FREE THOUGHTS
FIRST WORD by Doug Collins
What's Wrong With Us?
READER MAIL
Israel: not a charitable nonprofit, Bush's second big lie: social security, Good alternative to third runway was ignored, More guardianship abuses, Thanks for the Truth
NORTHWEST & BEYOND
Wild sky can't fly past Pembo, Oregon's Coos County pays in pipeline lawsuit, Poverty with a view, Roadless Rule revision postponed past election, Western Shoshone battle federal landgrab, Montana's Jewish communities embrace reform
"Just because..."
strange assertions observed by Styx Mundstock
CONTACTS
NORTHWEST NEIGHBORS
contact list for progressives
DO SOMETHING! CALENDAR
Northwest activist events
POLITICS AND ELECTIONS
9/11 Update: New York State Attorney General's office accepts 9/11 Complaint
by Rodger Herbst
Book Notice: Claiming the Mantle: How Presidential Nominations Are Won and Lost Before the Votes Are Cast
by R. Lawrence Butler
"Modern Poll Tax" is Challenged in WA: Ex-felons deserve the right to vote
from the ACLU of WA
Next Steps after the 2004 Elections
by Steven Hill
LAW
NutraSweet Hit by Lawsuits: Court action highlights health concerns about artificial sweeteners
by Doug Collins
Justice Department Manipulates Truth About Patriot Act Ruling
from the ACLU
After the Riot
anonymous account of prison conditions
WORKPLACE
Bon Macy's Fails Employees' Health-Care Needs
from SEIU Local 6
San Francisco hotel workers locked out
photos and story by David Bacon
Small Business Administration Fails in Commitment to Women-Owned Firms
from the US Women's Chamber of Commerce
IMMIGRATION AND MEXICAN LABOR
HOW U.S. CORPORATIONS WON THE DEBATE OVER IMMIGRATION
by David Bacon
Illegal Immigration: Another Way to Outsource Jobs?
opinion by Domenico Maceri
Salsa and Apple Pie
A U.S.-Mexican Union in the making
by Steven Hill
ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH
Existing Systems Do Not Protect Us
by Sarah Westervelt
Mercury on the mind: Want to avoid both autism and Alzheimers? Then forget the flu vaccine and avoid dental amalgams
by Donald W. Miller, Jr, MD
What Water to Drink? Tap water may be your healthiest option
by Seth Gordon
MEDIA
MEDIA BEAT by Normal Solomon
The Presidential pageant: "There he is, Mr. America..."
People Like This Paper! So why is it so small?
by Doug Collins
CULTURE
A New Yorker Trapped in Los Angeles
excerpt from Willaim Blum's book: "Freeing the World to Death"
Poetry by Robert Hosheit
Beatnik Books
poetic reviews by Robert Pavik
GOOD IDEAS FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES by Doug Collins
Polish Jokes
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After the Riot
Following is a confidential message relayed via a Washington state
prisoner concerning the aftereffects of a riot at the Crowley County
Correctional Facility in Colorado, where approximately 200 Washington
State prisoners were sent.
August, 2004--There is complete lockdown [at Crowley]. With no inmates on
kitchen duty, the food is really bad--limited to sack lunches. A guard
delivers the sacks by kicking them through the door. The food seems old.
[My acquaintance there has had to] survive with no running water, in
fact no water to even drink, so no toilets, and no toilet paper other
than the paper sack in which lunches were served, which could not be
eaten anyway due to dehydration from lack of nay drinking water at all.
For the first several days, all the men had only bare cold steel bunks
on which to try to sleep, shivering with hypothermia and using torn
paper lunch sacks to cover their heads to try to keep warm, as it took
days before prisoners received any mattresses, pillows, sheets, and
blankets. It was nearly a week before any were allowed to send any mail,
and even then only one letter. Conditions are gradually improving for
the men, but they are still locked down. Also, an added problem is the
facility doesn't recognize Washington prisoner postage accounts, so even
though a prisoner, for example, has $50 left in his Washington postage
account, he can't use it, because the prison forces them to pay for all
postage/mail expenses out of their regular account, which seems to
please prison authorities. [My acquaintance there] has made it clear he
disapproves of the riot, but expects a worse one to follow, as he sees
conduct by the authorities as the cause of the first. With faith not
fear, he calls on us for prayers for peace, and for wisdom for
authorities and prisoners alike.
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