STOP THE WAR AND OCCUPATION!
IRAQ, PALESTINE, HAITI....
MARCH AND RALLY SEPTEMBER 24
11:00 A.M. DOLORES PARK, S.F.
COLLEGE NOT COMBAT CONTINGENT
10:00 A.M. 16TH AND MISSION BART PLAZA, S.F.
ANSWER Organizing Meetings:
Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m.
2489 Mission St., suite 24 (at 21st St., S.F.)
COLLEGE NOT COMBAT Planning Meeting:
Saturday,
September 17th,
2:00 P.M.
110 Capp Street (Buzz #202)
San Francisco
For more information:
college_not_combat@yahoo.com
(415) 248-1701
http://www.collegenotcombat.org/
NEXT BAUAW MEETING:
TUESDAY EVENING,
SEPTEMBER 20, 7:00 P.M.
474 VALENCIA STREET, S.F.
NEAR 16TH STREET
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1) Martial Law Declared in New Orleans; Situation
Deteriorating
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- Martial Law has been declared
in New Orleans as conditions continued to deteriorate.
Water levels in The Big Easy and it's suburbs are rising
at dangerous levels and officials stated they don't know
where the water is coming from. Residents are being urged
to get out of New Orleans in any way they can as officials
fear "life will be unsustainable" for days or even weeks.
Published on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 by CBS News
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0830-10.htm
2) Labor Day Report:
CEO: Worker Pay Ratio Shoots Up to 431 : 1
Biggest Defense Contractors
Raise CEOs' Pay 200% Since 9/11
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT HERE: Executive Excess 2005
(PDF, 3.81 MB). Press Release from United for a Fair
Economy and Institute for Policy Studies Contact:
Betsy Leondar-Wright, (617) 423-2148 x113
2004 was a banner year for CEOs and a dismal year for
workers, according to a new report from the Institute
for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy,
Executive Excess 2005: Defense Contractors Get More
Bucks for the Bang .
The ratio of average CEO pay (now $11.8 million)
to worker pay (now $27,460) spiked up from 301-to-1
in 2003 to 431-to-1 in 2004.
If the minimum wage had risen as fast as CEO pay
since 1990, the lowest paid workers in the US would
be earning $23.03 an hour today, not $5.15 an hour.
http://www.faireconomy.org/press/2005/EE2005_pr.html
3) Final photos from Crawford: Vets speak out,
American Indian Movement, Hitting the Road
Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:24:50 -0500 Final photos from Crawford:
Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name Final Report from Crawford,
Texas (August 30, 2005)
"Jeff Paterson"
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/08/1763590.php
4) U.S. Poverty Rate Was Up Last Year
By DAVID LEONHARDT
Published: August 31, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/national/31census.html
5) At Least 800 Shiite Pilgrims Killed in Panic on Tigris Bridge
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: August 31, 2005
Fear had begun spreading in the crowd an hour earlier,
after insurgents fired rockets and mortars near the shrine,
killing seven pilgrims and wounding two dozen, and leading
to a counter-attack by American military helicopters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/international/middleeast/31cnd-
iraq.html?hp&ex=1125547200&en=1fec59f03215dfde&ei=5094&partner=homepage
6) Editorial
New Orleans in Peril
Published: August 31, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/opinion/31wed1.html
7) MSNBC.com
Anti-war mom glad she didn't meet Bush
Sheehan says president's refusal to meet has
'galvanized peace movement'
The Associated Press
Updated: 1:09 a.m. ET Aug. 31, 2005
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9137815/
8) OF GANGSTAS & JOURNALISM: AN APOLOGY
[Col. Writ. 8/13/05] Copyright '05 Mumia Abu-Jamal
9) Reuters cameraman ordered held in Abu Ghraib
Wed Aug 31, 2005 06:55 AM ET
http://go.reuters.com/
newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9520027&src=eDialog/GetContent
10) Hurricane Katrina: a calamity
compounded by poverty and neglect
By Joseph Kay
31 August 2005
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/katr-a31.shtml
11) Hurricane Katrina:
Is Looting a Question of Skin Color?
If the pain and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina
wasn't enough, now the looting has started on the streets
of New Orleans. But many people simply need to feed their
families and are consequently forced to "borrow" food from
waterlogged grocery stores. So what makes somebody a looter?
And does it have anything to do with the color of their skin?
AP
12) Muni Fare Strike
For more info, leaflets, etc., on Muni fare strike:
http://www.socialstrike.net
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1) Martial Law Declared in New Orleans; Situation
Deteriorating
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- Martial Law has been declared
in New Orleans as conditions continued to deteriorate.
Water levels in The Big Easy and it's suburbs are rising
at dangerous levels and officials stated they don't know
where the water is coming from. Residents are being urged
to get out of New Orleans in any way they can as officials
fear "life will be unsustainable" for days or even weeks.
