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October 22nd Coalition Statement about February 20th
The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality,
Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation
expresses its total support of the National Day of
Solidarity with Muslim, Arab, and South Asian
Immigrants on February 20th, 2004....
Posted: Tue, Feb 24, 2004 12:21am PST
RNC - Feds consider bringing in troops
Do I smell Martial Law?...
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 7:34pm PST
Chicago - Police spying on antiwar and anarchist groups
Police infiltration of protest groups upsets rights activists...
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 12:13am PST
2/15 5 pm KQED Arthur Kinoy, Civil Rights Lawyer
Arthur Kinoy, the famous civil rights lawyer who died September 19, 2003 at age 82, is the subject of a documentary, "Doing Justice: The Life and Trials of Arthur Kinoy" on KQED-TV, Sunday, 2/15/04 at 5 p.m. His life story is the history of a variety of workingclass struggles....
Posted: Sat, Feb 14, 2004 4:32pm PST
Ashcroft Seeks Hospital Abortion Records
The Justice Department is demanding that at least six hospitals in New York City, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor and other cities turn over hundreds of patient medical records on certain abortions performed there. We speak with the president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 5:33pm PST
What Constitutes a Political Prisoner? The Ongoing Suppression of American Indian Activism
Some might argue the point, but Indians, by our very nature, are political beings....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 9:33pm PST
Bush crushes Free Speech in Canada
President of the US gets Canadian Prime minister to shut Toronto radio show down, www.cloakanddagger.ca alleges....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 2:44pm PST
Federal Gov't Subpoenas College for Info on Peace Activists
The government has subpoenaed Drake University in Iowa to hand over information about who organized and who attended a National Lawyers Guild anti-war forum in November. Lawyers say they have not seen such subpoenas since the McCarthy era....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 8:21am PST
Día Nacional de Solidaridad con los Inmigrantes Musulmanes, Árabes y Sudasiáticos
20 de febrero de 2004: Día Nacional de Solidaridad con los Inmigrantes Musulmanes, Árabes y Sudasiáticos...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 11:17pm PST
Right to peaceful protest under attack -- animal rights group speaks out (video/x-pn-realvideo 34.3MB)
An animal rights group in Manchester, UK speaks out about police harrassment....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 4:58am PST
Prisoner Hungerstrike in Texas
prisoners in Texas are on a hungerstrike in Texas to bring awareness to their conditions....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 12:02am PST
University Ordered to Turn Over Records on Anti-War Activists
In addition to records about who attended the forum, the subpoena
orders the university to divulge all records relating to the local
chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a New York-based legal
activist organization that sponsored the forum....
Posted: Sun, Feb 8, 2004 8:04pm PST
Right to Peaceful Protest Under Attack in UK (video/x-pn-realvideo 25.7MB)
Broadband video clip of a weekly protest picket outside a UK store that is historically and currently associated with supporting and financing Zionism....
Posted: Fri, Feb 6, 2004 8:50am PST
National Immigration Forum: CLEAR Update
1) CLEAR Act and Homeland Security Enhancement Act: State of play
2) New advocacy materials on the Web
3) New contact for information and ideas...
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 2:14pm PST
National Student Group Demands Protection of Students' Civil Rights
Washington, DC - Students across the nation are outraged over the Berkeley County School District's response to a lawsuit filed by Stratford High School students and their families....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 12:33pm PST
Bush Pushes Plan to Permit Internet Surveillance
The Bush administration is pushing to ratify an international convention that civil libertarians say would pose serious threats to privacy rights at home and abroad....
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 2:19am PST
Federal Judge Orders Government to Explain Continued Detention of Palestinian Immigrant
On January 21, 2004, US District Judge Yvette Kane ordered the government to explain, within 10 days, its rationale behind the continued detention of
New York-based Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti....
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 6:29pm PST
2/20: National Day of Solidarity with Muslim, Arab and South Asian Immigrants
We call on people everywhere to come together on the 3rd National Day of Solidarity
to resist the scapegoating and criminalization of Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants! Take action and speak out on February 20th, 2004!...
Posted: Tue, Jan 27, 2004 5:35pm PST
Anniversary Statement from Leonard Peltier
Below is Leonard Peltier's annual message delivered in conjunction with the
anniversary of his incarceration on February 6th. Please broadcast as widely
as possible to as many groups as possible. This is a message to all people
regardless of color:
Leonard Peltier
PO Box 583
Lawrence, KS 66044
www.leonardpeltier.org
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee...
Posted: Sat, Jan 24, 2004 2:24pm PST
Juan Segarra Palmer Freed!!
PUERTO RICAN POLITICAL PRISONER JUAN SEGARRA PALMER WAS FREED FROM JAIL ON
FRIDAY JANUARY 23, 2004 AND IS GOING HOME TO PUERTO RICO ON SATURDAY JANAURY
24TH!!...
Posted: Sat, Jan 24, 2004 8:49am PST