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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
Fascism Unmasked: Utah RAVE Raided by SWAT Team The “war on drugs” took on a literal meaning this past weekend when SWAT Team agents in full military combat regalia stormed a RAVE an hour outside Salt Lake City, Utah....
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 12:38am PDT
Call the FDA Wednesday, Aug 24 We are asking our members to take action by calling the FDA on Wednesday, August 24,
to voice their concerns about the silicone breast implant approval applications....
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 12:24am PDT
Wicked Womyn 2006 Press Release Mark your calendars and hold the date for the Wicked Womyn
Conference January 13-16, 2006, a conference of pleasures for all
leather women. The theme for this year?s event is Kinky Mardi Gras
in Seattle - Cum earn your beads!!!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 23, 2005 4:48pm PDT
Turning Chavez Into Noriega. In a recent series of articles in The New York Times a disturbing strategy seems to be emerging out of the White House and the U.S. press....
Posted: Tue, Aug 23, 2005 2:59pm PDT
Take Action! Demand FAUX News Retract Cindy Sheehan Lie 
Take Action! Demand FOX News Retract Cindy Sheehan Lie
A little while ago, at 2:05 PM ET, FOX News Live reported a vicious lie about Cindy Sheehan without bothering to provide the source....
Posted: Tue, Aug 23, 2005 2:22pm PDT
SLDN Renews Call for Repeal of ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell SLDN Renews Call for Repeal of ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell’ as Reports Emerge of a Decline in ‘Quality’ of Soldiers...
Posted: Tue, Aug 23, 2005 10:32am PDT
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