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* Death Penalty Update — 111 And Counting As New Cases Break in Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania
111 And Counting: More Innocent People Walk Off Of Death Row As New Cases Break In Missouri, Ohio And Pennsylvania
July 28, 2003 - With Monday’s release of Joseph Amrine of Missouri from prison, at least 111 people now have been freed from death row due to actual innocence, more evidence that the death penalty is an egregiously flawed and error-prone public policy, the National Coalition to (…)

Walter Mosley: Ignorance is Not Bliss
The Independent July 29, 2003
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=428460
When the novelist Walter Mosley saw how deeply the Arab world hated America, he found an explanation in his own backyard. The race riots of the 1960s civil rights struggle were motivated by the same alienation that fuelled the September 11 attacks, he argues
When my father sat there in our darkened living room wishing that he could go out and join (…)

Notes from the informal meeting to follow up Jakarta Peace Consensus, Saturday 19 July, 2003, Genoa.
Present
Abdul Amir Rekaby, Coudi, Iraq/France
Adnane Ben Youssef, CCIPPP, France
Asad Rehman, Stop the War, UK
Christine Budhholz, Linksruck, Germany
Christophe Aguiton, France
Damien Planson, Agir contre la guerre, France
Dina Garane, Genoa 2001 Coalition Greece
F. Levent Sensever, Istanbul Social Forum, Turkey
Giannis Sifakakis, Stop the War Coalition, Greece
Leo (…)

28.Jul.03 - A delegation of activists who have partecipated to the antiracist camp has entered into the military airport of Bari Palese where there is a detention center for migrant citizens that was born during the Kosovo war. This non place can "host" untill 2500 people: at the moment 70 people, all refugees asking for asylum, are here detained waiting for being transferred in other detention centers or to be deported thorough mass deportations. In this non place, violations of the (…)

A Pastoral Letter on the Sentencing of Three Dominican Sisters
July 27, 2003
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
Friday’s reading from 2 Corinthians tells us that we hold our treasure in earthen vessels. It speaks to us of the grace that has been, and will be, bestowed in abundance. How can we not believe it when we know with what care our three Dominican Sisters, Ardeth Platte, Carol Gilbert, and Jackie Hudson preach and live the spirituality of non-violence. Peace initiatives are always (…)

Canada, Montreal, Anti authoritarian activist Jaggi Singh Arrested in
anti WTO activities
Approximately 10-15 riot police wearing helmets with face
shields and batons arrested Jaggi Singh today at 9 :10 A.M. on
the corner of St. Catherine and Peel in front of an HMV music
store. Independent media and mainstream media were on hand
to photograph and film the arrest.
The arrest came after a snake march which began at 6 :30
A.M. The march went around the downtown core settling on
the (…)

When OCAP says we’re going to DINE AT THE TORY TROUGH on August 23rd, we mean it literally. During the eight years they have been in power, the Tories have presided over a transfer of wealth that has seen the incomes of the poorest people driven down so as to finance an explosion of wealth at the other end of society. Porkville is one of the places that the rich go to frolic with the loot the Tories took out of the grocery baskets of the poor and handed to them. Let’s look at some of the (…)

A US department of energy panel of experts which provided independent oversight of the development of the US nuclear arsenal has been quietly disbanded by the Bush administration. *US scraps nuclear weapons watchdog*
*Julian Borger in Washington* *Thursday July 31, 2003* *The Guardian*
A US department of energy panel of experts which provided independent oversight of the development of the US nuclear arsenal has been quietly disbanded by the Bush administration, it emerged yesterday. (…)

Anti-US resistance spreads through Iraq By Syed Saleem Shahzad
Date: Jul 30, 2003
SULAIMANIYA, northern Iraq - As attacks against US targets in central Iraq increase, many factors in the north and south are combining to add to the woes of the US occupiers, the US-appointed administration, and their supporters.
Intelligence sources in the northern city of Sulaimaniya say that those resisting the US presence are on a steep learning curve and that their attacks will become more organized (…)

Why the US needs the Taliban
By Ramtanu Maitra
Asia Times http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/EG30Ag01.html
July 29, 2003
Since Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf made his much-acclaimed visit to Camp David and met US President George W Bush on June 24, new elements have begun to emerge in the Afghan theater. US troops in Afghanistan are now encountering more enemy attacks than ever before, and clashes between Pakistani and Afghan troops along the tribal borders have (…)