The Bay Area Coalition to Fight the Minutemen is organizing a bus to leave San Francisco on Friday night at 10 pm to go down to San Diego for the No Border Encuentro. The cost is $30 per person (this is to cover the cost of gas and the bus). The Encuentro (8/27-8/28) will be two fun-packed days of border tours, music, speakers, workshops, direct action training, and strategy sessions.

What connection does Sibel Edmonds' story have to the prosecution of Larry Franklin, Steve Rosen, and Keith Weissman of the Pentagon/AIPAC spy scandal? And for that matter, to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001? The answer has something to do with international drug, weapon, and money-laundering rings, and their ties to terrorists and unnamed officials of the Departments of State and Defense.

Una Conferencia Anual de Paz Para Crear Uniones Internacionales y Multirraciales 26 de Agosto, 2005 - el Domingo, Agosto 28, 2005. www.CommonUnityPeaceConference.org o www.awbc.lfhniivaaaa.info - Nadie será rechazado por falta de dinero. (A World Beyond Capitalism Conference- No One Will Be Turned Away For Lack of Funds.)

Critical Mass Crackdown becoming PR Nightmare

Mobility-rights watchdog launches international campaign to stop arrests of cyclists in New York City.

8/21/2005: In Oakland (PA) in front of the Army Recruiting Center on Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh Police and University of Pittsburgh Police fired tasers and other weapons at the crowd.

Free Skool Santa Cruz features a workshop this Saturday: effective, simple, and practical self defense.
Escuela Gratis Santa Cruz presenta una clase este Sabado: Auto Defensa util, simple, y que sirve bien.

Pat Robertson is not only presuming to speak for God, he is again "playing God" and recently called for the assasination of Hugo Chavez, democratically elected president of Venezuela. Chavez's crime? He is seeking to increase oil exports with China and other Asian nations.

Not a cause celebre, but absolutely penniless I've a ppealed a conviction of a camping violation that carries a $230 fine. Although the university was not timely in filing their "proposed statement on appeal... the plot thickens, and I know I'll need witnesses for this.

Thomas Stroock was Bush sr's ambassador to Guatemala 1989-92, and supervised CIA death squad and torture operations.

A callout has been written by people form several palces in California asking for people to come to the broder beginning September 16th to hopefully stop the Minuteman vigilants calling themselves Friends of the Border Patrol Borderwatch. It is below.