Indybay newswireSF Bay Area Independent Media Center (Indybay) NewswireCuban Hip Hop at the San Francisco Dyke March 2008- July 8, 2008 Hear excerpts from a Dolores Park set from Cuban lesbian Hip Hop band Las Krudas. Activist Hip hop is reportedly growing in Cuba recent years, my first chance to hear this genre of Cuban music. (19 min.)http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/07/18514335.php Sistas In The Pit rock San Francisco Dyke March 2008- July 8, 2008 Hear a strong 20-minute set from "All black girl Rock and Roll Band", part of 4-hours of speakers and music at Dolores Park preceding the Dyke March. (20 min)http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/07/18514333.php Canadian Court Rules Immigration and Refugee Board Reconsider Asylum Claim for US War Resister- July 8, 2008 Monday, July 7, 2008 :In a victory for US war resisters, Canada's federal court ruled Friday that the Immigration and Refugee Board should reconsider the asylum claim of conscientious objector and Iraq war veteran Joshua Key. The court ruled that Key had been forced to systematically violate the Geneva Conventions as part of his military service in Iraq and that such misconduct amounts to a legitimate refugee claim. We speak with Key and his lawyer, Jeffry House. includes rush transcripthttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/07/18514332.php Award-Winning Palestinian Journalist Mohammed Omer Details Abuse by Israeli Security Officials- July 8, 2008 Monday, July 7, 2008 :We go to Gaza to speak with award-winning Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer. The twenty-four-year-old journalist and photographer from Gaza was physically and psychologically abused by Israeli security officials late last month. Omer, who is a correspondent for the Inter Press Service, was on his way back home after receiving the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London. includes rush transcripthttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/07/18514331.php AT&T Whistleblower Urges Against Immunity for Telecoms in Bush Spy Program- July 8, 2008 Monday, July 7, 2008 :The Senate is expected to vote on a controversial measure to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act tomorrow. The legislation would rewrite the nation's surveillance laws and authorize the National Security Agency's secret program of warrantless wiretapping. We speak with Mark Klein, a technician with AT&T for over twenty-two years. In 2006 Klein leaked internal AT&T documents that revealed the company had set up a secret room in its San Francisco office to give...http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/07/18514330.php WNU 953: Latin American Pride, Mexican Torture Training- July 8, 2008 On June 30 El Heraldo de Len, a newspaper based in Len in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, released two graphic videotapes showing police agents from Len's Special Tactical Group (GET) torturing other agents during training sessions.http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/07/18514326.php INB 7508: Raid at Maryland Painting Company- July 8, 2008 Attorney Liza Zamd also said a four-year-old girl saw ICE agents handcuff her father and force him to kneel in their home while they searched for two workers from the painting company who live there. Zamd said the girl's father is a US citizen and wasn't charged.http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/07/18514323.php How Conditioning for the Police State - The American War At Home - Is Being Waged- July 8, 2008 Soldiers are being trained in US city parks and playgrounds and our law enforcement officials outdo themselves in terms of brutality, racism, and Police State measures. Read what one San Francisco organization is doing nationally to fight this assault on the War At Homehttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/07/18514320.php Temps and Time Needed 4 Melting Steel of WTC Towers- July 8, 2008 With GW Bush regime's frequent and persistent patterns of deceit used to justify the U.S. invasionoccupation of Iraq, why believe the official version of 911 Commission on the WTC bombingshttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/07/18514319.php Evaluation of the June 28-29, 2008 National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation- July 7, 2008 Possible anti-war actionshttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/07/18514287.php |