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at the call of the Mobile Veterans For Peace Chapter #130, (people) will conduct a march between Mobile, AL, and New Orleans,
LA, from March 14-19, 2006...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:54pm PST
AK Steel’s lockout of 2,700 workers at its Middletown, Ohio, mill entered its second week Thursday as evidence mounts that the company’s provocative actions and its sweeping demands for job cuts and wage and benefit concessions are aimed at making it more attractive to a potential buyer....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:48pm PST
Bigger and Better Plan
We're making our election plan bigger and better with a new Spring TV ad program that will help break the Republican stranglehold on Congress. The blitz this Spring will cost $2 million. To get started we need to raise $500,000 this week. Can you join us?...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:47pm PST
AT&T has yet to file an application with the FCC for its proposed acquisition of BellSouth, but FCC Chair Kevin Martin has already issued a public statement promising to examine "any allegations of specific harm in individual markets" caused by the union of the two telephone companies....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 4:47pm PST
Senator Dianne Feinstein:
(202) 224-3841
Senator Barbara Boxer:
(202) 224-3553
U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 2:28pm PST
On January 20th, eleven people were indicted in Oregon by a grand jury
investigating acts of sabotage linked to the underground Earth Liberation
Front (ELF)....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 1:41pm PST
Statement of NOW President Kim Gandy...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:10am PST
NEW YORK -- A prominent off-Broadway theater says it still hopes to present "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," a politically charged play about a young American student who was killed while trying to stop the Israeli destruction of a Palestinian home in Gaza....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 7:06am PST
An Open Letter to Jim Nicola, Artistic Director, New York Theater Workshop...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 6:25am PST
Ever since President Eisenhower's farewell address, there have been sporadic warnings about the Military Industrial Complex. Over the last couple of decades, critics like Ernest Fitzgerald and Chuck Spinney have performed a valuable public service by uncovering the Pentagon's lunatic potlatch schemes and dragging them before the bar of public opinion. Lately, organizations such as the Project on Government Oversight, the Center for Defense Information, and the Committee against Government Was...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 6:17am PST
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Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 1:10am PST
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
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
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
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
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
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
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