Civil society groups denounce Singapore government, IMF-WB for barring activists (tags)
Jubilee South and the Freedom from Debt Coalition of the Philippines, two of the proponents and lead organizers of the International Peoples Forum vs the IMF and World Bank, denounce the latest move of the Singapore government to prevent the exercise of freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.
Crenshaw Cougar Coalition Asks School District to Waive Hiring Formula (tags)
Nearly one hundred students, parents and teachers at Crenshaw High School were joined by community leaders in a press conference held at the campus' main entrance this evening. The press conference aimed to respond to a series of emergency meetings the Los Angeles Unified School District School Board has called in the past week aimed at dealing with Crenshaw's recent loss and return on appeal of accreditation. At specific issue is the School District's mandate that Crenshaw sacrifice 16 teachers currently teaching full course loads at Crenshaw to other schools.
Did the New York Times just change the rules of journalism? (tags)
Journalistic bombshells all (pardon the pun). But one-third of the way into Miller's story come these two paragraphs about the sourcing deal behind the scoop that she struck with Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha, the U.S. military team searching for WMD in Iraq. Raising more questions about her relationship to MET Alpha than she answers, Miller writes:
Gestapo Tactics at Anti-War Rally (tags)
Larry Wallace, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, has been forced to apologize publicly for the actions of TBI agents at a peace protest on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tenn.