Published on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 by CBS News
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0830-10.htm
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2) Labor Day Report:
CEO: Worker Pay Ratio Shoots Up to 431 : 1
Biggest Defense Contractors
Raise CEOs' Pay 200% Since 9/11
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT HERE: Executive Excess 2005
(PDF, 3.81 MB). Press Release from United for a Fair
Economy and Institute for Policy Studies Contact:
Betsy Leondar-Wright, (617) 423-2148 x113
2004 was a banner year for CEOs and a dismal year for
workers, according to a new report from the Institute
for Policy Studies and United for a Fair Economy,
Executive Excess 2005: Defense Contractors Get More
Bucks for the Bang .
The ratio of average CEO pay (now $11.8 million)
to worker pay (now $27,460) spiked up from 301-to-1
in 2003 to 431-to-1 in 2004.
If the minimum wage had risen as fast as CEO pay
since 1990, the lowest paid workers in the US would
be earning $23.03 an hour today, not $5.15 an hour.
http://www.faireconomy.org/press/2005/EE2005_pr.html
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3) Final photos from Crawford: Vets speak out,
American Indian Movement, Hitting the Road
Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:24:50 -0500 Final photos from Crawford:
Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name Final Report from Crawford,
Texas (August 30, 2005)
"Jeff Paterson"
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/08/1763590.php
Cindy Sheehan and Steve DeFord, Gold Star Families for Peace,
began yesterday's morning press conference with a call for all
remaining Camp Casey materials to be sent to the devastated
New Orleans area. Military families and veterans, including
National Guardsmen, called on fellow vets in Louisiana to help
with disaster relief. Speakers also expressed concern that
with tens of thousands of National Guardsmen deployed in
Iraq, states are not as prepared as they should be to
handle natural disasters.
Paralyzed Iraq veteran Tomas Young called on President Bush
to meet with him to explain why his best hope to walk again,
stem cell research, was not being pursued. Tomas was wounded
in Iraq the same day that Casey Sheehan was killed.
Later in the afternoon, Dennis Banks, the "Commander and
Chief" of the American Indian Movement (AIM), presented
Cindy a cloak on behalf of her fallen warrior son. He then
presented Cindy a pin of five gold stars (it looked a lot
like the rank insignia of a five star general). Dennis
explained that the pin was not only representative of her
as a gold star mother, but also of a leader in the struggle
against injustice and war. He was also not the first person
to mention Cindy and Rosa Parks in the same sentence.
Four other members of AIM joined Dennis on stage for
a ceremonial drum circle.
This morning the white crosses gracing the front of the
massive Camp Casey II tent were ceremoniously removed,
with the deconstruction of the encampments to follow
throughout the day and into tomorrow. Tomorrow morning
the "Bring Them Home Now Bus Tour" is scheduled to embark
from Crawford. Three different buses are to take different
routes across the country to meet up in Washington DC
for the national mobilization to the stop the war
September 24 - 26.
http://www.bringthemhomenowtour.org/
For a complete archive of my photos, reports, and video
from Crawford, Texas for the last two weeks: http://www.notinourname.net/war/
sheehan.htm
Following up on my coverage of last Saturday's Crawford
rally for "God, Troops, Bush and Endless War (Until
Victory)," I've edited a short 4:30 min. video. The
focus of the video is that of a right-way youth group,
the "Protest Warriors," fleeing the pro-war rally. http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/
08/1763194.php
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4) U.S. Poverty Rate Was Up Last Year
By DAVID LEONHARDT
Published: August 31, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/national/31census.html
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5) At Least 800 Shiite Pilgrims Killed in Panic on Tigris Bridge
By ROBERT F. WORTH
Published: August 31, 2005
Fear had begun spreading in the crowd an hour earlier,
after insurgents fired rockets and mortars near the shrine,
killing seven pilgrims and wounding two dozen, and leading
to a counter-attack by American military helicopters.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/international/middleeast/31cnd-
iraq.html?hp&ex=1125547200&en=1fec59f03215dfde&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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6) Editorial
New Orleans in Peril
Published: August 31, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/opinion/31wed1.html
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7) MSNBC.com
Anti-war mom glad she didn't meet Bush
Sheehan says president's refusal to meet has
'galvanized peace movement'
The Associated Press
Updated: 1:09 a.m. ET Aug. 31, 2005
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9137815/
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8) OF GANGSTAS & JOURNALISM: AN APOLOGY
[Col. Writ. 8/13/05] Copyright '05 Mumia Abu-Jamal
"The history we read, though based
on facts, is, strictly speaking,
not factual at all, but a series
of accepted judgements." -- Geoffrey
Barraclough, *History in a Changing World* (1955)
Journalists, like historians,
are only as good as their sources, and
reportage, like commentary, is
colored by the lens of belief.
Several weeks ago, I wrote
a piece called, "Keepin' It Gangsta'"
(6/18/05), where I wrote that the
infamous CRIPs, Bloods, and other
urban gangs had their roots in the
Black Panther Party. [One] source
was an article written by Black
political prisoner, Sundiata Acoli and
published as a pamphlet back in 1979.
The article suggests these gangs
had early influences in dress, and
root consciousness, that flowed from
the Black Panther Party, and other
nationalist and revolutionary-type
organizations.
This and other source materials,
like a xerox copy of an August 1973
publication of a C.R.I.P. Constitution,
and the autobiography of former
CRIP, Sanyika Shakur (f/k/a 'Monster'
Cody Scott), led me to the
conclusion that CRIPs had roots in
Black consciousness movements and
had, somehow, gone awry, perhaps
under the influence of the drug game.
