BAUAW NEWSLETTER-WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2005

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GEORGE GALLOWAY - MISSION HIGH SCHOOL
TONIGHT, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, 7:00 P.M.

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.

SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT OPT-OUT FORM:
The San Francisco USD version of the opt-out form
is simply a sentence on the school enrollment form
with a yes or no checkbox as follows:

"High school applicants: Do you want SFUSD to release
your child's name, address and telephone number to
military recruiters? YES NO"

(The sentence appears in the first part of the actual
Application-after the explanation of how to fill the
form out. It is a sentence in boldface type.)

You can locate the form at: http://portal.sfusd.edu/template/default.cfm?page=policy.placement.appforms

It appears on the right hand side of the screen under
the heading: SERVICES, then click on EPC FORMS.

Obviously this sentence doesn't explain what the
ramifications are for those who check the YES box.
It also doesn't explain that by taking the ASVAB
(Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery) your
NO choice on the Opt-Out question is voided and the
Military can contact your child and call them at
Home. And, you can't stop them from calling by blocking
the caller's number-the U.S. Government can't be
"blocked".

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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FROM IRAQ TO NEW ORLEANS
FUND PEOPLE'S NEEDS-NOT THE WAR MACHINE!
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
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.

QUEER CONTINGENT
Dolores Park, steps
near 19th & Dolores
11am, Saturday, September 24.

Palestine Contingent:
Assemble at Tennis courts across from
Mission High
At 18th and Dolores
11 a.m., Saturday, September 24

Assemble for a Labor Rally at 10:30 a.m.
prior to the general rally in Dolores Park
at Cumberland & Dolores (between 19th and
20th Sts.), then will march as a labor
contingent at noon.

Mourn the Dead.
Resist Bush's War
Bring U.S. troops home, now
MASS PROTEST RALLY
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 2005
WALNUT CREEK, CA
Gather for the march at 11:00 a.m.
at Walnut Creek BART station
or
Meet for the rally at 12:00 noon
at Heather Farms Park Picnic area
off Ygnacio Valley Road in Walnut Creek

Alternatives to War Through Education
A project of Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
home: (510)649-1696

Friday: SEPT 23
Counter Recruitment Action in Oakland
4pm: Speak Out & Performances
Chevron Gas Station
Telegraph Ave and Grand Ave, Oakland (19th St. BART)

5pm: March, Demonstrate and Nonviolent Direct Action
Armed Forces Recruiting Center
2116 Broadway, btwn 21/22nd Sts

Saturday: SEPT 24
Counter Recruitment Contingent at the
National Day of Protest in San Francisco
We will have FRONTLINES palm cards to
hand out at the Sept 24th March, so
meet up with the College Not Combat
contingent at 10am at 16th & Mission
(BART) to get a stack.

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

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BAUAW NEWSLETTER-WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2005
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1) NYPD Stops Cindy Sheehan Speech, Cuts Mic, Disperses
Enraged Crowd
NYPD were nearly chased out of Union Square Park
after cutting Cindy Sheehan's mic today.
September 19, 2005 06:11PM EDT
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2005/09/57276.html

2) World has slim chance to stop flu pandemic
Tue Sep 20, 2005 08:11 AM ET
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9702137&src=eDialog/GetContent

3) Reply to Greg Palast
by George Galloway
September 20, 2005
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=8776

4) British Smash Into Iraqi Jail To Free 2 Detained Soldiers
By Ellen Knickmeyer and Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, September 20, 2005; Page A01
BAGHDAD, Sept. 19 -- British armored vehicles backed by
helicopter gunships burst through the walls of an Iraqi
jail Monday in the southern city of Basra to free two
British commandos detained earlier in the day by Iraqi
police, witnesses and Iraqi officials said. The incident
climaxed a confrontation between the two nominal allies
that had sparked hours of gun battles and rioting in
Basra's streets.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091900572.html?referrer=email&referrer=email

5) Katrina shines spotlight on realities
for Black people in the United States
GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
Havana. September 6, 2005
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/septiembre/mart6/37victims-i.html

6) KATRINA'S AFTERMATH
Like We're Invisible'
Katrina cut off an already isolated rural Mississippi, so residents helped one another.
By Elizabeth Mehren
Times Staff Writer
September 19, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-rural19sep19,0,4319997.story?coll=la-home-headlines

7) "It's Not That the Government Isn't
Responding, They are Obstructing the Response"
Real Reports of Katrina Relief
By NAOMI ARCHER
It's not so much that the government is not responding
[with storm relief], they are obstructing the response.
They are telling us we can't bring people the basic
necessities of life because that would give them hope.
It is a question of oppression vs. mutual aid.
That is the revolution.
September 16, 2005
http://www.counterpunch.org/archer09162005.html

8) Dismay Over Sliding Turnout for Afghan Poll
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0920-04.htm

9) An Antiwar Speech in Union Square Is Stopped
by Police Citing Paperwork Rules
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0920-02.htm

10) Hundreds of Tons of British Aid Donated to
Help Hurricane Katrina Victims to be Burned by Americans
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0920-08.htm

11) Federal Govt Diverting Truckloads of Ice from
Hurricane-Relief Effort to Cold Storage
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0920-09.htm

12) Iraqi Anger Explodes in the Face of British Occupiers
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0920-05.htm

13) Outpouring of Relief Cash Raises Fear
of Corruption and Cronyism
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0920-03.htm

14) California Wants to Serve
a Warning With Fries
By MELANIE WARNER
Published: September 21, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/business/21chips.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5094&en=c916134e8adc7054&hp&ex=1127361600&partner=homepage

15) Editorial
Sleight of Budgeting
Published: September 21, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/opinion/21wed1.html?hp

16) Iraqis Rally to Denounce British Rescue
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The demonstrators in Basra, which included police and
civilians waving pistols and AK47s, shouted ''No to
occupation!'' and carried banners condemning ''British
aggression'' and demanding the freed soldiers be tried
in an Iraqi court as ''terrorists.''
Published: September 21, 2005
Filed at 11:11 a.m. ET
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq.html?hp

17) Protest Over Metal Detectors
Gains Legs as Students Walk Out
George M. Gutierrez for The New York Times
By FERNANDA SANTOS
Published: September 21, 2005
The protest started to gather steam on Sept. 14, six days
after the school year began. That morning, at each of the
10 periods of gym class, school safety officers explained
to the students how the process would work: Line up, remove
metal from your pockets, take off your belt and walk through
the metal detector. Book bags would be searched, too, scanned
by X-ray machines like those at airports, and, starting
Monday, no one would be allowed to leave the building at
lunchtime. The safety officers said it would be too hard
to screen all the returning students.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/nyregion/21walkout.html

18) Unswayed by Storm, Fed Raises Key Rate
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: September 21, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 - Saying that Hurricane Katrina
was unlikely to pose a "persistent threat" to the economy,
the Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Tuesday for
the 11th time in a row and signaled that more increases
were on the way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/business/21fed.html

19) Challenged by Creationists,
Museums Answer Back
By CORNELIA DEAN
Published: September 20, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/science/20doce.html

20) GEDs no longer required
By Joseph R. Chenelly
Times staff writer
September 20, 2005
Army recruiters now have a wider pool to find future
soldiers in. The Army is reaching out to a slice of
America's youth long ineligible to serve: non-high
school graduates who don't have a General Equivalency Diploma
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1115623.php

21) Cuba appears to escape Rita's wrath
Island nation took precautions, experienced rains, power outages
By Mary Murray
Producer
NBC News
Updated: 8:36 p.m. ET Sept. 20, 2005
MSNBC.com
A solid 24 hours before the storm hit, Cuban Civil Defense
began evacuating people living in flood areas and in houses
too weak to withstand hurricane conditions.
By noon Tuesday, more than 136,000 people had been moved
to higher ground, with close to 14,000 opting to stay
in government shelters.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9402098/

