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March 03, 2006Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner I read your article about “Three who gave their lives: Remembering the martyrs of Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964” (PWW 5/25/96), and I wanted to invite you to see their sculpture: www.yoyita.com/civilrights.htm. Yoyita Via e-mail Big Bang correction In response to an e-mailed criticism by a reader, I wish to correct a mistaken formulation in my review of Stephen Hawking’s book, “A Briefer History of Time” (PWW...
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War protests planned
March 03, 2006Veterans, hurricane survivors walkin’ to New Orleans Taking a line from New Orleans-based music legend Fats Domino’s “I’m walkin’ to New Orleans,” veterans and Hurricane Katrina and Rita survivors are walkin’ from Mobile, Ala., to New Orleans to demand the federal government end the Iraq war and meet the needs of people here at home, especially on the Gulf Coast. The six-day march that begins March 14 will culminate on...
Read moreChurches demand closure of Guantanamo
February 24, 2006WASHINGTON — National Council of Churches General Secretary Bob Edgar has written an open letter, signed by 13,000 others, demanding that the Bush administration close the Guantanamo Bay torture prison where 500 detainees have been held for as long as four years without criminal charges. Under a headline, “Who Would Jesus Torture?” the NCC web site urges people to sign the Edgar letter addressed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...
Read moreAfghan war vet opposes Bushs war policy
February 10, 2006ANN ARBOR, Mich. — An Iraq Veterans Against War member told a gathering of Michigan peace activists how he went from a teenager in trouble with the law to a sailor to a leader of the veterans movement against war. “It was the turmoil I experienced and witnessed during the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 that turned me against war,” the soldier told 100 from all over the state at...
Read moreNews censorship exposed again
January 13, 2006Censored 2006: The Top 25 Censored Stories By Peter Phillips and Project Censored Seven Stories Press, 2005 Softcover, 432 pp., $18.95 Corporate concentration in the news media continues to take a toll. Trivialization of news that blurs the distinction between news and entertainment and under-reporting of serious issues are the trends. “Censored 2006: The Top 25 Censored Stories” is Project Censored’s examination of the crucial stories that the corporate-owned media...
Read moreA look back at 2005: No mandate, no surrender! was the battle cry!
December 16, 2005On Nov. 3, 2004, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney convened a news conference at the labor federation’s headquarters to comment on George W. Bush’s narrow presidential win the night before. Sweeney was bleary-eyed, exhausted, and clearly disappointed, yet he threw down a ringing challenge. “Yesterday’s election was breathtakingly close,” he said. “There is clearly no conservative mandate for our nation.” The labor movement, he added, “will fight like hell” to block...
Read moreArt, Truth & Politics
December 10, 2005In 1958 I wrote the following: 'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.' I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still apply to the exploration of reality through art. So as a writer I stand by...
Read moreHoustonians demand: Clean the House - Dump DeLay!
December 10, 2005HOUSTON — Over 300 activists gathered on Dec. 5 to give Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Sugar Land) and Vice President Dick Cheney a warm welcome here by shouting, “Clean the House — Dump DeLay” during rush-hour traffic. The protesters gathered in the front of the Galleria shopping center where DeLay was holding a fund raiser in the Westin Hotel. The Galleria shopping center is one of the most up-scale shopping centers...
Read moreEditorial: Worlds worst rights abuser
December 09, 2005We observe United Nations Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, with a sobering realization: In the opinion of hundreds of millions of people around the world, the Bush administration has become the worst human rights abuser of any regime in the world. Consider the following: • George W. Bush proclaims the right to unleash pre-emptive war, the greatest of all destroyers of human rights, against nations like Iraq that have not...
Read moreRep. Murtha calls for change in direction
November 19, 2005The following is the transcript of the news conference Thursday by Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania, as provided by Federal News Service. REP. MURTHA: I just spoke to the Democratic Caucus and told them my feelings about the war. And I started out by saying the war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It's a flawed policy wrapped in illusion. The American public is way ahead of the members...
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