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Your first priority should be the preservation of yourself and your family. To assist you in these troubled times the following compassionate and knowledge folks should be contacted....
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2005 10:54am PST
Nation's Leading Pro-Choice Advocate Raises Concerns Over Gonzales Nomination; Nominee Imposed Anti-Choice Litmus Test on Federal Judges...
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 11:22pm PST
The Bush administration is crafting a series of measures to secure the permanent detention without trial of alleged terrorists and those it designates as enemy combatants, the Washington Post reported Sunday. In gross violation of international law, detainees may soon be held in new US-constructed prisons in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, without access to lawyers or family members....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 9:03am PST
The extraordinary six-month trial of Lynne Stewart, the New York criminal defense attorney accused of terrorist conspiracy in connection with her representation of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, moved toward its conclusion just before the New Year with the presentation of the government’s summation to the jury. Abdel Rahman is the Egyptian cleric who is currently serving a life sentence in the US after his 1995 conviction on charges of conspiring to bomb various New York City landmarks....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 9:02am PST
Alliance for Justice Releases Gonzales Report and Lawyers' Letter; Both Raise Serious Concerns About Nomination for Attorney General...
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2005 8:11pm PST
Shalikashvili Among 12 Retired Military Leaders Calling on Senate to Scrutinize Gonzales' Role in Setting the Stage for Torture; Human Rights First Outlines Gonzales' Role in Setting Improper Detention and Interrogation Policy...
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2005 12:48pm PST
The easily accessible Megan's Law Database could have a negative impact on California, raising fears, achieving little and impacting real estate values....
Posted: Sun, Jan 2, 2005 11:08pm PST
One can imagine that a whole lot more civilians, whose jobs are not usually considered to be "dangerous," died at the hand of law enforcement this year. The Stolen Lives Project is collecting info about people who have died in custody: http://www.stolenlives.org and will publish a new edition of the book Stolen Lives: Killed by Law Enforcement soon....
Posted: Tue, Dec 28, 2004 9:34am PST
Mumia’s case is simultaneously being heard in two different courts
presently: the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
(appellate court) and the Pennsylvania State Court of Common Pleas
(trial court), both of which sit in Philadelphia....
Posted: Tue, Dec 28, 2004 9:10am PST
Take a minute to copy and paste two things into a blank email, then send it to print out in five Senate Offices. Take another minute to send this to everyone you know. Two minutes from each of us could equal a flood of faxes demanding the Senate fully investigate the election fraud....
Posted: Mon, Dec 27, 2004 6:12pm PST
First Jury Trial Arising from the RNC Protests Ends in
Dismissal as D.A. Drops All Charges Against Gulf War I
Veteran and Anti-Depleted Uranium Activist Dennis Kyne
Mid-Trial...
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2004 2:29pm PST
News release and documents made public today by the ACLU points a finger at the President. The information releases indicates President Bush signed an executive order permitting inhumane interrogation methods against detainees in Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 12:55pm PST
An affidavit by David Hicks, a 29-year-old Australian citizen captured in Afghanistan and held by the US military since December 2001, was released last week by his lawyers during legal action in the US courts. Dated August 5, it is the first statement by a current detainee in Guantánamo Bay on the abuse of prisoners and adds to the mountain of evidence about Bush administration’s criminal actions in the notorious jail....
Posted: Sat, Dec 18, 2004 9:27am PST
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today hailed a report from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel that concludes the Second Amendment "secures an individual right to keep and bear arms."...
Posted: Fri, Dec 17, 2004 5:55pm PST
Today, in the United States District Court (North
Dakota), attorneys for American Indian activist Leonard Peltier
filed a Motion to Correct an Illegal Sentence.
"Peltier has been illegally imprisoned for nearly 30 years," said
Barry Bachrach, Peltier's attorney....
Posted: Thu, Dec 16, 2004 11:24pm PST
Interview with Robert Nave, director of the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Dec 11, 2004 7:07am PST
Celebrate Bill of Rights Day Dec. 15, and its Cornerstone, the 2nd Amendment...
Posted: Fri, Dec 10, 2004 12:26am PST
The House Switchboard number is (202) 225-3121. Simply ask for your Representative by name.
If you don't know your representative, use the House website to find him/her by simply typing in your ZIP code. Click here. http://www.house.gov...
Posted: Wed, Dec 8, 2004 3:09am PST
Breaking: Special Ops Task Force Threatened Government Agents Who Saw Detainee Abuse in Iraq, Documents Obtained by ACLU Reveal...
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 4:13pm PST
Each news report on Bernard Kerik, nominee for Secretary Homeland Security, focused on a different aspect of
his background. But when the total story is revealed, the picture becomes quite a bit more disturbing than the fragments suggest....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 12:03am PST