As the dust settled on the destroyed homes, schools and lives in the aftermath of Israel’s assault on Gaza earlier this year, mainstream human rights groups from Amnesty International to Physicians for Human Rights/Israel issued reports condemning Israel’s attack and alleging that the Israeli government and the Israeli Defense Forces had committed war crimes and [...]
Let Obama Know Peace is a Priority. The Obama Transition Team has once again opened up for questions on their official site, Change.gov. Questions can be voted up or down by members of the community and the Obama Team will answer the most popular questions after the New Year. Let Obama know that peace, including [...]
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Queens woman loses son in Iraq, now her home to foreclosure scam:
where’s the bailout for Americans?
A wonderful e-mail has been circulating today. It describes how Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and other women of the 1900s — two generations after Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton — were beaten, jailed, trashed in the newspapers and taunted by crowds when they snuck into private venues, stood in lines illegally, chained themselves [...]
A few days ago the Denver Post ran a piece on the parking-lot restricted and wholly sanctioned—yet totally ineffective—protest zone set up for the throngs at the DNC. As Lynne Gravel remarks in the article, “The delegates can’t see [it.]”
CODEPINKer Liz Hourican, ever ready to draw attention to political ridiculousness, kneels in the protest [...]
Yesterday’s arrest of CODEPINKer Alicia Forrest has stirred up many questions among reporters covering the convention protests. Are the police brutal? Their numbers disproportionately great? Do Forrest, or any other protester, do anything to provoke them? Linda Milazzo, of Huffington Post, asks, “Is this really what democracy looks like?”
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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