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postings.)
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Common
Dreams News Center (Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community)
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Cursor.org
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Democracy
Now!
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Pacifica
Radio
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FAIR,the
national media watch group
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MotherJones
magazine online
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the Wilderness Publications (News & Views from the left)
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InformationTimes.com
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TomPaine.commonsense(mostly
commentary)
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Al-Jazeerah
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Howard
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May 27
All
the news that is fit to print, and I didn't make any of it up, either.
;-)
Yes,
the kids are still in baseball season! :-)
--Kayly
Quotes
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The death of democracy is not likely
to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy,
indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books,
1954
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"They Aren't 'Just Resting'
The Democratic Party is Dead"--Robert
B. Reich
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"People have the power to redeem the
work of fools."
- Patti Smith
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I don't know exactly what democracy
is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during
protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989
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Man is the only animal that laughs
and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler
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I still believe in liberalism today
as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed
in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody
could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow
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Democracy is the name we give the people
whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and
Arman de Caillavet
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We need a president who's fluent in
at least one language.
-- Buck Henry
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What luck for the rulers that men do
not think.
-- Adolf Hitler
News(Highlighted
article/s of the week at top, in pink)
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US
plans death camp
May 26, 2003
THE US has
floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death camp, with its own death
row and execution chamber.
Prisoners
would be tried, convicted and executed without leaving its boundaries,
without a jury and without right of appeal, The Mail on Sunday newspaper
reported yesterday.
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Bush
Affirms U.S. Is Ready to Send Troops to the Philippines
By ELISABETH
BUMILLER
WASHINGTON,
May 19 — President Bush reaffirmed Washington's commitment today to send
American troops to help root out Muslim militants in the southern Philippines,
but he did not provide any details of how or when they would be sent.
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Secret
Service Questions Students
Posted: May
7, 2003 at 6:18 p.m.
OAKLAND (KRON)
-- Some teachers in Oakland are rallying behind two students who were interrogated
by the Secret Service. That followed remarks the teenagers made about the
President during a class discussion. The incident has many people angry.
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May. 5, 2003.
07:32 AM
The
real 'Saving Pte. Lynch'
Iraqi medical
staff tell a different story than U.S. military
'We all became
friends with her, we liked her so much'
MITCH POTTER
MIDDLE EAST
BUREAU
NASIRIYA,
IraqThe fog of war comes sometimes with a certain odour, and cutting through
its layers, like cutting through an onion, can bring tears to the eyes.
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FedEx
Delivery Trucks Go Green
By JENNIFER
8. LEE
WASHINGTON,
May 20 — The FedEx Corporation announced today that it planned to replace
30,000 of its delivery trucks with energy-saving, environmentally friendly
hybrid-powered vehicles.
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Texas
Legislative Dispute Goes National
By PHILIP
SHENON
WASHINGTON,
May 15 The Bush administration said today that the Department of
Homeland Security had inadvertently become enmeshed in a partisan dispute
in the Texas Statehouse this week when the department agreed to try to
track down a private plane owned by a leading Democratic state legislator.
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Species
Regulations May Be Endangered
House Votes
to Let Defense Sidestep Protection Laws
By Juliet
Eilperin
Washington
Post Staff Writer
Thursday,
May 22, 2003
The House
voted yesterday to exempt the Defense Department from two laws designed
to protect endangered animals and plants, arguing that the restrictions
hamper the military's ability to train U.S. troops and test weapons.
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Justice
Dept. Lists Use of New Power to Fight Terror
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
WASHINGTON,
May 20 — In the most detailed public accounting of how it had used its
expanded powers to fight terrorism, the Justice Department released information
today showing that federal agents had conducted hundreds of bugging and
surveillance operations and visited numerous libraries and mosques using
new law enforcement tools.
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Stirring
a Cause
When
Things Get Rough for Protesters, These Lawyers Go on the March
By David
Montgomery
Washington
Post Staff Writer
Monday, May
12, 2003; Page C01
The D.C.
police want everyone out of 18th Street NW, and they mean now. They're
pushing their batons hard against rib cages and backs. They're grabbing
shoulders and shoving.
