http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/fallout.asp

MAP ISSUED BY AUSTRAILIAN RADIATION SERVICE  shows expected path of fall out for western united states if there is meltdown from failing  FUKUSHIMA,JAPAN nuclear plant.

Nationwide Student Walkout by Wisconsin Supporter
Thursday Mar 10th, 2011 11:51 AM High school students in Madison, Wisconsin will walk out of class this Friday, March 11th at 2:00 PM CT to hold a 3:00 CT teach-in on Library Mall in downtown Madison regarding the effects of collective bargaining elimination on public education, as well as the proposed education cuts in the Biennial Budget.

Rape: A weapon of war

We've got no time for tea parties!

Weekly News Update on the Americas

http://weeklynewsupdate.blogspot.com/2011/02/wnu-1069-indigenous-chileans-acquitted.html

by Julianne Hing
Friday, February 25 2011, 3:48 PM EST


On Monday seven Georgia prison guards were arrested for their
involvement in the December  beating of Terrance Dean, a 29-year-old
prisoner in Macon State Prison after a highly publicized prison strike.



 Photo: istock/Frances Twitty

Pictures have emerged providing the
shocking proof that U.S. government doctors once experimented on
disabled American citizens and prison inmates.

Such
experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in
Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners
in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at
a New York hospital.

http://justdetention.org/en/takeaction.aspx   please go to the website

Right now, you can help make sure that the Department of Justice
protects all people behind bars from the pain and trauma of sexual
abuse. The Department has released proposed national standards
addressing sexual abuse in detention, and is accepting public comments
until April 4, 2011.  

2/28/2011......

As of Sunday 2/27/11 it appears as though there were wiretaps and the prosecution has halted the hearing for Francisco Torres of the SF8.  You can find updated postings of the case and situation for Francisco at www(dot)freethesf8.blogspot.com

850 Bryant St, Department 22 (dept may change, ask a bailiff), San Francisco, CA