Keep Seniors in Nursing Homes Safe: AB279 (tags)
Support this bill that would prevent nursing homes from transferring patients to another facility.
Here's a 400-word summary about the situation with Keiro nursing home and retirement home.
Porter Ranch methane leak doesn't bode well for climate (tags)
Porter Ranch methane leak poses serious risk for climate. New infrared footage exposes the extent of the leak.
Israeli Forces Invade Palestinian Hospitals (tags)
Israel
NYT Justifies US Afghan Hospital Bombing (tags)
NYT
Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant: A Ticking Time Bomb? (tags)
nuclear power
VIDEO: “Brutality on laboratory monkey farms endemic” says ADI as another dealer is expose (tags)
Animal Defenders International (ADI) has released shocking images from inside a huge facility in Spain that imports monkeys from Mauritius and sells them to the US and around the world for experiments.
Washington Funds Secret Israeli Ballistic Missile Base (tags)
Israel
Paul Ryan's soup kitchen photo-op wrecks charity organization: Doors may close (tags)
GOP vice presidential hopeful Rep. Paul RyanPaul Ryan may have drawn a few chuckles after his somewhat awkward soup kitchen appearance, but what the organization is now facing is no laughing matter.
Garda Security Employees at Bowie, MD SPEAK OUT Against Garda Cash Logistics (tags)
The purpose of this letter is to bring to light serious violations of ethical standards, company policies, DOT regulations and State law that have been committed by the Garda security management at the Bowie, MD Branch.
San Pedro: Science Center Endangered/Tongva Village Site Revitalization (tags)
Jacob Gutierrez, a Tongva, is trying to preserve two valuable Indigenous and environmental areas in San Pedro.
Lies, Damn Lies, and Safe Nuclear Power (tags)
nuclear terrorism
Tempe continues it war on homeless people (tags)
Tempe Arizona continues it war on homeless people. In this case Tempe has declared war on homeless old farts.
Oppressing West Bank Palestinian Children (tags)
oppression
BREAKING: Civil disobedience at Santa Ana ICE detention facility (tags)
10:45 AM - Eight immigrants rights activists have locked down in the street in front of the Orange County ICE detention facility, located in the City of Santa Ana.
US continues to detain, torture prisoners at secret Afghan base (tags)
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed to the British Broadcasting Corporation that the US military is operating a second “black jail” at its Bagram airbase near Kabul in Afghanistan, contrary to the Pentagon’s public denials. Did you vote for this in 2008? The government of the US did not declare war on the government of Afghanistan or Iraq, and all of this is in violation of international law.
MORONG 43 RETURNED BY THE POLICE BACK TO THE ARMY CAMP (tags)
The PESANTE NEWS learned today that the PNP refuses to house ‘Morong 38’ . They were asked to return to Camp Capinpin, Tanay. Rizal. In line with an order issued by a Morong, Rizal court, 38 members of the so-called “Morong 43” group of health workers were brought to Camp Crame on board a Philippine Army bus Friday morning. About half an hour later, the Philippine National Police (PNP) promptly sent them back to the military’s Camp Capinpin in Rizal, saying it had no room for them in its crowded detention facility.
The still-missing central fact in the Iran drama (tags)
"Obviously, it's possible that the U.S. really did learn three years ago that Qom was an enrichment facility, that Iran somehow found out that this was the case, and that it was this that prompted the Iranians to disclose to the IAEA. But that's a mere possibility, an unproven assertion from government officials which, at least as of now, they're not even claiming is certain. But it's also obviously quite possible that Iran voluntarily disclosed this facility to the IAEA because they're willing to allow inspections, believe their NPT obligations require disclosure 180 days prior to operability (which is what they've claimed since 2007), and intend to use it for civilian purposes and thus have nothing to hide. Since the claim about Iran's motives for disclosure is the linchpin of all the hysteria — the vital fact that makes what Iran did appear sinister — shouldn't newspapers refrain from repeating it as though it's proven and make clear to their readers that this is but one of several possibilities: one for which absolutely no evidence has been presented?"
