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Battered New Orleans goes to polls Still staggering after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their city, New Orleans voters were yesterday selecting the candidate they want to lead one of the biggest reconstruction projects in US history....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 6:47pm PDT
Bloody end to Nepal protest Saturday morning in Kathmandu and Nepal's capital city bustles with activity before a daytime curfew is imposed from noon....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 12:41pm PDT
Protests force Bush to relocate Hoover meeting; three students detained Although President George W. Bush was scheduled to meet with fellows at the Hoover Institution on Friday, the presence of more than 1,000 protestors forced him to change his plans and meet with advisers and faculty members at the residence of former Secretary of State and Hoover Fellow George Shultz on the outskirts of the Stanford campus....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:42am PDT
Bush Passes the Buck on Soaring Gas Prices The other day during a brief press opportunity, President Bush expressed his concern about rising gasoline prices, assuring Americans that his administration feels the public's pain, while laying out three reasons for rocketing prices of the past two months....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:30am PDT
The GOP and California's Levees: A Deficit Hawk and Flood Funds "Inexcusable" is what Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently called the lack of federal funds to improve the state's system of flood control. In late February on a trip to Washington, he had asked for $56 million for emergency repairs on 24 levee sites eroded by rising river waters in Central and Northern California....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:29am PDT
Protests continue after Nepal's opposition rejects king's offer Nepal's security forces fired on thousands of protesters Saturday after opposition leaders rejected the king's proposals for restoring democracy....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:18am PDT
BTL:Bush & Cheney Face Legal Jeopardy in Covert CIA Agent Outing Investigation Interview with Robert Parry, investigative reporter, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 4:16am PDT
Hundreds Unwelcome 'Not Our President' Bush in San Jose 
San Jose, California (April 21, 2006) – Hundreds unwelcome “Not Our President” Bush on rare visit to California. Muslim youth detained, hand cuffed, and ticketed for praying near protest zone....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 2:48am PDT
New Orleans 4/22: Hunger Strike Calling for Blanco to Provide a Fair Election 1) Hunger Strike Calling for Blanco to Provide a Fair Election - Call to Join/Support evacuees
2) Katrina evacuees continue hunger strike at Louisiana state capitol
3) Tens of thousands of displaced New Orleanians will be unable to vote in Saturday's municipal elections; Governor Blanco can single-handedly prevent it. But she won't.
4) 'New Orleans is our Gettysburg'; A Generation's Defining Event -- by the Editors of The Black Commentator...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 11:38pm PDT
thepetitionsite.com - Don't Let Congress Ruin the Internet connectivity...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 9:15pm PDT
Bay Area Activists Un-Welcome President Bush to California (audio/x-wav 18.5MB) Peace and social justice activists gathered near Cisco Systems in San Jose to tell President Bush he's not welcome in California. Activists criticized Bush's foreign and domestic policies, calling for an end to the war in Iraq, no attacks on Iran, no war on immigrants, and no cuts in social services....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 7:26pm PDT
Nepal and Venezuela: Pure-and-Simple Revolutions For a decade or so, the media has been talking about new color and flower revolutions with colorful revolutionaries like "orange" ones in Ukraine. But, after so many sponsored, colored and sanitized revolutions, as additions in the market of "a series of products deprived of their malignant property: coffee without caffeine, cream without fat, politics without politics the other deprived of its otherness" (1), once again we are witnessing pure-and-simple revolutions and re...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 6:03pm PDT
Italy's Murky Election: A Vote for Weak Government Italy's First Republic governments fostered anemic public institutions, political patronage, widespread public apathy and, simultaneously, economic and social security. Judging from the results of April 12 elections, Italians want to go back to the future. Paolo Pontoniere is U.S. correspondent for Focus, Italy's leading monthly....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 5:53pm PDT
Nepalese protesters dismiss King's pledge of democracy King Gyanendra of Nepal made a desperate attempt to save his throne as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Kathmandu yesterday calling for his overthrow....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 5:48pm PDT
Poll Workers Needed for June Election Poll Workers Needed for June 2006 Election...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 1:43pm PDT
Nepal's king gives up absolute power 
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Nepal's king has vowed to return power to the people of this Himalayan kingdom after weeks of massive protests and mounting international pressure....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 7:44am PDT
Democracy Now! Interviews New Orleans Mayoral Candidates Ray Nagin and Mitch Landrieu On Saturday, New Orleans will hold a primary for what is being considered the city's most important mayoral race ever. Voting rights activists fear tens of thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees living out of state will be unable to vote. We speak with Mayor Ray Nagin and Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 6:51am PDT
Nepali king faces mass protests 
Tens of thousands of people are back on the streets in Nepal's capital for a second day of mass protests, despite a shoot-on-sight curfew....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 6:21am PDT
Standing up for the Republics of California 
Bush is coming to California and we already have the Enronanator in "office". It is time for a change. Californians unite and throw off the tyrants of Corporatism! Time for a new Bear Flag Rebellion! Time for a change! Time for an Olive Revolution! No simple protest to end at a specific set time. Take to the streets and hold them until a New California is free from the dictators of the new world fascism!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 4:30am PDT
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