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"My Name is Rachel Corrie" - A Debate Over Why the Play is Not Opening in New York "My Name is Rachel Corrie" - a play based on the words of the American peace activist crushed to death three years ago by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza - is causing controversy after the New York City theater that was scheduled to run it postponed production. We host a discussion with Katharine Viner, the editor of the play in London and James Nicola and Lynn Moffat, the two top directors of the New York Theater Workshop....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:50am PST
The Assault on Higher Education: The Conservative Push for the Right Student The news of right-wing assaults on higher education keeps coming: The state of Pennsylvania has a congressional board set up to investigate cases of bias in the classroom, the State University of New York System's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to allow white students to apply for scholarships originally earmarked for black, Hispanic, and American Indian students. Barely a day passes when those of us who work in higher education are not forced to face yet another example of the increasin...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:45am PST
Dissent and Iraq: To the Guy Who Called Me a Traitor I haven't heard from you for a while. Three years ago you called me a "traitor", just before the invasion of Iraq. You also wrote, "Your voice against our elected government is a voice against its people, a voice against this nation."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:32am PST
Bush's Delusional Speech 
Paul Craig Roberts:
"[Bush] went on to tell his Cleveland audience that American could not be safe unless Iraq was a democracy. What a weak, pitiful, vulnerable place Bush's America must be. Unless a small, devastated Middle Eastern country is a democracy, America cannot be safe. Who in the Cleveland audience could possibly have believed this utter nonsense."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 9:07pm PST
Why Young Black Men Are Endangered A recent study found that young blacks in their 20s and 30s are more likely to be jobless, imprisoned, join gangs, father children out of wedlock and kill other young blacks than young white or Hispanic men. But according New America Media's Associate Editor Earl Ofari Hutchinson, it did not satisfactorily answer the question, why?...
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 5:09pm PST
Declaration of Jury of Conscience The jury in the World Tribunal in Istanbul concluded that the invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, together with the continuing occupation of Iraq, constitutes a violation of the core obligation of the UN Charter. Urge Deep Dish TV to show the final session on cable access!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 2:59pm PST
Michael Chertoff's San Francisco Unwelcome! *Postscript* (video/quicktime 1006.1KB) How Don Spark denounced chief of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff during his Commonwealth Club speech the previous day.
Half-minute QT movie. 1MB....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 12:11pm PST
BRILLIANT ACTIVISTS TAKING IT TO CONGRESSIONAL OFFICIAL'S DOORSTEPS This past weekend saw demonstrations all around the world with
hundreds of thousands taking to the streets to protest the third
anniversary of the War in Iraq. But something new is happening....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 11:32am PST
2006 McDonald's Truth Tour only 5 days away! 
In the face of McDonald’s steadfast refusal to treat farmworkers with respect, demand truly humane labor standards of its suppliers, and pay a fairer price for tomatoes in order to address farmworker poverty – poverty which has helped pad McDonald’s profits for more than 50 years – the CIW is traveling to McDonald’s backyard with a clear message: Nothing less than real rights will do!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 9:00am PST
Fmr. GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, ... Former Republican strategist Kevin Phillips joins us to discuss his new book, "American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century." Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Phillips was viewed as one of the GOP's top theoreticians and electoral analysts....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 7:27am PST
'Generation Stuck' -- Young People Take on the Opportunity Gap As more and more doors to economic security are being shut, young people are finding new paths to adulthood and challenging the forces keeping them locked out of the American Dream. New America Media contributor Raj Jayadev is the editor of Silicon Valley De-Bug, the voice of young workers, writers and artists in Silicon Valley and a NAM project....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 7:22am PST
Death raises concern at police tactics The recent killing of an unarmed Virginia doctor has raised concerns about what some say is an explosion in the use of military-style police Swat teams in the United States....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 7:06am PST
New England Anarchist Bookfair || April 21-22 NEW ENGLAND ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
Friday and Saturday || April 21-22, 2006...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 7:35pm PST
After Criticizing Bush, Harry Belafonte is Disinvited from the Coretta Scott King Funeral We hear from legendary musician, actor and humanitarian Harry Belafonte on why he was disinvited from speaking at the funeral of Coretta Scott King and how he been blacklisted in places due to his political views....
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 7:34am PST
North American protests mark third anniversary of Iraq war Protests were held in a number of cities across North America on Saturday and Sunday, marking the third anniversary of the Iraq war. Several thousand demonstrated in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and other cities in the United States and Canada....
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 7:31am PST
Rumsfeld singled out as crisis deepens in Iraq Defence chief attacked on war's third anniversary
· Ex-PM Allawi says conflict is tantamount to civil war...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 7:12am PST
Judge rejects government demand for Google search terms In a ruling issued Friday, March 17, Judge James Ware denied a demand from the Department of Justice that search giant Google turn over samples of search terms entered into its web site....
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 6:48am PST
600+ Peace Activities Express Majority Opposition to Iraq War United for Peace and Justice Condemns
Recent Escalation of War in Iraq...
Posted: Sun, Mar 19, 2006 11:39pm PST
Reclaim The Commons Update! April 8-10 Chicago This is an update about Reclaim The Commons – Three days of events in
Chicago (April 8-10) in response to the 2006 Biotech Industry Organization
convention....
Posted: Sun, Mar 19, 2006 11:22pm PST
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