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  • Anti-immigrant hysteria versus common sense
    3 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By BC Editor Bruce Dixon
    Last weekend in Los Angeles somewhere between half a million and two million legal and illegal immigrants and their supporters hit the streets protesting the same federal legislation that brought at least three hundred thousand into the streets of Chicago two weeks earlier, and smaller crowds in dozens of other cities. As this article is written, the U.S. Senate has just stricken the most onerous provisions of pending immigration bills which make an instant felon (…)

  • Earthrace - Round-the-World biodiesel racing boat
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.earthrace.net/view.asp?webpage=1317
    NZ’s biodiesel racing boat project aims to break the round the world time for a motorised boat. See link for details.
    http://www.earthrace.net/view.asp?webpage=1317

  • Biodiversity: Environmentalists, Indigenous People Disappointed by COP8
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Saturday, April 1, 2006 by the Inter Press Service Biodiversity: Environmentalists, Indigenous People Disappointed by COP8 by Mario Osava
    CURITIBA, Brazil - Environmental and indigenous activists are leaving the 8th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP8) with a sense of disappointment, because of the absence both of practical decisions and of their participation in key negotiations.
    COP8 was a "failure," according to Greenpeace (…)

  • In the Spirit of Chavez Recent Rallies Share Tactics, Passion of the 1960s (Los Angeles Daily News)
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, March 31, 2006 by the
    by Rachel Uranga
    Marches, walkouts and calls for a boycott.
    The immigrants-rights protests of the past week have sparked Latinos’ passion like nothing since the farm workers marches and grape boycotts led by Cesar Chavez in the 1960s and ’70s - drawing political parallels and generational ties.
    Considered by many to be the first to attract Latinos to a massive U.S. social-justice movement, the legacy and tactics of Chavez - whose birthday is (…)

  • Antiwar Movement : This song from Phil OCHS is 40 years old
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    From AxisofLogic.com
    (published here in English, Spanish and German) By Phil Ochs; translations by Germán Leyens, Nancy Almendras and Nadine Discenza ; introduction by Axis of Logic Eds. Jan 7, 2006, 10:31
    It is 40 years since this song was written and performed by Phil Ochs. At the time, it was simply one more reason for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to mercilessly harass Ochs for his ‘anti-Americanism’.
    But the man would not bend. He was passionate about reforming the (…)

  • ANTIWAR : War and Protest - the US in Vietnam (1972-1975) BBC
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "The American movement against the Vietnam War was the most successful antiwar movement in US history. During the Johnson administration, it played a significant role in constraining the war and was a major factor in the administration’s policy reversal in 1968. During the Nixon years, it hastened US troop withdrawals, continued to restrain the war, fed the deterioration in US troop morale and discipline (which provided additional impetus to US troop withdrawals), and promoted congressional (…)

  • VIDEO St. Augustine Takeover w/ Jesse Jackson & Al Sarpton
    1 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Multiple videos from the St. Augustine Church Occupation Movement
    Jess Jackson & Al Sharpton speak of St. Augustine’s place in Black History, our history and the validity of the upcoming Mayoral Elections process.
    BTW This was last night and includes a healthy dose of the Treme Brass Band.
    the videos are here
    – http://fluxrostrum.blogspot.com

  • The Chicken-Poo Reflex...
    31 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Chicken-Poo Reflex...
    People in this country used to have courage - they used to have intestinal fortitude. The United States faced down the Soviet Union, which had millions of men and many thousands of nuclear weapons without cringing or flinching. The United States faced down Adolph Hitler’s Axis Powers and Japan who also had millions of men and millions of weapons systems.
    In neither case did our parents or grandparents poo their pajamas every time someone with a turban showed up. (…)

  • Casey Austin Sheehan: May 29, 1979 - April 04, 2004 by Cindy Sheehan
    31 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, March 31, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
    As far as we can piece things together, March 31st, two years ago is the day that the First Cavalry arrived in Sadr City, a slum in Baghdad, formerly named "Saddam City," Iraq. I say "as far as we can piece together" because we have heard many different stories, but this date seems to be the one that we have heard most often.
    Casey began a letter to us, his family, on April 1, 2004, telling us that he finally had an address where we (…)

  • Walter Mosley’s Search for Context
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Maria Luisa Tucker
    Walter Mosley’s latest monograph, "Life Out of Context," is a cognitive journey that tackles the big questions many of us have furtively attempted to answer. How can we make a difference in a topsy-turvy world where average citizens seem so powerless? What can be done to help the masses of people suffering in poor nations? Is there an effective way for us to individually fight for global justice in a corporatized, corrupted world?
    Mosley invites readers into his (…)