Little Red Riding Hood

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Sunday February 26, 2006 · 9:20 PM PST

2006/02/26 · 21:20

My two-year old daughter is visiting her grandparents with her mom and I'm missing her. I look at a photo of her dressed in a Little Red Riding Hood costume for Halloween. She's fascinated with the Little Red Riding Hood story. Anyway, then I get an e-mail from a dear friend with a link to a music video by the band Outlandish (which I'd never heard of before). Its a variation on the Red Riding Hood story and you can check it out here:

http://www.outlandmoro.com/

You have to click on "Media" and then "Videos" before you can select "Look In To My Eyes."

It made me cry.

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Protests AGAINST Bush in 68 Cities! The PEOPLE'S Response to the SOTU

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Tuesday January 31, 2006 · 9:20 PM PST

2006/01/31 · 21:20

Protests demanding that Bush Step Down were held tonight/last night (depending when you read this) in at least 68 cities! Reports on these actions are being posted here. I attended the demonstration in Times Square. Over a thousand people rallied in drizzling rain and were quite spirited. There were lots of noisemakers to "drown out Bush" and some good speakers and music. The speakers represented a wide array of groups but did a good job of keeping on message. The actions were organized in response to a clal by World Can't wait which is now organizing to send buses down to DC for another protest this Saturday. Read More

State of the Union PROTESTS Tonight! (poll)

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Tuesday January 31, 2006 · 4:27 AM PST

2006/01/31 · 04:27

The fillibuster didn't happen. There are limits to what can be accomplished by calling our congresscritters. The outporing of opposition to Alito was heartening, but its going to take more than this to stop this President. And I don't just mean working to get more Dems elected in November. WE need to take it to the streets.

Protests are currently planned for tonight in 64 CITIES!!! Check if there is one in yours. And just because you don't know about it yet doesn't mean one isn't planned in your area.

Christopher Day

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Sunday January 29, 2006 · 9:03 PM PST

2006/01/29 · 21:03

When Bush appears before congress this Tues., Jan. 31 for the State of the Union adress, there may be a filibuster of the Alito nomination. Count me skeptical. But in either case it will be a critical opportunity for the rest of us to have our voices heard as well. Protests are currently planned for the night of the SOTU in 64 cities!

You may have heard the ads on Air America. Protests demanding that Bush step down will take place during the State of the Union Address on January 31. Sitting at home watching the State of the Union can be one of the most depressing/infuriating experiences imaginable.

This year you can TAKE ACTION to Drive Out the Bush Regime. All across the country anti-Bush rallies will be starting one hour before the State of the Union. Find out if one is planned in your area. Then spread the word to everybody you know and help make these rallies impossible to ignore. If there isn't one planned in your area YET, get off your butt and plan one. Start by contacting info@worldcantwait.org

Christopher Day

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Wednesday January 18, 2006 · 7:35 AM PST

2006/01/18 · 07:35

You may have heard the ads on Air America. Protests demanding that Bush step down will take place during the State of the Union Address on January 31. Sitting at home watching the State of the Union can be pne of the most depressing/infuriating experiences imaginable.

The group organizing these actions, World Can't Wait organized high school and college walkouts in over 60 cities on November 2. They have a sense of the urgency of the accelerating drift towards fascism in this country, an understanding of the importance of taking it to the streets, and a demonstarted capacity for organizing imaginative actions with an absolutely clear message: Bush Must Go!

Christopher Day

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Friday January 13, 2006 · 7:21 AM PST

2006/01/13 · 07:21

What are you planning to do during the State of the Union Address on January 31? Sit at home and yell at the TV while downing drink after drink? How did that feel last year?

This year you can TAKE ACTION to Drive Out the Bush Regime. All across the country anti-Bush rallies will be starting one hour before the State of the Union. Find out if one is planned in your area. Then spread the word to evertbody you know and help make these rallies impossible to ignore. If there isn't one planned in your area YET, get off your butt and plan one. Start by contacting info@worldcantwait.org

On Feb. 4 people will converge on Washington DC to demand that Bush Step Down. You can get bus tickets from your area here.

Holocaust Denial (Theirs and Ours)

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Wednesday January 04, 2006 · 8:05 PM PST

2006/01/04 · 20:05

Depending on who is counting, US-led forces have killed between 30,000 and 175,000 Iraqi civilians. Of course this is small potatoes compared to the 3.2 million civilians killed by us in Vietnam.

Mainly we pretend not to know. When forced to think about it, we are good at constructing moral distinctions between us and other societies that commit mass murder.

Writing for the Guardian, George Monbiot considers the question of holocaust denial.

