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The spirit of Gandhi, the passion of Jesus

March 3, 2006

“I can’t sit here and do nothing while this war keeps claiming kids and stealing souls.” This was the response I received from Fernando Suárez del Solar when I questioned his newest and boldest idea for...

Social Security still on Bush-corporate hit list

March 3, 2006 By John Gallo

A vampire is not really dead until a wooden stake is pushed through its heart (so they say). The Vampire of the Empire arose last month and presented to Congress a federal budget proposal containing a...

Fighting for the same rights over and over

March 3, 2006

We were talking about the future of the women’s movement. It was back in the early ’70s, when the women’s movement was taking off, inspired by the civil rights movement. Except for me, everyone in the...

LETTERS

March 3, 2006

Chaney, 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...

EDITORIAL: Troops say bring us home

March 3, 2006

While condemning antiwar advocates for “not supporting the troops,” George Bush has nothing of substance to say about a recent Zogby poll showing that a sizeable majority—72 percent—of U.S. troops in Iraq want to be brought...