Lawyers in the C.I.A. leak case said Thursday that they expected I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, to be indicted on Friday, charged with making false statements to the grand jury.
Karl Rove, President Bush's senior adviser and deputy chief of staff, will not be charged on Friday, but will remain under investigation, people briefed officially about the case said. As a result, they said, the special counsel in the case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, was likely to extend the term of the federal grand jury beyond its scheduled expiration on Friday.
As rumors coursed through the capital, Mr. Fitzgerald gave no public signal of how he intended to proceed, further intensifying the anxiety that has gripped the White House and left partisans on both sides of the political aisle holding their breath.
The above is from David Johnston and Richard W. Stevenson's "Aide to Cheney Appears Likely to Be Indicted; Rove Under Scrutiny" in this morning's New York Times. Lucy e-mailed to note that article.
Lucy: As Drew [Barrymore] says [in Ever After], "Breathe."
Lloyd e-mails to note Matthew Rothschild's "The Dreadful 2,000 Mark" (This Just In, The Progressive):
And as for Iraq, Bush said: "The best way to honor the sacrifice of our fallen troops is to complete the mission."
But the mission cannot be completed--or accomplished, as he once put it.
It's a quagmire at best, a losing battle at worst.
To the 2,000 families, Bush promised only more morbid company.
He’s content to send more U.S. soldiers on this fool’s errand.
And we, nonviolently, must stop him.
We will stop him when we can convince more of our elected officials to be courageous, like Senators Russ Feingold and Patrick Leahy, in denouncing this war, and when we can prod even these officials to demand a withdrawal within six months.
We will stop him when we can assemble protesters by the hundreds every week in every county of every state to demand this withdrawal.
We will stop him when we have convinced the vast majority of our fellow citizens not only that the war was a mistake (they know this already) but also that withdrawal is the only way out of this hopeless situation.
Eli notes Brian Conley's "Candlelight Hacking…" (Alive In Baghdad):
Last night at about 4am I posted the first video upload from Baghdad, I hope AIB is well on its way to running a video-blog from Iraq, but tonight the 52000 bps is just not doing enough. Today has been a long and frustrating day, but we have scheduled many interviews for Saturday and are working on travelling to Kerbala, perhaps sometime next week.
Please look here for the first two videos.
Tomorrow I will be interviewing someone from Baladiyat camp and will provide a full report about the situation there and more info about the experience of Palestinian refugees in Iraq under the Interim Government.
I also made contacts with another Iraqi journalist here in Baghdad who will be helping shoot interviews with his contacts, in order to expand our ability to do work here, despite the tense security situation. Also expect an article soon about exactly what a "fixer" is, and perhaps some more history about Iraq and Baghdad in general.
As always, stay in touch and if you’re curious about something, just ask! Also, if you post a question, please leave your email, or just send it directly to me, as it will ease the response!
Susan e-mails to note Cindy Sheehan's "If You Believe in What You Are Doing, Give Me Your Stiffest Sentence. If You Don't, Then Resign" (Common Dreams):
First of all, I was followed all morning by the Park Police. I guess because I am a very dangerous subversive. I would never hurt a flea, but what I am dangerous to is the lies and corruption of our government.
Secondly, Juan, Beatriz Saldivar, and Julie Cuniglio who have all had loved ones killed in this war had brought pictures of their dead loved ones with them to Arlington. We were told by the administration of the cemetery that they couldn't take the pictures into the cemetery because they were "political statements!!" We were stunned that pictures of our children that have been killed for lies and betrayals and for purely political reasons can't be shown in a cemetery that supposedly honors those who have served, some making the ultimate sacrifice in war. We are living in a state that kills our children then calls them political statements. That speaks volumes to the chicken hawks who we are allowing to ruin our country.
After Arlington, I met with Sen. Carl Levin from Michigan who has been a strong and outspoken critic against the war. The mess that George Bush has unleashed on our country and on the innocent world weighs heavily on his shoulders. He knows something needs to be done. Let's support him in doing so. Today, I will meet with Sen. Stabenow from the same state.
We headed to the vigil at the White House for our hours long wait in the freezing cold. There was a man there who had several signs which among them said: "Saddam loves Cindy." This man didn't care that Rumsfeld (or Rumsfailed as I accidentally called him on an interview yesterday) was buddy, buddy with Saddam and gave him or sold him tons of WMDs before he became our enemy. I told this man that he didn't bother me, and he told me I don't bother him either. Well, if I don't bother him, why did he come down and make signs and march for hours screaming that I kill our soldiers? We found out why. He was making 60 dollars an hour to do so from some non-profit, right wing group. He said he would switch signs if we gave him more money.
At 7:30 PM about 100 patriots symbolically died in front of the White House. Then 26 of us refused to get up and were arrested. As usual, the Park Police were very polite and efficient and many whisper words of support and encouragement to us. We are planning another die-in tonight at 7 PM. We need more Americans to come out and symbolically die with us here in DC…or do it in your own communities at relevant places, like a federal building, congressperson or senator's office.
Zach e-mails to note Robert Parry's "'Plame-gate' & Myth of the Renegade Aide" (Consortium News):
One of the common myths of official Washington is that most political scandals result from overly aggressive aides operating out of control -- the Watergate "third-rate burglary" or Iran-Contra's "men of zeal" -- with top officials getting in trouble only later by trying to cover the mess up.
But the reality -- which is relevant again amid the probe into the outing of a CIA officer -- is that a principal official is almost always lurking somewhere in the background of the original crime, sending signals or pulling strings with the expectation that, if caught, a subordinate will take the fall.
So now, much like the historical arguments over whether the Watergate break-in was approved by Richard Nixon or which Iran-Contra dealings were green-lighted by Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, the new question is whether Dick Cheney and George W. Bush winked at their top aides leaking the identity of Valerie Plame as retaliation for her husband exposing a deception used to take America to war in Iraq.