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MUSLIM CHILD
BEATEN IN PENNSYLVANIA
Authorities
urged to treat incident as hate crime
(WASHINGTON,
D.C., 5/22/03) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations(CAIR) today
called on local and federal authorities to treat the beating of an 8-year-old
Muslim child in Bensalem, Penn., as a hate crime. The Washington-based
Islamic civil rights and advocacy group says the child was allegedly beaten
earlier this month by three 13-year-old boys who made remarks such as "go
back to Iraq" and "Saddam Hussein helper" during the
attack. According
to the Muslim boy's family, he came home with a bloody mouth and spent
one night in the hospital for observation. He is now terrified to go outside
and cannot sleep at night. The alleged attackers, whose names are apparently
known to police, have not been taken into custody. "A disturbing pattern
seems to be developing in which ordinary American
Muslims,
Arab-Americans and those perceived to be Middle Eastern, are subject to
attack merely because of their religion, ethnicity or distinctive attire,"
said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. "Law enforcement authorities at
both the local and national levels can help discourage these types of assaults
by treating them with the seriousness they deserve." In a similar incident
on Monday in Pennsylvania, a 14-year-old Iraqi-American girl says she was
beaten by a classmate while a crowd of
students
stood by yelling anti-Muslim comments. The victim
said her
attackers shouted "kill the Muslim girl.that's what she deserves"
during the assault. Also this week, a Sikh man who may have been mistaken
for an Arab, was shotin Phoenix, Ariz. The victim said he heard his attacker
shout "go back to
where you
belong," just before being shot. Police are treating the incident as a
hate crime. CAIR is encouraging victims of hate crimes to fill out report
forms, which are available for download at: http://www.cair-net.org/ireport/Incident_Report.doc,
or by
calling 202-488-8787.
CAIR, America's largest Islamic civil
liberties
group, is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has 16 regional offices
nationwide and in Canada. Since its founding in 1994, CAIR has defended
the civil and religious rights of all Americans.
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House
Approves $550 Billion Tax Cut
Fri May 9, 3:32 PM ET
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led
U.S. House of Representatives approved a $550 billion tax cut bill on Friday
that pares down President Bush's dividend proposal but is more generous
than a Senate package.
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U.S.
Asks U.N. to Approve Iraq Occupation
By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated
Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS - The United States
and its allies asked the U.N. Security Council on Friday to give its stamp
of approval to their occupation of Iraq and sought permission to use revenue
from the world's second-largest oil reserves to rebuild the war-battered
country.
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Frist
Proposes Rule Change on Stalled Nominees
Fri May 9, 3:21 PM ET
By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate
Majority Leader Bill Frist proposed a change in the chamber's rules on
Friday to stop Democratic procedural roadblocks against President Bush's
conservative judicial nominees.
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Some
VA Doctors Not Doing Scheduled Work
Thu May 8, 9:22 PM ET
By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press
Writer
WASHINGTON - Some part-time physicians
employed by Veterans Affairs medical centers are absent for much of their
scheduled work time and managers are not keeping track of them, the VA's
inspector general said Thursday.
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In
Baghdad's Anarchy, the Insane Went Free
By PATRICK E. TYLER
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 11 The only
mental patient left behind at the high security ward of Al Rashad state
hospital is a killer named Ali Sabah, a former math and science teacher
with jet black hair and dark, searching eyes.
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Plant
Workers Say Bush Speech Will Cost Them
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
President Bush plans to speak at
an Omaha plastics factory today to sell his message that his tax cut plan
will put money in workers' pockets. But some workers at the factory, Airlite
Plastics, are complaining that Mr. Bush's speech will have the opposite
effect.
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Group
protests USA Patriot Act
Longmont residents organize a 'subversive
book check-out'
By Aimee Heckel, Camera Staff Writer
March 15, 2003
LONGMONT Karen Treanor-Brown will
intentionally put her name on "Big Brother Ashcroft's" blacklist today.
She calls it a patriot act.
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Cameraman
'shot in front'
A post mortem examination on the
body of a British cameraman killed by Israeli soldiers shows that he was
shot in the front, the BBC has learned.
