CONTENTS:
PHILLY AREA ACTION:
EVENTS OCCURING EVERY WEEK:
JOB & INTERNSHIP:
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL ACTION:
COMMENTARY:
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PHILLY AREA ACTION:
See Off The GRANNY PEACE BRIGADE PHILADELPHIA !
STOP THE WAR ! BRING HOME
THE TROOPS NOW!
The National Granny Coalition will be lobbying all 100 senators
and many of our PA Reps. - See them off & Wish them Bon
Voyage!
TIME: Wednesday, January 17,
2007 @ 8:30 AM.
PLACE: 55 N. 11th
Street, Phladelphia, PA - Website: http://GrannyPeaceBrigadePhiladelphia.org
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Home Caregivers Ask Court to Stop Lee's
Industries from Making Them Work without Pay
Lee's Industries currently does not pay caregivers for their time
traveling between clients & has a record of not paying its
workers overtime Many of the home care agency's workers only earn
about $7 an hour and get few benefits. This is the second home care
agency in Philadelphia sued for not paying their workers.
Both agencies, Total Health Home Care and Lee's Industries, hold
contracts with the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA), a
nonprofit, quasi-government agency that refers seniors to homecare
providers. The PCA also oversees the care of all seniors whose services
are funded through Pennsylvania's Options program and its Medicaid
Waiver.
WHO: Representative Jewell Williams (D-197)
Home Care workers , - Pedro Rodriguez, Action Alliance of Senior
Citizens
Bruce M. Ludwig, Esquire, Legal Counsel for the
suit
WHEN: 10:30 a.m., Thursday, January 18, 2007
WHERE: Center In the Park (Senior Citizen Center) 5818 Germantown
Ave, Phila, PA 19144-2187
MARCH ON LEE'S TO FOLLOW PRESS CONFERENCE.MARCH ON LEE'S:
Lee's Industries 5350 Belfield Ave , Philadelphia, PA 19144
CONTACT INFO: Home Care Accountability Project/ SEIU District
1199P, (215) 219-5987
Total Health Home Care, (610) 853-1402 ,
Lee's Industries, (215) 849- 5337
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Iraq: The Case for Immediate Withdrawal
January 18th 7:00PM
David Rittenhouse Lab, Room
A-6,209 South 33rd Street
Much of the media and politicians say that although Iraq gets worse
every day, the US must stay to prevent a full scale Civil War. The
more liberal commentators say that we have to clean up the mess that
"we" made.
Come to a meeting of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) to
discuss this question and to get on the bus to the January 27th
Anti-War demonstration in Washington DC!
www.socialistworker.org Local Contact: 267-971-7417
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[NN] FCC/Media Tank Forum on Threats to Media
Diversity
Speak out at the... PUBLIC FORUM ON MEDIA OWNERSHIP
with Federal Communications Commissioners Michael J. Copps and Jonathan
S. Adelstein
Temple University -
Gladfelter Hall Room 13, 1115 West Berks Street (12th and Berks Streets)
January 18, 2007 - 6pm
And you can let the Commission know what you think! You are
invited to to give public testimony to the FCC and elected officials on
how media affects you and your community.
Find out more and RSVP at:
www.mediatank.org/resources/ownership/forum.html
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8th District City Council candidates' forum &
Town Meeting
Saturday, January 20- 2 to 5
PM
Center in the Park 5818
Germantown Ave. (at Vernon Park)
HEAR:
Irv Ackelsberg. Community Legal Services Attorney, a leader of
the Germantown Anti-Casino fight
Cindy Bass. Former East Mt Airy Neighbors president
Donna Reed Miller. Current 8th District Council representative
(invited)
Greg Paulmier. Current 12th Ward Democratic leader
Alex Talmadge. Former candidate for District Attorney
Deborah Williams. Candidate in the last election (invited)
Get to know the candidates. Decide who you will support.
Admission is free.
This Town Meeting is sponsored by Neighborhood Networks.
For more information call 215-843-1210-3396 or visit
www.phillynn.org.
