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  • Hundreds of Howard U. Students Greet Laura Bush With Protest Threatened With Arrest, Students Refuse to Back Down
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Thursday, October 27, hundreds of Howard University students greeted Laura Bush with a militant protest against the war in Iraq, the criminally negligent and racist conduct of the federal government in response to Hurricane Katrina and cuts in education.
    Holding signs that read, "2000 Dead, End Occupation: Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti..., Money for Education Not War," the students began their demonstration at 11am in protest of Laura Bush’s presence on the Howard University (…)

  • From Chaos to Conscience to Peace
    28 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Monica Benderman
    Please visit Sgt. Benderman’s website, www.BendermanTimeline.com for a chronology of events, complete with documentation, leading to his court martial, along with a continuous discussion about Conscientious Objection and veterans’ issues.
    On July 27, 2005, Sgt. Kevin Benderman was found guilty of Missing Movement and sentenced to 15 months confinement, loss of pay and dishonorable discharge. In actuality, Sgt. Benderman’s crime was daring to tell the truth, and daring (…)

  • Protests mark 2,000th US fatality in Iraq
    27 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Protesters across the United States have taken part in hundreds of vigils and rallies to mark the 2,000th US military death in Iraq.
    Anti-war activists say their movement is rapidly growing in strength and now speaks for a majority of Americans who believe President George W Bush’s decision to invade Iraq was a mistake.
    The death last weekend of a soldier, wounded in combat in the southern Iraqi city of Samarra earlier this month, pushed the toll to 2,000.
    "We’re seeing rapid (…)

  • John Conyers On Rosa Parks - ’She Earned the Title as Mother of the Civil Rights Movement’
    26 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We speak with Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan), who worked with Parks for over a decade. Conyers remembers Parks’ life and speaks about the possibility of a state funeral and a national ’Rosa Parks day.’
    Rep. John Conyers, (D-Michigan)
    AMY GOODMAN: Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has died at the age of 92. It was 50 years ago this December that she refused to give up her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and convicted of violating the state’s (…)

  • Empire building has led to the end of our own democracy
    25 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Soup Of The Evening, Beautiful Soup by Michael Doliner
    In the long run, the existence of this intensely elitist society in the ancient Near East was of enormous importance to the history of Western civilization. As late as 1700, the prevailing European social system was still one in which vast power, the greater part of landed wealth, and the prime control of political life belonged to the hereditary landed aristocracy. Norman F. Cantor, The Civilization of the Middle Ages
    (Swans - (…)

  • Salivate, Citizen
    25 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on."
    Joseph Heller, Catch 22
    Hate to break this to you, but you are brainwashed; or, at the very least, have been subjected to brainwashing all your life. It’s unfortunate, and you can deny it all you want, but you have. So have your parents, your grand-parents, and their parents, and their parents before that. So have your wife and your children. So will your children’s children and their children too. Your (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan Pledges Civil Disobedience Campaign and Thanksgiving in Crawford
    20 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Sarah Ferguson
    “We’re going to invite George and Laura-and tell Laura to bring the turkey,”
    Cindy Sheehan made a return visit to the streets of New York Wednesday, joining the weekly vigil of Grandmothers Against the War outside Rockefeller Center.
    In contrast to the scene in Union Square last month, when the police stormed the podium and cut off Sheehan’s mic, this time the NYPD went out of its way to be gracious to America’s leading peace mom.
    Police politely urged the jostling (…)

  • G8 summit police lied, says report
    15 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Chris Summers
    The trial of 28 police officers accused of beating up anti-globalisation protesters during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 is due to start on Friday. The BBC News website has seen a copy of the prosecutor’s report.
    The chief prosecutor investigating an Italian police raid on an anti-globalisation protesters’ base in Genoa during the 2001 G8 summit concluded "the police must have lied" about the operation, according to a leaked copy of his report.
    Ninety-two (…)

  • Try and catch the wind
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    Synopsis:
    Once again, an old song acts as muse for Daniel Patrick Welch. Repopularized by a current Volkswagen ad, the Donovan lyric tweaks Welch’s sense of the futility of resistance in the quagmire that is today’s American political landscape. From a personal perspective, the writer describes watching as all his European friends flee one by one, a sort of metaphor for the international rejection of the would-be Pax Americana.
    To understand fully the nature of (…)

  • Reclaiming the American Legacy of Civil Disobedience
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sari Gelzer
    What can all Americans do about their desire to see change in America? Practice civil disobedience.
    This flavor of action is not just for radicals. Civil disobedience is the role of citizens within the political system and has a much broader legacy than one was taught to think. Civil disobedience, practiced by various movements of people, has been responsible for forcing politicians to comply with the demands of its citizens. Civil disobedience is how "slavery was (…)