22) This is from:
[NOLA_C3_Discussion] FW: A letter from a Doctor
This was sent to my friend Cindy Sheehan from a doctor
trying to help with our relief effort...forwarded
to me via Dennis K....peace from Ward

23) Cindy Sheehan Takes on the Democrats,
Hillary Clinton
The anti-war activist has plenty to say-and
it's not all about Bush
by Kristen Lombardi
September 20th, 2005 2:27 PM
http://villagevoice.com/news/0538,lombardiweb,68015,2.html

24) Katrina, the Mississippi River
and the Risks of the Coming Harvest
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
September 21, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/opinion/21wed4.html?pagewanted=print

25) W Marks the Spot
Bait and Switch in the Bitterroot
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
September 21, 2005
Like Rumsfeld's Pentagon, the Forest Service under
George W. Bush runs on pr, corporate cronyism, an
obsession with secrecy and the rapid-fire deployment
of fabricated justifications for cutting down
old-growth forests.
In Bush's war on the wild, the trees themselves
are portrayed as standing weapons of mass
destruction, which must be leveled by chainsaws
before they ignite into raging wildfires that
threaten to incinerate the towns of the rural
West. Such is the tale of the spin, any way.
http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair09212005.html

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1) NYPD Stops Cindy Sheehan Speech, Cuts Mic, Disperses
Enraged Crowd
NYPD were nearly chased out of Union Square Park
after cutting Cindy Sheehan's mic today.
September 19, 2005 06:11PM EDT
http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2005/09/57276.html

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2) World has slim chance to stop flu pandemic
Tue Sep 20, 2005 08:11 AM ET
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9702137&src=eDialog/GetContent

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3) Reply to Greg Palast
by George Galloway
September 20, 2005
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=8776

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4) British Smash Into Iraqi Jail To Free 2 Detained Soldiers
By Ellen Knickmeyer and Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, September 20, 2005; Page A01
BAGHDAD, Sept. 19 -- British armored vehicles backed by
helicopter gunships burst through the walls of an Iraqi
jail Monday in the southern city of Basra to free two
British commandos detained earlier in the day by Iraqi
police, witnesses and Iraqi officials said. The incident
climaxed a confrontation between the two nominal allies
that had sparked hours of gun battles and rioting in
Basra's streets.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091900572.html?referrer=email&referrer=email

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5) Katrina shines spotlight on realities
for Black people in the United States
GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
Havana. September 6, 2005
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2005/septiembre/mart6/37victims-i.html

IT soon became obvious: in New Orleans, a city where Black people are
the majority of the population and make up the great majority of the
working class, they also comprised nearly all of the people stranded
by the hurricane.

"In two days at the Superdome, I saw four white people among the
estimated 23,000 there," comments Los Angeles Times reporter Scott
Gold in a September 2 article.

Black politicians, especially Democrats, began to ask whether the
lack of preparation and response to the disaster had anything to do
with the fact that victims were Black and low-income. Rapper Kanye
West made headlines when he said "George Bush doesn't care about
Black people" at a televised benefit concert in New York on September
2.

However, there's no particular conspiracy against African-Americans
in New Orleans, even if many of the victims who were left abandoned
for days may feel that way. The simple fact is that in the United
States, even with the abolishment of legal segregation and the growth
of a Black middle class - and even some Black ruling-class figures -
following the successful civil rights struggles of the 50s and 60s,
African-Americans still suffer from the effects of hundreds of years
of slavery, economic discrimination and racism.

That continues to be especially true in the South, where
institutional racism was mostly deeply entrenched. In New Orleans,
where almost 70% of its half million inhabitants are Black, 27% of
the city's population lives below the poverty line.

Jason DeParle notes in a September 4 New York Times article that
"divides in (New Orleans) were evident in things as simple as access
to a car. The 35 percent of black households that didn't have one,
compared with just 15 percent among whites."

ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DISCRIMINATION

According to census figures cited in The Economist, there were 26,000
Black corporate chief executive officers in 2003, including for
companies such as American Express and AOL-Times Warner. At the same
time, Black men in the United States on average earn only 72% of what
white men earn.

That economic differentiation carries over into other areas of life:
African-Americans in that city are three times more likely than
whites, Latinos or Asians to die from homicide or HIV/AIDS and twice
as likely to be victims of violent crime, according to a study
published in July by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles and the LA
Urban League.

Affirmative action measures - guaranteeing Black people jobs and
schooling that they were routinely kept out of because of
discrimination - are under attack now, a generation after many of
them were put into place, with some people, even Blacks, claiming
they are not "fair," because the individuals who benefit from them
might not "deserve" them.

African-Americans are still being deprived of their right to vote 40
years after the federal government passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act
as a result of the massive civil rights movement of the 1950s and
60s. This was most evident during the 2000 presidential elections,
when tens of thousands of Black people were deprived of their right
to vote in Florida. Some 20,000 people marched in Atlanta, Georgia
this past August 6 to demand that key provisions of that law be
upheld.

Elvee Green, a Detroit auto worker and member of the United Auto
Workers union, told The Militant newspaper that her local organized a
bus to get her and co-workers to Atlanta. "I had to be here. They are
attacking our unions, they're sending us to crazy wars, we have to at
least keep our right to vote," she said.

Black men are routinely deprived of that right because in many
states, ex-convicts are not allowed to vote, and Black men are much
more likely than white men to have spent time in jail: 32% of them in
Los Angeles, according to the Urban League study, compared to 6% of
whites and 17% of Latinos. Those statistics are similar to national
ones.

Those figures go hand-in-hand with the fact that Black people are the
most frequent victims of police brutality and killings. In Los
Angeles, only 21% of Blacks believe the police act fairly most of the
time, compared with 46% of Latinos and 60% of whites and Asians, the
study notes. Police officers who kill or beat Black people, including
minors, often go unpunished.

Black farmers are disappearing faster than white farmers as gigantic
monopolies take over food production in the United States. Black
farmers from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, and
Texas are fighting racial discrimination in government loans and
other services, and struggling to keep their land; more than 500
Black farmers are under extreme threat of foreclosures that will
result in the loss of 100,000 acres of farmland, according to Ralph
Paige, of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives at a recent
organizing meeting.

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6) KATRINA'S AFTERMATH
Like We're Invisible'
Katrina cut off an already isolated rural Mississippi, so residents helped one another.
By Elizabeth Mehren
Times Staff Writer
September 19, 2005
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-rural19sep19,0,4319997.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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7) "It's Not That the Government Isn't
Responding, They are Obstructing the Response"
Real Reports of Katrina Relief
By NAOMI ARCHER
It's not so much that the government is not responding
[with storm relief], they are obstructing the response.
They are telling us we can't bring people the basic
necessities of life because that would give them hope.
It is a question of oppression vs. mutual aid.
That is the revolution.
September 16, 2005
http://www.counterpunch.org/archer09162005.html

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8) Dismay Over Sliding Turnout for Afghan Poll
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0920-04.htm

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9) An Antiwar Speech in Union Square Is Stopped
by Police Citing Paperwork Rules
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0920-02.htm

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10) Hundreds of Tons of British Aid Donated to
Help Hurricane Katrina Victims to be Burned by Americans
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0920-08.htm

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11) Federal Govt Diverting Truckloads of Ice from
Hurricane-Relief Effort to Cold Storage
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0920-09.htm

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12) Iraqi Anger Explodes in the Face of British Occupiers
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0920-05.htm

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13) Outpouring of Relief Cash Raises Fear
of Corruption and Cronyism
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0920-03.htm

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14) California Wants to Serve
a Warning With Fries
By MELANIE WARNER
Published: September 21, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/business/21chips.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5094&en=c916134e8adc7054&hp&ex=1127361600&partner=homepage

