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"Enemy Combatants" at Guantanamo. Pt. 1. SF Press Conf. April 20th (video/quicktime 15.5MB)
Bob Kearney of the ACLU and Stacy Tolchin of the National Lawyers Guild tell how the Bush administration has prevented incarcerated persons from ever having a judge look at their case. Three minute QT movie. 16MB....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 8:58pm PDT
The Joint Terrorism Task Force Infiltration of Peace Fresno
On Wednesday, April 21 Peace Fresno held a press conference to provide the latest information about the infiltration of their organization by the Joint Terrorism Task Force....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 5:02pm PDT
Deputy Chief Suhr Appears before Committee hearing to Defend Police Crackdowns on Protests (video/x-pn-realvideo-meta 0.1KB)
Video from hearing at SF City Hall....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 4:37pm PDT
Portland Police Honor Killer Cop with Top Award
Portland cop who shot and killed an unarmed black motorist given award....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 3:40pm PDT
Charges dropped against Oakland port protesters
Over a year since Oakland police opened fire with wooden bullets and metal-shot bags against protesters at the Oakland docks, even though video demonstrated that they had been nonviolent, charges were dropped against 24 arrestees....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 1:03pm PDT
RIDERS BACK IN ACTION--Oakland Pigs Caught Setting Up Local Priest!
OAKLAND PIGS ENSNARED IN THEIR OWN POLITICAL HIT AGAINST ST.PATRICKS ABBEY & FATHER DONALD WEEKS!
Iggy The Pig (Ignacio De La Fuente) & His Henchmen In The Oakland Police Department Are Caught Red Handed In Their Own Slimey Efforts To Set Up A Local Priest!
Not Content With The Harm Done To Destroy The Abbey & Make 28 Men Homeless In The Process, Now The (PIGS) Accuse Their Hit Victim (The Priest) Of Being A Parasite After All The Charges Had To Be Dropped!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 6:07pm PDT
CRUEL CHOICES IN SUDAN
Arab Military dictatorships enforcing Islamic law mostly run Sudan since independence from the UK in 1956. Over the past 20 years, a civil war pitting black Christians and Animists of the south against the Arab-Muslims of the north has brought at least 1.5 million war- and famine-related deaths....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 6:57am PDT
Supreme Court Rejects Indian Activist Peltier's Appeal -
Peltier Attorney Respond to the US Supreme Court Denial of Appeal...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 12:02am PDT
NO! to Enemy Combatant Status; SF Fed Bldg Press Conf Video (video/x-ms-wmv 10.1MB)
2:51 minutes. A dozen speakers representing as many local and national progressive organizations spoke out against the government’s actions that have eliminated due process for individuals based entirely on the government’s declaration of them as “enemy combatants.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 8:09pm PDT
NO! to Enemy Combatant Status; SF Fed Bldg Press Conf Photos
NO! to Enemy Combatant Status; San Francisco Federal Building Press Confence...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 5:09pm PDT
Oakland--Human rights abuser prosecutes victims
A pretrial hearing for the “Oakland 25” will be held Thursday, April 22nd at 8:30 a.m. at the Oakland courthouse. Please come and show solidarity....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 1:28pm PDT
Dept of Homeland Sec to create spec taskforce for G-8, RNC & DNC
He cautioned that there was no specific, credible intelligence pointing to an attack....
Posted: Mon, Apr 19, 2004 6:52pm PDT
John Dimitri Negroponte: From Man Behind Central American Death Squads To Emperor Of Iraq
1981-1985 US ambassador to Honduras ... 2001-2004 US ambassador to the United Nations ...2004-US ambassador to Iraq (and replacement to Paul Bremer as American in charge of US actions in the country)...
Posted: Mon, Apr 19, 2004 12:49pm PDT
Mumia Abu Jamal First Internationalist Film Festival
Movies: Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony(South Africa), We Shall Bend - But We Will Never Break(Haiti), Voice of the Voiceless, The Fourth World War(from Chiapas to South Korea), The Revolution Will Not be Televised(Venezuela)...
Posted: Mon, Apr 19, 2004 3:48am PDT
Arnold Beverly Shot Officer Faulkner, Not Mumia Abu-Jamal
Arnold Beverly, a a confessed hit man for organized crime, swore under oath that on 12/9/81 he shot Officer Faulkner, a whistleblower who was telling federal investigators of corruption in the Philadelphia Police Department. Mumia Abu-Jamal, an award-winning president of a black journalists association, and a taxicab driver who was in the area at the time, was falsely accused and convicted of the murder, of which Beverly has since confessed. On April 24, 2004, Mumia celebrates his 50th birt...
Posted: Sun, Apr 18, 2004 3:59pm PDT
No to "Enemy Combatant" Status! Protest / Press Conf, Tues. 4/20
Protest and press conference, Tuesday, April 20 at noon and the San Francisco Federal Building (Golden Gate and Polk)...
Posted: Sat, Apr 17, 2004 10:40am PDT
Dorsey Nunn commits to the BOOKS NOT BARS campaign to abolish CYA (video/quicktime 15.1MB)
Nunn, a founder of All of Us Or None, questions whether the California Youth Authority did anything at all positive for his nephew in the ten years the State of California held him.
Four minute QT movie. 15MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 16, 2004 10:04am PDT
NYC D.A. CALLS POLITICAL PROTEST “A CRIME,” URGES JAIL FOR ORGANIZERS
NYC D.A. CALLS POLITICAL PROTEST “A CRIME,” URGES JAIL FOR ORGANIZERS
In letter to court, DA demands heavier punishment based on dissent history, not criminal record....
Posted: Fri, Apr 16, 2004 9:59am PDT
Beijing's Errant Children
Now that Hong Kong is anxious for self-rule and Taiwan is serious about nationhood, China is awakening from a dream of a peaceful reunification with its democratic territories -- another round of terror is likely....
Posted: Thu, Apr 15, 2004 12:04pm PDT
"Earth Day" at the SF Sony Metreon?
Idriss Stelley'altar inside the Metreon or peaceful protest
by their front door, April 24, 12 to 4 P.M....
Posted: Thu, Apr 15, 2004 4:27am PDT