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Press release for email distribution For Immediate Release March 8, 2004
Contact: Sarah Sloan or Brian Becker 202-544-3389, 212-633-6646
A delegation from the United States met twice today with overthrown Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Bangui, Central African Republic. Following the first meeting, President Aristide held a news conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and then conducted a 30-minute phone interview in English with Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now. (…)

Action Alert By Pat Fry
Date: Sunday, March 7, 2004
Special to Portside
After months of fundraising efforts by the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, a full page ad in support of five Cuban nationals who were wrongly convicted and serving life sentences appeared in last Wednesday’s issue of the New York Times. The ad broke the news media silence on the case one week before a team of defense lawyers including the famed Leonard Weinglass present arguments before a Court of (…)

On International Women’s Day, Iraqi Women Have Little to Celebrate
by Medea Benjamin
Published on Monday, March 8, 2004 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0308-01.htm
On March 8, 2003, international women’s day, Iraqi women had little to celebrate. They were living under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, the weight of onerous UN sanctions and living in fear of impending war. This year, Saddam Hussein is gone and sanctions have been lifted. But Iraqi women face (…)

http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm
With no end in sight to the horribly misguided and damaging ’War on Terrorism’, it is increasingly urgent to recognize the effects of war on women. There can be no true peace while the pandemic of violence against women continues, a pandemic that is greatly exacerbated by militarism. Making the connection between militarism and violence against women is critical to ending the siege of violence under which all women live.
The theory of Power Over an ’other’ (…)

By Nancy Lessin and Gordon Clark,
President Bush’s rationale for taking us to war in Iraq has crumbled. The truth about supposed Iraqi weapons of mass destruction is being told. At the same time, another truth remains hidden by the Bush administration: the 550 troops who have returned from Iraq in caskets and the thousands returning with severe physical and psychological damage.
The military planes carrying human remains fly into Dover Air Force Base in Delaware under cover of darkness. (…)

National Conference of Black Lawyers Blasts Kidnapping of Aristide
The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) expresses its maximum outrage and disgust with the imperialist, lawless and brutal campaign of terrorism that has been inflicted on the people of Haiti by the Bush Administration. According to reports, the United States has resorted to the methods of petty gangsters by kidnapping Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide at gunpoint, orchestrating a coup and forcing the (…)

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1153513,00.html
Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war · Britain will be ’Siberian’ in less than 20 years · Threat to the world is greater than terrorism
Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York Sunday February 22, 2004 The Observer
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural (…)

By Don Hazen and Tai Moses, AlterNet
Super Tuesday was John Kerry’s Rubicon. The furious, but not so fast general presidential contest began, in all its excessive glory and gore. While George W. Bush made his disingenuous congratulatory phone call to Kerry on Tuesday, the president’s campaign was working to churn out the beginning of millions of dollars of television and radio ads that will try to negatively define John Kerry for swing voters in a number of key states. Kerry, for his part, (…)

Vital Voices
Haitian slaves once rebelled against their masters, and their revolution had a significant impact on the United States. Yet this part of Haitian history is rarely told in today’s America.
By LaNitra Walker
Like many people these days, I have Haiti on my mind. Harrowing images of Haitians running through the streets of Cap-Haitien or Port-au-Prince are shown on the news. And now President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has resigned, and Haitians are faced with (…)

By MARK STEVENSON and PAISLEY DODDS,
Associated Press Writers
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Thousands of supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched through the streets Friday, shouting their anger at his ouster. A seven-member council was chosen to find a new prime minister for a transitional government.
"Long live Aristide!" and "Down with George Bush!" the protesters yelled as U.S. Marines watched impassively from inside the gated National Palace.
It was the biggest (…)