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ACTIVISM: Congress Poised to Pass Bill Taking Away Your Right to Know What's in Your Food TOLL FREE...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 1:10am PST
Pesticides - A Greater Threat to Children A new scientific study shows that children can be up to 164 times more sensitive than adults to pesticides that frequently contaminate agricultural communities. The findings strengthen an ongoing lawsuit alleging that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not adequately protecting children from pesticide exposures....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:47pm PST
Marking the 3rd Anniversary of the War in Iraq If you want to find out if there is an MFSO chapter near you that may have
activities to link up with, go to the MFSO website chapter section at:
http://www.mfso.org/article.php?list=type&type=28...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:37pm PST
Action Alert: The New York Times Distorts Cancellation of Rachel Corrie Play New York Times cultural critic Edward Rothstein comments on the New
York Theatre Workshop's "postponement" of the play "My Name is
Rachel Corrie", about American activist Rachel Corrie who was crushed
to death by an Israeli bulldozer while attempting to prevent the
demolition of Palestinian homes in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on March 16,
2003....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:36pm PST
Right-wing campaign targets Colorado teacher for anti-Bush remarks A Colorado high school teacher is under attack for anti-Bush and anti-capitalist statements he made during a class last month. Jay Bennish, a 28-year-old teacher at Overland High School, near Denver, has been suspended by his school pending an investigation into the remarks....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:34pm PST
UN: Women denied representation, making war on poverty hard to win Millions of women around the world, including those in the UK and other Western countries, are being denied effective representation because of the low numbers of female politicians, judges and employers, the United Nations has warned....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 10:23pm PST
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Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 1:25pm PST
The Iraqi Women Have Arrived. Cindy Sheehan & Medea Benjamin Jailed Delivering Message Breaking News: Following a very successful event Sunday in NYC, the Iraqi women
finished their press conference in the UN just in time to watch their friends, Cindy
Sheehan and Medea Benjamin be dragged off by cops and jailed for trying to deliver
the truth. The week of International Women?s Day has begun....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 12:32pm PST
Oscar Winning Hip Hop Song Promotes 'Culture of Death' The Oscar winning song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" promotes the culture of death, so writes NAM contributor David Muhammad. Muhammad is the Executive Director of The Mentoring Center in Oakland....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:45am PST
Best Picture is a 'Crash' Course in Racial Perceptions Want to know what's really behind Americans' racial biases? See the Oscars' Best Picture winner "Crash," writes regular NAM contributor Earl Ofari Hutchinson, a political analyst and social issues commentator, and the author of The Crisis in Black and Black....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:45am PST
A Nation Polarized Between Rich and Poor: America's Bleak Jobs Future On February 20 Forbes.com told its readers with a straight face that "the American job-generation machine rolls on. The economy will create 19 million new payroll jobs in the decade to 2014." Forbes took its information from the 10-year jobs projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department of Labor, released last December....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:34am PST
Former aide to Powell: authorization for torture came from “the very top” The CBS News program, “60 Minutes”, broadcast a segment Sunday night examining the brutal deaths of two Afghan prisoners at the hands of American military jailers in December 2002. The program included the accusation that authorization for the murderous abuse came from the “very top of the United States government.”...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:33am PST
The Second Death of Rachel Corrie: Censorship of the Worst Kind I am urging the Royal Court Theatre to sue the New York Theatre Workshop for the cancellation of the production of "My Name Is Rachel Corrie". Not because I donated money for this production, which the Royal Court have been fundraising for--a target of 50,000 pounds, underwritten by Alan Rickman....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:27am PST
An Investigation Reopens: Why Did Pat Tillman Die? Paging Mr. Orwell. In explaining why the Army was finally launching a criminal investigation of the April 2004 friendly fire death of NFL star-turned-Army-Ranger Pat Tillman, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace sighed, "Although there is no evidence there was criminal activity the investigators did not specifically look at whether there was criminal activity. In other words, the previous four investigations were flawless except for the fact that they didn,t investigate a...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:25am PST
AT&T acquisition of BellSouth to eliminate 10,000 jobs AT&T said Monday that its deal to acquire BellSouth will mean the destruction of 10,000 jobs over three years. The acquisition, valued at $67 billion, will, if it is approved by government regulators and withstands anticipated legal challenges, mark a major further step in the monopolization of telecommunications services in the US. As is clear from Monday’s announcement, it will spark an even more aggressive attack on the jobs, wages and conditions of telecommunications workers....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 8:17am PST
Sheehan, Benajamin Violently Arrested at U.N. Without Cause On Monday, Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin and three other CODEPINK members attempted to peacefully enter the United States mission to the U.N. -- and were violently arrested.
There were no grounds for their arrest, they had alerted local law enforcement about their presence and they were completely nonviolent. According to reports, the women were slammed up against brick walls and, at one point, Cindy Sheehan was exposed while police were roughing her up....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 12:25am PST
South Dakota has banned abortion - is your state next? Please join us in sending a message to U.S. governors asking them to hold the line on a woman's right to choose.
Help protect the right to choose in your state by volunteering with your state affiliate...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 4:50pm PST
Supreme Court Decision Allows Military To Circumvent Non-Discrimination Measures today's unanimous Supreme Court upheld a federal law that requires universities to allow the military
recruiters on campus, circumventing anti-discrimination measures...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 4:39pm PST
Coverup: Toxic Rocket Fuel Now in Most Americans, 20060303 not just Colorado...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 1:03pm PST
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