I know I'm just encouraging the hype...

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Wednesday September 06, 2006 · 5:41 PM PDT

2006/09/06 · 17:41

At last, student activism has been reinvigorated.

"Now's the time to give them constructive criticism and to let them know that we're not going to go quietly in the night. We're here to stay, we want significant change. Let's work!"

What single issue could mobilize 360,000 high school and college students (and counting) in about two days' time? Not the rising cost of higher education. Not genocide, or a bloody civil war and occupation. And warrantless wiretapping? Though that poses a much more significant threat to personal privacy, it's got nothin on ::gasp:: changes to Facebook.

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Happy defanged Labor Day...

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Monday September 04, 2006 · 11:36 PM PDT

2006/09/04 · 23:36

...poll shows Americans have higher opinion of WalMart than labor unions. Oye.

More on the little known origins of this day after the jump. Read More

Progressive gift giving

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Saturday November 26, 2005 · 2:06 PM PST

2005/11/26 · 14:06

Just thought I'd pass along some ideas for buying blue and green for the holidays (though a lot of you I'm sure have probably heard about this stuff already)... Read More

CORRECTION: Cindy Sheehan arrest only speculation

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Monday August 08, 2005 · 1:32 PM PDT

2005/08/08 · 13:32

CODEPINK was just able to get through to Cindy and Diane Wilson in Crawford, and there was a miscommunication---the notion that Cindy and others would be arrested was only conjecture by a state representative, not any law enforcement official. Bush's motorcade will be driving down the road where Cindy is camped out en route to a fundraiser Thursday, and the representative told protesters that he "imagined" they would be arrested as a national security threat.

Visit meetwithcindy.org for updates on Cindy's stand, and CODEPINK for ways you can show your solidarity.

3rd Anniversary of DSM--Nationwide Day of Action!

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Friday July 22, 2005 · 12:27 PM PDT

2005/07/22 · 12:27

300 Communities Throughout the U.S. to Hold "Downing Street Memo" Events on Saturday, July 23, to Mark the Infamous Memo's Three-Year Anniversary

On Saturday, July 23rd, members of Congress and activists around the country are organizing a day of action to call attention to the explosive evidence of government manipulation revealed in the Downing Street memo. The day of action coincides with the 3rd anniversary of the controversial British intelligence minutes which verify that "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" to justify the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq.
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Chicago Tribune plays lapdog

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Saturday July 02, 2005 · 11:21 AM PDT

2005/07/02 · 11:21

The Chicago Tribune has stumbled into Bush's alternate universe. In defense of the floundering occupation, or what they call "building a representative democratic government for Iraq" (truly representative to its people if built in the interests of another country) their editorial page struggles to downplay the Downing Street Minutes as mere evidence of government "business as usual," rather than the smoking gun it is. Read More

Downing Street--The Road to Impeachment

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Friday July 01, 2005 · 2:41 PM PDT

2005/07/01 · 14:41

Mark your calendars--July 23rd is the 3 year annivarsary of the Downing Street minutes, and the After Downing Street coalition is marking the date with rallies and a radio campaign to garner the media attention the memo deserves

The new Zogby poll shows a rising groundswell for impeachment. The DSM is definitive evidence of Bush's deception, and given proof, 42% of American's would back impeachment. Here's a DSM toolkit, after the jump... Read More

A little too ironic, doncha think?

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Tuesday May 31, 2005 · 12:27 PM PDT

2005/05/31 · 12:27

You can't make this stuff up:

"There's an alternative to the destruction of life," he said. "But the stem cell issue is really one of federal funding, that's the issue before us, and that is whether or not we use taxpayers' money to destroy life. ... I don't believe we should." -Bush at a Rose Garden press conference today

Oh wait, you mean this life?

5 day old embryo

Gotcha, then it's okay to destroy this life.

Iraqi children

No wonder Rove has to ball gag Bush. He indicts himself and his war every time he opens that pie hole of his.

Not so fast, Scottie

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Sunday May 29, 2005 · 3:30 PM PDT

2005/05/29 · 15:30

I was sitting next to Common Dreams' Russell Mokhiber at a White House press conference, sneering at Scott McLellan last November when Mokhiber posed this question:

Mokhiber: The largest circulation newspaper in Canada (the Toronto Star) printed a column yesterday titled "Should Canada Indict Bush?" - raising the question of a war crimes prosecution. They have a war crimes law in Canada. And I'm wondering -

Scott McLellan: Do you have a question or is it just a statement of opinion?

Mokhiber: No, this is the question. Has the White House counsel looked at the President's legal exposure to a war crimes prosecution?

Scott McLellan: It is a ridiculous question that you bring up. You were out on the Nader campaign at the time that this issue came up. It was addressed at that time. And I'm not going to go through it again.

So...Bush is immune to any sort of prosecution, eh? Then what do you have to say about this?

Coalition of citizen groups seek formal inquiry into whether Bush acted illegally in push for Iraq war

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From free love to free market?

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Saturday May 28, 2005 · 3:36 PM PDT

2005/05/28 · 15:36

John Tierney of the NYT is in denial once again, this time trying to co-opt John Lennon's vision of a world without war in his column "Give Peace a Chance."

He puts forth a caveat which completely devastates his argument--notwithstanding the genocide in Darfur and the occupation of Iraq(which constitute only some the most horrifying examples of violence on the globe), the level of "organized violence" has dropped in recent years. What about "disorganized" violence--manifest in bombings, stemming from social inequality and frustration over U.S. hegemony--the brand of violence the "war on terror" purports to be combating, and so ineptly addresses?

This column is just another one of his desperate attempts to convince people that "freedom is on the march," similar to his hairbrained notion that the news media is blowing violence in Iraq out of proportion, and that naturally the logical solution is to cease reporting on the violence. Sure, if there's a war in a forest and there's no one around to document it, it probably isn't happening. See no evil, hear no evil--Iraqis are handing soldiers flowers.

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