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  • Let’s Stop a US/Israeli War on Iran
    8 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s More Important Than Halting Nuclear Proliferation
    by Bill Christison and Kathleen Christison
    January 1, 2006 Counterpunch
    The peace movements of the entire world should be in crisis mode right now, working non-stop to prevent the U.S. and Israel from starting a war against Iran. (See the James Petras article in CounterPunch on December 24, 2005 titled Iran in the Crosshairs for the best summary of the present situation.) The reckless and unnecessary dangers arising from such a war (…)

  • International Campaign for the Immediate Release of WTO Political Prisoners
    7 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    (Sponsoring organizations: Korean Struggle Mission---Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, Korean Peasants League, and Korean Catholic Farmers Association---Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, Hong Kong People’s Alliance, and Via Campesina)
    Background
    During the 6th World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference that was held in Hong Kong from December 13 to 18, 2005, thousands of participants representing trade unions and labor rights groups, peasant’s, civil society, migrant (…)

  • The Opposite of Good is Apathy
    6 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    "The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead." William Lord Garrison
    The apathy of most of America is stunning and appalling to me. When I found this quote I was filled with wide-eyed wonder that there is one statue left in America complete with statue, or one grave or tomb still occupied.
    On October 26th, as MoveOn.org was holding its candlelight vigils across the country to mourn the death of the 2000 th (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan urges Hawaii to Unite to Stop the War in Iraq and Impeach Bush
    5 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Peace activist Cindy Sheehan urged a standing-room-only crowd at the Church of the Crossroads last night to unite to stop the war in Iraq, impeach President Bush and "see justice" for those killed since the war started in 2003.
    "If you don’t want the war machine to invade your island, don’t let it happen," said Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son died in Iraq and who gained international attention for staging an anti-war demonstration outside Bush’s ranch in Texas.
    "Anybody can do what I do. (…)

  • The Army of Good Americans
    5 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Taken from: www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    Marching Forward
    Festering in our midst like a toxic cloud of pollution the army of good Americans exists, living and working among us, inhabiting our neighborhoods and cities, co-existing peacefully with us, though perceiving an utterly different conception of reality than the rest of us. Their numbers, though dwindling more every day with the almost weekly revelations of corporatist lies built upon corporatist lies and government (…)

  • New "Patriot" Act Creates American Gestapo
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hitler had the brownshirts- his Gestapo that went around the country taking out dissenters. The New "Patriot" Act creates a new American Gestapo: (Section 605)
    There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the `United States Secret Service Uniformed Division’. Subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Homeland Security...
    The new USSSUD will be in DC, but also everywhere Bush travels, or former Presidents, or heads of state, or even at events (…)

  • Friends Don’t Let Friends Commit War Crimes
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "You’re like an ambassador for peace," a Spanish journalist told me as we finished one of the dozens of interviews I gave in Europe. I did this interview right before I went to urge the Spanish Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs to oppose the war more strenuously.
    In reality, I did feel like an ambassador for peace as I traveled around Europe for 16 days in December.
    The Mayor of London held a reception in honor of our peace efforts at the new and very modern City Hall, near the (…)

  • WHAT LABOR CAN’T SAY
    3 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Aldon Morris and Dan Clawson
    What kind of labor writing gets suppressed in the U.S. today? Apparently it doesn’t take much.
    We wrote an article on "Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement for Building a Worker Rights Movement" whose last paragraph said:
    Finally, a fundamental question faces workers today: do they have the courage to get up off their knees and confront powerful employers and corporations? A movement requires moral authority and enormous sacrifices by its participants (…)

  • Happy New Year from Sydney Indymedia
    30 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Krude Going Under
    I’m going under, going under, and I can’t turn round!
    – http://www.dump.com/nqmp/thesmokingbums
    Related:
    2005 in Review
    No More War! & Repeal Draconian Laws!
    Rave Mission and Gimme a Sign
    See the movie trailer
    – http://www.dump.com/trir/gimmeasign
    2005 in Review2
    Revolution 30A
    Revolution inc and Corporate Greed
    See the movie trailer
    – http://www.dump.com/beyw/corporate-greed

  • The Carnival of Values and the Exchange Value of Carnival
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    In this issue of The Commoner we are beginning to clear a path (or maybe several paths) out of the dust emerging from the front line, and try to make sense of what is the reason for the smoke and sparks. We see a strange phenomenon occurring: what we practice is often not what we value and what we value is often not what we practice (and in saying this let us not forget that “practice” means many diverse things: work, shopping, eating, filling forms, writing, taking the train, watching the (…)