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DARFUR Art Fund Raiser/ OUT OF AFRICA
Opening Reception of works by Debra Kapnek
Qbix Gallery, 211 Arch Street
Thursday, February 1 from 6
to 9 PM
For information, call 610-832-7028 - For gallery info call 215-625-2521
www.Qbixart.com , www.theQmagazine.com
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Spiral Q Puppet Theater Q-licious Gala Call For
Art
Some of you have already offered graciously to donate your art for the
art auction at the fabulous Q-Licious benefit. For the rest of you, we
like to ask you contribute the fruit of your talents for the love and
work of Spiral Q Puppet Theater! Attached is the offical form that each
of you need to fill and turn into us. If you need more info and would
like to attend this event visit our website at www.spiralq.org or seek
to view the palmcards.
Please forward this to other
incredible artist who might be interested. Every submission will
recieve one or two complimentry ticket(s), a $30-$50 value!
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a benefit for spiral q puppet theater
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Q-LICIOUS: Not just a box of chocolates
Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 8PM - Midnight
An evening of desserts galore, drinks, dancing, music, art, puppets,
thrills, amusements, spectacles, marvels, and this year it will have a
twist of carnival flare.
Featuring ShayD'Pines: the
ringmaster of ceremonies, Sara Felder: juggling diva extrodinaire, Miss
Martha Graham Cracker: city paper's best drag act of 2006, Rude
Mechanical Orchestra: nyc's amazing marching band, and DJ Bunnystyle:
spinning all night long.
For more information call (215) 222. 6979
The Ice Box at the Crane
Arts Building
1400 N American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122-3803
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EVENTS OCCURING EVERY WEEK:
Thursday
6:00-8:00 p.m. Workshop: "Build Your Own Computer"
Nonprofit Technology Resources, 1524 Brandywine St., Philadelphia, Pa
$25 per session To register, call 215-564-6686.
7:00-9:00 p.m. International Concerned Friends & Family of Mumia
Weekly Meeting
4601 Market St., 5th floor, Philadelphia, PA For info, call
215-476-5416.
Friday
Noon on S. 15th Street above Locust. Grandparents (Bubbies & Zaydes)
for Peace in the Middle East / You must pursue justice/
phillyjewishpeace.org
4:30 p.m. Anti-war leafleting and picket
Market & 11th Sts., Philadelphia, PA For info, email
pawf@critpath.org
5:00 p.m. Vigil--Women in Black
Swarthmore Train Station, Park Ave. & Chester Rd., Swarthmore, PA
For info, wibswarthmore@hotmail.com.
6:00-8:00 p.m. Mt. Airy Community Computer Center Open Access (&
Tues.)
Offers free computer access to the community
Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church lower level, 17 East Mt. Pleasant Ave.,
Philadelphia, PA
For info, call 215-247-0870.
Saturday
noon-1:00 p.m. Peace Vigil
Rte. 38 & Cherry Hill Mall Dr., Cherry Hill, NJ Info,
greatercamdenunitycoalition@yahoo.com
1:00-2:00 p.m. Protest at Ferber Furs
1708 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA For info, email
phillyar@yahoogroups.com.
Tuesday
5:30-7:00 p.m. Speak Out of Turn Poetry Workshop
Aspace, 4722 Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia, PA
Sliding scale fee $7-10. For info, call 215-435-6621.
7:30 p.m. Books Through Bars Packing Cafe
The A Space, 4722 Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia, PA
Help pack books to send to prisoners. Email info@booksthroughbars.org
Wednesday
4:30-5:30 p.m. Peace Vigil Federal Building, 601 Market St.,
Philadelphia, PA
Sponsored by House of Grace Catholic Worker For info, email
brandywine@juno.com .
5:00 p.m. Vigil for Peace
Outside Unitarian Society of Germantown, 6511 Lincoln Dr.,
Philadelphia, PA
For info, see www.northwestpeacecoalition.org.
6:00 p.m. Movement Class taught by Sophia Hoffer-Perkins
A-space, 4722 Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia, PA
Sliding scale donations For info, call 215-727-0882.
7:00 p.m. Peace Vigil
Germantown Ave. & Bethlehem Pike, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA
For info, see www.northwestpeacecoalition.org.every
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JOB & INTERNSHIP:
* Job available in Phila.
