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  • Bellaciao convened in court after the publication of the French union USM-CGT statement (St Nazaire), France
    6 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Friday, 12th may 2006, Bellaciao is convened by a judge in the court of Saint Nazaire.
    The « Shipyards of St Nazaire » filed suit for slandering after the publication on the Bellaciao collective website of a statement from the French union USM-CGT on 16th September 2005 entitled «Piracy of modern times», consultable here
    Since the "Shipyards of St Nazaire" do not contest the facts, but use the words of the French union (…)

  • Declassified FBI Files Reveal Years of Surveillance of Peaceful Demonstrations by FBI’s Counterterro
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MAY 4, 2006 9:22 AM
    CONTACT: School of the Americas Watch Christy Pardew, Eric LeCompte, 202-234-3440, 202-903-7257, media@soaw.org Declassified FBI Files Reveal Years of Surveillance of Peaceful Demonstrations by FBI’s Counterterrorism Division ACLU and School of the Americas Watch filed for documents; much information blacked out, some pages not released
    WASHINGTON - May 4 - The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Georgia today released new evidence that the Federal (…)

  • 36 US House Reps Want Bush Impeachment Probe- John Conyers not pursuing illegal wiretapping
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Publisher’s note: John Conyers introduced this right after the illegal wiretapping revelations
    I think that many more congresspeople would sign on if the impeachment resolution was about the illegal wiretapping only. The case for impeachment over illegal wiretapping is cut and dry. Bush admitted to breaking the law on national TV and has said he will continue to do so.
    When this information came to light, everyone was in an uproar and the momentum was so moving toward immediate (…)

  • Actors and Writers Read Works from Luminaries Censored at the Border
    2 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Actors and Writers Read Works from Luminaries Censored at the Border (4/27/2006)
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: media@aclu.org
    ACLU and PEN Highlight Foreign Scholars Barred from United States
    LEARN MORE > Censorship at the Border
    > An Evening Without... NEW YORK — Prominent authors and actors convene tonight in lower Manhattan to read from the works of writers and scholars who were banned from the United States because of their political opinions.
    Tonight’s event, “An Evening (…)

  • The Story of Carl - On Workers Memorial Day
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Thom Hartmann
    Carl loved books and loved history and, after spending two years in the army as part of the American occupation forces in Japan immediately after World War II, was hoping to graduate from college and teach history, perhaps even at the university level if he could hang on to the GI Bill and his day job in a camera store long enough to get his Ph.D. It was 1950, and he’d been married just a few months, when the surprise came that forced him to drop out of college: his wife (…)

  • Bush challenges hundreds of laws- Claims Dictatorial Powers
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    President cites powers of his office
    By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | April 30, 2006
    WASHINGTON — President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution. Article Tools
    Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that (…)

  • House Poised To Grant Arrest (Domestic Police) Powers To CIA, NSA
    25 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    excerpt:
    We are particularly concerned with the language in Sections 423, “Additional Functions and Authorities for the Protective Personnel of the Central Intelligence Agency,” and Section 432, “Codification of Authorities of National Security Agency Protective Personnel.” As currently written, Section 423 proposes that:
    (a) The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency may issue regulations to allow personnel designated to carry out executive protection functions for the Central (…)

  • Remembering Bill Coffin
    25 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Bill Moyers
    Bill Moyers is president of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. The following remarks were delivered by Bill Moyers at the funeral service for William Sloane Coffin on Thursday, April 20, at Riverside Memorial Church in New York City.
    There are so many of you out there who should be up here instead of me. You rode with Bill through the Deep South, chasing Jim Crow from long impregnable barriers imposed on freedom. You rose with Bill against the Vietnam War, were (…)

  • The Citizens of Porto Alegre
    24 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    In which Marco borrows bus fare and enters politics
    by Gianpaolo Baiocchi
    Marco is a self-employed handyman in his mid-30s who moved to the city of Porto Alegre from the Brazilian countryside eight years ago. A primary-school-educated son of a farmer, he’d had few opportunities in his small town and had heard about the city’s generous social services. He borrowed money for bus fare and landed in Porto Alegre, where he found construction work. But when his wages wouldn’t cover rent he (…)

  • Continuing Quiet Death Of Democracy By John Pilger
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    April 15, 2006
    Continuing Quiet Death Of Democracy
    By John Pilger
    http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-04/15pilger.cfm
    People ask: Can this be happening in Britain? Surely not. A centuries-old democratic constitution cannot be swept away. Basic human rights cannot be made abstract Those who once comforted themselves that a Labour government would never commit such an epic crime in Iraq might now abandon a last delusion, that their freedom is inviolable. If they knew.
    The (…)