• "School of the Americas Watch Activists Report to Federal Prison," April 11, 2006
• 29 Human Rights Advocates Report to Federal Prisons April 11 for Nonviolence Civil Disobedience Actions
  
• "Robin Lloyd's Sentencing Statement"

While the rocket attack missed the Embassy and no one was injured, some Afghan civilians were not so lucky in a series of incidents in mid-April. Seven civilians were killed and three were injured in a U.S. air strike in Kunar province on April 15. Four of the dead were children. In Khost, American soldiers shot and wounded three women and a newborn girl returning from a hospital on April 17. A man and a 7-year-old boy were also shot and injured April 18 on the outskirts of Khost by U.S. troops. According to U. S. military officials, both incidents occurred when vehicles failed to slowdown at check points.

Human rights groups are also decrying a deteriorating situation for women inside Afghanistan. The United Nations reports that during 2005, 300 girls' schools were burned down, while women's literacy is half that of men. One year ago, the Bush administration succeeded in eliminating the post of the UN's top human rights monitor in Afghanistan after he had criticized the U.S. military for arbitrary arrests, illegal detentions and abuses committed by American-led forces. Between the Lines Scott Harris spoke with James Ingalls, co-director of the group Afghan Women's Mission, who assesses the growing violence and repression in Afghanistan.

Contact the Afghan Women's Mission, by calling (626) 676-7884 or visit their website at www.afghanwomensmission.org

Related links:

• Get more information on the status of women in Afghanistan by visiting the website of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan www.rawa.org
• "Selective Outrage," by Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls, AlterNet.org, March 30, 2006

But consumers, well aware that energy companies like Exxon-Mobil reported the nation's highest-ever profit of $36.1 billion in 2005, are suspicious of the President's cozy relationship with big oil. Republicans who control Congress received 81 percent of the $54 million dollars in political campaign contributions made by big oil companies since 2001.

But election year jitters are causing some GOP congressional legislators to join Democrats in calling for a probe of oil company profits and consideration of a windfall profits tax. Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen's Energy Program. He discusses some reasons behind the dramatic rise in gas prices and explains why he supports an oil company windfall profits tax.

Contact Public Citizen at (202) 588-1000 or visit their website at www.citizen.org

Related links:

• "Gas Price Gambit," by Tyson Slocum, www.tompaine.com, April 20, 2006

In late February, a group of native people from the Six Nations, or Iroquois Confederacy, began an occupation of land in Caledonia, Ontario, Canada, where a construction company had started building a residential development. The native people claim the land is theirs, while the company insists it has legal claim to the property. The occupation has attracted native and non-native supporters from other parts of Canada and become a focal point of the struggle for native sovereignty in Canada.