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TONIGHT! Wed., May 2, 5pm
Emergency SF Protest - U.S. Out of Iraq NOW!
After Bush’s veto of Congress’s Iraq war funding bill,
emergency protests are set to take place across the U.S.
on Wednesday, May 2. The main demand of the protest
in San Francisco will be: “U.S. Out of Iraq NOW!” The
emergency demonstration in San Francisco will take
place at 5 p.m. at Powell and Market Streets. Sponsors
include the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War
and End Racism), the World Can’t Wait, Veterans
for Peace - Chapter 69, CodePink and other
organizations.
The protest is being called on less than 24 hours
notice. Volunteers are needed. If you can help,
call 415-821-6545.
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Dr. Julia Hare at the SOBA 2007
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeo9ewi/proudtobeblack2/
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"There comes a times when silence is betrayal."
--Martin Luther King
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Hands Off Venezuela:
Jorge Martin Speaking Tour Date in San Francisco
When: Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 7:00 PM
Where: Center for Political Education,
3rd Floor Auditorium
522 Valencia, near 16th St.
(ring bell; not wheelchair accessible)
Cost: $5/$3 students, seniors, unemployed
Transit: BART station, 16th St.
Parking nearby: Mission & Bartlett Garage;
16th & Hoff Garage
Visit our websites at:
www.ushov.org
www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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ONE COURT DECISION:
EXECUTION OR THE ROAD TO FREEDOM
Stand with Mumia Abu-Jamal May 17 in Philadelphia
and San Francisco.
On May 17, 2007 Mumia Abu-Jamal's lead attorney, Robert
R. Bryan, will present oral arguments to the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia. Despite
a mountain of evidence of his innocence, a U.S. criminal
"justice" system saturated with race and class bias has
reduced his case to just four issues: exclusion of Blacks
from the jury panel, racial bias, improper instructions
to the jury regarding the death penalty and prosecutorial
misconduct.
In a 1982 frame-up trial that has been condemned by groups
and individuals including Amnesty International, the
European Parliament, the NAACP, the National Lawyers
Guild, President Nelson Mandela of South Africa,
President Jacques Chirac of France, the Congressional
Black Caucus, hundreds of U.S. and international trade
unions and the Detroit, San Francisco, and Paris, France
city councils, Mumia was falsely convicted of the murder
of a Philadelphia police officer.
Six eyewitnesses stated that the real
killer fled the murder scene while
Mumia himself was found near dead next
to the slain police officer.
Critical evidence of Mumia's innocence
was destroyed or withheld.
"Witnesses" never at the murder scene
were coerced to state that they were
present. Police distorted events and
material evidence at the murder scene.
Mumia himself was excluded from the
majority of his own trial.
Mumia was the victim of a political
frame-up. He is an award-winning
journalist, whose widely-respected
social commentaries are today broadcast
on 124 radio stations. In 1981, as
a radio commentator and President of the
Philadelphia Association of Black
Journalists, he was a leading human
rights critic of the Philadelphia Police
Department, many of whose officers had
been indicted and convicted on charges
of corruption, witness intimidation and
the planting of evidence.
Mumia's judge, Albert Sabo, was overheard
by court stenographer, Terri
Maurer Carter, to say in his antechambers
about Mumia, "Yeah, and I'm going
to help 'em fry the n----r."
Mumia has been on death row nearly 25 years.
He has become a worldwide symbol in
the fight against the barbaric and
racist death penalty. Pennsylvania
authorities seek, for the third time,
to impose the death penalty and
murder Mumia by lethal injection. We must
make the political price of this
execution and continued incarceration
too high to pay. We stand with Mumia as
he fights for his legal right to a new
trial and for his life and freedom.
Join us in Philadelphia on Thursday,
May 17, 9:30 am at the U.S.
Courthouse, 6th and Market Streets,
Philadelphia. On the East Coast call:
215-476-8812. On the West Coast, we
mobilize at the U.S. Court of Appeals
Building, 7th Street and Mission, San
Francisco, 4-6 pm. Call: 415-255-1085
Pam Africa; Ed Asner; Harry Belafonte;
Heidi Boghosian, Exec. Dir, *National
Lawyers Guild; Angela Davis; Hari Dillon,
President, Vanguard Public Foundation;
Eve Ensler; Bill Fletcher Jr., Co-founder,
*Center for Labor Renewal; Danny Glover;
Frances Goldin; Rick Halperin, President,
*Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty;
Dolores Huerta; Barbara Lubin, Dir., *Middle
East Children's Alliance; Jeff Mackler; Robbie
Meeropol, Exec. Dir., *Rosenberg Fund for
Children; Michael Ratner, President, *Center
for Constitutional Rights; Lynne Stewart;
Alice Walker; Cornel West; Howard Zinn
*Organization listed for identification
purposes only.
CONTRIBUTE TO THE EFFORT TO SAVE MUMIA'S LIFE!
Please make checks payable to: Mobilization
to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, 298
Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. -
freemumia.org; alerts@freemumia.org
Sponsors: The Mobilization to Free Mumia
Abu-Jamal (Northern California);
International Concerned Family and Friends
of Mumia Abu-Jamal; Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Coalition (NYC); Chicago Committee to Free
Mumia Abu-Jamal; Educators for Mumia Abu-Jamal
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ARTICLES IN FULL:
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1) Islam in the Western Mirror
Dr. Nasir Khan
[VIA Email from the author: nasir.khan@c2i.net ...bw]
2) Another Economic Disconnect
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Op-Ed Columnist
April 30, 2007
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/opinion/30krugman.html?hp
3) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"Native people cheer and applaud numbers killed at the
Sand Creek Massacre"
April 30, 2007
[Via Email from: Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
7078 South Fairfax Street
Centennial, CO 80122
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Vasicek,+Don
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net...bw]
4) Spying on Americans
Editorial
May 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/opinion/02wed1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
5) Kent State Tape Is Said to Reveal Orders
By CHRISTOPHER MAAG
May 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/us/02kent.html
6) Bees and Our Diet on the Brink
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Honeybee-Die-Off.html
7) Chávez Takes Over Foreign-Controlled Oil Projects
in Venezuela
By SIMON ROMERO
May 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/world/americas/02venezuela.html?pagewanted=print
8) May Day 2007
Amnesty for All! Open All borders!
By Carole Seligman
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1) Islam in the Western Mirror
Dr. Nasir Khan
[VIA Email from the author: nasir.khan@c2i.net ...bw]
Present-day images of Muslims and Islam in Western media
vary considerably. However, since the collapse of the Soviet
Union the general drift of Western concerns has been to portray
Islam as the main enemy of the West and the Muslim world as
a hotbed of terrorism that threatens Western civilization and
its democratic values. Thus in the present-day hegemonic world
order—under which all norms of civilized behavior in the conduct
of foreign policy have been discarded by the Bush Administration
and its allies in London and Tel Aviv—Muslims are associated
with terrorism. We have seen over the last few years the
expansion of President Bush’s destructive war, the inhuman
treatment of captive population of Iraq and Afghanistan,
rampant abuse of prisoners from Muslim countries by American
and British forces, total indifference towards the human
rights of prisoners of war or of those suspected of resisting
or opposing the American occupation of their countries and
false propaganda to cover up the real objectives and crimes
against humanity of the neocon rulers in Washington and London.
Needless to say, the so-called “Islamic challenge” is based
on assumptions that have no basis in reality. They misrepresent,
distort and mislead rather than enlighten and inform. Over
the last fifteen years a number of publications have appeared
that have borne sensational titles like “sword of Islam,”
“The Islamic Threat,” “The Roots of Muslim Rage,” “Islam’s
New Battle Cry” and “What went wrong with Islam?” They reveal
the sort of preconceived image of Islam their writers had
intended to convey to their readers. According to such
projections, Islam is a challenge to Western values as well
as to West’s economic and political interests. But in view
of the real power wielded by the West in general and America
in particular throughout the Middle East and beyond, the
so-called “threat of Islam” is quite groundless.
But right-wing political manipulators and Christian
fundamentalists can very easily provoke major crises between
the Muslim world and the West; we have only to recall the
case of the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The real aim
of some Danish and Norwegian right-wing newspapers to publish
these cartoons was to provoke hostile reactions from Muslims
and thus cause more bitterness and resentment between Muslims
and Christians. They tried to cover up their anti-Islamic
campaign behind the smokescreen of the argument that publishing
the cartoons was a demonstration of the West’s freedom
of expression. They were xenophobic, racist and disrespectful
of immigrant cultures in Europe and the Islamic culture in
particular. How could hurting the feelings of over one billion
Muslims serve the interests of free Press, freedom of expression
or civil liberties? An anti-Islam fundamentalist Christian
by the name of Mr. Selbekk, the Norwegian editor of Magazinet
reprinted the cartoons, which were first published in Denmark.