The Shalom Center is seeking a bookkeeper and
data-entry part-time
person who is experienced with Quicken or Quickbooks and with Filemaker.
Please write --Awaskow@shalomctr.org
with your resume and references. Do not phone. Shalom,
Rabbi Arthur Waskow
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* Winter/Spring 2007 Internships
Democracy Now! is accepting
applications for internship positions for the
winter/spring semester in New York City. email admin@democracynow.or
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NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL ACTION:
PEACE MARCH, Saturday, January 27, in Washington, DC.
United for Peace and Justice, UFPJ is sponsoring a massive march, to
call on Congress to take immediate action to end the war in Iraq.
For more info including buses to DC: UFPJ's rideboard: <http://www.unitedforpeace.org/ride.php>.
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[UFPJ] BRING A PAIR OF SHOES TO WASHINGTON DC J27
WE NEED 6,550 PAIRS OF SHOES to build a "Walk in their Shoes"
installation for J27 - Bring or mail one or more pairs of shoes for
January 27th March on Congress. http://www.unitedforpeace.org.
If we each bring just one pair we will have enough for this
installation and others around the city. We especially need baby,
toddler, young girls and boys shoes, and women's sandals and heels.
Label them if you can. Go to http://www.walkintheirshoes.org
for details. We also need volunteers to help with logistics in DC . To
volunteer go to http://www.codepinkalert.org/modinput4.php?modin=68
Look for the drop off point
on the north side of the Mall at 3rd and at 7th.
Before J27 you can mail or drop shoes off at Al-Fishawy Cafe (aka The
People's Media Center). 4132 Georgia Ave NW (between Upshur &
Taylor Streets), Washington, DC 20011
METRO: Green line: Georgia/Petworth walk 3 blocks north on
Georgia; BUS: #70/71/64 bus lines.
Questions re drop off or mailing contact sonia@codepinkalert.org. Put
"SHOES" in the subject line. Hours are 1-9 pm, Phone:
202-722-0150.
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Help Amnesty International close down Guantanamo!
America's commitment to human rights and justice is being held prisoner
at Guantanamo Bay. Take action today to end the abomination: http://tinyurl.com/y5edqp
Five years ago the U.S. began detaining people at Guantanamo Bay
without charges, without trial, without legal recourse, and without
hope. The interrogation regime there led to many allegations of torture
and ill-treatment. Five years later, despite widespread international
condemnation, hundreds of people of more than 30 nationalities remain
there.
Many like Murat Kurnaz, only
20 when detained, were released without charge after years of harsh and
cruel detention. Some were as young as 13 when detained. The
overwhelming majority have been held only on suspicion, guilty until
proven innocent. Speak out against the lawlessness at Guantanamo Bay
and the policies behind it. Take action by telling the President
to shut down Guantánamo Bay.
Amnesty International was the first to call for the closure of the
detention facilities at Guantanamo. Please add your voice to the
emerging consensus and end this shameful chapter in the name of
fighting the "war on terror".
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Action: boycott Amazon, Mazin Qumsiyeh
[mailto:qumsi001@hotmail.com]
Action: (I wrote to Jeff Bezos and a Jesse Jensen, executive
customer relations ecr@amazon.com responded that they are
keepingv the review written by Wolf Blitzer. Wolf Blitzer worked
for the Israel lobby before he worked for CNN. Here is a
video of him advocating Israeli perspecives on a Panel with Norman
Finkelstein before he became CNN employee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-8aTGnjHn
I wrote back saying Amazon lost a good customer and that I am informing
my listserve. I also bought four copies of Carter's book at
Costco- MQ). FWD from Henry Norr: For several weeks now
Amazon.com has been running the full, 1636-word text of a totally
negative review of Jimmy Carter's "Palestine: Peace Not
Apartheid" on the page where it sells the book
http://www.amazon.com/Palestine-Peace-Apartheid-Jimmy-Carter/dp/0743285026/sr=8-1/qid=1168467614/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2193402-4648137?ie=UTF8&s=books
Because this is totally out of line with their normal format and in
contradiction to their self-interest in selling copies, and because
their CEO, Jeff Bezos, has flatly turned down requests from me and
other customers for more balanced treatment of the book, it seems clear
that this is either a deliberate political statement on the part of
Amazon's leaders or an abject concession to pressure from Zionist
zealots. Whatever you think of the Carter book, its publication is an
important event, and it's unacceptable for Amazon to be trying to
discourage sales of it.
