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  • The King who led on world peace
    3 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    ONE OF the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous speeches was his April 4, 1967, condemnation of the Vietnam War. He said America could never end poverty at home as long as ’’adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube."
    King confessed in his speech that it took him two years to ’’break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart." A prior, 1965 declaration that (…)

  • A ghost is haunting Mexico: the ghost of the EZLN
    2 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Boris Leonardo Caro, La Zezta
    A number of Mexican news agencies have reported the statements of Luis H. Álvarez, the Mexican government’s peace commissioner in Chiapas, regarding the supposed inexistence of the EZLN as a group. Below, an article from La Jornada newspaper:
    The EZLN no longer exists as a group, Luis H. Alvarez affirms The peace commissioner for Chiapas, Luis H. Alvarez, asserted that the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) no longer exists as a group, and said (…)

  • Fascism as it was in Italy
    2 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My wife was born in Italy,and grew up attending school with Mussolini’s daughter. Members of her family had different opinions about the government, but dissention was tolerated. None of the anti government voices were silenced. Nobody was beaten or kicked with jackboots.
    I point this out because of the Cindy Sheehan controversy. My wife assures me that many citizens of Italy during WW II were opposed to losing their sons in war, and speaking out was not considered a crime. IF T-shirts had (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan went too Far in Comparing Clinton to Bush
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Mary MacElveen
    Today, someone sent me in an email the following quote made by Cindy Sheehan: ’And about Bill Clinton . . . . You know, I really think he should have been impeached, but not for a blow job. His policies are responsible for killing more Iraqis that George Bush. I don’t understand why to rise to the level of being president of my country one has to be a monster. I used to say that George Bush was defiling the Oval Office, but it’s been held by a long line of monsters" But (…)

  • Activist Sheehan arrested in House gallery
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GOP congressman says his wife was also ordered to leave
    WASHINGTON Peace activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Tuesday in the House gallery after refusing to cover up a T-shirt bearing an anti-war slogan before President Bush’s State of the Union address.
    According to a blog post on Michael Moore’s Web site attributed to Sheehan, the T-shirt said, "2,245 Dead. How many more?" — a reference to the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq.
    "She was asked to cover it up. She did not," said Sgt. (…)

  • Anti War Album - "Hypnotize" by System Of A Down : A review
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The quick review of System Of A Down’s "Hypnotize" is that this album is a masterpiece. This group of very talented and extremely intelligent individuals have just put themselves into the history books. The message shared is to educate ourselves, to learn that we are free, and to resist corporate laws disguised as protection from invisible enemies. This is done eloquently in operatic form by two vocal talents, each with dual personalities, and delivered with force while riding on a crest of (…)

  • What Really Happened
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear Friends,
    As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union Address tonight.
    I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country.
    There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press. (Shocker) So this is what really happened:
    This afternoon at the People’s State of the Union Address in DC where I was joined by Congresspersons Lynn Woolsey and John Conyers, Ann Wright, Malik Rahim and John (…)

  • State of the Union: Cindy Sheehan Arrested for "Unlawful Conduct" - Wearing an Antiwar T-shirt
    1 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested in the House chamber on Tuesday shortly before President Bush gave his State of the Union address because she refused to cover up an anti-war slogan on her shirt.
    Sheehan, who was attending the speech as the guest of Democratic Rep. Lynn Woolsey of California, was taken from the Capitol in handcuffs and charged with unlawful conduct, said Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider.
    A Reuters photographer said Sheehan entered the (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan: “Bush’s Presidency Is Illegitimate!”
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington, D.C. - Cindy Sheehan is back in town! I’m sure that big bully in the White House, President George W. Bush, will be shaking in his cowboy boots when he hears that news. When Sheehan, the popular anti-Iraq War activist, showed up at Crawford, Texas, last summer, Bush refused to meet with her. He seemed cowed by her mere presence at a vigil (a/k/a “Camp Casey”) so close to his once-secluded ranch. Sheehan was then demanding a face-to-face meeting with the Spymaster Bush, whose (…)

  • World Social Forum: Series of Global Protests to Begin in March
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Humberto Márquez
    CARACAS- A day of international protests against the occupation of Iraq, on Mar. 18, will mark the start of a series of demonstrations and mobilisations organised at the sixth World Social Forum, which ended Sunday in Venezuela.
    A conference against the U.S. occupation of Iraq will be held Mar. 24-27 in Cairo, Egypt, announced the international Assembly of Social Movements, which met on the final day of the WSF in Caracas.
    Some 2,200 civil society organisations (…)