He was asked if he would also publish any cartoons that
insulted Jesus, he said, “No.” Thus this gentleman’s vaunted
ideal of “freedom of expression” was limited to insulting the
Prophet Muhammad and obviously did not extend to insulting
the gods, prophets and spiritual avatars of any other major
religion.
However, it is important to look at the strategic goals of
such editors and publishers. They did succeed in their objective,
which was to cause maximum provocation to Muslims worldwide
and to create an atmosphere of contempt and hatred towards
them among the followers of other religions. Muslims were
predictably and understandably offended and their reactions
led to some horrible incidents in various parts of the globe.
What those who reacted violently did not realize was that they
had fallen in the trap of anti-Muslim mischief-mongers, who,
through provocation had achieved their goal. Now the stage
was set to repeat the old charge: Muslims were fanatics,
volatile and irrational—they were “terrorists!” The divide
between “us” and “them” as cultural opposites was reinforced
and widened.
The anti-Muslim media keep on churning out the common stereotypes
that portray Muslims, compared to Westerners, as more prone
to conflict and violence. These media publish accounts of
conflicts in the Muslim countries as self-evident truths to
reinforce the image. There is a general tendency to oversimplify
or ignore altogether diverse trends and complex socio-economic
factors that lead to instability and conflicts in various Muslim
countries. The explanations offered and conclusions drawn sometimes
are based on implicit, but more often, explicit assumptions about
the superiority of Western, “Judaeo-Christian” culture, while
the Islamic world is thought to be an epicenter of brutality
and disharmony.
A very common stereotype in the Western media is that Islamic
countries are inherently prone to violence, fanaticism, medieval
ideas and prejudices. This means that Islam, both as a religion
and as a cultural influence, is to bear the responsibility for
all such regional ills. The West is the harbinger of sweetness
and light (but occasionally also darkness and misery,) peace
and civility (but occasionally predatory wars and barbarism,)
rationality and open-mindedness (but occasionally irrationality,
racism and prejudice, and always is focused on its own interests.)
All those who have taken the trouble to look at the last few
centuries’ history of Western colonialism, extending from the
time of the so-called “discoveries” of America by Columbus in
1492 and of India by Vasco de Gama in 1498 by sea routes, the
“discovery” of Africa by the European for slave trade show the
“noble” hands of Western nations that were extended to the people
of Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia have left their marks
on every continent. We cannot go into historical details here.
But the global expansion of Western colonialism is the story
of plunder and destruction across continents. No doubt, the
seeds of Western civilization were sown in this way. Within
Western societies, the internal conflicts, violence and wars
present us with a gory history. This superior culture when
seen in the limited sphere of geopolitics and international
relations in the last one hundred years only leaves a legacy
of two World Wars, more wars (Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan,
Iraq,) invasions and coups (Guatemala, Grenada, Iran, Pakistan,
Indonesia, Chile, Argentina, Congo, southern Africa,)
concentration camps, racist massacres undertaken on a large
scale by the flag-bearers of Western civilization.
It is obvious that cultural differences between nations and
peoples of the world are a fact of history. And in this context
generalizing about cultural differences is unavoidable. But
in no way can such differences be equated with mutual
exclusiveness or inevitable hostility between different
cultures. Where the initial instinct is not to enter into
an anthropological or historical study of comparative cultures,
but rather to foment strife and hatred between nations and
religions for ulterior motives the consequences can be
disastrous. Let us take the events in the aftermath of the
bombing of Oklahoma City in the United States on April 19,
1995. The media rushed to spread rumors that a “Middle
Eastern man” [i.e. a Muslim Arab] was responsible for the
carnage. As a result Muslims throughout the United States
were targeted for physical abuse, rough treatment and social
ostracism. Their mosques were desecrated, Muslim women ere
harassed and cars belonging to “Middle Easterners” damaged.
A British newspaper, Today, published on its front page
a frightening picture of a fireman carrying the burnt remains
of a dead child under the headline “In the name of Islam.”
Identifying the perpetrator of such a reprehensible act
alone would not be sufficient; Islam also had to be brought
in to ignite the communal passions of people against members
of another faith. However, it soon became evident that the
bomber was a fair-haired American soldier, a decorated Gulf
War (1991) veteran. The religion of this right-wing terrorist
was not Islam but Christianity. But no one in either American
or British media labeled him a “Christian terrorist” or
apologized to Muslims for the wrongs done to them. Once
again the freedom to tell the truth and report events fairly
had taken a back seat.
The second instance is the September 11, 2001 attack on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon by a few persons, most
of whom came from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a close ally
of America. They saw the policies pursued by the U.S.
in the Middle East and its support for the anachronistic
rule by the House of Saud as the stumbling block towards
a fair social order in their country as well as the rest
of the Middle East. No matter what the nature of their
grievances, I regard this attack terribly wrong. It provided
ammunition to the neocons and right-wing fanatics in Washington
to unleash the reign of terror, war, death and destruction
in the Middle East and the petroleum regions in the general
vicinity. At the same time, we ask a simple question: What
had these bombings to do with millions of ordinary Muslim
citizens of Europe and America? The answer is: nothing
whatsoever. We witnessed that they were victimized everywhere
by many white Westerners in the most grotesque and despicable
ways.
During my stay in Europe for more than four decades, I have
become acutely aware that the negative images of Islam and
Islamic civilization need a serious historical analysis for
general readers as well as academic scholars that enables
us to rise above oft-repeated and worn-out clichés of media
and partisan scholarship and thus show the facts of the
problematic relations between the two world religions and
their civilizations. My book, “Perceptions of Islam in
the Christendoms,” (2006) deals these themes and issues.
It is clear that both Islam and the West suffer from the
perceptual problems of adversary relationship going far
back in history. Their mutual perceptions have been
distorted by religious dogmas, political developments
and traditional prejudices. If we take a look at the
history of European colonial expansion in Americas,
Australia and in the East (China, India, the Middle East
and North Africa, etc.) the old balance of power between
the East and the West had changed. The colonial power
over other nations also strengthened the collective
consciousness of the industrial West, or its assumption
that it was more powerful and therefore superior to the
rest of the world. The colonized and subjugated people
also started to perceive the West as materially, culturally,
and morally superior. It is true the West was superior in
producing machines, modern weaponry and efficient armies
to invade and subjugate other countries of the world. This
made Western nations more powerful, but that did not mean
they were morally or intellectually superior. But the
subjugated races were not in a position to advance such
challenging views. In such uneven power relations under
colonialism no genuine communication was possible. The
same is true of the current neo-colonial war in Iraq by
the Bush Administration to achieve full control over the
oil resources and assert political hegemony over the
entire Middle East.
The Western ways to see Islam as a monolithic religious
and political force is against all historical facts and
contemporary political realities. Islam is not a monolithic
force; the diversity within the Islamic world is wider
than most Westerners think. Within three decades after
the death of the Prophet Muhammad, Muslim community split
into Sunni and Shia factions following a civil war. This
division proved to be permanent, and further divisions
within the two main branches have characterized Islamic
faith and polity for fourteen centuries. The spread
of Islam followed different paths in different countries
and regions of the world. At present over one billion
people of all races, languages, nationalities and
cultures are Muslims. Their socio-cultural conditions
as well as their doctrinal affiliations show much
diversity and complexity. What this means is that
Islam as a universal religion, like Christianity,
is not a monolithic entity; this is despite the fact
that Muslims share some fundamental beliefs in One God
and His revelations through the prophets.
However, historical and religious traditions and myths
have a life of their own. Once they have become part
of a culture they continue to shape and restructure
the collective consciousness of vast populations. The
anti-Islamic tradition in the Christendoms has a long
historical pedigree and it continues to be a dynamic
factor affecting and determining international relations.
The study of history helps us to see facts in their
historical evolutionary process and thus lighten the
cultural baggage that has often poisoned relationships
between the two religious communities. An honest and
balanced study of the past and the present-day
geopolitical realities of the global hegemonic world
order means that we no longer have to passively accept
distorted legacies and close our eyes to what is
happening in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, and also
in Pakistan at the hands of the United States, its
allies and the marionette Muslim ruling cliques.
