Month: March 2006

Traprock Homepage Who benefits from immigration bans? By Paul D’Amato | March 31, 2006 IN THE global capitalist economy, corporations are constantly pushing for a virtually borderless world market when it comes to investment, taxation and tariffs. But whereas capital is relatively free to cross borders, labor is not. Here we find myriad legal restrictions… Continue reading Who Benefits from Immigration Bans?

Traprock Homepage Puerto Rico sues FBI for stonewalling probe of independentista’s murder By Bill Van Auken 30 March 2006 The government of Puerto Rico went to federal court last week, accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Justice Department of obstructing justice by stonewalling a local investigation of the FBI’s killing of a… Continue reading Puerto Rico sues FBI for stonewalling probe of independentista’s murder

Traprock Homepage Please join me & PHRF Coalition members at the Rally & March for the Right to Return, A Protected Vote & Reconstruction Meet: THIS SATURDAY APRIL 1 at 8:30 AM at Convention Center Blvd and Calliope. We will have signs and PHRF t-shirts for those who join us. Music and speeches by local… Continue reading New Orleans Rally & March for the Right to Return

Traprock Homepage Army Cannot Deploy Soldier Applying For Conscientious Objector Status, Federal Judge Rules March 20, 2006 — A federal district court has ordered the U.S. Army not to deploy to Afghanistan a soldier who has a pending application for Conscientious Objector (C.O.) status. See full article at NYCLU website. http://www.nyclu.org/martin_co_pr_032006.html Download copy of court… Continue reading Federal Judge Rules Army Cannot Deploy Soldier Applying For Conscientious Objector Status

Traprock Homepage Get out of MySpace, bloggers rage at Murdoch London independent | January 9 2006 full article – requires payment See also commentary on this issue by PrisonPlant.com. Angry members of MySpace, the personal file-sharing website for young adults, are accusing Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation of censoring their postings and blocking their access to… Continue reading Murdoch censors MySpace

Traprock Homepage Bush’s Requests for Iraqi Base Funding Make Some Wary of Extended Stay By Peter Spiegel, Times Staff Writer March 24, 2006 WASHINGTON — Even as military planners look to withdraw significant numbers of American troops from Iraq in the coming year, the Bush administration continues to request hundreds of millions of dollars for… Continue reading Bush Requests Funds for US Base Construction in Iraq

Traprock Homepage IDF Officer Cancels UK Trip for fear of arrest for war crimes. Judge Advocate-General Brigadier-General Avichai Mendelblit recommends Brigadier-General Aviv Kochavi cancel studies leave for fear he will be arrested for alleged war crimes by Hanan Greenberg IDF Gaza division commander, Brigadier-General Aviv Kochavi, has cancelled a leave to study in England, fearing… Continue reading IDF Officer Fears Arrest Cancels UK Trip

Traprock Homepage URGENT CALL TO ACTION TO PREVENT MILITARY AND POLICE INCURSION ON MOHAWK TERRITORIES Please forward this email to your networks. If your group has a website, we would be grateful if you posted this call. March 2006 The Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty – Native Caucus is asking that you take some… Continue reading Coalition for Indigenous Sovereignty – Call to Action: Prevent Military and Police Incursion on Mohawk Territories on April 1

Traprock Homepage On March 27th two separate demonstrations merged in downtown San Francisco. One was for immigrants rights; the other against the war. See entire report

Traprock Homepage FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Mar. 24, 2006 Contacts – March info: Valley Reed (214) 288-8935 valley.reed@earthlink.net ExxonMobil info: Nick Mottern (914) 806 -6179 nickmottern@earthlink.net March website ExxonMobil War Boycott site APRIL TEXAS PEACE MARCH, ENDORSED BY CINDY SHEEHAN, HOWARD ZINN, TO ALSO CALL ON EXXONMOBIL TO “RETURN” $7 BILLION IN WAR PROFITS A… Continue reading Texas Peace March – Irving to Crawford