Found at Open Left:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYLzcziOerY
Thanks for standing up for our right to privacy.
Category Archives: Civil rightsFound at Open Left:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYLzcziOerY
Thanks for standing up for our right to privacy.
As many of you know, Brian Baird usually is a guest on KPOJ AM620 on Tuesday mornings. This last Tuesday he spoke about the legislation to provide immunity to the telecoms for turning over phone records since BEFORE 911 to the NSA. Representative Baird’s interview begins at 15:40 in this segment with a discussion [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2rirF8xA-I
From Chevron Protester:
We will be holding the CHEVRON PROTEST through FAX and PHONE calls on TUESDAY October 9th from 1:00pm-3:00pm Pacific Time (4:00pm-6:00pm Eastern / 8:00pm-10pm GMT).
* Chevron pays millions of dollars in oil and gas royalties to the current military junta. We will demand that they put these royalties in escrow for the legitimate, [...]
[ October 6, 2007; 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] While this isn’t a Vancouver area event, I thought it warranted our attention and support:
“Hammerskin Nation” Racists Will Meet with Opposition:People from All Backgrounds Unite Against White Supremacist Organizations Portland, Oregon
The Hammerskin Nation, a neo-Nazi skinhead organization, aims to attract hundreds of hardcore racists to the group’s twentieth-anniversary celebration, to be held October 5 [...]
Freedom’s on the march (everywhere but here, evidently):
A Republican filibuster in the Senate today shot down a bipartisan effort to restore the right of terrorism suspects to contest their detentions and treatment in federal courts, underscoring the Democratic-led Congress’s difficulty with terrorism issues.
The 56-43 vote fell short of the 60 needed to cut off debate [...]
My sister and brother-in-law both work at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina (alma mater of Tony Snow, but other than that a great school). A group of students there have organized a trip down to Jena, Louisiana to join the mass protest in support of the Jena 6, which is taking place tomorrow.
The following [...]
KBOO dedicates a full day of special programming to coincide with the anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster of 2005.
We will feature a diverse array of public affairs and music programs that focus on New Orleans, the history and aftermath of Katrina, as well as current events and other relevant issues.
Topics to be covered include:
Pre-Katrina [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEI8u0GlVHk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15bkkLVkxrw
From the Columbian letters to editor today. People’s attitudes and prejudices change slowly, but thank goodness they can and do change.
Love is good, not immoral
Regarding his recent comment that homosexual acts are “immoral,” Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and recent Marshall Lecturer, is correct on one point. There is [...]
This is ugly:
After a static period, the Ku Klux Klan is growing rapidly, fueled by job losses, urban crime, gay marriage and illegal immigration from Mexico, a civil rights organization and a Klan leader say.
The trend is described as “surprising and troubling” by Deborah M. Lauter, the Anti-Defamation League’s civil rights director.
“The KKK believes the [...]