This is the third installment in a five-part series on Bush’s Clear Skies Initiative, a litany of lies designed to justify the catastrophic Bush-Cheney Energy Plan. This article exposes Bush's abuse of science and scientists in his ruthless pursuit of a corporate agenda.

Organize, get involved to stop the FTAA. Includes info for local activists and links to the rest of Baltimore IMC's coverage on the FTAA.

A collection of things I saw or stories told to me by fellow prisoners during my two trips through Baltimore City Central Intake and Booking.

Local unionists and activists organized by a broad coalition held a press conference at the Washington Monument in downtown Baltimore to say, "Stop the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)." (Spanish version: "Nuestro mundo no está en venta".)

40,000 protest the continued military occupation of Iraq by the United States and Britain. A report from the streets of Washington DC. (Photos by Jim George)

See also newswire report by William Hughes.

Police abuse is one of the most serious and divisive human rights violations in the United States. Former Baltimore activist AK Gupta reviews the Human Rights Watch report "Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States." Information on Baltimore was not included in the HRW report. (Originally published in The Indypendent/NYC IMC, October 15-24, 2003)

October 1, about 200 immigrant workers, students, and their supporters rallied at the University of Maryland School of Law in support of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride and in-state tuition for immigrant students. On October 2, the IWFR lobbied Congress in Washington DC. Then, on October 4th, there was a large rally for immigrant rights in New York City. This photoessay includes images from the October 1 rally in Baltimore with additional links. (Photos by Abigail Anzalone). For an article (in Spanish) on the October 4 rally in Queens see Silvia Arana www.indypendent.org/webnews/index.php .

Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon brings his one man show, Operation American Freedom to Baltimore.