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Peace activists Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright have been arreste
stanley canada d in the U.S. while protesting the Iraq war, but they never dreamed that would prevent them from entering Canada.The arrests landed Benjamin s and Wright s names in an FBI-run database, the National Crime Information Center, which Canada also relies on to screen visitors. When the two women visited the country in August, they were told they would have to apply for criminal rehabilitation and pay $200 if they wanted to visit again. Neither did.On Wednesday, Benjamin, co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink, and Wright, a retired Army colonel, walked into Canada at Niagara Falls to test whether they really would be denied entry because of their anti-war-related arrests.They were.Now, Benjamin and Wright are asking why the names of people arrested during peaceful protests would be included in an FBI-maintained database meant to track fugitives, potential terrorists, missing persons and violent felons. We are certainly no threat to the Canadian people, Benjamin said.Benjamin said she and Wright, who resigned as a senior diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Mongolia in 2003, planne
stanley thermos d to protest at the Canadian embassy in Washington on Thursday and to ask the FBI to remove the protest charges from the NCIC database.The protesters believe the inclusion of activists names in
stanley cups the database is a form of political intimidation of people opposed to Bush administration policies.FBI spokesman Paul Moskal said that while Vacx Killen Jury: We re Deadlocked
Last week, construction workers on San Francisco new Transit Terminal unearthed a skeleton 60 feet underground. The life of the person whose bones they found reveals a lot
stanley water bottle about how rising water levels have changed life in the Bay Area over the past few thousand years. The skeleton found last week hasn ;t been dated yet, but San Francisco blogger Burrito Justice points out that a skeleton found in a sim
stanley termosy ilar area, 15 feet lower, was dated at about 5,000 years old. Like the skeleton found last week, this earlier skeleton belonged to a Native American who lived in the San Francisco area when sea levels were very different from today. Burrito Justice writes: San Francisco Bay as we know it is relatively new 鈥?as the ice age ended, sea levels rose dramatically. 18,000 years ago, to get to the beach you would need to take the N-Judah past the Farallons, which were once hills by the sea. The Bay was a valley with a river running through it, and the Golden Gate was a waterfall . . . But as the waters rose the Farallons were cut off . . . Around 10,000 years ago, the sea breeched the Golden Gate
water bottle stanley and continued to rise rapidly, filling the valley we now know as San Francisco Bay. There must have been settlements by the water 鈥?imagine each generation having to pull back, each high tide greater than the last. Apparently the local Ohlone tribe told a story about how the port of San Francisco, currently facing the Bay, was long ago an oak grove. Could this piece of storyte