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The further hemorrhaging of Detroit—city to shut 34 public schools Detroit parents, students and teachers reacted with shock and anger to Thursday’s announcement that 34 of the city’s public schools will close their doors this June. More than 10,000 of the district’s 140,000 students will be uprooted and shifted to different schools when the academic year ends and the facilities are shut down....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 10:31pm PST
Overview of Amendments to the REAL ID Act (H.R. 418) as Passed by the House Approximately 20 amendments were offered to the bill. Of that number, six were ruled in order with the House approving three of the six. A brief outline of those six amendments follows:...
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 8:53pm PST
Waxman calls for Hearings on 52 Warnings- Calls out Condi 
Reps Henry Waxman and Carolyn Maloney have called for hearings based on the
new evidence of that the FTAA received 52 warnings mentioning Osama Bin Laden between April and September 10, 2001. Also, in the summer of 2001
the FAA sent a CD-ROM alert to airports mentioning the possibility of suicide hijackings....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 8:34pm PST
FILIPINO TRANSSEXUAL FAMILY DENIED RIGHT TO REMAIN IN THE U.S FILIPINO TRANSSEXUAL FAMILY DENIED RIGHT TO REMAIN IN THE U.S.
EMPAQ CALLS TO STOP DEPORTATION AND SEPARATION OF FAMILY!...
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 6:31pm PST
*Reclaim the Commons!* Philadelphia, June18-21 *Call to Action!* All who dare to paint
poems of resistance on walls of oppression, dance in city streets in
defiance of police states, and plant seeds of sedition in the shadows
of Empire: come to Philadelphia!...
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 6:17pm PST
ECD to Protest Fur 
'Electronic Civil Disobedience' to protest fur this Monday....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 6:17pm PST
A NATIONAL DAY OF OUTRAGE IN RESPONSE TO LYNNE STEWART VERDICT Please begin making arrangements and stay tuned for more information....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 3:06pm PST
Press release concerning the Anna Mae Aquash case and Leonard Peltier It has become clear that certain factions are maliciously and wrongfully framing Leonard Peltier as a patsy to be falsely blamed for the death of Anna Mae Aquash. First and foremost, let us be clear that Leonard had no involvement in the murder....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 1:56pm PST
KFC acknowledges PETA covert video KFC's spinsters are hard at work to gets lies out to the masses, but others are working much harder to get out the truth.
Animal Liberation!...
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 11:11am PST
Another Bedrock Right Obliterated: Lynne Stewart's Conviction Hurts Us All In a shocking jury verdict today, a tireless watchdog for liberty was convicted of violating special administrative prison rules and of providing material support to terrorists....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 9:30am PST
Convicted Attorney Lynne Stewart: "You Can't Lock Up the Lawyers" Lynne Stewart and her attorney, Michael Tigar, join Democracy Now! In our firehouse studio for their first extended national broadcast interview following Thursday's jury decision to convict Stewart on all five counts of conspiring to aid terrorists and lying to the government. The verdict reverberated around the country, especially with lawyers who fear the government's aim is to discourage them from representing unpopular clients. We also speak with one of the witnesses at her trial, former...
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 7:59am PST
February 2005 U.S. Immigrant Alert! Newsletter 1. The Surge of Anti-Muslim and Anti-Chinese Xenophobia
2. Free Eddie & Andy
3. Our “Vision 2005 Strategy�
4. Immigration News Briefs
5. Community Actions!
6. Information About the Network
7. Please Subscribe to the Newsletter...
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 12:06am PST
Brother of military resister Pablo Paredes speaks out: “Human life is worth more than this Socialist Worker:
February 11, 2005...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 11:23pm PST
NCLR DENOUNCES PASSAGE OF "REAL ID ACT" The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., laments today's passage of the "REAL ID Act" (H.R. 418) by the House of Representatives....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 11:20pm PST
Arrest of members of Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Copwatch Program Three members of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Lumumba Bandele, Desaw Floyd, and Djbril Toure were arrested in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn just past midnight this morning. At the time of their arrest, the three were engaged in the legal monitoring of police activities as part of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Copwatch Program....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 10:35pm PST
Bush budget assailed as ‘war’ on people WASHINGTON — Outraged protests greeted President George W. Bush’s $2.57 trillion budget proposal, with many calling it a fraudulent, radical plan to starve spending on human needs while lavishing billions on the “greedy.”...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:55pm PST
Is Buster the rabbit bad for kids? On only her second day at work Margaret Spellings, Rod Paige’s replacement as U.S. Education Secretary, made her mark — she condemned PBS for producing a children’s television show that included two families headed by lesbian couples.
Unlike her predecessor in his infamous comment on the National Education Association, however, Spellings stopped short of calling the popular cartoon rabbit “Buster” a terrorist....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:54pm PST
The new McCarthyism: the witch-hunting of Ward Churchill The witch-hunt spearheaded by the ultra-right, with the assistance of the media, against University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill has dangerous implications for academic freedom and free speech in the US. It represents the latest manifestation of the new McCarthyism, the drive to suppress and silence critics of Bush administration policy and its “global war on terror” in particular....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:50pm PST
NLG Condemns Verdict In Lynne Stewart Trial National Lawyers Guild Condemns Verdict In Lynne Stewart Trial
Urges Defense Attorneys to Continue Representing Unpopular Clients...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 5:20pm PST
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