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  • French students in new rebellion
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Protests and occupations against the right wing government’s CPE labour law swept France’s universities last week. Danièle Obono, a student at the Sorbonne university in Paris and member of the anti-CPE mobilising committee, writes in a personal capacity about the revolt
    Over half of the 82 universities in France are taking part in strike action against the Tory government’s plans. Twenty five universities are in occupation.
    The anti-CPE movement at the Sorbonne started a week ago - we (…)

  • Riots in France - against the government’s youth jobs plan
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Students invade Paris school
    Scores of angry students and other demonstrators invaded one of Paris’ most elite schools on Monday and clashed with police in a new escalation of protests against the government’s youth jobs plan.
    About 200 high school and university students swarmed into the College de France to press their demand that Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin withdraw a plan that they fear will hurt job security.
    The protests came a day after Villepin, hoping to defuse the (…)

  • Chief Joseph and the "Rule of Law"
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop,free to work,free to trade where I choose,free to choose my own teachers,free to follow the religion of my fathers,free to talk, think and react for myself....and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty"...Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.
    Note that the wisdom of this great Native American icon most closely parallels the basic tenets of our US Constitution. Of particular interest is that last statement "I will obey every law...." (…)

  • Sweat Shop Workers Tour US Colleges That Sell Their Products
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    "It would take half our salary to buy one of the sweat shirts we produce," Josefina Hernandez Ponce told students at the University of Virginia on Wednesday night. The classroom was packed to capacity with students in every seat and squeezed in on the floor.
    A flyer passed around showed where the $39.99 paid for a UVA sweatshirt goes ($2.40 in royalties to the university, $0.20 in pay to the workers who made it).
    But that familiar story wasn’t all that Hernandez Ponce (…)

  • The End of Civilization
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The End of Civilization
    Introduction
    I had a mild epiphany the other day: it’s not President Bush who’s living in a fantasy world, it’s most of his critics who are. I’m no apologist for Bush - I neither like nor dislike him. He’s no more significant to me than a fly buzzing around outside my window. So permit me to explain my reasoning.
    People look at Bush’s invasion of Iraq and see a miserable failure. But a failure to do what? Democratize Iraq? Eliminate Iraq’s WMD arsenal? Reduce (…)

  • There Are Criminals, and Then There Are CRIMINALS by Cindy Sheehan
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There Are Criminals, and Then There Are CRIMINALS Written by Cindy Sheehan Friday, 10 March 2006
    As I lie here in bed recuperating from the injuries that I received from a federal agent and the NYPD in front of the US Mission to the UN (USUN) the other day, I have had time to reflect on the experience, the state of our union and its descent into a fascist state.
    When the four of us. Missy Beattie, Rev. Patricia Ackerman, Medea Benjamin, and I, were arrested the other day, I was (…)

  • The erosion of free speech by Robert Fisk
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It was the wrong sort of courage and she was defending the freedom of the wrong people
    03/11/06 "The Independent" — — You’ve got to fight. It’s the only conclusion I can draw as I see the renewed erosion of our freedom to discuss the Middle East. The most recent example - and the most shameful - is the cowardly decision of the New York Theatre Workshop to cancel the Royal Court’s splendid production of My Name Is Rachel Corrie.
    It’s the story - in her own words and emails - of the brave (…)

  • The 48 Hour Media-blitz for War with Iran
    11 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The 48 Hour Media-blitz for War with Iran Mike Whitney March 10, 2006
    In the last 48 hours all the major players in the Bush administration have issued statements warning of the impending danger of Iran.
    Cheney blasted the Islamic regime saying there would be "meaningful consequences" if it refuses to comply with international demands to stop its nuclear program.
    Condoleezza Rice said, "We face no greater challenge from a single country than Iran... This is a country that seems (…)

  • Students and Teachers Unite for Campus Walkout in Protest of War
    11 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    NEW BRITAIN — About a hundred Central Connecticut State University students participated in a walkout Thursday, in protest of federal cuts in student aid and inflation of the military budget. The "M9 Walkout," organized by the Progressive Student Alliance, a student activist group, took place outside the student center one month after Congress passed a budget cutting $12 billion from student loan programs and the same day Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed for a $91 billion spending (…)

  • A Veteran’s Letter to the President: “I Return Enclosed the Symbols of My Years of Service”
    9 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Joseph DuRocher was for 20 years the elected Public Defender of Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit, covering Orange and Osceola counties. Since retirement, he’s been writing and teaching law at the University of Central Florida and the Barry University School of Law. He was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy in the 1960s, serving as a Naval Aviator in the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. On Monday, Mr. DuRocher returned his Lieutenant’s shoulder bars and Navy wings to (…)