Since the letters didn't work, I've created an online petition
protesting
what Amazon is doing and threatening to cancel my account there. It's at
http://www.petitiononline.com/Amazon07/petition.html
.
If you agree that Amazon is out of line on this, but you're
uncomfortable
with anything in the petition, or you're not willing to pledge to close
your
account, or you don't have an account to begin with, you can send your
own
message directly to Bezos at jeff@amazon.com.
In fact, even if you do sign the petition, it wouldn't hurt to send him
e-mail in addition.
Most important, spread the word to as many people as possible.
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Make a resolution - reduce your CO2 emissions
When considering your New Year's resolutions, why not pledge to
reduce your CO2 emissions?
To find out how your household contributed to Global Warming in 2006,
fill out this form using your utility bills and car
records. To share & compare your household with
others in the Delaware Valley, mail your completed Form CO2-EZ to 518
Carpenter Ln, Philadelphia PA 19119.
-Meenal http://www.mtairygreening.net/Form%20CO2%20EZ.pdf
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*Ask your local paper(s) to carry Amy Goodman's
weekly column.
Write, email or call your
paper, and let them know that Amy Goodman is a new columnist
being syndicated by King Features.
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NARAL Pro-Choice America/SHARE YOUR PRO-CHOICE
STORY/Why are you pro-choice? Share your story.
Americans from all walks of life share the belief that women
ought to have the freedom to make personal decisions without
interference from politicians. Whether as an elected official at
the state level or now as president of NARAL Pro-Choice America,
there is no other cause that is more important to me and the women of
America.
In honor of the 34th anniversary of Roe, we're asking you to
share a reason why you are pro-choice and your thoughts. Click here:
http://prochoiceaction.org/ct/X7SKet914E2U/
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Ira Chernus | MLK'S Guide for Antiwar Activists
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0115-27.htm
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COMMENTARY:
* Breaking Ranks:Troops Call for Iraq Withdrawal, Charles E. Anderson-
truthout- Sun 14 Jan 2007
Norfolk, Virginia - On Wednesday, January 10,
President George W. Bush announced that he would be sending 21,500 more
troops to Iraq as early as Monday. "The escalation of this war is very
disappointing," said Mass Communications Specialist Third Class,
Jonathan Hutto, 29, a sailor stationed aboard the aircraft carrier
Theodore Roosevelt. Ironically, as the additional troops begin arriving
in Iraq Monday morning, Hutto and other active duty troops will hold a
press conference at a church in Norfolk. On Tuesday morning, the group
will travel to Washington to present the Appeal for Redress of
Grievances from the US Congress to US Representative Dennis Kucinich.
The Appeal for Redress of Grievances, which relies
on whistleblower protection laws, calls for "the prompt withdrawal of
all American military forces and bases from Iraq" and represents the
first organized active-duty military movement to oppose the war and
occupation of Iraq since Vietnam. To date, over 1,000 active-duty
members of the US military have signed it. While signers of the appeal
span the ranks from private to rear admiral, the average signatory is a
corporal or sergeant and has completed at least one tour of duty in
Iraq. "These [service members] are your basic typical young Americans,"
says Hutto. In fact, the signatories of the appeal are as varied as the
backgrounds of all men and women in the military. "Some of them have
college experience; some of them don't. Some of them came straight out
of high school. Some of them worked some common jobs," Hutto observes.
But he goes on to say, "That's what a mass movement is. A mass movement
is people that all come from different walks of life, different
thinking and whatnot. But the central theme is that what is taking
place in Iraq is not working, and we have got to find a different
solution."
