RawStory.com, 8/3/06 Following a series of hearings held in Geneva in July, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has released a final report which, as RAW STORY has learned, amounts to a…
Inquiry Begins Into Police Refusal to Let Katrina Evacuees Enter Town
LA Times, 8/4/06 A grand jury investigation into the actions of suburban police officers who barred New Orleans residents fleeing Hurricane Katrina from entering the town was announced late Thursday by Dist….
Bus Tour in Ohio: Stolen Elections, Biker Gangs and Mega Churches
World Can’t Wait reports on it’s tour stop in Ohio and calls for dozens of bus tours to be launched across the country this summer as part of mobilizing for October 5th….
Evolution Fight Shifts Direction in Kansas Vote
NY Times, 8/3/06 Less than a year after the Kansas Board of Education adopted science standards that were the most wide-reaching in the nation in challenging Darwin’s theory of evolution, voters on…
U.S. Senate Votes to Acquire San Diego Cross
Associated Press, 8/3/06 The U.S. Senate voted by unanimous consent Tuesday to acquire a concrete cross in San Diego and the municipal park around it to protect the embattled monument from being taken down. …
October 5: There is a Way! There is a Day!
[Find a protest in your area October 5th] [List a protest in your area] [download pdf of this statement] Think of all the people who are deeply distressed over the direction in…
Donate Da Bucks to Drive Out The Bush Regime: Fund-Drive August 3-16
Help Raise $100,000 so millions can learn about this growing movement. This drive is a concerted effort to rely on the people broadly in this movement to raise funds urgently needed to…
Full-page ad to appear in the New York Times
View Ad[PDF] World Can’t Wait’s forthcoming full-page ad in the New York Times, created by the internationally renowned designer George Lois, delivers a jolt of electricity and hope. It captures the reality…
The Shame of Not Being Mexican
By David Swanson, 8/2/06 I’ll grant you that in the United States our two big political parties never nominate a candidate of, by, or for poor people. Nonetheless, we have now established…
Detainee Abuse Charges Feared
Washington Post, 7/28/06 An obscure law approved by a Republican-controlled Congress a decade ago has made the Bush administration nervous that officials and troops involved in handling detainee matters might be accused…