The finding appears to contradict
Israel's claim that 34-year-old James Miller was hit in the back - suggesting
that he was shot by Palestinians.
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May 8, 2003
Towers'
Strength Not Tested for a Fire, Inquiry Suggests
By JAMES GLANZ
Federal investigators studying
the collapse of the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001, say they now believe
that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the government agency
that built the towers, never performed the fundamental tests needed to
determine how their innovative structures would perform in a fire.
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Ship
Carrying Bush Delayed Return
Carrier That Spent Night off San
Diego Could Have Gone Straight to Home Port
By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 8, 2003; Page A29
Pentagon officials said yesterday
that an aircraft carrier waited within sight of San Diego last week while
President Bush slept aboard, instead of heading straight to port after
10 months at sea.
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Secret
Halliburton deal endangers U.S. credibility
After repeated assurances that
the United States had no intention of handing control of Iraq's oil reserves
to American companies, the news comes out that a no-bid contract granted
to a company controlled by Halliburton -- Vice President Dick Cheney's
old employer -- goes beyond emergency repair of Iraqi oil infrastructure
to include running Iraq's oil business and distributing its products.
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Halliburton
linked to deals with 'axis of evil'
May 8, 2003
By AFP
Washington - Halliburton, the oil
services titan once headed by US vice-president Dick Cheney, had done business
in Iran, Iraq and Libya for years despite US embargoes, according to documents
released this week by Henry Waxman, a member of the US house of representatives.
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On
9/11, CIA Was Running Simulation of a Plane Crashing into a Building
Here's another admission which
destroys the government's lie that it couldn't possibly have foreseen the
use of planes to ram buildings.
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Yes, I am a bit of a conspiracist,
so deal with it.
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Bush
May Invoke 9/11 Executive Privilege and Secrecy
by Tom Flocco
May 3, 2003 (posted 0100 Est.)
THE ATTACK WILL BE SPECTACULAR
AND DESIGNED TO INFLICT MASS CASUALTIES AGAINST U.S. FACILITIES OR INTERESTS.
ATTACK PREPARATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE. ATTACK WILL OCCUR WITH LITTLE OR NO
WARNING. (CIA Intelligence Report for President Bush, July, 2001 -- 60
Days Prior to 9/11)
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An
Interesting_Day:President Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11
By Allan Wood and Paul Thompson
May 9, 2003
"It was an interesting day." -
President Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02]
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Morning-After
Pill May Go Over the Counter
By KATE ZERNIKE
For years, public health advocates
were frustrated that most women did not know about a drug that could prevent
pregnancy even if taken several days after sex.
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A
Response More Mournful Than Enraged
By LYDIA POLGREEN and ELISSA GOOTMAN
It had all the potential for a
volatile backlash: an unarmed black woman in her 50's home alone in the
early morning hours before heading to work when police officers in riot
gear break down her door and set off a concussion grenade. Within hours,
the woman is dead of a heart attack.
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House
Votes To Bar Schools From Forcing Medication
POSTED: 4:16 p.m. EDT May 22, 2003
The House voted Wednesday to keep
schools from forcing kids with behavioral problems to take medication.
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Cover-Up
Found in Honduras Prison Killings
By TIM WEINER
EL PORVENIR, Honduras, May 18 —
After the shooting and the screaming and the smoke faded away, the guardians
of state security scrambled to write the story of how 68 people were killed
inside the prison walls here on April 5.
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Leading
Drugs for Psychosis Come Under New Scrutiny
By ERICA GOODE
They were billed as near wonder
drugs, much safer and more effective in treating schizophrenia than anything
that had come before.
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Doctor
Admits He Did Needless Surgery on the Mentally Ill
By CLIFFORD J. LEVY
An eye doctor who preyed on the
severely mentally ill pleaded guilty yesterday to a nearly $1 million fraud
scheme in which he routinely rounded up residents of some of New York City's
most notorious adult homes and subjected them to unnecessary surgery or
charged for thousands of procedures that were never done.
