- 10/26/2001
-Anti-terrorism Legislation Gutting Privacy Standards Becomes Law
(1) ANTI-TERRORISM LEGISLATION GUTTING PRIVACY STANDARDS BECOMES LAW
President Bush on October 26 signed into law an an
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-Utah Cops Skip Search Warrants
Even when Judges would approve search warrant requests cops are not bothering to ask
When Utah Police forced their w ... > read more - 02/06/2002
-Hip Hop artist to sue FCC
Hip Hop and spoken word artist Sarah Jones is mad as hell and ain't gonna take it no more. She is doing what very few artists have ... > read more - 02/12/2002
-STOP THE DEA! Protect Patients and Democracy!!!
Dear Friend,
At a time when our nation is concerned about the war on terrorism, the DEA is waging an all-out war on me ... > read more - 02/28/2002
-Prop. C Allows All S.F. Residents To Be Heard
San Francisco voters can choose to expand opportunities for civic participation by noncitizens and affirm the contributions of S ... > read more - 03/08/2002
-(updated 7/11/02) SF Green Party County Council Candidates Ticketed For Observing Arrest
(update 3/28 at bottom)
On Friday March 1, around 11PM, GCC candidates, Rob Arnow and Paul Platt were riding their bicycles a ... > read more - 03/10/2002
-A Prayer for America
Published in the March 25 issue of The Nation
The following speech was given on February 17, 2002 in Los Angeles, Califor ... > read more - 03/23/2002
-The Great Florida Ex-Con Game
How the “felon” voter-purge was itself felonious
In November the U.S. media, lost in patriotic reverie, dressed ... > read more - 04/01/2002
-Medical Marijuana Ban Overturned in D.C.
A federal law that prohibited District of Columbia residents from proposing, running or voting on a ballot initiative to legalize ... > read more - 04/10/2002
-79 held as Cal rally turns rowdy, Palestinians' supporters storm building, demand UC divest from Israel
Story and online poll here.
... > read more - 05/02/2002
-Judge declares terrorism detainments unconstitutional
The government's jailing of material witnesses for a grand jury investigation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is unconstitutiona ... > read more - 05/23/2002
-Repeal USA/PATRIOT
The storm of questions and criticism following revelations that the Bush Administration had numerous warnings of an impending hija ... > read more - 05/27/2002
-Anti-war rally ties up bridge
Cops stop traffic to make arrests at Golden Gate
An anti-war protest on the Golden Gate Bridge turned ugly Saturday when police stopped northbound traffic to arrest demonstrators, ... > read more - 06/03/2002
-Gagged by Google
Media activists have a lot to put up with these days. Not only is there more to complain about than ever when it comes to the timi ... > read more - 06/03/2002
-The Cops Are Watching You
Col. David Mitchell, superintendent of the Maryland State Police, is sitting at the end of a big conference table at police head ... > read more - 06/10/2002
-J. Edgar Hoover is Back
The vaunted reorganization of the FBI is actually, in dangerous essence, a return to J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO counterint ... > read more - 06/11/2002
-Environmental Activists Given $4.4M
Jury Vindicates Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, Finds FBI & Oakland Police Guilty
OAKLAND, Calif. –– A federal jury awarded $4.4 million Tuesday to two radical environmentalists who accused Oakland police and the ... > read more - 06/17/2002
-Secret FBI Files Reveal Covert Activities at UC: Bureau's Campus Operations Involved Reagan, CIA
Under the guise of protecting national security, the FBI conducted wide-ranging and unlawful intelligence operations concerning ... > read more - 06/23/2002
-FBI Checking Out Americans' Reading Habits
Bookstores, libraries can't do much to fend off search warrants
For the first time since the Cold War, the FBI is vi ... > read more - 07/08/2002
-High Treason in the US Government
Below is a compelling and accurate description of the USA PATRIOT which passed the US Senate 98 -1 and passed the US House or Repr ... > read more - 08/01/2002
-JOHNNY'S REAL CRIME
If one listens closely, a vast collective sigh of relief can be heard at the news that John Walker Lindh has pleaded guilty to s ... > read more - 08/05/2002
-South Dakota Candidate For Governor Arrested
Huron - Libertarian candidate for Governor, Nathan A. Barton of rural Rapid City, was arrested today by security guards at the Fre ... > read more - 08/27/2002
-All in the family?
One of the main arguments against proposed financial-privacy legislation is that it would be unfair to restrict information sharin ... > read more - 09/04/2002
-General Ashcroft's Detention Camps: Time to Call for His Resignation
Jonathan Turley is a professor of constitutional and public-interest law at George Washington University Law School in D.C. He is ... > read more - 09/09/2002
-New law changes some legal rights of Americans
Some of the fundamental changes to Americans' legal rights by the Bush administration and the USA Patriot Act after the terror att ... > read more - 09/16/2002
-Chuck D Censored by MTV; They Want Him to Drop Mumia References!
