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An interview with Danny Glover
By Esther Perez
I met Danny Glover in the midst of the 3rd World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in January of 2003. We met late in the evening, in the middle of celebration, dancing, and live music. We sat behind the concert stage together, enjoyed the music, conversed, and he gave us this wonderful interview
Where are you from, in the States? I’m from San Francisco, California. I was born in San (…)

By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Cops on the beat, airport security personnel and officials who issue U.S. travel visas would have access to a single anti-terrorist "watch list" containing more than 100,000 names under orders issued Tuesday by President Bush (news - web sites).
The Terrorist Screening Center, a 24-hour, 7-days-a-week operation under the FBI (news - web sites)’s lead, will merge a patchwork of a dozen existing lists currently maintained by nine (…)

MEDIA ADVISORY:
Wesley Clark: The New Anti-War Candidate?
Record Shows Clark Cheered Iraq War as "Right Call"
September 16, 2003
The possibility that former NATO supreme commander Wesley Clark might enter the race for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination has been the subject of furious speculation in the media. But while recent coverage of Clark often claims that he opposed the war with Iraq, the various opinions he has expressed on the issue suggest the media’s "anti-war" (…)

NEW HAVEN - Ten thousand Yale strikers and labor supporters from across the Northeast shut down the center of the city Saturday, shouting, chanting, waving banners and blocking major intersections.
The presidents of five powerful unions, along with more than a hundred rank-and-file members, were arrested at the close of the four-hour demonstration.
Throngs of strikers and supporters moved en masse through downtown streets, putting motor vehicle and human traffic at a standstill. Drivers (…)

By ELIZABETH BECKER
ANCÚN, Mexico, Sept. 14 - World trade talks intended to help the developing nations unexpectedly collapsed today when delegates from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia walked out, accusing wealthy nations of failing to offer sufficient compromises on agriculture and other issues.
While not as disastrous as the breakdown of talks in Seattle four years ago, the failure to reach an accord today was widely regarded as a huge setback for the World Trade Organization, the (…)

Tom Hayden, AlterNet
September 15, 2003
Viewed on September 16, 2003
Tom Hayden reports from the WTO ministerial conference in Cancun each day. Read yesterday’s report.
CANCUN, Sept. 14 — Derailment here today of the Cancun WTO Ministerial caused gloom in the hotel suites at the convention center — and dancing in the streets. It was the biggest triumph for anti-WTO critics since Seattle four years ago, and marked the emergence of a permanent new power bloc of once-powerless nations (…)

September 13, 2003, Saturday
A Mystery the US is in No Hurry to Resolve
By Robert Fisk
A human brain lay beside the highway. It was scattered in the sand, blasted from its owner’s head when the Americans ambushed their own Iraqi policemen. A few inches away were a policeman’s teeth, broken but clean dentures, the teeth of a young man. "I don’t know if they are the teeth of my brother - I don’t even know if my brother is alive or dead," Ahmed Mohamed shouted at me. "The Americans took (…)

The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute based in Washington, D.C.
On September 7th, President Bush asked Congress for an additional $87 billion for the war in Iraq, acknowledging that the engagement in Iraq is going to cost many hundreds of billions of dollars. This was a surprise considering that prior to the war, the administration dismissed such estimates, and even fired its top economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey, for suggesting those (…)

Bush’s Approval Rating Drops to Lowest Since 9/11
Worst Marks Since 2001
By Richard Benedetto
September 12, 2003, the USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/polls/tables/live/2003-09-11-poll-results.htm
WASHINGTON - President Bush’s public standing, on a downward trend all summer, has slid to its lowest point since the Sept. 11 attacks two years ago, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows. Due in large part to an economy that continues to lose jobs and a situation in Iraq that is (…)

By Naomi Klein
September 12, 2003 The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/
On Monday, seven antiprivatization activists were arrested in Soweto for blocking the installation of prepaid water meters. The meters are a privatized answer to the fact that millions of poor South Africans cannot pay their water bills.
The new gadgets work like pay-as-you-go cell phones, only instead of having a dead phone when you run out of money, you have dead people, sickened by drinking cholera-infested (…)