Hutto readily identifies himself first as a
patriotic sailor on duty, but off duty "officially citizen sailor." His
personal story is really no different from that of the thousands of men
and women currently serving in the armed forces. He graduated from
Howard University with a bachelor's degree in political science and
began a career teaching grade school in Maryland. But Hutto "did not
find much success." Unemployed and facing more than $40,000 in student
loans, he sought out a navy recruiter. Though he had a substantial
background in activism, Hutto did not expect to organize within the
military itself. That changed shortly after he joined the navy, when
one of his former professors sent him a copy of David Cortwright's
Soldiers in Revolt, a book that profiles active duty resistance to the
Vietnam War. Hutto says it was after reading the book that he came to
believe "there is no contradiction ... between serving out your duty
and having a questioning attitude towards those orders [and] those
directives that are given down from your chain of command, especially
as it pertains to war, especially as it pertains to this current
occupation, especially as it pertains to how resources are allocated in
our society."
When asked what changed his mind about the Iraq War,
Hutto replies that there is an assumption that service in Iraq is the
primary reason young people join the military today. "That is not the
case," he says, "That is not the overriding issue as to why men and
women join the military today. The overriding issue is not raw
patriotism, although I am not going to say that the people in the
military are . unpatriotic, they are proud of [their] country. But the
overriding issue is one of economics. It is one of sustainability. It's
being in a society where there are not enough resources, where there is
not a right to education and job security. For a lot of these young
people in the military it is a way out." Hutto is not alone. As few as
thirty-five percent of Americans support the war. It is not surprising
that support for the war within the military is declining.
-- Charles E. Anderson served in Iraq with the Marine Corps' Second
Tank Battalion during the invasion of Iraq. During his nine-year
career, he served in infantry, armor, and medical units. He lives in
Hampton, Virginia, where he is a World Studies student at Thomas Nelson
Community College. He can be contacted through his website at http://www.charleseanderson.com.
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* More human right violations in Oaxaca,
George Salzman [mailto:george.salzman@umb.edu] 2007 Jan 15
I received from a teacher here, a good
person who I'll call X, the following heartfelt e-mail to various
international human rights (derechos humanos) organizations:
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When almost all the human rights organizations interested in knowing
the situation of human rights in my country are paying a lot of
attention to the Oaxacan struggle to get a new democratic order in this
poor southern Mexican state, not many of them are looking to the dismay
situation that most Central American people traveling through Mexico to
the United States are in.
Mexico is always demanding respect to its citizens north of the Rio
Grande, but how is my country acting with those poor foreign people in
our Souther border with Guatemala? They as well as the Mexican migrants
in the USA , are just hard working people wanting to get away from lack
of employment, lack of education, poor salaries and dictatorial
goverments, looking for better oportunities for themselves or their
families. And the first thing they find once they have crossed the
Mexican border and are into Mexico, their "big brother" up North, is
repression, a criminal and corrupt police, and so many problems that if
they arrived alive to the border between Mexico and the USA, it is a
real miracle!
What a shame for our country! Many Central American migrants declare
that the worst part of their journey is crossing through Mexico and
specially the Southern portion of their trip: Chiapas and Oaxaca. Just
to ask for your attention, I'm inculuding a recent newspaper article
about a Catholic priest that was put in jail together with some Central
American migrants for attempting to rescue some other migrants
kidnapped by the local Migratory Police in order to get money randsoms!
Please, start to put sanctions to any country that doesn't respect the
international treaties that it has signed! Stop giving honorary posts
to those countries because doing that you are just helping those
corrupt regimes to stay longer in power! Help us to show the real
visage of those goverments. Very often, as is the case in Mexico, all
the mass media are in the hands of the politicians and they use radio
and TV programs to show all the people who rely on those media to get
news (most of the population) that they are the only option and that
they are acting fine as it is demonstrated by the international
community acceptance of our country at key posts.
Stop this scandalous double moral. You must know that in accepting that
double moral you are becoming accoplishes of this tiranic country.
Please. Act as you did with South Africa. It is just the same
situation! Any person visiting this country or supporting its economy
is also supporting all those crimes!
--
X included with his plea the first two
paragraphs of the11 Jan La Jornada report, at http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/01/11/index.php?section=sociedad&article=044n1soc
. I am translating the entire article, but it is not yet ready to
include with this note.
The state of terror in Oaxaca is severe.
