BAUAW NEWSLETTER-MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2005

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BAUAW NEWSLETTER-MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2005
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Dear Readers,

Because of the new "Times Select", a system by which
you must pay $49 per year now to read New York
Times Op-Ed Columns on line, I plan to print the pieces that
I think are important because they are particularly timely
and/or have information and statistics in them that are
useful to know.

Articles that have no links will also appear in this section.

All of these articles without links or with paid-for links
will be listed under the heading "Articles In Full,"
and the articles with free links will follow under the
heading "Links".

So, the newsletter will have a new format with "What's
Happening," first, then "Articles in Full," then "Links."

I hope this makes the newsletter easier to navigate.

In solidarity,

Bonnie Weinstein, BAUAW

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WHAT'S HAPPENING?
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SEPTEMBER 24TH SPEECH BY CAROLE SELIGMAN AT THE
COLLEGE NOT COMBAT CONTINGENT RALLY ON BEHALF
OF BAY AREA UNITED AGAINST WAR:

The people of the U.S. are joining
the rest of the world majority to oppose
the U.S. government's gang rape and
looting of Iraq. So, the government is
taking drastic measures to recruit
new cannon fodder for the military. We are
campaigning to deny the military our
young people. We want the military out of our
schools and out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Now!

The people are joining the movement
because the gang behavior and looting of
the U.S. government stands exposed:
The bipartisan government failed to safely
evacuate the working people of New Orleans;
it failed to save people from the
hurricane; it failed to safely evacuate
residents of Texas from the path of
Hurricane Rita; it even failed to pick
up the corpses of those they failed to
rescue.

These failures were preventable. And
so is the piling up of corpses in Iraq
and Afghanistan; and the grievous injuring
of civilians and soldiers, and the
poisoning from depleted uranium. More
and more Americans know that the U.S. is
in Iraq to loot oil for corporate profits.

They know that the $7 billion dollars
a month the U.S. spends on this gang
rape and looting war could be used for
life, not death. It could provide 9-1/2
million students 4-yr. scholarships
at public universities. It could build
almost 2 million homes. It could feed
the hungry of the world for 8 years. It
could fund worldwide AIDS programs
for 19 years. It could provide Head Start
programs to almost 26 million children
for a year, or health insurance for 117 and
a half million children. It could have
rebuilt the New Orleans levees and
rebuild New Orleans.

You will help end this war just as the
people helped to end the war in
Vietnam. Demand government spending for
relief and life saving; not for war and
killing. Bring the troops home now!
Carole Seligman, College Not Combat
Contingent, 16th & Mission Sts.

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SEPTEMBER 24TH SPEECH BY BONNIE WEINSTEIN
AT DOLORES PARK ON BEHALF OF BAY AREA UNITED
AGAINST WAR:

According to Dianne Spearman of the United Nations-sponsored
World Food Program, "a principal source of global conflict,
chronic hunger, could be cut in half for the comparatively
modest sum of $24 billion."

The war in Iraq alone cost taxpayers over $7 billion
a month. And the overall cost of war expenditures in the
U.S. is running into the trillions of dollars, yet our
Government can't even safely evacuate people from
a hurricane.

They ordered millions of people to evacuate Houston,
Texas to escape Hurricane Rita. Everyone obeyed and
they all got caught in a giant traffic jam and ran
out of gas without going more than three miles!
The world has never seen such incompetence!

They even announced, in the face of this war
and these monumental human catastrophes, that they
plan to spend $200 billion on a new manned mission
to the moon to search for water and billions more
for "Star Wars"-projects that will give billions in
lucrative defense contracts to weapons research
developers and manufacturers-and all the while they
plan to continue to wage war, tear down forests,
gouge out the earth and pollute this world's water
supply in search of another way to make a quick buck!

Well, we do not want to see one more dime spent
war and occupation and ridiculous projects! We are
tired of war, corporate welfare, tax cuts for the
rich and tax increases for working people. We need
to turn this around and tax the rich and fund programs
for the poor. We need to let this criminal government-
run by both Democrats and Republicans who represent
the interests of big business-know what our priorities are.

We want our schools rebuilt and hospitals fully
staffed. We want healthcare, decent housing and real
opportunity for our children. We don't want to see
another child forced into JROTC because they need
a Gym class, or forced into the military because they
need a job. We need to get rid of JROTC, get the
military out of our schools, stop the insanity of
this war and bring all the troops home now. We need
to use our resources to end human suffering not cause it!

