Month May 2005

European leaders desperately played down Europe’s biggest crisis in 50 years as voters in France overwhelmingly rejected the European constitution. Chirac’s government will probably fall because of this, and it never had to happen. He could have just had it raftified,…

swarming the Minutemen with the ECD. Updating the anti-Minuteman swarm topic: the Electronic Civil Disobedience group has urged people supporting the Swarm the Minuteman project to join an electronic sit-in against the Minuteman movement, scheduled for May 27-29th. This uses…

Email from Kirsten Anderson Didja hear about Schwartengrabber’s latest P.R. stunt?  This was in San Jose. He was doing some sort of publicity stunt about funding for transportation. They were going to have him join with a bunch of Cal…

Schapelle Corby, 28, from Australia, was sentenced last week to 20 years in Indonesia after 9 pounds of marijuana were found in her luggage. Her sentence has gotten huge media attention in Australia, and even the government is involved. Foreign…

Employers of illegal immigrants face little risk of penalty Owners of hotels, farms, restaurants and retail stores who hire illegal workers — never widely sanctioned to begin with — now face a negligible risk of being penalized. What the Minutemen…