Tues 3/17: Movement to Stop Blackwater Like Training Center in Riverside Grows (tags)
A private company, the Procinctu Group, has received approval for a “Blackwater-like” warfare training facility in Homeland, CA dubbed “The Ranch,” including shooting ranges, driving tracks, and live-fire training. The site is situated next to an established church retreat in a residential agricultural area that the developers say will be perfect for training because it looks “like Afghanistan.”
3/17: Veterans Group Joins Protest to Stop Blackwater -Like Training Center in Riverside (tags)
A private company, the Procinctu Group, has received approval for a “Blackwater-like” warfare training facility in Homeland, CA dubbed “The Ranch,” including shooting ranges, driving tracks, and live-fire training. The site is situated next to an established church retreat in a residential agricultural area that the developers say will be perfect for training because it looks “like Afghanistan.”
Riverside, Southern California: Community marches against raids and deportations (tags)
On Saturday, February 6th, 2009 at least 300, and by some estimates possibly as many as 500, people turned out in the city of Riverside California to demand an end to the raids, harassment, and racial profiling increasingly being conducted by US Border Patrol agents against the residents of our local communities and workplaces
Local Residents to Protest Plans for Paramilitary Training Center in Riverside, CA (tags)
LOCAL RESIDENTS ASK: WHY WAS THIS PRIVATE PARAMILITARY FIRM APPROVED BY THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS? Protest Planned Against Procinctu Plans to Build Private Military Training Center on Tuesday, January 27 Residents Hopes to Halt Construction of "The Ranch" Inspired by Successful Battle Against Blackwater's Plans in San Diego County WHERE: Outside the Riverside County Administrative Center, at 4080 Lemon Street, Riverside CA WHEN: 8:30 to 9:30 AM, Tuesday January 27, 2009 Protest outside Riverside County Administrative Center 11:00 a.m: Protesters will move inside to express concerns to Riverside County Board of Supervisors general meeting during Oral Communication
Terror Detention Facility (tags)
Terror Detention Facility
TXI Riverside Cement pays $1M for hex-chromium in dust (tags)
After many years of residents' exposure to carcinogenic hexavalent chromium particulates found in their cement dust, TXI corporation of Riverside agrees to a 1 million dollar settlement for the damages they caused.
Budget Crisis Could Close Womens Shelter (tags)
Unless a state budget is passed, the shelter may close as early as September 15th.
Contact Kingdom Pipelines, Inc - animal torture subcontractors at UC Berkeley (tags)
Contact information for Kingdom Pipelines of South San Francisco, Subcontractor for the Li Ka-Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences, which will expand the University of California-Berkeley's main animal facility by seventy percent. For legal purposes only.
This Friday: Protest at ICE detention Centers (tags)
Where to protest ICE Raids: Location of detention centers in Southern California.
24 Hour Fitness Terminates Member Who Speaks Up About Poor Conditions at Club on Pico Blvd (tags)
24 Hour Fitness terminates member who reports poor conditions. Poor conditions continue despite additional input and cancellations from other members.
Deconstructing the Anti-Iran Resolutions (tags)
A blockade IS an act of war under international law. Since both sides of the RepubliCrat Party are collaborating in this, it will take a lot more than marching in a circle with a sign in your hand to reclaim this country from them, and stop this disaster.
Take action! New UC Berkeley animal research facility! (tags)
Call to action against the companies assisting in construction of UC Berkeley's new Biomedical Facility, which would lead to a seventy percent expansion of UCB's existing Northwest Animal Facility. 40,000 non-human animals are currently being exploited and tortured to death at the university.
Tuesday, June 17th - Call-in for Bashir Hameed (tags)
There will be a 'Call in' on Tuesday June 17th between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight time (7-10am pacific time) in support of political prisoner Bashir Hameed.
