Month March 2006

That’s two

Harkin backs Feingold’s censure effort Yeah, yeah, I know, the other Democrats are “choosing their fights”, “keeping their powder dry”, “not being rash”, all of which could make sense except they never actually get in there and fight, do they?…

RIAA sues itself for music distribution

From Joe Rasmussen – Entertainment Editor The Recording Industry Association of America has taken its strongest step yet in its battle to stop music piracy, filing a lawsuit against the nation’ s largest distributor of copyrighted music, itself, on March…

UN creates new rights council over US objections

The United Nations General Assembly created a new U.N. human rights body by an overwhelming majority on Wednesday, ignoring objections from the United States. Ambassadors broke out in sustained applause when the vote was announced: 170-4 with 3 abstentions. U.S.…

90,000 flyers

Here at ANSWER LA, we’ve been organizing for Saturday’s antiwar march and rally for over three months. We’ve printed and distributed over 90,000 flyers, pasted up thousands of posters, done outreach at dozens of events, worked with many other organizations,…