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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
Premier Poetry Politics What Ever, Smoken Word, WORD!!!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 10:10pm PDT
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
More lies from the dairy industry coming to light....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 10:48am PDT
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
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
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
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
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
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
Audio of Grand Jury Teach-in conducted that took place on May 31st...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 6:08pm PDT
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
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