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As Senate Votes On Gonzales Nomination, Faith Leaders Seek Forgiveness
As the United States Senate votes to confirm Judge Alberto Gonzales as the next US Attorney General, religious leaders are seeking forgiveness....
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 3:28pm PST
Feb 10 Day of Action Against Mountain Range Removal
There is an institution near you complicit in mountain range removal coal mining. A coal company, an electric utility, a government office, a bank, a lobbying firm.
This is a call for a simultaneous day of action against mountain range removal across Appalachia, the US and the world. Be as loud as you can in protest of watershed destruction!...
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 3:25pm PST
HRC Announces Creation of The Marriage Project
In a move designed to deliver added focus and energy to
the
organization's work around marriage equality, the Human Rights Campaign
board leadership announced today the creation of The Marriage Project....
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 3:19pm PST
GenderPAC Applauds Bush Focus on Boys and Young Men
President Bush proposed a new three-year initiative in last night’s State of the Union address focusing “on giving young people, especially young men in our cities, better options than apathy, or gangs, or jail.” The Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GenderPAC) said today that attention on boys is urgent and long overdue......
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 3:15pm PST
Freedom and Democracy
Bush jr begins his second term between fantasy and reality. More wars threaten instead of freedom and democracy..Permanent war also prevailed in "1984". The "Ministry for Truth" was responsible for propaganda lies and torture....
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 2:05pm PST
Action of the Week to do today, 2/3/05
Call Mike Leavitt, the new Secretary of Health and Human Services on
Thursday, February 3rd and urge him not to delay a response to the Data
Quality Act Petition submitted by Americans for Safe Access....
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 10:58am PST
A.N.S.W.E.R.'S RESPONSE TO BUSH'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
Empire - the true aim of the U.S. government - is barely concealed
under the lofty rhetoric of Bush's State of the Union address. In its
pursuit, the U.S. government is committed to the destruction of every
government and people that stands in its way, in the Middle East and
throughout the world....
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 9:20pm PST
Biscuit Rally: Old growth logging is now active
Time to get busy defending Biscuit. The LSR is released and the court
won't hear the case until March. Large trees are falling and the largest
timber sale of modern times could be done before a court ruling....
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 6:00pm PST
Decoding Da Dubya Code
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Revolutionaries, reporters and film crews assembled on
Friday morning for a "Press Conference and Anti-Inaugural
Banquet." It was held near Howard University at Café
Manowaj, a cool and funky hang-out run by a crew of radical South
Africans. Steaming breakfast dishes (named for people’s
heroes and historical highpoints) soon appeared. Indymedia and RW
reporters tended to order Amandla eggs. The Fox-5 TV guy...
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 4:53pm PST
Urgent Action Alert: Faux News Tonight Makes M. Shahid Alam Its Latest McCarthyite Victim
M. Shahid Alam: It appears that Bill O’Reilly is doing a series on ‘unAmerican’ professors on US campuses. Last night, my wife tells me, he did a piece on Ward Churchill. Tonight will be my turn. I expect he will make all kinds of outlandish accusations that will resonate well with the left- and Muslim-hating members of his audience. This will generate calls and emails to Northeastern and to me – containing threats, calls for firing me, and threats to withhold donations. I am not sure how wel...
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 11:40am PST
What Goes Around Comes Around
One of the fundamental ideas found throughout the world's religions andemphasized by spiritual teachers of many times and cultures is that in the big picture we inevitably reap what we sow. We are all connected, after all, and to the degree we love, give to, and bless others, we will ourselves experience being loved, given to, and blessed. The same is true of harming and using others. This idea has gone by many names, including karma and the Golden Rule, and in our culture it's usually been a...
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 10:30am PST
Ward Churchill under attack by Bill O'Reilly
Ward Churchill is under attack for excersising his rights as a citizen of the U.$. Please read the articles and take the time to vote in the poll....
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 10:19am PST
Health in Neoliberalism
A cost explosion has not occurred in legal health insurance in Germany. If there is a financial problem, it is the problem of inadequate revenues.. Mass unemployment is the central cause for the rising health premiums....
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 7:00am PST
A "moderate" Muslim "leader"
“I remember telling my wife; maybe I will be our Henry Kissinger, the first Muslim to become the Secretary of State. Then came Bin Laden and his bloody men and along with the World Trade Center, American Muslim dreams and aspirations came crashing down.”...
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 12:29am PST
After the Iraqi Election: Bring the Troops Home Now
On January 30, millions of Iraqis voted their hopes for democracy and an end to
violence and occupation. But the only way for their hopes to be realized is to end
the U.S. occupation of their country and bring all U.S. troops home now....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 8:04pm PST
Bob's Dream Turns into a Cart of Lies
Bob Ecoffey cracked the one case on the Pine Ridge Reservation that had been troubling him for years, when he had a dream interpreted by a medicine man which led him to the killers of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, and left the relatives of Arlo Looking Cloud in a state of astonishment....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 5:13pm PST
Wolf Advocates Take Alaska Boycott Drive to the Internet
Darien, Conn. — Throughout the month of February, activists opposed to Alaska’s state-sponsored aerial wolf-killing seek 28,000 pledges supporting a boycott of Alaska tourism....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 2:31pm PST