Post by boomerchick on Jan 22, 2004 19:46:10 GMT -5
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Five Million on Terror List
U.S. security agents have a master list of five million people worldwide thought to be potential terrorists or criminals, Canadian officials told the Toronto Sun The terror list is classified and there is no way to check if one's name is on it or get it removed if it is placed there inadvertantly. The actual number of people on the list was revealed to Canadian Immigration authorities and leaked to the paper. Anyone whose name is on the list is questioned or banned from entering the U.S. -- as passengers were on two British Airways flights to Los Angeles two weeks ago.
Instead of being dismayed by the U.S.'s terror tactics, however, Canada is joining in and plans to rate all airline passengers on a 1 to 10 scale, 1 being the safest, with 10 perhaps reserved for Osama himself.
Posted by Rachel on January 22, 2004 @ 11:24AM.
A Meat Story, Well Done
The bloody details of an undocumented worker's "lucky" job in the meatpacking industry have helped bring OSHA officials to the job, at least in once case. A hopeful story in the Columbia Journalism Review shows how one strong investigative report led to the uncovering of dangerous working conditions and physical abuse for immigrants who clean up after meatpacking workers in Omaha.
Posted by Rachel on January 21, 2004 @ 8:57PM.
Devastating Asylum Report
Those huddled masses escaping political persecution, death threats, and genocide may want to skip the U.S. and try Canada. According to a devastating report from the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, "Asylum seekers have been caught up in a web of new laws, regulations and policies advanced in the name of national security that have transformed the immigration system – and left refugees more vulnerable than ever. The lack of basic safeguards in the U.S. asylum detention system has meant that victims of religious and political persecution, rape and torture are unnecessarily detained for months and sometimes years in the United States." Examples in the report include a thirteen-year-old Iraqi girl head in detention for five months and a Tibetan nun held in a Virginia regional jail for over six months.
Posted by Rachel on January 20, 2004 @ 3:14PM.
Murder in Morelos
While Bush was meeting with Central and South American leaders in Mexico, over 1500 Mexican riot police were storming the small town of Tlalnepantla in the state of Morelos. Following the example of the Zapatista towns in Chiapas, the primarily indigenous population of the town had declared themselves "autonomous" from the Mexican government. According to The Mexico Solidarity Network, hundreds were injured and "disappeared," two were murdered, and many were beaten including an eighty year old man.
Posted by Rachel on January 19, 2004 @ 12:29PM.
Airlines Are Seeing Red
Despite resistance from civil liberties groups, privacy advocates, and even the airlines themselves, the Transportation Security Administration is going ahead with its plan to require all U.S. airline passengers to undergo intensive background checks. Each passenger will then get "coded" red, yellow, or green. The "greens" will be allowed to fly (unless they are Green party members, of course), the "yellows" will be subjected to automatic search, and the "reds" might as well stay home. Will this lead to a revival of the odious slogan, "Better Dead Than Red?"
Posted by Rachel on January 15, 2004 @ 3:43PM.
Money for Marriage
Think marraige is a private sacrament between two people? Think again. Bowing to pressure from conservative groups, the Bush administration will spend 1.5 million of tax payers money to promote "traditional marriage," i.e. marriage between a man and a woman.
According to a White House aide, the administration is particularly interested in increasing marriage rates in poor neighborhoods. Without a trace of irony, the aide commented: "The president loves to do that sort of thing in the inner city with black churches, and he's very good at it."
Posted by Rachel on January 14, 2004 @ 10:31AM.
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Read the rest at the link! Most of you are pretty caught up on all of this!
bc
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Archives
January 2004
December 2003
November 2003
October 2003
September 2003
August 2003
July 2003
June 2003
Five Million on Terror List
U.S. security agents have a master list of five million people worldwide thought to be potential terrorists or criminals, Canadian officials told the Toronto Sun The terror list is classified and there is no way to check if one's name is on it or get it removed if it is placed there inadvertantly. The actual number of people on the list was revealed to Canadian Immigration authorities and leaked to the paper. Anyone whose name is on the list is questioned or banned from entering the U.S. -- as passengers were on two British Airways flights to Los Angeles two weeks ago.
Instead of being dismayed by the U.S.'s terror tactics, however, Canada is joining in and plans to rate all airline passengers on a 1 to 10 scale, 1 being the safest, with 10 perhaps reserved for Osama himself.
Posted by Rachel on January 22, 2004 @ 11:24AM.
A Meat Story, Well Done
The bloody details of an undocumented worker's "lucky" job in the meatpacking industry have helped bring OSHA officials to the job, at least in once case. A hopeful story in the Columbia Journalism Review shows how one strong investigative report led to the uncovering of dangerous working conditions and physical abuse for immigrants who clean up after meatpacking workers in Omaha.
Posted by Rachel on January 21, 2004 @ 8:57PM.
Devastating Asylum Report
Those huddled masses escaping political persecution, death threats, and genocide may want to skip the U.S. and try Canada. According to a devastating report from the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, "Asylum seekers have been caught up in a web of new laws, regulations and policies advanced in the name of national security that have transformed the immigration system – and left refugees more vulnerable than ever. The lack of basic safeguards in the U.S. asylum detention system has meant that victims of religious and political persecution, rape and torture are unnecessarily detained for months and sometimes years in the United States." Examples in the report include a thirteen-year-old Iraqi girl head in detention for five months and a Tibetan nun held in a Virginia regional jail for over six months.
Posted by Rachel on January 20, 2004 @ 3:14PM.
Murder in Morelos
While Bush was meeting with Central and South American leaders in Mexico, over 1500 Mexican riot police were storming the small town of Tlalnepantla in the state of Morelos. Following the example of the Zapatista towns in Chiapas, the primarily indigenous population of the town had declared themselves "autonomous" from the Mexican government. According to The Mexico Solidarity Network, hundreds were injured and "disappeared," two were murdered, and many were beaten including an eighty year old man.
Posted by Rachel on January 19, 2004 @ 12:29PM.
Airlines Are Seeing Red
Despite resistance from civil liberties groups, privacy advocates, and even the airlines themselves, the Transportation Security Administration is going ahead with its plan to require all U.S. airline passengers to undergo intensive background checks. Each passenger will then get "coded" red, yellow, or green. The "greens" will be allowed to fly (unless they are Green party members, of course), the "yellows" will be subjected to automatic search, and the "reds" might as well stay home. Will this lead to a revival of the odious slogan, "Better Dead Than Red?"
Posted by Rachel on January 15, 2004 @ 3:43PM.
Money for Marriage
Think marraige is a private sacrament between two people? Think again. Bowing to pressure from conservative groups, the Bush administration will spend 1.5 million of tax payers money to promote "traditional marriage," i.e. marriage between a man and a woman.
According to a White House aide, the administration is particularly interested in increasing marriage rates in poor neighborhoods. Without a trace of irony, the aide commented: "The president loves to do that sort of thing in the inner city with black churches, and he's very good at it."
Posted by Rachel on January 14, 2004 @ 10:31AM.
______________________
Read the rest at the link! Most of you are pretty caught up on all of this!
bc
