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Final Weekend of Camp Casey Draws Thousands to Protest Outside Presidential Estate
The last weekend of Cindy Sheehan's vigil outside President Bush's property in Crawford drew more than fifteen hundred people for an anti-Bush protest. Also in Crawford were two thousand Bush supporters. We hear from Cindy Sheehan, military families...
Posted: Mon, Aug 29, 2005 7:25am PDT
Can the Empire Do Everything?
"The problem is that the US supported the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. A paragraph of that treaty imposes the obligation of negotiations on ending the nuclear arms race.. An empire doesn't seem worried about justice and law.."...
Posted: Mon, Aug 29, 2005 6:19am PDT
BUSH REGIME SEARCHES NEW ORLEANS POOR SEEKING HELP
Guardsmen made able-bodied people clasp their hands behind their backs while they patted them down, feeling the seams and hems of clothing, then ran metal detectors over them. The backpacks, suitcases and plastic grocery bags that held their belongings were searched. Alice George, 76, a homeless woman wearing shorts and a T-shirt with the word Love on the front, was searched for almost 10 minutes. "They took my cigarettes and lighter," she said. "I guess I'll do without."...
Posted: Sun, Aug 28, 2005 9:50pm PDT
Photos from Crawford Pro-War Rally; 'Protest Warriors' Attacked by Rightwing Mob
About two thousand people converged in Crawford yesterday for the “Cindy Doesn’t Speak for Me” rally. “Gold Bless America, God Bless the Troops, and God Bless President Bush” was the theme of the day. However, in a odd turn of events, and despite repeated pleadings that “we are on your side, we are on the right,” the rally turned on conservative Protest Warriors....
Posted: Sun, Aug 28, 2005 12:14pm PDT
Photos from Camp Casey; Anti-War Texas Hoe Down of Thousands
Over two thousand people made their way to Camp Casey yesterday for a huge hoe down deep in the heart of Texas. Full buses of supporters from Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin unload and loaded throughout the day. After Cindy Sheehan welcomed many of the buses, the main tent stage featured a day of music by artists from across Texas....
Posted: Sun, Aug 28, 2005 11:51am PDT
Greens Blast Troop Escalation, Call For Immediate Withdrawal
Greens announce an online petition against the war, criticize Democratic Party support for Bush's Iraq policy....
Posted: Sun, Aug 28, 2005 9:13am PDT
Photos from Camp Casey, Press Conference, Politically Incorrect
The population of Camp Casey has doubled in the last 24 hours. Folks are now streaming in for the final weekend of activities. Meanwhile, the “Cindy Doesn’t Speak for Me” tour will be holding a rally in Crawford at the high school football field – home of the Crawford Pirates....
Posted: Sat, Aug 27, 2005 8:28am PDT
50 Years After the Murder of Emmett Till, the Investigation Continues
This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of Emmett Till. He was beaten and shot near Money, Mississippi after he allegedly whistled at a white female store clerk. We speak with filmmaker Keith Beauchamp who produced "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till" and University of Missouri-Columbia professor Clenora Hudson-Weems....
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 8:07pm PDT
Grieving Military Mothers Rally Around Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey
We play a press conference from Camp Casey held by members of Gold Star Families for Peace with mothers and wives from around the country speaking about their opposition to the war and to President Bush's policies in Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 8:05pm PDT
Intl. Campaign to Protect NYC Cyclists
Tell NYC officials to auit arresting Critical Mass riders and stealing their bikes....
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 3:24pm PDT
Photos from Camp Casey, Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families
Crawford, Texas: Yesterday was Cindy Sheehan’s first full day back at Camp Casey. At a morning press conference, a dozen Gold Star family members and relatives of servicepersons currently in the military each briefly addressed a bank of microphones. Each explained what compelled them to travel to Camp Casey in order to stand with Cindy....
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 12:34pm PDT
Creating an American Aristocracy
The “get rich someday” dream is cited by many as the reason Americans are voting against their economic self-interest and lending their political support to the wealthy, who are creating a new American aristocracy....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 10:04pm PDT
The New Gulag: If the War on Drugs gave the War on Terror, who will fill the the prisons?
As The War on Drugs enters it’s third decade, it’s rhetoric wears thin on the public’s ears and a new menace rears it’s ugly head as the War on Terror becomes preeminent in our nation’s mind. 9/11 is a forgone conclusion and the “Axis of Evil” stands as the new agenda, but what about the prisoners of the drug war? Are they left forgotten? Rottting in prisons across the nation? Over 165,000 of them in the federal prison system alone....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 9:57pm PDT
Iraqi Occupation: The Cognitive Fall-Out
“The truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”...
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 6:59pm PDT
America Library Association calls for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq
At its annual conference in Chicago earlier this summer, the 182-member Council of the American Library Association, representing more than 65,000 librarians, passed a resolution calling for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 8:09am PDT
Detroit union betrays teachers, agrees to concessions contract
In a meeting on Wednesday, the leadership of the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) presented to its membership the contract that the union has negotiated with the Detroit City School District to cover the 2005-2006 school year. By a large majority, the several thousand teachers and staff voted to return to work on the basis of the contract, pending a final ballot September 6. The agreement averted a potential strike by the teachers....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 7:58am PDT
From Death Row: Texas Set to Execute First African-American Woman Since Civil War
The State of Texas is scheduled to execute Frances Newton on September 14. Supporters say the courts should grant her another trial based on new evidence, especially given that infamous defense attorney Ron Mock originally represented her. We hear from Frances Newton herself and speak with her attorney David Dow....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 7:57am PDT
Cindy's Crawford: Sheehan Returns to Camp Casey for Remaining Days of Bush's Vacation
Cindy Sheehan both returned to Crawford Crawford, Texas Wednesday evening to rejoin the internationally-known vigil she began two weeks ago. We play an excerpt of an address Sheehan gave at Camp Casey where she says, "[Bush] put our kids in another person's country, and Casey was killed by insurgents. He wasn't killed by terrorists. He was killed by Shiite militia who wanted him out of the country." [...
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 7:54am PDT
Photos from Camp Casey, Cindy Returns, Vets Protest Waco VA Closure
Crawford, Texas (August 25, 2005): Cindy Sheehan returns to Camp Casey, Veterans and supporters rally to keep VA hospital open in Waco...
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 10:00pm PDT
US soldier jailed in Afghan abuse
A soldier from a US military intelligence unit has been sentenced to two months in prison for abusing an Afghan detainee who later died....
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 7:42pm PDT