The question of “Islamic terrorism,” the denial of women’s
rights under Islam and the alleged irreconcilability of
Islamic and Western values appear all the time in the
Western media. But such accusations reveal a deep-rooted
ignorance and confusion. They have no relationship to
reality. We should bear in mind that a follower of
a religion is not necessarily a true representative
or spokesperson of that religion. Neither can the
individual acts of terrorism, state-terrorism or superpower-
terrorism be imputed to religion whether it is Christianity,
Judaism, Islam or Hinduism. If an individual or group from
a Muslim community resorts to extremism in political or
religious spheres for whatever reason or commits a crime,
the general tendency is to hold the whole Islamic tradition
responsible. What happens if someone from Western culture
or a Christian right-wing extremist resorts to violence
or commits a crime? He is held responsible as an individual
and no one blames the Western culture or Christianity for
his actions. Do we not have some powerful leaders in the
West who are Christian right-wingers and are responsible
for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Muslim men,
women and children? Does anyone blame Christianity for that?
We ask these questions and expect our readers to ask these
questions and then try to find some answers.
With regard to women, the Qur’an gave them legal rights
of inheritance and divorce in the seventh-century, which
Western women would not receive until the 19th or 20th
century. There is nothing in Islam about obligatory
veiling of women or their seclusion, either. In fact,
such practices came into Islam about three generations
after the death of the Prophet Muhammad under the
influence of the Greek Christians of Byzantium. In fact
there has been a high degree of cultural interaction between
Christians and Muslims from the beginning of Islamic
history.
The fundamental values of fraternity, respect, justice
and peace are common in all the major civilizations and
the five major religions. To call democracy “a Western
value” is simply bizarre; the monarchical system prevailed
in Europe where the kings held absolute powers under the
divine right to rule. The evolution of democratic and
constitutional form of government took shape much later.
Contrary to what the media and populist politicians assert,
there is nothing in Islam that goes against democracy
and democratic values.
Nasir Khan, is a historian and a peace activist. He is
the author of, “Development of the Concept and Theory of
Alienation in Marx’s Writings and Perceptions of Islam
in the Christendoms: A Historical Survey.” He has written
numerous articles on international affairs and the issues
of human rights.
He has his own blog at http://nasir-khan.blogspot.com
through which he can be contacted.
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2) Another Economic Disconnect
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Op-Ed Columnist
April 30, 2007
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/opinion/30krugman.html?hp
Last fall Edward Lazear, the Bush administration’s top
economist, explained that what’s good for corporations
is good for America. “Profits,” he declared, “provide the
incentive for physical capital investment, and physical
capital growth contributes to productivity growth. Thus
profits are important not only for investors but also
for the workers who benefit from the growth in productivity.”
In other words, ask not for whom the closing bell tolls;
it tolls for thee.
Unfortunately, these days none of what Mr. Lazear said
seems to be true. In the Bush years high profits haven’t
led to high investment, and rising productivity hasn’t
led to rising wages.
The second of those two disconnects has gotten a lot
of attention because of its political consequences. The
administration and its allies whine that they aren’t
getting credit for a great economy, but because wages
have been stagnant — the median worker’s earnings,
adjusted for inflation, haven’t gone up at all since
the current economic expansion began in 2001 — the
economy feels anything but great to most Americans.
Less attention, however, has been given to the first
disconnect: the failure of high profits to produce
an investment boom.
Since President Bush took office, the combination of
rising productivity and stagnant wages — workers are
producing more, but they aren’t getting paid more —
has led to a veritable profit gusher, with corporate
profits more than doubling since 2000. Last year,
profits as a share of national income were at the
highest level ever recorded.
You might have expected this gusher of profits, which
surely owes something to the Bush administration’s
pro-corporate, anti-labor tilt, to produce a corresponding
gusher of business investment. But the reality has been
more of a trickle. Nonresidential investment — that is,
investment other than housing construction — has grown
very slowly by historical standards. As a share of G.D.P.,
nonresidential investment remains far below its levels
of the late 1990s, and it has been declining for the
last two quarters.
Why aren’t corporations investing, and what does the lack
of business investment mean for the economy?
It’s possible that sluggish business investment reflects
lack of confidence in the economic outlook — a lack of
confidence that’s understandable given the bursting of
the housing bubble, which has already caused G.D.P. growth
to slow to a crawl.
But as Floyd Norris recently reported in The Times, there
is a more disturbing possibility. Instead of investing in
physical capital, many companies are using profits to buy
back their own stock. And cynics suggest that the purpose
of these buybacks is to produce a temporary rise in stock
prices that increases the value of executives’ stock options,
even if it’s against the long-term interests of investors.
It’s not a far-fetched idea. Researchers at the Federal
Reserve have found evidence that company decisions about
stock buybacks are strongly influenced by “agency conflicts,”
a genteel term for self-dealing by corporate insiders. In the
1990s that kind of self-dealing often led to excessive
investment, which at least left a tangible legacy behind.
But today the self-interest of management may be standing
in the way of productive investment.
Whatever the reasons, we now have an economy with incredibly
high profits and surprisingly low investment. This raises some
immediate, short-run concerns: with housing still in free fall
and consumers ever more stretched, optimistic projections for
the economy depend on vigorous growth in business investment.
And that doesn’t seem to be happening.
The bigger issue, however, may be longer term. Mr. Lazear was
right about one thing: business investment plays an important
role in raising productivity. High investment in equipment
and software was one major reason for the productivity takeoff
that began in the Clinton era, and continued in the early
years of this decade.
And low investment may be one reason productivity growth has
slowed dramatically over the last three years — another
development that hasn’t received as much attention as it
should.
In any case, next time someone tells you that any action
that might reduce corporate profits a bit — like actually
enforcing health and safety regulations or making it easier
for workers to organize — will reduce business investment,
bear in mind that today’s record profits aren’t being invested.
Instead, they’re being used to enrich executives and a few
lucky stock owners.
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3) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"Native people cheer and applaud numbers killed at the
Sand Creek Massacre"
April 30, 2007
[Via Email from: Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
7078 South Fairfax Street
Centennial, CO 80122
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Vasicek,+Don
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net
April 30, 2007 -- CENTENNIAL, CO -- Loud applause and cheers
erupted during the Sand Creek Massacre Site Dedication Ceremony
on April 28, 2007. They were for the 200 to 500 Cheyenne
and Arapaho people massacred there on November 29, 1864.
A Northern Cheyenne tribal speaker mention of the total
massacred at Sand Creek, anywhere from 150 to 500 Cheyenne
and Arapaho babies, children, persons with disabilities,
elders and women, on November 29, 2007 outnumbered the
thirty-two victims massacred at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg,
Virginia on April 16, 200 ignited the eruption.
Subsequent to the Virgina Tech Massacre, Lakota Sioux tribe
member, Joan Redfern, said in a "Gilroy Dispatch" article
by Kat Teraji, "To say the Virginia shooting is the worst
in all of U. S. history is to pour salt on old wounds-it
means erasing and forgetting all of our ancestors who were
killed in the past," Redfern said.
"The use of hyperbole and lack of historical perspective
seems all too ubiquitous in much of the current mainstream
media...My intention is not to downplay the horror of what
has happened ...at Virginia Tech in any way. But we have
a 500-year history of mass shootings on American soil,
and let's not forget it."
To this writer, who was at the Sand Creek Massacre Dedication
Ceremony, nausea nibbled at me as I heard the cheers and applause.
Former Colorado governor Roy Romer, present Colorado governor
Bill Ritter, Colorado Lt. Governor Barbara O'Brien, U. S. Rep
Marilyn Musgrave, Kansas U. S. Senator Sam Brownback, Department
of the Interior, National Park Service Director, Mary Bomar,
former Colorado U. S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, and
several others quietly observed this outpouring of emotion.
I wondered, "To where have we evolved as human beings and
as Americans?"
Contact:
Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
7078 South Fairfax Street
Centennial, CO 80122
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Vasicek,+Don
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net
303-903-2103
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4) Spying on Americans
Editorial
May 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/opinion/02wed1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
For more than five years, President Bush authorized government
spying on phone calls and e-mail to and from the United States
without warrants. He rejected offers from Congress to update
the electronic eavesdropping law, and stonewalled every
attempt to investigate his spying program.
Suddenly, Mr. Bush is in a hurry. He has submitted a bill
that would enact enormous, and enormously dangerous, changes
to the 1978 law on eavesdropping. It would undermine the
fundamental constitutional principle — over which there
can be no negotiation or compromise — that the government
must seek an individual warrant before spying on an American
or someone living here legally.
To heighten the false urgency, the Bush administration
will present this issue, as it has before, as a choice
between catching terrorists before they act or blinding
the intelligence agencies. But the administration has never
offered evidence that the 1978 law, the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act, hampered intelligence gathering after
the 9/11 attacks. Mr. Bush simply said the law did not
apply to him.
