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  • E-voting Issue Splits League of Women Voters
    13 June 2004

    By Rachel Konrad
    http://www.ap.org/ or http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0610-08.htm
    We think the league has in some way failed us. I can’t remember an issue that has gotten members so upset. Genevieve Katz, 74, a member of the Oakland, Calif.chapter
    A battle over electronic voting is threatening the cohesion of the nonpartisan League of Women Voters, whose national leadership is refusing to endorse demands by hundreds of mem for a paper trail to guard against fraud, hackers and (…)

  • Film and Election Politics Cross in ’Fahrenheit 9/11’
    13 June 2004

    By Michael Finnegan
    June 11, 2004, Los Angeles Times
    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0611-02.htm
    There are movie campaigns and there are presidential campaigns, and usually you can tell the difference. One features a red carpet, the other a war room.
    But "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore’s scathing new documentary about President Bush, has both.
    Its release later this month appears to mark the first time that a film slamming a major presidential candidate has opened on (…)

  • Australia’s withdrawal from Iraq to be a political disaster: Powell
    13 June 2004

    US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that it would be a political disaster if Australian troops were taken out of Iraq.
    Powell was echoing US President George W Bush’s criticism on Australian Labor Party leader Mark Latham’s policy that Australian troops would withdraw from Iraq by Christmas if Labor wins the federal election later this year.
    Latham’s call for an early troops withdrawal from Iraq came at a time when the US-led coalition forces faced repeated terrorist (…)

  • Israeli Military Started Demolishing Homes in Northwestern Jerusalem
    13 June 2004

    By ISM Biddu Saturday [Biddu, NW Jerusalem] The Israeli military gave its first order for a house demolition in the village of Beit Surik four weeks ago. Members of surrounding communities gathered to show support for the el-Sheakhs, a family of 12 spanning four generations. The house, which Zaenb el-Sheakh and her husband built, received an Israeli license in 1985. The demolition notice ordered that construction of the house’s upper floor be reversed within seven days, claiming that it (…)

  • Photo reportages:
    NO WAR NO BUSH!
    Rome, June 4
    12 June 2004

    REPORTAGE No War No Bush!
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    Rome, June 4 "The Pink day"
    http://www.forumdelteatro.org/article.php3?id_article=71
    157 PHOTOS in 2 galleries
    1) No War No Bush!: copyleft reportage
    2) 06.04.2004 The Pink day dalle reti, a cura della redazione
    a quelli che volevano un altro giorno di guerra
    m.b. per la redazione di forumdelteatro.org
    http://www.forumdelteatro.org

  • Ollie North Skips the Gips Funeral
    12 June 2004

    In the article below North explains why he skipped the "gippers" funeral but is sure he and Reagan will meet in heaven someday! These fuckers are truly sick and deluded. North, Reagan’s fall guy in the Iran-Gate contra scandal and a big time gangster with the US national secret security or SS mob, is one of the many examples of real criminals running lose in America today. His reward — he gets a TV show while other elite criminals get top jobs in the administration. But hey, the (…)

  • Reagan, Race and Remembrance
    12 June 2004

    http://www.blackcommentator.com/94/94_wise_reagan.html
    by Tim Wise
    If one needs any more evidence that whites and people of color live in two totally different places, politically and psychically, one need only look at the visual evidence provided by the death of Ronald Reagan.
    More to the point, all one needs to know about this man and his Presidency can be gleaned by looking even haphazardly at the racial and ethnic makeup of the crowds flocking to his ranch, or his library to pay (…)

  • Ray Charles - ’The Genius’ Leaves an Indelible Mark
    12 June 2004

    ’The Genius’ Put His Stamp on Music, From Soul to Country
    By Richard Cromelin and Randy Lewis, Times Staff Writers
    http://www.latimes.com/la-me-charles11jun11,1,3070688.story
    Ray Charles, the musical innovator whose bold, effortless fusions left an indelible mark on the rock, soul and country music of the past half-century, died Thursday at his Beverly Hills home. He was 73.
    The cause of death was complications of liver disease, according to his publicist, Jerry Digney.
    The (…)

  • Blair suffers severe electoral drubbing over Iraq
    12 June 2004

    Severe election blow for Labour
    · Labour loses 211 council seats
    · Tories +101, Lib Dems +67
    Hélène Mulholland, Tom Happold and agencies
    http://politics.guardian.co.uk/elections2004/story/0,14549,1236480,00.html
    Tony Blair suffered a drubbing today as Labour limped into third place in the local elections, losing control of at least eight councils.
    With about half of the results declared, Labour has lost over 200 councillors, with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats both (…)

  • NLRB to rule on legality of UAW method of organizing unions
    12 June 2004

    By JOHN GALLAGHER , Knight Ridder Newspapers
    http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11909777&BRD=1699&PAG=461&dept_id=46377&rfi=6>
    The Morning Journal (Cleveland)
    DETROIT — The National Labor Relations Board sent a strong signal this week what a second term for President George W. Bush in the White House might look like.
    In what could be a blow to the United Auto Workers and other unions, the Republican-majority NLRB said it would decide whether to curtail a (…)