Chuck D recently got slammed by MTV for his video 'Give The People What They Want'. The network says they won't air the video unti ... > read more - 09/19/2002
-Goodbye to All That
[This is a transcript of Rep. McKinney's remarks on September 14 at the reception for the Congressional Black Caucus.]
... > read more - 09/27/2002
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No-Fly Blacklist Snares Political Activists
A federal "No Fly" list, intended to keep terrorists from boarding planes, is snaring peace activists at San Francisco Internation ... > read more - 11/14/2002
-You Are a Suspect
WASHINGTON — If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you: Every purchase you make ... > read more - 11/15/2002
-Grounded
A federal agency confirms that it maintains an air-travel blacklist of 1,000 people. Peace activists and civil libertarians fear t ... > read more - 11/29/2002
-Bay View Banned by NY Prison
“Thought police” is the way Black Panther Political Prisoner Robert Seth Hayes described the Media Review Committee of Clinton Cor ... > read more - 12/12/2002
-Where are they now?
ON TELEVISION, the good guys almost always catch the criminal by the last commercial. But in real life, criminals disappear and re ... > read more - 12/20/2002
-Bush Administration to Propose System for Monitoring Internet
he Bush administration is planning to propose requiring Internet service providers to help build a centralized system to enable br ... > read more - 01/01/2003
-The Green Party of California statement in opposition to the USA PATRIOT Act..
..and other Executive Orders that violate constitutionally guaranteed civil rights and liberties
The Green Party o ... > read more - 01/06/2003
-Anti-American Or Anti-Imperialist?
What does it mean to be an American? That is the question that is pulsing through the country, especially as the nation embarks ... > read more - 01/09/2003
-Political Repression Against Activists
Writing about his no-fly nightmare in the Fairfield County Weekly, art dealer Doug Stuber, who had run Ralph Nader's Green Party p ... > read more - 01/10/2003
-The Government's Air Passenger Blacklist
Barbara Olshansky was in a Newark International Airport departure gate last March when an airline agent at the counter checking ... > read more - 01/16/2003
-Free Joe Lynn!
IMAGINE: AT a time when public cynicism about government is at an alarmingly high level, and when the Brown administration has don ... > read more - 02/09/2003
-Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly Threatens Physical Assault On, & Ejects, a 9/11 Family Member From His Show
On February 4th, during a live interview on the Fox News program “The O’Reilly Factor,” media personality Bill O’Reilly verbally a ... > read more - 02/10/2003
-Patriot Act II: Fascism in the US
Just when you think things can't get worse, along comes news of further disasters. Case in point? The secret draft of Patriot Ac ... > read more - 03/17/2003
-When Democracy Failed in Nazi Germany: The Warning of History
The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans r ... > read more - 03/30/2003
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Chronicle Suspends Anti-War Reporter, Henry Norr Among 1,300 Arrested For Blocking Streets
A San Francisco Chronicle reporter suspended after getting arrested in an anti-war rally said on Friday that he felt unfairly trea ... > read more - 04/07/2003
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Our Flag, Too
The residents of an unassuming house, tucked away in a quiet corner of a small New England college campus, have found themselves ... > read more - 04/13/2003
-Voices in the Wilderness Banned from Palestine Hotel in Baghdad by U.S. Military
BAGHDAD - April 17 - Less than 24 hours after issuing a press release (below) highlighting the failures of the U.S. Military's att ... > read more - 04/20/2003
-Today Show Goes Dark on Tim Robbins
At 8:15 Monday Morning Today Show host Mat Lauer introduced the controversy that has been kicked up by the cancellation of the 15t ... > read more - 05/15/2003
-Police Vs. Protestors At Port
Police, dressed in the ominous black uniforms, helmets and jackboots reminiscent of stormtroopers, level their shotguns and fire ... > read more - 05/27/2003
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State monitored war protesters
Days before firing wooden slugs at anti-war protesters, Oakland police were warned of potential violence at the Port of Oakland by ... > read more - 06/08/2003
-DEA Uses RAVE Act to Stop a Benefit to Raise Money for Marijuana Reform
Only two months after the RAVE Act was passed by Congress it has been used by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (D ... > read more - 07/03/2003
-Dear Clarence Thomas: It Happened on July 4, 1776
In 1789, Thomas Jefferson wrote a note to James Madison about the future possibility of a president who didn't understand the pr ... > read more - 03/27/2004
-CA Greens Make History With LGBTIQ Platform
"I don't know if you realize what you've done," San Francisco County Council member Paul Quick beamed at a plenary session of Cali ... > read more - 12/18/2008
-The Problem For Gays With Rick Warren - and Obama
About three years ago, a reporter at Fortune asked Rick Warren — the successful pastor whom the President-elect has asked to ... > read more - 12/22/2008
-California Green Party Demands Obama Un-invite Rick Warren
Suggests President-elect, Democratic Party "ambiguity" may have helped passage of Prop. 8
SACRAMENT0 - The Gre ... > read more - 02/10/2009
-Extraordinary Renditions: No Hope for Change in Obama Administration
By Susan Vaughan
February 10, 2
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