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Gore Vidal on Bush's Inaugural Address: "The Most Un-American Speech I've Ever Heard"
We take a look at President Bush's inaugural address with Gore, Vidal, one of America's most respected writers and thinkers and the author of more than 20 novels and 5 plays. Vidal says, "If the United States does go abroad to slay dragons in the name of freedom, liberty and so on, she could become dictatress of the world, but in the process she would lose her soul."...
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 9:16am PST
Standing Up Against a Criminal Regime and for the First Amendment
(A firsthand account of our protest on Inauguration Day 2005) Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance and Veterans for Peace decided to have a presence at the Civic Center, at the last minute, without obtaining a permit....
Posted: Mon, Jan 24, 2005 1:19pm PST
26 CITIES PROTEST J-20
Even in the middle of January, thousands of Americans find it necessary to voice their dissent towards the Bush Administration....
Posted: Sat, Jan 22, 2005 8:19am PST
Please tell S.F. supervisors to support tsunami relief
On Tuesday, January 11, Supervisors Chris Daly and Tom Ammiano introduced an ordinance to appropriate $1,000,000 out of the City of S.F. General Fund Reserve to provide emergency relief to areas of Southeast Asia devastated by the December 26 earthquake and tsunami....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 5:12pm PST
Activists Disrupt Bush Inauguration Ceremony
A few seconds before Bush was sworn in by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, a group of 3 activists from Eugene, Oregon disrupted the ceremony. One of the activists, Carol Melia, filmed their action. We spoke with her after they were escorted out of the ceremony....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 8:22am PST
Photos of San Francisco Civic Center Inauguration Protest
Photographs from the January 20th, 2005, Protest in Civic Center Plaza, downtown San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 2:54am PST
inaugural protests in the Emerald Region, California
Activists throughout Humboldt and Mendocino rejoice in successful protests & parades...
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 11:15pm PST
Breaking news from SF ANSWER demo
what happened in the streets...
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 6:19pm PST
Bush Said "Freedom" 76 Times in 35 Paragraphs
Bush used code words for "Freedom" 76 times in just thirty-five paragraphs today. You'd never know that in our time Bush's racist, sexist, authoritarian, "Christian conservative" bullies have championed every kind of tyranny....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 5:16pm PST
Free Radio Santa Cruz: Inaugration Demonstration callins
Audio mp3 link to Inaguration 2005 Protest callins from J20 protests against George Bush polise abuse using peper spray, beatings ect from various indy media streaming audio from radio coop,FRSC, Enemy Combatant Radio on J20 2005 up till 3:30 EST...
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 4:33pm PST
Steamed Rice almost got fried?
In a heated exchange that rivaled the famed Frazier-Ali fight, a steamed-up Condoleeza Rice received a grilling at the hands(oops, mouth) of Calif. senator Barbara Boxer......
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 2:05am PST
OK Reformists...
please email this to your reformist friends...
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 10:38pm PST
(A) Call for Action in Modesto Against Bush on Friday!
A call to all anti-authoritarians, anarchists, and revolutionaries to show solidarity with Modesto activists by coming on Friday to protest the administration, and the system of control behind it....
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 9:45pm PST
Inauguration Protest in Berkeley
Artists and Writers for Peace will bring people together in BART Plaza in Downtown Berkeley, California to read the Langston Hughes poem "Let America Be America Again."...
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 7:06pm PST
Freewayblog the Inaugural and win $100!
Please join us on the freeways on January 20th to celebrate four more years of shock and awe....
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 2:49pm PST
Inauguration Protests planned in DC
Just a quick update on plans in DC...
Posted: Wed, Jan 19, 2005 9:06am PST
Jan. 20 - "Not Our President!" Bay Area Actions
January 20, 2005 counter-inaugural Bay Area actions. Not our president! Not in Out Name! 7am bannering, 10:30am mock inauguration SF Fed Bldg, 4pm Powell & Market, 5pm SF Civic Center...
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 8:29pm PST
Oppose Gonzales as Attorney General
The nomination of White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General of the
United States raises the likelihood that the chief legal officer in the second Bush
Administration will undermine, not uphold, the Constitution of the United States he
is sworn to support....
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 8:15pm PST
J20 National STOP "Bush" Sign Stenciling
The media will try to ignore the protest in D.C. but the signs of the time are everywhere and everyone can read the writing on the wall. Show some solidarity and do some sign improvement in your locale....
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 4:07pm PST