News :: Nukes |
140,000 Reasons Not To Celebrate The Enola Gay Exhibit |
by Michael Jones (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 11 Dec 2003
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General John "Jack" Dailey, director of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, suggests that there is marvel in the technological accomplishment of the Enola Gay. "We are displaying it in all of its glory as a magnificent technological achievement," said Dailey.
But make no mistake, there is no "glory" in the Enola Gay. |
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LOCAL Announcement :: Elections & Legislation |
Green Tea Topic - Should Ralph Nader Run For President? |
by PrairieGreens (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 11 Dec 2003
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Should Ralph Nader Run for president? We will discuss this at the next Green Tea. |
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News :: Labor |
Police Arrest More Than 100 During Protest Of Yale's Treatment Of Women, Lack Of Family Health Care |
by William Kaempffer (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 11 Dec 2003
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Like grad students at the University of Illinois, those at Yale lack adequate, affordable health care for their families. |
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Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights |
SyriaRelations With The Iraqi Baath Party:(the Twin-regimes Of Terrorism) |
by mark dameli (No verified email address) |
Current rating: -2 11 Dec 2003
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Using the same fascist means in an extreme competition to rule over the Arab countries while claming the highest level of hater to the US and the West. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
New Activist Network Slams Growing Abuses Under Bush |
by Jim Lobe (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 11 Dec 2003
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They called for U.S. citizens to speak out against these abuses, as well as to fight "U.S. exceptionalism", the view pushed strongly by the administration of President George W. Bush, that the United States should not be constrained by international law or human rights standards, especially relating to economic and social rights. |
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BTL:Credibility Of The Bush Administration's Plan For A... |
by Between the Lines' Scott Harris betweenthelines (nospam) snet.net (verified) |
Current rating: 0 11 Dec 2003
Modified: 08:31:13 AM |
...Transition to Iraqi Rule Questioned * Interview with James Paul, executive director of the Global Policy Forum, conducted by Between The Lines' Scott Harris |
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News :: Media |
Guerrilla Labeling Against Corporate Music |
by Holmes Wilson (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 10 Dec 2003
Modified: 11:48:25 PM |
As part of a broad-spectrum attack involving activists, independent musicians, and programmers, Downhill Battle (downhillbattle.org) has begun guerrilla labeling actions in "big box" music retailers like as Walmart, Best Buy, and Target. |
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Al Gore: Getting Revenge And Making History |
by Sam Smith (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 3 10 Dec 2003
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The Dean campaign has raised a serious challenge to the insider losers of the Democratic party...The Dean campaign is also different because it may revive a sort of populist Democratic politics not seen since the Lyndon Johnson era...The Dean campaign is even different from another renegade effort, that of Jimmy Carter, because, in the end, Dean himself may not be that important to what is happening. The Washington media worrying intensely about his statements or his policies miss the point; Dean is really just the excuse for his supporters to come together. |
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Workers' Rights Inseparable From Basic Human Rights |
by John Sweeney (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 10 Dec 2003
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A promising start to the restoration of America's workers' freedom to form a union is the Employee Free Choice Act, co-sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Representatives George Miller (D-Calif.) and Peter King (R-N.Y.), and recently introduced into Congress. The treatment of workers is a civil issue requiring political solutions. |
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