poor America as simply a more vicious version of standard Republican behavior since Ronald Reagan’s presidency. The Bush crowd is different than their predecessors; they don’t just want to defeat Black political leadership, but to replace it....
Posted: Sat, Mar 12, 2005 11:22pm PST
March 19 Momentum Builds Across Country
The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition demonstration in San Francisco has gained
growing support in the recent days and weeks. Tens of thousands will
march....
Posted: Sat, Mar 12, 2005 4:48pm PST
Pentagon Finds Pentagon Innocent
Human rights groups and some senators are expressing growing frustration over the Pentagon's failure to hold senior officers or civilian leaders accountable for widespread abuses by U.S. forces against detainees in Washington's "war on terror."...
Posted: Sat, Mar 12, 2005 7:59am PST
States slam Bush education law
PHILADELPHIA — The No Child Left Behind Act has wreaked havoc on our nation’s public school system, according to state lawmakers. A bipartisan panel of state legislators issued a scathing report, Feb. 23, on President Bush’s education law, calling it unworkable, inflexible, impractical and unconstitutional. The report accuses NCLB of setting unobtainable goals and not funding the demands it makes....
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 11:42am PST
Remembering those who serve …A tribute to America’s food-and-beverage workers
From diners and drive-throughs to gourmet restaurants, America’s dedicated foodservice workers embrace their long holiday shifts with cheerful attitudes and even enthusiasm for the stressful, if not Herculean, task at hand. For them, it is the best of times and the worst of times....
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 11:41am PST
Rally 4 Hip Hop: Stop racist Hot97
New York City’s hip hop community rallied Friday afternoon in Union Square against the racist radio station Hot97. “The heart of the hip hop culture has always been the community, and we feel Hot97, the supposed place “where hip hop lives,” has lost its respect and responsibility to the community a long time ago, and it is about time for the community to step forward and take it back,” the organizers explained....
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 11:38am PST
An appeal to students who oppose the war in Iraq
The following call has been issued by the Students for Social Equality as the political basis for meetings being held at campuses across the country....
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 10:41am PST
Urgent Appeal from Wife of Pakistani Facing Prison & Deportation
The following is a heart wrenching appeal from the wife of Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, a Pakistani convenience store owner in Houston, Texas, who is facing 30 years in prison and deportation. This is an example of one of the many ways in which the government is persecuting Pakistanis and other Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants. In this case the government launched an investigation, not of criminal activity, but of Pakistani convenience store owners who took out Small Business Administration guar...
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 12:30am PST
Exploited Thai guest workers need your help!
According to the WA Dept of Health, these workers were forced to live in
outrageously crowded, unsanitary conditions--with only 21 beds for 45
people at one location, no cooking facilities at multiple locations, and
workers were forced to wash their clothes in trash cans....
Posted: Thu, Mar 10, 2005 10:48pm PST