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Board
Approves Unsafe School Transfer Policy
POSTED: 10:36 a.m. EDT May 22,
2003
UPDATED: 3:45 p.m. EDT May 22,
2003
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The State Board
of Education has unanimously approved a new policy that would allow students
to transfer out of unsafe schools.
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Walk
This Way
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON
Call me a civil liberties prude,
but I don't want John Poindexter tracking my body part contours.
Or my silhouette pixels, for that
matter.
Not since Monty Python's Ministry
of Silly Walks has a government devoted so much money and study to watching
our steps.
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Spanish
candidate offers 'sex vouchers'
Monday, May 12, 2003 Posted: 5:03
PM EDT (2103 GMT)
MADRID, Spain (Reuters) -- A Spanish
politician is offering half-price love to the youngsters of southern Spain,
with an electoral pledge to subsidize hotel rooms for young couples.
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Ottawa
backs off pot law plans
Possession to stay criminal offence
Changes come after U.S. outcry
TONDA MACCHARLES
OTTAWA BUREAU
OTTAWA— The federal government
has backed off plans to make pot possession a mere ticketing offence, the
Star has learned.
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U.S.
General May Censor Iraqi TV Station's Programs
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 9, 2003
Control over the content of a television
station in Mosul has become a sensitive issue for the commanding general
of the 101st Airborne Division who is running that part of northern Iraq.
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Papers
Detail Alleged Discrimination at Wal-Mart
Mon April 28, 2003 06:00 PM ET
By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Women employees
of Wal-Mart were taken to strip clubs on business trips, demeaned as "little
Janie Qs" by senior managers, paid less than men for the same jobs, and
denied promotions, plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the world's largest
retailer claimed on Monday.
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May 7, 2003
Consumer
Organization Barred from Touring Food Irradiation Facility With Other Conference
Attendees
CHICAGO – Organizers of an international
conference on food irradiation barred a Public Citizen staff member from
touring an irradiation facility today, despite the fact that the tour was
a conference activity. A staff member of the national consumer advocacy
group has participated in other parts of the conference, which was organized
by Michigan State University.
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Eye
witnesses
Two Israelis who witnessed Palestinians
being shot by the IDF could not believe their eyes.
In recent weeks, columnist Gideon
Levy described two violent incidents in the territories in which a Palestinian
boy was killed and a Palestinian girl was injured. In the wake of these
articles, two eyewitnesses sent their testimonies on the circumstances
of the shootings. Both raise serious questions concerning the behavior
of IDF soldiers
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IRAQ:
Washington begins installing `new' regime
BY ROHAN PEARCE
In many parts of Iraq, US-imposed
“regime change” is bearing more than a passing resemblance to Iraq's former
government. The May 7 Washington Post revealed that Baath Party members
have been given senior roles in ministries “including those responsible
for trade, industry, oil, irrigation, health and education”. Additionally,
noted the Post, “Numerous Baathists ... have been welcomed back into the
top ranks of the national police force”.
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On
9/11, U.S. radar was facing wrong way
'Cold War vestige' guided air defenses
Saturday, May 24, 2003
BY RON MARSICO
Star-Ledger Staff
WASHINGTON -- A top U.S. air defense
official testified yesterday that an outdated "cold war" view of the world
before the 9/11 attacks blinded the nation to mounting evidence that hijacked
airliners were becoming the terrorist's weapon of choice.
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NORAD
Admits 9/11 Flaws
By Thomas Frank
WASHINGTON BUREAU
May 23, 2003, 10:36 PM EDT
Washington -- The military agency
that protects the nation's skies came under scrutiny Friday from the commission
investigating the Sept. 11 attacks and acknowledged that it was not prepared
to thwart domestic hijackings.
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Posted on Sat, May. 24, 2003
Order
to shoot 9/11 hijackers moved too late
By Chris Mondics
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
WASHINGTON - The Air Force jets
that were scrambled during the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks received
White House clearance to shoot down the hijacked airliners -- but only
after the last of them crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania, an Air
Force general testified at a hearing Friday.
