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  • Facing Movement for Democracy, SEIU Gives Massachusetts Members to Teachers Union
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ferd Wulkan
    More than 2,000 SEIU members who work for the University of Massachusetts (UMass) left SEIU in late 2005, just as SEIU was leaving the AFL-CIO. What’s most surprising is that SEIU preferred to lose these workers, rather than let them have a democratic local.
    Members on four UMass campuses, in 10 bargaining units, were represented by four different SEIU locals until 2003. Through a top-down reorganization of locals under SEIU’s New Strength Unity Plan, all these units were (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan Ponders Running Against California Senator Dianne Feinstein
    30 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In this photo released by Venezuela’s Miraflores Press, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez greets U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2006. Sheehan, who in Caracas attending the 6th World Social Forum, said Saturday she is strongly considering running for office against U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein because the California lawmaker will not support calls to immediately bring the troops home. (…)

  • WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: A Loud, Multicoloured ’No’ to Imperialism and War
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Humberto Márquez
    CARACAS, Jan 25 (IPS) - Although the sixth World Social Forum grants equal importance to all of the myriad workshops, seminars and other activities taking place this week in the Venezuelan capital and to all of the participating civil society groups and figures, that has not kept some personalities from standing out, like U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son Casey was killed in Iraq.
    "We need to bring our troops home immediately," Sheehan told the (…)

  • Some activists, politicians speaking openly about impeachment
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON - The word "impeachment" is popping up increasingly these days and not just off the lips of liberal activists spouting predictable bumper-sticker slogans.
    After the unfounded claims about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and recent news of domestic spying without warrants, mainstream politicians and ordinary voters are talking openly about the possibility that President Bush could be impeached. So is at least one powerful Republican senator, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman (…)

  • Who Will Tell the People?
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sheila Samples
    - And who will tell the people - that free speech is a ruse; - The corporations run the country - and then they make the news. - Is it media or mind control - heroic victories or crime? - Who will tell the people... - that we are living in these times. - Song by Willie Nelson
    In his essay on "Character" Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." I’ve had such days, many of them through encounters (…)

  • Internet serves as ’social glue’
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The internet has played an important role in the life decisions of 60 million Americans, research shows.
    Whether it be career advice, helping people through an illness or finding a new house, 45% of Americans turn to the web for help, a survey by US-based Pew Internet think-tank has found.
    It set out to find out whether the web and e-mail strengthen social ties.
    The answer seems to be yes, especially in times of crisis when people use it to mobilise their social networks.
    New (…)

  • My Fax to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Concerning a Comment Made by Her in the SF Gate
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
    Washington, D.C. Office
    2371 Rayburn HOB
    Washington, DC 20515
    Phone: (202) 225-4965
    Fax: (202) 225-8259
    Email: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov
    To Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, January 18, 2006
    I was more than surprised to hear your comment concerning any impeachment of President Bush as I read this column in the (January 15th, 2006) edition of the San (…)

  • A New World Is Possible
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    And necessary! This is the theme for the World Social Forum that I (along with tens of thousands of people from all over the world) am attending in Caracas this week. I know the idea of a world where everyone lives in peace and with justice is very "subversive," but the theme is very close to my heart and soul.
    We need a new world. This one is broken.
    Before my son Casey was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004, I had never traveled much to speak of. I had gone to Israel and Mexico (…)

  • Mary MacElveen: Let the second American Revolution begin!
    25 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    To my readers around the globe, this column addresses former US Vice President Al Gore’s speech to the nation in defense of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights ... these documents are the foundations that we as a civil society live by and whereby everyone must live under the rule of law.
    I thought it wise that Al Gore chose to give this speech on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday since he was a moral and just man whose life was cut short by an (…)

  • Was Everything we did a Total Waste of Time?
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Was Everything we did a Total Waste of Time? by Rory Winter
    January 24, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca
    As a peace campaigner from the ’eighties, one of the questions I keep asking myself is: given the imminent threat of nuclear war in the Middle East why is the UK peace movement unable to replicate the effectiveness of the ’80s?
    We can find all kinds of reasons for this, including the mistaken priority that both CND and the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) appear to put on solely organizing (…)