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Canada set to embrace gay marriages despite protests
Marriage will soon be a legal option for all gay and lesbian couples across Canada despite the continued opposition of fund amental Christian organisations.
Until recently, gays exchanged vows in “commitment services”, but their union was not legally recognised....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 9:35am PST
Dr Judd Marmor Has Died; Helped End Classification of Gays as Sick
LOS ANGELES — Dr. Judd Marmor, whose criticism of the belief that homosexuality was a mental disorder made him an important ally of the gay struggle to force American psychiatry to change its views, died Tuesday at UCLA Medical Center after a short illness. He was 93....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 9:33am PST
Kucinich is my Dem
Why has Dennis Kucinich's campaign so far been ignored by the media? How can we use a presidential campaign to reach the the people of the US?...
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 12:35pm PST
Federal Appeals Court Rules Guantanamo Detainees Should Have Access To Civilian Courts
The decision, which is expected to be put on hold while the Supreme Court decides the same issue in another case, came hours after a New York-based federal appeals court said President Bush lacked authority to designate American citizens arrested in the United States as "enemy combatants" and detain them indefinitely....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 8:11am PST
"Enemy Combatant" To Receive Civilian Trial: Bush, Ashcroft and Rumsfeld Rebuked
NEW YORK (AP) - President George W. Bush does not have the power to detain American citizen Jose Padilla, the former gang member seized on U.S. soil, as an enemy combatant, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 8:06am PST
Letters the Troops Have Sent Me... by Michael Moore
I've written back and spoken on the phone to many of them and I've asked a few of them if it would be OK if I posted their letters on my website and they've said yes. They do so at great personal risk (as they may face disciplinary measures for exercising their right to free speech). I thank them for their bravery....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 7:59am PST
Pro-life website exaggerates death risk from abortion
The abortion "facts" website doesn't seem to have its facts straight, as a little bit of internet research proved this evening....
Posted: Sat, Dec 20, 2003 1:42am PST
Safeway's 8-K filed 12/04/2003 with the SEC
How does a company like Safeway operate. Take a look:...
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 10:40pm PST
I12/17 Int'l Day of Sex Workers United Against Violence
International Day of Sex Workers United Against Violence: A Green River Memorial and Call to Action. Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) focuses on safety, dignity, diversity and the changing needs of sex industry workers, to foster an environment which enables and affirms individual choices and occupational rights....
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 9:57pm PST
World Court to check apartheid wall legality
The World Court has said it would hold hearings in February on the legal consequences of the building of the controversial apartheid wall by Israel in the West Bank....
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 4:22pm PST
Ecuador Indians Battle Oil Giants for Amazon-ChevronTexaco
In the northern Ecuadorean Amazon, Indians are suing U.S. based ChevronTexaco over environmental damage they say ruined their land and made people sick. When it rains, oily pits left by Texaco continue to leak a black sludge into rivers....
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 3:25pm PST
conservatives are polling about gay marriage
Go to the site and vote! They want to use this poll to prove to the government that folks are against gay marriage, so show them that we're not!...
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 3:24pm PST
Two more U.S. soldiers die in Iraq today. Don't let them hide the truth on the back pages
Capt. Tammy Galloway of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division said a homemade explosive device exploded on the roadside as a military truck was passing. Iraqi witnesses said earlier that it was an oil tanker and that two soldiers were killed in the blast."...
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 8:03am PST
Powerful Treesit Film (video/quicktime 24.7MB)
Powerful film about treesitting including dangerous treesitter extractions. (6 min.)...
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2003 10:24pm PST
Major repression on the way in Argentina?
Argentine President Nestor Kirchner appears to be planning to repress working people's resistance......
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 7:52pm PST
ANOTHER VICTIM OF TORTURE!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEVER OFFERED ASYLUM OR THE C.A.T., ILLEGALLY DEPORTED TO THE WRONG COUNTRY, TORTURED, AND IS STILL PAYING THE PRICE......
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 5:56pm PST
Biodiversity trapped in cage by reductionist science
Corporate industry benefits from reductionist science when attempting to measure biodiversity. Nature does not live in a box and cannot be separated into internal and external components. When a monkey is removed from a rainforest the lack of native plant air alter the biochemistry of the primate, resulting in her slowly dying inside when s/he cannot escape the four walls that deprive her of freedom. The same pharmaceutical industry that benefits from testing chemicals on animals also tests c...
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 5:29pm PST
The staircase wit of this century
The U.S. remote-controlled fake president claims fair legal proceedings and death penalty for a U.S. hellhound.
He has decided for a colossal bloodbath among European and U.S. politicans, his backers and himself...
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 4:17pm PST
The Unknown Candidate
Why has the media blocked out Dennis Kucinich? Maybe because they don't want to hear his stance on WTO,Free-Trade, and Globalization....
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 2:50pm PST