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15) Editorial
Sleight of Budgeting
Published: September 21, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/opinion/21wed1.html?hp

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16) Iraqis Rally to Denounce British Rescue
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The demonstrators in Basra, which included police and
civilians waving pistols and AK47s, shouted ''No to
occupation!'' and carried banners condemning ''British
aggression'' and demanding the freed soldiers be tried
in an Iraqi court as ''terrorists.''
Published: September 21, 2005
Filed at 11:11 a.m. ET
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq.html?hp

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17) Protest Over Metal Detectors
Gains Legs as Students Walk Out
George M. Gutierrez for The New York Times
By FERNANDA SANTOS
Published: September 21, 2005
The protest started to gather steam on Sept. 14, six days
after the school year began. That morning, at each of the
10 periods of gym class, school safety officers explained
to the students how the process would work: Line up, remove
metal from your pockets, take off your belt and walk through
the metal detector. Book bags would be searched, too, scanned
by X-ray machines like those at airports, and, starting
Monday, no one would be allowed to leave the building at
lunchtime. The safety officers said it would be too hard
to screen all the returning students.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/nyregion/21walkout.html

The first rumors started swirling last spring, in hushed talks
in the classroom, amid hallway banter, in lunchtime chats at
pizza parlors along Jerome Avenue. Metal detectors were coming
to DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.

By the time the summer school term began, students were
noticing the newly installed surveillance cameras along
DeWitt Clinton's stairwells and the shell of a metal detector
perched beyond a side door. "The school is on lockdown," one
student wrote on an Internet message board, Sconex.com .

Soon, instead of their usual postings about classmates turned
couples, prom king contenders and unbearably hot days of
boredom at home, students were complaining about the
changes that awaited them - and, eventually,
organizing a protest.

Two days ago, all the planning became a reality. For the
first time in recent memory, 1,500 New York City high school
students skipped classes, marched for two miles and got what
they wanted: a sit-down meeting with school administrators,
who have agreed to meet with students again and listen to
their demands.

How they got to this point is a lesson in modern-day
democracy that blends teenage angst and the Internet;
a show of force borne out of disagreement and frustration
among the students of one of the city's most traditional
and toughest high schools.

The Education Department installed the metal detectors
because of DeWitt Clinton's high crime rate, one that is
60 percent higher than the citywide average for schools
of the same size. But the protest was not violent, said
Edward Jackson, 17, a senior and a tight end on the high
school's football team.

"It was a good protest, the way protests should be," he
said. "We got a chance to show that we care about what
goes on in our school. We were able to express our point
of view."

The DeWitt Clinton of today, which had 13 major crimes
during the 2003-4 school year, counts many celebrities
among its graduates. It is the alma mater of the actor
Burt Lancaster, the fashion designer Ralph Lauren and
the cartoonist Stan Lee. It opened its doors in 1935 as
an all-boys' school and stayed that way until the
mid-1980's, when it began to enroll girls.

The protest started to gather steam on Sept. 14, six
days after the school year began. That morning, at each
of the 10 periods of gym class, school safety officers
explained to the students how the process would work:
Line up, remove metal from your pockets, take off your
belt and walk through the metal detector. Book bags would
be searched, too, scanned by X-ray machines like those at
airports, and, starting Monday, no one would be allowed
to leave the building at lunchtime. The safety officers
said it would be too hard to screen all the returning
students.

It did not sit well with José David, 17, a senior. Last
Thursday, he circulated a petition against the lunchtime
confinement and the metal detectors.

"In 46 minutes, I got 266 signatures," he said.

On Friday, Mr. David posted a message on the Sconex.com
site and invited students to join him in a protest on
Monday. The plan was to gather south of the school and
stand there, silently, until the end of the first period
of classes. At 7 a.m., Mr. David said, he found himself
standing alone on the lawn outside the high school while
other students queued up around the block, waiting for
the security clearance to get in.

"Nobody stood with me, not even my friends at first,"
Mr. David said. "A lot of people were like, 'Don't even
waste your time.' I felt like an idiot."

A cameraman and reporter for a local cable news station
arrived (Mr. David had sent them an e-mail message last
Friday). But as the time passed and the line into the
school grew, clusters of frustrated students decided to
join Mr. David. By 11:30 a.m., they numbered 1,500,
said Mr. David and other students outside the school
yesterday.

"People got so excited that we were all coming together,"
said Héctor Garcia, 18, a senior. "I honestly didn't think
that we would get that many people marching for one cause."

Three hours later, the protesters arrived at the Department
of Education's office at Fordham Plaza, two miles away,
carrying banners and demanding to be heard. Four students
were eventually invited in. They asked that the metal
detectors and security cameras be removed, that they be
allowed to have lunch outside the school, and that an
earlier ban on cellphones be lifted.

None of the new rules were eliminated, but officials
agreed to keep listening. Guidance counselors are to
meet today to select a team of student representatives
who will present the student demands and negotiate with
the administration.

But in the meantime, there has been a change: the line
to get into the school yesterday morning moved faster
because school safety officers used three of the four
metal detectors at the school, instead of two, as they
did on Monday.

Keith Kalb, a Department of Education spokesman, said
that yesterday, "no student was late for any period due
to scanning."

He said students and parents had been told earlier that
DeWitt Clinton would have metal detectors, but students
said that all they knew was that the school would
undergo a security upgrade.

"This is just the beginning," said Anthony Stafford,
a student. "The protest was just to get the word out
that we're serious about being heard."

Janon Fisher contributed reporting for this article.

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18) Unswayed by Storm, Fed Raises Key Rate
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: September 21, 2005

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 - Saying that Hurricane Katrina
was unlikely to pose a "persistent threat" to the economy,
the Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Tuesday for
the 11th time in a row and signaled that more increases
were on the way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/business/21fed.html

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19) Challenged by Creationists,
Museums Answer Back
By CORNELIA DEAN
Published: September 20, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/science/20doce.html

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20) GEDs no longer required
By Joseph R. Chenelly
Times staff writer
September 20, 2005
Army recruiters now have a wider pool to find future
soldiers in. The Army is reaching out to a slice of
America's youth long ineligible to serve: non-high
school graduates who don't have a General Equivalency Diploma
http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1115623.php

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21) Cuba appears to escape Rita's wrath
Island nation took precautions, experienced rains, power outages
By Mary Murray
Producer
NBC News
Updated: 8:36 p.m. ET Sept. 20, 2005
MSNBC.com
A solid 24 hours before the storm hit, Cuban Civil Defense
began evacuating people living in flood areas and in houses
too weak to withstand hurricane conditions.
By noon Tuesday, more than 136,000 people had been moved
to higher ground, with close to 14,000 opting to stay
in government shelters.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9402098/

HAVANA - Hurricane Rita turned day into night, blackening the
skies over Havana on Tuesday as the Category 2 storm scraped
across Cuba's northern coast before moving farther into the
warm waters of the southeastern Gulf of Mexico.

The hurricane's outer bands brought heavy rain and wind but
only for a few short hours. Early reports indicated that
Rita dumped just about five inches of rain over the city
of Havana.

The Cuban Meteorological Institute said that Rita's eye
passed 54 miles north of the capital at 4 p.m. EDT, sparing
the island the brunt of its force. Preliminary reports
indicate that the storm triggered minor coastal flooding
and caused some damage to Cuba's aging power grid.

Parts of downtown Havana experienced flash flooding when
blocked drains and city sewers could not handle the quick
downpour.

By early afternoon, the lights went out along the northern
seaboard and in five major Havana neighborhoods.

In Havana alone, about a quarter of a million people
had lost power.

'Slight' damage to grid
However, a spokesman for Cuba's national electric company
described the overall damage as "slight" and promised to
have crews working to restore power as soon as weather
conditions improved.