Join with us to demand that the San Francisco Unified
School District cut all ties to the military. Picket
the Board of Education Tuesday, Sept. 27, 6:30 p.m.
at 555 Franklin St. Those of you who are registered
to vote in San Francisco, be sure to vote Yes on
College Not Combat Proposition I on November 8th!
Get involved and volunteer your time and skills to
help stop this insanity. It will take all of us working
together to defeat the warmongers! By working together
we can force this beastly government to bring all the
troops home now! End the occupation from Iraq to
Palestine! And Fund Human Needs not War!

And one more thing, we demand the right of return from
Palestine to New Orleans! People have a right to come
home after being displaced and to have their homes
and lives rebuilt!
-Bonnie Weinstein, Sept. 24, 2005, Dolores Park

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THE DEADLINE FOR TURNING IN OPT-OUT FORMS IS OCT.1
From: Peter Goldberger
Date: September 22, 2005 8:16:59 PM PDT

Subject: [MilLawTF] Fw: military recruiting in the
schools under "No Child Left Behind" Act

I received this through another
listserv in which I participate. US Dept
of Education formally confirms that
not only parents but also students have
the right under NCLB to opt out of
identifying information being released
to military recruiters. The ACLU of
Massachusetts suggests that high
school principals may have a duty to
inform their students of this. --
Peter Goldberger

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:02:32 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
From Saraj Wunsch of MA ACLU; being passed along FYI

I thought people might want to know
that on Friday, September 16, 2005,
the Family Policy Compliance Office
of the United States Department of
Education (FPCO), which administers
the military recruiter provisions of
the No Child Left Behind Act, confirmed
that students are permitted to exercise
opt out rights under No Child Left Behind.
This was done in an email message responding
to an inquiry to that office which also
administers FERPA. FPCO said:

Under the military recruiter
provisions, a school is required
to notify parents and provide
them with an opportunity to opt
out. However, because the statute
also mentions that students may opt
out, we have determined that a school
must honor a request made by a student
who took the initiative to tell a school
not to disclose his or her name, address,
& telephone number to military recruiters.
The confusion over this issue is due to
the fact that the question has only
recently been raised to us and we have
not issued any guidance on this matter
(emphasis supplied).

This is consistent with the information
we provided in materials we sent to all
Massachusetts high school principals in
late August. We urge people to make
sure that high schools are giving students
a form which would allow them to opt out
of having their directory information
given to military recruiters, as well
as notifying parents of the right to opt out.

Sarah Wunsch, Staff Attorney
ACLU of Massachusetts
211 Congress St.
Boston, MA 02110
617-482-3170, ext. 323
(fax) 617-451-0009
wunsch@aclu-mass.org

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The Pentagon has been compiling
sensitive data on 30 million
youth ages 16-to-25 using a private
marketing firm, without the
knowledge or consent of individuals
or their families. You can
opt-out of this database by
following instructions at
www.LeaveMyChildAlone.org.

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SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL
DISTRICT OPT-OUT FORM is
one sentence on the school
registration form only with
no explanation of consequences
if you do not opt out and no mention
of a student's right to opt-out on their
own!
http://portal.sfusd.edu/template/default.cfm?page=policy.placement.appforms

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Picket the San Francisco
Board of Education!
CUT ALL SCHOOL TIES
TO THE MILITARY!
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,
6:30-7:30 P.M.
555 FRANKLIN ST.
(Near Van Ness and McAllister)
If you wish to speak at
the Board meeting
Call: 241-6427
Monday,
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Tuesday,
8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

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Monday: SEPT 26
Our next Frontlines coordinating committee
meeting will be on Monday the 26th at UC Berkeley:
6:30-7:30 MOOS/CAN meeting 330 Wheeler Hall
6:30-7:30 MOOS-Bay meeting to review
workshop particulars, outreach, etc.
Anyone who wants is invited to meet at
5:30 at 330 Wheeler Hall to get a map
of the rooms we have reserved to check
them out before the meeting
Check out our webpage for directions:
http://www.objector.org/awol/frontlines/location.html
MASS MARCH ON WALL STREET DECEMBER 1, 2005
WE MUST TURN OUR OUTRAGE OVER KATRINA INTO A MOVEMENT
On the 50thAnniversary of Dec. 1, 1955,
the day in Montgomery Alabama that Rosa Parks
sparked the modern Civil Rights Movement -- A Call for
A NATIONWIDE STRIKE AGAINST
POVERTY, RACISM & WAR
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1
NO SCHOOL - NO SHOPPING - NO WORK
CONTINUED PROTEST AND TEACH-INS THROUGH DECEMBER 2 AND 3
M A S S M A R C H O N W A L L S T. NYC
JUSTICE FOR THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS &THE GULF STATES
A JOB AT A LIVING WAGE IS A HUMAN RIGHT
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW
HEALTHCARE, HOUSING AND EDUCATION NOT WAR AND OCCUPATION
INITIATING ORGANIZATIONS: Troops Out
Now Coalition, Million Worker March
Movement, Teamsters National Black
Caucus, Michigan Emergency Committee
Against War & Injustice.
http://www.iacenter.org/archive2005/o105.htm

