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News: Organizing |
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Seven Arrested at White House Protest against Iraq War |
Submitted by: Artful Dodger / 28 Feb 2006
Publisher: commondreams.org
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WASHINGTON – In a civil disobedience protest against the war in Iraq, seven peace activists were arrested yesterday holding a banner that read, “God Forgive America" in front of the White House.
Brian Terrell, Ed Bloomer, and Elton Davis, all from Catholic Worker communities in the Des Moines, Iowa area, David Goodner, University of Iowa student, Eileen Hansen, a Catholic Worker from the Winona, Minnesota, Jeff Leys, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence (VCNV), and Bernie Meyer, a retired social services worker from Olympia, Washington were arrested by U.S. Park Police.
The seven were charged with the federal misdemeanor of demonstrating without a permit, fined seventy-five dollars, and released yesterday evening. The action was part of VCNV’s “Winter of our Discontent†demonstrations in the month leading up to the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq on March 20.
Terrell organized the group of 15 from Iowa that included students from Loras College, a hospital worker, and a farmer from Missouri who drove 140 miles to Des Moines to join them.
“If not now, when?†Terrell replied when asked why they drove 20 hours overnight to get arrested in the nation’s capital. “Some people consider civil disobedience an extreme measure for extreme times. If these aren’t extreme times I don’t know what are.â€
The Maloy, Iowa farmer and Catholic Worker added, “We came here to use two complimentary methods to protest this war. Some of our group are visiting members of Congress, and some are putting our bodies on the line.†|
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News: International |
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Papuan Protesters Demand US Mine Closed |
Submitted by: yo / 28 Feb 2006
Publisher: reuters
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Hundreds of native Papuans are demonstrating to demand the closure of a huge mine in Indonesia's Papua province run by the U.S. company Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc, police and witnesses said on Tuesday.
n Jakarta, 100 protesters trying to enter a building that houses Freeport offices scuffled with anti-riot police, who eventually used a water cannon to help disperse the crowd.
Protesters also have staged rallies in Papua's provincial capital of Jayapura and in Timika, the nearest town to Freeport's Grasberg mine, Papuan police spokesman Kartono Wangsadisastra said.
"Yesterday, we had 700 protesters in Jayapura. Today, around 200 of them have showed up again to demand the closure of the Freeport mine while around 50 residents have erected tents in Timika to display their grievances," Wangsadisastra said.
"They want other residents to join the rallies and we are guarding them. Everything is under control over here," he said.
Antara national news agency reported members of Papuan local councils have promised the protesters a discussion with the Jakarta government on the future of the controversial mine, located in the snow-capped Papuan highlands.
Operations at Freeport's Grasberg mine, believed to have the world's third-largest copper reserves and one of the biggest gold deposits, came to a standstill for four days last week before protesters, mostly illegal miners, left the site near the town of Timika, about 3,400 km (2,100 miles) east of Jakarta... |
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News: International |
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The power of community: How Cuba survived peak oil |
Submitted by: yo / 28 Feb 2006
Publisher: Energy Bulletin
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Since the early 1990s, an urban agriculture movement has swept through Cuba, putting this capital city of 2.2 million on a path toward sustainability.
A small group of Australians assisted in this grass-roots effort, coming to this Caribbean island nation in 1993 to teach permaculture, a system based on sustainable agriculture which uses far less energy.
This need to bring agriculture into the city began with the fall of the Soviet Union and the loss of more than 50 percent of Cuba's oil imports, much of its food and 85 percent of its trade economy. Transportation halted, people went hungry and the average Cuban lost 30 pounds.
"In reality, when this all began, it was a necessity. People had to start cultivating vegetables wherever they could," a tour guide told a documentary crew filming in Cuba in 2004 to record how Cuba survived on far less oil than usual... |
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Summers of Our Discontent |
Submitted by: Betteran U / 28 Feb 2006
Publisher: The Harvard Crimson
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This the best redux thus far of the debacle of Lawrence Summers' presidency, also spelling out the ways in which it has been misunderstood by the know-nothing media.
