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12 Retired Military Leaders Calling on Senate to Scrutinize Gonzales' Role in Setting the
Shalikashvili Among 12 Retired Military Leaders Calling on Senate to Scrutinize Gonzales' Role in Setting the Stage for Torture; Human Rights First Outlines Gonzales' Role in Setting Improper Detention and Interrogation Policy...
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2005 12:48pm PST
AN EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION! MOUNTAIN JUSTICE SUMMER
There is an ecological manmade disaster of geologic proportions occurring in the rolling mountains of the southern Appalachians, its called mountain range -- or mountain top -– removal. It is the ultimate in theft of a people's heritage -- the destruction of watersheds -- and the annihilation of one of the most diverse places on earth. And the perpetrators are turning it into the biological equivalent of a parking lot. The theft of our mountains is escalating as the coal companies strive to o...
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2005 12:22pm PST
UFPJ Winter/Spring Organizing Drive to End the Iraq War
UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
WINTER/SPRING ORGANIZING DRIVE TO END THE U.S. WAR ON IRAQ...
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2005 12:25am PST
A call for an Anti-Authoritarian Bloc for the Inauguration.
The Parade Must End: A call for an Anti-Authoritarian Bloc for the January 20, 2005 protest of the Presidential Inauguration in Washington D.C....
Posted: Mon, Jan 3, 2005 11:48pm PST
Lillian Hellman Centennial: Outstanding Writer & Anti-Fascist
"I cannot and will not cut my consicence to fit this year's fashions" proclaimed playwright Lillian Hellman to the anti-Commnist witchhunters of HUAC (House Unamerican Activities Committee) on May 21, 1952. It is her political spirit and her classics of American literature that we honor this year, the hundredth anniversary of her birth....
Posted: Mon, Jan 3, 2005 7:22pm PST
Independent Media Converges to Cover Bush Inauguration
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: www.inaugurationmedia.org
Radio Coordinator: Selina; 202-250-4939; selina@riseup.net
Photo and Print Coordinator: Nancy; 202-216-2817; nancy@upcloseandpolitical.com
All Other Inquires: Chris; 202-413-2212; chrisstrohm@yahoo.com or Allison; 301-949-7639; allison@amp-photo.net...
Posted: Mon, Jan 3, 2005 3:16pm PST
Case for Hemp Made at American Farm Bureau Convention
Case for Hemp Made at American Farm Bureau Convention; U.S. Farmers Deserve Right to Grow Industrial Hemp for Global Demand...
Posted: Mon, Jan 3, 2005 10:56am PST
Labor TV Show OnThe Coming War At SF Chron&Crisis In AFL-CIO&Future Of Labor Now On Web
Labor On The Job is now streaming it's show The Coming War At SF Chron & Crisis In AFL-CIO & Future Of Labor...
Posted: Sun, Jan 2, 2005 5:18pm PST
Vegan BBQ on Food Network - Beautifully Represented
Please Send Thank You! And ask for re-broadcast of episode originally scheduled for 1/8....
Posted: Sun, Jan 2, 2005 1:52pm PST
Ohio to DC ELECTION REMEDY: We do not concede!
DISENFRANCHISED OHIO VOTERS MOBILIZING FOR HISTORIC CIVIL RIGHTS,
PRO-DEMOCRACY PROTEST BUS TRIP FROM COLUMBUS TO WASHINGTON, DC...
Posted: Sun, Jan 2, 2005 12:15pm PST
VoteFraudNews.com ~ New Years Update
News Update: Cobb recount, Conyers, Moss vs. Bush
Protests, Rallies, Marches! Jan. 3, Jan. 4-6
Massive public drive to contact Senators before Jan. 6
Mitofsky exit poll data?...
Posted: Sun, Jan 2, 2005 2:26am PST
Znet article on Fallujah
Red Cross estimates 6,000 dead in Fallujah...
Posted: Sat, Jan 1, 2005 2:33pm PST
Bush administration targets medical care for the poor
The federal government has dispatched auditors to state capitals around the country in an effort to rein in the cost of Medicaid, the program designed to provide medical coverage for the poor. The program also pays for about 70 percent of the nation’s nursing home patients....
Posted: Sat, Jan 1, 2005 9:27am PST
United Airlines Flight Attendants Authorize Strike
United Airlines Flight Attendants Authorize Strike; AFA Warns of CHAOS if Contract is Rejected...
Posted: Fri, Dec 31, 2004 12:53am PST
American Charity Sues to Have its Humanitarian Assets Unblocked
The American non-profit humanitarian relief organization, Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA-USA) has filed suit against Departments of Treasury and Justice, in the District of Columbia, to have its assets designated for humanitarian aid, unblocked. The U.S.-based charity, which has been unfairly targeted and forced to shut down on the eve of its busiest month of the year, wants its humanitarian aid sent to the most needy in Asia and Africa....
Posted: Fri, Dec 31, 2004 12:52am PST
Website Looks to Help LGBT Cigarette Smokers Quit
Happy New Year All -
I am working on a project that is will raise awareness among LGBT
community that tobacco companies are targeting our people to encourage and
promote tobacco use, here is a new program to help those that are ready
to quit tobacco. Check it out - here's to a healthier 2005. Tina...
Posted: Fri, Dec 31, 2004 12:51am PST
Rep. David Wu on Voting Irregularities
This letter was sent by Rep. Wu (D, Ore) on December 23, 2004....
Posted: Thu, Dec 30, 2004 10:20am PST
Figure for Law Enforcement Fatalities for 2004
One can imagine that a whole lot more civilians, whose jobs are not usually considered to be "dangerous," died at the hand of law enforcement this year. The Stolen Lives Project is collecting info about people who have died in custody: http://www.stolenlives.org and will publish a new edition of the book Stolen Lives: Killed by Law Enforcement soon....
Posted: Tue, Dec 28, 2004 9:34am PST