A solid 24 hours before the storm hit, Cuban Civil Defense
began evacuating people living in flood areas and in houses
too weak to withstand hurricane conditions.

By noon Tuesday, more than 136,000 people had been moved
to higher ground, with close to 14,000 opting to stay
in government shelters.

Stores and government offices closed by morning, some
boarded up with hard-to-find plywood. Although grade
schools were officially kept open, few students were
at their desks.

Taking no chances
So far, there have been no reports in Cuba of death or
injuries associated with Hurricane Rita.

Still, the island's Civil Defense was taking no chances,
executing emergency evacuation plans in case Rita
changed direction.

Authorities issued a hurricane warning for the island's
central and western provinces and mandatory evacuation
for some people living in low-lying coastal regions
and isolated mountain communities. Also, about 3,000
head of cattle were moved to higher ground.

Residents were encouraged to stay tuned to local
television and radio broadcasts for the latest on
weather and civil defense plans.

Dr. Jose Rubiera, who leads Cuba's forecast center,
predicted earlier that Rita would just skim the island's
northern coast, dumping between 4 and 5 inches of rain,
and he appears to have been proved right.

'We won't let down our guard'
With Rita's southern rain bands being much weaker
than those on her northern flank, Rubiera expected
nothing close to the strong winds and sea surge
normally associated with a direct hit.

Hurricanes, though, are tricky to predict and the gulf's
present warm temperatures added an extra element of
unpredictability.

"This is not a danger for Cuba but we won't let down
our guard. We're watching Rita in case the storm
shifts south," Rubiera said earlier.

Hurricane Dennis - a Category 4 that battered the
island's southeastern ridge on July 9 - caused
$1.2 billion in structural damage and left 16 people
dead. The majority of those killed were people who
did not heed Civil Defense mandatory evacuation orders.

Mary Murray is an NBC News producer based in Havana, Cuba.

(c) 2005 MSNBC.com

URL: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9402098/

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22) This is from:
[NOLA_C3_Discussion] FW: A letter from a Doctor
This was sent to my friend Cindy Sheehan from a doctor
trying to help with our relief effort...forwarded
to me via Dennis K....peace from Ward

Dear Cindy,

My name is Stuart Leeds - I'm the
family practice MD that you met at the
storage facility shortly before we
all caravanned to Algiers today.

It was a great honor and delight to
meet you! I'm also pleased and somewhat
relieved to have the opportunity to
give you a *brief* report on the state
of affairs visa vi the medical relief
effort in the afflicted areas.

In short strokes: people are not
getting the help they need, because our
government, through the agency of
FEMA, has totally politicized the relief
effort. I'm sure you've already gotten
wind of the reports that the Bush
Administration is handing out huge
contracts to favored vendors, much as
they have done in Iraq. But what is
not widely known is - and I can verify
this personally - that FEMA is
*preventing* certain groups and individuals
from participating in the relief
efforts. Here's a quick synopsis of the
experience I and my companions (my wife,
and two respiratory therapists)
had today, in our attempts to offer
our services to the Red Cross operation
in Covington, LA.

We got a call from an official at
the Red Cross that the Vets for Peace
were being invited to send doctors
to Abita Springs, a nearby community.

When we got there around 9 AM,
some of director Dr Rachel Murphy's
assistants welcomed us, and started
making lists of materials we would
need. Suddenly, a man wearing
a Homeland Security shirt came over and
rudely asked us to leave. He brought
a local cop with him, and their body
language was pretty threatening.
We explained that we were coming at the
request of both Dr. Murphy and the
mayor of Covington, Candace Watkins. He
(whose name was Rodney Hart) would
hear none of it from us; he forced us to
leave immediately.

We went to Mayor Watkins, who called
Dr. Murphy and arranged for us to be
allowed into the Red Cross center.
We decided that only my wife and I would
go - realizing that the other gentlemen,
who were wearing VFP T-shirts,
would be less than welcome at the center.

We met Dr. Murphy a little after noon,
and she was very friendly. She told
us she would find a place for us to
work - I as a physician, and my wife as
an organizational specialist. However,
midway through our tour of the
facility, she stepped into the office
of Mr. Hart, the Homeland security
rep, and there were some tense words
exchanged between them. She repeatedly
exclaimed that we were not representing
VFP, and finally there was a long
period of silence. Mr. Hart apparently
made some gestures we couldn't see.
She sighed, and turned to us, and
abruptly suggested we get some lunch in
the basement. As we ate, she started
talking about how the Red Cross was
pulling out of her parish within
a week, how there were already an excess
of docs, and that our services wouldn't be needed.

She also explained that the reason
that VFP was not welcome with the Red
Cross (or indeed, within the entire
parish) was because of a series of
allegations that we had already heard
from others in the center. We had
heard several conflicting versions
of these stories: that someone with VFP
had stolen $15,000 worth of medical
supplies, and that he turned out to be
a child molester; that the Vets for
Peace had come to one center and were
taking over, and bringing cameras
into clinics; that VFP was illegally
collecting Red Cross donations on the Internet.

We could not substantiate any of
these rumors, and indeed, I think it's
unlikely that there was truth to any of them.

Clearly, FEMA and/or Homeland
Security is trying to keep "political
undesirables" from lending a hand
during this catastrophe. Perhaps they are
marching to orders from Bush's
political hacks to preventing peace groups
from upstaging the administration
in the relief effort - which would hardly
be difficult to do, on anything
like a level playing field.

It is so sad to think that the
Bush machine would put politics in front of
the safety and security of human
beings, even in a the wake of a natural
disaster of Katrina's magnitude.
But in the eyes of this physician, I
believe that is exactly what is
happening. And it will continue, as long as
the responsible government
agencies can get away with it..

We must hold them accountable.
But more importantly, we must let people
know this is happening, and thus
bring such pressure to bear on these
obstructionist agencies that they
can no longer keep VFP, or indeed any
group of caring citizens from pitching in.

Thanks, Cindy. And keep up the great work.

F.Stuart (Skip) Leeds, MS, MD

I am ready to keep fighting for humanity.
I thank you all for joining me in
the struggle: the fight of our lives.

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23) Cindy Sheehan Takes on the Democrats,
Hillary Clinton
The anti-war activist has plenty to say-and
it's not all about Bush
by Kristen Lombardi
September 20th, 2005 2:27 PM
http://villagevoice.com/news/0538,lombardiweb,68015,2.html

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24) Katrina, the Mississippi River
and the Risks of the Coming Harvest
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
September 21, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/opinion/21wed4.html?pagewanted=print

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25) W Marks the Spot
Bait and Switch in the Bitterroot
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
September 21, 2005
Like Rumsfeld's Pentagon, the Forest Service under
George W. Bush runs on pr, corporate cronyism, an
obsession with secrecy and the rapid-fire deployment
of fabricated justifications for cutting down
old-growth forests.
In Bush's war on the wild, the trees themselves
are portrayed as standing weapons of mass
destruction, which must be leveled by chainsaws
before they ignite into raging wildfires that
threaten to incinerate the towns of the rural
West. Such is the tale of the spin, any way.
http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair09212005.html

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BAUAW NEWSLETTER-TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2005

*************************************************

SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT OPT-OUT FORM:
The San Francisco USD version of the opt-out form
is simply a sentence on the school enrollment form
with a yes or no checkbox as follows:

"High school applicants: Do you want SFUSD to release
your child's name, address and telephone number to
military recruiters? YES NO"

(The sentence appears in the first part of the actual
Application-after the explanation of how to fill the
form out. It is a sentence in boldface type.)

You can locate the form at: http://portal.sfusd.edu/template/default.cfm?page=policy.placement.appforms

It appears on the right hand side of the screen under
the heading: SERVICES, then click on EPC FORMS.