The director of national intelligence, Michael McConnell,
said yesterday that the evidence of what is wrong with FISA
was too secret to share with all Americans. That’s an all-
too-familiar dodge. Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of
California, who is familiar with the president’s spying
program, has said that it could have been conducted legally.
She even offered some sensible changes for FISA, but the
administration and the Republican majority in the last
Congress buried her bill.
Mr. Bush’s motivations for submitting this bill now seem
obvious. The courts have rejected his claim that 9/11 gave
him virtually unchecked powers, and he faces a Democratic
majority in Congress that is willing to exercise its
oversight responsibilities. That, presumably, is why his
bill grants immunity to telecommunications companies that
cooperated in five years of illegal eavesdropping. It also
strips the power to hear claims against the spying program
from all courts except the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court, which meets in secret.
According to the administration, the bill contains “long
overdue” FISA modifications to account for changes in technology.
The only example it offered was that an e-mail sent from
one foreign country to another that happened to go through
a computer in the United States might otherwise be missed.
But Senator Feinstein had already included this fix in the
bill Mr. Bush rejected.
Moreover, FISA has been updated dozens of times in the last
29 years. In 2000, Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, who ran the
National Security Agency then, said it “does not require
amendment to accommodate new communications technologies.”
And since 9/11, FISA has had six major amendments.
The measure would not update FISA; it would gut it. It
would allow the government to collect vast amounts of
data at will from American citizens’ e-mail and phone
calls. The Center for National Security Studies said it
might even be read to permit video surveillance without
a warrant.
This is a dishonest measure, dishonestly presented, and
Congress should reject it. Before making any new laws,
Congress has to get to the truth about Mr. Bush’s spying
program. (When asked at a Senate hearing yesterday if
Mr. Bush still claims to have the power to ignore FISA
when he thinks it is necessary, Mr. McConnell refused
to answer.)
With clear answers — rather than fearmongering and
stonewalling — there can finally be a real debate about
amending FISA. It’s not clear whether that can happen
under this president. Mr. Bush long ago lost all credibility
in the area where this law lies: at the fulcrum of the
balance between national security and civil liberties.
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5) Kent State Tape Is Said to Reveal Orders
By CHRISTOPHER MAAG
May 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/us/02kent.html
KENT, Ohio, May 1 — An audio recording of the shootings
37 years ago at Kent State University includes the voices
of Ohio National Guard leaders ordering troops to fire
into a crowd of students, according to a man wounded
in the shootings, who obtained a copy of the recording.
If confirmed as authentic, the recording could solve the
central mystery of the shootings on May 4, 1970, which
became a defining moment in the protests against the
Vietnam War.
Alan Canfora, who was shot in the right wrist, played
a copy of the recording at a news conference here on
Tuesday.
Through grainy static and the high-pitched calls of
protesters, it was possible to faintly hear someone
shout “Point!” Mr. Canfora said the full command is
recorded on the tape, with multiple voices shouting
“Right here!” “Get Set!” Point!” and “Fire!” Those words,
however, were difficult to discern when he played the
recording. A 13-second volley of gunfire follows, during
which four students were killed and nine were wounded.
“The evidence speaks for itself,” Mr. Canfora said.
“The voices are right there, very clear. There was an
order to fire.”
The President’s Commission on Campus Unrest, which
published its final report on the shootings in September
1970, never addressed whether commanders ordered troops
to fire, saying only that the events immediately before
the shooting “are in bitter dispute.” Based on the newly
available recording, Mr. Canfora said he would call on
Congress, the Justice Department and Ohio’s attorney
general, Marc Dann, to open new investigations into
the shootings.
James Sims, a spokesman for the Ohio National Guard,
declined to comment.
The audiotape of the shooting was recorded on a reel-
to-reel machine by Terry Strubbe, a Kent State student
whose dorm room overlooked the demonstrations, said
Joe Bendo, Mr. Strubbe’s friend and spokesman. Mr. Strubbe
declined to comment.
The tape originally was reviewed by the Justice Department,
which contracted with the acoustics analysis firm Bolt,
Beranek and Newman, now called BBN Technologies in Cambridge,
Mass., to remove static and digitally enhance parts of
the tape. James Barger, the scientist who analyzed the
tape more than 30 years ago, still works at BBN. Through
a spokeswoman, he said that no National Guard voices
were audible on the tape.
The original tape sits in a safe deposit box near Kent,
where it has been locked for over 30 years, Mr. Bendo said.
The copy obtained by Mr. Canfora came from the Yale University
Library, which received it in 1989 as part of a large donation
of materials from David E. Engdahl, a lawyer who represented
the shooting victims in a civil lawsuit in the late 1970s.
Mr. Canfora discovered the tape in the Yale archives
a few months ago, he said, while researching a book.
Mr. Canfora, 58, works for the Summit County, Ohio, Board
of Elections. He said he spends much of his free time teaching
students about the Kent State shootings as director of the
Kent May 4 Center, a nonprofit group that operates an
informational Web site and organizes annual ceremonies
to commemorate the shootings.
Many people who witnessed the shootings have said they
believe they were ordered by National Guard commanders.
After four days of occasionally violent protests against
President Richard M. Nixon’s decision to invade Cambodia,
thousands of students gathered on the Commons at Kent State
for a noon rally. Gen. Robert Canterbury of the Ohio
National Guard ordered the students to disperse. When
they refused, General Canterbury directed his troops
to advance on the crowd with M-1 rifles locked and
loaded, bayonets fixed.
Soon the troops found themselves trapped by fences on an
athletic field. As they retreated to the top of the hill,
a number of soldiers on the right flank turned and fired
into the crowd.
“It was very precise. They all turned in unison,” said
Jerry M. Lewis, professor emeritus of sociology, who
witnessed the shooting, wrote a book and taught a class
on the events. “That’s why we’ve argued for years that
there was an order or a signal to fire.”
Of Mr. Canfora, whom he has known for more than three
decades, Mr. Lewis said, “He’s an incredibly thorough
researcher. However, his interpretation tends to be
conspiratorial.”
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6) Bees and Our Diet on the Brink
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Honeybee-Die-Off.html
BELTSVILLE, Md. (AP) -- Unless someone or something stops
it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many
of the nation's honeybees could have a devastating effect
on America's dinner plate, perhaps even reducing us to
a glorified bread-and-water diet.
Honeybees don't just make honey; they pollinate more
than 90 of the tastiest flowering crops we have.
Among them: apples, nuts, avocados, soybeans, asparagus,
broccoli, celery, squash and cucumbers. And lots of the
really sweet and tart stuff, too, including citrus fruit,
peaches, kiwi, cherries, blueberries, cranberries,
strawberries, cantaloupe and other melons.
In fact, about one-third of the human diet comes from
insect-pollinated plants, and the honeybee is responsible
for 80 percent of that pollination, according to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
Even cattle, which feed on alfalfa, depend on bees. So if
the collapse worsens, we could end up being ''stuck with
grains and water,'' said Kevin Hackett, the national
program leader for USDA's bee and pollination program.
''This is the biggest general threat to our food supply,''
Hackett said.
While not all scientists foresee a food crisis, noting
that large-scale bee die-offs have happened before, this
one seems particularly baffling and alarming.
U.S. beekeepers in the past few months have lost one-quarter
of their colonies -- or about five times the normal winter
losses -- because of what scientists have dubbed Colony
Collapse Disorder. The problem started in November and
seems to have spread to 27 states, with similar collapses
reported in Brazil, Canada and parts of Europe.
Scientists are struggling to figure out what is killing
the honeybees, and early results of a key study this week
point to some kind of disease or parasite.
Even before this disorder struck, America's honeybees were
in trouble. Their numbers were steadily shrinking, because
their genes do not equip them to fight poisons and disease
very well, and because their gregarious nature exposes them
to ailments that afflict thousands of their close cousins.
''Quite frankly, the question is whether the bees can
weather this perfect storm,'' Hackett said. ''Do they
have the resilience to bounce back? We'll know probably
by the end of the summer.''
Experts from Brazil and Europe have joined in the detective
work at USDA's bee lab in suburban Washington. In recent
weeks, Hackett briefed Vice President Cheney's office
on the problem. Congress has held hearings on the matter.
''This crisis threatens to wipe out production of crops
dependent on bees for pollination,'' Agriculture Secretary
Mike Johanns said in a statement.
A congressional study said honeybees add about $15 billion
a year in value to our food supply.
Of the 17,000 species of bees that scientists know about,
''honeybees are, for many reasons, the pollinator of choice
for most North American crops,'' a National Academy of
Sciences study said last year. They pollinate many types
of plants, repeatedly visit the same plant, and recruit
other honeybees to visit, too.