Locals Continue Battle Against Blackwater on the Border (tags)
Blackwater Opponents Announce Two Upcoming Public Events Community Forum on Tuesday, June 10th and Wednesday, June 11th Rally Outside Front Door of Blackwater's New Site Jeremy Scahill, Renowned Author of International Bestseller "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army" Special Guest Speaker Community Groups Charge Blackwater Misused Federal Court to Muscle into Cal-Mex Border Site and Call for Facility Including Shooting Range to Be Shut-Down "No to Baghdad on the Border" New Facility 500 Yards From International Border Will Exacerbate the Potential for Increased Human and Civil Rights Violations to Both Migrants and Members of Border Communities
Mon 6/9 Jeremy Scahill Returns to LA, As So-Cal Continues to Battle Blackwater on Border (tags)
As So-Cal Battles Blackwater Training Facility on Cal-Mex Border, Jeremy Scahill is VISITING LOS ANGELES for talk, discussion, and book signing for the release of the fully updated paperback edition: WHEN: MONDAY, JUNE 9TH AT 7:00 PM WHERE: Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Westminster Chapel 3300 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90010 (@Berendo Street, 2 blocks west of Vermont Ave.)
DN! Blackwater on the Border (tags)
Just two months after local opposition thwarted its effort to build a massive outdoor training facility near San Diego, the private military company Blackwater USA is being accused of secretly trying to build a new one just blocks from the US-Mexico border. Blackwater received approval for the 61,000 square-foot indoor facility in Otay Mesa, California, by filing for permits using the names of two subsidiaries.
Where to protest ICE Raids: Location of detention centers in So Cal. (tags)
Statewide there are about 4,000 people detained in California. Nationally the number of people currently detained is said to be 30,000.
4/25: Con. Protests New Blackwater Development Near Cal-Mex Border (tags)
“Residents of San Diego County rejected Blackwater’s proposed mercenary training facility in Potrero, and I cannot imagine that San Diegans will feel any differently about Otay Mesa,” said Congressman Filner. “The use of civilian-defense contractors is irresponsible, and should be stopped immediately. Not only are they unaccountable to the Military, the State Department and Congress; they are civilians serving in combat and combat-training. Many have been wounded or have wounded others, and yet, they are not veterans; there is no safety net when they come home. It is criminal to ask civilian men and women to perform the role of the military when they lack the support necessary to return to their civilian lives. The paramilitary-style training conducted at these facilities has no place in our backyards!”
5 Days Left to Stop the Bombs! (tags)
We are here to tell the DOE and the federal government that we don't want to spend more money on new nuclear weapons or the current popular term WMD or weapons of mass destruction.
Blackwater California Bid is Withdrawn (tags)
Blackwater Worldwide dropped its plans yesterday to build a military and law enforcement training camp in East County, San Diego, ending a storm of controversy over the security contractor's presence in the county.
NYC shuts 9/11 remains sifting facility (tags)
NEW YORK (AP) -- The city has closed a facility where debris was sifted for Sept. 11 victims' remains, but the search won't end until after the World Trade Center site is rebuilt, a city official said Tuesday.
McCarthy Building Contractors building new UC Berkeley vivisection lab (tags)
McCarthy Building Companies, with offices in Southern California, has plans to build a new vivisection lab in Berkeley. This would lead to a 70 percent expansion of Berkeley's Northwest Animal Facility.
Blackwater's California Wildfire Relief Efforts Backfire With Local Residents (tags)
While hundreds of thousands of citizens were fleeing Southern California's wildfires in October, Blackwater USA was charging back in. While the fires still burned, executives from the private security firm personally delivered food and supplies to displaced residents and eventually set up temporary housing. But don't accuse Blackwater of taking advantage of the disaster for the purposes of self-promotion. The company insists that it is just a friendly corporate citizen.
US, Israeli LIES About Syrian Attack Exposed (tags)
Note how this phony story has taken the place of any real debate on Israel's Act of Aggression, its illegal attack on a sovereign country. So then ... what was the true purpose of this illegal Act of Aggression? This appears to have been a 'back door' attack on Iran, since Syria and Iran have mutual defense agreements. If action isn't taken against the Extremists in the Knesset, they WILL plunge us all into a destructive war, from which we may never recover.