Obviously this sentence doesn't explain what the
ramifications are for those who check the YES box.
It also doesn't explain that by taking the ASVAB
(Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery) your
NO choice on the Opt-Out question is voided and the
Military can contact your child and call them at
Home. And, you can't stop them from calling by blocking
the caller's number-the U.S. Government can't be
"blocked".

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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NEXT BAUAW MEETING:
TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 7:00 P.M.
474 VALENCIA STREET, S.F. NEAR 16TH STREET

SEPTEMBER 24
ANSWER Organizing Meetings:
Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m.
2489 Mission St., suite 24 (at 21st St., S.F.)

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.

QUEER CONTINGENT
Dolores Park, steps
near 19th & Dolores
11am, Saturday, September 24.

Palestine Contingent:
Assemble at Tennis courts across from
Mission High
At 18th and Dolores
11 a.m., Saturday, September 24

Mourn the Dead.
Resist Bush's War
Bring U.S. troops home, now
MASS PROTEST RALLY
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 2005
WALNUT CREEK, CA
Gather for the march at 11:00 a.m.
at Walnut Creek BART station
– or –
Meet for the rally at 12:00 noon
at Heather Farms Park Picnic area
off Ygnacio Valley Road in Walnut Creek

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1) Press Release
Source: Hasbro, Inc.
G.I. JOE Returns to TV With New Animated Show! SIGMA 6 Debuts
on 4Kids TV on FOX
Friday September 9, 9:49 am ET
PAWTUCKET, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2005--The world's
first action figure, Hasbro, Inc.'s (NYSE: HAS -News )
G.I. JOE, returns to television with an all-new animated
series, G.I. JOE: SIGMA 6 set to premiere this Saturday,
September 10 on 4Kids on FOX affiliates nationwide at 11:00 a.m.
The weekly G.I. JOE: SIGMA 6 series will be based on
a new storyline, with "SIGMA 6" being the code name for
a new group of G.I. JOE heroes with highly specialized
capabilities that they use to protect the world from
COBRA COMMANDER and his evil forces.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050909/95307.html?.v=1
Check out the "Sigma 6 Team":
http://www.hasbro.com/gijoe/default.cfm?page=team
EMAIL HASBRO AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF G.I. JOE
http://hasbro.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/hasbro.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php?p_sid=LrNHiZPh&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD03NzYmcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcGFnZT0x

2) washingtonpost.com
FEMA's City of Anxiety in Florida
Many Hurricane Charley Victims Still Unsure of Next Step
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 17, 2005; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091601922.html

3) Israel to Disrupt Palestinian Vote if Hamas Runs
By JOEL BRINKLEY
Published: September 17, 2005
Mr. Sharon said Israel could choose not to remove roadblocks
and checkpoints that would block Palestinians from the polls
and make it hard for Palestinians in Jerusalem to vote,
among other steps, if Hamas, which calls for Israel's
destruction, takes part.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/international/middleeast/17nations.html

4) New Trial Sought for Lawyer in Terror Case (Lynne Stewart)
By JULIA PRESTON, New York Times
Published: August 13, 2005
[NOTE: NEW SENTENCING DATE IS SET FOR OCTOBER 21ST]
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/nyregion/13stewart.html

5) The Recovery
FEMA, Slow to the Rescue, Now Stumbles in Aid Effort
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and ERIC LIPTON
Published: September 17, 2005
"I expressed to the president that it would take a new
partnership between the military and private sector,"
Mr. Taylor said. "Because there will be another one and
I don't think the federal government is going to be able
to help." Indeed, Mr. Bush said in his address to the
nation from New Orleans on Thursday night that the military
would play a new role in federal disaster relief... "Today
is 18 days past the storm, and FEMA has not even put
a location for people who are displaced," he said. "They
are walking around the damn streets. The system's broke.
... In Tangipahoa Parish, the parish president, Gordon
Burgess, said he called FEMA officials daily to ask when
they would arrive to assist residents with housing.
Mr. Burgess said the federal workers say, " 'I'll get
to you next week,' and then the next week and then you'd
never hear from them again."...
"It is a sad experience," said Frank Link,, who was sent
from to Missouri , then to Mississippi, then to Alabama
and then to Tennessee - all with the same load of 41,580
pounds of ice that he had loaded in Chicago. "I went down
there to help. All I did was get the runaround from FEMA."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/national/nationalspecial/17fema.html

6) In New York Cribs, Jeff and Lisa Give Way to Ahmed and Chaya
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
Published: September 17, 2005
In the last several years, New York City has had more baby
girls named Fatoumata than Lisa, more Aaliyahs than Melissas,
more Chayas than Christinas. There have been more baby boys
named Moshe than Peter, more Miguels than Jeffreys, more
Ahmeds than Stanleys.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/nyregion/17baby.html

7) Study Attributes Stronger Storms to Warmer Seas
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 16, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (AP) - Storms with the power of Hurricane
Katrina are becoming more common, in part because of global
warming, according to a report from a team of researchers
that will be published Friday.
The number of storms in the two most powerful categories,
4 and 5, rose to an average of 18 a year worldwide since 1990,
up from 11 in the 1970's, according to the report, which will
be published in the journal Science.
The researchers were led by Peter J. Webster of the Georgia
Institute of Technology.
There was no increase in storms over all, the researchers
said, just in their intensity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/science/16climate.html

8) What Noble Cause?
By Cindy Sheehan
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Saturday 17 September 2005
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091705Y.shtml

9) Sugar for Sugar, Salt For Salt
Go Down In The Flood Gonna Be Your Own Fault
by Christopher Cooper
Published on Thursday, September 15, 2005 by the Wiscasset Newspaper (Maine)
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0915-28.htm

10) Analysis
New Orleans: Dress rehearsal for lockdown of America
By Carolyn Baker
Online Journal Contributing Writer
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/091305Baker/091305baker.html

11) Military Recruiters' Access to Seattle Schools Restricted
Ramy Khalil
http://www.lefthook.org/Ground/Khalil091605.html

12) Hurricane Katrina: The Black Nation's 9/11!
Statement by Saladin Muhammad of Black Workers for Justice
Via NY Transfer News Collective *All the News that Doesn't Fit
sent by The Freedom Archives - Sep 15, 2005 http://freedomarchives.org/mailman/listinfo/news_freedomarchives.org

13) The High Price of Standing Up to Putin
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
September 18, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/weekinreview/18myers.html?pagewanted=print

14) Op-Ed Contributor
Dangling Particles
By LISA RANDALL
Published: September 18, 2005
Cambridge, Mass.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/opinion/18randall.html?pagewanted=all

15) Guantánamo Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike
By NEIL A. LEWIS
Published: September 18, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 - A hunger strike at the prison camp at
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba , has unsettled senior commanders there
and produced the most serious challenge yet to the military's
effort to manage the detention of hundreds of terrorism
suspects, lawyers and officials say.
As many as 200 prisoners - more than a third of the camp –
have refused food in recent weeks to protest conditions and
prolonged confinement without trial, according to the accounts
of lawyers who represent them. While military officials put
the number of those participating at 105, they acknowledge
that 20 of them, whose health and survival are being threatened,
are being kept at the camp's hospital and fed through nasal
tubes and sometimes given fluids intravenously.
The military authorities were so concerned about ending
a previous strike this summer that they allowed the
establishment of a six-member prisoners' grievance committee,
lawyers said. The committee, a sharp departure from past
practice in which camp authorities refused to cede any
control or role to the detainees, was quickly ended,
the lawyers say.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/politics/18gitmo.html?hp&ex=1127102400&en=0e1376365dbc6773&ei=5094&partner=homepage

