GARY WEBB: In His Own Words

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

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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

Protect Children not Guns 2006 Report

http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/DocServer/gunrpt_revised06.pdf?docID=1761 

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

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How Oil Companies Hurt Consumers and the Environment

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