Positive Universe Abstracts

Congress is on the verge of passing legislation that will decide how immigrants will be treated for decades to come. 11 million undocumented immigrants and those who help them get food, a job, or a home would be turned into criminals — unless we act now!

CENSURE AT THE LEAST AND FIRST OF ALL (h) Connie

Did You Know that Signing the Wrong Law and Violating the Constitution is Just a Technicality?

America Under a Junta: An Update. March 27, 2006 A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL From: www.buzzflash.com/editorial/06/03/edi06023.html

Okay, when Scalito’s scary twin (and not his scary puppet, Clarence Thomas), Samuel Alito, was up for nomination, BuzzFlash [...]

The Nuremberg trials after World War II established universal rules against aggressive wars, principles that George W. Bush willfully violated by invading Iraq. A newly disclosed memo from January 2003 reveals Bush’s contempt for these fundamental rules of international behavior as well as his plans to trick the public into accepting his actions. The evidence [...]

The Senate Judiciary Committee adopted an amendment today that would protect groups and individuals that provide humanitarian assistance to illegal immigrants.

His speech, reported by Newsweek, comes before justices hear a foreign inmate’s case. From the Associated Press (h) March, 27 2006

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia reportedly told an overseas audience this month that the U.S. Constitution did not protect foreigners held at America’s military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Scalia also told the audience at the [...]

The Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing Friday on Feingold’s resolution. (ACTION ALERT: CALL SENATORS ALL WEEK URGING THEM TO BACK FEINGOLD’S RESOLUTION!)

“The nature of this work,” Leary writes in her prologue, “is such that each group first must see to their own healing, because no group can do another’s work….I don’t want to wait for permission” (h)