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A 21-year-old college student could spend years in jail on bomb threat charges after he stood silently outside a military recruitment office dressed like an Iraqi prisoner: in a black cape, hooded, wearing stereo wires hanging from his fingers. The police charged Joseph Previtera with making a bomb threat since the stereo wires resembled wires to a bomb....
Posted: Thu, Jun 3, 2004 10:07am PDT
"Even the Wall Street Journal loyal to the government speaks of `incompetence' in the war against terror..Bush wants to move the rudder with words more than deeds.. According to this week's poll, Bush will be voted out of office by a 2:1 margin...
Posted: Thu, Jun 3, 2004 9:50am PDT
"A year ago Daniel Cohn-Bendit discovered almost `Bolshevist' characteristics in Bush's team of advisors, a sense of mission that is alien on principle to self-criticism.. This is the opposite of what constitutes America's fascination up to today, the opposite of liberality.."...
Posted: Thu, Jun 3, 2004 9:31am PDT
Clamor Magazine is busily working with some amazing people to host the Allied Media Conference June 18-20 in Bowling Green, Ohio. In addition to the hundreds of brilliant independent media makers and supporters who will be attending, the AMC will also feature a few more notable highlights....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 8:35pm PDT
MP's Lawyer: Translator Gave Orders...
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 11:47am PDT
"Friends with benefits," etc. ( + SF events )...
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 10:09am PDT
Tamera is a peace project in Alentejo, southern Portugal..The project's research work deals with new ways of healing both humans and nature. The aim is to develop a cultural model for a non-violent lifestyle, a healing biotope, an intentional commu-nity....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 10:06am PDT
Making education more responsive to the needs of the student...
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 6:27am PDT
IT'S A STATE OF EMERGENCY!!!
We've got the bands, we've got the goods, we've got the speakers; but Fair World Fair needs your donations to secure a space for civil dialogue and Carnaval, to be a beacon of enlightenment and hope in the long shadow cast by the global elite, the G-8, meeting on Sea Island June 8-10th, 2004....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 2:58am PDT
In a 5-4 ruling enforcing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) against a government entity, Justice John Paul Stevens said on Monday that previous government efforts have failed to adequately remedy "a pattern of unequal treatment in the administration of a wide range of public services, programs, and activities, including the penal system, public education, and voting."...
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 1:00am PDT
The federal abortion ban passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush last year is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, Federal District Court Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton ruled today. The ban, challenged in Planned Parenthood v. Ashcroft, could have outlawed abortions as early as 12 to 15 weeks in pregnancy, including those that doctors say are safe and among the best to protect women's health....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 12:28am PDT
A federal judge declared unconstitutional Tuesday the federal government's first-ever attempt to outlaw a specific abortion procedure, saying the law would endanger women's health and violate their right of access to abortion....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 12:15am PDT
A federal judge Tuesday declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying the measure infringes on a woman's right to choose.
The ruling applies to the nation's 900 or so Planned Parenthood clinics and their doctors, who perform roughly half of all abortions in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 12:03am PDT
Federal Judge Declares 'Partial-Birth' Abortion Ban Unconstitutional;
Exposes Right-Wing Policy as Infringement on a Woman's Right to Choose...
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 12:01am PDT
Legalization of drugs in America...
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 10:13pm PDT
URGENT ACTION ALERT! PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!! HELP PRESERVE FREE SPEECH
AND PROTECT CIVIL LIBERTIES!!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 6:19pm PDT
Activists staged a great protest at the Halliburton shareholders meeting in Houston, Texas last May 19th. The activists who did civil disobedience now need our financial support....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 2:44pm PDT
"A recovery based on job losses, wage cuts, increased health care costs, an incomparable increase in student fees and growing poverty is not John Kerry's idea of an American economy that works for America's workers.. Business Week recommends either cancelling the tax relief.."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 9:43am PDT
Redressing the Emperor: What did Mr. Bush REALLY know (and when did he know it)? How many Iraqnam-focused Deep Throats will it take for us to learn the answers?...
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 11:19pm PDT