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AP: GOP, Democrats Battle in PA Over Voter Dress Code
So it's come to this! LOL. Actually, this would be amusing if it weren't so pathetic.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, October 4, 2008
Has Sarah Palin been picked as the titular head of the coming police state?
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Wednesday, September 24, 2008Incredible Documentary Footage of Mass Arrest in St. Paul | AlterNet [VIDEO]
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, September 20, 2008NYT Editorial Observer: ‘Libel Tourism’: When Freedom of Speech Takes a Holiday
"Britain's troubling libel laws shouldn't be enforced here."Posted by Ian Alterman, Monday, September 15, 2008
NYT Books in Review: “The Forever War,” “The Way of the World,” “The Limits of Power,” “Is There A Right to Remain Silent?”
A war correspondent's journal; the reality of nuclear terrorism; the end of "American exceptionalism"; and Dershowitz takes on "coercive interrogation" and the Fifth Amendment.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, September 14, 2008
t r u t h o u t | US Law “Fails to Protect” Corporate Whistleblowers
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, September 13, 2008NYT (3): International News
A day after Morales dismisses the U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, Chavez does the same in Venezuela; China fails to live up to its promise of open protests during the Olympics; and Jenin (West Bank) as a template for peace and a two-state solution.Posted by Ian Alterman, Friday, September 12, 2008
NYT: Group Sues for Details on Security Downtown
"The security plan envisions a London-like “ring of steel” around downtown, with mobile teams of heavily armed officers as well as technology including closed-circuit television cameras, license plate readers and explosive trace detection systems. In a segment of the plan called Operation Sentinel, the department also proposes to photograph every vehicle entering Manhattan, scan the license plates and use sensors to check for radiation, and then keep the information on file for at least a month." Anyone remember Escape From New York? LOL.Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Sarah Palin’s List of Books She Wanted Banned from the Wasilla Library
Pola Rappaport sent this... Disturbing stuff ... can't have Huckberry Finn or Catcher in the Rye ... or Harry Potter corrupting our young American minds - mabPosted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, September 9, 2008
NYT (2): Politics/Legal
The Alaska legislature is not waiting to issue subpoenas in the Palin case; and as arrests pile up in St. Paul, cases re arrests at the '04 RNC still linger.Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, September 6, 2008
The Consortiumnews.com Convention Police Bust the Press
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, September 6, 2008t r u t h o u t | Why We Were Falsely Arrested
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, September 5, 2008AlterNet: As Unlawful Arrests Continue, St. Paul Feels Like a City Under Siege for Some Residents
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, September 4, 2008Amy Goodman: Why We Were Falsely Arrested
go to story"When I asked St. Paul Police Chief John Harrington how reporters are to operate in this atmosphere, he suggested, 'By embedding reporters in our mobile field force.'" - Goodman
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, September 4, 2008
St. Paul Mayor and Media Mum on Journalism Crackdown
go to storyFrom Timothy Carr in Huff Post .. "Police -- with firearms drawn -- raided a meeting of the video journalists and arrested independent media, bloggers and videomakers. Journalists covering protests have been pointed out by authorities, blasted with tear gas and pepper spray, and brutalized while in custody. Democracy Now's Goodman reports that a U.S. Secret Service agent ripped her press credentials from her neck the moment she identified herself to him as a member of the media. Her producers emerged yesterday from their jail cells bloodied and scarred, reporting unusually harsh treatment at the hands of local and federal authorities"
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, September 4, 2008
NYT: Instruction in Pole Dancing Tests the First Amendment
Puritan attitudes vs. free speech.Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, September 4, 2008
t r u t h o u t | Pre-Emptive Strikes Against Protest at RNC
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, September 3, 2008Amy Goodman, Others Detained Outside RNC
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, September 3, 2008Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC
Video of Amy Goodman's ArrestMore on the flip .. Looks like they're trying to recreate 1968 folks (and i don't mean the activists) - mab
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, September 1, 2008
Police Raid RNC Protest Sites in Twin Cities
go to articleFrom the Minneapolis Star Tribune .. this gestapo shit doesn't even surprise us anymore - mab
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, September 1, 2008
NYT: Battles Over Billboard Space Precede G.O.P. Gathering
Stifling free speech in Minneapolis-St. Paul. (And don't forget that the DNC (of which Obama is titular head) and some of its corporate sugar-daddies stifled free speech in Denver as well...)Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, August 30, 2008
NYT (2): International News
Protests in Thailand continue to heat up; and despite China's promises of allowing protests during the Olympics, "thousands of relentless protestors [are] in jail or under close surveillance."Posted by Ian Alterman, Saturday, August 30, 2008