ACLU Challenges Illegal Detention of Immigrant Children Held in Prison-Like Conditions (tags)
Written by ACLU Press Release Tuesday, 06 March 2007 ACLU Challenges Illegal Detention of Immigrant Children Held in Prison-Like Conditions (3/6/2007) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: media@aclu.org This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it Lawsuits Ask That Children and Their Families be Released From Texas Facility Under Appropriate and Humane Supervision AUSTIN, TX - The American Civil Liberties Union today filed lawsuits on behalf of ten immigrant children, challenging their illegal detention at the T. Don Hutto facility in Taylor, Texas.
Truckers picket West Coast intermodal hub (tags)
The Industrial Workers of the World organized an owner-operator protest Dec. 7 over traffic tickets issued by the BNSF Railway at its Los Angeles-area facility.
Plutonium Found in Iran (tags)
International Atomic Energy experts have found unexplained plutonium and highly enriched uranium traces in a nuclear waste facility in Iran
How to Crash Land Police Drones (tags)
hack the big Antennae.
Filipino Workers reject US navy offer, insist justice be done first (tags)
The Coalition in Defense of Immigrant Rights (CDIR), in support of the Filipino wokrers demands and just struggle, printed this news that appeared both in the Balita Weekend , a Filipino American news weekly in Southern California and in the Filipino Channel North American that featured the discrimination of Filipino civilian workers at the US navy facility here in San Diego. The Workers flatly rejected an offer by their manager to take them back in, saying it sweeps off their complaints against repeated abuse and discrimination and demands for better working conditions, and releases the US Navy from any responsibility in their dismissal.
FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders (tags)
There over 800 prison camps in the United States, all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty
An Update on the Rapture
PHOTOS: Protesters Target LA Recruiting Battalion (tags)
Demanding an end to military recruiting on High School and College campuses, about 50 to 75 People demonstrated today at the entrance to the Los Angeles Military Recruiting Battalion in the Crenshaw district. The facility is located at 5051 Rodeo, just east of La Brea.
Thousands to Rally to Demand - Closure of Controversial US Army Training School this Weeke (tags)
Mass Convergence at Fort Benning, Georgia November 19-20 to Close School of the Americas
LA's Downtown Indie-Movie Production Studio Opens to Outside Vendors (tags)
LA' s downtown downtown budget production studios is now seeking outside vendors to locate within the facility to make one-stop shopping for filmmakers a reality.
10 sites on FEMA camps REX 84 (tags)
does FEMA have concentration camps?
Keep Poseidon Corporation out of our public ocean! (tags)
The Poseidon Corporation, a multi-national water privatization company, wants to build a desal plant in Huntington Beach, but it isn't needed, will add to pollution and will give multi-national corporations a new foothold on the California coast under internatiional treaties.
People of Okinawa Say "Shut It Down" (tags)
More than 10,000 people protested on Okinawa against US Army exercises using live ammunition in the town of Kin.
Military Force At Hachita NM (tags)
Presumably busting pot smugglers....
RE-MISSIONING OF DHS HOSPITALS (tags)
King/Drew closure contradicting Thomas L. Garthwaite, M.D.Director and Chief Medical Officer recommendation from 2002
FEMA camps for enemies of the state (tags)
This is where they plan to store people for liquidation if they don't go along with the program, the only way to dislodge them from power is using their own tactics, otherwise this will be the fate many will endure...
Amnesty International reveals pattern of torture in Iraq (tags)
One punishment involved 14 handcuffed, naked male inmates -- when told to open their legs they were beaten upwards, from behind, until they fell on the floor. The American personnel repeated this abuse specifically to injure the prisoner's genital organs.
Behind the Barbed-Wire with Sherman Austin (tags)
Update about the last visit to Sherman.
