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Inauguration Protests planned in DC
Just a quick update on plans in DC...
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 9:06am PST
Oppose Gonzales as Attorney General
The nomination of White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General of the
United States raises the likelihood that the chief legal officer in the second Bush
Administration will undermine, not uphold, the Constitution of the United States he
is sworn to support....
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 8:15pm PST
Republican Websites Hacked in Protest of the Inauguration
In solidarity with the billions around the world who are being oppressed under the Bush agenda, The Internet Liberation Front has hacked and defaced six Republican websites who push forward the sick and violent ideology of warfare, capitalism, and profit over people.
The will of the people was not expressed in these elections. Imperialist war, tax cuts for the rich, and ecological destruction are not in the interest of working people or the stability of our global society. The bush adminis...
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 2:05pm PST
GENERAL STRIKE ON 1/20
You CAN do something to show this government you find their policies repugnant. STRIKE! EVERY ONE OF YOU STRIKE AGAINST THIS REGIME ON 1/20!...
Posted: Sat, Jan 15, 2005 2:18pm PST
Action Alert: 1/24-27
Welcome Congress Back with a Demand
to Defend and Expand Democracy!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 14, 2005 11:09pm PST
Supreme Court Overturns Federal Sentencing Guidelines
The Supreme Court ruled that federal sentencing guidelines put in place two decades ago were unconstitutional because they violated a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to be tried by a jury. The court ruled judges cannot increase sentences beyond the maximum that the jury's findings alone would support....
Posted: Fri, Jan 14, 2005 8:43am PST
BTL:Historic Congressional Challenge to Ohio Election Results Spotlights...
...Voting Irregularities ~ Interview with Bob Fitrakis, an attorney who filed lawsuit challenging the presidential election results in Ohio, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Jan 14, 2005 4:39am PST
BTL:Torture Victims Oppose Gonzalez Nomination for Attorney General
Interview with Orlando Tizon, human rights activist and torture survivor, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 6:03am PST
Michael Chertoff is Bad for Homeland Security
Michael Chertoff is not fit to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. While he has a good record as a prosecutor, he does not have as good a record on respecting and safeguarding civil rights and liberties. He is, by his own admission, an advocate of “streamlining” justice, a euphemism for setting aside troublesome things like due process of law....
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 1:04pm PST
Unprecedented Security Preparations For Bush Inauguration
An unprecedented level of security is planned for George W. Bush's inauguration on Jan. 20, including six thousand police officers, 2,500 military personnel, and dozens of federal security agencies on patrol....
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 9:55am PST
Not One Damn Dime Day--Jan 20
On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is happening in our name
in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of
consumer spending....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 8:58pm PST
Conyers Thanks Internet Activists, Bloggers
Nice to know someone cares when we bother to repost, email and organize in our spare time....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 1:47pm PST
Anybody But Hahn? A Mayoral Convention for the Animals
A few months ago, the country heard the Democrats' mantra "Anybody but Bush." On January 9, 2005 at the Citizens for a Humane Los Angeles mayoral convention at Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn in North Hollywood, one group of animal rights and welfare advocates supported the "Anybody but Hahn" theory while another argued "Vote your Heart."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2005 12:42pm PST
The Joe Warren Story - a Canadian who was wrongfully Convicted for 21 years
Never before has a case of
Unlawful and Unconstitutional
Been Exposed in Canada like this.
Please go to www.thewrongguy.ca
'21 years' of incarceration.
Letter from 'The Law Society of Upper Canada':
http://www.thewrongguy.ca/part07/Package07_Page_040.pdf
The Starting of the Re-Instated 'Habeas Corpus Act':
http://www.thewrongguy.ca/part07/Package07_Page_040.pdf...
Posted: Sun, Jan 9, 2005 12:03pm PST
Gonzales nomination hearing: US Senate welcomes a war criminal
Virtually all of the news reports of Alberto Gonzales’s appearance before the Senate panel considering his nomination as US attorney general had similar headlines: “Gonzalez repudiates torture,” “Gonzales disavows torture tactics,” “Gonzales says he’s opposed to torture.”...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 1:20pm PST
We're All Black Now!
Now that Electronic Jim-Crow has officially stolen the 2004 presidential and congressional elections it can be officially declared that the South has finally won the civil war. It took a 150 years for the proslavery, segregationist, white supremacist movement in America to accomplish the task but they finally did it....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 1:15pm PST
In the Clearing Stands a Boxer... a letter from Michael Moore
This is the first step on a necessary road toward making sure that everyone is allowed to vote and that every vote is counted (something we did not see in 2000 or 2004) so the next time around ALL of us can be confident, when the election results come in, that they reflect the will of the people, not the whim of mechanical error and human obstruction....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2005 10:52am PST
Dancing in the Dark (LIke the Old-Time Lefties Always Did)
American progressives seriously started mass-scale organizing only about a year ago. In just one year we came within reach of victory.
That's remarkable. Now is no time to quit....
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 11:51am PST
Gonzales Grilled on Role in Torture at Confirmation Hearing
Alberto Gonzales' role in paving the legal groundwork that led to the torture of detainees in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay was the central focus of a Senate hearing yesterday, which is considering his nomination to succeed John Ashcroft as attorney general. Gonzales delivered more than seven hours of testimony, most of it responding to questions from Committee members on his role in setting the stage for the abuse of detainees. We hear excerpts of the hearing and speak with journalist Mark D...
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 9:23am PST
Well, There It Is Lads and Gents....The Glorious American Democratic Elections!
And we should export this to the rest of the world?...
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2005 12:47am PST