• Human Rights First Calls Military Commissions a Failure
• Activists Testify at Chevron’s Annual Shareholder’s Meeting
• Anti-Immigrant Violence in South Africa
• California’s Prop 98
• Clerks Refuse to Conduct Gay Marriages

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• Military Data Shows 50% Jump in Diagnosed Cases of PTSD
• Florida Lawsuit Against DNC Dismissed
• Israeli PM Under Pressure to Resign
• Nepal's Constituent Assembly Abolishes the Monarchy
• Top Pakistani Taliban Commander and 7 Others Killed in Truck Blast Near Afghan Border

According to a Field Poll released today, for the first time in over three decades, more California voters approve of extending marriage to gay couples than disapprove. The poll found that 51 percent of respondents back legalizing same-sex marriage and 42 percent oppose it. Despite this trend, shortly after last week's landmark ruling by the California Supreme Court that upheld the right of same-sex couples to marry, some officials in Southern California took steps to avoid performing the civil marriages. Dan Fritz has more from KPFK in LA.

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Voters in California will decide whether to eliminate all rent control laws in the state when they go to the polls on June 3rd. Proposition 98 was placed on the ballot and has been advertised as a law that would prevent the seizure of private property by the government using the power of eminent domain. But Prop 98 has been labeled a 'hidden agenda scheme' by tenants groups, and faces bi-partisan opposition. They claim the measure, if passed, could forces thousands of people to move, and would reshape the population centers of the state. From Oakland, Andrew Stelzer has the story.

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Human Rights and environmental activists from around the world descended on oil giant Chevron Corporation's annual stockholder meeting today. They came from Nigeria, Burma, Ecuador, and Richmond, California to testify about the company's involvement in pollution and human rights abuses. The coalition asked the company's shareholders to vote for a series of resolutions to clean up its operations and create an international human rights policy. Brian Edwards-Tiekert reports from the meeting in San Ramon, California.

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More than 18,000 people have fled xenophobic violence around Cape Town since mobs began attacking foreigners and burning and looting their homes and businesses one week ago. Thousands more were chased out of their homes in the central Gauteng Province in the previous week. At least 42 have been killed in and around Gauteng's capital, Johannesburg. The national total will be significantly higher. Police in Cape Town have not released casualty figures, saying they don't have separate records for xenophobia-related murders. Terna Gyuse reports from a shelter in Cape Town

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After the September 11 attacks, President Bush authorized the use of military commissions to prosecute terrorism cases. These special military courts have faced repeated legal challenges and were even overturned by the Supreme Court. The White House is still struggling to make these courts fully operational, but according to a report released by Human Rights First, existing federal courts are the more appropriate venue. FSRN's Naji Mujahid reports from Washington D.C.

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