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Save the date: The End Police Brutality
Network Presents:
A community discussion on
Perspectives on Community Based Justice
Popular Justice, Restorative Justice and other
alternatives to the current Justice system
When
Saturday October 8, 2005 12-3 pm
Andrea Prichett, of Cop Watch and Mesha Irizarry,
of the Idriss Stelley Foundation, will lead an
interactive workshop on the community based justice
movement as it relates to the end police brutality
movement. This workshop will help community
organizations and activists identify alternatives
that can benefit the communities most plagued
with abusive policing and over incarceration.
Where
The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
344 40th Street Oakland, CA
What
Andrea Prichett, of Cop Watch and Mesha Irizarry,
of the Idriss Stelley Foundation, will lead an
interactive workshop on the community based
justice movement as it relates to the end police
brutality movement. This workshop will help
community organizations and activists identify
alternatives that can benefit the communities most
plagued with abusive policing and over incarceration.
** PLEASE RSVP, IN YOUR RSVP PLEASE INCLUDE AN
UPDATE ON WHAT YOUR ORGANIZATION IS CURRENTLY
WORKING ON, THIS WILL BE SHARED WITH OTHER GROUPS
AT THE WORKSHOP ***
* Visit your group "Justice4Gus" on the web.
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The 2nd Annual George Bush Going Away Party:
An Evening of Political Comedy
Sat, Oct 15th @ 8pm
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Ave @ McAllister,
San Francisco
Partial proceeds benefit CCCO's "Military Out of Our
Schools" program Featuring a multicultural variety of
political comedians from both New York and San Francisco:
-Bill Santiago (The Latino Laugh Festival; Comedy
Central's Premium Blend)
-Diane Amos (The Pine Sol Lady; film actress)
-Lisa Geduldig (Producer of Kung Pao
Kosher Comedy, Funny Girlz, Charo)
-Scott Blakeman (New Yorks premier political comic)
-Alana Devich (Semi-finalist in Comedy Centrals Laugh Riots
competition)
-Ross Turner (Veteran of several Bush Bash political
comedy shows)
-Aundre the Wonderwoman (Death penalty advocate by
day; comic by night)
Last years sold out show, on the eve of the presidential
elections, was a success but failed to send Bush back to
Crawford so we're trying again. With his approval rating
sinking to a new low of 38%, coupled with his record on
Iraq, and his slow and bungling response to Hurricane
Katrina, we figured we'd try once more to usher Bush out
and send him back home while continuing to provide needed
political comic relief to the citizens of the Bay Area.
Medical studies show that laughter IS the best medicine;
endorphins will be handed out in the aisles.
Tix: $25, $30, & $35
City Box Office: http://www.cityboxoffice.com
or (415) 392-4400
More info: http://www.koshercomedy.com
or (415) 522-3737

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Brava Theater Center and The Dance Brigade Presents:
Truthsayers: A Cultural Marathon on the Crisis in the
Gulf with Community Leaders and Art Activists
Sunday, October 2, 5-8 p.m.
Brava Theater Center
2789 24th St. (at York), S.F.
415-647-2822 or www.brava.org
A Benefit for Grassroots Katrina Hurricane Relief
Co-sponsored by the San Francisco BayView Newspapers

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Sacred Site/Shellmound Peace Walk
Sponsored by Indian People Organizing for Change
And SSP&RT
November 7-November 25, 2005
Beginning at Glen Cove in Vallejo, CA going through
the Bay Area and ending at Emeryville Shellmound
(Bay Street Mall)
Indian People Organizing for Change along with Vallejo
Intertribal/SSP&RT invite all to join in a journey
of walk and prayer to remember our ancestors that lived
on this land for thousands of years. Led by traditional
Native American leaders and Buddhist Monk’s, we will
attempt to walk the areas where shellmounds and
sacred sites have been desecrated by development.
Each day we will walk to sites and pray for our
Ancestors.
For more information contact:
Corrina Gould at 510-453-9002
Or email: shellmoundwalk@yahoo.com

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ARTICLES IN FULL:
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1) The Education Gap
By DAVID BROOKS
September 25, 2005
http://select.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/opinion/25brooks.html?hp

2) A Health Care Disaster
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: September 25, 2005
KILN, Miss.
http://select.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/opinion/25kristof.html?hp&oref=login

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1) The Education Gap
By DAVID BROOKS
September 25, 2005
http://select.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/opinion/25brooks.html?hp

Especially in these days after Katrina, everybody laments
poverty and inequality. But what are you doing about it? For
example, let's say you work at a university or a college.
You are a cog in the one of the great inequality producing
machines this country has known. What are you doing to
change that?

