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  • Labor Day Weekend: The Great American Campout at Camp Casey
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ben Frank
    Monday 22 August 2005
    Ann Wright announced tonight that Caravans will be leaving Camp Casey in different directions August 31st heading to Washington, stopping all over the country to organize for the March on Washington on September 24th.
    Why?
    Labor Day is a huge travel holiday... why not advertise Crawford, Texas as the site of the Great American Campout this Labor Day Weekend. I don’t know for sure, but in all likelihood our vacationing President will stay thru the (…)

  • The mood in America is shifting against the Iraq war, but it has found inadequate expression in Congress
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Leaderless on the left
    by Gary Younge
    The myth of Rosa Parks is well known. The tired seamstress who boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955 and refused to give up her seat to a white man has become one of the most enduring legends of the civil rights era. Her subsequent arrest started the bus boycott that launched the civil rights movement. It transformed the apartheid of America’s southern states from a local idiosyncrasy to an international scandal and turned a (…)

  • British MP George Galloway Announces September Tour of United States
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PRESS RELEASE: Galloway Tour
    British MP George Galloway Announces September Tour of United States to Speak Against War in Iraq
    George Galloway is Respect party MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in East London. He recently electrified the United States with his appearance at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on May 17, when he turned the proceedings intoa condemnation of the war in Iraq.
    CNN’s Wolf Blitzer described Galloway’s speech in the Senate as "a blistering (…)

  • Statement of Protest and Solidarity with Northwest Strikers
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Statement of Protest and Solidarity with Northwest Strikers
    Submitted to Portside by Peter Rachleff
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    Sisters and Brothers:
    As I am sure you know, 4,400 mechanics, cleaners, and custodians represented by the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association have been on strike for 4 days at Northwest Airlines. The issues they are facing will soon face all of us. They have dug in for a substantial fight and they intend to win, despite NWA’s "preparations" which have been lauded on page (…)

  • 15 Muslims, Cleared of Terrorism Charges, Remain at Guantanamo With Nowhere to Go
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Chinese Detainees Are Men Without a Country
    By Robin Wright
    In late 2003, the Pentagon quietly decided that 15 Chinese Muslims detained at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could be released. Five were people who were in the wrong place at the wrong time, some of them picked up by Pakistani bounty hunters for U.S. payoffs. The other 10 were deemed low-risk detainees whose enemy was China’s communist government — not the United States, according to senior U.S. officials.
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  • The War of Error
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Manuel Valenzuela, www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    “September 11, 2001, Independence Day for all Oppressed Peoples” Anonymous Graffiti sprayed on wall in Plaza Real, Barcelona, Spain, 2003
    To understand the above mentioned quote in the context of the so-called “war on terror” one must rise above the incessant government/corporate media haze of all-encompassing propaganda that has permeated our society, causing us to become confused energies lost in the consuming darkness of (…)

  • The War Culture
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    Demonstrably flying away from the fraternity of nations has not been achieved solely by the recriminations of the worst president in living memory. Rather, this phenomenon has lingered in the American conscious for the last fifty years, evolving slowly but surely thanks to a rapidly evolving Pax Americana and its exponentially growing exploitation of the world’s remaining natural and human resources that continues to increase at unprecedented rates. This (…)

  • Abu Ghraib General Karpinski: Rumsfeld authorized abuse
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Abu Ghraib General Karpinski: Rumsfeld authorized abuse
    Abu Ghraib General Lambastes Bush Administration
    By Marjorie Cohn
    I had been hesitant to speak out before because this Administration is so vindictive. But now I will...Anybody who confronts this Administration or Rumsfeld or the Pentagon with a true assessment, they find themselves either out of a job, out of their positions, fired, relieved or chastised. Their career comes to an end. Janis Karpinski, interview with Marjorie (…)

  • Free Bullshit Deflectors!
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The downloads for the above design are found below.
    The "Bullshit Protector" flaps are a great way to protect yourself from GOP or punditry bullshit and spin, when spewed by the likes of George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, or even your local home-grown GOP wingnuts. It was inspired by Bill Moyer, a 73 year old vet, who was seen wearing "Bullshit Protector" flaps over his ears while Bush addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Donelly Idaho.
    – http://www.canada.com/national/nati...
    Step 1 (…)

  • Why Pat Robertson isn’t treated as a terrorist
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We really do know why Pat Robertson won’t be treated as a terrorist. It’s for the same reason Bush’s former Attorney General of the United States could tell a group of decent, honest, hard-working American Muslims that they should count themselves lucky they weren’t being treated the way Japanese Americans were during World War II. It’s for the same reason that Bush protects a mass murderer named Luis Posada Carriles from extradition and trial. It’s for the same reason that American troops (…)