Pulitzer Prize-winning insect biologist E.O. Wilson of
Harvard said the honeybee is nature's ''workhorse -- and
we took it for granted.''
''We've hung our own future on a thread,'' Wilson, author
of the book ''The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth,''
told The Associated Press on Monday.
Beginning this past fall, beekeepers would open up their
hives and find no workers, just newborn bees and the queen.
Unlike past bee die-offs, where dead bees would be found
near the hive, this time they just disappeared. The die-off
takes just one to three weeks.
USDA's top bee scientist, Jeff Pettis, who is coordinating
the detective work on this die-off, has more suspected
causes than time, people and money to look into them.
The top suspects are a parasite, an unknown virus, some
kind of bacteria, pesticides, or a one-two combination
of the top four, with one weakening the honeybee and
the second killing it.
A quick experiment with some of the devastated hives
makes pesticides seem less likely. In the recent experiment,
Pettis and colleagues irradiated some hard-hit hives and
reintroduced new bee colonies. More bees thrived in the
irradiated hives than in the non-irradiated ones, pointing
toward some kind of disease or parasite that was killed
by radiation.
The parasite hypothesis has history and some new findings
to give it a boost: A mite practically wiped out the wild
honeybee in the U.S. in the 1990s. And another new one-celled
parasitic fungus was found last week in a tiny sample of dead
bees by University of California San Francisco molecular
biologist Joe DeRisi, who isolated the human SARS virus.
However, Pettis and others said while the parasite nosema
ceranae may be a factor, it cannot be the sole cause. The
fungus has been seen before, sometimes in colonies that
were healthy.
Recently, scientists have begun to wonder if mankind is
too dependent on honeybees. The scientific warning signs
came in two reports last October.
First, the National Academy of Sciences said pollinators,
especially America's honeybee, were under threat of collapse
because of a variety of factors. Captive colonies in the
United States shrank from 5.9 million in 1947 to 2.4 million
in 2005.
Then, scientists finished mapping the honeybee genome and
found that the insect did not have the normal complement of
genes that take poisons out of their systems or many immune-
disease-fighting genes. A fruitfly or a mosquito has twice
the number of genes to fight toxins, University of Illinois
entomologist May Berenbaum.
What the genome mapping revealed was ''that honeybees may
be peculiarly vulnerable to disease and toxins,''
Berenbaum said.
University of Montana bee expert Jerry Bromenshenk has
surveyed more than 500 beekeepers and found that 38 percent
of them had losses of 75 percent or more. A few weeks back,
Bromenshenk was visiting California beekeepers and saw
a hive that was thriving. Two days later, it had
completely collapsed.
Yet Bromenshenk said, ''I'm not ready to panic yet.''
He said he doesn't think a food crisis is looming.
Even though experts this year gave what's happening
a new name and think this is a new type of die-off,
it may have happened before.
Bromenshenk said cited die-offs in the 1960s and
1970s that sound somewhat the same. There were reports
of something like this in the United States in spots
in 2004, Pettis said. And Germany had something similar
in 2004, said Peter Neumann, co-chairman of a 17-country
European research group studying the problem.
''The problem is that everyone wants a simple answer,''
Pettis said. ''And it may not be a simple answer.''
Related:
On the Net:
Colony Collapse Disorder Web page by the Mid-Atlantic
Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium:
http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/ColonyCollapseDisorder.html
National Academy of Sciences study on pollinators: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record--id11761
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7) Chávez Takes Over Foreign-Controlled Oil Projects
in Venezuela
By SIMON ROMERO
May 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/world/americas/02venezuela.html?pagewanted=print
SAN FELIPE, Venezuela, May 1 — President Hugo Chávez
on Tuesday seized control of the last remaining oil
projects in Venezuela controlled by large American
and European energy companies. The move to take over
the projects, announced in January, is the centerpiece
of recent actions aimed at consolidating his government’s
control over the economy.
Dressed in red fatigues, Mr. Chávez delivered a fiery
speech at the coastal oil refining complex of Jose,
denouncing America’s economic influence before thousands
of supporters also clad in red, the color of his revolution.
“Today is the end of that era when our natural riches
ended up the hands of anyone but the Venezuelan people,”
Mr. Chávez said during the speech, while speaking glowingly
of important allies like Iran, a fellow OPEC member.
Venezuela’s control over the oil-production projects,
which are in the Orinoco region in the country’s interior
and worth an estimated $30 billion, will weaken companies
like Exxon Mobil, Chevron and ConocoPhillips in one of
the world’s most promising oil exploration regions.
Venezuela is allowing the private companies to remain
as minority partners, but the companies are still far
from reaching agreements on compensation for the loss
of their assets.
The seizure of control is expected to have little
immediate impact on oil exports to the United States,
the leading buyer of Venezuela’s oil despite deteriorating
political ties. The United States has steadily diversified
its oil sources since a decade ago when Venezuela, which
boasts the largest conventional oil reserves outside the
Middle East, vied with Saudi Arabia as the country’s
leading supplier of oil.
Venezuela’s oil production has stagnated in recent years
and now accounts for about 10 percent of American crude
oil imports, ranking behind Canada, Mexico and Saudi Arabia.
Seizing on the symbolic potential of the May Day holiday,
Mr. Chávez also said this week that Venezuela would end
its affiliation with the International Monetary Fund and
the World Bank. Venezuela recently paid off its loans
from the organizations.
Venezuela, which is benefiting from high oil prices even
as its oil industry is hampered by low investment, has
been seeking to counter the influence of the I.M.F. and
the World Bank in Latin America by lending billions of
dollars to other countries and trying to create
a development bank.
Like the I.M.F.’s 184 other member nations, Venezuela
is a shareholder in the institution. Mr. Chávez can take
back his country’s $4 billion stake by withdrawing
from the I.M.F.
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8) May Day 2007
Amnesty for All! Open All borders!
By Carole Seligman
[Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated across this
country in spite of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) terror-raids that culminated in over 23,000 arrests
of undocumented workers so far this year. This speech was
delivered May 1 in San Francisco to an overwhelmingly
Latino audience in the heart of the Mission District
at 24th and Mission Streets after a demonstration of
many thousands earlier in the day. The event was a vigil
for unconditional amnesty and open borders sponsored
by Barrio Unidos, a local community group. A core of
at least several hundred people attended it throughout
and many more came and went at this very busy intersection.
Hundreds of candles were given out in little paper cups
as well as hundreds of triangular, hand-made paper
stadium flags, in Spanish and English, saying,
“Open Borders!” which were seen throughout the
crowd. The following speech was extremely well
received by this energetic audience.
—BW]
I am a schoolteacher. The names of my co-workers
show that their grandparents or parents came from
Ireland, Italy, Poland, Germany, England, China,
Mexico, Greece, Japan, Russia, and The Philippines.
In fact, unless you are Native American, your family
immigrated here, even if they came on the Mayflower.
The United States is a country of immigration and
crossing borders. Immigrant workers from the whole
world, and slaves, built the wealth of this country.
But now, the wealthy rulers of the U.S., the tiny
group of billionaires who benefit from all that
wealth created by immigrants and slaves, have
decided that only they and their money can cross
borders.
What hypocrites! Their soldiers, their weapons,
their money, their pollution cross national borders
every minute of every day. Do you think the Iraqi
people want their borders crossed by armed attackers
from the U.S.? Do you think the U.S. planes that
crossed many borders to bomb their cities and villages
are welcome? Do you think the Iranians are happy
bracing for a U.S. attack? The Colombians, the Cubans,
the Venezuelans?
We know that people leave their homes to come here
for the same reasons that all previous generations
of immigrants came here, for better opportunities,
especially for their children. They come for the
same reasons that Indians and Pakistanis come to
England and Africans come to Europe. The rich countries’
trade policies destroy the economies of the other
countries of the world and impoverish their people,
so the people try to find a way to survive—for example,
the conscious ruination of Mexican farmers because
of the government-subsidized corn exported
to Mexico by the U.S.
The biggest waves of immigration in world history
going on now are due to these policies and the wars
foisted on the poor countries.
The truth can set us free
The truth that can set us free from these predatory
billionaires who are erecting military walls to keep
people out, is that they are a tiny minority, while
the workers are the overwhelming majority. And national
borders mean little to working people. Our interests,
our needs for peace, for housing, healthcare, schools
and good opportunities for our families, jobs, decent
pay and working conditions, retirement, security—these
are the same needs for working people everywhere.
