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  • Land of ‘Murka’
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An Inside Look at George W. Bush’s “Murka”
    By Manuel Valenzuela
    Decline and Decrepitude
    "Information Clearing House" - - From the highest mountains to the lowest valleys a great energy has gone missing from the land once known as America, its pulsating and vibrant warmth no longer felt as the enveloping mist of the last four years spreads far and wide, from sea to shining sea, penetrating every porous cavity of escape. An energy of positive realms and humanist inclinations has been (…)

  • March 19 Global Day of Action
    8 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Quote of the Week from George Bush on the incompatability of foreign occupation and the holding of free and democratic elections: Bush insisted in his March 5 Radio Address: "that Lebanon’s sovereignty be respected and that all foreign forces be withdrawn, and that free and fair elections be conducted without foreign influence."
    Seven weeks ago tens of thousands of people demonstrated on the very first day of Bush’s second term of office. The Counter Inaugural protests in Washington D.C., (…)

  • The Man Who Fought for the Forgotten
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Peter Benenson 1921-2005 Founder of Amnesty International
    by Antony Barnett
    There are not many newspaper articles that can genuinely claim to have changed the world for the better. But on Sunday, 28 May 1961, The Observer published a campaigning piece on the front of its Weekend Review section.
    The article was entitled ’The Forgotten Prisoners’ and it was by Peter Benenson, a 33-year old Eton-educated London lawyer.
    Benenson had been angered after learning about two Portuguese (…)

  • Activist Angela Davis Urges Examination of "New Racisms" at Vanderbilt Lecture
    25 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Anna Thompson
    Racism is not static. The racism we encountered in the civil rights era is not the same racism we encounter today. Now most people recognize it is not acceptable to explicitly support white supremacy, that is not to say they do not support it implicitly. The point I want to make is that just because the law no longer provides for the overt expression of racism does not mean that racism is not a major factor in our contemporary lives.
    I remember in the 60’s I was (…)

  • Remembering Malcolm X in the Place Where He Fell
    24 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By COREY KILGANNON
    Ilyasah Shabazz, 42, the third-eldest daughter of Malcolm X, stared across the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights at the spot where her father was assassinated in front of her 40 years ago today.
    She looked at the area that had held a stage where his body lay riddled with bullets and pointed to the spot where she, almost 3 years old, was sitting in a banquette with two of her sisters and her mother, Betty Shabazz, pregnant with twins.
    Feb. 21, 1965, was a Sunday, (…)

  • The Evolution of Revolution: Part II of III: Where Flags Do Not Rise
    18 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Part I - Part III
    Imagine
    Imagine there’s no heaven, It’s easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people living for today...
    Imagine there’s no countries, It isn’t hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, No religion too, Imagine all the people living life in peace...
    Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people Sharing all the world...
    You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the (…)

  • Susan Sontag, writer, political activist and anti-Bush campaigner, dies at 71
    31 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Andrew Buncombe
    Susan Sontag, the writer and activist who loudly criticised US foreign policy and military action in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks, died yesterday morning in New York. She was 71 and had been suffering for some time from leukaemia.
    "I can confirm she passed away this morning," said a spokeswoman at the city’s Sloan Kettering hospital, declining to give more details.
    Sontag, the daughter of a fur trader, wrote 17 books, including the influential 1964 study (…)

  • It’s Time to Stop Being Hit...a letter from Michael Moore
    15 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Moore
    Dear Friends,
    It is no surprise that the Republicans are sore winners. They have spent the better part of the past month beating their chests, threatening to send to Siberia any Republican who doesn’t toe the line (poor Arlen Specter), and promising everything short of martial law if the Democrats don’t do what they are told.
    What’s worse is to watch the pathetic sight of the DLC (the conservative, pro-corporate group of Democrats) apologizing for being Democrats and (…)

  • The Inevitable Triumph of Progressive Thought
    8 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Manuel Valenzuela
    If the sands of time and the passing of the seasons tell humanity anything, it is the inevitable push forward that drives our species, the collective tidal wave surging us away from the darkness of archaic thought and past conservative ideology, and into realms of evolution and progress. For evolution of society and thought is as inevitable as that of nature and Earth, a construct of universal energy pushing life forward, not backwards, towards betterment, not (…)

  • Welcome to the revolution!
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Welcome to the revolution! It is a spiritual revolution.
    A revolution of the Spirit.
    A revolution for freedom: spiritual freedom, American freedom, Constitutional freedom, personal freedom. Freedom from the bondage that has insidiously and violently gripped our nation and our world. Bondage of lies, deception and hatred borne out of the distorted minds and hearts of men and women we believed in. Men and women we elected to the highest offices in this land, sacred offices.
    Their (…)