Day December 29, 2005

Craig Murray’s site is down

It might be sabotage. Chris Murray is the writer with the documents about UK/US complicity in torture in Uzbekistan that Blair Watch posted today (see following post.) Blair Watch has the post from Craig Murray’s blog online. The story is…

Calling all bloggers

These documents need publishing Blair Watch now has documents online showing British and US government complicity in torture in Uzbekistan. The British government doesn’t want these documents made public. Blair Watch, at some risk to themselves, has published them and…

What ANSWER LA did in 2005

We did a lot! Two major antiwar marches and rallies that drew tens of thousands, Anti-Arnold and Minutemen actions, Free The Five work, went to New Orleans and held meetings about it, opposed Social Security privatization, supported the hotel workers…

Hawaiian natives and Haole museums

The Bishop Museum in Hawaii is a respected museum run by non-natives (haoles) with collections of native Hawaiian artifacts. They often lend them out to native Hawaiian groups for use in ceremonies. Five years ago they lent 82 ‘priceless’ items…

Hana Highway cove

Hana Highway twists and turns for some forty miles, with over 600 curves and dozens of one lane bridges. Hana itself is a tiny little village of 1,200 with a couple of stores, a hotel, and that’s it. It had…