Ralph Nader told the nation to support Rep. Conyers who is considering moving forward on impeachment hearings. Only people of his state can contact his DC office, emails are filtered.

Jose Padilla has once again obtained a writ of Habeas Corpus, and Donald Rumsfeld has been given another 45 days to produce the body. DOGSPOT has archived the recent decision by Judge Henry Floyd of South Carolina as a text file, along with related documents.

Fliers advertising tonight's lecture by Itamar Marcus, have been pulled down or vandalized, according to UCSC lecturer, Tammi Benjamin. Some campus groups, such as the Committee for Justice in Palestine have, in the past, urged their members to boycott past speakers which urged peaceful solutions to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Their fliers were, in some cases, stapled on top of notices about a moderate Islamic speaker. Tonight's (Thursday March 10th) speaker is the director of Palestinian Media Watch. PMW was established in 1996 to gain an understanding of Palestinian society through the monitoring of the Palestinian Arabic language media and schoolbooks. PMW analyzes Palestinian Authority [PA] culture and society from numerous perspectives, including studies on summer camps, poetry, schoolbooks, religious ideology, crossword puzzles, and many more. PMW has been playing the critical role of documenting the contradictions between the image the Palestinians present to the world in English and the messages to their own people in Arabic. The world’s view of the Palestinian Authority, to a significant degree, is the result of PMW research.

On February 8th, Vice-Mayor Cynthia Mathews cut speaker Michael Tomasi's comment time down to 90 seconds in the middle of a Public Hearing. The letter below challenges this as a violation of the state Brown Act. The City has 30 days to redo the item or to reject the demand.