Steven Salaita's Academic Lynching (tags)
Israel
Israeli Commanders on Trial (tags)
murder
Palestinians Living in Firing Zones (tags)
Israel
Iraq Army firing live bullets at Protesters (tags)
Western media pans Iraq oppression of protests
9:55 pm - Rampart Firing Rubber Bullets! (tags)
John Pedro Morales ATTN: If you are near Pico/Union, LAPD is firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the community protesting the senseless killing of Guatemalan immigrant worker.
BTL:McChystal Firing Highlights Concerns Over Maintaining Civilian Control of the U.S. Mil (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
Threatened Academic and Expression Freedoms at the University of Ottawa (tags)
threatened freedoms on campus
Targeting Academic and Speech Freedoms: The Case of Canadian Professor Denis Rancourt (tags)
academic and speech freedoms endangered
Pacifica Network(CA) Fires Program Director of WBAI FM(NY)! VIDEO ft.Rosa Clemente (tags)
Video of Bernard White speaking about his firing as Program Director from Pacifica station WBAI. Bernard White contextualizes his firing as Program Director of WBAI in the larger struggle for the direction of the Pacifica Network. Details financial interests in the station and divisive tactics used against him. Other members of the WBAI community make comments denouncing the firing and supporting the station.
Lies, Statistics and the Los Angeles Times: "Firing Teachers" (tags)
The LA Times makes it appear as if non-qualified teachers are gaming the system in great numbers, but a careful reading of the article shows that may not be the case.
Stop Terror at Its Source (tags)
Extraordinary for demonstrators to take to the streets to rally around a journalist (tags)
It's highly unsual, even extraordinary, for demonstrators to take to the streets to rally around a journalist, but that's just what happened this afternoon outside the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times. The cause was the firing last week of veteran columnist Robert Scheer, the last progressive voice on the Times's Op-Ed page.
Hundreds of LA Times Readers Protest Firing of Columnist Robert Scheer (tags)
Hundreds of LA Times Readers Picket Outside Times Building To Protest Controversial Firing of Popular Columnist Robert Scheer Publisher Jeff Johnson Refuses to Schedule Meeting with Delegation of Readers
TUES NOV. 15: LA Times Readers to Protest Firing of Popular Columnist Scheer (tags)
LA Times Readers/Subscribers to Picket Outside Times Building To Protest Controversial Firing of Popular Columnist Robert Scheer "I've been a punching bag for Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh for years and I think the paper finally collapsed" -- Robert Scheer, Friday, Nov. 11th
TUES 11/15 NOON: Picket LA Times in Protest of Firing of Columnist Scheer (tags)
Join Peace and Media Activists from Across Los Angeles As We Put the New Publisher on Notice Picket LA Times/Protest the Firing of Columnist Robert Scheer & Limited Coverage of Local Anti-War Movement
Australian Beauty Facing Indonesian Firing Squad (tags)
Schapelle Corby: Schapelle Corby, a 27-year-old Australian, faces a maximum punishment of death by firing squad after 4.1 kg of cannabis were found inside her unlocked bodyboard bag at Bali airport last October. Schapelle is believed to have been an innocent victim in an Australian domestic drug smuggling racket between Sydney and Brisbane. The criminals however, did not remove the drugs in Brisbane according to the plan and Schapelle, unbeknown to her, arrived in Bali with drugs that had been planted in her bag along the way. PLEASE JOIN PETITION TO BRING HER HOME.
Save Tom's job -- sign the Wild Oats petition! (tags)
Tom Kappas was fired over a couple of bananas (or so they say!)
Teacher/ Activist Cesar Cruz Fired For Placing Students and Parents Above Profit (tags)
International Activist, Poet, and Elementary Teacher Cesar Cruz was fired Monday at Downer Elementary School. The firing occured after an article was published that documented Cesar's organizing of a 70 mile march on Sacramento by students and parents to protest budget cuts at their 99% people of color school, as well as the presence of the nearby prison and oil refinery. (Un) Coincidentally, Cesar had also recently aided the community in their demands for a new school and site-based management. A call for action is occurring.
Daniel Ellsberg on VIETNAM - IRAQ (tags)
Leak against this war US and British officials must expose their leaders' lies about Iraq - as I did over Vietnam Daniel Ellsberg Tuesday January 27, 2004
Moderate Group Surfaces To Take On Conservative Opposition (tags)
Mr. Woods challenged the Club fog Growth to disclose who its donors are; "Don't come into Arizona in secret. Tell us exactly where your donations are coming from or stay out of Arizona."
CHERYL SEAL ALERT: Bush Pentagon Plans to Orbit Monstrous Space Bomber (tags)
While America's is diverted by the Bush UK visit and the Energy and Medicare bills crises, Bush, aided and abetted by NASA and Boeing, are laying plans to create a fleet of space bombers
Samuel L. Jackson (by Latuff) (tags)
Actor Samuel L. Jackson during the 2003 Rio Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2000, Jackson starred a racist movie called "Rules of Engagement". Please, read below article for details.
North Carolina Teacher Fired for Antiwar Remarks (tags)
"This is not just about me or about my job," said Ito. "It's about something very disturbing that is happening all over the country. I want people to understand that if it could happen here it could happen anywhere."
Pictsweet found guilty of illegally firing mushroom worker who backed UFW (tags)
Pictsweet found guilty of illegally firing mushroom worker who backed UFW
Building Bridges Internet Labor Radio-3 Crises:Argentina, Pacifica & Welfare (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report is broad- casting Wednesday, August 8 from 8-9pm over WBAI RADIO IN EXILE over www.wbix.org.Tonight we explore 3 crises: Argentina's financial meltdown, Welfare in the U.S. and continuing purges at WBAI-Pacifica
Riverside City Council decides to appeal arbitrator's ruling on Gregory Preece (tags)
After keeping the populace in Riverside in suspense for a week, the City Council voted unamiously in closed session last Tuesday to appeal the arbitrator's ruling regarding the firing of former Riverside Police Department sergeant Gregory Preece, in superior court.
Police Attack Protesters at Parker Center (tags)
A short personal report from the demonstrations.