The "Plame-gate" probe has focused on Vice President Cheney's chief of staff I. Lewis Libby and President Bush's deputy chief of staff Karl Rove. Based on what's now publicly known, it appears that Libby and Rove at minimum misled investigators about how they learned of Plame's identity and how they disseminated that information.
Yet while special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald examines whether Libby and Rove committed crimes, official Washington has mostly averted its eyes from a potentially bigger question: Did their superiors, Cheney and/or Bush, encourage or order the leak?
If so, based on history, one of two outcomes would seem likely: either a constitutional crisis would result, with at least one of the top two U.S. executive officers implicated in a felony conspiracy, or a conveniently truncated investigation would follow, not getting much higher than Libby and Rove.
The past two major Republican scandals -- Watergate and Iran-Contra -- represent those two alternatives, the first leading to Nixon's resignation and the second to the protection of Reagan and George Bush Sr. Conceivably, "Plame-gate" could end in some middle ground if, say, Cheney were forced to resign but not George Bush Jr.
Cheney Implicated
Already, the emerging evidence has linked Cheney to the leak case. The New York Times reported that more than a month before Plame was outed in a July 14, 2003, column by Robert Novak, the vice president was told about Plame's identity by then-CIA Director George Tenet.
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Thursday, October 27, 2005
Indymedia focus on Iraq
All summer, Congressmen David Price and Brad Miller said we were wrong to invade Iraq and acknowledged that our continuing presence there was fueling the insurgent forces; but they drew up short of demanding that the United States set a timetable for getting out.
But Tuesday evening, as we went to press, the two Triangle Democrats were about to take the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to demand just that: a timetable. From President Bush.
Rep. Bob Etheridge, the Triangle's third Democratic congressmen, did not join the resolution, continuing his record of never having criticized Bush's Iraq policies.
The new Price-Miller Resolution, which had not yet received a number, would call on Bush to submit a plan--within 30 days of the resolution's approval by both houses of Congress--that would spell out how he intends to withdraw our forces, and include both a start date for the pullout and a target date ("the expected timetable") for finishing it.
"We demand," Miller said, in remarks prepared for delivery, "that the president state clearly the remaining mission of our military in Iraq, and to state the time period that the president believes will be required to accomplish that mission."
The above, sent in by Durham Gal, is from Bob Geary's "Price, Miller call for Iraq exit plan" (The Raleigh-Durham Independent). How do two reps find courage? By the turning tide and by pressure upon them from their constituents. As amazing as the details in the story are, more can happen but only if people make their voices heard. Further down, you'll hear another story of people demanding accountability from a representative.
Changes are happening. War hawks who have fallen out with the Bully Boy can put down the movement but it exists and it gets stronger every day. Each time you take action, any action, and tell someone about it, you encourage them. The media hasn't led the peace movement, they haven't even covered it for the most part. The strength has come, as it does with most movements, from the people themselves.
You make the change. You impact the world. For someone to dismiss what happened in DC (or any rallies or events going on outside of DC on Sept. 24th) reveals only their ignorance. They don't want grass roots coming together and sharing. They want foot soliders marching behind them. So they insult the rallies and say that nothing was accomplished.
If by nothing they mean that they weren't celebrated and glorified, that's quite correct. Events are about a group and not an individual. In DC, I saw and heard people who had never been to a rally before show up to register their opposition to the war. That's not "nothing." People gathered together in a very real symbol of direct democracy by the people. Those who insult such actions appear bothered that they couldn't insist we go by their play books.
In DC, Tracey and I interviewed Rhonda and Tammi whom I'd met at a rally in March. In March they had to sneak out to attend. In September, they were there with three of their parents. That's something. That's pretty amazing. And to insult that is to reveal your own narrow mindness and your own inability to appreciate anything that doesn't glorify you.
People taking part were taking part because it meant something to them, standing up to the Bully Boy's war meant something to them. Those people didn't go back home and forget they were there. They carried the news back to their own circles and communities and that's how seeds are spread.
Something else that carries the seeds is independent media. On Thursdays, we make a point to spotlight indymedia in two entries. To knock the rallies is the same as knocking indymedia. (Oh wait, one person did that. When he said he wasn't interested in the people who agreed with him, when he said that via indymedia, he was insulting indymedia.) Indymedia matters, you matter, people coming together to make a group statement matter.
Cindy e-mails to note No to Mass Murder's "Code Pink Protests 2000 Too Many" (LA Indymedia and note there are a number of photos with this piece):
So, we showed up once again, we protested, the cars roaring by honked their horns in support, and everyone agreed what a horror it is and was. Now what? How do we get the bombs to actually stop and the troops to come home? So far, no one has come up with an answer, but we are keeping up a presence to prevent the illusion of support from being falsely put forward, to prevent our own isolation, and to preserve our right to resist this outrage until such time as a viable strategy can be found.
Billie e-mails to note mosey's "Dallas anti-war Sit in, two arrested in front of Senators office" (Dallas Indymedia) with photos by asad:
"The plan was to speak to the senator, our elected official, the woman that represents us. They ought to give us an opportunity to make our case." said Reverend Peter Johnson after being turned away from Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison's office by a cadre of police Tuesday afternoon in Dallas.
The group, led by Civil Rights leaders Reverend L. Charles Stovall and Reverend Peter Johnson, wanted to discuss with Senator Hutchison her opinion on the two-thousandth dead U.S soldier since the war in Iraq began. They were denied access on the grounds that the building in which the senators office is located is private property closed to the public.".
"We should be allowed free unfettered access to speak with our elected representative. If the senators office is located on private property than she should relocate to somewhere public." remarked one aggravated citizen.
