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…

It might be cheap, but it’s going to cost the earth. The cut-price airline ticket is fuelling a boom that will make countering global warming impossible. Unless the boom in cheap flights is halted, say Friends of the Earth and…

Texas bans all Medicaid claims for Viagra

Via Rock and Rap Confidential from Reuters The rock band Nine Inch Nails said on Friday it canceled plans to appear on next week’s MTV Movie Awards after the network questioned the band’s plans to perform in front of an…