STOP BECHTEL! Call to Action: August 6-9, 2006

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Monday July 31, 2006 · 3:50 PM PDT

2006/07/31 · 15:50

From Hiroshima to Yucca Mountain to the Middle East: Stop Bechtel
Between August 6 and 9, the anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, demand an end to the war in Iraq, no military attacks on Iran or North Korea, and the global abolition of nuclear weapons, starting with our own. This year, we call on groups to protest at the corporate offices of Bechtel, the world's number-one nuclear profiteer, and at nuclear facilities everywhere. Sixty-one years after the U.S. killed tens of thousands of civilians by dropping nuclear bombs on two densely populated cities, our aim is to expose the continuing hypocrisy of the U.S. nuclear double standard and to directly confront the U.S. corporations who are perpetuating and profiting from a worldwide nuclear crisis and the war in Iraq.

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Wednesday June 14, 2006 · 1:45 PM PDT

2006/06/14 · 13:45

The Independent Film Channel Sunday night aired the premier of Rosie's Perez' (Do the Right Thing, White Men Can't Jump, Fearless) documentary on Puerto Rican political and cultural history, Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas (I'm Boricua, Just So You Know) that artfully weaves her personal history to tell the story of the island's people. It's an excellent film that deserves a wider viewing than just the 'niche' Puerto Rican & Latino audience. In these days of 'immigration debate' & demonizing the brown 'other,' Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'Que Tu Lo Sepas plunges headfirst into issues of race, ethnicity, skin color, language, cheap labor, culture in the melting pot, and political amnesia. A defacto colony (formally a Commonwealth) following the Spanish American war, Puerto Ricans are citizens of the US (Wilson wanted their bodies for WW I) unable to vote for the President that might send them to war. Brown square pegs trying to fit into the black & white holes of American race consciousness. Read More

A Nation of Snitches?

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Thursday December 29, 2005 · 10:57 AM PST

2005/12/29 · 10:57

On Sept 27, 2005, 16 year old Munir Mario Rashed was pulled out of his computer class & sent to his school's main office where two FBI agents were waiting to question him about terrorism. What sparked the FBI's interest in this young Arab-American student?

The Sacramento Bee reports that:

After the June arrest of suspects in a terrorist investigation in Lodi, the FBI received a complaint alleging not only that Rashed had the letters "PLO" on his binder, but that there were pictures of suicide bombers on his cell phone.
That prompted the FBI to act, said Karen Ernst, a special agent with the Sacramento office.
(snip)
The agents asked him a series of questions, Rashed said, including whether he was born in the United States, whether he knew what "PLO" stood for and whether he was aware of the arrests in Lodi.
"I said of course I know. I said, 'If you watch the news, you know.' I told them in that school we read the newspaper every day," he said.
He said Thursday the only pictures he has on his cell phone are ones of a mosque.

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Tuesday November 29, 2005 · 1:36 PM PST

2005/11/29 · 13:36

Was the State Dept. sidelined during the Haitian coup, just as they were in the lead-up to the Iraq war?

Last Week Amy Goodman interviewed Col. Lawrence Wilkerson about the Cheney/Rumsfeld cabal, pre-war intelligence, and torture. Things then got interesting when she turned to the subject of Haiti to ask what he, as chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, knew about the removal of President Aristide in February 29, 2004. It's hard to tell if she sandbagged him; he begins by defending the administration in fairly predictable language, denouncing Aristide & his supporters, but when pressed on specifics, he resorts to a cheap rhetorical trick and compares Aristide to Hitler. He then goes on to deny knowing facts that someone that high in the State Department surely must have been aware of. The following day Amy invited Congesswoman Maxine Waters & Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti director Brian Concannon to respond.

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