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Get Trained for the RNC
Upcoming trainings (Legal Observer, Know Your Rights, NYC Orientation) in the Bay Area, with RNC-specific information, so bring your friends! Check the web site for resource guides, too....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 11:36am PDT
Senate "cheneys" Bush
U.S. Senate has indirectly rejected the anti-gay-marriage amendment, in a procedural vote, on Bastille Day. Details later....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 10:10am PDT
Harassment of DNC Protesters Escalates
Despite the Boston Police Department’s stated commitment to protect people’s
First Amendment rights during the DNC, the BPD has, in conjunction with other
law enforcement officers in New York City, started a campaign of preemptive
action that could chill protest participants' lawful speech activities during
the Democratic National Convention (DNC)....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 9:45am PDT
Did Dennis Kucinich Sell Out Anti-War Democrats?
Kucinich: "...it may not be exactly what I want, which is a withdrawal, and I'm going to keep continuing to speak for withdrawal."...
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 9:36am PDT
Anti-War.com: Dems. Drop Anti-war Pretensions
In this one instance, when we asked for the following language:
"[W]e must announce our intention to set a date for the withdrawal of our military forces,"
we were instead given
"[T]he U.S. will be able to reduce its military presence in Iraq, and we intend to do this when appropriate so that the military support needed by a sovereign Iraqi government will no longer be seen as the direct continuation of an American military presence."...
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 9:32am PDT
Kucinich Campaign Now Supports Dem. Platform and Occupation
Supporters of presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, still campaigning despite Kerry's evident victory, said the language was not what they had wanted but called it a victory. They agreed to withdraw amendments to the platform on Iraq in exchange for the new language.
``What we got was a commitment to begin the process to talk about bringing the troops home......
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 9:30am PDT
2nd Annual Nuclear Free Future Run
We run and walk to bring focus not only on the horror of
nuclear weapons but the damage caused to the Earth by the
production not only of these weapons but also by the use of
nuclear energy....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 5:30am PDT
Andy Stern and SEIU Offer the Same Worn-Out Policies
To Many young activists, SEIU is considered the progressive Union. But, in the last analysis, the policies of SEIU's leadership are no different from those of any other AFL-CIO Union. They fail to take on the employers in a serious way and refuse to break politically with the Democratic Party....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 10:24pm PDT
FoxNews Infotainment Libeled the Tehran Times
FoxNews infotainment shockjock Scott Norvell commented on an article he never researched. Without contacting me, the Pentagon or the CNRRC he comes to the conclusion that naming a webserver "gestapo" merely suggests that one is a "geek" and not a white supremacist....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 6:25pm PDT
Relieving Ourselves Of The Bush Infection
visit www.luxefaire.com/electro.html...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 11:54am PDT
AP misquotes amendment?
Does AP report misquote text of original anti-marriage federal amendment?...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 10:13am PDT
GOP Proposes 2nd Anti-Gay Amendment
Senate Republicans prepared two versions of a constitutional amendment on marriage Monday, unable to agree among themselves on how best to get a vote on a measure that President Bush made an election-year priority for Congress....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:44am PDT
Fahrenheit 9/11 - A Marxist Review
Fahrenheit 9/11 - A Marxist Review...
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 9:46pm PDT
Liberal Loopholes
In embracing John Edwards, John Kerry has also endorsed his populist "two Americas" rhetoric and has put tax increases at the center of the election campaign. So it's fair to ask the two Democrats: How much of those tax increases will actually hit the super-rich like yourselves, and how much will end up on the backs of upper middle-class wage earners?...
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 9:05pm PDT
7/13: Women to call white house
Religious, Environmental, HIV/AIDS and Women’s Health Groups Join in National Call-in Day to Demand Bush Administration Fund UN Population Fund (UNFPA)...
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 7:56pm PDT
Detainees in Israel statement of support for hunger strikers
Jamie Spector and 2 others currently detained by the Israeli authorities have made this statement in support of the hunger strike in A-Ram against the new wall....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 4:38pm PDT
Democracy is Dead!?
"Tommy Franks Declares Democracy Dead" - Annotated from an article by Thor @Pittsburgh Independent Media Center....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 10:25am PDT
Comparative Anthropology
Anesthetized in deep denial, modern man loses connection to the deep questions. Driven by shadow issues (Thomas Frank), we can trivialize questions of quality of life. In a time of botched intelligence and ketsup varieties, we can gain new strength from liberation theology....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 6:27am PDT
Harassment of DNC Protesters Escalates
Despite the Boston Police Department's stated
commitment to protect people's First Amendment rights
during the DNC, the BPD has... started a
campaign of preemptive action that could chill protest participants' lawful speech activities during the Democratic National Convention (DNC)....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 11:59pm PDT