The truth is that workers, no matter where we were born,
have common interests and all we need to do is convince
our fellow workers of this and organize ourselves to win.
For a general and unconditional amnesty for all immigrants!
Open borders for a humane world. Si se puede!
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NEW YORK CITY WORLDWIDE MARIJUANA MARCH
Saturday, May 5, 2007
(212) 677-7180
POT IS AN HERB!!! BUSH IS A DOPE!!!
March against the Drug War, kick off at 1:30 PM starting in
Washington Square Park. March against the BIG LIE in public policy,
from the War on Drugs to the War in Iraq! Tulia, Texas is the template
for W's phony War on Terror--just like the so-called "health threat of
marijuana" equals the "weapons of mass destruction." Both never
existed! Come out and protest intervention abroad and criminalization
at home under the War on Drugs. Protest the incarceration of a
generation and the calculated disfranchisement of majority democratic
voters thru the Drug War!
http://www.globalmarijuanamarch.org
Arctic Sea Ice Decline May Trigger Climate Change Cascade,
According to New CU-Boulder Study
http://cires.colorado.edu/news/press/2007/07-03-15.html
Texas officials criticize fence plan
By LYNN BREZOSKY
Associated Press Writer
http://www.star-telegram.com/462/story/87591.html
U.S. Seeks Closing of Visa Loophole for Britons
By JANE PERLEZ
"In recent months, the homeland security secretary, Michael
Chertoff, has opened talks with the government here on how
to curb the access of British citizens of Pakistani origin
to the United States."
May 2, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/world/europe/02britain.html?ref=world
Protesters Press for Path to Citizenship
By JOHN HOLUSHA
"Immigrants and their supporters rallied across the country
today seeking a reduction in deportations and legalization
for the estimated 12 million people said to be living and
working in this country without proper documentation."
May 1, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/us/01cnd-immig.html?hp
When communal councils meet workers’ councils in Venezuela
By Erik Demeester in Caracas
Monday, 30 April 2007
http://www.marxist.com/communal-workers-councils-venezuela300407.htm
Where is the outrage over military rape?
http://www.counterpunch.org/nader04162007.html
BILL MOYERS SPECIAL -- 'BUYING THE WAR' -- PART 1-16
Bill Moyers special on how the press contributed to the
selling of the Iraq War.
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyQ1L0EuNoQ
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnFNKhUmbpY
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rajv95ZtuDs
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXS_2raGlUc
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiuZfaVr53Y
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne23p-LICCk
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5rQX5ESA34
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWURC2t7Mg8
9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhQJJNWxY7Q
10.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NpvO1CrfSg
11.[Skip this one -- it's the same as Part 10]
12.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FhZDL9ece4
13.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSOk8pq9hRs
14.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxeUJ02fWk4
15.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faf1Nws6F4g
16.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqGBHNp30B8
Americans want to give undocumented a break
By Emile Schepers
People's Weekly World Newspaper, 04/26/07 13:14
http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/10961/
Soldiers Indicted in Killing
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MADRID, April 27 (AP) — A judge indicted three American
soldiers on Friday in the 2003 death of a Spanish journalist
who was killed when their tank fired at a hotel in Baghdad.
Sgt. Shawn Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt. Col. Philip
DeCamp were charged with homicide in the death of the journalist,
José Manuel Couso Permuy, and with “a crime against the
international community,” defined as an indiscriminate or
excessive attack against civilians during war.
At the time of the shooting, the three soldiers were from
the Army’s Third Infantry Division, based in Fort Stewart, Ga.
April 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/28/world/europe/28spain.html
C.I.A. Held Qaeda Leader in Secret Jail for Months
By MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID S. CLOUD
"WASHINGTON, April 27 — The Central Intelligence Agency held
a captured Qaeda leader in a secret prison since last fall
and transferred him last week to the American military prison
at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, officials said Friday."
April 28, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/28/washington/28prisoner.html
Rebuilt Iraq Projects Found Crumbling
By JAMES GLANZ
April 29, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/world/middleeast/29reconstruct.html?hp
Army Officer Accuses Generals of "Intellectual and Moral Failures"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042707A.shtml
ONE UNEXPLODED BOMB PER PERSON
By Dahr Jamail, Electronic Lebanon
"SRIFA, Southern Lebanon, 27 April (IPS) - Close to a
million unexploded bombs are estimated to litter southern
Lebanon, according to UN forces engaged in the hazardous
task of removing them. The United Nations Interim Force In
Lebanon (UNIFIL) was created by the Security Council in
1978 to confirm an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and
restore international peace and security. After the war
last year it has a new job on its hands."
27 April 2007
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6843.shtml
CCR FILES CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT ON BEHALF OF THREE BLACK
COPWATCH ACTIVISTS ARRESTED WHILE MONITORING POLICE ACTIVITY
"Lawsuit Filed as NYPD Data Shows Police Stops Increased
by More than 500 Percent between 2002 and 2006, with Blacks
Comprising More than Half of All Stops"
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=ACMSs0MD9o&Content=1006
Case of Police Videotaping Is Back in the Public Eye
By ALAN FEUER
April 27, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/nyregion/27police.html
Hurricane Survivors to Buy U.S. Trailers or Pay Rental Fee
By LESLIE EATON
April 27, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/us/nationalspecial/27trailers.html
Criminal Charges Are Expected Against Marines, Official Says
By PAUL von ZIELBAUER
April 27, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/world/asia/27abuse.html
Court Asked to Limit Lawyers at Guantánamo
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
April 26, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/washington/26gitmo.html?hp
U.S. Officer in Iraq Charged With ‘Aiding the Enemy’
By DAMIEN CAVE
April 26, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/world/middleeast/26cnd-Cropper.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Israeli Democracy: For Jews Only?
April 25, 2007
http://www.counterpunch.org/karkar04252007.html
Move Over G.M., Toyota Is No. 1
By MICHELINE MAYNARD
April 25, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/automobiles/25auto.html?ref=business
Manhattan: Housing Law Struck Down
By JANNY SCOTT
Justice Marilyn Shafer of State Supreme Court yesterday
struck down the Tenant Empowerment Act, a 2005 New York
City law giving tenants in subsidized rental buildings
the right of first refusal to buy their buildings if the
owners decide to sell or quit rental assistance programs
like Mitchell-Lama. Justice Shafer said she “reluctantly”
concluded that the city cannot limit rights granted to
building owners by the State Legislature in allowing them
to withdraw from Mitchell-Lama. The Legislature itself
could choose to protect middle- and low-income tenants
in those buildings, she pointed out. “In failing to do
so, or to permit the City of New York to do so, the State
Legislature has failed the residents of the City of New
York,” she wrote in her opinion.
April 25, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/nyregion/25mbrfs-housing.html
Guantánamo Detainee Charged
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Canadian detained in Afghanistan and held at Guantánamo
Bay since 2002 was charged with murder. The detainee, Omar
Khadr, 20, is accused of throwing a grenade that killed
a Special Forces soldier while fighting with the Taliban
in Afghanistan, and planting mines aimed at American convoys.
The military charged him with murder, providing support
to terrorism, attempted murder, conspiracy and spying.
April 25, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/washington/25brfs-gitmo.html
Panel Hears About Falsehoods in 2 Wartime Incidents
By MICHAEL LUO
April 25, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/washington/25army.html?ref=us
Mexico City Legalizes Abortion Early in Term
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
April 25, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/world/americas/25mexico.html?ref=world
OSHA Leaves Worker Safety in Hands of Industry
By STEPHEN LABATON
April 25, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/washington/25osha.html?hp
Chavez Asks UN to Intervene in Posada Case
"CARACAS — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez asked the United
Nations on Sunday to intervene in the case of international
terrorist Luis Posada Carrilles, placed in freedom last week
by the United States government.
Speaking on his Alo Presidente TV and radio program, Chavez
called the decision to release Posada embarrassing and proof
of the double standard by the US government on the issue
of terrorism.
Chavez reiterated Venezuela’s demand that Posada be extradited
to the South American country to stand trial for organizing
a 1976 plane bombing that killed 73 persons.
The outcry against the freeing of the terrorist was echoed
in several countries around the world.
Upon arriving for a visit to Havana, Gennady Andreyevich
Zyuganov, chairman of the Central Executive Committee
of Russia's Communist Party, said the release of Posada
exceeds the limits of cynicism and shame.
La Opinion, the Los Angeles Spanish language newspaper,
ran an editorial Sunday calling the release of Posada
a defeat of the US legal system and adds that the move
sends a contradictory message from the US government.
In Haiti, Dr. Jean Renald Clerisme, minister of Foreign
Affairs and Worship, said the release of the terrorist
was an insult to justice. "This man deserves to be
brought to justice and there is no doubt that the
world has already condemned him".