16) The Rescues
Aging, Frail, and Refugees
From the Hurricane
By JANE GROSS
Published: September 18, 2005
COLUMBIA, La., Sept. 15 - The frail residents of the
Wynhoven Health Care Center fled New Orleans and the
havoc of Hurricane Katrina for a high school gymnasium,
where they spent four nights sleeping on the floor with
just inches between them. Then they endured a 10-hour
bus ride to this rural outpost in northeastern Louisiana
more than 200 miles from home that might as well have
been the far side of the moon.
They subsisted on bag lunches, did without their insulin
or blood-pressure medicine, risked infection from
catheters that were necessary when no toilets were
available, and finally arrived here at the Haven
Nursing Center with no medical records and only the
clothes on their backs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/national/nationalspecial/18frail.html?hp&ex=1127102400&en=477d062beda215df&ei=5094&partner=homepage

17) Dec 1 NATIONWIDE STRIKE AGAINST POVERTY, RACISM & WAR!
WE MUST TURN OUR OUTRAGE OVER KATRINA INTO A MOVEMENT
On the 50TH Anniversary 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 AND WAR
No School - No Shopping - No Work
local protests and teach-ins through December 2 and 3
Mass March on Wall Street, NYC
SHUT THE WAR DOWN
The People of New Orleans and the Gulf Must Control the
Rebuilding, not Bush's Rich Friends!
Solidarity with Katrina Survivors - We demand an
Independent Investigation
A JOB AT A LIVING WAGE is a human right
Healthcare, Housing and Education, not war and occupation
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

18) Lack of Cohesion Bedevils Recovery
Red Tape, Lapses in Planning Stall Relief
By Shankar Vedantam and Dean Starkman
Washington Post Staff Writers
washingtonpost.com
Sunday, September 18, 2005; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/17/AR2005091701392.html?referrer=email&referrer=email

19) Storm Prompts Evacuation Order in Florida Keys
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 1:26 p.m. ET
September 19, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Tropical-Weather.html?hp&ex=1127188800&en=de23fe7bd0e4e772&ei=5094&partner=homepage

20) Three weeks after Katrina, South shows resilience
Mon Sep 19, 2005 08:29 AM ET
By Carey Gillam and Andy Sullivan
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9690046&src=eDialog/GetContent

21) Student antiwar activists from Madison and Chicago will be leaving
Wednesday September 21st for the Gulf States to bring solidarity and
relief to those who need it. They are collecting donations at Monday
evening's speaking tour with George Galloway in Chicago. http://
www.mrgallowaygoestowashington.com

22) STOP THE EXECUTION OF FRANCES NEWTON![Col. Writ. 9/13/05] Copyright '05 Mumia Abu-Jamal

23) Frances Newton Executed
http://www.texasmoratorium.org/

24) Please forward this email
Mourn the Dead.
Resist Bush's War
Bring U.S. troops home, now
MASS PROTEST RALLY
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 2005
WALNUT CREEK, CA
Gather for the march at 11:00 a.m. at Walnut Creek BART station
– or –
Meet for the rally at 12:00 noon at Heather Farms Park Picnic area
off Ygnacio Valley Road in Walnut Creek

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1) Press Release
Source: Hasbro, Inc.
G.I. JOE Returns to TV With New Animated Show! SIGMA 6 Debuts
on 4Kids TV on FOX
Friday September 9, 9:49 am ET
PAWTUCKET, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2005--The world's
first action figure, Hasbro, Inc.'s (NYSE: HAS -News )
G.I. JOE, returns to television with an all-new animated
series, G.I. JOE: SIGMA 6 set to premiere this Saturday,
September 10 on 4Kids on FOX affiliates nationwide at 11:00 a.m.
The weekly G.I. JOE: SIGMA 6 series will be based on
a new storyline, with "SIGMA 6" being the code name for
a new group of G.I. JOE heroes with highly specialized
capabilities that they use to protect the world from
COBRA COMMANDER and his evil forces.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050909/95307.html?.v=1
Check out the "Sigma 6 Team":
http://www.hasbro.com/gijoe/default.cfm?page=team
EMAIL HASBRO AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF G.I. JOE
http://hasbro.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/hasbro.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php?p_sid=LrNHiZPh&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD03NzYmcF9wcm9kcz0mcF9jYXRzPSZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX25sJnBfcGFnZT0x

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2) washingtonpost.com
FEMA's City of Anxiety in Florida
Many Hurricane Charley Victims Still Unsure of Next Step
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 17, 2005; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091601922.html

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3) Israel to Disrupt Palestinian Vote if Hamas Runs
By JOEL BRINKLEY
Published: September 17, 2005
Mr. Sharon said Israel could choose not to remove roadblocks
and checkpoints that would block Palestinians from the polls
and make it hard for Palestinians in Jerusalem to vote,
among other steps, if Hamas, which calls for Israel's
destruction, takes part.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/international/middleeast/17nations.html

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4) New Trial Sought for Lawyer in Terror Case (Lynne Stewart)
By JULIA PRESTON, New York Times
Published: August 13, 2005
[NOTE: NEW SENTENCING DATE IS SET FOR OCTOBER 21ST]
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/nyregion/13stewart.html

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5) The Recovery
FEMA, Slow to the Rescue, Now Stumbles in Aid Effort
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER and ERIC LIPTON
Published: September 17, 2005
"I expressed to the president that it would take a new
partnership between the military and private sector,"
Mr. Taylor said. "Because there will be another one and
I don't think the federal government is going to be able
to help." Indeed, Mr. Bush said in his address to the
nation from New Orleans on Thursday night that the military
would play a new role in federal disaster relief... "Today
is 18 days past the storm, and FEMA has not even put
a location for people who are displaced," he said. "They
are walking around the damn streets. The system's broke.
... In Tangipahoa Parish, the parish president, Gordon
Burgess, said he called FEMA officials daily to ask when
they would arrive to assist residents with housing.
Mr. Burgess said the federal workers say, " 'I'll get
to you next week,' and then the next week and then you'd
never hear from them again."...
"It is a sad experience," said Frank Link,, who was sent
from to Missouri , then to Mississippi, then to Alabama
and then to Tennessee - all with the same load of 41,580
pounds of ice that he had loaded in Chicago. "I went down
there to help. All I did was get the runaround from FEMA."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/national/nationalspecial/17fema.html

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6) In New York Cribs, Jeff and Lisa Give Way to Ahmed and Chaya
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
Published: September 17, 2005
In the last several years, New York City has had more baby
girls named Fatoumata than Lisa, more Aaliyahs than Melissas,
more Chayas than Christinas. There have been more baby boys
named Moshe than Peter, more Miguels than Jeffreys, more
Ahmeds than Stanleys.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/nyregion/17baby.html

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7) Study Attributes Stronger Storms to Warmer Seas
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 16, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (AP) - Storms with the power of Hurricane
Katrina are becoming more common, in part because of global
warming, according to a report from a team of researchers
that will be published Friday.
The number of storms in the two most powerful categories,
4 and 5, rose to an average of 18 a year worldwide since 1990,
up from 11 in the 1970's, according to the report, which will
be published in the journal Science.
The researchers were led by Peter J. Webster of the Georgia
Institute of Technology.
There was no increase in storms over all, the researchers
said, just in their intensity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/16/science/16climate.html

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8) What Noble Cause?
By Cindy Sheehan
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Saturday 17 September 2005
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091705Y.shtml

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9) Sugar for Sugar, Salt For Salt
Go Down In The Flood Gonna Be Your Own Fault
by Christopher Cooper
Published on Thursday, September 15, 2005 by the Wiscasset Newspaper (Maine)
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0915-28.htm

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10) Analysis
New Orleans: Dress rehearsal for lockdown of America
By Carolyn Baker
Online Journal Contributing Writer
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/091305Baker/091305baker.html

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11) Military Recruiters' Access to Seattle Schools Restricted
Ramy Khalil
http://www.lefthook.org/Ground/Khalil091605.html

