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text ALERT: Important Medical Marijuana Vote in Congress Next Week by DRCNet
In the wake of Monday's Supreme Court ruling in the Angel Raich medical marijuana case, the US House of Representatives is now scheduled to vote on an important pro-medical marijuana amendment next week....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 11:08pm PDT
audioPremier Diamond Dave and the C.A. Insurgency (audio/mpeg 23.7MB) by Diamond Dave and C.A.I.
Premier Poetry Politics What Ever, Smoken Word, WORD!!!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 10:10pm PDT
imageDISPOSABLE LIVES: How Animal Liberation Can Affect Us All
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by Kelah Bott
The movement for animal liberation is the bastard child of social justice. Many people fighting for justice on other issues simply don’t see it as relevant to their struggle. Animal liberation isn’t taken seriously, and those fighting for it often have their priorities questioned. Even as we fight for an egalitarian world, a hierarchy of social justice persists. Animal rights always takes a back seat to any other issue. What many people don’t see is that it is all part of the same struggle....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 7:38pm PDT
textAmerica’s internal “gulag”-the imprisonment of immigrants in the US by wsws (reposted)
A network of prison facilities in which detainees are held indefinitely without charges, denied access to attorneys and family, terrorized by dogs, and subjected to abuse tantamount to torture, as well as sexual humiliation. This description applies not just to Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram Air Base, but also to another “gulag” of jails and detention facilities strung across the United States in which tens of thousands of immigrant workers are being held by US Immigration and Customs Enfo...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 4:33pm PDT
textWhite House Environmental Chief Cooney Watered Down Climate Reports by Democracy Now (reposted)
The New York Times reported that a White House official who once led the oil industry's fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming. The official -- Philip Cooney -- is chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Before coming to the White House in 2001, he was a lobbyist at the American Petroleum Institute. We speak with Greenpeace and the Sierra Club....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 4:32pm PDT
text Green Party: Impeach Bush Now! by Messenger
author: Common Dreams The Downing Street Memo proves that invasion of Iraq wasn't the 'last resort' but Bush's intent all along, leading to cooked intelligence and other impeachable offenses; Greens note bipartisan and media complicity in overlooking evidence of deceit, urge public protest...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 4:31pm PDT
textMumia Appeal Denied! Emergency Call to ACTION! by ICFFMAJ
What Judge Dembe has done is deny Mumia his constitutional and human right to a fair judicial process. She has sustained every decision Sabo made and refused to introduce extremely relevant and crucial material pointing to Mumia’s innocence....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 12:15am PDT
text Act Today To Prevent Tragic Confirmation Tomorrow by NOW
We need your help TODAY for a Senate vote tomorrow (Thursday, June 9) to stop the confirmation of William Pryor, Jr., another terrible Bush nominee to the Court of Appeals....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 11:26pm PDT
textASA: Campaign Update by Americans for Safe Access
Despite a disappointing ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week, medical marijuana advocacy marches on....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 10:47pm PDT
textPedestrian deaths: hold manufacturers accountable for the safety of their products! by Tim Castleman
Manufacturers are held responsible for the safety of the products they sell. Safety features are built in to everything made for people to use. Unfortunately, this standard has not been applied to automobile manufacturers in regard to their products impact on innocent bystanders....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 11:13am PDT
textGot milk? Too much makes for a fat kid by repost
More lies from the dairy industry coming to light....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 10:48am PDT
textSacramento Gets It - Kids & Teachers Are Not Lab Rats ! by Robina Suwol
Author Assemblymember Cindy Montanez (D., 39th District), stands up for the health of kids, teachers, and school employees with AB 405...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 1:35am PDT
imageVigilantes in Suits: boycott or rot...ARIZONA 2005
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by Piper Weinberg, Margot Veranes, Alexis Mazón
Arizona legislator Russell Pearce got a taste of the Bay Area last month when he was surrounded by 20 members of the San Francisco-based Deporten a la Migra Coalition in front of the Arizona State Capitol building. Organizers came to Arizona to witness the vigilante circus on the border and in the statehouse. Arizona is rapidly adopting an apartheid system as a model for other border states....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 12:36am PDT
textCall Congress this week! -- Prisoner Update -- November Organizing Packets by SOA Watch
1. Congressional Call-in Days: Wednesday 2. Prisoner of Conscience Update 3. November Organizing Packets available for downloading...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 10:28pm PDT
text Planned Parenthood Sues to Protect South Dakota Women by Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota filed a lawsuit today challenging newly enacted restrictions on abortion that force doctors to read to women seeking an abortion state-scripted information that is medically inaccurate and infused with ideology....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 10:00pm PDT
textPlanned Parenthood Celebrates 40 Years of Protected Birth Control, Women Face Obstacles by Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood Celebrates 40 Years of Protected Birth Control Forty Years After Griswold v. Connecticut Case, Women Still Face Obstacles to Accessing Reliable Birth Control Options...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 9:55pm PDT
textFARM CHILDREN THREATENED BY TOXIC PESTICIDES, ACCORDING TO LAWSUIT by Natural Resources Defense Council
A generation of America's most vulnerable children face increased risk from exposure to hazardous pesticides, according to a lawsuit filed today against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 6:32pm PDT
audioGrand Jury Teach-In (audio/mpeg 15.7MB) by Enemy Combatant Radio
Audio of Grand Jury Teach-in conducted that took place on May 31st...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 6:08pm PDT
textDean's Democrats Remain Pathetic by repost
As chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the lapsed physician now carries the stretcher for a party too sick even to diagnose its own organizational self-interest, much less defend the social and constitutional principles now under siege by the White House. The only thing worse than Dean's prepared platitudes, sometimes shouted, is his virtual silence on the two great issues that Democrats work so hard not to confront: the hideous, mendacious war in Iraq and the big-money corruption ...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 5:34pm PDT
imageWhat's Good for GM...On the State of the U.S. Economy
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by Sara Burke
When Standard & Poor’s credit raters gave thumbs down to General Motors and Ford on May 5th, the once mighty U.S. auto companies tumbled from investment grade to junk bond status. Mainstream folk wisdom once proclaimed, “What’s good for GM is good for the country,” but that aphorism came from the 1950s, during the long post-WWII “golden age,” when U.S. capitalism was on the rise, and the standard of living for U.S. workers improved year after year. That long economic boom ended with the oil...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 5:26pm PDT
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