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RCP Cries "Wolf" over Fascism
A comment on RCP's current
"Battle for the Future" campaign:
Hysteria about "fascism" serves to hide
the essential role of the Democratic Party in
the political and economic system of imperialism...
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 9:09pm PST
21 Senate Democrats For More War Spending
21 Senate Democrats sent a letter to Pres Bush on Jan 13, 2005 calling for a LARGER military, proving that the capitalist Democrats are just as evil as their twin party, the capitalist Republican Party, both parties of war, the death penalty, prisons, police and increasingly on the part of the Democrats, anti-abortion, to match the anti-abortion, anti-science Republicans. THEY ARE EQUALLY EVIL....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 5:32pm PST
Free speech issue bigger than Churchill
She then pointed to two moments where CU presidents have faced similar challenges. In the first case, a legislature dominated by the Ku Klux Klan went after the CU faculty. The second came during the Red scare when faculty were fired....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 4:09pm PST
Anti-Immigrant Legislation to be Voted on This Week- Contact Congress!
A vote on anti-immigrant legislation, introduced by House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), is expected in the U.S. House of Representatives early next week....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 1:11pm PST
The Right has a License to Write Anything: Ward Churchill and the Mad Dogs
When it comes to left and right, meaning the respective voices of sanity and dementia, we're meant to keep two sets of books....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 12:09pm PST
"A Subtle Form of Hypocrisy"
Between 1980 and 2003, $1.8 trillion in interests alone flowed from the South to the North. the heavy debts of developing countries more than tripled inthis time period....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 11:13am PST
New York State Court Rules Same-Sex Couples Must Be Allowed to Marry
A New York State court ruled today that same-sex couples must be allowed to marry, in a decision that Lambda Legal called "a historic ruling that delivers the state Constitution's promise of equality to all New Yorkers."...
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 10:48am PST
Building Bridges Radio - Social Insecurity plus The Next Pres. of Chile?
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28 min radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS LINK BELOW...
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 8:26am PST
Remembering Ossie Davis
The passing of Ossie Davis at age 87 today, Feb 4, 2005, was a shock to those of us who remember him and his era, although he certianly lived to a ripe old age, active up to the last minute. Since this website is among other things, a preservation of the workingclass movements of our day and its predecessors, I thought I would add some memories....
Posted: Fri, Feb 4, 2005 9:48pm PST
New York Court Rules Gays Must Be Allowed To Marry
A New York State court ruled Friday that same-sex couples must be allowed to marry....
Posted: Fri, Feb 4, 2005 5:53pm PST
New York Marriage Ruling Is Historic Step Toward Full Equality
The Human Rights Campaign lauded a historic New York court
ruling today saying that same-sex couples must be allowed to marry.
Lambda Legal brought the case on behalf of five same-sex couples
seeking
marriage licenses in New York....
Posted: Fri, Feb 4, 2005 5:52pm PST
O'Reilly Show Poll on Whether Churchill Should Be Fired
If you happen to have any extra time on your hands to make a visit to O'Reilly's website, please visit the site and vote against the Fox news witchhunt against Ward Churchill....
Posted: Fri, Feb 4, 2005 5:26pm PST
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Compared Abortion to the Holocaust
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities, who teaches at Emory, memorably compared abortion to the holocaust in a speech at Hamlton college. Below is a quick summary of her remarks....
Posted: Fri, Feb 4, 2005 11:22am PST
Keynes in Uniform
Bush seems to have learned the same thing as former president Reagan from the historical experi-ence of the 1930s. Socially oriented programs like the New Deal do not help capitalism out of crisis. What helps are tax cuts and cuts in socialspending...
Posted: Fri, Feb 4, 2005 6:42am PST
As Discharge of Gay Linguists Continues, Pentagon Again Acknowledges Shortage
AS DISCHARGE OF GAY LINGUISTS CONTINUE,
PENTAGON AGAIN ACKNOWLEDGES SHORTAGE OF LANGUAGE EXPERTS...
Posted: Fri, Feb 4, 2005 12:08am PST
6 Democrats for Nazi AG Gonzales
The 6 Democratic senators voting for the pro-torture Nazi Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, were Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, Ken Salazar of Colorado, Mary Landrieu of Lousiana, Bill Nelson of Florida, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Mark Pryor of Arkansas, proving the Democrats & Republicans both support fascism....
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 10:55pm PST
Documents on the Ward Churchill Academic Freedom Controversy
1 Prof quits chair over 9/11 (News Story)
2 Text of Ward Churchill's statement
3 Text of Colorado House of Representatives Resolution
4 Text of Governor Owens' letter on Churchill
5 N.Y. college cancels talk (News Story)
6 AAUP Statement on Professor Ward Churchill
Controversy...
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 10:40pm PST
"Dare to Compare": the American Holocaust Denial and American and Zionist Exceptionalisms
Many Jewish writers have often compared Jews to American Indians, before and after the Holocaust. To take but one example, "Raphael Seligmann has gone on record stating that the Jews are 'the Indians of Germany'” (Friedberg, p. 354). However, the reverse has not been deemed acceptable, particularly since the birth of what Norman G. Finkelstein calls the Holocaust Industry in the Six Day War. For instance, "Rabbi Irving Greenberg, founder of the Holocaust Resource Center and first...
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 4:38pm PST