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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
Photos from Camp Casey - Join us in Crawford
Camp Casey is gearing up for the final weekend of activities. You still have time to make your way to Central Texas. With both George and Cindy returning to Crawford, there is a sense that history is still being written here....
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 8:08am PDT
Conferencia Anual - Un Mundo Más Allá del Capitalismo -el Domingo, Agosto 26, 2005
Una Conferencia Anual de Paz Para Crear Uniones Internacionales y Multirraciales 26 de Agosto, 2005 - el Domingo, Agosto 28, 2005. http://www.CommonUnityPeaceConference.org o http://www.awbc.lfhniivaaaa.info - Nadie será rechazado por falta de dinero. (A World Beyond Capitalism Conference- No One Will Be Turned Away For Lack of Funds.)...
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 6:44am PDT
New York City: banned graffiti block party to go forward
A federal judge Monday overturned a ban imposed by New York’s billionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg on an art event due to take place today. The occasion is a block party that is scheduled to feature well-known graffiti artists spray-painting 20 works on two-dimensional replicas of subway cars from the 1970s and 1980s....
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 6:35am PDT
The Northwest strike: the end of the AFL-CIO and political lessons for the working class
It is necessary to speak bluntly. The scabbing against striking Northwest mechanics by the other unions at the airline demonstrates that the American trade unions are dead as organizations of the working class and cannot be revived....
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 6:33am PDT
UPDATE on LEONARD PELTIER 8/19/05
I talked to Leonard today and he informed me that he is in the general
prisoner population, not in a box!...
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 12:51am PDT