As you doubtless know, as the information age matures,
a new sort of stratification is setting in, between those
with higher education and those without. College graduates
earn nearly twice as much as high school graduates, and
people with professional degrees earn nearly twice as
much as those with college degrees.

But worse, this economic stratification is translating
into social stratification. Only 28 percent of American
adults have a college degree, but most of us in this
group find ourselves in workplaces in social milieus
where almost everybody has been to college. A social
chasm is opening up between those in educated society
and those in noneducated society, and you are beginning
to see vast behavioral differences between the two groups.

For example, divorce rates for college grads are plummeting,
but they are not for everyone else. The divorce rate for
high school grads is now twice as high as that of
college grads.

There are other behavior differences, large and small,
which reflect the different social norms in the two
classes. High school grads are twice as likely to smoke
as college grads. They are much less likely to exercise.
College grads are nearly twice as likely to vote. They
are more than twice as likely to do voluntary work.
They are much more likely to give blood. These
behavioral gaps are widening.

We once had a society stratified by bloodlines,
in which the Protestant Establishment was in one class,
immigrants were in another and African-Americans were
in another. Now we live in a society stratified by
education. In many ways this system is more fair, but
as the information economy matures, we are learning
it comes with its own brutal barriers to opportunity
and ascent.

In an agricultural or industrial society, you might
grow up in a poor or disorganized family, but you could
get a job in a factory and with some grit and
determination work your way to respectability. But
in an information society, college is the gateway to
opportunity. Crucial life paths are set at age 18,
which means family and upbringing matter more.

Educated parents not only pass down economic resources
to their children, they pass down expectations, habits,
knowledge and cognitive abilities. Pretty soon you end
up with a hereditary meritocratic class that reinforces
itself generation after generation.

You see the results in the college graduation data.
In the 1970's, when the information age was young, kids
from poorer, less educated families were catching up to
kids from more affluent families when it came to earning
college degrees. But now the gap between rich and poor
is widening. Students in the poorest quarter of the
population have an 8.6 percent chance of getting
a college degree. Students in the top quarter have
a 74.9 percent chance.

The most damning indictment of our university system
is that these poorer kids are graduating from high
school in greater numbers. It's when they get to
college that they begin failing and dropping out.

Thomas Mortenson of the Pell Institute for the Study
of Opportunity in Higher Education has collected
a mountain of data on growing educational inequality.
As he points out, universities have done a wonderful
job educating affluent kids since 1980. But they "have
done a terrible job of including those from the bottom
half of the family income distribution. In this respect,
higher education is now causing most of the growing
inequality and strengthening class structure of the
United States."

Part of the problem is that kids from poorer families
have trouble affording higher education. But given the
rising flow of aid money, financial barriers are not
the main issue. A lot of it has to do with being
academically prepared, psychologically prepared and
culturally prepared for college.

I'm going to come back to this subject and write about
what some colleges are doing to help these students
and how most colleges are neglecting them. But let
me conclude with the thought that while we have big
political debates in this country about equality of
results, all those on the left and right say they
believe in equality of opportunity.

This is where America is failing most.

Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company

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2) Op-Ed Columnist
A Health Care Disaster
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: September 25, 2005
KILN, Miss.
http://select.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/opinion/25kristof.html?hp&oref=login

In the richest country in the world, a man named Eugene
Johnson is going blind in a homeless shelter, because his
eye medicine washed away in Hurricane Katrina and he can't
afford to buy more.

At one level, that's an indictment of the official rescue
effort: the authorities were sufficiently concerned about
hurricanes that last year they pre-positioned 10,000 body
bags in New Orleans, but they dozed as Katrina approached.

Yet at a deeper level, Mr. Johnson's plight is a window
into our broken health care system. Sure, we need to think
about how to rebuild New Orleans, but we also need to
reconstruct a sensible health care system. And that task
is urgent, for one study suggests that more than 18,000
Americans will die this year as a consequence of not
having health insurance.

Barbara Bush thought that Hurricane Katrina worked out
pretty well for the poor. ("Many of the people in the
arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway," she
said after touring the Astrodome, "so this is working
very well for them.") I'd like her to come here to the
rural Mississippi town of Kiln, near the Louisiana line,
and meet Mr. Johnson. A barrel-chested retired plumber,
a white man of 57, Mr. Johnson suffers from diabetes that
has already cost him two toes. Complications also threaten
his eyesight, and so he must take nine prescription medicines,
including two to preserve his vision.