In Moscow, the Russian Venceremos Movement, made up
of different leftwing parties, and labor and civic
organizations, delivered a message to the United
States Embassy in which it repudiates the freeing
of Posada Carriles on bail. (Taken from Granma Daily)."
http://www.escambray.cu/Eng/Special/Posada%20Carriles-Bush/Cchavez070423409.htm
If You Want to Know if Spot Loves You So, It’s in His Tail
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE
April 24, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/science/24wag.html?ref=science
Nissan Will Offer Buyouts
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
April 24, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/automobiles/24auto.html
California: City Won’t Aid Immigration Officials
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Police officers and other city employees will not help
federal immigration authorities seeking to round up and
deport illegal immigrant workers in San Francisco, Mayor
Gavin Newsom said Sunday. The mayor told a predominantly
Hispanic audience at St. Peter’s Church that while city
and state officials could not stop Immigration and Customs
Enforcement from conducting sweeps in the city, he would
do everything within his power to discourage them. “We
are a sanctuary city, make no mistake about it,”
Mr. Newsom said.
April 24, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/us/24brfs-sf.html
"Is It Too Late to Get Out?"
Housing Bubble Boondoggle
By MIKE WHITNEY
April 24, 2007
http://www.counterpunch.com/whitney04242007.html
An island made by global warming
By Michael McCarthy, Environmental Editor
Published: 24 April 2007
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2480994.ece
Incremental Health Reform: Whose Life Doesn't Count?
by Rose Ann DeMoro
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rose-ann-demoro/incremental-health-reform_b_45605.html
Officials Backing Down From Plan for Wall in Iraq
By ALISSA J. RUBIN and JON ELSEN
April 23, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/world/middleeast/23cnd-Iraq.html?hp
When Bremer Ruled Baghdad
How Iraq was Looted
By EVELYN PRINGLE
April 21 / 22, 2007
http://www.counterpunch.com/pringle04212007.html
FOCUS | Key Part of Bush's "No Child" Law Under Federal Probe
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042207Y.shtml
Now That Imus is Gone, What About All The Right-Wing Lies?
Fire The Media
by Mark T. Harris; April 22, 2007
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=91&ItemID=12633
William Fisher | Guantanamo Detainees in Isolation,
Diplomatic Limbo
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042107A.shtml
Lower Manhattan, Higher Testosterone
"Since 2000, men, mostly between ages 25 and 44, have
accounted for more than three-fourths of the population
increase in Lower Manhattan. As a result, according to
a special census calculation, the sex ratio there increased
to 126 men per 100 women in 2005, from 101 men per 100 women
in 2000. In the rest of Manhattan, and in the city over all,
there were only 90 men for every 100 women."
By SAM ROBERTS
April 22, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/nyregion/22downtown.html?ref=nyregion
Blue Angel Jet Crashes at S.C. Air Show
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 22, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Blue-Angel-Crash.html?ref=us
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves
By JASON DePARLE
April 22, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22Workers.t.html?ref=world
War Resister Agustin Aguayo Released
"Army medic Agustin Aguayo was released this week after
more than six months in military custody for refusing
to deploy to Iraq a second time.
Aguayo went AWOL for weeks after refusing the order.
He was taken into military custody and jailed after
turning himself in. We speak with Agustin Aguayo's
wife, Helga."
Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/20/1336213
Mike Farrell of M*A*S*H on His Journey to Actor and
Activist
"Actor Mike Farrell is perhaps best known for his role
as Captain B.J.Hunnicutt in the popular TV series
M*A*S*H. But aside from that, he is also
known for his decades of social justice activism.
Farrell has just come out with a new book called "Just
Call Me Mike: A Journey to Actor and
Activist."
Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/20/1336220
VIDEO | Depleted Uranium: Poisoning Our Planet
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042007B.shtml
FOCUS | Soldier Says He Was Deployed With Head Injury
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042107Z.shtml
Ongoing Defiance/Political Gridlock in Lebanon
April 20, 2007
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/lebanon/000575.php
Maryland: Bodies of Miners Are Found
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Workers found the bodies of two miners trapped when a wall
section collapsed in an open-pit coal mine in western Maryland,
a federal mine official said. The official, Bob Cornett,
acting regional director for the federal Mine Safety and
Health Administration, said the men, one of whom was found
in a backhoe, and the other, found in a bulldozer, appeared
to have died instantly. The cause of the collapse was under
investigation. Mr. Cornett said heavy rain and the ground’s
freezing and thawing could be a factor. The mine, about
150 miles west of Baltimore, has had no fatal injuries since
at least 1995 and was not cited for violations in its most
recent inspection, which began March 5, according the federal
mine agency.
April 21, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/us/21brfs-BODIESOFMINE_BRF.html
Fish-Killing Virus Spreading in the Great Lakes
By SUSAN SAULNY
"CHICAGO, April 20 — A virus that has already killed tens
of thousands of fish in the eastern Great Lakes is spreading,
scientists said, and now threatens almost two dozen aquatic
species over a wide swath of the lakes and nearby waterways."
April 21, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/us/21fish.html
Army’s Documents Detail Secrecy in Tillman Case
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 21, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/us/21tillman.html
Anger and Alternatives on Abortion
By GINA KOLATA
April 21, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/us/21docs.html
World Opposed to U.S. as Global Cop
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/19/617/
Supreme Court Backtracks on Abortion Rights
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/19/616/
Report: World Needs to Axe Greenhouse Gases by 80 Pct
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/19/638/
Iraq Refugees: The Hidden Face of the War
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/19/622/
World Bank May Target Family Planning
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/19/636/
2 Miners Trapped in Maryland Under Up to 100 Feet of Rock
By SEAN D. HAMILL
April 20, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/us/20miners.html
Leading Article: A global warning from the dust bowl of Australia
Published:?20 April 2007
http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article2465904.ece
General strike in the Spanish province of Cadiz to support
employees of Delphi
April 18, 2007
http://euronews.net/index.php?page=eco&article=417644&lng=1
Graffiti Figure Admired as Artist Now Faces Vandalism Charges
By THOMAS J. LUECK
April 19, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/nyregion/19grafitti.html?ref=nyregion
Pet Food Recall Expanded
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 19, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Pet-Food-Recall.html?ref=us
Pet Food Recall
Updated: April 19, 2007
http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/petfood.html
Gates Reassures Israel About Arms Sales in Gulf
By DAVID S. CLOUD
April 19, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/world/middleeast/19cnd-gates.html
A Lot of Uninvited Guests
Inter Press Service
Dahr Jamail
"DAMASCUS, Apr 18 (IPS) - The massive influx of Iraqi refugees
into Syria has brought rising prices and overcrowding, but most
Syrians seem to have accepted more than a million of the
refugees happily enough."
http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/syria/000571.php
Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Abortion Procedure
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 12:53 p.m. ET
April 18, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Scotus-Abortion.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
April 17, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/science/17chimp.html
Housing Slump Takes a Toll on Illegal Immigrants
By EDUARDO PORTER
"HURON, Calif. — Some of the casualties of America’s housing
bust are easy to spot up and down California’s Central Valley."
April 17, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/business/17construct.html?hp
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GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS AND INFORMATION
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DEMAND THE RELEASE OF SAMI AL-ARIAN
The National Council of Arab Americans (NCA) demands the immediate
release of political prisoner, Dr. Sami Al-Arian. Although
Dr. Al-Arian is no longer on a hunger strike we must still demand
he be released by the US Department of Justice (DOJ). After an earlier
plea agreement that absolved Dr. Al-Arian from any further questioning,
he was sentenced up to 18 months in jail for refusing to testify before
a grand jury in Virginia. He has long sense served his time yet
Dr. Al-Arian is still being held. Release him now!
See:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/16/1410255
ACTION:
We ask all people of conscience to demand the immediate
release and end to Dr. Al- Arian's suffering.
