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Coalition of Antiwar, Veteran Groups Launching National Movement to Impeach Bush and Cheney A coalition of groups are meeting near Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Saturday to announce plans to mobilize a national movement to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. We speak with former New York Congressmember Elizabeth Holtzman, who played a key role in the committee investigating Watergate, and we speak with Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 7:07am PST
Who Voted and Why? A Roundtable Discussion on the Ethnic, Religious and Social Makeup of Voters in the Elections Exit polls are showing significant shifts in voting patterns among the electorate. Democrats succeeded in winning back some religious voters who had voted solidly Republican in the last few elections. For the first time since 1996, a majority of Florida Latinos voted Democrat. Young voters had a huge increase in turnout with two million more young people voting on Tuesday than in the 2002. And African-American voter turnout made the difference in tight races like Missouri and Virginia. We hos...
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 7:07am PST
Latino Backlash Could Doom GOP The anti-immigrant rhetoric and legislation from many Republicans (and some Democrats) is stoking flames of resentment against Latinos among the GOP's largely white base. Should Latinos get fed up and refuse to vote Republican -- and exit polls suggest a large majority did just that on Nov. 7 -- the GOP could be doomed politically for years to come. Roberto Lovato is a New America Media writer based in New York....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 6:44am PST
Nancy Pelosi Is Not My Hero San Francisco Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi should be my hero. She’s about to become the first female Speaker of the House in American history. She’s also the first Italian American. But identity politics isn’t enough. Sure, it’s great that she’s the first woman and Italian to be one heartbeat from the highest office in the land. America’s “come a long way baby,” since the days when women were supposed to be barefoot and pregnant and Italians were gangsters in the movies....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 6:22am PST
Voters clean house: Rejecting Bush agenda, Americans look for new direction WASHINGTON — Fired by anger and disgust with George W. Bush, the Iraq war, corporate greed, corruption and human needs cutbacks, voters went to the polls Nov. 7 and terminated 12 years of Republican control of the U.S. House of Representatives. A switch to Democratic control of the Senate hinged on the undecided Virginia race, with the Democrat leading at press time....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 6:21am PST
Mission accomplished: Labor kicks ass Labor’s challenge in this election was to provide the organizing to transform the workers’ frustration and anger into political power, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said at a post-election press conference Nov. 8....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 6:20am PST
First in nation: Oakland OKs ‘oil independence’ by 2020 OAKLAND, Calif. — In an action with far-reaching implications for improving air quality, curbing global warming, growing the “green economy” and developing well-paying jobs for urban workers, Oakland’s City Council voted Oct. 17 to develop a plan to make the city oil independent by 2020. It is the first such measure by a U.S. city....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 6:20am PST
The Myth of Conservative Democrats; Newsom’s Spin Unreal Now that Democrats have won the House and the Senate, the mainstream media and the right-wing noise machine have already started to spin the results. According to them, most of the new Democrats who were elected are “conservative,” and so the new Congress must tread lightly when they take on the President. Nothing can be further from the truth. Democrats won because they challenged the Bush regime on Iraq, and a close look at each individual race shows a renewed party of feisty candidates who...
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 6:19am PST
BTL:Electronic Voting Fatally Flawed Interview with Pokey Anderson, independent journalist, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 5:07am PST
We must Tell Congress to ditch the HSA proposal NOT allowed to enter or leave US
Without permission from DHS / Reichstag...
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2006 8:26pm PST
I want them impeached and convicted American voters have finally wakened and tipped the balance of power in Washington against the rogues of the Bush administration that have done irreparable harm to the United States and to hundreds of thousands of innocents around the world during the past six years. The perpetrators of the war on Iraq should be impeached, convicted, and removed from office in 2007....
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2006 11:10am PST
DEMOCRATS NOW WANT TO “PARTNER” WITH THE REPUBLICANS Democrats Say They Want To Partner with The Republicans: Can Either of them Be Trusted?...
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2006 10:55am PST
AS I LAY DYING THE LIMITED MEANING OF THE MID-TERM ELECTION RESULTS...
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2006 8:11am PST
Politicos Gather to Hear David Binder’s Analysis – With Many Happy Progressives It’s a San Francisco tradition for local political junkies to gather at the SPUR Office on the day after an election to hear pollster David Binder’s analysis of the results. What was not traditional this year was the sheer exuberance that progressives felt about Supervisor Chris Daly’s hard-earned re-election victory. Roughly half the attendees showed up wearing bright green Daly t-shirts, eager to gloat about an election where the local and national outcome was extremely favorable for progre...
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2006 7:23am PST
Juan Gonzalez Analyzes the New Democratic Leadership in the House Daily News columnist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez discusses the outcome of the mid-term elections and analyzes the makeup of the new Democratic leadership in the House....
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2006 7:15am PST
Right-wing Popular Party attacks Spain’s leading judge Baltasar Garzón. A campaign has been mounted by the right-wing opposition Spanish Popular Party (PP) against the leading judge, Baltasar Garzón....
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2006 7:15am PST
NeoCons and NeoLibs Take a Big Hit, as Voters Say No to Bush, War and Free Trade Wherever they were given the opportunity, voters across the country went strongly for antiwar candidates. True, the national Democrats, led by Rahm Emanuel of the Democratic Congressional Campaign, had tried pretty successfully to keep such peaceniks off the ballot, but in a few key races the antiwar progressives romped home. The Democrats won, despite Emanuel. If the Clintonites weren't still controlling most of the campaign money, and more openly antiwar populists had been running, the Demo...
Posted: Wed, Nov 8, 2006 7:56pm PST
Election Hangover: The Democrats Won, Big Deal Thank goodness it's finally over. Well almost, anyway. Recounts are still going on out in Montana where Jon Tester holds a slight lead over incumbent Senator Conrad Burns. The Democrats swept the House last night and now they are oh-so-close to controlling the United States Senate. And the message voters sent Bush is being heard loud and clear: the Republicans and this war are not popular in America....
Posted: Wed, Nov 8, 2006 7:43pm PST
UK Guardian: Thank you, America For six years, latterly with the backing of both houses of a markedly conservative Republican Congress, George Bush has led an American administration that has played an unprecedentedly negative and polarising role in the world's affairs. On Tuesday, in the midterm US congressional elections, American voters rebuffed Mr Bush in spectacular style and with both instant and lasting political consequences. By large numbers and across almost every state of the union, the voters defeated Republican...
Posted: Wed, Nov 8, 2006 7:41pm PST
greetings from Public Enemy #1 Californians have voted to make Registered Sex Offenders homeless, and/or hidden....
[ anonymous letter ] (please reprint)...
Posted: Wed, Nov 8, 2006 6:01pm PST
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