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DEMOCRACY, MEXICAN STYLE - PART II
MORE INFORMATION ON THE STOLEN MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION...
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 4:16am PDT
City Council to Consider New Mission St. Apt. Project
Santa Cruz City Hall
809 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: 831-420-5030...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 1:38am PDT
Tell City Council -- Impeachment Now!
Santa Cruz City Hall
809 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: 831-420-5030...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 8:11pm PDT
SF: Geoffrey Nunberg: Talking Right: How Conservatives Hijacked the English Language
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street
San Francisco
between 19th and 20th...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 18, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 7:42pm PDT
Democratic senator defends Iraq war in Connecticut primary debate
Senator Joseph Lieberman, the most vocal ally of the Bush administration among Senate Democrats, adamantly defended the Iraq war in a televised debate July 6 with his opponent in the Connecticut Democratic Party primary, millionaire Ned Lamont. Lieberman, a three-term senator and the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate in 2000, has only a narrow lead in polls taken in advance of the August 8 primary because of widespread opposition to the Iraq war among Democratic voters....
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 7:37am PDT
Journalist Robert Scheer on Playing President: They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush
We speak with veteran journalist and author Robert Scheer about his new book, "Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan and Clinton- and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush."...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 7:35am PDT
Mexico’s “Democracy” Spurns Millions of Immigrants that Sustain Its Economy
The “Trickery” of the PAN Takes Aim Against Foreign Votes Not in its Favor...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 7:32am PDT
Full Recount Would Show Obrador Won Mexico’s Presidency by More than One Milllion Votes
The Tip of the Iceberg of the Crimes Committed by Mexican Electoral Authorities Is the Fraudulent Vote Count of 2006...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 7:31am PDT
Lessons from Stanford: A Republic or an Empire?
Gentle reader, did you know that in April President Bush went to Stanford University to speak to the Hoover Institution fellows at the invitation of former Secretary of State George Shultz but was not allowed on campus? The Stanford students got wind of it and blocked Bush's access to the campus. The Hoover fellows had to go to Shultz's home to hear Bush's pitch for war and more war....
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 7:29am PDT
unique congressional campaign in Nevada
I am on the ballot this year as a candidate for U.S. Representative in Nevada's Second Congressional District. I am the first candidate anywhere to offer a secure state-of-the-art digital voting system that will enable citizens in my district TO CONTROL my votes in Congress....
Posted: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 1:55pm PDT
U.S. Mexicans Faced Problems Voting in Tijuana
The severe shortage of ballots and overall slowness of the voting process caused frustration and discontent among Mexicans living in the United States who crossed the border last weekend to vote in one of 18 special voting centers in Tijuana....
Posted: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 1:40pm PDT
2008 Presidential Candidate Frank Moore calls on fellow artists!
Frank Moore, candidate of the Just Makes Sense Party, is calling for his fellow artists to do pieces of any kind to support his candidacy!...
Posted: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 10:19am PDT
BTL:Mexico's Presidential Election Outcome in Dispute as...
...Leftist Party Cries 'Foul' ~ Interview with Michael Lettieri, Council of Hemispheric Affairs research fellow, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 3:10am PDT
Camejo pushing for three way debate, not multi-party democracy
Green Party Gov. candidate Peter Camejo is appealing for funds to air TV ads to raise his profile and get himself into the 'debates' with Gropenator and Angelides. But there seems to be no effort to link the call for his inclusion with the right of the candidates of the other three ballot qualified parties to also be included....
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 2:31pm PDT
Democracy, Mexican Style
AN ACCOUNT OF THE STOLEN MEXICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION...
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 6:04am PDT
Spokane antiauthoritarian July 4 walk
Anarchists in Spokane, Washington organized a march promoted as a "March For Rights" that took place this 4th of July afternoon. Close to fifty people with signs, upside-down flags, and black flags marched through busy downtown Spokane at around 4pm behind a large sign that "We Are Not Afraid!" with the acronyms "FBI", "JTTF", and "NSA" circled and crossed out....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:40pm PDT
A MODEST PROPOSAL- RECRUIT, RUN INDPENDENT LABOR MILITANT CANDIDATES IN THE 2006 ELECTIONS
IN THE TIME OF THE GREAT FEAR WE NEED OUR OWN CANDIDATES....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 10:21am PDT
Calderon Declared Victor in Disputed Mexico Race; Obrador to Challenge
Mexico's electoral commission has announced that conservative candidate Felipe Calderon has won the presidential election with a razor-thin victory. His populist rival, Andres Manual Lopez Obrador says he will challenge the result in the courts. We go to Mexico City for a report....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 7:36am PDT
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
In her book, "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism," author Michelle Goldberg examines how gay marriage has become "the mobilizing passion for much of the religious right." The book also charts how Christian fundamentalism is supported by Republican patronage and how under the Bush administration, it is increasingly shaping many aspects of public policy....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 7:34am PDT
Election in Mexico: Stealing it in front of your eyes
Gore v. Bush. Kerry v. Bush. Obrador v. Calderon.
As in Florida in 2000, as in Ohio in 2004, the exit polls show the voters voted for the progressive candidate, but the race is “officially” too close to call....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:48am PDT