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New York Times details secret US military torture operation A New York Times report on March 19 details the operations of Task Force 6-26, a highly secret US Special Operations Unit whose members have reportedly engaged in torture and assassination in Iraq and Afghanistan. The existence and a hint of the operations of the unit—previously known as Task Force 121 and since renamed Task Force 145—have been reported in the press before, however there has never been a complete public accounting for its illegal activities....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 10:27pm PST
France: Police assault leaves protesting worker in coma A 39-year-old French telecommunications worker is in a coma as a result of a brutal beating by riot police last Saturday evening. Cyril Ferez was attacked during the mass demonstration against the Gaullist government’s “First Job Contract” (CPE), which permits companies to sack young workers without cause during the first two years of employment. More than a million workers and students marched against the measure last Saturday, including 350,000 in Paris....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:38am PST
“Hey you! Stop!” 
NYC activist Dave Segal reported to prison Monday, where he will serve six months for actions he took to protest the war in Iraq. These are his words about the experience that took him there....
Posted: Sun, Mar 19, 2006 2:00pm PST
US-Backed Repression Soars Under President Gloria Macapagal Since President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo joined the US global "War on Terrorism", the Philippines has become the site of an on-going undeclared war against peasant and union activists, progressive political dissidents and lawmakers, human rights lawyers and activists, women leaders and a wide range of print and broadcast journalists. Because of the links between the Army, the regime and the death squads, political assassinations take place in an atmosphere of absolute impunity. The v...
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 10:45pm PST
FLASHPOINTS: The 25th Anniv. of the H-Blocks Hunger Strikes in the North of Ireland (audio/mpeg 19.0MB) This interview aired on KPFA/Pacifica radio's investigative news show, "FLAShPOINTS," on March 16th. I spoke with Bobby Lavery, Sinn Fein representative for North Belfast from 1985-89, and from '93-2000, also an ex-prisoner of Long Kesh. The other voice is that of Terry Kirby, who was imprisoned in Long Kesh during the Blanket Protest and the Hunger Strike of 1981. Terry was one of 38 men who managed to escape Long Kesh in 1983. mp3, 21 minutes...
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 1:39pm PST
Venezuelan Prof. Visited by Feds in Pomona, Bolivian Prof. Denied U.S. Entry Visa We look at two cases of U.S. government crackdown on university professors: A prominent Bolivian scholar who was recently barred from entering the U.S. while a Venezuelan-born professor comes under the watch of federal agents in California....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 7:35am PST
Transcripts of Guantánamo hearings: a window into Washington’s gulag The Associated Press published on March 15 its preliminary analysis of thousands of pages of documents on prisoners held by the US at Guantánamo Bay. The analysis gives a glimpse into the lives of hundreds of people who have been arbitrarily swept up and held without cause for years, subjected to abuse and wretched conditions....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 6:32am PST
Newly Released Files Reveal FBI Spied on PA Peace Group Because of Antiwar Views Newly released files show the FBI has been monitoring and possibly infiltrating a Pittsburgh peace group because of its opposition to the war in Iraq. We speak with the former head of the Thomas Merton Center, who was personally named in the FBI spy files as well as the New York Civil Liberties Union which has filed FOIA requests to determine whether the FBI is spying on the ACLU and other prominent political and religious groups in the city....
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 7:14am PST
Why the Gitmo Tribunals are a Bad Idea - Exhibit A: the Moussaoui Trial The Justice Department's vile and underhanded attempt to rig the penalty-phase trial of Zacarias Moussaoui and nail him with a death penalty is Exhibit A for why Bush and Rumsfeld should not be allowed to handle the Guantanamo detainee and other detainee cases through military tribunals....
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 6:31am PST
British Human Rights Lawyers Blast U.S.-Run Prison at Guantanamo Bay As we focus on the case of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg, we speak with Victoria Brittain, co-author of his book, "Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back" and leading British human rights lawyer, Gareth Peirce about the U.S.-run prison camp....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 7:25am PST
Moazzam Begg Describes Bagram and Gitmo and Witnessing the Killing of Fellow Detainees In a Democracy Now! U.S. national broadcast exclusive, we hear former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg in his own words. He was imprisoned for three years without charge by the United States at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan and Guanatanmo Bay in Cuba. We broadcast his first comments in this country since the publication of his book in Britain, "Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 7:20am PST
4/7-9: The Faces of Wrongful Conviction Conference Check out this seminal conference on wrongful
convictions...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 10:12am PST
Political tensions continue after Philippine state of emergency ends Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has ended the country’s state of emergency one week after she imposed it. The decree was lifted on March 3, but still without any credible evidence of any alleged coup attempt involving, allegedly, a combination of Communists and right-wing army officers....
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 7:11am PST
Britain and US in talks over closing Guantanamo Bay The US has asked the British government for advice in preparation for closing down the notorious prison camp at Guantanamo Bay by sending hundreds of alleged al-Qa'ida fighters back to their home countries, The Independent on Sunday can reveal....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 10:40am PST
Nonviolence, Power, and Liberation The Project
March 2006
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The popular idea of power assumes that it is an intrinsic trait of those who hold it; that subjects are dependent on their rulers for support; that power is “... a ‘given,’ a strong, independent, durable (if not indestructible), self-reinforcing, and self-perpetuating force.” The dictator is powerful because he seemingly stands at the head of government, commands the nation’s army, and has unilateral control over the nation’s laws. This model justifi...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 7:07pm PST
India: Police and Hindu supremacists engage in provocations following Varanasi bombings At least 20 people were killed and more than 100 injured in two separate bomb blasts on March 7 in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh (UP)....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 11:21am PST
Life Under the Klan Wasn't This Bad: Gitmo on the Mississippi Sometimes the injustices here in New Orleans leave me numb. But the continuing debacle of our criminal justice system inspires in me a sense of indignation I thought was lost to cynicism long ago. Ursula Price, a staff investigator for the indigent defense organization A Fighting Chance, has met with several thousand hurricane survivors who were imprisoned at the time of the hurricane, and her stories chill me "I grew up in small town Mississippi," she tells me. "We had the Kla...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:52am PST
Media Release: Former ELF Spokesperson Subpoeaned to Federal Grand Jury: Protest Planned The "Green Scare' Continues......
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 9:02am PST
Crackdown on Civil Liberties in the UK Shami Chakrabarti, an attorney and director of the British civil rights group Liberty, Milan Rai, of Justice Not Vengeance, and former diplomat Brian Barder discuss the state of civil liberties in Britain....
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2006 9:21am PST
British Journalists Face Pressure from Police After Revelations on Menezes Shooting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is visiting Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday. The two leaders are expected to discuss the shooting of Brazilian native Jean Charles de Menezes in London last summer. Menezes was shot dead by British police in a London subway station one day after an attempted bomb attack on the British subway system in July. We speak with Deborah Turness, editor of British channel ITV News, about the circumstances surrounding the shooting and the investigatio...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 5:28pm PST
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