Call, Email and Write:
1- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
Fax Number: (202) 307-6777
Email: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
2- The Honorable John Conyers, Jr
2426 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-5126
(202) 225-0072 Fax
John.Conyers@mail.house.gov
3- Senator Patrick Leahy
433 Russell Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
(202)224-4242
senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov
4- Honorable Judge Gerald Lee
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
401 Courthouse Square, Alexandria, VA 22314
March 22, 2007
[No email given...bw]
National Council of Arab Americans (NCA)
http://www.arab-american.net/
Criminalizing Solidarity: Sami Al-Arian and the War of
Terror
By Charlotte Kates, The Electronic Intifada, 4 April 2007
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6767.shtml
Related:
Robert Fisk: The true story of free speech in America
This systematic censorship of Middle East reality
continues even in schools
Published: 07 April 2007
http://news. independent. co.uk/world/ fisk/article2430 125.ece
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[For some levity...Hans Groiner plays Monk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51bsCRv6kI0
...bw]
Excerpt of interview between Barbara Walters and Hugo Chavez
http://www.borev.net/2007/03/what_you_had_something_better.html
Which country should we invade next?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3g_zqz3VjY
My Favorite Mutiny, The Coup
http://www.myspace.com/thecoupmusic
Michael Moore- The Awful Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeOaTpYl8mE
Morse v. Frederick Supreme Court arguments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_LsGoDWC0o
Free Speech 4 Students Rally - Media Montage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfCjfod8yuw
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'My son lived a worthwhile life'
In April 2003, 21-year old Tom Hurndall was shot in the head
in Gaza by an Israeli soldier as he tried to save the lives of three
small children. Nine months later, he died, having never
recovered consciousness. Emine Saner talks to his mother
Jocelyn about her grief, her fight to make the Israeli army
accountable for his death and the book she has written
in his memory.
Monday March 26, 2007
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2042968,00.html
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Introducing...................the Apple iRack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-KWYYIY4jQ
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"A War Budget Leaves Every Child Behind."
[A T-shirt worn by some teachers at Roosevelt High School
in L.A. as part of their campaign to rid the school of military
recruiters and JROTC--see Article in Full item number 4, below...bw]
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THIS IS AN EXCELLENT VIDEO DESTRIBUTED BY U.S. LABOR AGAINST
THE WAR (USLAW) FEATURING SPEAKERS AT THE JANUARY 27TH
MARCH ON WASHINGTON FOCUSING ON THE DEMAND - BRING
THE TROOPS HOME NOW.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6935451906479097836&hl=en
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Defend the Los Angeles Eight!
http://www.committee4justice.com/
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George Takai responds to Tim Hardaway's homophobic remarks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcJoJZIcQW4&eurl_
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Iran
http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html
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Another view of the war. A link from Amer Jubran
http://d3130.servadmin.com/~leeflash/
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Petition: Halt the Blue Angels
http://action.globalexchange.org/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=458
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/289327
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A Girl Like Me
7:08 min
Youth Documentary
Kiri Davis, Director, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, Producer
Winner of the Diversity Award
Sponsored by Third Millennium Foundation
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1091431409617440489
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Film/Song about Angola
http://www.prisonactivist.org/angola/
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"200 million children in the world sleep in the streets today.
Not one of them is Cuban."
(A sign in Havana)
Venceremos
View sign at bottom of page at:
http://www.cubasolidarity.net/index.html
[Thanks to Norma Harrison for sending this...bw]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"Cheyenne and Arapaho oral histories hammer history's account of the
Sand Creek Massacre"
CENTENNIAL, CO -- A new documentary film based on an award-winning
documentary short film, "The Sand Creek Massacre", and driven by
Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho people who tell their version about
what happened during the Sand Creek Massacre via their oral
histories, has been released by Olympus Films+, LLC, a Centennial,
Colorado film company.
"You have done an extraordinary job" said Margie Small, Tobient
Entertainment, " on the Colorado PBS episode, the library videos for
public schools and libraries, the trailer, etc...and getting the
story told and giving honor to those ancestors who had to witness
this tragic and brutal attack...film is one of the best ways."
"The images shown in the film were selected for native awareness
value" said Donald L. Vasicek, award-winning writer/filmmaker, "we
also focused on preserving American history on film because tribal
elders are dying and taking their oral histories with them. The film
shows a non-violent solution to problem-solving and 19th century
Colorado history, so it's multi-dimensional in that sense. "
Chief Eugene Blackbear, Sr., Cheyenne, who starred as Chief Black
Kettle in "The Last of the Dogmen" also starring Tom Berenger and
Barbara Hershey and "Dr. Colorado", Tom Noel, University of Colorado
history professor, are featured.
The trailer can be viewed and the film can be ordered for $24.95 plus
$4.95 for shipping and handling at http://www.fullduck.com/node/53.
Vasicek's web site, http://www.donvasicek.com, provides detailed
information about the Sand Creek Massacre including various still
images particularly on the Sand Creek Massacre home page and on the
proposal page.
Olympus Films+, LLC is dedicated to writing and producing quality
products that serve to educate others about the human condition.
Contact:
Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
7078 South Fairfax Street
Centennial, CO 80122
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Vasicek,+Don
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net
303-903-2103
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A NEW LOOK AT U.S. RADIOACTIVE WEAPONS
Join us in a campaign to expose and stop the use
of these illegal weapons
http://poisondust.org/
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You may enjoy watching these.
In struggle
Che:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqcezl9dD2c
Leon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukkFVV5X0p4
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FIGHTBACK! A Collection of Socialist Essays
By Sylvia Weinstein
http://www.walterlippmann.com/sylvia-weinstein-fightback-intro.html
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[The Scab
"After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad,
and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with
which he made a scab."
"A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul,
a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue.
Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten
principles." "When a scab comes down the street,
men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and
the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out."
"No man (or woman) has a right to scab so long as there
is a pool of water to drown his carcass in,
or a rope long enough to hang his body with.
Judas was a gentleman compared with a scab.
For betraying his master, he had character enough
to hang himself." A scab has not.
"Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.
Judas sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver.
Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of
a commision in the british army."
The scab sells his birthright, country, his wife,
his children and his fellowmen for an unfulfilled
promise from his employer.
Esau was a traitor to himself; Judas was a traitor
to his God; Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country;
a scab is a traitor to his God, his country,
his family and his class."
Author --- Jack London (1876-1916)...Roland Sheppard
http://web.mac.com/rolandgarret]
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END ALL U.S. AID TO ISRAEL!
Stop funding Israel's war against Palestine
Complete the form at the website listed below with your information.
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Sand Creek Massacre
"THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE" AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY
SHORT FEATURED AT NATIVE AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL:
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/local/16035305.htm
(scroll down when you get there])
"THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE" AWARD-WINNING
WRITER/FILMMAKER DONALD L. VASICEK REPORT:
http://www.digitalcinemareport.com/sandcreekmassacre.html
"THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE" AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY
SHORT FINALIST IN DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL COMPETITION (VIEW HERE):
http://www.docupyx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=41
VIEW "THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE" AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY
SHORT FILM MOVIE OF THE WEEK FOR FREE HERE:
http://twymancreative.com/twymanc.html
On November 29, 1864, 700 Colorado troops savagely slaughtered
over 450 Cheyenne children, disabled, elders, and women in the
southeastern Colorado Territory under its protection. This act
became known as the Sand Creek Massacre. This film project
("The Sand Creek Massacre" documentary film project) is an
examination of an open wound in the souls of the Cheyenne
people as told from their perspective. This project chronicles
that horrific 19th century event and its affect on the 21st century
struggle for respectful coexistence between white and native
plains cultures in the United States of America.
Listed below are links on which you can click to get the latest news,
products, and view, free, "THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE" award-
winning documentary short. In order to create more native
awareness, particularly to save the roots of America's history,
please read the following:
Some people in America are trying to save the world. Bless
them. In the meantime, the roots of America are dying.
What happens to a plant when the roots die? The plant dies
according to my biology teacher in high school. American's
roots are its native people. Many of America's native people
are dying from drug and alcohol abuse, poverty, hunger,
and disease, which was introduced to them by the Caucasian
male. Tribal elders are dying. When they die, their oral
histories go with them. Our native's oral histories are the
essence of the roots of America, what took place before
our ancestors came over to America, what is taking place,
and what will be taking place. It is time we replenish
America's roots with native awareness, else America
continues its decaying, and ultimately, its death.
You can help. The 22-MINUTE SAND CREEK MASSACRE
DOCUMENTARY PRESENTATION/EDUCATIONAL DVD IS
READY FOR PURCHASE! (pass the word about this powerful
educational tool to friends, family, schools, parents, teachers,
and other related people and organizations to contact
me (dvasicek@earthlink.net, 303-903-2103) for information
about how they can purchase the DVD and have me come
to their children's school to show the film and to interact
in a questions and answers discussion about the Sand
Creek Massacre.
Happy Holidays!
Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Vasicek,+Don
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net
303-903-2103
"THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE" AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY
SHORT FEATURED AT NATIVE AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL:
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/local/16035305.htm
(scroll down when you get there])
"THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE" AWARD-WINNING
WRITER/FILMMAKER DONALD L. VASICEK REPORT:
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