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American Civil Liberties Union: Special Reports: 2 years after Katrina http://www.aclu.org/brokenpromises Government Spying http://www.aclu.org/spying Coalition Challenges New Homeland Security Rule The U.S. government is violating its treaty obligations under the Convention Against Torture by attempting to deport Sameh Khouzam. http://www.aclu.org/immigrants/workplace/31494prs20070829.html ACLU Asks Court to Bar Egyptian's Deportation to Torture http://ttp//www.aclu.org/immigrants/asylum/31507prs20070830.html Gonzales Resignation Does Not Pardon President’s Abuse of Power The American Civil Liberties Union today said U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ resignation requires further congressional investigation into the Bush administration’s systematic abuse of power. http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/31468prs20070827.html ACLU Fact Sheet on the “Police America Act" http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/31203res20070807.html 50 Books That'll Boost Your Civil Liberties Savvy http://www.aclu.org/freedomwire/books/booklist.htm INTERACTIVE FEATURES > The Drug War Clock: See What the War on Drugs Is Costing You > Survey: What Age Is Considered "Adult" in America? > Justice Match: Learn How Your Views Align With the U.S. Supreme Court Justices Authorities Target Political Groups http://www.aclu.org/spyfiles ACTIVIST TOOLKIT http://action.aclu.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AP_effective_activism Amnesty International Latest Reports from AI: http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-recent/reports Guatemala: Presidential Candidates Must Resolve Legacy of Conflict http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR340212007 Close Guantánamo It is now over five years since the first detainees were transferred to the detention camp at the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Despite widespread international condemnation, hundreds of people of more than 30 nationalities are still there: without charge, and with little hope of obtaining a fair trial. Enough is enough! http://web.amnesty.org/pages/guantanamobay-index-eng LIBRARY The Amnesty International library contains an archive of most reports, news releases and urgent actions published from 1996 to date. Documents are available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. You can navigate the whole library in any of these languages, but you can also switch languages when you get to a particular section or document of interest. http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex The arms trade is out of control. Worldwide, arms are fueling conflict, poverty and human rights abuses. http://www.controlarms.org EPIC “National Network” of Fusion Centers Raises Specter of COINTELPRO http://www.epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight/0607/default.html http://www.epic.org/privacy/fusion/crs_fusionrpt.pdf Medical Privacy Petition http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/petition EPIC PRIVACY.ORG http://www.privacy.org/ DoD Recruiting Database http://www.epic.org/privacy/student/doddatabase.html GREENPEACE Greener Computer http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/greening-of-apple-310507/greencomputerchallenge How the World Bank and HSBC are Investing in Deforestation http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/world-bank-congo-forest_300807 Hiroshima's Legacy http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/hiroshima-legacy-06082007 Solar Generation http://www.greenpeace.org/international/solargen/sign-up PODCAST: Whales and U.S. Military Sonar Noise Pollution Listen http://oceans.greenpeace.org/raw/content/en/photo-audio-video/audio-files/ocean-defenders-audio-podcast Eco Headlines by email News-headlines Archives. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/subscribe3 Human Rights Watch Reports: VIDEO: Ban Cluster Munitions Short film documenting the lethal effects of the use of cluster munitions worldwide, with commentary, new statistics and analysis from military experts at Human Rights Watch. Footage shows how cluster munitions have endangered civilian populations from the Vietnam era through current conflicts in Iraq and Lebanon. http://hrw.org/campaigns/clusters/video2.htm Support the Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007 Of nine governments worldwide implicated in the recruitment or use of children as soldiers, eight receive U.S. military assistance. http://hrw.org/campaigns/crp/child_soldiers/index.htm TRAVELING FILM FESTIVAL 2007-2008 http://www.hrw.org/iff/2007/traveling/titles.html Beijing 2008 China’s Olympian Human Rights Challenges http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/china/beijing08/ SLIDESHOW: Guantanamo 5 Years Later http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/guantanamo/2007/index.htm Global Campaigns: The Campaign to Ban Landmines Women's Property Rights Stop the Use of Child Soldiers! Stop Violence