But the hurricane destroyed Mr. Johnson's house. Since then,
he has been bouncing from one shelter to the next and is
now sleeping on a cot in a school gymnasium, along with
his wife and four of his five children (one is grown and
has left home).

Once Mr. Johnson found a pharmacy that was open and had
one of the medicines he needs. But it charged $119 for
it, and he couldn't afford that. So Mr. Johnson is
slowly going blind.

"My eyes are starting to mess up," Mr. Johnson explained.
"I see little spots. And then sometimes they all move
around, like a TV picture that's gone bad."

Finally, a first-rate aid group, Children's Health Fund,
brought doctors and a mobile clinic to Mr. Johnson's
shelter. One of the doctors, David Krol, examined Mr. Johnson,
was horrified, and is working on obtaining the medications
he needs. But as Dr. Krol described the mobile clinic:
"We're a stopgap. Nothing more."

If Mr. Johnson were more mobile, more adept at working
the system, and more of a complainer, he might have gotten
help earlier. But the poor tend to be stuck in shelters,
without vehicles, and many are busy looking after small
children. And many, like Mr. Johnson, are disastrously
polite, patient, deferential and even cheerful. Around
here, if you have the patience of Job, you suffer like Job.

Nearly every medical worker I spoke to warned that there
would be a surge in deaths from heart disease, strokes
and other ailments, concentrated among the poor, because
of the interruption in medicines. Dr. Jay Lemery told
of treating a single mother in a shelter whose three
children were bouncing off the walls because they had
attention-deficit disorder and hadn't had their
medication. The mother herself was prone to
depression and had run out of her own medicine
as well - in an environment that would make
Pangloss suicidal.

The shelter was hot and tempers were so frayed
that two women were having a fistfight.
Dr. Lemery added: "Even the Red Cross people,
who have the patience of Mother Teresa, were in tears."

Yet the reality is that our medical system
failed this region long before Katrina arrived.
One of the Children's Health Fund doctors
discovered a previously undetected hole in
a 4-year-old boy's heart. The mother said
nobody had ever listened to the boy's chest before.

In both Mississippi and Louisiana, infant
mortality is worse (for every 1,000 babies born,
10 die in their first year of life) than in Costa
Rica (8 die per 1,000). For black babies in either
state, the picture is still more horrifying: 15 die
per 1,000. In poor, war-torn Sri Lanka, where per
capita medical spending is only $131, babies have
better odds, with 13 dying per 1,000.

So let's rebuild the levees, but let's also construct
a health care system that works. A dozen years after
the last, failed attempt to reform health care, the
system is more broken than ever. For the sake of
Mr. Johnson, and for our children, it's time to
try again.

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LINKS:
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We Don't Exist
By Cindy Sheehan
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Sunday 25 September 2005
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092505Y.shtml

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Sheehan arrested during demonstration
By Steven Elbow
September 26, 2005
Police outside the White House today were rounding up about
500 protesters during a mass civil disobedience action led by
anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.
"That's Cindy Sheehan being taken away," said Janet Parker of
Madison as a resounding cheer roared through the crowd.
"She was arrested first."
Parker, who was taking part in the protest, was awaiting her
arrest at about 12:45 p.m. as she watched buses pull up to
take the protesters away.
"The police are treating us very well," she said.
She said Sheehan was taken from the scene after hanging
a picture of her son, Casey Sheehan, an Army soldier who
was killed in 2004 in Iraq.
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/stories/index.php?ntid=55522&ntpid=0

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Thousands across U.S. march for peace
Bay Area: Largest war protest since conflict
started in 2003
Kathleen Sullivan, Christopher Heredia and Todd Wallack,
Chronicle Staff Writers
Sunday, September 25, 2005
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/25/MNGD7ETMO81.DTL

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Anti-War Fervor Fills the Streets
By Petula Dvorak
The Washington Post
Sunday 25 September 2005
Demonstration is largest in capital since US military
invaded Iraq.
Tens of thousands of people packed downtown Washington
yesterday and marched past the White House in the
largest show of antiwar sentiment in the nation's
capital since the conflict in Iraq began.
The demonstration drew grandmothers in wheelchairs and
babies in strollers, military veterans in fatigues
and protest veterans in tie-dye. It was the first
time in a decade that protest groups had a permit
to march in front of the executive mansion, and, even
though President Bush was not there, the setting
seemed to electrify the crowd.
Signs, T-shirts, slogans and speeches outlined the
cost of the Iraq conflict in human as well as
economic terms. They memorialized dead U.S. troops
and Iraqis, and contrasted the price of war with
the price of recovery for areas battered by hurricanes
Katrina and Rita. Riffs on Vietnam-era protests were
plentiful, with messages declaring, "Make Levees, Not
War," "I never thought I'd miss Nixon" and "Iraq is
Arabic for Vietnam." Many in the crowd had protested
in the 1960s; others weren't even born during those
tumultuous years.
Protest organizers estimated that 300,000 people
participated, triple their original target. D.C. Police
Chief Charles H. Ramsey, who walked the march route,
said the protesters achieved the goal of 100,000 and
probably exceeded it. Asked whether at least 150,000
showed up, the chief said, "That's as good a guess as any.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/24/AR2005092401701_pf.html
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092505Z.shtml

