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Mumia's Trial Continues Today In Philly Mumia's lawyers will be in court today fighting for him but he won't! Read on and find out what scam the Philly court system is pulling to keep him from attending in person!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2001 1:12am PDT
2 arrests, one citation at Berkeley Critical Mass bicycle ride Two bicyclists were violently arrested and one
was cited at the Berkeley Critical Mass ride
August 10, 2001. For 8.5 years these peaceful
rides have been intermittently attacked by police. The police are escalating their suppression of alternative transportation again....
Posted: Wed, Aug 15, 2001 11:56pm PDT
Clickable CHARTS for the huge U.S. Prison Industrial Complex, and the Drug War. Incarceration, race, jail, prison, cannabis, drugs, mandatory minimums, drug related crime, poverty, murder, and more. The USA has over 2 million of the world's 8 million prisoners. So, the USA has 5% of the world's population, and 25% of the world's prisoners. The USA surpassed Russia in the year 2000 and now has the world's highest incarceration rate! It is 5 to 17 times higher than all other Western (long democratic traditions) nations. 6.3 million people were on probation, in jail or pris...
Posted: Wed, Aug 15, 2001 10:49pm PDT
Witness's NEEDED! Here, there, and everywhere!! Racism in the (good ole) USA!
I can see like a bullet
right through the heart
of the USA
like an accident in slow motion
raise the rent
and move the dirt out of town...
Posted: Tue, Aug 14, 2001 8:17pm PDT
More Photos From 8/13 ACA Protest URLs to photos from yesterday's March For Justice in Philadelphia...
Posted: Tue, Aug 14, 2001 5:34pm PDT
Slam Poem--Read to Alameda County Board of Supervisors on 7/24 Samantha Liapes read this incredible poem to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors on July 24 when they met to consider postponing the building a Youth Super Jail....
Posted: Mon, Aug 13, 2001 11:55am PDT
New Report on Racial & Ethnic Disparities within Pennsylvania Prison Population August 12th Press conference in Philadelphia to announce the release of National Center on Institutions and Alternatives/Justice Policy Institute's study on Pennsylvania incarceration rates....
Posted: Sun, Aug 12, 2001 6:21pm PDT
"United we stand, divided we bend over!" -Sex Workers gather in Philadelphia. At the Anti-ACA Conference in Philadelphia, Sex Workers converge to discuss strategies for decriminalization...
Posted: Sun, Aug 12, 2001 10:52am PDT
US Trained Italian Police for G8 The US trained the Italian police in brutality for the G8 conference. The USA is now the world's Nazi Germany. See
http://www.chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=3978&group=webcast...
Posted: Fri, Aug 10, 2001 4:33am PDT
LAPD Sued For Violating Constitutional Rights During Democratic Convention Link to corporate media story (Reuters/yahoo)....
Posted: Thu, Aug 9, 2001 5:58pm PDT
MUMIA COURT APPEARANCE AND RALLY, 8/17-18 Rally while Mumia is in court and then march on Market to the federal building. Events in Philly and also SF....
Posted: Thu, Aug 9, 2001 5:45pm PDT
Community Waits for Assistant Chief Sanders follow-up on last night's promise by assistant chief prentice sanders...
Posted: Thu, Aug 9, 2001 2:24pm PDT
SFPD Still in Denial About Metreon Shooting A report from the San Francisco Police Commission meeting....
Posted: Thu, Aug 9, 2001 2:59am PDT
Declaration for the Press: "Instant Release.... Declaration for the Press: "Instant Release of all Individuals that are under Arrest since the Demonstrations against the G8-Meeting in Genoa"
To: Media editors, domestic and foreign...
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2001 5:49pm PDT
Conference Update: Wanted: An End to the War on Drugs: in Oakland Tuesday KPFA Flashpoints Radio August 6, 2001 (link to scrollable audio in 'full story' text below)
- Activist and prisoner Charisse Shumate died Saturday the same day as the start of the SF conference: Wanted: An End to the Drug War and the Prison Industrial Complex. Hear talks by Angela Davis, Kemba Smith, Ruthie Gilmore, Dorothy Gaines, more. Conference continues 7PM Tuesday August 7 (tomorrow) in Oakland at Wose Community Church, 8924 Holly Street (at 89th Ave).. mo info: call 415-255-7036 x4 ...
Posted: Mon, Aug 6, 2001 10:57pm PDT
Wanted: An End to the Drug War w Angela Davis tomorrow in Oakland KPFA Flashpoints Radio August 6, 2001 (link to scrollable audio in 'full story' text below)
- Activist and prisoner Charisse Shumate died Saturday the same day as the start of the SF conference: Wanted: An End to the Drug War and the Prison Industrial Complex. Hear talks by Angela Davis, Kemba Smith, Ruthie Gilmore, Dorothy Gaines, more. Conference continues Tuesday in Oakland. (55 min, scrollable audio)...
Posted: Mon, Aug 6, 2001 7:52pm PDT
Torture against Lesbians,Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender Today The international Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and Community United Against Violence are holding a forum at the Torture Exhibit in San Francisco, at the Presidio, to discuss the forms of torture that are being practised against the LGBT community in the U.S. and internationally, as well as ways to prevent it and fight it....
Posted: Mon, Aug 6, 2001 6:42pm PDT
Portland, OR funeral for Carlo PDX holds mass funeral for Carlo......
Posted: Mon, Aug 6, 2001 6:35pm PDT
Renee Boje. Fleeing to Canada from the U.S. Drug War. Political asylum status. "At a time when, by some estimates, it costs the federal government over $150,000 a year to lock up a prisoner, why are we putting so many drug offenders behind bars? In a nation in which 15,289 murders were reported in 1997; where there is an average of 2,147 bombings or attempted bombings a year; where over 60 percent of the population can expect to be raped or physically assaulted in their lifetime, does our country's war on drugs make sense? Renee Boje certainly doesn't think so. Hopefull...
Posted: Mon, Aug 6, 2001 5:49pm PDT
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