I have come to question that conclusion.
No doubt Sundiata Acoli, a proud
Panther and veteran of the Black
Liberation movement, believed many
of his face-to-face sources in state
and federal prisons over many years,
but it seems many of his sources
were telling him what he wanted to
hear, to give a gloss over their
origins that didn't exist in life.
Perhaps because Sundiata wanted to
believe their reports of BPP and
nationalist influences, he believed
them. Just as I wanted to believe
that the Party had such influence, I
too, believed such reports.
I can't say that I do today.
I've re-read Shakur's autobiography,
[*Monster: The Autobiography of
an L.A. Gang Member* (Penguin: 1993/'94)]
and I must admit, it is hard
to find evidence of either social,
communal or nationalist consciousness
in the CRIP-life that Shakur describes.
What is evident is a profound
nihilism.
What almost echoes the Party's
targeting under the COINTELPRO
though, is the easy way L.A. cops
used one group of CRIPs, the Eight
Deuce Trays, against the others,
Rolling Sixties.
Shakur, a teenager, is told
by an LAPD 'anti-gang' sergeant, that
the other CRIP set is out to kill him.
When 'Monster' asks who, the cop
replies:
"'Peddie, Scoop, Kiki, and a few others.
If I were you I'd keep my gun
close at hand, 'cause those
boys seem mighty serious.'
'Yeah, well f--- the Sixties.
They know where I'm at.'
'Yeah, but do you know where
*they are*? I mean right *now*?'
'Naw, you?'
Then, calling me to the car in
a secretive manner he said,
'They on Fifty-ninth Street and
Third Avenue. All the ones I just
mentioned who've been bad-mouthing you.
I was just telling my partner
here that if you were there they'd
be scared s---less. If you get your
crew and go now, I'll make sure
you are clear. But only fifteen
minutes. You got that?' he added
with a wink and a click of the tongue.
'Yeah, I got it. But how I know
you ain't settin' me up?'
'If I wanted to put you in jail,
Monster, I'd arrest you now for that
gun in your waistband.'
Surprised, I said, 'Righteous,'
and stepped away from the car.
We mounted up and went over to
Fifty-ninth and Third Avenue. Sure
enough, there they were. And just
as he had said, we encountered no
police." [pp. 175-176]
'Monster' and his crew lit
the street up, with fire and blood.
(Kinda gives a whole new meaning
to 'gang control', doesn't it?)
It would've been nice, reassuring
even, if the CRIPs, and other
Black youth gangs, had a social
consciousness. But, nice ain't right.
And no amount of wishing will make
it so. They were unconscious
criminals, devoid of knowledge of
their people's long, hard walk to
quasi-freedom.
I stand corrected.
Copyright 2005 Mumia Abu-Jamal
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9) Reuters cameraman ordered held in Abu Ghraib
Wed Aug 31, 2005 06:55 AM ET
http://go.reuters.com/
newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9520027&src=eDialog/GetContent
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10) Hurricane Katrina: a calamity
compounded by poverty and neglect
By Joseph Kay
31 August 2005
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/katr-a31.shtml
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11) Hurricane Katrina:
Is Looting a Question of Skin Color?
If the pain and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina
wasn't enough, now the looting has started on the streets
of New Orleans. But many people simply need to feed their
families and are consequently forced to "borrow" food from
waterlogged grocery stores. So what makes somebody a looter?
And does it have anything to do with the color of their skin?
AP
Looting is rife on the streets of New Orleans, but are
the media picking on African-Americans unfairly?It didn't
take long for reports of looting to filter through. No
sooner had Hurricane Katrina's winds died down, than people
emerged onto the streets and began helping themselves to
whatever New Orleans' shopping paradise had to offer.
Now, dear reader, you might say their actions are
understandable, if not condonable. If your home had
just been washed away, and you hadn't eaten a proper meal
for 48 hours, the urge to help yourself to a few candy
bars or cartons of milk from the local convenience store
might be a strong one. But a number of amazing reports
have described how local residents also loaded up their
vehicles with DVD players and televisions, with the
National Guard and police almost powerless to stop them.
New Orleans is rapidly turning into a lawless city,
with those unable to leave resorting to plunder and
mayhem.
But the really interesting angle on all of this comes
from those smart folks at Metafilter. They cleverly
link to three pictures of apparent "looters" featured
on Yahoo news. Two men are pictured wading through
flood waters with bags of groceries and beer in their
arms. They are described as "looters." And,
coincidentally they are African-American.
Next comes a picture of a white couple carrying food
supplies through the flood waters. According to AFP/
Ghetty Images, these fine young people are on their
way home after "finding bread and soda from a local
grocery store." So the white people don't "loot", they
"find". A curious insight into prevalent racism in
the US media; just as one man's "terrorist" is
another man's "freedom fighter," it seems one man's
"looter", is another man's "finder". You decide.
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12) Muni Fare Strike
For more info, leaflets, etc., on Muni fare strike:
http://www.socialstrike.net
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