Earlier in the day Mary Stephanhagen attempted to gain access to the building to speak one on one with Senator Hutchison but was arrested on the front steps. She was cuffed and quickly taken to an alley behind the building next door where the cops had hidden far from the eyes of corporate media two empty police vans anticipating a high arrest count.
Walt Harrison, a concerned citizen and anti-war activist, refused to leave the property and stood his ground. He was arrested after several warnings and led in hand-cuffs to the cheers of support and applause from his comrades. The group states that they will return and protest peacefully day after day until the true voices of Texas peoples are heard.
Reverend Stovall exclaimed with charisma and power to the crowd "In the spirit of sister Rosa Parks, who passed away earlier this week, we will be back -- tomorrow and the day after that -- as long as it takes until we get what we want."
Cliff e-mails to note chinatown's "Independent Journalist Dahr Jamail Visits UCSC" (Santa Cruz Indymedia):
On Wednesday, October 29th, independent and unembedded journalist Dahr Jamial provided fresh outlooks on the War in Iraq that are either ignored or hidden by most mainstream American media outlets. As a special correspondant for Flashpoints, the BBC, and Democracy Now!, Jamail has gained the attention of those willing to listen about true accounts experienced during thecurrent War in Iraq.
Starting with the testimony of an Iraqi P.O.W., Jamail displayed the appalling modes of the treatment of Iraqi P.O.W.s by American soldiers through visceral descriptions and tortured accounts. According to Jamail's report, the interviewed Iraqi P.O.W. agrees that Saddam Hussein indeed was a brutal dictator who tortured his citizens, but he pleads, "why did theyput Saddam to trial , but not the Americans totrial?". The P.O.W. goes on to say, " I wish I was killed by him, rather than being alive with the Americans. After this journey of torture and suffering, what else can I think?". Jamail futher points out that unlike Hussein,the Americans desecrated Islam and its holy text, the Koran and Americans aren't governed by a dictator.
According to Jamail, sanctions on medical supplies entering Iraq over the past years have only made the situation worse as they are short of supplies and abundant in patients. Yet, an Iraqi doctor said that the current medical reaction in Iraq, "is worse now than before the sanctions". What's more, the oil-abundant nation now has 5 mile lines of citizens waiting for gas. Power and water are also in short supply. According to a testimony be a leading Iraqi theorist, the 25 year rebuilding and reconciliation process in the now ravaged Iraq can only begin when American soldiers evacuate the country.
Micah e-mails to note Sarah Ferguson's "'Bush Lied, 2,000 Died': New Yorkers take to the streets in protest of the war in Iraq" (Village Voice):
That grim milestone brought out an eclectic mix of demonstrators, here and across the nation. In Manhattan, Grandmothers Against the War jostled alongside young anarchists with bandanas masking their faces, Green Party stalwarts, veterans, students, office workers bearing flowers, and a group carrying a dozen large coffins draped in American flags.
They were crammed up against about a half dozen counterprotesters, who came brandishing a remarkable assortment of their own American, British, Israeli, and Iraqi flags. One guy among them identified himself as Tom D. and wore a Union Jack tied around his face. "I recognized a few of my college professors in the crowd, and I don't want this to bias them against me," said Tom, who said he'd turned out to "stand in solidarity" with the troops.
"How many more?!" the antiwar demonstrators demanded. "Bush we adore!" the counterprotesters shouted back.
And yet just about everyone piped down for a moment of silence led by the members of Veterans for Peace, who came bearing a large banner printed with the image of empty boots and rifles planted barrel down into the ground, in honor of the fallen soldiers.
Behind them, the digital screen on top of the recruiting station flashed jazzy images of young recruits training in fighter planes and on submarines with the pitch line "Prepare for life."
"It's a bogus mission. There is no ability to win this war," said Vietnam vet David Cline. "It's only a matter of time and bodies before the U.S. does what is inevitable, pull out."
Cline also took issue with supporters of the war’s efforts to minimize the casualties in Iraq relative to past wars. "I could look at the 2,000 and say it's nothing compared to the 58,000 who died in Vietnam. But I think the people are out here now because they learned something from Vietnam and now they see that same slow slide into hell. The 2,000 matters today because we know if we don’t do something, it will be 58,000."
Other demonstrators sought to highlight the tremendous civilian death toll, estimated by the British group Iraq Body Count at between 26,690 and 30,051. In Union Square, a trio of women sporting black top hats spent two hours reciting the names, ages, and manner of death for some 1,000 Iraqis, pausing for a moment of silence after each name, followed by the chiming of a Tibetan bell. Among the names was that of a three-month-old killed by a U.S. rocket.
And outside the offices of Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer, about 70 people gathered for an equally somber reading of the names of the U.S. fallen.
"We want to put pressure on both senators to come up with some kind of exit strategy and also demand that they hold the Bush administration accountable for misleading the country to war," said Gary Weingarten, the owner of the Lower East Side bar Verlaine, who recently helped found a group called truthempowered.org to raise awareness about the Bush administration’s manipulation of intelligence to justify the war.
"It's obvious Clinton is going to run for president in 2008, and she's been supporting the war because of that," Weingarten added. "Does that mean she approves of these kind of tactics--of lying to your country to go to war?"
"Their only criticism is about the management of the war," complained Chris Tompkins, a 40-year-old attorney from Queens. He cited Schumer's appearance on Meet the Press last Sunday, when he told Tim Russert he did not regret voting for the U.S. invasion, even knowing now that Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction.
"Here's a Democrat who is supposedly as left as the Democrats can get, and he supports the administration's policy. It's a disgrace!" Tompkins said.
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But Tuesday evening, as we went to press, the two Triangle Democrats were about to take the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to demand just that: a timetable. From President Bush.
