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Yearly Archives: 2008
Denver : Iraq Veterans March Against the Machine
Vets/Rage Against the Machine march in Denver Wednesday.Rage Against the Machine fans join vets in rousing Denver protestBy Carl Davidson / August 28, 2008 I start the day early loading leaflets and joining Leslie Cagan, Judith LeBlanc and five other … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War Vets, Democratic Convention, Denver, Direct Action, Iraq Veterans, IVAW, Peace Movement, Rock 'n Roll, Social Action, Veterans
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U.N. Finds U.S. Airstrike Killed 90 Afghans
An Afghan doctor, left, examines Zinat Gul’s wounded hand, who allegedly was wounded by a U.S. air strike in Shindand district, as her mother looks on at a hospital in Herat, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. Photo by Fraidoon … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Civilian Fatalities, Counterinsurgency, U.S. Military, United Nations, War Crimes
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‘Everyone at the Top Is Getting Fat Off Our Misery’
See “New Orleans, Three Years Later” by Jordan Flaherty and Katrina video with Richard Dreyfus, below. By Diane Stirling-Stevens / The Rag Blog / August 28, 2008 I was looking at my calendar; the ‘things to do’. I note on … Continue reading
Free Gaza Boats Returning to Cyprus
Gaza activists to return to Cyprus with Palestinian studentsBy Stefanos Evripidou / August 28, 2008 THE TWO ‘Free Gaza’ boats will set sail from Gaza today for Cyprus after successfully breaking the Israeli sea blockade of the Strip last Saturday. … Continue reading
Angola : Slavery Haunts America’s Plantation Prisons
Prisoners picking cotton at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. Photo by William Albert Allard / National Geographic.‘It’s not even really a metaphor for slavery. Slavery is what’s going on’By Maya Schenwar / August 28, 2008 On an expanse of 18,000 … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Angola, Human Rights, Involuntary Servitude, Louisiana, Prisons, Slavery, Texas
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Montana Governor Brian Schweizer Blasts Bush and His Petro-Dictators
Governor Brian Schweizer See video below. Schweitzer electrifies convention with energy speechBy Josh Dorner / August 27, 2008 While most of the excitement last night was focused on Senator Clinton’s speech, Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer gave an electrifying (and highly … Continue reading
Bush Remains Arrogant and Defiant
Joshua Bolten (center) with a couple of other White House criminalsBush steps up fight over congressional authorityBy Matt Apuzzo / August 28, 2008 WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is raising the stakes in a court fight that could change the … Continue reading
Global Warming: We’re Not 100% Doomed
‘Almost all political conflict, especially in the US, boils down to a fight between the Sane Billionaires and the Insane Billionaires’By Jonathan Schwarz I believe human civilization will likely — despite current appearances — manage to mitigate global warming and … Continue reading
Remember the Bees? EPA Is Hiding Something
EPA is Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder InformationAugust 18, 2008 NRDC Forced to Sue to Get Public Records on Bee Mystery WASHINGTON — The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today to uncover critical information that the US government is … Continue reading
Just Like Nazi Germany
See video below. Longstanding Berkeley Community Center Raided by FBIAugust 27, 2008 More than a dozen computers seized in questionable search BERKELEY, CA — At 10:30 am on Wednesday, August 27th, the UC Berkeley police, plainclothes FBI agents, and an … Continue reading
Del Martin, Eloquent Voice of Gay and Lesbian Movement, Dead at 87
Del Martin, left, places a ring on her partner Phyllis Lyon during their June wedding ceremony officiated by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP.‘As a journalist, author and organizer, Martin helped shape the modern … Continue reading
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Tagged Authors, Deaths, Feminism, Gay Marriage, Gay Movement, Lesbians, Sexism, Social Action
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Toll Roads : Soon to be Yesterday’s News?
Toll road protest in California earlier this year.‘Ordinary people will look back on this era, shake their heads in wonder and ask: how on earth did anyone ever think toll roads were sexy?’By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading
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Tagged Economy, Energy, Finance, Oil Prices, Peak Oil, Public Finance, Texas, Texas Highways, Toll Roads, Transportation
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