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Deal to renew USA Patriot Act extends police-state measures Republican negotiators in the House of Representatives and the Senate reached an agreement last week for the renewal of the USA Patriot Act, including the permanent extension of most of the provisions that had been set to expire by the end of this year. Once it is passed into law, the bill will extend sweeping attacks on democratic rights and consolidate a vast expansion of the powers of the state to spy on law-abiding individuals....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 10:56pm PST
police brutality in buffalo ( possible mafia relations) The police in Buffalo constists of many ( crocket cops). These cops are known around the city for brutality. officer Pernaro, and also Lutenet King. I was i victim of one of there assults on 12/10/05 and i want to help stop this racism towards are city's inacent, poor Black young men. Please E-mail me back a/s/a/p Thanks.....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 5:15pm PST
The Philly Media and Mumia Abu-Jamal When They Don't Bash, They Ignore
By LINN WASHINGTON, Jr....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2005 7:04am PST
Alpizar and de Menezes: Two victims of state “anti-terror” killings The state killings of Rigoberto Alpizar and Jean Charles de Menezes came four-and-a-half months apart, and an ocean separated the scenes of their violent deaths. Yet the similarities between their fates is undeniable. Both were innocent men brutally executed by undercover agents—in one case American, in the other British—prosecuting the so-called “global war on terror.”...
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 11:05pm PST
Another arrest and subpoena in FBI Eco witch hunt - Please write him a letter! Former ALF prisoner Darren Thurston was arrested last Wednesday and is currently being held in an INS detention center in Tacoma. His extradition is based on his conviction for raiding a Lab in 1992. He was also subpoenaed to the Eugene grand jury for Feb. 16th, 2006
No word yet on how a subpoena can be served or enforced upon a Canadian citizen, but these are awfully strange times we are living in. Darren has been told, as most of the other recipients of the recent subpoenas, that he is a t...
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 6:03pm PST
ITALY, NO-TAV protests: 50.000 fight against the police! - the protesters managed to re-occupie the valley -...
Posted: Sun, Dec 11, 2005 5:59pm PST
Bob Avakian on Richard Pryor Recently I was reading reports of police assaults on Black people and of Black people fighting against the police in Memphis and Miami. This called to mind a story I was told a while back. A rookie cop was riding in his police car with his veteran partner when a report came in that there was a Black man in the vicinity with a gun. As their car screeched around the corner, a young Black man suddenly appeared sprinting up an alley--into a dead end. "Shoot him!", the older cop screamed...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 10:02pm PST
Email Garden Grove City Council regarding Theresa Dang case If you are one of the many thousands of people outraged about what has happened to Theresa Dang, please email the Garden Grove City Council and tell them how you feel about this matter at ruths@ci.garden-grove.ca.us and pamha@ci.garden-grove.ca.us...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 8:34pm PST
Shooting the Mentally ill, Better than treatment? Forty-four year old Rigoberto Alpizar, an American citizen was Murdered by federal air marshals on Wednesday as he fled an American Airlines jet at Miami International Airport. Federal officials lied about him saying he had a bomb....
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 1:45pm PST
Eyewitnesses refute official story in fatal shooting of passenger at Miami airport In the days since Rigoberto Alpizar was shot and killed while fleeing an American Airlines flight in Miami, no credible evidence has materialized to back the claim by government authorities that the 44-year-old Costa Rican immigrant said he was carrying a bomb in the moments before federal marshals opened fire....
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 12:24am PST
The US has used torture for decades. All that's new is the openness about it By ignoring past abuses, opponents of torture are in danger of pushing it back into the shadows instead of abolishing it...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 12:00am PST
Shooting the Mentally Ill Forty-four year old Rigoberto Alpizar, an American citizen born in Costa Rica was killed by federal air marshals on Wednesday as he fled an American Airlines jet at Miami International Airport. Federal officials claim he threatened that he had a bomb and the shooting was necessary to protect passengers in the terminal....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 10:27pm PST
Press Release: With Sec. Rice in Europe, US Christians challenge US detention centers "This is the most powerful protest of US torture policy to happen since 9/11 and the 'War on Terror'"
-Gitanjali Gutierrez, attorney for Guantánamo detainees...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 10:17pm PST
Brooklyn activist faces life in prison on 16-count arson indictment Federal marshals arrested six environmental activists in a series of coordinated raids in four states yesterday, Dec. 8, in apparent response to a string of arsons in Oregon and Washington attributed to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), including simultaneous attacks in 2001 at the University of Washington's Urban Horticulture Center and the Jefferson Poplar Farms in Clatskanie, Oregon. Daniel McGowan, 31 was arrested in New York City....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 12:09pm PST
Look Homeward for Proof of Prison Torture You don't have to look abroad for "secret prisons" to know that the U.S. government resorts to torture. Just ask residents of the California prisons, writes PNS contributor Dwight Abbott, who has spent more than half his life in the California penal system....
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2005 7:11am PST
12/6 Court Decision Details;12/9 Philly Mtg, Films;12/10 NYC Event The Third Circuit's December 6 rulings granted "certificates of
appealabilty" to Jamal to challenge alleged race and judicial bias in the
1995 Post Conviction Relief Action proceedings overseen by Mumia's original
1982 trial court "hanging" judge, Albert Sabo. Sabo went to extreme lengths
to keep evidence of innocence out of the court record....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 10:53pm PST
German Chancellor Merkel covers up for illegal CIA practices The German-American partnership is based on “common democratic convictions and values,” and on the basis of these values Germany and the US are seeking “to master together the new challenges and threats of the twenty-first century.” These were the words used by German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Christian Democratic Union, CDU) as she welcomed US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday during the latter’s stopover in Berlin. The words used say a great deal about Merkel and the character ...
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 8:56pm PST
Miami airplane shooting: Washington’s ‘war on terrorism’ comes home The most chilling aspect of the brutal state killing of Rigoberto Alpizar, the 44-year-old Costa Rican immigrant gunned down while fleeing an American Airlines Boeing 757 in Miami Wednesday, is the utter absence of any statement of remorse by government officials....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 8:49pm PST
As Rice Asserts U.S. Detainee Policy, a Look at "Torture Flights" and Secret CIA Prisons As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that U.S. interrogators are forbidden to use torture both at home and abroad, we speak with British journalist Stephen Grey on how he tracks so-called "torture flights" - when the CIA kidnaps a suspect of the street and transports them to secret prisons....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 7:54am PST
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