Rep. Bob Etheridge, the Triangle's third Democratic congressmen, did not join the resolution, continuing his record of never having criticized Bush's Iraq policies.
The new Price-Miller Resolution, which had not yet received a number, would call on Bush to submit a plan--within 30 days of the resolution's approval by both houses of Congress--that would spell out how he intends to withdraw our forces, and include both a start date for the pullout and a target date ("the expected timetable") for finishing it.
"We demand," Miller said, in remarks prepared for delivery, "that the president state clearly the remaining mission of our military in Iraq, and to state the time period that the president believes will be required to accomplish that mission."
The above, sent in by Durham Gal, is from Bob Geary's "Price, Miller call for Iraq exit plan" (The Raleigh-Durham Independent). How do two reps find courage? By the turning tide and by pressure upon them from their constituents. As amazing as the details in the story are, more can happen but only if people make their voices heard. Further down, you'll hear another story of people demanding accountability from a representative.
Changes are happening. War hawks who have fallen out with the Bully Boy can put down the movement but it exists and it gets stronger every day. Each time you take action, any action, and tell someone about it, you encourage them. The media hasn't led the peace movement, they haven't even covered it for the most part. The strength has come, as it does with most movements, from the people themselves.
You make the change. You impact the world. For someone to dismiss what happened in DC (or any rallies or events going on outside of DC on Sept. 24th) reveals only their ignorance. They don't want grass roots coming together and sharing. They want foot soliders marching behind them. So they insult the rallies and say that nothing was accomplished.
If by nothing they mean that they weren't celebrated and glorified, that's quite correct. Events are about a group and not an individual. In DC, I saw and heard people who had never been to a rally before show up to register their opposition to the war. That's not "nothing." People gathered together in a very real symbol of direct democracy by the people. Those who insult such actions appear bothered that they couldn't insist we go by their play books.
In DC, Tracey and I interviewed Rhonda and Tammi whom I'd met at a rally in March. In March they had to sneak out to attend. In September, they were there with three of their parents. That's something. That's pretty amazing. And to insult that is to reveal your own narrow mindness and your own inability to appreciate anything that doesn't glorify you.
People taking part were taking part because it meant something to them, standing up to the Bully Boy's war meant something to them. Those people didn't go back home and forget they were there. They carried the news back to their own circles and communities and that's how seeds are spread.
Something else that carries the seeds is independent media. On Thursdays, we make a point to spotlight indymedia in two entries. To knock the rallies is the same as knocking indymedia. (Oh wait, one person did that. When he said he wasn't interested in the people who agreed with him, when he said that via indymedia, he was insulting indymedia.) Indymedia matters, you matter, people coming together to make a group statement matter.
Cindy e-mails to note No to Mass Murder's "Code Pink Protests 2000 Too Many" (LA Indymedia and note there are a number of photos with this piece):
So, we showed up once again, we protested, the cars roaring by honked their horns in support, and everyone agreed what a horror it is and was. Now what? How do we get the bombs to actually stop and the troops to come home? So far, no one has come up with an answer, but we are keeping up a presence to prevent the illusion of support from being falsely put forward, to prevent our own isolation, and to preserve our right to resist this outrage until such time as a viable strategy can be found.
Billie e-mails to note mosey's "Dallas anti-war Sit in, two arrested in front of Senators office" (Dallas Indymedia) with photos by asad:
"The plan was to speak to the senator, our elected official, the woman that represents us. They ought to give us an opportunity to make our case." said Reverend Peter Johnson after being turned away from Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison's office by a cadre of police Tuesday afternoon in Dallas.
The group, led by Civil Rights leaders Reverend L. Charles Stovall and Reverend Peter Johnson, wanted to discuss with Senator Hutchison her opinion on the two-thousandth dead U.S soldier since the war in Iraq began. They were denied access on the grounds that the building in which the senators office is located is private property closed to the public.".
"We should be allowed free unfettered access to speak with our elected representative. If the senators office is located on private property than she should relocate to somewhere public." remarked one aggravated citizen.
Earlier in the day Mary Stephanhagen attempted to gain access to the building to speak one on one with Senator Hutchison but was arrested on the front steps. She was cuffed and quickly taken to an alley behind the building next door where the cops had hidden far from the eyes of corporate media two empty police vans anticipating a high arrest count.
Walt Harrison, a concerned citizen and anti-war activist, refused to leave the property and stood his ground. He was arrested after several warnings and led in hand-cuffs to the cheers of support and applause from his comrades. The group states that they will return and protest peacefully day after day until the true voices of Texas peoples are heard.
Reverend Stovall exclaimed with charisma and power to the crowd "In the spirit of sister Rosa Parks, who passed away earlier this week, we will be back -- tomorrow and the day after that -- as long as it takes until we get what we want."
Cliff e-mails to note chinatown's "Independent Journalist Dahr Jamail Visits UCSC" (Santa Cruz Indymedia):
On Wednesday, October 29th, independent and unembedded journalist Dahr Jamial provided fresh outlooks on the War in Iraq that are either ignored or hidden by most mainstream American media outlets. As a special correspondant for Flashpoints, the BBC, and Democracy Now!, Jamail has gained the attention of those willing to listen about true accounts experienced during thecurrent War in Iraq.
Starting with the testimony of an Iraqi P.O.W., Jamail displayed the appalling modes of the treatment of Iraqi P.O.W.s by American soldiers through visceral descriptions and tortured accounts. According to Jamail's report, the interviewed Iraqi P.O.W. agrees that Saddam Hussein indeed was a brutal dictator who tortured his citizens, but he pleads, "why did theyput Saddam to trial , but not the Americans totrial?". The P.O.W. goes on to say, " I wish I was killed by him, rather than being alive with the Americans. After this journey of torture and suffering, what else can I think?". Jamail futher points out that unlike Hussein,the Americans desecrated Islam and its holy text, the Koran and Americans aren't governed by a dictator.
