A small group of homeless people are living in a tent city in Wooster. But ODOT says the people are trespassing, and filed a lawsuit. Fox 8's Jack Shea explains...

Video and article: ODOT Sues Homeless Over Tent City in Wooster

(It appears the linked article above has been deleted. That's corporate news for you. That article was discussed at length by Free Radio Santa Cruz last night. I did manage to find a slightly older video covering this issue, linked below.)

Video: ODOT Suing Tent City

Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting an investigation into OnStar's announcement that it would track the location of its customers' vehicles even after the customers canceled their service. OnStar also reserved the right to sell such locational information to advertisers. In an interview with FOX News last week, EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg warned that the company would make data of former customers available to third parties.

When: Mon Nov 1 2010 07:00 PM
Where: SPSCC Campus. Building 26, Room 105
What: Glenn Greenwald is a Constitutional and civil rights
attorney, columnist and blogger for Salon.com, and author of the NY
Times bestselling books How Would a Patriot Act?, A Tragic Legacy, and
Great American Hypocrites. He has written articles for The New York
Times, The Los Angeles Times, Harpers, The American Conservative, The
National Interest, and In These Times. He appears regularly as a
commentator on various news programs including ABC’s This Week, CSPAN,
NPR’s All things Considered, Democracy Now! With Amy Goodman, and PBS’s

By Chris Hedges

From Tomdispatch.com:

Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Afghanistan as a Drug War
Posted by Alfred McCoy at 4:10pm, March 30, 2010.

We will host a series of community discussions, each one preceded by an informative meeting, on the causes of the economic crisis and a variety of proposals to deal with it. The 12-part series will occur on a variety of days
(both weeknights and weekend days) over a period of 9 weeks from approximately mid-February to late April. The topics will flow logically from one session to the next to create a comprehensive series, but each session will also stand alone so you can participate in those that suit your schedule.

Leana Stormont became (as noted here earlier) the third person subpoenaed by that grand jury in Davenport, Iowa which is out to get animal rights activists however they can. One man, Scott DeMuth has been indicted and is free on bond. One woman, Carrie Feldman, has been locked up since before thanksgiving for heroically refusing to cooperate with the grand jury.

Leana was a graduate student at the University of Iowa at the time of the ALF raid on a lab on campus. That action saw the rescue of 401 animals from the Spence psychology labs in an overnight raid by the ALF. She was a visible animal rights activist at the time and has been on the Feds radar screen ever since.

37th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade decision


It's basic - women's ability to control their own bodies begins with
guaranteed medical care as well as access to abortion. Yet the state
Basic Health Plan and crucial programs that aid the most vulnerable are
in jeopardy. Come raise a ruckus over the threatened destruction of
essential services and the fact that two-thirds of Washington counties
have no abortion providers. Reproductive justice means affordability,
access and healthcare for all! Tax the rich and corporations to expand
health, education and social programs and to fund full-service women's
health clinics statewide.

Britain Told to Stop "Stop and Search"
Oread Daily http://oreaddaily.blogspot.com/

Well now. How will the British respond to the European Court of Human Rights ruling that Britain's stop and search policies in the six counties of northern Ireland are illegal and a violation of human rights. I'll tell you how. They'll ignore it. AFP reports reacting to the ruling, London's Metropolitan Police said that, as the British government is seeking to appeal the ruling, Section 44 "remains in force in specified locations across London". I'd guess that would apply to the occupied north of Ireland as well.

Supreme Court's Ruling Would Allow Bin Laden to Donate to Sarah Palin's Presidential Campaign

By Greg Palast, AlterNet
Posted on December 11, 2009, Printed on December 15, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/144502/

I thought that headline would get your attention. And it's true.

November 15, 2009 By Dahr Jamail

Source: Inter Press Service
http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/23140

VENTURA,
California, Nov 13 (IPS) - U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a
single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she
does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she
would be granted extra time to find someone to care for her
11-month-old son while she is overseas.

Hutchinson, of
Oakland, California, is currently being confined at Hunter Army
Airfield near Savannah, Georgia, after being arrested. Her son was