USAF Linked To Electronic Warfare Attack In Tennessee (tags)
The close resemblance of the Hartsville attack to other U.S. Air Force electronic warfare led to speculation that radio station WJKM may have been chosen as a test target for a clandestine electronic warfare unit located within the power facility, or to which the power facility serves as electronic relay point. The likelihood that the electronic attack was accidental, rather than an intentional military test, is low, given that the targets were media outlets.
Inmates Are Moved After Riot Kills 2 (tags)
SACRAMENTO — More than 130 inmates have been transferred out of a privately run state prison in eastern Riverside County after a weekend riot there left two convicts dead and tensions at the low-security lockup unusually high.
SHERMAN AUSTIN'S TRANSFER (tags)
Sherman was transferred on Friday.
Sherman Austin Recieves Death Threats: PLEASE HELP! (tags)
Multimillion-Dollar Psy Ops Facility Opens In Fort Bragg (tags)
"Over the past few years, the military and the rest of the world has realized the importance of Psy Ops and how it's a major factor in winning the wars we get involved in," said Sgt. Dan Millbauer, an Army broadcast journalist.
Greenpeace delivers nuclear waste to US Army (tags)
What military force is the worst polluter in the world? What nation refuses to accept accountability for the damages it causes? This radioactive garbage should be sent to Bush's Texas palace/compound. Through mutations, it sure couldn't make his genetic propensity to lying any worse.
FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders (tags)
Read it and weep.
THE NEW JERSEY AIR NATIONAL GUARD TRAITORS (tags)
The installation's mission is to maintain fighter aircraft on continuous peacetime air defense alert to preserve U.S. air sovereignty. During wartime, the mission is to mobilize personnel and equipment for deployment to designated locations and to use air-to-air munitions in strategic defense of the North American continent.
The land of the free, home of the brave...and uneducated...perhaps
Picket with Long Beach Postal Workers this Friday! (tags)
This Friday (Feb 7) at 4pm on the corner of Spring and Bellflower in Long Beach!!!
DEBS PARK AUDUBON CENTER BEGINS CONSTRUCTING NEW FACILITY (tags)
Tree Planting Ceremony Marks the Creation of New Nature Center; Green Building to Serve Urban Los Angeles Communities
innocent palestinians treated worse than criminals. Rare case of an isreali with a conscience
Feds bail out Corrections Corp. of America (tags)
The BOP's 95% occupancy rate is "an arrangement almost never included in state private-prison contracts, which typically base payment on the number of beds actually filled."
Story & Photos: Demonstration at Las Colinas Women's Detention Facility, 14 July (tags)
The San Diego Chapter of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners organized aDemonstration at Las Colinas Women's Detention Facility in Santee, CA. Coalition members and several family members of women prisoners recounted disturbing stories about the prisonsystem. Supporters came from the Old Women's Project, the Libertarian Party, the Peace & Freedom Party, Free Mumia , Free Leonard Peltier, Amnesty International, Biojustice, UCSD students, and concerned citizens. *A MORE COMPLETE REPORT WILL BE POSTED HERE SOON*
National Day of Prison Protest: Speak Out and Demonstration @ Las Colinas (tags)
The San Diego Chapter of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, in solidarity with the National Prison Reform Unity Project, is organizing a Speak Out and Demonstration in front of the Women's Detention Facility in Las Colinas. Saturday, July 14th, 2001: 10am-12pm 9000 COTTONWOOD AVE, SANTEE
Activists Destroy GE Crops at Research Facility in Brentwood, CA (tags)
Brentwood, CA - On May 16th, 2001 anti-biotech direct actionists destroyed transgenic strawberry, tomato, and onion plants were uprooted and destroyed. According to the communique, a group dedicated to the right to good food, untainted by genetic engineering, occupied and acted against one DNA Plant Technology research facility.
Cops at Twin Towers Correctional Facility (tags)
Officers run to meet the 5000 activist strong demonstration at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2000 in downtown Los Angeles, CA. The demonsrators marched from Staples Center where the Democratic National Convention was meeting. Copyright 2000 Dang Ngo. Free for use by nonprofit, anti-corporate globalization organizations and for personal use. All other rights reserved.