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Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Elections & Legislation : Labor : Political-Economy |
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AFL-CIO Launches 'Who's On Our Side' Campaign On Behalf of Working Families, Releases National Poll on Workers' Issues at Mid Point of 109th Congress |
by AFL-CIO
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14 Dec 2005
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AFL-CIO Sec.-Treas. Trumka Announces Aggressive Campaign Beginning in 10 States Targeting Members of Congress on Wages, Retirement, Trade and More |
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News :: Prisons |
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Execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams |
by dave dubay
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13 Dec 2005
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Stanley “Tookie” Williams, co-founder of the Crip street gang in Los Angeles, was executed in San Quentin Prison on December 13 just after midnight.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger coldly and callously refused to grant him clemency, saying that “the facts do not justify overturning the court decision.” Even though Tookie Williams had changed and became a very outspoken advocate against gang violence and for peace. They showed him no mercy. But it is deeper than this. In a highly political statement, Schwarzenegger also said that Tookie Williams' 1998 book Life In Prison was “dedicated to people like Assata Shakur, Mumia Abu Jamal” and particularly “Black militant George Jackson” which, according to Schwarzenegger, “is a significant indicator that Williams is not reformed and that he still sees violence and lawlessness as legitimate means to address societal problems.” |
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LOCAL News :: Globalization |
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Two Reports on anti-WTO demonstrations in Hong Kong |
by various sources, via Paul Kotheimer
herringb (nospam) prairienet.org (unverified) |
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13 Dec 2005
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Demonstrators have amassed against the latest round of World Trade Organization talks, taking place in Hong Kong this week.
Here are two reports. Great photos can be found at the New Zealand IMC site. |
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Selling off the Social State |
by Tilo Graser
mbatko (nospam) lycos.com (verified) |
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13 Dec 2005
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Attitudes are the only disability. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. "Social solidarity with the weak is eroding.. The solidarian security from risks is the prerequisite for personal responsibility." |
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Review :: Economy |
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No Room for Grace: Book Review |
by Beat Dietschy
mbatko (nospam) lycos.com (verified) |
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11 Dec 2005
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If abundance of life for all people is the heart of the biblical vision, economic thinking focuses on the shortage of resources.. Not subjecting everything to the market-benefit-calculus is vital. |
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News :: Media |
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Bob Avakian on Richard Pryor |
by duko
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11 Dec 2005
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Recently I was reading reports of police assaults on Black people and of Black people fighting against the police in Memphis and Miami. This called to mind a story I was told a while back. A rookie cop was riding in his police car with his veteran partner when a report came in that there was a Black man in the vicinity with a gun. As their car screeched around the corner, a young Black man suddenly appeared sprinting up an alley--into a dead end. "Shoot him!", the older cop screamed, "Go on, shoot him-- it's free!"
"It's free!" Think about that for a second. "It's free!" In other words, here's a chance that gets a pig to sweating and salivating with anticipation--a chance to "kill a nigger" with the already provided cover that a Black man--a Black man, any Black man--was reported in the area with a gun. This is an opportunity too good to pass up: "Go on, shoot him--it's free!"
Well, in this case, the rookie was not ready for that--perhaps he was one of those rare ones who joins a police force actually believing the "serve and protect" bullshit--
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American Does Us Proud Here and Abroad |
by Rachel Gluck, Air America Phoenix
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10 Dec 2005
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Utada Hikaru is a name not all Americans are familiar with, but we should be. She is one of the smartest music producers in the game, not to mention a terrific singer with one intelligent husband, Kaz Kiriya, directing her latest video. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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Shooting the Mentally ill, Better than treatment? |
by Cindy
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10 Dec 2005
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Forty-four year old Rigoberto Alpizar, an American citizen born in Costa Rica was Murdered by federal air marshals on Wednesday as he fled an American Airlines jet at Miami International Airport. Federal officials lied about him saying he had a bomb. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Elections & Legislation : Globalization : International Relations : Latin America : Political-Economy |
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Elections Could Tilt Latin America Further to the Left |
by Juan Forero
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10 Dec 2005
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"The left is contesting in a very practical way for political power," said Jim Shultz, executive director of Democracy Center, a policy analysis group in Bolivia. "There's a common thread that runs through Lula and Kirchner and Chávez and Evo, and the left in Chile to a certain degree, and that thread is a popular challenge to the market fundamentalism of the Washington Consensus."
Bolivian presidentail candidate Evo Morales, who is close to Hugo Chávez and has called Fidel Castro's Cuba a model, says he will reject American-imposed economic principles and policies like the eradication of coca. "The policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, under the direction of the United States government, which concentrate capital in few hands, is not a solution," he said. "Western development is the development of death." |
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