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Open Letter from the People's Hurricane Relief Fund
"The people of New Orleans will not go quietly into the
night, scattering across this country to become homeless
in countless other cities while federal relief funds are
funneled into rebuilding casinos, hotels, chemical plants
and the wealthy white districts of New Orleans like the
French Quarter and the Garden District." Original statement
of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund
19 September 2005
http://cluonline.live.radicaldesigns.org/?page_id=28

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Bush Says Iraq Pullout Would
Published: September 22, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Two days before a major anti-war demonstration,
President Bush said Thursday that withdrawing American forces
from Iraq would make the world more dangerous and allow
terrorists "to claim an historic victory over the United States."
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Bush.html?hp&ex=1127448000&en=6b39fa1736ddd335&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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Editorial
The Afghan Difference
Published: September 22, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/opinion/22thur1.html?hp

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Antiwar Rallies in Washington and Other Cities
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
Published: September 25, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/politics/25protest.html?hp&ex=1127707200&en=39b41a1b5721a762&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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Caught in a Train Delay,
a Protest Takes a Detour
By DAMIEN CAVE
Published: September 25, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/nyregion/25rail.html

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3rd Antiwar Defendant
Is Held in Contempt
By MICHELLE YORK
Published: September 23, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/nyregion/23protest.html?fta=y

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As Test Scores Jump, Raleigh Credits Integration by Income
By ALAN FINDER
Published: September 25, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/education/25raleigh.html?hp&ex=1127707200&en=778ea407a23e91fd&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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A New Deadly, Contagious Dog Flu Virus Is Detected in 7 States
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. and CARIN RUBENSTEIN
Published: September 22, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/national/22canine.html?incamp=article_popular

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G.I.'s Role in Detainee Abuse Is Starkly Contrasted at Retrial
By DAVID S. CLOUD
Published: September 22, 2005
FORT HOOD, Tex., Sept. 21 - The court-martial of Pfc. Lynndie
R. England, accused of abusing Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib
prison, opened Wednesday with her lawyer saying she became
involved in the mistreatment because she had "an overly
compliant personality" that "left her open to the
suggestions of others."
No officers responsible for Abu Ghraib have been court-
martialed, though the general responsible for the prison
was demoted to colonel and more than a dozen officers have
received reprimands or other administrative punishments.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/national/22england.html

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Television Review | 'The Apprentice"
Yes, Martha Fires Someone, but Pink Slip Is Scented
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Published: September 22, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/arts/television/22martha.html

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Martha Stewart Learns To Rap From PDiddy Combs
COMBS TEACHES STEWART TO RAP
SEAN 'DIDDY' COMBS helped boost MARTHA STEWART's cool factor
yesterday morning (15SEP05), when he taught the lifestyle
guru how to rap.
The hip-hop mogul made good on his promise to make an
appearance on Stewart's new chat show.
As Combs watered plants in the background, Stewart, 64,
who was dubbed 'M Diddy' by her cellmates during her recent
prison stint, rapped, "It's Miss Martha from Jersey City /
I'll bake you a cake and make your crib look pretty /
I gets mad respect like my man, big Diddy... "They thought
they could stop me, but they must be silly. I got my ankle
bracelet off, now I'm free like Willy / It's the K-Mart queen
so I know you feel me / They gave me love on the inside,
that's why they call me M Diddy." ** Article Continues Below **
** The Martha Stewart article continues now **
Stewart was also dressed in attire from Comb's upcoming
women's clothing line Sean by Sean John, $8 million worth
of diamonds and an 'M Diddy' belt she'd bought in New York City.
Combs also taught Stewart hip-hop slang and the lyrics
from his 1997 hit IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS, while
the domestic specialist taught him how to make Chinese
dumplings and personalised wrapping paper.
http://www.malefirst.co.uk/business/1832004.htm

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Supersize Strollers Ignite Sidewalk Drama
By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM
Published: September 22, 2005
Pricey, supersize baby strollers like the Bugaboo and the
Silver Cross - nicknamed Hummers - have been derided as
symbols of yuppie extravagance. (They cost upward of about
$700.) But some critics now say that size is not the only
problem. What's worse, they say, is the way some parents
use them to bulldoze their way through public places.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/fashion/thursdaystyles/22Bugaboo.html

