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CA 3-Strikes Initiative: Prop 66 -- The Keenan Story
Sam Clauder, the Political Director of the "Yes On 66" Committee and the
original author and proponent of the initiative to amend California's
three-strikes law, today revealed previously unknown facts about the
criminal case that resulted in funding the initiative and causing two
bereaved mothers to campaign against the proposition....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 12:23am PDT
Possible FBI Involvement At Abu Ghraib (and other declassified documents)
The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union today said that they have received from the federal government nearly 6,000 pages of documents related to the abuse of prisoners at overseas detention facilities, including almost all of the annexes to the Taguba report concerning abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
The release of the documents follows a federal court order that directed the Defense Department and other government agencies to comply with the ACLU’s ...
Posted: Sat, Oct 23, 2004 11:21am PDT
College Student Killed in Boston by Police After Red Sox Win
Police killed a college student in Boston after the Red Sox won the pennant. An officer fired a "non lethal" round into a crowd and hit the young woman in the face killing her....
Posted: Fri, Oct 22, 2004 11:14am PDT
Schwarzenegger Lies About Prop. 66 - 3 Strikes Amendment Prop.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger lies about Proposition 66 when he says 'violent prisoners will get out of prison and roam the streets.'...
Posted: Fri, Oct 22, 2004 10:32am PDT
Vancouver Cannabis Clubs Under Fire, Mafia Wants Control, US and Mexican
Canada is under fire with clubs raided. The link is below....
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 12:35pm PDT
Anti-Bush protestors shot with Pepper Balls in Florida
Police Shot Protesters With Pepperballs At Bush Rally in Jacksonville, Oregon...
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 11:00am PDT
Names of people killed by police in New York/New Jersey
These are people who were killed in New York and New Jersey since September 11, 2001....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 2:33pm PDT
Leonard Peltier for President
Leonard Peltier is the Presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party in California. This article gives an overview and update of his case and his campaign for a presidential pardon....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:20am PDT
AI USA Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Hearing Oral Arguments in Roper v Simmons
Today Dr. William F. Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, released the following statement as the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Roper v. Simmons, a case that will decide if executing juvenile offenders is constitutional:...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 12:27am PDT
Detroit: North African Man Falsely Convicted for "Terrorism" Released
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Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 1:34pm PDT
A strange and bitter crop: the spectacle of torture
Do the terrible images from Abu Ghraib represent break or continuity in American tradition? Hazel Carby excavates the history of lynching in the United States and finds disturbing parallels between Mississippi's past and Iraq's present...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 9:31pm PDT
CIA has 11 Al-Qaida suspects in Jordan facility
The Central Intelligence Agency runs a top secret interrogation facility in Jordan, where at least 11 detainees who are considered Al-Qaida's most senior cadre are being held, Haaretz has learned from international intelligence sources....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 8:43pm PDT
No on Y Meeting Tonight
No on Y Meeting, 743 Warfield Avenue, 8:30-10pm, Tuesday, Oct. 12...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 9:33am PDT
No on Y: Debate Today!
Former Councilmember Wilson Riles Jr., Debates Police Chief Richard Word on Measure Y, November ballot Initiative that puts funding police ahead of funding program for town hall meeting of Voter Education and Solidarity.
WHEN:
Tuesday, October 12th, 6PM- 8PM
WHERE:
Sweet Jimies Entertainment Center, 1730 San Pablo Ave....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 8:39am PDT
U.S. Treatment of Detainees Defies Intl. Law - Group
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States is violating international law by holding prisoners in its war on terror incommunicado and in secret hiding places, Human Rights Watch said in a report to be published on Tuesday calling for an end to such practices.
The New York-based rights organization profiles 11 al Qaeda suspects being detained without concern for their rights under international law in a 46-page report....
Posted: Mon, Oct 11, 2004 9:18pm PDT
National ID Update: The Second Bill Passes
an urgent National ID Update...
Posted: Sat, Oct 9, 2004 2:09pm PDT
Faulty 'No-Fly' System Detailed
The federal government's 'no-fly' list had 16 names on it on Sept. 11, 2001. Today, it has more than 20,000.
The list, which identifies suspected terrorists seeking to board commercial airplanes, expanded rapidly even though the government knew that travelers were being mistakenly flagged, according to federal records. The records detail how government officials expressed little interest in tracking or resolving cases in which passenger names were confused with the growing number of names ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 10:51pm PDT
The FBI Is Waging War On Americans
The FBI has been waging war on Americans for decades. Occasionally their illegal and unconstitutional activities have been curtailed by congress and the courts. Now that there is no separation of powers, the FBI and it's anti-American Attorney General, John Ashcroft, have pulled out the stops and are escalating their offensive....
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 7:05am PDT
ACT NOW--NEW PATRIOT ACT
Act today -- House is voting on H.R. 10, trying to sneak in "PATRIOT Act II" powers under the guise of responding to the 9/11 Commission (which didn't endorse this legislation)....
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 2:38pm PDT
Latest Revelations on next "9-11"
She has figured out the next major 9-11 style attack will be on Novemeber
1st or 5th with nukes in various locations (although there is also a
possibility of a "rush" job on October 8...
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 1:46pm PDT