My friend is at risk for even writing such an appeal, and yet his/her
focus is not on the terrible oppression Oaxaqueños are
suffering, but on that of poor Central American migrants to the U.S.
What he doesn't yet realize is that decent lives, not just for
Oaxaqueños but for all latinos, indeed for all peoples, is
impossible as long as the U.S. (or any government) retains enormous
power. Over half a century ago George F. Kennan, a so-called 'dove' in
the highest U.S. government bodies, wrote:
"We have about 60 per cent of the world's wealth but only 6.3 percent
of its population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of
envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a
pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position
of disparity. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today
the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk
about such vague and unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of
living standards and democratisation. The day is not far off when we
are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are
then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better."?George Kennan, former
head of the US State Department Policy Planning Staff (Doc.
PPS23, 24 Feb 1948)
For information about the ongoing
struggle in Oaxaca, two useful sources (in English) are
1. the Oaxaca Study Action Group Yahoo group listserv at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oaxacastudyactiongroup/
and
2. the Narco News Journal website at
http://www.narconews.com/en.html
Two Spanish-language sources are
1. the daily national newspaper La Jornada, at
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ and
2. the daily Oaxaca newspaper Noticias, Voz y Imagen de Oaxaca, at
http://www.noticias-oax.com.mx/index.php
* Bill Moyers: "Big Media is Ravenous. It Never
Gets Enough. Always Wants More. And it Will
Stop at Nothing to Get It. These Conglomerates are an Empire, and
they are Imperial." *
The veteran broadcast
journalist Bill Moyers spoke on Friday before 3,500 at the
opening of the National Conference on Media Reform in Memphis. He
announced his
return to the airwaves and outlined his vision of media reform. "As
ownership
gets more and more concentrated, fewer and fewer independent sources of
information have survived in the marketplace; and those few significant
alternatives that do survive, such as PBS and NPR, are under growing
financial
and political pressure to reduce critical news content and to shift
their focus
in a mainstream direction, which means being more attentive to
establishment
views than to the bleak realities of powerlessness that shape the lives
of ordinary people."
Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/16/159222
* Jane Fonda clinches her fist during her closing
remarks on the last day of the National Conference For Media Reform at
the Cook Convention Center. "There are forces at work --
the same forces that Dr. (Martin Luther) King stood against in this
very city -- who want to make Memphis the home to the biggest private,
for-profit prison in the world." http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0115-01.htm
* NPR.org - Going Down Jericho Road: MLKs Last
Fight
Thomas Paine Cronin thought
you would be interested in this story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6842327&sc=emaf
* Statement on the CA Governor's Health Care
Proposal by Art Pulaski,
Executive Secretary-Treasurer, California Labor
Federation
While the Governor's
healthcare proposal includes some positive elements, it is the wrong
prescription for California's health care crisis. The Governor's plan
shifts the responsibility for health care costs onto already
overburdened workers and their families. This
proposal will be a boon to insurance companies, but a bust for most
workers. This plan requires all Californians to buy health insurance
with no guarantee that it will be affordable or that coverage will be
adequate. We are concerned that the plan creates an incentive for
employers who currently provide health care to drop coverage and
instead pay only a minimal tax.
This is a plan that Wal-Mart can love
and Wal-Mart workers will hate. The proposed employer contribution is
so low that even Wal-Mart, a corporation known for its minimal employee
healthcare coverage, already exceeds the requirements. The Governor
says his proposal eliminates the "hidden tax" of the uninsured, but
what he's proposed is a new tax on middle class families.
* VIDEO | Keith Olbermann: Bush's Legacy: The
President Who Cried Wolf
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011207A.shtml
Keith Olbermann writes: "Only this president - only in this time, only
with this dangerous, even messianic certitude - could answer a country
demanding an exit strategy from Iraq, by offering an entrance strategy
for Iran. Only this president could look out over a vista of 3,008 dead
and 22,834 wounded in Iraq, and finally say, 'Where mistakes have been
made, the responsibility rests with me' - only to follow that by
proposing to repeat the identical mistake ... in Iran."
* Chomsky on Latin America
http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20061215.htm
* Ike Was Right, By Robert Scheer, Truthdig
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20061226_robert_scheer_ike_was_right/