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John Dimitri Negroponte: From Man Behind Central American Death Squads To Emperor Of Iraq 
1981-1985 US ambassador to Honduras ... 2001-2004 US ambassador to the United Nations ...2004-US ambassador to Iraq (and replacement to Paul Bremer as American in charge of US actions in the country)...
Posted: Mon, Apr 19, 2004 12:49pm PDT
Arnold Beverly Shot Officer Faulkner, Not Mumia Abu-Jamal Arnold Beverly, a a confessed hit man for organized crime, swore under oath that on 12/9/81 he shot Officer Faulkner, a whistleblower who was telling federal investigators of corruption in the Philadelphia Police Department. Mumia Abu-Jamal, an award-winning president of a black journalists association, and a taxicab driver who was in the area at the time, was falsely accused and convicted of the murder, of which Beverly has since confessed. On April 24, 2004, Mumia celebrates his 50th birt...
Posted: Sun, Apr 18, 2004 3:59pm PDT
NYC D.A. CALLS POLITICAL PROTEST “A CRIME,” URGES JAIL FOR ORGANIZERS NYC D.A. CALLS POLITICAL PROTEST “A CRIME,” URGES JAIL FOR ORGANIZERS
In letter to court, DA demands heavier punishment based on dissent history, not criminal record....
Posted: Fri, Apr 16, 2004 9:59am PDT
Iraqi 'beaten to death' by US troops for refusing to remove a picture of Sadr from his car (4/14/2004) An Iraqi has died of his wounds after US troops beat him with truncheons because he refused to remove a picture of wanted Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada Sadr from his car, police said today....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 6:59am PDT
Farouk Abdel-Muhti Set Free After Two Years in Prison Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti was released from jail Monday night nearly two years after he was detained by U.S. immigration officials....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 7:46pm PDT
Redemption on FX this Sunday Redemption, the made for TV movie about Stan "Tookie" Williams is
premiering on FX, Sunday, April 11 at 8:00 p.m. We have organized two
group showings of the movie, one in San Francisco and one in Berkeley....
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2004 11:23am PDT
4/20+4/28: Call for Action at the Supreme Court - About People's Rights Call for Action at the Supreme Court - Can the Rights of People
Simply Disappear by Presidential Order...
Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2004 9:59pm PDT
Copwatch 101 pamphlet Infoshop.org and the Alternative Media Project are pleased to announce the public release of our new Copwatch 101 booklet....
Posted: Tue, Apr 6, 2004 9:07pm PDT
Camilo Vivieros & "Timoney 3" acquitted in Philadelphia camilo vivieros and the other two defendants in the case holding on from the republican national convention in philadelphia in 2000 acquitted!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 6, 2004 5:12pm PDT
Cop Who Killed Unarmed Man in Portland Guilty of Past Brutality Officer who shot, killed motorist target of prior federal lawsuit...
Posted: Fri, Apr 2, 2004 12:12am PST
Urgent Action Needed for Leonard Peltier Please contact the following Senate Subcommittee to request members'
active support for hearings by their colleagues on the House and/or Senate
Judiciary Committees on FBI misconduct in Indian Country...
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 12:05am PST
Pentagon Plebe Leaves Papers Behind At *bux 
Here's what Washington Post and Commondreams.org
have to say about the paperwork that was left behind
in a starbucks. Also a link to a pdf which is now broken.
Clicking the .pdf there gives you: "The handle is invalid."
Trust me, it didn't do that fifteen minutes ago.
-- marco...
Posted: Wed, Mar 31, 2004 5:54pm PST
Peltier attorney urges Congress to investigate official misconduct Bachrach and other members of Peltier's legal team this week submitted a
formal request to the U.S. Congress for an investigation into the Justice
Department's actions against Peltier and the American Indian Movement (AIM)
during the 1970s....
Posted: Wed, Mar 31, 2004 12:17am PST
REDEMPTION: THE STAN “TOOKIE” WILLIAMS STORY Redemption, an FX Original Movie, is based on the true story of Stan
“Tookie” Williams, co-founder of the infamous Crips street gang in Los
Angeles. The film depicts how his time in jail inspired him to help
inner-city youth by writing children’s books, which in turn earned him
three Nobel Prize nominations....
Posted: Tue, Mar 30, 2004 10:15pm PST
Unarmed Black Man Murdered by Police in Portland The Black man was pulled over in one of the Portland Police's excessive use of "traffic stops" that are used to harrass and intimidate the working class in the city, especially African Americans and Latinos, in the NE/N.Portland area of the city. The victim asked for the Probable Cause of the police officer pulling him over, and so the police officer then told the Black man to get out of the car. When the above mentioned driver undid his selt belt, the officer fired his gun into the...
Posted: Mon, Mar 29, 2004 7:33pm PST
Federal Court in New Orleans rules in Favor of Warantless Searches Knock, knock — but this one is no joke...
Posted: Mon, Mar 29, 2004 2:13am PST
Protesting the Crimes of "Passion" When we arrived there were already half a dozen groups of Christians preaching and "sidewalk counseling." A few of us began agitating--calling out the plunder that has been carried out in the name of Jesus: all the peoples that have been colonized, exterminated, or enslaved by conquerors who carried a Bible in one hand and a rifle in the other......
Posted: Sun, Mar 28, 2004 9:04am PST
Victims of Britain's prison system charged for room & board! Miscarriage of justice victims charged for 'food and lodgings'.....
Posted: Thu, Mar 18, 2004 7:01pm PST
COINTELPRO: The Untold Amercian Story This is a must to re-educate our people again--we have all forgot and the
FBI and US Justice departments are doing the same you can believe that--we
must disseminate this Untold article and build a speaking campaign around
it--...
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 12:16am PST
South Korea Outlaws Protests After Popular Leader Who Stood Up To The US Is Impeached The South Korean government said yesterday it would crack down on political unrest as financial markets brushed off fears of instability to bounce back on the first working day following the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun....
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2004 7:57pm PST
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