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Photos from Camp Casey; Anti-War Texas Hoe Down of Thousands 
Over two thousand people made their way to Camp Casey yesterday for a huge hoe down deep in the heart of Texas. Full buses of supporters from Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin unload and loaded throughout the day. After Cindy Sheehan welcomed many of the buses, the main tent stage featured a day of music by artists from across Texas....
Posted: Sun, Aug 28, 2005 11:51am PDT
Greens Blast Troop Escalation, Call For Immediate Withdrawal Greens announce an online petition against the war, criticize Democratic Party support for Bush's Iraq policy....
Posted: Sun, Aug 28, 2005 9:13am PDT
Photos from Camp Casey, Press Conference, Politically Incorrect 
The population of Camp Casey has doubled in the last 24 hours. Folks are now streaming in for the final weekend of activities. Meanwhile, the “Cindy Doesn’t Speak for Me” tour will be holding a rally in Crawford at the high school football field – home of the Crawford Pirates....
Posted: Sat, Aug 27, 2005 8:28am PDT
50 Years After the Murder of Emmett Till, the Investigation Continues This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of Emmett Till. He was beaten and shot near Money, Mississippi after he allegedly whistled at a white female store clerk. We speak with filmmaker Keith Beauchamp who produced "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till" and University of Missouri-Columbia professor Clenora Hudson-Weems....
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 8:07pm PDT
Grieving Military Mothers Rally Around Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey We play a press conference from Camp Casey held by members of Gold Star Families for Peace with mothers and wives from around the country speaking about their opposition to the war and to President Bush's policies in Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 8:05pm PDT
Intl. Campaign to Protect NYC Cyclists Tell NYC officials to auit arresting Critical Mass riders and stealing their bikes....
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 3:24pm PDT
Photos from Camp Casey, Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families 
Crawford, Texas: Yesterday was Cindy Sheehan’s first full day back at Camp Casey. At a morning press conference, a dozen Gold Star family members and relatives of servicepersons currently in the military each briefly addressed a bank of microphones. Each explained what compelled them to travel to Camp Casey in order to stand with Cindy....
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 12:34pm PDT
Creating an American Aristocracy The “get rich someday” dream is cited by many as the reason Americans are voting against their economic self-interest and lending their political support to the wealthy, who are creating a new American aristocracy....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 10:04pm PDT
The New Gulag: If the War on Drugs gave the War on Terror, who will fill the the prisons? 
As The War on Drugs enters it’s third decade, it’s rhetoric wears thin on the public’s ears and a new menace rears it’s ugly head as the War on Terror becomes preeminent in our nation’s mind. 9/11 is a forgone conclusion and the “Axis of Evil” stands as the new agenda, but what about the prisoners of the drug war? Are they left forgotten? Rottting in prisons across the nation? Over 165,000 of them in the federal prison system alone....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 9:57pm PDT
Iraqi Occupation: The Cognitive Fall-Out “The truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”...
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 6:59pm PDT
America Library Association calls for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq At its annual conference in Chicago earlier this summer, the 182-member Council of the American Library Association, representing more than 65,000 librarians, passed a resolution calling for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 8:09am PDT
Detroit union betrays teachers, agrees to concessions contract In a meeting on Wednesday, the leadership of the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) presented to its membership the contract that the union has negotiated with the Detroit City School District to cover the 2005-2006 school year. By a large majority, the several thousand teachers and staff voted to return to work on the basis of the contract, pending a final ballot September 6. The agreement averted a potential strike by the teachers....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 7:58am PDT
From Death Row: Texas Set to Execute First African-American Woman Since Civil War 
The State of Texas is scheduled to execute Frances Newton on September 14. Supporters say the courts should grant her another trial based on new evidence, especially given that infamous defense attorney Ron Mock originally represented her. We hear from Frances Newton herself and speak with her attorney David Dow....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 7:57am PDT
Cindy's Crawford: Sheehan Returns to Camp Casey for Remaining Days of Bush's Vacation Cindy Sheehan both returned to Crawford Crawford, Texas Wednesday evening to rejoin the internationally-known vigil she began two weeks ago. We play an excerpt of an address Sheehan gave at Camp Casey where she says, "[Bush] put our kids in another person's country, and Casey was killed by insurgents. He wasn't killed by terrorists. He was killed by Shiite militia who wanted him out of the country." [...
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 7:54am PDT
Photos from Camp Casey, Cindy Returns, Vets Protest Waco VA Closure 
Crawford, Texas (August 25, 2005): Cindy Sheehan returns to Camp Casey, Veterans and supporters rally to keep VA hospital open in Waco...
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 10:00pm PDT
US soldier jailed in Afghan abuse A soldier from a US military intelligence unit has been sentenced to two months in prison for abusing an Afghan detainee who later died....
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 7:42pm PDT
‘Stop the execution of Frances Newton!’ 
The mobilization to stop the execution of Frances Newton is in high gear and growing by the day. Her execution is set for 6 p.m. on Sept. 14. Frances Newton would be the first African American woman executed in the state of Texas in over 100 years....
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 4:28pm PDT
Emergency: Stop the execution of Frances Newton! Stop the execution of Frances Newton! www.freefrances.org...
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 2:39pm PDT
Amnesty International Welcomes Resolutions Adopted by Blacks in Gov't Calling for Stopping Taser U Amnesty International Welcomes Pro-Human Rights Resolutions Adopted by Blacks in Government Calling for Suspending TASER Use, Abolishing the Death Penalty, Ending Racial Profiling, and Taking Action in Sudan...
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 12:26pm PDT
Direct Action/Adopt an Intersection in D.C. this September Adopt an Intersection- Coordinated Direct Action in DC...
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 11:05am PDT
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