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Every Step You Take - New documentary about video surveillance in UK about to be released (video/mp4 21.0MB) There is a new documentary about video surveillance (CCTV) in Britain coming out, and this time, the topic seems to be covered in a more critical way....
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 5:07am PST
U.S. MUSLIM COALITION CALLS FOR FASTING IN SOLIDARITY WITH DETAINED FLA. PROF The American Muslim Taskforce for Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of major Muslim organizations, today called for a worldwide "rolling fast" in support of Dr. Sami Al-Arian....
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 5:22pm PST
BPP Prisoner Needs Your PHONE CALL! Chip Fitzgerald, longest help Black Panther in captivity needs you PHONE CALL to get him off lockdown.
Chip is up for parole on March 29, 2007....
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 11:08am PST
NYPD Spy Tactics Exposed: Police Surveillance Footage Recorded From Blimps, Helicopters and "Lipstick Cams" During RNC On Thursday a federal judge has ordered the New York Police Department to stop videotaping innocent protesters at political demonstrations. The judge ruled the police have repeatedly violated what is known as the Handschu guidelines that dictate how the police carries out political investigations. Today we broadcast never-before-aired police spy video that show how the police conducted widespread surveillance during the Republican National Convention in 2004....
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 9:16am PST
Italian judge indicts CIA agents for illegal kidnapping The US policy of “extraordinary renditions”—the illegal kidnap and transportation of supposed terror suspects to secret detention sites where they are then tortured—was the subject of both an Italian legal investigation and a critical report by the European Parliament last week....
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 9:05am PST
Demands grow for release of Australian Guantánamo prisoner, David Hicks Popular opposition continues to mount against the Australian government over its refusal to demand the immediate release of David Hicks from Guantánamo Bay. Hicks was captured in Afghanistan by the Northern Alliance in late December 2001 and then sold to the US military. He has been incarcerated in Guantánamo Bay for more than five years....
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 9:03am PST
BTL:Bush Warrantless Domestic Spying Program Ruled Unconstitutional Interview with Michael Avery, president of the National Lawyers Guild, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2007 8:41am PST
EU conference in Dresden: German Interior Minister Schäuble advocates police state measures On January 14-15, the European Union (EU) interior and justice ministers used the occasion of an informal gathering in Dresden to push ahead with plans for police state measures across Europe....
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 1:42pm PST
Canada transferring Afghan detainees to “self-confessed torturers” The World Socialist Web Site spoke this week with Dr. Amir Attaran, Professor of Law and Population Health at the University of Ottawa....
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 6:31am PST
More on Jeffrey Free Luers' appeal decision Friends,
There has already been a lot of media coverage on the appeal decision in Jeff's case. Below is an example from the Register-Guard in Eugene, Oregon.
Thank you to those that have emailed us congratulatory messages - it is greatly appreciated and we will be passing them on to Jeff. Please also write to Jeff if you can and let him know we will be here fighting for him until he is Free!
In addition, fundraising is critical right now as well, to cover legal costs, so please help i...
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 12:52pm PST
The Experience of Mohammad, 11-year-old in US Prison During the day Friday, the words of 11-year-old Mohammad Hazahza have filled him up and weighed him down. On Friday night, he pours the words back out, as if wanting to be lifted back up....
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 9:24pm PST
Police stops skyrocket in New York City Statistics released last week by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) indicate a massive intensification of police harassment and arbitrary detentions and searches in the streets of New York....
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 9:27am PST
Mexico: Laws but no justice In Mexico, the criminal justice system is gravely flawed. The country’s law and enforcement agencies and judicial system do not effectively protect people from human rights abuses, and perpetrators are rarely brought to justice....
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:53am PST
Gloria Arroyo is 100% responsible for disappearances & rights violations! – Desaparecidos Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of being responsible for the abductions because of her national policy Oplan Bantay Laya.
“Mrs. Arroyo, please quit your lies. We don’t have any need of your farcical investigations. YOU, the military and police are 100 % responsible for the more than 200 abductions and disappearances in your six years in power,” said Ghay Portajada, spokesperson of the Families of Desaparecidos for Justice (DESAPARECIDOS)....
Posted: Sun, Feb 11, 2007 3:43pm PST
Protest Government Roundup of Former Black Panthers! Protest Government Roundup of Former Black Panthers!...
Posted: Sat, Feb 10, 2007 2:29pm PST
US refuses to sign UN ban on renditions and secret detention Fifty-seven countries signed a UN treaty on Tuesday that bans governments from carrying out forced disappearances and holding individuals in secret detention. Washington, as well as a number of European governments, including Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy, refused to sign....
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 7:42am PST
Online Petition: Free Gary Tyler! GARY TYLER, at one time the youngest person on death row, turned forty-eight years old
this July. He has spent thirty-two of those years in jail for a crime he did not commit....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 3:42pm PST
SLAVERY ON THE NEW PLANTATION: A Report of Today’s Prisons and Jails, Part 2 “Slavery 400 years ago, slavery today. It’s the same, but with a new name. They’re practicing slavery under color of law.” (Ruchell Cinque Magee)...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 12:46pm PST
Was Israel Tracking the Hijackers Before the 9/11 Attacks? A new article in the newsletter Counterpunch examines unresolved questions over whether Israeli agents were tracking the 9/11 hijackers before September 11th. ABC’s 20/20, The Forward, and Salon.com have all covered the story. But where’s the follow up? We speak to the author of the article, Christopher Ketcham; Counterpunch editor Alexander Cockburn, and Marc Perelman, the Forward reporter who did one of the first reports on the story in 2002....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 9:46am PST
This One Book Changed My Mind About TheDeath Penalty The Book Journey Toward Justice by Dennis Fritz Changed my views about the Death Penalty...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 8:22am PST
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