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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
Lynne Stewart Falsely Convicted on Aiding and Abetting Terrorism Charges! In a travesty of justice and after a seven-month trial progressive New
York attorney Lynne Stewart was convicted today on conspiracy to aid and abet terrorism charges...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 3:03pm PST
A New World in Our Hearts: Building for Revolution May Day Conference in NYC A May Day Conference in NYC with workshops, skill shares, music, a really free market, a critical mass bike ride, parties, speakers, films, a soccer tournament and more....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 2:28pm PST
Lynne Stewart Convicted of "Helping Terrorists" For Acting As Lawyer For Egyptian Sheik NEW YORK (AP) - A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients - a radical Egyptian sheik - to his terrorist disciples on the outside.
The jury has been deliberating off-and-on over the past month in the case of Lynne Stewart, 65, a firebrand, left-wing activist known for representing radicals and revolutionaries in her 30 years on the New York legal scene....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 12:44pm PST
Still Time to Urge Congress to Oppose the REAL ID Act There is still time to oppose the REAL ID Act. The House of
Representatives is expected to vote on this bill this afternoon....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 10:10am PST
Robert O'Harrow Goes Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society O'Harrow explores how the government is teaming up with private companies to collect massive amounts of data on citizens and how, he writes, "More than ever before, the details about our lives are no longer our own. They belong to the companies that collect them, and the government agencies that buy or demand them in the name of keeping us safe."...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:08am PST
Seeking Submissions for Queer Women Anthology What I am looking for: personal essays written by lesbian, bisexual,
and
transgender women (in their late teens to early thirties) on their
participation
in queer activism(s)....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 11:25pm PST
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