According to Jamail, sanctions on medical supplies entering Iraq over the past years have only made the situation worse as they are short of supplies and abundant in patients. Yet, an Iraqi doctor said that the current medical reaction in Iraq, "is worse now than before the sanctions". What's more, the oil-abundant nation now has 5 mile lines of citizens waiting for gas. Power and water are also in short supply. According to a testimony be a leading Iraqi theorist, the 25 year rebuilding and reconciliation process in the now ravaged Iraq can only begin when American soldiers evacuate the country.
Micah e-mails to note Sarah Ferguson's "'Bush Lied, 2,000 Died': New Yorkers take to the streets in protest of the war in Iraq" (Village Voice):
That grim milestone brought out an eclectic mix of demonstrators, here and across the nation. In Manhattan, Grandmothers Against the War jostled alongside young anarchists with bandanas masking their faces, Green Party stalwarts, veterans, students, office workers bearing flowers, and a group carrying a dozen large coffins draped in American flags.
They were crammed up against about a half dozen counterprotesters, who came brandishing a remarkable assortment of their own American, British, Israeli, and Iraqi flags. One guy among them identified himself as Tom D. and wore a Union Jack tied around his face. "I recognized a few of my college professors in the crowd, and I don't want this to bias them against me," said Tom, who said he'd turned out to "stand in solidarity" with the troops.
"How many more?!" the antiwar demonstrators demanded. "Bush we adore!" the counterprotesters shouted back.
And yet just about everyone piped down for a moment of silence led by the members of Veterans for Peace, who came bearing a large banner printed with the image of empty boots and rifles planted barrel down into the ground, in honor of the fallen soldiers.
Behind them, the digital screen on top of the recruiting station flashed jazzy images of young recruits training in fighter planes and on submarines with the pitch line "Prepare for life."
"It's a bogus mission. There is no ability to win this war," said Vietnam vet David Cline. "It's only a matter of time and bodies before the U.S. does what is inevitable, pull out."
Cline also took issue with supporters of the war’s efforts to minimize the casualties in Iraq relative to past wars. "I could look at the 2,000 and say it's nothing compared to the 58,000 who died in Vietnam. But I think the people are out here now because they learned something from Vietnam and now they see that same slow slide into hell. The 2,000 matters today because we know if we don’t do something, it will be 58,000."
Other demonstrators sought to highlight the tremendous civilian death toll, estimated by the British group Iraq Body Count at between 26,690 and 30,051. In Union Square, a trio of women sporting black top hats spent two hours reciting the names, ages, and manner of death for some 1,000 Iraqis, pausing for a moment of silence after each name, followed by the chiming of a Tibetan bell. Among the names was that of a three-month-old killed by a U.S. rocket.
And outside the offices of Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer, about 70 people gathered for an equally somber reading of the names of the U.S. fallen.
"We want to put pressure on both senators to come up with some kind of exit strategy and also demand that they hold the Bush administration accountable for misleading the country to war," said Gary Weingarten, the owner of the Lower East Side bar Verlaine, who recently helped found a group called truthempowered.org to raise awareness about the Bush administration’s manipulation of intelligence to justify the war.
"It's obvious Clinton is going to run for president in 2008, and she's been supporting the war because of that," Weingarten added. "Does that mean she approves of these kind of tactics--of lying to your country to go to war?"
"Their only criticism is about the management of the war," complained Chris Tompkins, a 40-year-old attorney from Queens. He cited Schumer's appearance on Meet the Press last Sunday, when he told Tim Russert he did not regret voting for the U.S. invasion, even knowing now that Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction.
"Here's a Democrat who is supposedly as left as the Democrats can get, and he supports the administration's policy. It's a disgrace!" Tompkins said.
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Rosa Parks died yesterday at age 92. Over the days to come, we'll hear a lot of very-much deserved prasie for Parks' refusal to abide bigotry and her courage in the service of a cause. Unfortunately, we'll also hear a new round of recitations of the stubborn myth that Parks was an anonymous, apolitical woman who spontaneously refused to yield to authority and in so doing inspired a movement. The truth, as Aldon Morris wrote in his book The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement, is that a decade earlier in the 1940s Mrs. Parks had refused several times to comply with segregation rules on the buses.
In the early 1940s Mrs. Parks was ejected from a bus for failing to comply. The very same bus driver who ejected her that time was the one who had her arrested on December 1, 1955...She began serving as secretary for the local NAACP in 1943 and still held that post when arrested in 1955...In the early 1940s Mrs. Parks organized the local NAACP Youth Council...During the 1950s the youth in this organization attempted to borrow books from a white library. They also took rides and sat in the front seats of segregated buses, then returned to the Youth Council to discuss their acts of defiance with Mrs. Parks.
This history is not hidden. But the Times' obituary describes Parks' arrest nonetheless as an event which "turned a very private woman into a reluctant symbol and torchbearer..."
Parks was certainly reluctant to see too personal valoration of her as heroine distract from the broader movement. But she was not private about her politics. And her refusal to give up her bus seat was nothing new for her.
As she would later tell an interviewer, "My resistance to being mistreated on the buses and anywhere else was just a regular thing with me and not just that day."
The myth of Parks as a pre-political seamstress who was too physically worn out to move has such staying power not because there's any factual basis but because it appeals to an all-too popular narrative about how social change happens in America: When things get bad enough, an individual steps up alone, unsupported and unmediated, and spontaneously resists. And then an equally spontaneous movement follows. Such a myth makes good TV, but it's poor history. Movement-building takes hard work, no matter how righteous the cause or how desperate the circumstances.