Wage Peace -- Must See Video

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Monday January 02, 2006 · 7:31 PM PST

2006/01/02 · 19:31

The American Friends Service Committee has an excellent short video here on the Iraq war that everybody here needs to see and spread the word about. Its powerful, to the point and effective. Pass it on.

While there are many issues worthy of our attention these days, I am convinced that the Iraq war must be kept front and center in our actions for two reasons:

It reveals in the starkest way the brutal violence that makes possible the whole rotten system of global capitalism we live under.
It is the achilles heel not just of the present administration but of the whole U.S. imperial project.

The AFSC video is part of their broader "Wage Peace Campaign." Unlike the AFSC I am not a pacifist, but I strongly believe these efforts should be supported. so please, spread the word.

Beyond Nickels and Dimes: Transit Strike Is Our Strike (Poll)

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Thursday December 22, 2005 · 6:53 PM PST

2005/12/22 · 18:53

The strike is over, though apparently the negotiations aren't. In the coming days and weeks we will see whether TWU President Roger Toussaint's decision to end the strike was based on assurances of any worth. Whether this strike will be remembered as a great victory or another in a long series of betrayals will not be known until a final contract is agreed on.

An excellent (and unabashedly anti-capitalist) article on the strike by Jed Brandt can be found here at the "webzine" run by Monthly Review.

It was just last week, at a party in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, when I railed drunk that the chance of a strike was "zero." I ranted about the sell-out union leaderships and their habits of business unionism. I joked about Transit Workers Union Local 100 leader Roger Toussaint and the sorry path that even earnest militants take after getting digested by the labor bureaucracy. Decades of defeat have created a healthy cynicism about the leadership of a union movement that doesn't move and the dominant model of reducing workers' struggles to only the nickels and dimes of contract bargaining.

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Attempt to Storm WTO Mtg in Hong Kong

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Saturday December 17, 2005 · 9:41 PM PST

2005/12/17 · 21:41

Apparently over 900 protesters from South Korea, Southeast Asia, Europe the U.S. and elsewhere have been detained as a result of militant anti-WTO protests today in Hong Kong. Hundreds of of proteseters attempted to storm the WTO meeting, wielding bamboo poles in efforts to break through police lines while hundreds of other blocked major intersections

A video clip of the attempt can be seen here at Euronews.

According to the Bangkok Post

On Friday night, the U.S. consulate was targeted by South Korean protestors who pelted the building with eggs and spray-painted "Down with the WTO" across its entrance.

All the incidents of violence so far have involved a hard core of militant South Korean farmers who have staged a series of well-organized protests since the WTO meeting opened Tuesday.

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Friday November 04, 2005 · 6:15 AM PST

2005/11/04 · 06:15

Apparently Scooter Libby is the author of a hard-core pornographic novel, published in 1996 and entitled "The Apprentice." Its all in a piece by Lauren Collins in the Talk of the Town section of the latest New Yorker. The book itself is available online from Amazon.

Apparently his mash note to Judith Miller only scratched the surface of Libby's literary talents. Consider this gem:

At age ten the madam put the child in a cage with a bear trained to couple with young girls so the girls would be frigid and not fall in love with their patrons. They fed her through the bars and aroused the bear with a stick when it seemed to lose interest.

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Does Iraqi Resistance Target Civilians?

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Tuesday April 19, 2005 · 9:46 AM PDT

2005/04/19 · 09:46

Does the Iraqi Resistance target Civilians? According to U.S. intelligence reports, apparently it doesn't. Or to be more precise, with the exception of certain elements, it almost exclusively targets occupation forces and collaborators. An excellent analysis of these intelligence reports, authored by M. Junaid Alam of Left Hook appears at Occupation Watch.

The ceaseless demonization of Iraqis committed to ending foreign control of their country is a key ideological crutch for maintaining the American occupation. Smearing the armed resistance as a band of murderous thugs is well understood by American war planners to be a crucial part of effective counter-insurgency work. (1) Obviously, brutal and horrific attacks on Iraqi civilians have been carried out by some forces claiming to be a part of the resistance. But there is strong evidence from US government and independent intelligence data suggesting that this phenomenon has been wildly exaggerated and torn out of context, creating a false public perception that serves to prop up domestic support for the occupation.

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Holocaust Denial (Theirs and Ours)

Wage Peace -- Must See Video

Beyond Nickels and Dimes: Transit Strike Is Our Strike (Poll)

Attempt to Storm WTO Mtg in Hong Kong

Scooter Libby, Pornographer (True!) w/Poll

Does Iraqi Resistance Target Civilians?