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  • March 19: Momentum Builds Across the Country
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    San Francisco, Los Angeles, Fayetteville, New York City, Chicago, New Paltz, your city!
    San Francisco
    The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition demonstration in San Francisco has gained growing support in the recent days and weeks. Tens of thousands will march.
    The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 has called “stop work meetings” to shut down Bay Area and other West Coast ports in solidarity with the International Day of Protests. Labor will be sponsoring a pre-march rally (…)

  • Hazardous assignment
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By H.D.S. Greenway
    ON ONE thing the Italian government and the White House agree. The killing of intelligence officer Nicola Calipari and the wounding of journalist Giuliana Sgrena by American soliders was a ’’horrific accident." But beyond that there is little agreement as to what happened.
    The Americans say the car the Italians were traveling in was going 60 miles an hour. The Italians say it was going 25. The Americans say they gave hand signals, flashed lights, and fired warning (…)

  • Running Red Lights
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Matthew Scott Kelemen
    The children featured in Born into Brothels are growing up fast. Filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman hope to give them some tools to navigate with.
    Was anybody expecting Million Dollar Baby to sweep the Academy Awards? Once Clint Eastwood’s euthanasia drama won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, a consensus began to emerge in the media that Academy voters went sentimental this year. It was even suggested in some (…)

  • Agent Orange lawsuit: an unjust, immoral verdict
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Anh Hieu
    US Judge Jack B. Weinstein’s dismissal on Thursday of the compensation lawsuit by Vietnamese Agent Orange victims was unjust, immoral and an irresponsible denial of the US’s war crimes in Viet Nam.
    And, it signals a new uphill battle for justice for Viet Nam despite the solid body of evidence against the toxin’s devastating effects on the land and generation-after-generation of Vietnamese people.
    Judge Weinstein claimed the documents presented in the New York Court were not (…)

  • Let’s Stop the Republican Debt Slavery Act in the House
    13 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Many progressives are mourning the failure of Senate Democrats to filibuster the Republican Debt Slavery Act of 2005, commonly known as the Bankruptcy Bill.
    As Mother Jones said, Don’t Mourn, Organize!
    Let’s stop the Republican Debt Slavery Act dead in the House.
    What’s that I hear out there? Is someone insisting, "House Democrats can’t stop Tom DeLay’s brutal legislative steamroller!"
    The hell we can’t.
    House Republicans are already running for their lives over Social Security (…)

  • Save Democracy, Shut Off Chris Matthews
    13 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D
    Sound the alarm! America, the land of the free, is now under attack, not by Al Qaeda, not by Iraqi "insurgents," not by an enemy confronted on foreign soil; not even by one that homeland security could ever stop. It is an insidious, invisible assailant, more hidden than a terrorist cell. It is one that invades virtually every American household on a daily basis without leaving a trace of its deceitful, dangerous nature. Its whores, draped in dignified apparel, sit (…)

  • They Let it Happen
    13 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let’s face it. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to put the evidence together. They Let it happen. 9-11 was not only preventable, but allowed to happen.
    Let me begin by asking a question: If you were President of the United States on September 11th, would you initiate an investigation to determine what security lapses had occurred to allow such a tragedy to unfold? Of course you would. The only reason you would try to prevent an investigation is if you had something to hide. If your house (…)

  • Help Senator Stevens Retire : Fax Congress to keep Arctic Refuge drilling out of the budget
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Natural Resources Defense Council is organizing to Tell Congress to keep Arctic Refuge drilling out of the budget
    Stevens says it may be his last try at ANWR
    Washington, D.C. - A Senate vote on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge next week could have more than just an effect on energy development or conservation efforts. What happens next week may affect the political future of Alaska’s senior senator, Ted Stevens.
    He’s been nicknamed “senator for (…)

  • 400 Disabled Veterans Raise Hell At Congressional Hearings On VA Budget
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes
    WASHINGTON - Hundreds of disabled veterans booed and jeered Republican House members on Tuesday for their budget proposal for veterans’ health care, which critics call inadequate to deal with the future needs of current troops.
    Following testimony before a pair of congressional committees by officials from the Disabled American Veterans, or DAV, the crowd of more than 400 wounded and disabled veterans cheered House members who criticized the (…)

  • Kucinich Demands Investigation Of Missing $9 Billion- Instead We Get An Investigation of Steroid Use
    12 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), the Ranking Member on the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, today demanded a broad investigation of the $9 billion in missing reconstruction funds in Iraq, including a criminal investigation and Congressional hearings.
    Kucinich will send two letters today calling for a full investigation into the missing $9 billion in funds in Iraq. One letter will be sent to (…)