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SAN FRANCISCO INDYMEDIA WEEKLY NEWS ALERT
Alert for week ending Sun, March 5 2006
http://sf.indymedia.org/

Call for Entries : Bike-Themed Film Shorts
The Fourth Annual Filmed by Bike is open for entries of bike-themed film
shorts (8 minutes or under). Deadline is March 15th, 2006. Selected films
will be screened on April 14th, 2006 at the Clinton Street Theater in
Portland, Oregon, USA. (includes JPEG image)
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725317.php

Baby's Helping Hands:
First Evidence For Altruistic Behaviours In Human Infants And Chimpanzees
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725311.php

Sacramento anti-War/anti-Bush/pro-Democracy Rally
About 200 Sacramento activists held the first of three major
anti-war/anti-Bush/pro-democracy rallies at 16th & Broadway. (includes
JPEG image)
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725300.php

BTL:Civil Liberties Advocates Maintain Bush's Illegal Conduct Constitutes...
...Impeachable Offenses ~ Interview with Michael Ratner, president of the
Center for Constitutional Rights, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott
Harris
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725294.php

Venezuela's Threat
Chavez is viewed as a threat, as a "virus" that might "infect" others.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725286.php

CT-Sen: Lieberman consultant freaks out over blogger
You may not know who Howie Klein is. I didn't. But he has gotten himself
deep under Lieberman's skin.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725279.php

Mississippi One Step Closer to Criminalizing Abortion
Patriarchy on the attack
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725278.php

RFID-Embedded Police Badges Debut In August
There's another crime-fighting weapon being added to law enforcement's
arsenal, and it's not what you'd expect. Along with handcuffs, guns, and
night sticks, cops' uniforms will soon include badges with RFID chips.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725274.php

A Nurse's Courage
In her first broadcast interview, a VA nurse explains how she was
investigated for 'sedition' after writing a letter that was critical of
the Bush Administration.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725273.php

Palestinian Narratives Enter the Mainstream
Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad says his Oscar-nominated film,
'Paradise Now,' is an attempt to create peace between the Middle East's
many identities.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725272.php

The need of theory
A new italian web site of theorical research. For a critical, negative,
revolutionary theory
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725269.php

Closing Haiti's "Open Veins" - Rene Preval's Impossible Mission
Exposing the lies and deception in the corporate media
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725268.php

Scab pepper sprays striker
DA's office to investigate hospital picket line incidents
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725267.php

BTL:South Dakota Anti-Abortion Forces Working to Overturn Roe vs. Wade
Interview with Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America,
conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725266.php

CENTCOM Eyes Blogs to Shape Opinion
In a bid to find new ways to influence public opinion about U.S.
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a small media affairs team in Tampa
has burrowed into the mushrooming cyber world of blogs and persuaded
hundreds of Web sites -- which then link to thousands of other sites -- to
post content prepared by military public affairs officials.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725260.php

Rumsfeld: Today’s weapons of war include e-mail, Blackberries, instant 
messaging, cameras
& blogs
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725257.php

The whitewashing of New Orleans
Malcolm X said it best, that if Blacks wanted equality, it would come
down to the ballot or the bullet.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725255.php

Unrest after Israel church attack
Three Israelis reportedly set off firecrackers in the Church of the
Annunciation in Nazareth during a service late on Friday.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725250.php

Pentagon to enslave shark-kind
Uncle Sam mobilises remote control fish
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725248.php

Scientists Confirm Historic Massive Flood in Climate Change
NASA -- Scientists from NASA and Columbia University, New York, have used
computer modeling to successfully reproduce an abrupt climate change that
took place 8,200 years ago. At that time, the beginning of the current
warm period, climate changes were caused by a massive flood of freshwater
into the North Atlantic Ocean.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725246.php

Play on Rachel Corrie canceled by New York theater group
The cancellation of *My Name Is Rachel Corrie*, the play about the
American student killed by an Israeli bulldozer in March 2003, is a brazen
act of censorship and outrageous cowardice on the part of the New York
Theatre Workshop, the Off-Broadway group that had originally scheduled it.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725244.php

U.S. Supports Iran in Rejecting Gay Rights Organization at the UN
Given the Bush administration’s rhetoric regarding the Iranian government
you wouldn’t think the two have much, if anything, in common. In his 2002
State of the Union address President Bush referred to Iran as part of an
“axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.”
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725231.php

Fresno Peace and Social Justice Calendar
This is the Peace and Social Justice calendar from Fresno. (includes JPEG
image)
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725229.php

Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor slammed with federal civil rights lawsuit
“We filed this lawsuit to help ensure that the Costa Mesa government
maintains a forum for all types of discussion and debate and that
residents do not fear that if they are opposed to something they will be
arrested and beaten for speaking their mind.”
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725228.php

Israel threatens to assassinate the future Palestinian Authority prime 
minister
The Jewish Telegraph is reporting that a "SENIOR member of Israel's
Kadima Party hinted that the future Palestinian Authority prime minister
could be assassinated."
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725225.php

An attack on voters' rights
I was elected mayor by the people of London and only they should have the
power to remove me
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725222.php

The NSA scandal now clearly includes interception of domestic 
communications, perjury...
That the Administration is confining its statements only to the
"Terrorist Surveillance Program" is not a new revelation, but what is
critically important here is how Gonzales in his letter defines the scope
of the "Terrorist Surveillance Program."
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725220.php

Livingstone suspension delayed amid claims of vendetta
At a press conference, he accused the Board of Deputies of British Jews
of conducting a "McCarthyite" witchhunt against him because of his refusal
to agree to its demands and to desist from public criticisms of Israel. He
noted that the board had triggered the disciplinary action against him by
making a formal complaint.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725219.php