The above is from jre's "Rosa Parks, Misremembered" (Portland Indymedia) and Joan e-mailed to note it. It's Thursday and we're doing the indymedia roundup.
Karla e-mails to note Mark presenting several voices in "Rosa Parks, 2000th US Soldier Killed, and the Struggle" (Hudson Mohawk IMC) and here's a section focusing on Leslie Cagan:
I woke up this morning to the news that Rosa Parks had died yesterday. She had lived a long, full life and had contributed to the struggle for human dignity, for freedom and justice more than most of us can even imagine doing. Nearly 50 years ago she took one seemingly small step that set off a campaign that shook the south and sent repercussions throughout the nation and around the world.
Her refusal to go to the back of the bus was not, as some would tell the tale, because she was physically tired. No, on that day in Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks took an action that reflected just how sick and tired she and a whole generation was of being treated like second class citizens.
When Rosa Parks sat in the front of that segregated bus, refusing to give up her seat for a white man, she sent a clear statement about the power of one, the importance of individual action. But her action grew out of a social context and an emerging movement. Right from the beginning, her action was part of something bigger than herself, and the strength of her seemingly singular action was that it was tied to a community and part of a movement. When we recall the bravery of this one woman we must also remember the power of collective action.
Today, I came to work thinking about Rosa Parks and how much we owe her. It is profoundly true that we stand on the shoulders of those who struggled before us, those who chartered new paths and opened up new opportunities.By the time I was at my desk, I knew it would be impossible to stay with Rosa Parks today. Instead, my attention was quickly moving to the almost surreal death count...would today be the day that we heard of the 2,000 death of a U.S. serviceperson in Iraq? Would today be the day we needed to put out our call and urge tens of thousands of people in every corner of the country to make their opposition to this horrible war as vocal and visible as possible? And yes, by early afternoon the news came through. This war that never should have happened, this war based on lies, this war that has already taken thousands of innocent Iraqi lives - perhaps more than 100,000 lives - is raging every single day.
Today the news came about the 2,000th U.S. serviceperson. It is strange to use this as a marker and not, at first, even know the person's name. And no, of course, their life was no more important or precious than the previous 1,999 people from this country who have died, nor more important or precious than any of the Iraqis who have been killed in the daily carnage brought by our government to their nation. And yet it makes sense to mark this date, this death. It makes sense to use it (if I might even think in those terms) as a rallying cry, as a moment to mobilize people. The reality is stark and we simply must use every tool we have available if we are going to become a force that is actually strong enough to stop this war.
Rebecca e-mailed to note "NOW Remembers Rosa Parks, Mother of Civil Rights Movement" (NOW) and asked that it be included in the indymedia roundup:
The National Organization for Women joins the world in mourning and saluting Rosa Parks, whose intrepid act nearly 50 years ago spurred a movement for basic human rights for all people of color.
On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks took a seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., on her way home from her job as a department store seamstress. When a white man boarded the bus and demanded her seat-laws in Alabama at the time required blacks to give up their seats to whites-Parks refused. For her act of defiance, she was arrested and fined $14. For the next 13 months, blacks boycotted the Montgomery bus system to protest the law, nearly bankrupting the company because the vast majority of passengers were black. In December1956 the Supreme Court ruled that the Alabama laws segregating buses were unconstitutional.
Parks was an ordinary woman who did an extraordinary act. Her simple act of dignity and courage came when it was needed most, bringing disparate factions together and launching a movement that changed the country and the world. Because she sat down, hundreds and later thousands stood up.
Today, more than ever, we could all stand to take a lesson from Rosa Parks. Many of us witness abuses of privilege and power every day; but how many of us stand up -- or even speak up? How many of us remain quiet, silenced by the embarrassment or peer pressure? Parks' courage inspired a generation -- and we must pick up her torch for the generations to come.
Whether you are working for women's rights, peace and justice, for environmental justice and the conservation of the planet, or the education of all our children, Rosa Parks' moment of bravery in the face of racism and inequality reminds us that every person, no matter their place, can take a stand.
Portland e-mails to note Molly Templeton's "The Songwriter Never Sleeps: Bright Eyes is Wide Awake in the big city" (Eugene Weekly):
The 2005 Bright Eyes press kit is 45 pages of mainstream adulation long. Many of the interviews included are by New York-based publications and take place in standard East Village hipster locations, like Life Café or Tomkins Square Park (oft-referenced in combination with those "new Dylan" comparisons Oberst used to garner). He's skinny, they say; he's vulnerable and incredibly talented, with a 250-song catalog, and he loves his new NYC stomping grounds, where this year's two disparate, beautiful and flawed albums, I'm Wide Awake It's Morning and Digital Ash in Digital Urn, were largely written.
New York features frequently in the lyrics of Morning, the stronger of the two, from the bittersweet, lovely first single, "Lua," to the tumbling "Train Under Water." It's part of Oberst's story now, the way the snowscape of his hometown of Omaha used to be. The strange -- and probably unavoidable -- trouble with this is that Oberst's only been there two years. While he had a young lifetime of experience in Omaha, he has a college sophomore's love for New York City, the kind of love that keeps you in downtown bars and off the trains that cross the East River. "I always get lost when I leave the Village," he murmurs, an excuse to a lover, "So I couldn't come meet you in Brooklyn last night."
If your a new member, you may wonder why music's being noted. Music will always be noted here. And with regards to Bright Eyes, one of the first overtly political songs critical of the Bully Boy was performed by Bright Eyes on The Tonight Show. The song's entitled "When the President Talks to God" (written by Conor Oberst) and though not on an album, you can get it on the CD single entitled "First Day of My Life." (You can also find it online by searching the title.) Here's an excerpt of the lyrics:
When the president talks to God
Are the conversations brief or long?
Does he ask to rape our women's rights
And send poor farm kids off to die?
