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Interesting article considering the upcoming protests
An interesting perspective considering the M20 protests....
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2004 6:01am PST
Sebastopol and FL City Support, Explore Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
Two more cities on opposite sides of the country have joined a growing list of communities calling for legalized same-sex marriage and an end to attempts to amend the US Constitution to bar gay unions. In California, Sebastopol city council passed similar motions, urging the Sonoma County clerk to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples and asking the Board of Supervisors to support civil marriage for gay and lesbian couples....
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2004 12:29am PST
LGBT Federal Workers Lose Job Protections
Gay and lesbians in the entire federal workforce have had their job protections officially removed by the office of Special Counsel. The new Special Counsel, Scott Bloch, says his interpretation of a 1978 law intended to protect employees and job applicants from adverse personnel actions is that gay and lesbian workers are not covered....
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2004 12:22am PST
National Call in Week for the Buffalo, March 15-18
Stop the slaughter of the last wild buffalo in America.
Call your Congressional Representative today!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 3:36pm PST
Right Wing Manipulates Spanish Attacks
Conservatives have willingly manipulated the war on terrorism for partisan and ideological gain since 9/11. But in the aftermath of the tragic terrorist bombings in Madrid last week, right wing vitriol reached a new low as conservatives assaulted Spanish supporters of incoming Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero as "appeasers" and "supporters of al Qaeda." Knight Ridder syndicated columnist Joel Mowbray stated, "Voters in Spain pulled the lever for al Qaeda o...
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 1:12pm PST
Democratic Schwarzenegger Ally Pushes Open Primary Ballot Measure, Third Parties at Risk
The voter's choice open primary does exactly the opposite of what its supporters claim by reducing choice to only two candidates....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 12:51pm PST
El Salvador Election Observers Detained!
Find out how you can help! Free elections are being threatened in El Salvador, once again....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 12:44pm PST
Blast rips through Baghdad hotel
A powerful blast has ripped through a small hotel and houses in central Baghdad, killing at least 25 people and injuring 40, the US military reports....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 11:39am PST
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico- Victory for Demilitarization
Today March 17th we can announce to everyone that we did it! We have gained a victory for the anti-militarization movement. We have come to agreements with the administration....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 11:25am PST
'Making politics with horror and blood'
The prominent Madrid novelist and anti-war campaigner Almudena Grandes on how the horror of Spaniards turned to rage against their government...
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:56am PST
What's going on en el Estado Español?
I've tried to summarise here what has been going in in Spain leading up to the terrible attacks in Madrid and Today's general elections in order to provide some background....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:47am PST
Haiti's History: Noam Chomsky Traces Underpinnings Of Aristide's Ouster
We hear an excerpt of MIT professor Noam Chomsky speaking days before President Aristide was flown to the Central African Republic about the first coup against Aristide in the early 1990s....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:31am PST
One Jewish American Activist Still Held By Israel
Kristin (Flo) Razowsky, a Jewish American
activist from Minneapolis, Minnesota, is currently being held facing
deportation charges in an Israeli detention center, in Nazareth....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:31am PST
Jamaica, Venezuela Refuse to Recognize U.S.-Backed Haitian Government
Two days after President Aristide defied the Bush administration and the Haitian government by returning to the Caribbean, we go to Kingston, Jamaica to get a report from a veteran Jamaican journalist....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:30am PST
Haiti: Class Hatred and the Hijacking of Aristide
But almost all Haiti-watchers agree that various
anti-Aristide forces have been at work in the
U.S. capital for as long as the former Catholic
priest has been leading his campaign on behalf of
the poor in the western hemisphere's most
impoverished nation....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:30am PST
Aristide Talks About the Leaders of the Coup and U.S. Funding of the Opposition
Part II of Democracy Now!s exclusive broadcast of Amy Goodman's interview with Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide aboard his flight from the Central African Republic to Jamaica. [Includes transcript]...
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 10:29am PST
Aristide backers locked out of new government
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's U.S.-backed leader formed an interim government that excludes ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas Party — one that still commands a formidable following....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 7:20am PST
Probing U.S. ties to Haiti coup
WASHINGTON - Sen. Christopher Dodd says he wants to know whether U.S. taxpayers paid to train Haitians who plotted to overthrow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 7:17am PST
Haiti's New Government : Con-men out for your money
WHAT a shameful blunder by an unelected, interim Prime Minister of Haiti to have declared a suspension of that Caribbean nation's relations with the Caribbean Community....
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 11:07pm PST