Against Children Worldwide Torture and Abuse Campaign Against the Trafficking of Women and Girls Human Rights in the U.S. http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=usa&c=usdom IRIN NEWS Reports: Irin Photo Gallery http://www.irinnews.org/photogallery/iringallery.asp Latest Audio Programs IRIN RADIO IRIN Radio gives a voice to vulnerable communities and provides them with information to make better-informed decisions about their own lives. We operate in East and Central Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa and Central Asia (Afghanistan). IRIN Radio produces high-quality programming in local languages on humanitarian issues, ready for broadcast by local stations. The service also provides hands-on training to journalists, developing their production and reporting skills, allowing local radio to serve communities more effectively. http://www.irinnews.org/radio/default.asp Weekly Reports Asia, Africa, & the Middle East http://www.irinnews.org/Weeklies.aspx Humanitarian Country Profiles http://www.irinnews.org/country-profile.aspx Standards of Political Conduct for Corporations http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/files/pdfs/Corporate%20Accountability%20International%20Standards%20of%20Political%20Conduct%20for%20Corporations.pdf TI has defined five global priorities in the fight against corruption: Corruption in politics http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/corruption_politics Corruption in public contracting http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/public_contracting Corruption in the private sector http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/private_sector International anti-corruption conventions http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/international_conventions Poverty and development http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/aid_corruption CORRUPTION AFFECTS YOU http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/public_contracting Organized Crime and Corruption Information: www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/convention_corruption/signing/Convention-e.pdf Global Corruption Report 2007 Special focus: Corruption and Judicial Systems http://www.transparency.org/publications/gcr/download_gcr#download Global Corruption Report 2006 Special focus: Corruption and Health Launched 1 February 2006, TI’s Global Corruption Report details how corruption deprives millions of access to essential health care and helps spawn drug – resistant strains of deadly diseases. http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/download.htm Transparency International’s Web Portal on Anti-Corruption Resources (CORIS) http://www.corisweb.org/ PREVENTING CORRUPTION ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS http://www.transparency.org/news_room/latest_news/press_releases/2005/16_03_2005_construct_projects http://www.transparency.org/tools/contracting/construction_projects A Special Report, IPS News, http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/corruption/index.asp Business Principles for Countering Bribery http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/private_sector/business_principles Corruption Fighters' Tool Kit http://www.transparency.org/tools/e_toolkit Costs of Corruption in Public Contracting http://www.transparency.org/content/download/12496/120034 Anti-Corruption Handbook: The ACH is a practical guide which aims to assist the process of designing and applying anti-corruption measures. http://www.transparency.org/tools/a_c_handbook National Whistleblower Center, http://www.whistleblowers.org/ Govt Doctors Get Whistleblower Protection http://www.whistleblowers.org/Govt_Doctors_Get_Whistleblower_Protection.htm International Call to Boycott U.S. Multinationals http://www.boycottbush.org/index_en.php GARY WEBB'S DARK ALLIANCE SERIES re-posted by NARCONEWS GARY WEBB: In His Own Words Tribute to the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who broke the story of the CIA’s involvement in the importation of cocaine into the US http://www.guerrillanews.com/videos/viewer.php?id=30&spd=hi Dark Alliance: Day One America's 'crack' plague has roots in Nicaragua war Colombia-San Francisco Bay Area drug pipeline helped finance CIA-backed Contras by Gary Webb http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day1main.htm Testimony links U.S. to drugs-guns trade Dealers got their 'own little arsenal' by Gary Webb http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day1list.htm http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/webintro.mov Dark Alliance: Day Two The Crack Epidemic's Shadowy Origins, By Gary Webb If they'd been in a more respectable line of work, Norwin Meneses, Danilo Blandon and ''Freeway Rick'' Ross would have been hailed as geniuses of marketing. This odd trio -- a smuggler, a bureaucrat and a driven ghetto teen-ager -- made fortunes creating the first mass market in America for a product so hellishly desirable that consumers will literally kill to get it: ''crack'' cocaine. Federal lawmen will tell you plenty about Rick Ross, mostly about the evils he visited upon black neighborhoods by spreading the crack plague in Los Angeles and cities as far east as Cincinnati. On Aug. 23, they hope, Freeway Rick will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2main.htm Drug agent thought she was onto something big On a November afternoon in 1981, San Francisco DEA agent Sandra Smith inadvertently uncovered the first direct link between cocaine and the secret army the Central Intelligence Agency was assembling to overthrow the government of Nicaragua. Smith, one of the first female Drug Enforcement Administration agents in the Bay Area, was investigating rumors that a cocaine ring run by Norwin Meneses was bringing drugs into California and, for some reason, sending weapons down to Central America. It was, she said, ''the only (case) that I ever worked, in all the time I worked there, that I thought was really big.'' http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2frog.htm Drug expert: 'Crack' born in San Francisco Bay Area in '74 Though Miami and Los Angeles are commonly regarded as the twin cradles of ''crack'' cocaine, the first government-financed study of cocaine smoking concluded that it was actually born here, in the San Francisco Bay Area, in January 1974. After comedian Richard Pryor nearly immolated himself during a cocaine-smoking binge in 1980, the National Institute on Drug Abuse hired UCLA drug expert Ronald K. Siegel to look into the then-unfamiliar practice. Siegel, the first scientist to document crack's use in the United States, traced the smoking habit back to 1930, when Colombians first started it. http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2rock.htm Dark Alliance: Day Three War on Drugs Has Unequal Impact on Blacks in U.S. http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day3main.htm On PEACE: Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors: Why Question the Military's JROTC Program? http://www.objector.org/jrotc/why.html Before You Enlist... You wouldn't buy a car without looking under the hood. Don't enlist before you check out the reality of military life that lies behind the glamorous television ads and glossy brochures. http://www.objector.org/before-you-enlist.html Get the Military Out of Our Schools Are students getting a balanced education about the military? http://www.objector.org/ GI Rights Training Train to Help Stop the Military Machine! Or at Least to slow it down. http://www.objector.org/gitraining060325.html Tools for Activists http://www.objector.org/moos/strategies.html Protect Children not Guns 2007 report Each and every day in America we continue to lose far too many children to gun violence in towns, cities and rural areas all across the United States. Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that every day, nearly eight children or teens are killed by gun violence in America — 235 each month. http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/DocServer/Protect_Chidren_Not_Guns_2007.pdf?docID=3221 Children Still Neglected Two Years After Katrina http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/PageServer?pagename=newsroom_20070830_Katrina Katrinas Children http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/DocServer/Katrina_report07.pdf?docID=3721 Groups to Court: Stop NAFTA Truck Pilot Program http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=2497 How Oil Companies Hurt Consumers and the Environment http://69.63.136.213/documents/HotProfitsGlobalWarming.pdf Latest Public Citizen Action Items http://www.citizen.org/action/ Tracking the activities of special interests. http://www.lobbyinginfo.org/ Auto and Truck Safety http://www.citizen.org/autosafety/ Auto Industry http://www.citizen.org/congress/campaign/special_interest/articles.cfm?ID=5730 Asbestos Industry http://www.citizen.org/documents/master%20report.pdf Congress & the Lobbying Industry http://www.citizen.org/documents/DeLay_Lby_Fndr_Tbl.pdf http://www.lobbyinginfo.org/documents/RevovDoor.pdf Energy Industry http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/documents/dirtiest_plants2.pdf Gambling Industry http://www.citizen.org/congress/campaign/special_interest/articles.cfm?ID=5771 Health Care & Pharmaceutical Industries http://www.citizen.org/documents/MedicareDrugWarReportREVISED72104.pdf http://www.citizen.org/documents/DrugImportationFactSheet.pdf Homeland Security Industries http://www.citizen.org/documents/ACF1B7.pdf Tobacco Industry http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/tort/articles.cfm?ID=800 Medical Malpractice Facts Challenging the Malpractice Claims of the Doctors' Lobby http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/medmal/ Public Citizen is a national, non profit consumer advocacy group based in Washington D.C., for more information visit http://www.citizen.org/ Public Citizen is not affiliated with THE CITIZEN for Social Responsibility in any manner. 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