Does God suggest an oil hike
When the president talks to God?
When the president talks to God
Are the consonants all hard or soft?
Is he resolute all down the line?
Is every issue black or white?
Does what God say ever change his mind
When the president talks to God?
When the president talks to God
Does he fake that drawl or merely nod?
Agree which convicts should be killed?
Where prisons should be built and filled?
Which voter fraud must be concealed
When the president talks to God?
Gina wanted this from Democracy Now! noted because it's on Haiti and so was an article she found that she wanted to share:
Rev. Jackson Meets Aristide in South Africa
In a visit to South Africa, civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson lent support to exiled Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide. Aristide has been living in exile in South Africa since being ousted in a coup in February 2004. Rev. Jackson said: "The people did not remove him, the US government removed him."
The article Gina wanted to share is Chuck Strouse's "Free This Priest: Father Gerard Jean-Juste is no outlaw. He's a Magic City hero" (Miami New Times):
Now Jean-Juste -- a puckish, pudgy-faced, twelve-year South Florida resident who left Miami soon after the riot and has ministered to Haiti's poor children ever since -- is stuck in a prison cell in Port-au-Prince. Falsely accused of participating in the killing of his cousin, journalist Jacques Roche, he has become a martyr. Amnesty International has declared him a prisoner of conscience. Thirty-four members of Congress have called for his release. And 400 clergy of all stripes signed a petition demanding his freedom.
The man ultimately responsible for jailing Jean-Juste on the trumped-up charges -- he was in Miami at the time Roche was kidnapped -- is long-time Boca Raton radio commentator Gerard Latortue, who's now the country's interim prime minister.
The dispute is a distinctly South Florida affair.
"Jean-Juste is still a hero here," comments Dufirstson Neree, a thrice-minted Ivy League grad and Haitian American who's running for Congress from an area that includes Little Haiti. "No one can defend the position that he is a terrorist or a menace to society."
Three decades ago, Jean-Juste became the first Haitian ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in the United States. In 1978, just two years before a huge wave of his countrymen transformed Miami in a boatlift, he helped establish the Haitian Refugee Center, a group that has fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court for the rights of people from the world's first independent black republic.
Jack Lieberman, another HRC cofounder, remembers that Jean-Juste manned the center in Liberty City and helped keep the peace during the many Eighties riots that shook the Magic City. "When he first came to the Haitian Refugee Center, most of the church agencies wanted to treat the Haitian refugee issue as one of charity," Lieberman says. "Jean-Juste pointed out that there was an injustice. Cubans were treated better than Haitians."
In the years that followed, Jean-Juste organized marches against Haiti's Duvalier regime, bad U.S. immigration law, and discriminatory policies in everything from housing to blood donation. For the Miami Herald I covered a half-dozen protests he led with megaphone in hand. I studied Kreyol and sat with him in the empty office of Veye Yo, a political meeting house on 54th Street he helped create.
He often spoke of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Gandhi. He was a true leader.
End Zone e-mails to note Cara DeGette's "All shook up: Feisty and rebellious, D-11 president Sandy Shakes explains her wild ride and defection from the pro-voucer crowd" (Colorado Indy Springs):
The breaking point for Shakes, she says, came on May 25, 2004. That day, accompanied by Ridder, she drove to Denver to attend a conference, called "Revolutions in Colorado Education."
In attendance were about 50 wealthy charter school and voucher advocates. The two arrived just as Denver businessman and voucher proponent Alex Cranberg was introducing Schuck as the next speaker.
"Steve got up there, and he was red and he was beating and pounding his fist on the podium, screaming 'This is the revolution, and we are going to have to be willing to get bloody!' and that moment is when I said, 'It's over the line,'" Shakes recalls.
"It's not about kids for these guys. It's about a revolution, and the revolution is that the haves are going to have and the haves are going to control, and we are going to tell people how it is going to be, without any discussion about what would be adequate for these kids.
"A revolution? Getting our hands bloody? I just looked at Norm and said, 'He's lost it.' "
The e-mail address for this site is common_ills@yahoo.com.
dahr jamail
democracy now
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cara degette
father gerad jean-juste
chuck strouse
rosa parks
now
bright eyes
conor oberst
when the president talks to god
leslie cagan
In the early 1940s Mrs. Parks was ejected from a bus for failing to comply. The very same bus driver who ejected her that time was the one who had her arrested on December 1, 1955...She began serving as secretary for the local NAACP in 1943 and still held that post when arrested in 1955...In the early 1940s Mrs. Parks organized the local NAACP Youth Council...During the 1950s the youth in this organization attempted to borrow books from a white library. They also took rides and sat in the front seats of segregated buses, then returned to the Youth Council to discuss their acts of defiance with Mrs. Parks.
This history is not hidden. But the Times' obituary describes Parks' arrest nonetheless as an event which "turned a very private woman into a reluctant symbol and torchbearer..."
Parks was certainly reluctant to see too personal valoration of her as heroine distract from the broader movement. But she was not private about her politics. And her refusal to give up her bus seat was nothing new for her.
As she would later tell an interviewer, "My resistance to being mistreated on the buses and anywhere else was just a regular thing with me and not just that day."
The myth of Parks as a pre-political seamstress who was too physically worn out to move has such staying power not because there's any factual basis but because it appeals to an all-too popular narrative about how social change happens in America: When things get bad enough, an individual steps up alone, unsupported and unmediated, and spontaneously resists. And then an equally spontaneous movement follows. Such a myth makes good TV, but it's poor history. Movement-building takes hard work, no matter how righteous the cause or how desperate the circumstances.
The above is from jre's "Rosa Parks, Misremembered" (Portland Indymedia) and Joan e-mailed to note it. It's Thursday and we're doing the indymedia roundup.