The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/3/06  ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave
radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and
slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Cuba, China, and
Russia.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725218.php

Israel plans to imprison five Palestinian villages near Jerusalem in an 
enclave
Israel plans to run a barrier around five Palestinian villages northwest
of Jerusalem , and imprison them in an enclave that will separate them
from East Jerusalem and neighboring Palestinian villages.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725216.php

Army started implementing plan to isolate lands near Hebron
Israeli army started implementing a plan which aims to isolate 80.000
Dunams of Palestinian lands that belong to residents of several villages
and towns, south of the West Bank city of Hebron.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725215.php

Loan Shark of the Year!
Money Mart in Fresno was given the “Loan Shark of the Year” award.
(includes JPEG image)
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725211.php

Black author riles some Texas historians with new book about Yellow 
Rose of Texas Legend
Texas journalist and activist Denise McVea says her white male detractors
are “why people do not read history anymore. The genre has been hijacked.”
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725210.php

BTL:Iraq Holy Shrine Bombing Triggers Sectarian Violence;Nation Nears 
Civil War
Interview with Chris Toensing, editor of Middle East Report, conducted by
Between the Lines' Scott Harris
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725209.php

Transgender Social Rights Activist Files For Roy  Blunt's Seat In Congress
On Monday March 28th Midge Potts of Springfield traveled to Jefferson
City to file for Missouri's 7th District U.S. Representative in the August
8th Republican primary.

Ms. Potts, whose legal name remains Mitchell, also filed the appropriate
forms with the Missouri Secretary of State's office to have have he/r name
listed as Midge on the official ballot. S/he has been living fulltime as a
woman for more than two years.

"Anybody could represent Southwest Missouri better than Roy Blunt," said
Ms. Potts, "he has blatantly betrayed his constituents by pledging
allegiance to his corporate contributors while ignoring the common people
whom he was elected to represent."
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725208.php

Patriot Act E-Mail Searches Apply to Non-Terrorists, Judges Say
Two federal judges in Florida have upheld the authority of individual
courts to use the Patriot Act to order searches anywhere in the country
for e-mails and computer data in all types of criminal investigations,
overruling a magistrate who found that Congress limited such expanded
jurisdiction to cases involving terrorism.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725203.php

Official U.S. history of atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is 
more fiction than fac
(W)hat if much of what we've been told about Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a
lie? How would our perceptions of World War II, of nuclear weapons, of the
U.S. military and even of Japan change?
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725202.php

Weekly Summary of israeli War Crimes
This is a weekly summary of israeli war crimes committed in Palestine for
the week ending 1 March 2006, 2:30 mins, english (includes audio)
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725198.php

Zogby: The Troops Want Out, the Sooner the Better
Forget the president and his self-serving blather about not “cutting and
running.” If you want to help our soldiers, why not do what THEY want, and
work to bring them home? That’s the message for the grunts in Iraq.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725197.php

Israeli sub fleet chief: We can hit targets overseas
Sub fleet chief: We can hit targets overseas



In exclusive interview with Ynet, commander of army's most advanced,
secret war machine fleet says submarines may be used in missions abroad;
there's no room for women in unit, he states
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725189.php

Homer Simpson's family more familiar than First Amendment, survey finds
Du-OH! More people know who Homer and his family are than know what their
First Amendment rights are, survey finds.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725188.php

Israeli apartheid in action.
They just wanted to go home together
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725187.php

Bulletin nº23 of the Basque Observatory of Human Rights
The latest Behatokia Bulletin, Nº 23, is available on our web page,
http://www.behatokia.info/bulletin.php, where, as well as downloading it
in pdf format:
http://www.behatokia.info/docs/boletinak/Islada230206eng.zip, you can
download each article in word format, if you find these easier to work
with.

We hope you will find the articles in this issue interesting and, as
always, feel free to write to us if you have any queries or would like
more information on any specific subject. We would also like to remind you
that all the articles in previous issues of our bulletin are also
available, and we will be happy to send them to you if you so require.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725166.php

Women in US Launch Sustained Protests Against De Facto Martial Law in 
the Philippines
GABRIELA Network USA, a Philippine-US women's solidarity mass
organization, launches rolling national mobilization that will see daily
protest actions in major cities in the US until the Philippine state of
national emergency is lifted. (includes JPEG image)
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/1725142.php

New Horowitz Book: "The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America"
Nice: "The book's jacket warns: "We all know that left-wing radicals from
the 1960s have hung around academia and hired people like themselves. But
if you thought they were all harmless, antiquated hippies, you'd be
wrong.""
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/1725136.php

Lou Dobbs told to Shut up!
Lou Dobbs reported today that "Dubai Ports World" officials have tried to
silence him and get CNN to suppress his reports.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/1725134.php

New College Media Studies News & Events: AC Thompson Wins Polk Award / 
Feb 28: Open House
(1) AC Thompson, SF Bay Guardian reporter and New College Media Studies
faculty member, wins Polk Award, (2) Feb 28 and Mar 14 - New College Media
Studies MA Program Open House
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/1725127.php

Israeli anger at Europe's aid for Palestinians
Sharp differences emerged between Israel and the international community
over the acute financial crisis faced by the Palestinian Authority as the
EU agreed to an emergency aid package of $143m (about £82m).
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/1725119.php

US leader crashed by trying to 'pedal, wave and speak at same time'
HE MAY be the most powerful man in the world, but proof has emerged that
President George Bush cannot ride a bike, wave and speak at the same time.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/1725114.php

Rally against union busting on Bay
Wednesday, March 1, 2006 demonstration planned against the National Parks
Service for illegal award of the Alcatraz Ferry contract to non-union low
bidder.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/02/1725110.php

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