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Today, as Ariel Sharon and George Bush met in the White
House, the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, the
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, and other organizations held a
press conference, rally and civil disobedience action
demanding "Free Palestine."
The Muslim American Society
Freedom Foundation initiated today’s action, at which
Mahdi Bray, the Executive Director of the MAS Freedom
Foundation, and Sarah Friedman, National Outreach
Coordinator for the A.N.S.W.E.R. (…)

The Italian government has confirmed the execution of one of the Italian hostages
in Iraq, 36-year-old Fabrizio Quattrocchi, one of the four Italian security guards
abducted Monday in Iraq.
The Al-Jazeera TV network said Wednesday it received a videotape allegedly showing
the killing, in which the abductors threaten to kill the remaining hostages if
their demands are not met.
Al-Jazeera said it did not broadcast the tape because it was too graphic.
The kidnappers have (…)

http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_friendly_fire_add.html
The US Central Command has issued its investigative report on the attack on Marines at An Nasiriyah by 2 A-10 Warthogs on March 23, 2003. Initially, Americans were told, and US media reported, that the Marines died as a result of Iraqi’s pretending to surrender, and then firing on the Marines. It was then revealed that two A-10’s had attacked the Marines during the worst so-called ’friendly’ fire incident of the war. 18 Marines (…)

NEW YORK — The Army says it will test soldiers
returning from Iraq who fear they might have been
contaminated by depleted uranium.
The action follows the health complaints of soldiers
in the 442nd Military Police Company.
Six members of the company fell ill after returning to
New York from Iraq. They had unexplained rashes,
headaches and blood in their urine, among other
symptoms.
Five tested positive for depleted uranium. The tests
were administered by a private physician when (…)

Independent
Robin Cook The coalition needs to find a model of reconstruction that gives priority to jobs in Iraq over profits in Texas. IT is almost exactly a year since a triumphalist President Bush in combat fatigues swooped on to the deck of an aircraft carrier to announce that "major combat operations" were over in Iraq. Yet for the past week television bulletins have been carrying violent images from Iraq that look suspiciously like major combat operations. Conquering Iraq (…)

WALL STREET JOURNAL
WASHINGTON - More than 60 percent of U.S. corporations didn’t pay any federal taxes for 1996 through 2000, years when the economy boomed and corporate profits soared, the investigative arm of Congress reported.
The disclosures from the General Accounting Office are certain to fuel the debate over corporate tax payments in the presidential campaign. Corporate tax receipts have shrunk markedly as a share of overall federal revenue in recent years, and were particularly (…)

PRAVDA - 04/13/2004 15:31
Last week, American authorities arranged a meeting of the former Iraqi dictator with his wife.
She was the first of Hussein"s relatives to meet with the ex-leader of Iraq at a new place, at the American military base in Qatar. Accompanied by Sheikh Hamad Al-Tani, Sajida Heiralla Tuffah has arrived from Syria on his private jet in the end of March.
The outcome of their meeting turned out to be quite scandalous. Sajina claims that the person she encountered was (…)

[see portside: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portside/message/5731 and http://people-link5.inch.com/pipermail/portsidelist/Week-of-Mon-20040405/005730.html
As a member—though not, perhaps, a representative one—of that younger group of activists who have taken an interest in the Weather Underground and in movement history in general, I’d like to weigh in in this ongoing (and I suspect never-ending) conversation.
I attended a screening of "The Weather Underground" last month at the Chicago (…)

More Than 100 Celebrities Join The March For Women’s Lives Coalition
Our Rights Are Under Attack. The Time to Act is NOW.
The time is right for a public demonstration of historic size in support of abortion rights and reproductive freedom for all women. Our rights are under attack as they haven’t been in over a decade, and Roe v. Wade hangs by a thread in the Supreme Court.
Join NOW in Washington D.C. on April 25, 2004, along with the American Civil Liberties Union, Black Women’s (…)

A Statement by the National Executive Committee of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS) April 12, 2004
Last fall, the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism helped to launch an open letter and petition, "Bush Can Be Stopped: An Open Letter to the Left." Declaring that "the Bush Administration [is] arguably the most right-wing in the nation’s history," it went on to say that: "traditional debates on the left about the value of electoral (…)