Some Bill of Rights defense updates

Earlier tonight Frontline on PBS covered extraordinary rendition, and Democracy Now! covered torture today and yesterday.  Democracy Now! is on Chapel Hill-Carrboro's cable access station, The Peoples Channel, weeday evenings at 7, and on 90.7 FM WNCU at 6:30 every weekday evening, after Free Speech Radio News and before News and Notes, all good sources of angles not highlighted by corporate TV and radio news.  Incidentally, the station is also in the middle of a fund drive.

 

Now is the time to tell your representative to support House Resolution 3773, the Restore Act of 2007, restoring the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, preventing the government from listening to your electronic communications without a warrant.  Hopefully this applies to the Echelon system too, but I think one point of that system is to allow participating countries to eavesdrop on their people while saying they received the information from another country's spy service. 

 

This is the last week to see Rendition at local theatres - Crossroads in Cary,  Carmike Park Place 16 in Morrisville, Six Forks Station in Raleigh, Southpoint here in Durham, and at Lumina in Chapel Hill's Southern Village.  

 

Wednesday at 7pm the Orange County BORDC is going to Town Hall to hear and question a report on why two immigrants without felony records were detained by the police, despite Town policies to the contrary.  

 

Wednesday evening is also the Socialist Forum 9/11 discussion at the Chapel Hill Public Library.  November 12th the final edit of the 9/11 truth documentary, Loose Change, will be shown on Duke's East Campus.  I've seen Loose Change II, and it is an interesting and well-done documentary.  I think some of what they say is not as proven as they say, but they do a good job of showing some of the reasons the 9/11 Commission's account is flawed.  I think they looked mainly at physical issues and the alleged perpetrators, not going into great detail about the historical background leading up to 9/11.    

 

Community Dialogue Across Borders is the eveninng of November 9th in Pittsboro and November 10th in Fearington Village.  For details, see:

http://www.hispanicliaison.org/content/view/75/115/

 

The Orange County BORDC is showing Ghosts of Abu Ghraib November 15th, at 7pm, at the Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) meeting room at 400 Jones Ferry Rd. in Carrboro.