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OAXACA: Elecciones presidenciales en tierra de caciques electorales 
Audio Crónica documental del proceso electoral en Oaxaca...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 9:32pm PDT
July 4th 2006: The state of US democracy 230 years after the American Revolution This July 4 marks the 230th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a document that launched a revolution against colonialism and despotism, inspiring peoples all over the world. The creation of a new nation, founded on Enlightenment concepts of democracy, equality and the rule of law, foreshadowed the French Revolution thirteen years later and had international reverberations for generations thereafter....
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 10:08am PDT
Italy: Clear majority rejects Berlusconi’s constitutional reform At the end of June, Italian voters decisively rejected the constitutional reform pushed through parliament by the right-wing coalition under former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi prior to losing the recent national election. Almost 62 percent opposed the reform, with only 38 percent voting for it....
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 10:06am PDT
Nepalese Maoists agree to abandon armed struggle and join government In the wake of sustained mass protests in Nepal that forced King Gyanendra to step aside in late April, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)—CPN (M)—reached an agreement on June 16 to enter the interim government, currently headed by Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala. The decision is a measure of both the depth of the crisis of bourgeois rule in Nepal and the political bankruptcy of the CPN (M), which is to become the latest in a long line of guerrilla outfits to exchange their military u...
Posted: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 10:06am PDT
July 4th Desecration Day 3pm Berkeley Flag burning 3pm People's Park Berkeley...
Posted: Mon, Jul 3, 2006 8:53pm PDT
John Dean speaks on "Conservatives Without Conscience" The Booksmith
1644 Haight Street
San Francisco, California 94117...
Event Date: Thu, Jul 27, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 3, 2006 1:01pm PDT
PHILIPPINES: Citizens' impeachment complaint against President Gloria Arroyo 
AKBAYAN (Citizens' Action Party) solons today formally endorsed the second impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) as more citizens and groups filed their complaints against the president....
Posted: Mon, Jul 3, 2006 1:22am PDT
4th of July Coverage Tune into Free Radio Santa Cruz 101fm for special 4th of July coverage featuring your favorite Anti-American Pro Flag Burning
music, mixes and spoken word with your host Skidmark Bob
on a special edition of Operation Ear Infection also continuing the subversions at 2pm with PoP dEFECT RADIO. TUNE IN!!
Check out the PDR 4th of July Special
http://popdefectradio.blogspot.com/...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 4, 2006 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sun, Jul 2, 2006 5:05pm PDT
Stealing Mexico - Bush Team Helps 'Floridize' Mexican Presidential Election George Bush's operatives have plans to jigger with the upcoming elections. I'm not talking about the November '06 vote in the USA (though they have plans for that, too). I'm talking about the election this Sunday in Mexico for their Presidency....
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 8:00pm PDT
Mirkarimi Triumphs -- Launches Plan for Sunday Hours at Branch Libraries Ross Mirkarimi has taken a stand for public service and launched a plan to provide Sunday hours for San Francisco users when the vast majority of libraries are closed. Over the objections of the Public Library Administration and by astute legislative maneuvering Ross Mirkarimi was able corral nearly half a million dollars that could be earmarked to provide Sunday hours at branch libraries. City Librarian wanted to save the money for future diversion to capital projects and was clearly flumm...
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 2:37pm PDT
Anti-flag-burning amendment to US Constitution fails by a single vote The US Senate fell short by the narrowest of margins Wednesday in a vote on whether to adopt the first-ever constitutional amendment to restrict free speech. An amendment backed by the Bush administration to give Congress the power to “ban desecration of the American flag” received 66 votes with 34 against, just missing the two-thirds margin required....
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 6:17am PDT
Update on US S.2686 Telco Bill (COPE) Senate Commerce Committee Passes S.2686 Telco Bill. Currently the bill doesn't have a majority to force cloture in the Senate, which is good news....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 11:18pm PDT
AB 2987 Could Eliminate Privacy Protections If Enacted On Tuesday, the Senate utilities committee considered legislation to drastically expand telephone companies' access to California's lucrative video- and Internet-services market....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 11:06pm PDT
Voting Rights Act Reauthorization Equality in voting is fundamental to the American democratic system. For more than 40 years, the Voting Rights Act has protected the right of every American citizen to cast an informed vote. Consequently, the NAACP strongly encourages Congress to swiftly reauthorize the Voting Rights Act...Starting on Wednesday, June 27, 2006, the NAACP will join People for the American Way and the National Education Association to hand-deliver signed petitions gathered from around the country to the House le...
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 10:37pm PDT
BUSH ATTACKS MEDIA TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM RECENTLY REVEALED SPY PROGRAM On Monday, June 26, 2006 the President and Vice-President in a concerted effort launched political attacks on the New York Times and other media for their exposure of the international bank transfer spying program conducted by the Bush administration. These attacks serve two purposes for the Bush regime. First, they are an attempt to intimidate the media into silence about the regime’s crimes. Second, they are meant to shift the discussion about the illegality of these actions to a discuss...
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 4:40pm PDT
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Turns To Internet Voting 
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, after years of warning against paperless electronic voting, is experimenting with an Internet-based open-source voting system, eVote®, for its annual board elections this year.eVote®, being an Internet-based solution (in contrast to the voting-booth electronic systems currently in use) brings a new set of considerations to the discussion about electronic voting....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 12:06pm PDT
A Little Pearl of Financial Irresponsibility -- Privatization at Work in the Library The safeguards of financial accountability got bypassed to approve a "gift" that transfers the expenses of a corporate-philanthropic advertising rag to public funding. A publication that solicits for the corporate interests of Friends & Foundation was approved by "friendly" supervisors in the "wrong" committee. This is a little pearl of a controversy that shows just how shallow the protections of public review really are. This is why privatization always wins. This is what corporate phila...
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 10:14am PDT
Last Rights Parade and Protest (7/5) 
Working within the system is not working. A protest against the city's failure to resolve the Police Spying Scandal. Join us for a sorrowful funeral parade for our first amendment rights and right to privacy....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 8:23am PDT
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld 
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld is a 2006 United States Supreme Court case with numerous significant constitutional implications. The case questions the legality of Guantanamo military commissions set up by the Bush administration, whether the United States Congress has the authority to pass legislation preventing the Supreme Court from hearing the case of an accused combatant before his military commission takes place, and whether courts can enforce the articles of the 1949 Geneva Convention treaty.
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Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 8:20am PDT
For once I am speechless 
But only for a moment. Go to the internet today, and what is the first thing I am greeted with?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 7:49am PDT
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