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Convergence Center @ Saint Marks Church, 131 East 10th Street, open from 9am - 6pm. Additional locations to be announced.
We are a generation that wants peace, but for the last four years, we’ve seen only war, terror, occupation.
We are a generation that wants freedom for all of us, but theirs is a government that’s abandoned the very liberties they claim to fight for.
We are a generation that needs quality public schools and affordable universities. But instead of funding our (…)

Four days in California
by Jonathan Steele
In the ocean-fed air and mild August sunshine of America’s most beautiful city, optimism flows easy. But the real mood-lift these past few days was in the windowless conference rooms of two downtown mega-hotels. More than 5,000 American sociologists, plus a few foreign scholars, held their largest and, many said, most vibrant annual convention for years.
Bush and Kerry were campaigning through nearby states. Their soundbites were rarely (…)

As in 2000 campaign, Bush attempts to distance himself from hits against rival
Zachary Coile, Marc Sandalow
Washington — Four years ago, as George Bush struggled in the polls, supporters of his bid for the Republican presidential nomination unleashed a ferocious attack on rival John McCain, questioning his commitment to veterans and his fitness to serve.
After the charges took root, Bush distanced himself from the veterans group that made the attacks, called the Arizona senator’s (…)

Defence for Children International/Palestine Section calls on Israeli authorities to respect the rights of Palestinian child detainees August 24, 2004 Today, Palestinian political prisoners detained inside Israeli prisons are marking the tenth day of an open ended hunger strike in protest of the inhumane conditions in which they are incarcerated. The prisoners are demanding that the prison authorities respect internationally recognized rules governing detention. They insist that (…)

By MATT KELLEY
WASHINGTON - The Navy task force overseeing John Kerry’s swift boat squadron in Vietnam reported that his group of boats came under enemy fire during a March 13, 1969, incident that three decades later is being challenged by the Democratic presidential nominee’s critics.
The March 18, 1969, weekly report from Task Force 115, which was located by The Associated Press during a search of Navy archives, is the latest document to surface that supports Kerry’s description of an (…)

By Donald Macintyre
Psychological and military pressure on insurgents led by by the Shia cleric Muqtada Sadr intensified yesterday with a US bombardment and a ministerial warning that the battle for Najaf was in its "last hours".
As fierce fighting continued in and around Najaf’s old city, Iraqi National Guard troops, who the interim government has said will spearhead an assault on the Imam Ali mosque if it judges one necessary, appeared on the streets here for the first time. (…)

AMMAN - Former US attorney general Ramsey Clark is expected to join a legal team seeking to defend former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein before a special Iraqi tribunal, the panel’s chairman Mohammad Rashdan announced Tuesday.
“Negotiations are going on for Clark’s joining of the team,” Rashdan said, without providing details.
Clark will become one of the distinguished members of the panel, that also includes former French foreign minister Roland Dumas and some 20 prominent Arab and (…)

By SHARON THEIMER
WASHINGTON - A lawyer for President Bush’s re-election campaign disclosed Tuesday that he has been providing legal advice for a veterans group that is challenging Democratic Sen. John Kerry’s account of his Vietnam War service.
Benjamin Ginsberg’s acknowledgment marks the second time in days that an individual associated with the Bush-Cheney campaign has been connected to the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which Kerry accuses of being a front for the Republican (…)

By Joseph Kay
The Justice Department announced on Friday that it is launching a criminal investigation into Riggs Bank. In recent months, the Washington-based bank has become engulfed in a scandal related to charges of money-laundering, corruption and terrorist financing.
Riggs, which touts itself as “the most important bank in the most important city in the world,” has been known for decades as the bank of the Washington elite, including politicians, foreign ambassadors and the wealthy. (…)

The US and its allies are increasingly concerned about Iran’s nuclear program, which Tehran says only serves civilian purposes. If the EU powers and the IAEA fail to secure satisfactory guarantees from Iran, some analysts predict that either the US or Israel may attempt to destroy Iranian nuclear installations through military means.
By Haytham Mouzahem
Iran’s nuclear program was begun in the 1970s under Shah Reza Pahlavi with technical assistance from West Germany, but was interrupted (…)