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If many private-sector workers can see through the campaign to turn them against public employees, is it really impossible for native-born workers to see through the similar effort to pit them against foreign-born workers?...

AETA4 Defense attorneys motion for a bill of particulars...

“I looked up the block and there was a truck and an arm was out the window with a big gun and it was firing. I took off running.... because that’s what you do. Bullets have no name on them.” An eyewitness to the shooting of Corey Harris....

A team of New York police were lurking through East Harlem and saw a young Black man with a gun running down 125th Street. They shot him dead. However this killing has been hard to cover up or justify because the dead man was Omar J. Edwards, a fellow New York cop assigned to patrol the housing projects. [Sequence of events]...

Over 4,000 people hit the streets of L.A. on March 21 to protest U.S. wars. 10,000 in Washington, D.C. & 4,000 in San Francisco In Washington, D.C., 10,000 marched on the Pentagon on March 21. As the Associated Press noted, a "throng of war protesters swelled Saturday as they marched across the Memorial Bridge." The protesters marched on the Pentagon and what followed was a dramatic direct action at Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and KBR, corporations that demonstrators label...

The ignoble end of the Bush presidency could not have been more eloquently accented than by the pair of shoes flung at him by an Iraqi journalist as he shouted, “This is a farewell kiss, you dog! This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq!”...

See the top 20 Ecoterrorists in the United States at http://www.elfpressoffice.org/ecoterrorists.html...

Richard and Fay discuss a chaotic street battle they witnessed in downtown St. Paul and the experience of having been struck with a police baton, being detained and later dropped off outside of town -- as well as reflect on their general impression of events over the past week and where they think direct resistance might be headed. Also see: http://www.zeroriotcop.blogspot.com/...

Between June 11 and July 5 of this year, Chicago police shot twelve people, all Black and Latino. Six were wounded and survived. Six were killed. The victims were young and old, a mother, fathers, and children. They were students aspiring to go to college, and workers. They were people with friends, families, and dreams. They included Shapell Terrell, a 39-year-old sanitation truck driver raising seven children; police fired 14 bullets into his back, killing him on the spot. That very same e...

Friday, May 23, 2008 :US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice found herself compelled on Thursday to defend the Bush administrations use of waterboardinga potentially fatal method of induced drowning used to break the resistance of detaineesclaiming that America was in a different place in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, while insisting that the governments actions were consistent with US law and international treaties....