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In case you haven't heard, Bryan Epis is being re-sentenced by Judge
Damrell on August 1, at 9:30 a.m....
Posted: Thu, Jul 7, 2005 4:52am PDT
Our tax dollars were not only used to perpetrate the 9/11 Inside Job, with the US Air Force and the CIA as the perpetrators of that Reichstag Fire, we now have CIA spy planes circling over our cities, tracking people for possible kidnapping to one of the many concentration camps the US government has around the world....
Posted: Mon, Jul 4, 2005 2:14am PDT
Initially, the so-called war on terror enhanced the governor’s reform agenda, as he hitched his wagon tighter to the White House’s post-Sept. 11 momentum. More recently, though, the poster boy for the state Republican Party has seen his public approval ratings decline sharply.
Despite and because of that, the Guard’s recent monitoring of women’s peace groups is likely the tip of the government surveillance iceberg. In Schwarzenegger’s right-wing calculus, anti-war dissidents and labor acti...
Posted: Sun, Jul 3, 2005 5:14pm PDT
Apparently these South Korean women were lured to U$A by traffickers who promised regular jobs, then forced them into sexwork. Will feds treat them as victims, or not?...
Posted: Sun, Jul 3, 2005 7:10am PDT
Public Access Cable in the San Francisco and
Sacramento Area, 'Injured on the Job' will be introducing Larry Nign, an injured worker, to expose reckless disregard on behalf of the California State Fund. Special introduction by Mr. David G.Sweigart, CISSP in a phone interview addresses the issues of Federal HIPPA Violations and an ongoing investigation by the Department of Justice....
Posted: Fri, Jul 1, 2005 1:15pm PDT
Greens second call for immediate probe
of California National Guard after emails
disclose spying on anti-war groups at Capitol...
Posted: Thu, Jun 30, 2005 7:25pm PDT
DawnWatch: BBC's The World covers PETA's request to aquarium to take fish off menu. Also NY Times 6/29/05 and LA Times 6/28/05...
Posted: Wed, Jun 29, 2005 5:36pm PDT
KPFA General Manager Roy Campanella II, on the job for a little more than half a year, is blamed for ignoring allegations of harassment. He’s even accused of harassing and demeaning women at the station and attempting to intimidate those who would report the abuse, charges he forcefully denies....
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 11:40am PDT
Slipping under many of our radar screens, California Attorney General Bill
Lockyer issued a legal opinion on Thursday, June 23 regarding medical marijuana....
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 7:55am PDT
ON JULY 6, IMMIGRANTS WILL CONFRONT GOVERNOR AND STATE LEGISLATORS OVER
DRIVERS LICENSES AND THE MINUTEMENT !! PLEASE JOIN US IN SACRAMENTO !...
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 7:53am PDT
"Guard officials say the new unit, established last year, will not violate long-standing rules barring the military from gathering information on American citizens."...
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2005 8:33pm PDT
Infoshop (http://www.infoshop.org), Flag (http://flag.blackened.net), and related websites and email lists were recently offline for several weeks. During this time we set up a new server at a co-location facility....
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2005 10:49am PDT
**Note Senator Migden from SF, Marin and Sonoma County is on the committee and needs to hear from you!!**...
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2005 2:16pm PDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to get records related to the arrest of five Lodi, Calif., men on terrorism charges....
Posted: Sun, Jun 26, 2005 5:14am PDT
Some hopeful news from CalExpo re their animal welfare policies. A final vote on our proposals for changes in the Fair's "2005 Animal Welfare Handbook" (available on-line at www.calexpo.com) has been postponed until the Fair Board's July 22 meeting....
Posted: Sat, Jun 25, 2005 10:53pm PDT
Cumann na Saoirse Náisíunta re-launches website...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 12:46pm PDT
In less than a week of recklessness reporting, the Bay Area media has destroyed a humble Pakistani family and three other men. The carnage was unbelievable. In a frenzy race for the ratings, the media descended to Lodi, a small town south of Sacramento, in search of the "terrorist cell" they learned about in a federal criminal complaint.
Everybody took at face value the veracity of an FBI affidavit and the most imaginative headlines started to come out of the editor's brains. The...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 12:01pm PDT