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  • It is not only Iraq that is occupied. America is too
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My country is in the grip of a president surrounded by thugs in suits
    by Howard Zinn
    It has quickly become clear that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country. We became familiar with that term during the second world war. We talked of German-occupied France, German-occupied Europe. And after the war we spoke of Soviet-occupied Hungary, Czechoslovakia, eastern Europe. It was the Nazis, the Soviets, who occupied countries. The United States liberated them from occupation. (…)

  • Mon. Aug 15 - Cindy Sheehan Solidarity Day
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cindy Sheehan Solidarity Day!
    MONDAY - AUGUST 15 In NYC - Rally in Union Sq. 5:00 pm
    Join us Monday, August 15 to stand in Solidarity with Cindy Sheehan!
    1) Monday August 15 - Cindy Sheehan Solidarity Day 2) Update on Cindy Sheehan 3) What you can do Monday - August 15 - Solidarity with Cindy Sheehan
    Cindy Sheehan is camped out in the hot desert sun, speaking out about the occupations of Iraq and Palestine and demanding answers from the criminal regime that killed her son along with (…)

  • Area mother joining the fray in Bush country
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Barb Ickes, Quad-City Times
    A couple of books on tape, a cell phone and some junk food are the only things keeping Caryn Unsicker company on the long road.
    The Silvis, Ill., woman set out Wednesday morning on a 1,000-mile pilgrimage from her home to President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. She probably won’t get but a few miles from the entrance to the sprawling retreat.
    But she has to go.
    Unsicker won’t know until she gets there today how many other mothers from across the (…)

  • No End in Sight in Iraq
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By BOB HERBERT
    The news coming out of Iraq yesterday was that several more American soldiers had been killed. August’s toll so far has been mind-numbing. For American troops, it’s been one of the worst periods of the war. And yet there’s still no sense of urgency within the Bush administration.
    The president is on vacation. He’s down at the ranch riding his bicycle and clearing brush. The death toll for Americans has streaked past the 1,800 mark. The Iraqi dead are counted by the tens of (…)

  • AFL-CIO Leader Reaches Out to Affiliates
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By WILL LESTER
    WASHINGTON — AFL-CIO President John Sweeney proposed Wednesday allowing affiliates of several breakaway national unions to continue working with the labor federation locally.
    After the Teamsters and the service workers union split from the AFL-CIO in late July, Sweeney announced that the federation’s constitution would not allow them to have any role in groups like state labor federations and central organizing councils — groups that are key to local unions’ political (…)

  • Don’t Believe the Hype : Howard Dean and the PDA
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By JOSHUA FRANK
    After all they have been through, they still don’t get it. The Democrats are as inept a political opposition as George W. Bush is at running his daddy’s oil companies. DNC Chairman Howard Dean has just finished a long 30-state trip across the country, during which he met with thousands of enthusiastic Democrats looking for some way to challenge the Republican Party.
    "There are Democrats everywhere," Dean exclaimed in Vermont on August 8 at the finale of his barn-storming (…)

  • For Whom the Bell Tolls: Camp Casey’s Newest Recruits
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No man is an island, entire of itself...any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
    John Donne
    No woman is an island either. Even if she’s a powerhouse of a woman named Cindy Sheehan. This diary is a collection of news clippings to celebrate some of those who’ve heard the bell toll, and are now answering its call by descending on Camp Casey.
    First, a good introduction: The Chattanoogan (…)

  • Camp Casey protest grows to 705! Rumors of pending arrests false
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    William Pitt is blogging live at truthout
    The sun is finally beginning to set behind a small line of trees, and the crowd has begun to thin out. The official count for today’s gathering was 705, not counting press. Given the fact that we are in a drainage ditch by the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, that is a great number.
    It will grow tomorrow again.
    Thursday 11 August 2005 6:34 PM
    Update: the Saturday rally at the Peace House will be at noon, Texas time. (…)

  • I’m not budging, says soldier’s mother camped at Bush’s door
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From Tom Baldwin in Crawford, Texas
    GEORGE BUSH loves his Prarie Chapel Ranch in Crawford so much that he has spent almost one fifth of his presidency “taking the pulse of the heartlands” in this big-buckled, open - if not red - necked, beef-eating corner of Texas.
    He knows this enthusiasm is not shared by everyone but apparently delights in forcing aides, journalists and, yesterday, even Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld, to do a stint of ranch duty. “I just checked in (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan : the Peaceful Occupation of Camp Crawford (Day 5)
    12 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan
    Today started at 4am when the rain started blowing into my tent and my head and my feet started getting soaked then thunder and lightening came over my tent. I was really frightened for my life, so I abandoned ship and went into Crawford.
    By the time we made our way through the floods and got into Crawford, I had a fever, sore throat, and bad headache. So I was made to rest and not have any interviews until noon.
    We had a little bit of trouble with locals today. We are (…)