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  • On The Flood...of e-mail:
    28 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Of those who know me personally, many were initially likely to be surprised at my picking up the gauntlet of political struggle early on in my support of Dennis Kucinich’s campaign in the second half of 2003. I’m known for being the quiet one in the family, the one who hangs back and observes, or writes nostalgic and gentle poetry. Maybe a fantasy poem or short story, but politics? They know I’ve done some news aggregation on environmental issues and wind energy in particular, but nothing (…)

  • On the Spot: Moving On with MoveOn
    25 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MoveOn mobilized hundreds of thousands before the election. This weekend, almost 20,000 people met to tell them what they should be doing next. But can they turn all that energy into a unified progressive vision?
    by Rachel Neumann
    The waiting list was long; only a lucky 60 people found their way to this San Francisco location on Sunday, Nov. 21. With a friend in common - the progressive online organization MoveOn.org - conversation came easily; they converged on the San Francisco loft, (…)

  • Forget the Democrats, Build The Mass Movements!
    20 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Roy Rollin
    In the aftermath of the elections, much of the mainstream left remains in a state of despair or disbelief over Bush’s victory. Many are hoping against hope that some scandal of epic proportions will emerge out of Ohio. Others contemplate packing their bags and moving to Canada. Not a few of the liberal literati have taken to writing off most of America’s population as a bunch of religious rednecks who got the government they deserved by not heeding their enlightened advice on (…)

  • Now or Never
    19 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jolly Roger
    The obviously fraudulent election, combined with the democratic party’s refusal to challenge it, and the news industry’s willingness to cover it up, should be awakening millions to the true nature of how this country is being ruled. Instead, I think that many people find it a lot more comfortable to believe that we’ll have an honest election in 2008, although it doesn’t really look as if we’ll ever have an honest election again.
    The illusion of democracy will always (…)

  • Chilean police arrest 120 demonstrators against globalization, Bush
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Around 120 protesters were arrested here Wednesday after they crashed with police in a rally against globalization and US President George W. Bush, who will arrive here for Saturday’s economic leaders meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
    Some 500 protesters, most of them from university and middle school, marched along the main Alameda street in downtown Santiago,chanting slogans against globalization and President Bush.
    The police used tear gas to disperse (…)

  • The Defeated Whimper, Lick Their Wounds, and Scratch Their Heads...Meanwhile, Iraq is Burning
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    So What Are You Going to Do About It?
    By DONNA J. VOLATILE
    John Kerry has slithered back under the rock from whence he came but never fear he’ll be back. Like the Clinton’s, like Gore and countless other ineffectual democrats, he’ll be back, and he’ll be received very well, possibly even be rewarded for his successful exploits: destroying the third party alternative and breaking the anti-war movement with his bare hands.
    John "Help is On The Way, America", "Reporting for Duty", Kerry, (…)

  • The Enlightenment of Resistance
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuela
    Exorcising Our Demons
    Into the infancy of the 21st century has humanity somehow managed to reach, despite our insatiable addiction for violence and suffering that has for millennia been both endemic and devastating, in spite of the continued tribalism, now called the nation state, that fosters competition, ignorance, fear, hatred and war among the peoples of the world, even with the hierarchical need among peoples to perpetually follow corrupt, immoral and (…)

  • Looking for America
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “Few of us will have the will to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.” ROBERT F. KENNEDY
    “I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.” MALCOLM X
    By Kevin Powell
    I have sat in my Brooklyn, New York apartment, quietly, for several days now, too perplexed to (…)

  • The Optimism of Uncertainty
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Howard Zinn
    From an excerpt of Paul Rogat Loeb’s book "The Impossible Will Take a Little While":
    In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy? I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any (…)

  • End Game Democracy: America Sells its Soul & Loses the World
    11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bravo Zulu Bywyd 11-11-2004
    An open letter to the world community:
    " I say we had better look our nation searchingly in the face, like a physician diagnosing some deep disease." —Walt Whitman, "Democratic Vistas"
    Now we have come the End of the colonial experiment known as the "United States of America." It has ended as the founders had warned it would likely end, with concentration of wealth, corruption, and despotism despoiling its democratic foundations. Unfortunately, it (…)