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12) Hurricane Katrina: The Black Nation's 9/11!
Statement by Saladin Muhammad of Black Workers for Justice
Via NY Transfer News Collective *All the News that Doesn't Fit
sent by The Freedom Archives - Sep 15, 2005 http://freedomarchives.org/mailman/listinfo/news_freedomarchives.org

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13) The High Price of Standing Up to Putin
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
September 18, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/weekinreview/18myers.html?pagewanted=print

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14) Op-Ed Contributor
Dangling Particles
By LISA RANDALL
Published: September 18, 2005
Cambridge, Mass.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/opinion/18randall.html?pagewanted=all

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15) Guantánamo Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike
By NEIL A. LEWIS
Published: September 18, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 - A hunger strike at the prison camp at
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba , has unsettled senior commanders there
and produced the most serious challenge yet to the military's
effort to manage the detention of hundreds of terrorism
suspects, lawyers and officials say.
As many as 200 prisoners - more than a third of the camp –
have refused food in recent weeks to protest conditions and
prolonged confinement without trial, according to the accounts
of lawyers who represent them. While military officials put
the number of those participating at 105, they acknowledge
that 20 of them, whose health and survival are being threatened,
are being kept at the camp's hospital and fed through nasal
tubes and sometimes given fluids intravenously.
The military authorities were so concerned about ending
a previous strike this summer that they allowed the
establishment of a six-member prisoners' grievance committee,
lawyers said. The committee, a sharp departure from past
practice in which camp authorities refused to cede any
control or role to the detainees, was quickly ended,
the lawyers say.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/politics/18gitmo.html?hp&ex=1127102400&en=0e1376365dbc6773&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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16) The Rescues
Aging, Frail, and Refugees
From the Hurricane
By JANE GROSS
Published: September 18, 2005
COLUMBIA, La., Sept. 15 - The frail residents of the
Wynhoven Health Care Center fled New Orleans and the
havoc of Hurricane Katrina for a high school gymnasium,
where they spent four nights sleeping on the floor with
just inches between them. Then they endured a 10-hour
bus ride to this rural outpost in northeastern Louisiana
more than 200 miles from home that might as well have
been the far side of the moon.
They subsisted on bag lunches, did without their insulin
or blood-pressure medicine, risked infection from
catheters that were necessary when no toilets were
available, and finally arrived here at the Haven
Nursing Center with no medical records and only the
clothes on their backs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/national/nationalspecial/18frail.html?hp&ex=1127102400&en=477d062beda215df&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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17) Dec 1 NATIONWIDE STRIKE AGAINST POVERTY, RACISM & WAR!
WE MUST TURN OUR OUTRAGE OVER KATRINA INTO A MOVEMENT
On the 50TH Anniversary 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 AND WAR
No School - No Shopping - No Work
local protests and teach-ins through December 2 and 3
Mass March on Wall Street, NYC
SHUT THE WAR DOWN
The People of New Orleans and the Gulf Must Control the
Rebuilding, not Bush's Rich Friends!
Solidarity with Katrina Survivors - We demand an
Independent Investigation
A JOB AT A LIVING WAGE is a human right
Healthcare, Housing and Education, not war and occupation
BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!

The Outrage in New Orleans is a clarion call to the
Antiwar and grassroots movement:
The time has arrived to take our struggle to a higher
level. Let us work together and organize a nationwide strike
against Poverty, Racism and War on Dec. 1, 2005, the 50th
anniversary of the day that Rosa Parks helped launch the
modern civil rights movement.No School - No Shopping - No
Work --local protests and teachins through December 2 and 3
-- A Mass March on Wall Street, NYC. It is time for the people
to demonstrate that they can stop business as usual coast-to-
coast when justice requires it.
The war and occupation of Iraq, coupled with the Katrina
Outrage, have demonstrated to the world the urgent necessity
shut for fundamental change, and a movement that is big enough
and determined enough to achieve the goal. Katrina has exposed
the ugly truths about class and race, poverty, war and
militarism. Our demand to end the war in Iraq and to bring
the the troops home now must be backed up by the kind of
mass tactics that signal we mean business.
Fifty years ago, Black people in Montgomery, Al. were
forced by law to sit in the back of public buses, and give
their seats to any white person who demanded it. When Rosa
Parks, a garment worker and civil rights activist, refused
to give up her seat to a white man, she sparked the
Montgomery bus boycott against segregation on public buses,
one of the most successful and truly mass boycotts in history.
The Montgomery bus boycott also introduced to the world
a young reverend named Martin Luther King Jr., who became
the boycott's principal public leader.

Dec. 1 Nationwide strike against poverty, racism
and war- Initiating organizations:
Troops Out Now Coalition, Million Worker March Movement,
Teamsters National Black Caucus, Michigan Emergency
Committee Against War & Injustice.

ENDORSE the call today or volunteer to ORGANIZE AN
ACTIVITY IN YOUR AREA for the December 1 NATIONAL
STRIKE AGAINST POVERTY, RACISM AND WAR!

For more information:

Troops Out Now Coalition
39 W 14th St Suite 206
New York, NY 10011
212-633-6646
info@troopsoutnow.org
www.troopsoutnow.org

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18) Lack of Cohesion Bedevils Recovery
Red Tape, Lapses in Planning Stall Relief
By Shankar Vedantam and Dean Starkman
Washington Post Staff Writers
washingtonpost.com
Sunday, September 18, 2005; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/17/AR2005091701392.html?referrer=email&referrer=email

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19) Storm Prompts Evacuation Order in Florida Keys
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 1:26 p.m. ET
September 19, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Tropical-Weather.html?hp&ex=1127188800&en=de23fe7bd0e4e772&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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20) Three weeks after Katrina, South shows resilience
Mon Sep 19, 2005 08:29 AM ET
By Carey Gillam and Andy Sullivan
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=9690046&src=eDialog/GetContent

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21) Student antiwar activists from Madison and Chicago will be leaving
Wednesday September 21st for the Gulf States to bring solidarity and
relief to those who need it. They are collecting donations at Monday
evening's speaking tour with George Galloway in Chicago. http://
www.mrgallowaygoestowashington.com

These students are following in the footsteps of a first contingent
of NYC CAN students who are in the Gulf States now.

They have been filing their reports at
http://www.campusantiwar.net
http://www.counterpunch.org
http://www.traprockpeace.org/relief_not_war/

They will travel from the Gulf States to join the "College Not Combat
- Relief Not War" contingent that will march in Washington, DC on
September 24th. A sister contingent is marching in San Francisco that
day. Learn more on the contingents at http://www.campusantiwar.net/

**

September 19, 2005

New York - Madison - Chicago to New Orleans and then to Washington DC
Campus Antiwar Network: Money for Relief, Not for War!

By Dennis Kosuth:

While Hurricane Katrina itself was a natural
disaster, there was nothing "natural" about the
government's disgusting lack of response to this
catastrophe.

How can we trust that a government, which began by
ignoring this crisis, is even interested in - let alone
capable of - rebuilding the lives of the affected
people?

This is the very same government, which has not only
destroyed Iraq, but has also proven unable to rebuild
it, despite the billions of dollars spent on the war.

It is clear that from Baghdad to New Orleans, profit
comes before people.

It is no surprise that Bush denies that racism had
anything to do with the fact that African-American
disproportionately suffered in the Gulf Coast
disaster. This same person is conducting a racist,
anti-Arab and anti-Muslim war abroad.

We are asking people to make donations for us to bring
down to those who need it.

The simplest way to help is with a cash donation,
which we will use to either purchase products that
people can use, or give directly to organizations in
the area. We will also accept cleaning supplies,
toiletrys, and medical related items.

For those attending the George Galloway event on 9/19
at Thorne Auditorium, Northwestern University Law
School (375 E. Chicago near Lake Shore Drive) at 7pm,
we will have a table to accept donations. Please stop by.

If you are interested in traveling with us, please
contact Dennis through the information below.

