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Britain: No one to be held accountable for police murder of Jean Charles de Menezes The announcement that no police officers are to be charged in connection with the shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes has been met with justifiable outrage....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 6:23am PDT
Why I Wrote: I Cried, You Didn't Listen Dwight Abbott, currently locked up in Salinas Valley State Prison, wrote the book, "I Cried, You Didn't Listen," first published in 1991 and now reprinted by AK Press, to expose the widespread abuse of incarcerated children....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 6:16am PDT
Six Nations Warriors Arrested in Grassy Narrows OPP officers raided Grassy Narrows blockade site yesteday arresting Six Nations people who had come to participate in a gathering as guests of the Grassy Narrows community. 5 six nations people were detained, 4 were charged. The OPP are targeting 6 nations people and people of colour.
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>> Police cruisers also entered the Grassy Narrows reserve without permission, violating the community's sovereignty and legal jursidiction over their reserve lands. Grassy Narrows Band councilors seized an...
Posted: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 10:26pm PDT
White House, Congress seek to legalize kangaroo courts, torture White House officials and congressional leaders have begun intensive discussions on how to evade the Supreme Court’s June 29 ruling in the Hamdan case, which struck down the Bush administration’s military commissions for prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp and said that the prisoners were entitled to humane treatment under Article Three of the Geneva Conventions....
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 6:45am PDT
Prison Riots in Belgium Overcrowding, torture, injuries, lack of medical care, threats, isolation, the complete annihilation of the individual and his or her desires. This is the daily reality in the prisons....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 5:00pm PDT
CAMPAIGN TO END THE DEATH PENALTY Update -- New York Remains a Death Penalty-Free Zone
-- Darby Tillis Performs in New York
-- Stop Stalling! Release the Chicago Police Torture Report
-- Setback in the Rodney Reed Case--But We Will Keep Fighting
-- Show the Documentary "Reed vs. State"
-- July 2 Event in Washington, D.C.
-- Socialism 2006 Conference Report
-- Lethal Injection Ruling: Putting Many Executions on Hold
-- California Lethal Injection Petition...
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 4:00pm PDT
Does a State of War Give Bush a Right to Commit War Crimes? Right-wing columnist Charles Krauthammer has weighed in against the Supreme Court's latest ruling in Hamdan, claiming that the Court erred in barring President Bush from denying Guantanamo detainees the protections of the Third Geneva Convention. The basis for his argument is that the U.S. is at war, and that traditionally "supreme courts have been loath to intervene against presidential war powers in the midst of conflict."...
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 6:31am PDT
The Last Free Fourth of July? "You Can't Stand Here. We Have Received a Complaint ... "...
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 6:21am PDT
Mumia Abu-Jamal - Legal Update re new filing deadline The United States Court of Appeals, Philadelphia, recently granted my
motion for an extension of time to file our opening brief on behalf of
Mumia Abu-Jamal. It is now due on July 20, 2006....
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 4:53pm PDT
Italian Probe of CIA Abduction Broadens to Domestic Spying Scandal Two Italian intelligence officers have been arrested on charges they helped CIA agents abduct a Muslim cleric off the streets off Milan three years ago. Italian investigators are now widening their probe into whether Italian intelligence agents were engaged in illegal domestic spying and a "black propaganda campaign of misinformation....
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 7:32am PDT
Were Black ‘Terrorists’ Entrapped? PHILADELPHIA – In the language of George Orwell’s double speak, war is peace, truth is lies....
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 10:36pm PDT
The Gathering police brutality and an inadequate response at the rainbow family national near steamboat springs, colorado...
Posted: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 11:11am PDT
Plan to attack New York tunnels: Yet another dubious “terror plot” New Yorkers awoke Friday morning to lurid headlines in the New York Daily News proclaiming that a “Tunnel Bomb Plot” had been foiled. That afternoon, Federal Bureau of Investigation Assistant Director Mark Mershon, flanked by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, told a press conference that the FBI had disrupted a plan to carry out suicide bombings in the PATH train tunnels that carry hundreds of thousands of commuters between Manhattan and New Jersey....
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 8:11am PDT
Spokane antiauthoritarian July 4 walk 
Anarchists in Spokane, Washington organized a march promoted as a "March For Rights" that took place this 4th of July afternoon. Close to fifty people with signs, upside-down flags, and black flags marched through busy downtown Spokane at around 4pm behind a large sign that "We Are Not Afraid!" with the acronyms "FBI", "JTTF", and "NSA" circled and crossed out....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:40pm PDT
Government authorized ways to celebrate your freedoms, this 4th of July As we go out to celebrate our freedom this 4th of July, let's go over a few things to make your celebration a success....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 1:57pm PDT
Australian government demands new “kangaroo court” for David Hicks Last week the US Supreme Court found that the Bush admininstration’s military commission trials of Guantánamo inmates were illegal and that they violated both the Geneva Conventions and the US constitution. For the Australian government, the ruling has created a serious political dilemma. From the outset, Canberra has slavishly backed the kangaroo courts and shamelessly collaborated in Washington’s four and a half year detention of 31-year-old Australian citizen David Hicks in Guantánamo Bay....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:38am PDT
Vietnam-Era Veteran Arrested at VA Medical Center for Wearing Peace T-Shirt Mike Ferner, a Vietnam-era veteran, says he was arrested at the Jesse Brown V.A. Medical Center in Chicago for wearing a Veterans for Peace T-Shirt. We also speak with longtime peace activist Kathy Kelly about the crackdown on dissent....
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 6:59am PDT
The Hamdan dissents: US Supreme Court justices argue for presidential dictatorship Three US Supreme Court justices filed dissenting opinions in last week’s 5-3 ruling in the case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which rejected President Bush’s military commissions at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp....
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 6:43am PDT
CIAs INDICTED (Romano, Castelli, Russomondo, De Sousa), also top Italy Spies 
[JULY 5, 2006] Italy has just indicted three CIA officers and a U.S. Air Force officer on charges that they participated in the illegal 2003 rendition, or torture/kidnap, of a Muslim cleric in Milan. They are:...
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 1:37pm PDT
FWA-SF Condemns the Burning of BAYAN MUNA Radio station in Cagayan The Filipino Workers Association-San Francisco vehemently condemn the latest fascist attack against progressive party list organization BAYAN MUNA in Cagayan Valley, Northern Luzon. The latest is the burning of the radio station in Baggao, Cagayan.Eight armed men set a community radio station identified with the left-wing Bayan Muna party lThe Filipino Workers Association-San Francisco vehemently condemn the latest fascist attack against progressive party list organization BAYAN MUNA in Cagay...
Posted: Sun, Jul 2, 2006 10:08am PDT
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