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December 2005
 12/30
2005 in Review: Power, Politics and Resistance;
12/29
As a Top Enron Exec Pleads Guilty, Journalist Robert
Bryce Discusses the Death of Enron and the Firm's Close Ties
to President Bush; Crime without Conviction: U.S. Makes Deals
With Corporate Criminals Instead of Prosecuting; Reverend
Billy Preaches on Shopocolypse Tour of the Country;
12/28
The Tsunami, One Year Later: More Than A Million Still
Homeless in Sri Lanka; Post-Tsunami Indonesia: As Armed Rebels
Disband, Military Still Controls Aceh;
12/27
Critical Mass Bike Rides Face Police Crackdown; New
Video Evidence Shows NYPD Covert Surveillance of Cyclists
and Protests; "It's An Excellent Relationship":
NYPD on Police - CIA Links;
12/26
Readings From Howard Zinn's "Voices of a People's
History of the United States";
12/23
Noam Chomsky v. Alan Dershowitz: A Debate on the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict;
12/22
NYC Transit Strike Enters Third Day: Negotiations Resume,
Threats to Workers Heat Up, Public Support Remains High; NYC
Transit Strike Hailed As Battle For Nation-Wide Labor Movement
By Pension Reform Advocates; Cheney Casts Tie-Breaking Senate
Vote Cutting $40 Billion to the Poor; Secret Prisons, CIA
Kidnappings & Torture: A Look At Europe’s Reaction
to the Bush Administration’s Covert Actions Overseas;
12/21
Mayor Bloomberg Condemns New York City Transit Strike,
MTA Workers Hold Firm; A Debate on the New York City Transit
Strike; New Documents Show FBI Spying on Domestic Activist
Groups; First Step Towards Impeachment? Conyers Introduces
Bills to Censure Bush and Cheney;
12/20
The Story of Harold Wilson: Convicted of Triple Murder,
Sentenced to Die, Exonerated After 17 Years in Prison;
12/19
An Impeachable Offense? Bush Admits Authorizing NSA
to Eavesdrop on Americans Without Court Approval; Leftist
Union Leader Evo Morales Poised to Become First Indigenous
President of Bolivia; WTO Talks Close with Partial Trade Agreement,
Over 900 Protesters Arrested in Hong Kong;
12/16
House Debates Bill to Rewrite Immigration Laws, Includes
Provision that Makes it a Felony to be an Undocumented Worker;
Workers in New Orleans Denied Pay, Proper Housing and Threatened
with Deportation; New Orleans Residents Face Eviction From
Homes as Rents Skyrocket and Legal Protections Remain Weak;
12/15
Pentagon Caught Spying on U.S. Anti-War and Anti-Nuclear
Activists; Anti-War Protesters Under Pentagon Surveillance
Speak Out; FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Collected Intelligence
on Peaceful Protesters in Colorado; New York Activist Faces
Life in Prison; Feds Accuse Him of Eco-Terrorism;
12/14
Robert Fisk on The Murders of Gibran Tueni, Rafik Hariri
and the Changing Tide in Lebanon; The Iraq Invasion: Day 1,000;
Study Shows Civilian Death Toll in Iraq More Than 100,000;
Protests Continue at WTO Conference as Talks Stall Over Agricultural
Trade;
12/13
Stanley Tookie Williams Executed at San Quentin; Angela
Davis: "The State of California May Have Extinguished
the Life of Stanley Tookie Williams, But They Have Not Managed
to Extinguish the Hope for a Better World"; Stanley Tookie
Williams: I Want the World to Remember Me for My "Redemptive
Transition"; Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man? Investigating
the Details of the Cantu Case;
12/12
CA Supreme Court Denies Stay of Execution for Death
Row Prisoner Stanley Tookie Williams, Fate Lies with Gov.
Schwarzenegger; No Word on Fate of Four Kidnapped Peace Activists
as Deadline From Captors to Kill Them Passes in Iraq; Richard
Pryor 1940 - 2005: Pioneering Comedian Revealed Reality of
African-American Experience to Wide Audience;
12/9
New Orleans Evacuees and Activists Testify at Explosive
House Hearing on the Role of Race and Class in Government's
Response to Hurricane Katrina; How Many Are Missing and Dead
After Katrina? Three Months After the Hurricane, the Numbers
are Still Unknown;
12/8
John Lennon 1940-1980: History Professor Jon Weiner
Discusses Lennon's Politics, FBI Files and Why Richard Nixon
Sought to Deport Him; As Rice Asserts U.S. Detainee Policy,
a Look at "Torture Flights" and Secret CIA Prisons;
12/7
Jury Acquits Jailed Palestinian Professor of Several
Charges in Major Blow to Bush Administration; Thirty Years
After the Indonesian Invasion of East Timor, Will the U.S.
Be Held Accountable for its Role in the Slaughter?; Extraordinary
Rendition Under Fire: Lawsuit Charges CIA with Kidnapping
and Torture of German Citizen;
12/6
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: A Look at the Epic Russian
Novel and its Author; WBAI's War and Peace Broadcast: 35 Years
Later; Actors, Journalists, Activists, Scholars and Others
Continue the War and Peace Epic;
12/5
Extraordinary Rendition Scandal Reaches New Heights:
Rice on the Offensive in Europe Over Bush Administration's
Use of "Torture Flights"; British Tory MP Blasts
Extraordinary Rendition, Says Britain Broke International
Law and "Complicit in Torture" if Flights Passed
Through UK; Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy Among 13,000 to Sign
Petition Calling for Release of Kidnapped Aid Workers;
12/2
World AIDS Day: A Look at the Fight Against the Global
Pandemic; CDC: AIDS the Leading Cause of Death Among African
American Women Aged 25-44; Hampton Univ. Students Face Disciplinary
Action for Anti-Bush Walkout; NYU Grad Student Strike: A Debate
On the Rights of Students to Unionize;
12/1
Iraqi-American Member of Muslim Peacemaker Team Speaks
Out for Four Kidnapped Colleagues; Is the U.S. Training Iraqi
Death Squads to Fight the Insurgency?; Rep. Jose Serrano:
One of Three Congressmembers to Vote for Immediate U.S. Troop
Withdrawal from Iraq, One of Two to Accept Venezuelan President
Chavez' Offer of Cheap Oil to Poor U.S. Communities; 50th
Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott;
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