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  • Did Stevenson Die because of medical care delays caused by rabid right wing hate?
    15 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Stalking of Andy Stephenson
    Did Stevenson Die because of medical care delays caused by rabid right wing hate?
    by Elizabeth Ferrari
    I have lived for the last ten weeks with Andy Stephenson’s cancer. And in the most useless way. I couldn’t take it away, couldn’t relieve him of it, couldn’t mind it for a few hours so he could be freed to do the election reform work he so loved.
    Andy was one of the most luminous people I have never met, because we never shared room temperature. I (…)

  • The difference between Sibel Edmonds’ case and the Downing Street Memos
    13 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    July 13, 2005-In a recent editorial, Online Journal writer W. David Jenkins III called on the Internet community to push the story of fired FBI translator Sibel Edmonds back into the mainstream media, as they have with the so-called Downing Street Memos.
    Ms. Edmonds once had the pleasure of mainstream media attention in 2002, when she claimed that the FBI translation program was penetrated by a Turkish organization that deliberately mistranslated documents related to 9-11, but her story (…)

  • Queer Activists Attacked by Western Australian police
    10 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by pink_blocka
    Peaceful Queer Activists Attacked by Western Australian police: On Friday 8th July a queer rights action protesting the Howard governments attacks on student and trade unions and calling on the government to repeal all homophobic laws - in particular the same-sex marriage ban - was brutality attacked by police...
    150 student and queer rights activists rallied at the end of a successful national student Queer Collaborations Conference held over a week at Perth’s University (…)

  • London : government wants email and phone data kept for intelligence
    10 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Three days after the London bombings, Britain said on Sunday it would seek new EU rules to make telecoms companies store records for much longer showing who their customers are calling and emailing.
    Home Secretary Charles Clarke said he would raise the issue on Wednesday at a meeting of European Union interior ministers which he has called in Brussels to discuss a joint response to the bombings by suspected Islamist militants.
    "We believe that telecommunications records, whether of (…)

  • Did the California National Guard spy on protesters?
    9 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE CALIFORNIA National Guard is under investigation—for spying on Californians. According to press reports, National Guard personnel monitored a Mother’s Day rally at the state capitol building sponsored by antiwar groups, which include the families of slain American soldiers.
    Guard officials deny the charge, but according to e-mails obtained by the San Jose Mercury News, the unit was tracking the protest under the auspices of California’s “Information Synchronization, Knowledge (…)

  • Scotland all out for G8 security
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GLENEAGLES, Scotland, July 6 (Xinhuanet) — The streets of Edinburgh looked quite normal on Wednesday except a heavy presence of police and some boarded up shop windows in downtown areas. With the fast-approaching Group of Eight (G8) summit in Gleneagles some70 kilometers way from the Scottish capital, Scotland is all drummed up to ensure a safe summit.
    On Monday, violent clashes took place on a high street of Edinburgh when over 1,000 anarchists and members of the so-called Carnival for (…)

  • Enemy is at the G8
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fears were growing overnight that today’s G8 summit in Scotland was set to be derailed by violence and political bickering.
    Sir Bob Geldof, the organiser of the weekend’s Live8 concerts to fight poverty, was downbeat last night.
    "We have the potential to make this an historic G8," Geldof said.
    "But I don’t think they (G8 leaders) are anywhere near there."
    More than 60 people were arrested in Edinburgh as violent protesters infiltrated mass demonstrations for G8.
    Police fears that (…)

  • G8 Edinburgh : protesters scuffle with police
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HUNDREDS of anti-capitalist demonstrators took to the streets of Scotland’s capital today in a series of protests ahead of the G8 summit.
    The centre of Edinburgh was brought to a standstill as an estimated 500 anarchist protesters were involved in tense stand-offs with police.
    The demonstrations, under the banner of The Carnival For Full Enjoyment, were said by organisers to be aimed at highlighting their anti-war and anti-wage slavery message.
    A heavy police presence, drawn from (…)

  • TSA Secretly Snoops on Passengers
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Transportation Security Administration is the all-knowing, all-seeing federal agency in charge of taking our shoes off at airports, and our heroic leaders there have recently rooted out a treasure trove of invaluable data. Unfortuately, it’s not information about some secret cell of terrorists—it’s a trove of your and my personal information.
    If you flew in June of 2004, TSA snoops now have a file on you—even though Congress specifically told them not to collect such data. Agency (…)

  • ACLU Calls on California Governor to End Surveillance of Peaceful Protesters
    2 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    National Guard Terrorist Unit Reportedly Targeted Mother’s Day Peace Rally
    SAN FRANCISCO — Following revelations that an intelligence unit recently spied on a peace rally organized by families of slain American soldiers, the American Civil Liberties Union today called on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to take immediate steps to stop the California National Guard from spying on people who engage in peaceful protest. The ACLU also filed a California Public Records Act request with both the (…)