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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
Supreme Court Says Bush Went Too Far at Guantanamo WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in creating military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees, a rebuke to the administration and its aggressive anti-terror policies....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 7:33am PDT
Study: All Electronic Voting Machines Vulnerable to Software Attacks A major new report on electronic voting by the Brennan Center for Justice has concluded that the three most common types of electronic voting machines are all vulnerable to software attacks. We speak with the chair of the Brennan Center Task Force on Voting System Security....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 7:24am PDT
Mexico's Presidential Front-Runner May Roil U.S. Conservatives Though the progressive media and bloggers are paying scant attention, a progressive populist is the front-runner in Mexico's July 2 election, a man who would demand a revision of NAFTA, add a powerful workers' voice to the roiling U.S. debate on immigration, and foster the new nationalism spreading in Latin America....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 6:56am PDT
Regime change in Mogadishu APOLOGISTS for the pre-eminent global superpower frequently complain that the object of their allegiance all too often attracts unfavourable publicity even when it does a good deed. Ask them for an example and they'll invariably conjure up images so riddled with subjectivity that any resemblance to real events turns out to be purely coincidental. There are, however, exceptions. And one of these has unexpectedly reared its head in the Horn of Africa....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 6:55am PDT
Interview with Byron De Lear (audio/mpeg 11.4MB) Green Party candidate for US Congress, 28th Dist, California...
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 6:38am PDT
Blair laid bare: the article that may get you arrested In the guise of fighting terrorism and maintaining public order, Tony Blair's Government has quietly and systematically taken power from Parliament and the British people. The author charts a nine-year assault on civil liberties that reveals the danger of trading freedom for security - and must have Churchill spinning in his grave...
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 6:25am PDT
US Supreme court issues more anti-democratic rulings On June 26, the US Supreme Court issued two further decisions of an anti-democratic character. Earlier this month it handed down one ruling giving police greater license to enter homes without knocking, and another sanctioning the retroactive application of an anti-immigrant law....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 6:21am PDT
Pakistan’s US-backed dictator to stage bogus presidential election General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s US-backed military strongman, has signaled that he will orchestrate a bogus presidential election next year in a bid to cling onto power until 2012....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 6:20am PDT
Connecticut AFL-CIO endorses war hawk Joseph Lieberman for Democratic primary On Tuesday, the Connecticut AFL-CIO endorsed Senator Joseph Lieberman for the August 8 Democratic primary. With the endorsement, the labor federation, which represents some 180,000 members in the state of New England, went on record supporting the Democratic senator most identified with the Bush administration’s Iraq war policies....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 6:20am PDT
Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act Advances in CA Senate California took another step towards becoming the first state to meaningfully respond to strategies that blame transgender people for their own murders. The Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act (AB 1160), authored by Assemblymember Sally Lieber and sponsored by Equality California, passed through the Senate Public Safety Committee on a 4-2 vote yesterday afternoon....
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 11:05pm PDT
Redacting the Constitution: Why Signing Statements Matter Over the course of the past year, it has been discovered that President Bush, during his five years in office, has cancelled all or part of 750 laws of Congress, quietly and with the stroke of a pen. These so-called "signing statements" have been used to invalidate laws passed by Congress to do everything from require government reporting on the uses of the Patriot Act's invasive provisions to banning torture and establishing a special investigator for corruption in Iraq....
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 9:10pm PDT
SF: Critical Krissy Joins Critical Mass Justin Herman Plaza....
Event Date: Fri, Jun 30, 2006 5:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 7:08pm PDT
SF: JIM DERYCH - Confessions of a Former Dittohead Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street
Between 19th and 20th...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 2:46pm PDT
SF: Peter Camejo - California Under Corporate Rule Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street
Between 19th and 20th...
Event Date: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 2:42pm PDT
Not the UNITED States of America – No Longer Our Country Are We Still A Representative Democracy Guided By The Rule of Law?...
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2006 12:56pm PDT
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