Monthly Archives: October 2008

ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, non-western ways of knowing, learning and living were experienced at a day-long community symposium, In Beauty, It is Restored: Media Activism, Indigenous Women’s Epistemologies, and Scholarship, sponsored by Native American graduate students at UIUC. The symposium … Continue reading →

ON AUGUST 18, 2006, SEVEN young African American lesbians traveled to Greenwich Village in New York City from their homes in Newark for a regular night out. When walking down the street, a male bystander sexually propositioned one of the … Continue reading →

SURVEILLANCE IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH across the land. In schools, hospitals, stores, theatres, and street intersections, surveillance cameras have become commonplace. The Big Brother we feared in 1968 is now here in 2008, masquerading as homeland security, with … Continue reading →

WHEN THE ABU GHRAIB PICTURES surfaced, showing the systematic torture of detainees by United States military forces, the American public was shocked and outraged. Subsequent exposes detailing the horrific uses of waterboarding and the degrading treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo … Continue reading →

Bruce Nestor of the National Lawyers Guild Called For a Probe Into Police Conduct. Bruce Nestor: “What happened in St. Paul, Minnesota from—really going back to the infiltration and surveillance two years, but from September 1 to September 4, 2008—had … Continue reading →

Convergence Center Being Raided by Denver Police colorado.indymedia.org/node/1042 *Happening right now* The Convergence Center for activist coordination and planning, etc. is about to be raided by the Denver Police Department. Two people have been arrested, another is being detained, reports … Continue reading →

FOR THE LAST DECADE, we have been witnessing a promise of resurgence in political activity, from small youth walk-outs to protests against the global giants—the World Trade Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Renewed anti-war and peace efforts and massive … Continue reading →

In a small claims case local black activist Patrick Thompson filed pro se against his former attorney, Harvey Welch, a judge decided that legal malpractice had been committed and ruled in Thompson’s favor. Thompson says he is donating the $3,000 … Continue reading →

IN NEGOTIATIONS THIS SUMMER, Patrick Thompson and Martel Miller arrived at a settlement in a civil suit against local authorities claiming their civil rights had been violated when eavesdropping charges were leveled against them in 2004 for videotaping the police. … Continue reading →

It was a beautiful day for the fifth annual Unity March on Saturday, October 4, 2008, an event organized by Champaign-Urbana Citizens for Peace and Justice. This year’s march was dedicated to passage of the coming Township referendum on the … Continue reading →

A SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL COMPUTING (SAIC) corporate spokesperson said in the journal, Business 2.0, “We are a stealth company. We’re everywhere, but almost never seen.” Indeed, they were there when pardoned felon Admiral Poindexter began the Total Information Awareness (TIA) … Continue reading →