Published On Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:29 AM
By TIMOTHY PATRICK MCCARTHY
Predictably, Summers’ resignation has inspired an avalanche of misinformed editorials, sensationalist radio and television punditry, anti-intellectual caricatures of the Faculty, and acrimonious debate—on campus and far outside of it. Widespread Faculty discontent has been likened to a “purge,†a “lynching,†and a “coup d’etat.†In some circles, Summers has been crowned a “martyr,†the victim of rampant “political correctness†among a faculty comprised of left-wing nut-jobs. Those who defend Summers often speak in the language of apocalypse, as if Harvard will not survive without Larry Summers at the helm.
Of course, all of this is hogwash. Having attended Harvard as an undergraduate, and having taught here for six years, I can attest that the Faculty is in no way a festering cauldron of left-wing lunatics. Overall, its members are a diverse and impressive group of hard-working scholars, variously committed to teaching and public life, open-minded and broadly tolerant, but generally quite slow to voice their dissent on most matters. In other words, they are politically liberal but temperamentally quite moderate. Much like the undergraduates they teach, they are more interested in professional success than in social justice. They hardly constitute a threat to Harvard or to civilization. |
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News: Human Rights |
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Mexico 'dirty war' crimes alleged |
Submitted by: The Enemy / 27 Feb 2006
Publisher: BBC
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The Mexican government and military committed "crimes against humanity" in the so-called "dirty war" against left-wing rebels, a leaked report says.
The report was prepared for current President Vicente Fox but has not been released. A US NGO has printed material saying Mexicans had a right to know.
The army kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of rebel suspects, says the report, which covers 1964 to 1982.
Mexico's special prosecutor says the report is biased and has been revised.
'Death flights'
The draft report's authors write: "The authoritarian attitude with which the Mexican state wished to control social dissent created a spiral of violence which... led it to commit crimes against humanity, including genocide." .. |
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News: Human Rights |
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U.S. Holds 500 in Afghan Prison "Worse" Than Guantanamo |
Submitted by: brad / 27 Feb 2006
Publisher: Democracy Now!
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In Afghanistan the New York Times is reporting the U.S. military is now indefinitely holding 500 detainees in wire cages at the Bagram air base in primitive conditions described as worse than at Guantanamo. The U.S. has been expanding the jail at Bagram at a time that international pressure is growing to close Guantanamo. Unlike detainees at Guantánamo, individuals held at the site in Afghanistan have no access to lawyers and no right to hear the allegations against them. The U.S. military has barred any outside visitors except for the International Red Cross. The prison may not even be photographed. Comparing the prison with Guantánamo, one Pentagon official said, "Anyone who has been to Bagram would tell you it's worse."
Meanwhile four people have died inside another Afghan jail after prisoners connected to the Taliban and al Qaeda took control of part of the jail. Police said at least 1,500 prisoners have barricaded themselves inside the prison. |
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Austria, Hitler and Howard’s Australia |
Submitted by: nano / 27 Feb 2006
Publisher: Cleaves Publishing
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Pauline Hanson recently announced on news radio that her political views have been “vindicatedâ€; she cited the overt racist attitudes of John Howard and Peter Costello as proof of her claim. Who could deny it? Hanson’s imprisonment on trumped-up charges was an act of political assassination instigated by Howard but executed by his then errand boy, Tony Abbott. Hanson’s trial and subsequent imprisonment effectively eliminated her and her party from the Australian political landscape; mainstream racist ideology was re-established in its rightful home, the white Australian conservative ultra-right Liberal Party of Howard! The world watches Australia take a giant leap backwards as Howard continues to divide the nation. |
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News: Human Rights |
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Must See: Police Station Intimidation-Parts 1 and 2 |
Submitted by: @ / 26 Feb 2006
Publisher: CBS 4
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The Police State of Southern Florida is exposed by a coporate television network for harassing those who request police complaint forms. There are two great videos on this page. |
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