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Port
protest left physical, mental scar
Oakland woman hospitalized 10 days,
out of work since being hit
By Cecily Burt, STAFF WRITER
OAKLAND -- Willow Rosenthal would
surely rather talk about peas and cabbage than stinger grenades and beanbag
projectiles.
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Bush
makes poor pay for military might and tax cuts
Schools and health lose out as
US public services endure worst crisis since 1930s
Julian Borger in Harrah, Oklahoma
Monday May 26, 2003
The Guardian
School was definitely over for
Sally Kelly last week. The Oklahoma primary school teacher was trying to
cram years of accumulated experience and memories into a few cardboard
boxes and get them out of the door before the building was locked up for
the holidays.
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FBI
Apology Fails To Dissipate Cloud
8 Terrorism Suspects Confined on
Bogus Tip
By Robert E. Pierre
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 24, 2003
EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- The food's
the same at the Crazy Tomato. So are the prices and service. But what was
a popular place for pasta 18 months ago now attracts a fraction of its
regular clientele.
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Skunk
squad armed with fetid fluid
27 May 2003
By BERNIE NAPP AND AAP
A skunk-smell repellent is being
used on prostitutes, drug addicts and dealers in Los Angeles, to the amazement
of the Lower Hutt scientist who invented it.
Los Angeles police – nicknamed
the Skunk Squad – were using Andrew Rakich's SkunkShot gel to keep squatters
and other undesirables out of abandoned buildings in the crime-riddled
suburb of Compton after other policing methods had failed, the Los Angeles
Times said yesterday.
Articles(new
ones in red)
Emails
(Forwards/Actions)
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Re: Infinity Gifted Charter
Schhol in Central Dauphin School District
Good morning all,I
am chairing the Technology and Facility committees. These committees
are supplying the school with furniture and computers for the classrooms
and offices. If you have items that you wish to donate, please contact
me by email. We have a little storage available for anything that needs
to be picked up in a hurry, otherwise hang on to it until this summer when
we move into the new facility.
For those of you
who have a business that may be updating furniture, computers, copiers
or misc., see if they will donate to our school.
A starting list:
Desks- computer desks,
student desks, teachers desk( with drawers), moon shape desks.
desk chairs-
bookcases- all sizes
folding tables-
chalk boards-
white boards-
computers- Pentium
1 or better with keyboards, mice, monitors, speakers and headphones. Laptops.
TV's- 25 25 inch
or better
VCR players-
DVD players-
overhead projectors-
copiers-
scanners-
printers- laser or
inkjet
surge protectors
Office supplies-copy
paper, pens, paper clips, staplers( hand and electric), hole punches, scissors,
markers(regular and white boards
A good way of getting
free supplies is to watch the Sunday paper for rebates. An example
is OfficeMax, Circuit City are doing flyers that have buy one get one free
paper, pens $0 after rebate, surge protectors $0, computer speakers $0.
If you can get any
of these things, hang on to them or if they need picked up email me or
call me at 805-3965.
It's been slow going
but the pace is going to start picking up. Let's make this work.
Thanks for you help,
Matthew
Blaylock
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This summer, there's
a strong possibility President Bush could appoint enough anti-abortion
Justices to the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the case that legalized
abortion in all 50 states. [Find out more at www.Million4Roe.com]
Does the Possibility
of a Return to
the Days of Back
Alley Abortions Scare You?
-Sign a petition
asking pro-choice Senators to stop an anti-abortion Supreme Court nomination
at www.Million4Roe.com
-Pass this message
along to all of your pro-choice friends! We need 1,000,000 signatures to
make the voice of the pro-choice majority heard in Washington!
As a bonus, you can
win cool prizes from celebrities :)
http://www.Million4Roe.com
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Subject: 2 ways to make
a difference on global warming at ExxonMobil
1) Do you think that the directors of America's corporations should be
accountable for what their companies do?
So do we! That's why we've made it easy for you to hold ExxonMobil's
Directors accountable for their role in making global warming worse.
Just visit
http://www.campaignexxonmobil.org/shareholder/silent_partners.html
to send the board members a letter urging them to take responsibility.
You can also view our ad running in the current issue of the Nation Magazine,
which tells all...
