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  • Election is not over-Criminal violations can be prosecuted
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Interview with John Conyers
    Raw Story’s John Byrne and Larisa Alexandrovna spent some time yesterday speaking with Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.). Although many people have only recently discovered Rep. Conyers through his investigation of Ohio voting irregularities, Conyers has in fact been a prominent force in the civil rights movement for over 35 years. Conyers is one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and is now the second ranking member in the (…)

  • The Inaugural Police State
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Inaugural Police State by Jim
    Of the people who continued on the march to protest Bush’s inauguration the vast majority did not make it through the 14th Street checkpoint on time. I joined the march from Malcolm X park after attending the "Cost of War" gathering at the United Methodist Church. The march split at a park along the way and some people stayed for the Left.org Ball. Of the people who continued on the march to protest Bush’s inauguration the vast majority did not make it (…)

  • Canada, Here They Come...They Threatened To Run For The Border If Bush Was Re-Elected
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Canada, Here They Come...They Threatened To Run For The Border If Bush Was Re-Elected. But How Many Did? Andrew Buncombe 20 January 2005
    At their home in a comfortable, quiet Seattle suburb, Mike Teller and his partner Bob Vesely will not be cheering today. Indeed, while the celebratory thousands line the streets for the presidential inauguration 3,000 miles away in Washington DC, Teller and Vesely will think of their future and the greener pastures they believe await them. They’ll be (…)

  • 4 More Years and Countless Tears
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Wayne Besen
    Today President George W. Bush was sworn in, while the rest of us were just plain swearing.
    "No! This can’t F^*%*#^ be happening!"
    Yes, it did happen. The snow you saw in Washington was Hell freezing over. A president who squandered the surplus, ran up the deficit, damaged our international standing and launched a pointless war over weapons that did not exist was reelected.
    It was really pointless listening to his speech today. He has distorted reality so much that it (…)

  • Voter Turnout Won’t Be Enough To Legitimise Election...
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Voter Turnout Won’t Be Enough To Legitimise Election As The US Tries To Cook The Books, Iraq May Be Heading For Civil War Paul McGeough January 21, 2005 There is something truly remarkable about the Iraqi human spirit. Cast around for a comparison of the numbers that might vote next Sunday and Afghanistan is a good choice.
    There, more than 10.5 million signed up last year in a security environment that made a mockery of the international observance of fragile polls when only a handful of (…)

  • Crazy President, Crazy Nation
    21 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Crazy President, Crazy Nation Margaret Kimberley January 20 2005 “...instructions given performers include a warning not to look directly at Bush while passing the presidential reviewing stand, not to look to either side and not to make any sudden movements.” - Scripps Howard News Service report on Bush inaugural activities.
    It is clear that George W. Bush is suffering from a terrible pathology, a sick paranoia. It has been pointed out by people who have known him and should have been (…)

  • Why We Fight
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    George W. Bush was sworn in today for his second term as the President of the United States. While the rich supporters gorge themselves on food and drink, while the controlled media fawn over the inaugural spectacle like awe struck schoolgirls, while the cronies of the administration regale themselves in ill-gotten power, soldiers die in the streets of Baghdad, brothers and sisters mourn, mothers weep, good, honest American citizens cringe in fear and disbelief.
    George W. Bush and his ilk (…)

  • The Inauguration and its protestors
    20 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I am not watching the annoint....er....inauguration. Instead, I have C-SPAN2 on. It’s carrying the protestors. As much as I laud and support the protestors efforts, I also find the protest lacks something essential, especially coming as it does a few days after Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
    What was it MLK brought to the civil rights movement? What’s the difference between MLK’s "I have a dream" speech and what the protestors are shouting today?
    It’s a rather difficult quality to put one’s (…)

  • Group to protest voter fraud during inauguration
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President George W. Bush will receive a bitter inauguration welcome on the Ithaca Commons this Thursday. A protest rally with speakers, music and an open mike is being held Jan. 20 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Bernie Milton Pavilion.
    "The umbrella reason we are doing this," organizer Fay Gougakis said,"is so we will unite people and point out the voting irregularities that happened in this election. I’m tired of the phrase ’conspiracy theory.’ There is legitimate concern that Bush (…)

  • Where Is our Anti-Vote Fraud Resolution?
    19 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Posted to the re-worked kucinich For President forum at http://www.kucinich.us , was the below post. This is now known as the Volunteers For Change forum and is still well-trafficked. "Several Progressive Democratic groups that I know of supported a calling campaign to ring the Dem senators phones off the hook on January 5th-6th. One of the people from PDA-IL was on Capitol Hill on the 5th, and reported that many of the Dem Senate office staffers were exhausted and some even in tears (…)