In solidarity,

Alex, Harper Community College
Bob, University of Illinois - Chicago
Dennis, Malcolm X College
Erika, University of Illinois - Chicago
Lauren, Harold Washington College
Sabah, University of Illinois - Chicago

For more information about the Madison/Chicago mission, contact
Dennis Kosuth at dkosut1@yahoo.com or 312-316-2634

Students on the NYC mission include:
Joanna Bove, John Burns, Manijeh Moradian, Vinay Patel, Tiffany Paul,
Francisco Pereyra, Jena Smith, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, and Zach
ZillJoanna Bove, John Burns, Manijeh Moradian, Vinay Patel, Tiffany
Paul, Francisco Pereyra, Jena Smith, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, and
Zach Zill

See the Campus Antiwar Network site for updates from CAN students
already in the Gulf states, and for information on the "College Not
Combat - Relief Not War" contingents in the Washington, DC and San
Francisco marches on September 24th.

http://www.campusantiwar.net

For a look at CAN's history since October 26, 2002, see
http://www.traprockpeace.org/campus_antiwar.html

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Forwarded with introduction by:

Charles Jenks
Chair of Advisory Board and Web Manager
Traprock Peace Center
103A Keets Road
Deerfield, MA 01342
413-773-7427
fax 413-773-7507
http://www.traprockpeace.org

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22) STOP THE EXECUTION OF FRANCES NEWTON!
[Col. Writ. 9/13/05] Copyright '05 Mumia Abu-Jamal

If the state of Texas has its way, Frances Newton will be dead
within hours of these words being written; killed by Texas during a
legalized lynching.

If this execution goes forward, it'll be the first time an
African-American woman was executed in Texas since 1854, when an
enslaved Black woman named Lucy was hanged in the coastal port city of
Galveston.

Her family and supporters are raising her case to try to stay the
execution, and hopefully, regain her freedom.

Frances Newton was convicted in the 1988 killings of her husband and
two children.

According to published reports, a Houston D.A. admitted that another
weapon was involved in the killings. Her family and supporters hope
this new evidence will open up the case.

Newton, because of insufficient funds, was assigned a
court-appointed attorney named Ron Mock, a man who has had so many
clients sent to death row, that an entire wing of the unit was known as
'Mock Wing', for the sixteen souls he represented at capital trials.
Among his clientele was Black nationalist, Shaka Sankofa, who was
executed by Texas in 2000.

Of that number, only four are alive today.

When Newton's family raised funds for private counsel, the court
refused to allow Mr. Mock to withdraw, and Frances Newton was stuck with
a lawyer considered among the least competent in the Houston region.

An impressive group of supporters for her commutation, release or
retrial has assembled in the last few weeks. Among them are the Texas
and Austin NAACP, the ACLU, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark,
the President of the American Bar Association, the Texas Civil Rights
Project, the Texas Publishers Assn., and other groups and prominent
individuals, have spoken out in her support.

Michael Greco, President of the American Bar Association, wrote (in
part):

"...[S]ignificant and compelling new evidence ... has not yet been
evaluated by the Texas courts ... This evidence was not discovered
earlier because of the negligence of her appointed lawyer ... He *did no
investigation whatsoever*, and therefore, did not place before the jury
the evidence that now casts doubt on Ms. Newton's involvement in this
crime ..."

Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, in a letter to the U.S.
President, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and the state's Pardon's Board, wrote
(in part):

"Evidence not presented at trial, but now known to have existed, would
have caused an acquittal. Her trial attorney was not competent and can
no longer appear in death cases, but too late for her. A person of
financial means would never have been convicted and probably never even
tried in such a case."

Former comedian and present civil rights activist, Dick Gregory,
didn't speak of legality, but of morality when he said:

"They're going to kill her, and you so-called righteous people are going
to sit back and let it happen!"

Her spirited supporters have assembled a website
(www.freefrances.org ) where statements of support are popping up from
all over the nation.

As of this writing, a two-part commutation petition is before the
Governor of Texas and the Board of Pardons and Parole.

The struggle for her life, and her freedom continues, as the clock
chimes down.

A review of documents from the case, and affidavits attached point
strongly towards her innocence of the crimes which sent her to the Mock
Wing of Death Row in Texas.

As the struggle gains steam, we hope she and her family will prevail.


Copyright 2005 Mumia Abu-Jamal

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23) Frances Newton Executed
http://www.texasmoratorium.org/

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24) Please forward this email

Mourn the Dead.
Resist Bush's War
Bring U.S. troops home, now
MASS PROTEST RALLY
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 2005
WALNUT CREEK, CA
Gather for the march at 11:00 a.m. at Walnut Creek BART station
– or –
Meet for the rally at 12:00 noon at Heather Farms Park Picnic area
off Ygnacio Valley Road in Walnut Creek

PLEASE join thousands of Patriotic Americans on
Saturday, Sept 24 to demonstrate your desire to set America Back on
the Course of True Democracy and to bring home our troops
Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a participatory process. In
order for democracy to work the people must get up off their couches
and actively participate in making it work.

If you’re happy about the war in Iraq and you think the Bush
Administration is doing a good job, then perhaps this leaflet isn’t for
you. Perhaps you don’t need to do anything - you can stay home, tuned
in to FOXNews’ “Fair and Balanced” coverage of the great things Bush is
doing for our economy and the safety of our nation.

But for those who have had enough of this Administration’s bad
judgment, regressive policies, and lack of leadership, there IS
something you can do: join the hundreds of thousands across the nation
in a

MASS PROTEST RALLY
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 2005
WALNUT CREEK, CA
Gather for the march at 11:00 a.m. at Walnut Creek BART station
– or –
Meet for the rally at 12:00 noon at Heather Farms Park Picnic area
off Ygnacio Valley Road in Walnut Creek

Why is this important? It sends a message to President Bush that we
don’t want to “stay the course”. It sends a message to our Senators and
Congresspersons that we’ve had enough and they must start representing
us - the people - not the special interests that finance their
campaigns. It is - aside from voting - the most basic and essential
form of democracy … where we tell our elected representative what “WE
THE PEOPLE” want them to do.

Your role in this process is vital. If you stay home, if you say
nothing, the message to the elected officials is clear:
“the people are not interested and therefore we will make decisions for
them.”

Think about these issues over the next few days:

Iraq War & Terrorism: Our nation was attacked by terrorists on
September 11, 2001. In the days that followed, we once again became a
“united” nation, supporting each other and denouncing the violence of
those who executed the attacks. The world reached out to us with
offers of help and condolences. But instead of ending terrorism, the
Bush Administration began and, in 2003, expanded, a unilateral rampage
through the Middle East, despite worldwide cries to end the violence.
And now, years later, under the direction of that Administration, we
are in another Vietnam-like protracted war that can’t be won, the
mastermind of the attacks – Osama bin Laden - is still free, terrorism
is on the rise worldwide, and the world’s people have come to hate us.

Homeland In-security: Now we are also seeing more of the effects of
this Administration’s harmful preoccupation. Funds and other resources
that should have gone to securing our own nation’s land and people in
the Gulf Coast area were unavailable because of outrageous spending
cuts and diversions to war. Our own people were abandoned.

Record deficits: The Bush Administration inherited a record surplus
of $8 trillion upon taking office. In just six short years he has
turned that surplus into a $4 trillion dollar deficit. You, your
children, and your grandchildren will pay for these poor judgments, for
the squandering of our wealth, well-being and lifestyle we’ve worked so
hard to obtain.

Jobs and the Economy: The Bush Administration is the first
administration since Hoover’s (in 1944) to actually reduce the number
of jobs available to American workers. His policies reward America’s
large corporations for outsourcing American’s jobs to cheap foreign
labor markets.

Join us on Saturday, September 24th in telling President Bush “Enough
is enough, we do not want to ‘stay the course’”:

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