----------------------------------------------------
2) Want to support shareholder resolutions promoting responsibility on
global warming and renewable energy, but don't own any stock yourself?
Now you can use our "Stock Checker" find out if your credit card company,
bank, 401K, or other financial institutions you do business with own ExxonMobil
stock. If they do, our web site makes it easy to write them a letter so
you can ask them to support shareholder resolutions advocating responsible
actions on global warming.
Try it
http://www.campaignexxonmobil.org/shareholder/database_search1.asp
Its simple to use, and really gets the message across!
Please e-mail this to anyone you think may be interested.
Thanks for your help and support,
Peter Altman
National Coordinator, Campaign ExxonMobil
altman@campaignexxonmobil.org
Contact us at (512) 479-0335, fax (512) 479-7645
611 South Congress, Suite 200 ?
Austin, Texas 78704
www.campaignexxonmobil.org
Campaign ExxonMobil is a shareholder campaign to convince ExxonMobil to
take a responsible position on climate change. Campaign ExxonMobil was
founded by faith and environmental groups, and works with institutional
investors, corporate governance activists and financial analysts to highlight
the financial risks of ExxonMobil's current position.
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Subject: [Organized_C.O.U.P.]
Learn Radio for FREE and Give Coverage TO OUR COMMUNITY
Greetings,We are
inviting ANYONE in the Washington DC USA vicinity, but ESPECIALLY PEOPLE
OF COLOR who would like to learn the basics etc. of producing news and
magazine programs about our communities for radio broadcast to write to
us at organizedcoup@voxunion.com
We are looking for individuals interested in attending events and discussions
of varying nature to report on African-American, Latin American, Caribbean
Affairs, African Affairs and Arab-American Affairs--and all the
issues affecting
people of color internationally. If you are interested in joining a skills
training and independent media network, please contact us for further
details at organizedcoup@voxunion.com
Organized C.O.U.P. is a part of the DC Radio Co-operative/Grass-Roots Training
that helps to organize technical training workshops then produce audio
packages for WPFW and/or the Internet radio stream. We need volunteers
to help produce audio segments and the news, exchange technical help
and how-to information. Share skills; organize workshops on radio production
and answer technical questions. Additional information will be available
on www.voxunion.com/coup shortly. The
next class and meeting will be on Wednesday May 20, 2003. Email us today!
Organized C.O.U.P. www.voxunion.com C.O.U.P.
forward! http://www.voxunion.com/coup
Organized C.O.U.P., the "p" is silent, but not for long!
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From: Matt Howes, National
Internet Organizer, ACLU
To: ACLU Action Network
Members
Date: May 21, 2003
Social services to
needy families and children should be provided in an equitable and just
manner. Unfortunately our nation's safety net is broken and lacking
basic constitutional protections necessary to ensure fairness in the administration
of vital programs for the poor. Caseworkers of the federal welfare
program have, for example, repeatedly shown bias based on the recipient's
race and gender. Furthermore, the program does not prevent religious
discrimination and proselytization with federal funds. The House of Representatives
has passed legislation that would actually hurt the federal welfare program
instead of fixing these serious flaws. It is critical that the Senate
addresses these concerns and uphold civil rights. Click here for more information
and to send a free fax.
http://www.aclu.org/PoorRights/PoorRights.cfm?ID=12690&c=154
2) Stop the Assault
on Medical Marijuana!
In yet another heavy-handed
attempt by the government to squash opposing points of view, legislation
before the House of Representatives would allow the nation's drug czar
to use taxpayer dollars to oppose political candidates or ballot initiatives
that support the legalization of medical marijuana. Medical marijuana has
significant medical benefits and is supported by the majority of the public.
We need to stop the federal assault on medical marijuana initiatives!Click
here for more information and to send a free fax to your Member of Congress!
http://www.aclu.org/DrugPolicy/DrugPolicy.cfm?ID=12695&c=81
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Dear Friend,
I thought you might
be interested in this Planned Parenthood
Action Network e-activism
campaign. If you go to the
URL below you can
check out what is at stake and send
your own message
directly to the relevant decision
makers.
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/DoD?rk=QdzdX_51UuJXW