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Houston-Area Evacuees Face Gas Shortages
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, September 22, 2005
(09-22) 10:47 PDT Galveston, Texas (AP) --
Hundreds of thousands of people across the Houston
metropolitan area struggled to make their way inland
in a bumper-to-bumper exodus Thursday as Hurricane Rita
closed in on the nation's fourth-largest city with winds
howling at a terrifying 165 mph.
Drivers ran out of gas in 14-hour traffic jams or looked
in vain for a place to stay as hotels hundreds
of miles away filled up.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/09/22/national/a101230D52.DTL

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OIL INDUSTRY IN PERIL
Gas may top $4 a gallon if Rita hits hard
David R. Baker, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, September 22, 2005
The Texas shoreline in Hurricane Rita's crosshairs lies
at the heart of America's oil industry.
A heavy blow from the storm could cripple the nation's
energy production and -- in the worst case -- drive
gasoline prices above $4 per gallon, according to some
forecasts.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/22/MNG2GERU4F1.DTL

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Predictions of bigger, better New Orleans may be
only half right
Nagin foresees dramatic decrease in population
Officials put priority on letting residents back in
By Robert Travis Scott
Capital bureau
"We are going to lose a significant portion of our population"
in the next 12 to 18 months, he said, partly because the city's
infrastructure will not be able to handle more. After
establishing a population of about a quarter of a million,
"then we'll build from there," Nagin said.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09_22.html#081780

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A Report from Tulsa
Which Way Forward for the Green Party?
By ASHLEY SMITH, CAT WOODS, JAMES MARC LEAS,
and STEVE GREENFIELD
At the 2005 Annual National Meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
the Green Party arrived at a fork in the road. The delegates
voted down resolutions offered by Greens for Democracy and
Independence (GDI) designed to ensure proportional
representation inside the party, national delegates
accountable to the expressed will of the membership, and
political independence from the two corporate parties.
These votes fly in the face of everything that the Green
Party's platform and membership stand for.
September 22, 2005
http://www.counterpunch.org/smith09222005.html

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Another Pentagon Fantasy
Military Recruiters: Counselors or Salesmen?
By JORGE MARISCAL
In light of growing evidence of recruiter dishonesty, it
is interesting to contrast the realities on the ground
with the image of the ideal recruiter crafted by the
Pentagon. The Army Recruiting Command's manual "The
Army Interview" (USAREC 3-01-1) released last April
depicts a fantasy image of the perfect recruiter. At
once a piece of inflated nationalist rhetoric and
a mundane description of tips and techniques for the
successful salesman, the manual describes how the "art
and science of recruiting" is designed to "keep the Army
connected to America" by "exploiting all available assets
in such a manner as to dominate every market area."
September 21, 2005
http://www.counterpunch.org/mariscal09212005.html

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Report: Hurricane Tax Aid Does More for Wealthier Survivors
By Mary Dalrymple
The Associated Press
Tuesday 20 September 2005
Washington - Tax breaks designed to help Hurricane Katrina
victims get their hands on needed cash could do more for
higher income survivors than for the neediest,
a congressional report says.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092105A.shtml

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FOCUS | Cindy Sheehan Goes to Washington
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205Z.shtml
Cindy Sheehan brought her anti-war crusade to Washington,
DC, on Wednesday, arriving with a caravan of three RVs and
several cars ferrying about three dozen military families
and Iraq War veterans on the final leg of their 21-day
Bring Them Home Now tour.
TO has a launched a special page, Camp Casey Goes to Washington,
to cover the anti-war activities in Washington, DC, over the
next several days. William Rivers Pitt, Chris Hume, Scott
Galindez and L. Wild Horse will be on the ground reporting
from our nation's Capitol. Visit the page often for the
latest news from the streets of Washington.
Camp Casey Goes to Washington
http://truthout.org/campcaseydc.shtml
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Things Done in Secret
By Scott McLemee
http://insidehighered.com/views/2005/09/22/mclemee

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Peace by Pieces
New -- and Old -- Antiwar Protesters Hope to
Turn Momentum Into a Movement
By David Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 22, 2005; Page C01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/21/AR2005092102122.html

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Amy Goodman's interview New Mexico's Democratic governor
Bill Richardson on Democracy Now.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/22/1334217

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Tell Congress: Protect Wages, Not Contractor
Profits and Millionaire Tax Cuts
[From AFL-CIO Working Families e-Activists Network]
The Bush administration has removed wage protections
for construction workers who will rebuild the Gulf
Coast-while protecting profits for well-connected
contractors and tax cuts for millionaires.
That's just not right.
Please send the following message to your members of
Congress, urging them to tell President Bush to
restore the Davis-Bacon wage protections he revoked.
A copy of your message will go to the White House.
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/restore_wages/3bi6w32z76dwen?

