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TURKISH POLICE STOP QUAKE DEMO BY FIRING LONG MACHINE GUN BURSTS
Police fired long bursts of automatic gunfire into the air as a crowd of around 1,000 demonstrators marched on the local governor's offices chanting "Government resign" and demanding tents and food after a powerful tremor destroyed their homes and trapped hundreds of children in a school dormitory. 83 children remain trapped and rescuers reported hearing some of their screams....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 2:16am PDT
Sweden: Mayday disturbance in Stockholm
A Mayday street party in central Stockholm this evening led to clashes with the police followed by several arrests and wounded....
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2003 1:05pm PDT
More tribal torture...take action
Please take action to stop torture and killings of ancient tribal people in West Papua...
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2003 8:28am PDT
solidarity/translations
translators needed for the Radical Exchange...
Posted: Fri, Apr 25, 2003 1:38pm PDT
photos: DEATH ROW? SHUT IT DOWN! FREE MUMIA! by Hans Bennett
On April 24, 2003, supporters of Philadelphia’s death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal gathered in front of Philadelphia City Hall, marched to Ed Rendell’s office, and then to 13th and Locust where both Mumia and Police Officer Daniel Faulkner were shot in 1981. This is part one of the photoessay. Part 2 (out soon) will have a detailed essay from the day. FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2003 2:45pm PDT
DISTRICT ATTORNEY PAUL CONNICK DUCKS PHONE CALLS AFTER CONVICT'S INNOCENCE PROVED
DNA evidence shows that a man on death row for a grocer's murder is innocent and that another inmate was the killer. Ryan Matthews, who was 17 when he was arrested for the 1997 murder of Bridge City grocer Tommy Vanhoose, 43, was the victim of suppressed evidence and questionable identification by two witnesses, said Clive Stafford Smith, Matthews' attorney. The actual killer is a man imprisoned for slashing a woman's throat in 1997. "This is a classic case of wrongful conviction," ...
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2003 3:45am PDT
Arrest in dog rescue outrages pet lovers
Firefighters and police defend actions as criticism mounts...
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 9:10pm PDT
BRUKMAN EVICTED
“Our sisters and brothers workers of Brukman have suffered another attack at the hands of the justice system, the government and the bosses. In a brutal police operation, with more than 250 police, attack vehicles, fire-engines, buses and with the presence of infantry, our factory was evicted....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 3:45pm PDT
BURN, BABY, BURN! PRO FLAG BURNING WEBLINKS!
The first link http://www.lovepeoplenotmoney.com/burning.php
allows you to click on the image of a U.S. flag, and burn it in the privacy of your own home! Enjoy! :-)hehehe...
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2003 9:58pm PDT
IMC ARGENTINA STAFF EVICTED!!!
OUR HEADQUARTERS DESTROYED BY THE FEDERAL POLICE!!!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2003 10:01pm PDT
Arcata Bans Patriot Act (S.F Gate Story)
Arcata (California) the defiant ;
Town ordinance penalizes officials who cooperate with Patriot Act, but law may not stand up in court...
Posted: Sun, Apr 13, 2003 8:21pm PDT
Draconian RAVE Act passes
On April 10, 2003, both houses of Congress passed The Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act (formerly known as the “RAVE Act”), which was attached to the AMBER Alert bill....
Posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2003 9:13pm PDT
Communique-Our Day Will Come
Respone to FBI investigation of ABC...
Posted: Thu, Apr 10, 2003 12:51pm PDT
innocent Afgans tortured at camp Xray
Videos: Fox News about Camp Xray Torture, BBC about innocent Afgans tortured for about a year, some admitted innocents still held....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2003 2:13am PST
Michael Franti & Spearhed surveilled by FBI
Even liberals get spied on and intimidated......
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2003 1:36pm PST
McCarthy's ghost
Democracy is under threat in the United States; anyone who objects to the conflict in Iraq is not allowed to say so...
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2003 11:07pm PST
Protestors = Terrorist
A bill that would define violent protesters as terrorists and subject them to possible life imprisonment came under attack Monday at a packed and sometimes tense legislative hearing....
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2003 10:34am PST
Why we need to fight the LEIU in Seattle
For close to 250 local and state police intelligence units, the problem of how to spy on dissidents was solved by membership in the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU). As journalist David Kaplan saw it, the LEIU was a "private fedrally-funded network of computerized files." Who was in the files?...
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2003 9:01am PST
Prisons for Profit in Canada: Native people are the product
A definition of Livestock is; "the use of animals for
profit".
Unforuntately, Native men fall into the Livestock category
when they are
processed through our "Justice system"....
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2003 4:24pm PST