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Bush spying called threat to the republic In a Martin Luther King Day speech at Constitution Hall Jan. 16, Al Gore drew cheers as he called for appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate George W. Bush’s “strongman” abuses of power, including spying on the American people and other impeachable offenses....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:18am PST
US government demands Google hand over Internet search data The US Department of Justice has asked a federal judge in San Jose, California, to compel Internet search giant Google to comply with a subpoena issued last year to turn over records that detail millions of Internet searches....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 8:26am PST
This is the person medics ID as CS 3 informant in Auburn 3 case 
i am a long-time medic and received this from another trusted medic. it is also posted on portland indymedia.
i am non-violent: this is posted so those who sought care from a sham medic may identify the provider and choose to seek a second opion should they so desire....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 8:40pm PST
CALL FOR DEATH PENALTY RELATED ART This is an international, all-media, juried exhibition on view May 6 through
May 22, 2006 at Gallery Lombardi in Austin, Texas and online for at least
one year at http://www.deathpenaltyartshow.org.
Work in all media is eligible....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:09pm PST
internationals against video surveillance an international grouping of activists sponsor an international day against video surveillance....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 9:22am PST
More evidence of European collaboration with CIA torture flights and prisons The efforts of the European powers to deny knowledge of CIA flights through Europe transferring prisoners to be tortured overseas—and even the existence of CIA torture facilities in Europe—have suffered further damning exposures....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:13am PST
Court update for Jonathan Paul and Suzanne Savoie A brief update on recently arrested activists Jonathan Paul and Suzanne Savoie...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 5:57pm PST
New Jersey Suspends Death Penalty (New York, January 16, 2006) – New Jersey’s governor tomorrow is scheduled to sign into law a temporary moratorium on the death penalty in the state. Governor Richard Codey and state legislators should now move forward to permanently abolish this arbitrary and inherently cruel punishment, Human Rights Watch said today....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:57am PST
Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuits Challenging Bush on NSA Wiretaps Former Vice President Al Gore gave a major speech in Washington Monday accusing President Bush of "repeatedly and persistently" breaking the law by authorizing the NSA wiretaps. We play an excerpt of the address and the Center for Constitutional Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union are filing separate lawsuits challenging President Bush's order for the NSA to conduct domestic spy operations without legally-required court warrants. We speak with a staff attorney for the Cent...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 8:53am PST
India: twelve protestors killed in police shooting Twelve tribal villagers in India were shot dead by police on January 2 during a demonstration against the development of the Kalinga Nagar steel complex in the eastern state of Orissa. The impoverished protestors were demanding a halt to construction by steel developers on their traditional land. A 13-year-old boy and three women were among those killed....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 7:58am PST
Collaboration with CIA renditions highlights France’s assault on democratic rights The International Federation of Human Rights (IFHR) and the French League for Human Rights (LHR) last month announced they were “filing a complaint with the Public Prosecutor of the Administrative Court of the City of Bobigny against arbitrary detentions, illegal confinement, torture, and violations of the Third Geneva Convention on the fate of prisoners of war.”...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 9:04am PST
Summary/Analysis of "Operation Backfire": FBI's ELF/ALF Witch Hunt Below is a compilation of information relating to the recent arrests of eco/animal activists in the U.S. The sources are from the internet and court documents. I put it together because i felt like it would be helpful to have a place for people to read about the case as a whole, and about how to support the incarcerated activists. Also, it was clear that some important information wasn't getting out there enough....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 4:45am PST
Dead Man Wheeled In -- The Graying of Death Row The aging and often sickly death row population nationwide, including San Quentin prisoner Clarence Ray Allen, scheduled for death Jan. 17 -- shows further the cruelty of capital punishment, the writer says....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 7:40pm PST
Major court ruling on protestor mass arrest lawsuit in DC Court also rules that the Sept. 2002 mass arrest of protestors and
passers-by violated the Fourth Amendment rights of the plaintiffs...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 4:37pm PST
Former Black Panthers considered terrorists under Patriot Act Undaunted by what they call "unconstitutional" methods used under the guise of the Patriot Act, three former Black Panthers are touring the country to bring awareness to their recent interrogation by anti-terrorist law enforcement....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 11:46am PST
Counterpunch: How the FBI Spied on Edward Said The FBI has a long, ignoble tradition of monitoring and harassing America's top intellectuals. While people ranging from Albert Einstein, William Carlos Williams to Martin Luther King have been subjected to FBI surveillance, there remains an under-accounting of the ways in which this monitoring at times hampered the reception of their work....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:07am PST
Detained, Not Rescued: Katrina Survivors Testimony to Congress (AUDIO) 
On Dec 6, 2005 several Katrina Survivors testified before Congress- their testimony should have been headline news across America… You can still watch the testimony at C-span (12/6/05), but if you don’t have 4 hours, these four mp3s contain some of the best clips of the hearing.
These are just a few of the Katrina stories that BushCo doesn’t want America to know....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 11:35am PST
NSA Spied on Baltimore Peace Group The Baltimore-based chapter of the national Iraq Pledge of Resistance is an anti-war organization working for peace by challenging people in power, educating the public and getting citizens to take action. In the interview below, Maria Allwine of the Pledge, describes how the National Security Agency (NSA) is spying on them. These allegations, which have not been reported in the media despite attempts to get coverage, are based on documents received by the pledge in litigation with the govern...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 9:53am PST
Vet is Arrested for Writing Letters Vet arrested and strip searched in front of kids for sending letters to White House....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 7:34am PST
Critical Mass Arrests Dismissed NYPD "Hopelessly Overboard" NYPD taken to the woodshed for their War on Civil Liberties...
Posted: Tue, Jan 10, 2006 12:33pm PST
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