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Bus Carrying Elderly Storm
Evacuees Explodes Near Dallas
By RICK LYMAN and VIKAS BAJAJ
Published: September 23, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/national/nationalspecial/23cnd-bus.html?hp&ex=1127534400&en=031165607dc3a35e&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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Water Pours Over Levee,
Flooding Dozens of Blocks in New Orleans
By JERE LONGMAN and MICHAEL BRICK
Published: September 23, 2005
"Our worst fears came true," said Maj. Barry Guidry of the
Georgia National Guard, according to The Associated Press.
"We have three significant breeches in the levy and the
water is rising rapidly," he said. "At daybreak I found
substantial breaks and they've grown larger."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/national/nationalspecial/23cnd-orleans.html?hp&ex=1127534400&en=c8ee4ac1292498ce&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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Houston, You Have a Problem
By VIKAS BAJAJ and CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH
Published: September 23, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/business/23disrupt.html

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New Orleans: Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters
Officers Deserted a Jail Building, Leaving Inmates Locked in Cells
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/22/usdom11773.htm

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FEMA Employees Lynched for
Looting in New Orleans
Joel Carlin - FKK September 17, 2005
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=3604

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In Mexico's Murders, Fury
Is Aimed at Officials
By GINGER THOMPSON
Published: September 26, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/international/americas/26juarez.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5094&en=e4a4b242c431d80d&hp&ex=1127793600&partner=homepage

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Rebuilding
Many Contracts for Storm
Work Raise Questions
By ERIC LIPTON and RON NIXON
Published: September 26, 2005
More than 80 percent of the $1.5 billion in contracts
signed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency alone
were awarded without bidding or with limited competition,
government records show, provoking concerns among auditors
and government officials about the potential for
favoritism or abuse.
Already, questions have been raised about the political
connections of two major contractors - the Shaw Group
and Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton –
that have been represented by the lobbyist Joe M. Allbaugh,
President Bush's former campaign manager and a former
leader of FEMA.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/national/nationalspecial/26spend.html

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Grievance About a Policeman,
Then a Deportation Hearing
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: September 26, 2005
Waheed Saleh says he was smoking a cigarette outside
a doughnut shop at the rough edge of Riverdale in the
Bronx when a police officer handed him a summons for
disorderly conduct. He protested, he says, and the
officer yelled at him to go back to his own country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/nyregion/26immigrant.html

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A Sports Drink for Children
Is Jangling Some Nerves
By DUFF WILSON
Published: September 25, 2005
The company's marketing materials describe the drink as
a way to kick-start the morning for children as young as 4.
The company Web site, adorned with a picture of an elementary
school wrestler and a gymnast, says its drink can help a child
"develop fully as a high-performance athlete" and fill
nutritional gaps "in a sport that is physically and mentally
demanding."
The drink, called Spark, contains several stimulants and
is sold in two formulations: one for children 4 to 11 years
old that includes roughly the amount of caffeine found in
a cup and a half of coffee, and one containing twice that
amount for teenagers and adults.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/sports/othersports/25drink.html

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Retail Gas Prices Rise, Despite
Absence of Severe Damage
By VIKAS BAJAJ
Published: September 26, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/business/26cnd-gas.html?hp&ex=1127793600&en=53f023b3f0228c1e&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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Closing arguments ahead
in Abu Ghraib abuse case [Lynndie England]
Mon Sep 26, 2005 03:11 AM ET
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9752355&src=eDialog/GetContent

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Around 1,000 to be freed from Abu Ghraib as gesture
Mon Sep 26, 2005 08:25 AM ET
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9755294&src=eDialog/GetContent

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On the bayou, 'no kind of nothing' after Rita
Mon Sep 26, 2005 09:29 AM ET
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9755842&src=eDialog/GetContent

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Tens of thousands march in
London against Iraq occupation
By our reporters
26 September 2005
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/lond-s26.shtml

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Britain to Pull Troops from Iraq Next May
British troops will start a major
withdrawal from Iraq next May under
detailed plans on military disengagement
to be published next month,
The Observer reveals.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092505A.shtml

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How Many Times Must a Hurricane Come Ashore, Before You Call
it Global Warming?
The Answer My Friend Is Blowing in Rita's Wind,
The Answer Depends Upon You and Me
http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/

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Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina
by Mark Townsend Houston
Sunday, September 25, 2005
The Observer
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1577753,00.html

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