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Save Our Votes March
"From SELMA to WASHINGTON: 40 Years Marching For Our Voting Rights"
Jan. 4th, 2005 through Jan. 6th, 2005
Baltimore MD to Washington DC
Begins Tuesday at 10AM, January 4th, Arrives Thursday January 6th at the Rally to Defend Democracy at the Federal Capitol in Washington DC.
51capitalmarch is sponsoring Save Our Votes March, From Selma to Ohio to Washington a re-enactment the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March for voting rights. The following is a brief description (…)

The Defend Democracy Rally and Vigil is planned for Washington, DC, on January
6th, the day the two houses of Congress meet in joint session to select the next
president of the United States.
It is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.,
Upper Senate Park. "Make some noise and show the world how .... many of us there are!"
Please join ReDefeatBush and the We Do Not Concede Coalition on 1/6/05
outside the U.S. Capitol as we cheer on and then honor the leaders of the Constitutional (…)

In the Saudi government daily Al-Watan, a n article from Brussels written by Fakhriya Ahmad charges that, based on alleged secret European military reports, the U.S. military in Iraq is harvesting and selling human organs. The following day, the story was also published in the Iranian daily Jomhouri-ye Islami, [1] as well as the Syrian daily Teshreen. [2] The following are excerpts from the article: [3] "Secret European military intelligence reports indicate the (…)

Havana, December 25 (RHC) — Cuban Parliamentary sessions concluded on Friday in Havana with the presence of President Fidel Castro and with the approval of the budget and economic and social guidelines for 2005.
A total of 10.5 billion pesos will be earmarked for education, health and social assistance, culture, sports, sciences and technology - 68 percent of expenditures included in the budget.
Education (4.1 billion pesos), health and new programs to improve medical and assistance (…)

Paris, December 25 (RHC)-France has outlawed the use of sexist and homophobic insults in legislation that places such insults in the same category as racist or anti-Semitic hatred.
On Friday, the French Parliament effectively made any public insult that attacks a person’s gender or sexual orientation a punishable offense with a maximum fine of €45,000 or one year in jail.
The legislation is an attempt to curb what authorities see as increasing homophobia and verbal violence against (…)

By Jackson Thoreau
WASHINGTON - In only his 17th press conference on Monday, Bush appeared to admit that not even the people around him are very smart, while giving another quip that didn’t make grammatical sense. "I’m going to find somebody who knows something about intelligence," Bush said, "and capable and honest and ready to do the job." On the budget, he said, "We will submit a budget that fits the times. It will provide every tool and resource to the military, will protect the (…)

UFPJ joins Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition in organizing Jan. 3 Pro-Democracy/Count Every Vote Rally
On Election Day, problems throughout Ohio were reported all day long. In the days and weeks that followed, people throughout the state continued to point to many irregularities in the presidential vote. The voting machines were susceptible to glitches, mistakes and hacking, and even the Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell (who chaired the Ohio Bush-Cheney election campaign) admitted (…)

The DC Anti-War Network (DAWN) has called for a permitted anti-war rally and march, and it has called separately for nonviolent civil disobedience die-ins to draw attention to the dead at the hands of the Bush Administration. These actions have been called for January 20, 2005. We invite the entire world to participate in these events, which have been endorsed by Unite for Peace and Justice
DAWN has applications and has general assurances from the authorities for permits for march and (…)

"For the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling silently under our violence,
I cannot be silent." Martin Luther King Jr.
Speak Out, Bring the troops Home
Billed as the largest Martin Luther King Jr. march in the United States, this
annual event draws upward of 30,000 participants, gathering at City Park and
proceeding to Civic Center Park for a rally.

A letter from Santa
By David Martin
G.W. Bush
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear Georgie,
I’m glad to hear you have been a good boy this year. I got a lot of letters from other children who said you had been naughty. They were sure you were moving back to Texas soon or someplace even hotter. But apparently they were mistaken because your address hasn’t changed.
I see that the top thing on your Christmas list is 50,000 GI Joes. That’s a lot of soldiers, Georgie. I don’t think (…)