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Action alert: Ask C-SPAN to carry Thursday's Conyers' DSM Hearings John Conyers' Hearings on the Downing Street Memo, with members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, will occur this Thursday at 2pm ET. Please contact C-SPAN and ask them to carry the hearings live....
Posted: Sun, Jun 12, 2005 8:16pm PDT
Bush'a Abuse of Power The First Amendment, once the steward and protector of our freedom of speech..is being relentlessly reduced to oblivion, a near-forgotten dinosaur....
Posted: Sat, Jun 11, 2005 5:54am PDT
BTL:Grassroots Movement Works to Focus Public Attention on... ...Downing Street Memo that Reveals Bush Administration's Dishonest Justification for Iraq War ~ Excerpt of speech Medea Benjamin, cofounder of Global Exchange, produced by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 7:34am PDT
Bush's Abuse of Power The First Amendment, once the steward and protector of our freedom of speech..is being relentlessly reduced to oblivion, a near-forgotten dinosaur....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 5:36am PDT
Act Today To Prevent Tragic Confirmation Tomorrow We need your help TODAY for a Senate vote tomorrow (Thursday, June 9) to stop the confirmation of William Pryor, Jr., another terrible Bush nominee to the Court of Appeals....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 11:26pm PDT
Call in to stop the Gov. Speech It’s not to late for the SMC Board of Trustees to un-invite the Gov....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 10:47am PDT
Dean's Democrats Remain Pathetic As chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the lapsed physician now carries the stretcher for a party too sick even to diagnose its own organizational self-interest, much less defend the social and constitutional principles now under siege by the White House. The only thing worse than Dean's prepared platitudes, sometimes shouted, is his virtual silence on the two great issues that Democrats work so hard not to confront: the hideous, mendacious war in Iraq and the big-money corruption ...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 5:34pm PDT
Advocates in D.C. to Support Voter-Verified Paper Ballots More than 150 citizen activists concerned with
election reform have signed up for a two-day lobbying blitz
on Capitol Hill in support of H.R.550, the Voter Confidence
and Increased Accessibility Act, which would require voting
systems used in federal elections generate a voter-verified
paper ballot that could be inspected by voters prior to
their votes being cast....
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 10:49pm PDT
Pedestrian deaths: hold manufacturers accountable for the safety of their products! Manufacturers are held responsible for the safety of the products they sell. Safety features are built in to everything made for people to use. Unfortunately, this standard has not been applied to automobile manufacturers in regard to their products impact on innocent bystanders....
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 9:09am PDT
16 Year Anniversary of Tian An Men Crackdown On democracy Movement Tens of thousands of people held a vigil in Hong Kong to mark the 16th anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square....
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2005 5:23pm PDT
SF Republicans Refuse Petitions (video/quicktime 11.4MB) Mike DeNunzio, chair of the SF Republican County Central Committee, refuses to accept petitions with 11,000 signatures from San Franciscans calling for Tom Delay, chief Republican honcho in the U.S. House of Representatives to be ousted. Three-minute QuickTime movie. 11MB....
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2005 1:42pm PDT
Why is Bush getting away with murder? Political critic identifies opportunity for resisting our government criminals and their accomplices....
Posted: Sat, Jun 4, 2005 10:13am PDT
Top Journalist Killed in Lebanon, Opposition Calls For President to Quit It is being called the highest profile assassination in Lebanon since the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Journalist Samir Qasir died after his car exploded. Now, calls are increasing for the country's president to step down. We'll speak for a colleague of Qasir's, Hisham Melhem, correspondent for an Nahar newspaper....
Posted: Fri, Jun 3, 2005 8:29am PDT
Tom DeLay pilloried by SF MoveOn demonstrators 
On June 1st Tom DeLay, boss of Republicans in the House of Representatives, was the subject of 195 demonstrations across the United States. One took place in San Francisco....
Posted: Thu, Jun 2, 2005 3:27pm PDT
Lebanon’s election and Washington-style democracy It is barely two months since President George W. Bush proclaimed that “the Lebanese people have the right to determine their future, free from domination by a foreign power.” He was extolling the so-called “Cedar revolution”—the protests in Beirut’s Martyrs Square against Syrian occupation that followed the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri. Last week, speaking at the International Republican Institute in Washington, Bush called for the new leaders of Lebanon to “build a la...
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 10:40pm PDT
Filibuster Battle Comes to a Head, What's Next for Judicial Nominations 1. Filibuster Battle Comes to a Head in the Senate: What This Means
for the Supreme Court
2. Owen Nomination Squeaks Through, Brown and Pryor Votes Expected Next
Week
3. NWLC Launches NominationWatch.org Blog to Help Keep You Informed...
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 9:49pm PDT
Kick 49ers out of San Francisco The horrors of the fraudulent and terrifying 49er Stadium Swindle Election of June 3, 1997 were demonstrated once again with the announcement on the 6/1/05 front page of the local daily rag of a viciously anti-San Francisco video circulated by the 49er football team-gambling racket, filled with racism, sexism, homophobia and pornography, filmed in the San Francisco mayor's office of Gavin Newsom, among other places....
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 7:31pm PDT
Egypt anger over attacks on activists Protesters want senior government figures to admit responsibility...
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 11:32am PDT
Bush and Al Capone A tax offense was ultimately Al Capone's undoing although he was responsible for the most serious crimes like murder....
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 6:54am PDT
Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF Destroy 6 Miles of Huts and Kiosks Police burned down 6 miles of shacks and kiosks in an opposition stronghold near Victoria Falls. They blamed street traders for the near emergency economic problems which threaten 4 million people with starvation in this former bread basket....
Posted: Mon, May 30, 2005 5:54pm PDT
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