Karla e-mails to note Mark presenting several voices in "Rosa Parks, 2000th US Soldier Killed, and the Struggle" (Hudson Mohawk IMC) and here's a section focusing on Leslie Cagan:
I woke up this morning to the news that Rosa Parks had died yesterday. She had lived a long, full life and had contributed to the struggle for human dignity, for freedom and justice more than most of us can even imagine doing. Nearly 50 years ago she took one seemingly small step that set off a campaign that shook the south and sent repercussions throughout the nation and around the world.
Her refusal to go to the back of the bus was not, as some would tell the tale, because she was physically tired. No, on that day in Montgomery, Alabama Rosa Parks took an action that reflected just how sick and tired she and a whole generation was of being treated like second class citizens.
When Rosa Parks sat in the front of that segregated bus, refusing to give up her seat for a white man, she sent a clear statement about the power of one, the importance of individual action. But her action grew out of a social context and an emerging movement. Right from the beginning, her action was part of something bigger than herself, and the strength of her seemingly singular action was that it was tied to a community and part of a movement. When we recall the bravery of this one woman we must also remember the power of collective action.
Today, I came to work thinking about Rosa Parks and how much we owe her. It is profoundly true that we stand on the shoulders of those who struggled before us, those who chartered new paths and opened up new opportunities.By the time I was at my desk, I knew it would be impossible to stay with Rosa Parks today. Instead, my attention was quickly moving to the almost surreal death count...would today be the day that we heard of the 2,000 death of a U.S. serviceperson in Iraq? Would today be the day we needed to put out our call and urge tens of thousands of people in every corner of the country to make their opposition to this horrible war as vocal and visible as possible? And yes, by early afternoon the news came through. This war that never should have happened, this war based on lies, this war that has already taken thousands of innocent Iraqi lives - perhaps more than 100,000 lives - is raging every single day.
Today the news came about the 2,000th U.S. serviceperson. It is strange to use this as a marker and not, at first, even know the person's name. And no, of course, their life was no more important or precious than the previous 1,999 people from this country who have died, nor more important or precious than any of the Iraqis who have been killed in the daily carnage brought by our government to their nation. And yet it makes sense to mark this date, this death. It makes sense to use it (if I might even think in those terms) as a rallying cry, as a moment to mobilize people. The reality is stark and we simply must use every tool we have available if we are going to become a force that is actually strong enough to stop this war.
Rebecca e-mailed to note "NOW Remembers Rosa Parks, Mother of Civil Rights Movement" (NOW) and asked that it be included in the indymedia roundup:
The National Organization for Women joins the world in mourning and saluting Rosa Parks, whose intrepid act nearly 50 years ago spurred a movement for basic human rights for all people of color.
On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks took a seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., on her way home from her job as a department store seamstress. When a white man boarded the bus and demanded her seat-laws in Alabama at the time required blacks to give up their seats to whites-Parks refused. For her act of defiance, she was arrested and fined $14. For the next 13 months, blacks boycotted the Montgomery bus system to protest the law, nearly bankrupting the company because the vast majority of passengers were black. In December1956 the Supreme Court ruled that the Alabama laws segregating buses were unconstitutional.
Parks was an ordinary woman who did an extraordinary act. Her simple act of dignity and courage came when it was needed most, bringing disparate factions together and launching a movement that changed the country and the world. Because she sat down, hundreds and later thousands stood up.
Today, more than ever, we could all stand to take a lesson from Rosa Parks. Many of us witness abuses of privilege and power every day; but how many of us stand up -- or even speak up? How many of us remain quiet, silenced by the embarrassment or peer pressure? Parks' courage inspired a generation -- and we must pick up her torch for the generations to come.
Whether you are working for women's rights, peace and justice, for environmental justice and the conservation of the planet, or the education of all our children, Rosa Parks' moment of bravery in the face of racism and inequality reminds us that every person, no matter their place, can take a stand.
Portland e-mails to note Molly Templeton's "The Songwriter Never Sleeps: Bright Eyes is Wide Awake in the big city" (Eugene Weekly):
The 2005 Bright Eyes press kit is 45 pages of mainstream adulation long. Many of the interviews included are by New York-based publications and take place in standard East Village hipster locations, like Life Café or Tomkins Square Park (oft-referenced in combination with those "new Dylan" comparisons Oberst used to garner). He's skinny, they say; he's vulnerable and incredibly talented, with a 250-song catalog, and he loves his new NYC stomping grounds, where this year's two disparate, beautiful and flawed albums, I'm Wide Awake It's Morning and Digital Ash in Digital Urn, were largely written.
New York features frequently in the lyrics of Morning, the stronger of the two, from the bittersweet, lovely first single, "Lua," to the tumbling "Train Under Water." It's part of Oberst's story now, the way the snowscape of his hometown of Omaha used to be. The strange -- and probably unavoidable -- trouble with this is that Oberst's only been there two years. While he had a young lifetime of experience in Omaha, he has a college sophomore's love for New York City, the kind of love that keeps you in downtown bars and off the trains that cross the East River. "I always get lost when I leave the Village," he murmurs, an excuse to a lover, "So I couldn't come meet you in Brooklyn last night."
If your a new member, you may wonder why music's being noted. Music will always be noted here. And with regards to Bright Eyes, one of the first overtly political songs critical of the Bully Boy was performed by Bright Eyes on The Tonight Show. The song's entitled "When the President Talks to God" (written by Conor Oberst) and though not on an album, you can get it on the CD single entitled "First Day of My Life." (You can also find it online by searching the title.) Here's an excerpt of the lyrics:
When the president talks to God
Are the conversations brief or long?
Does he ask to rape our women's rights
And send poor farm kids off to die?
Does God suggest an oil hike
When the president talks to God?
When the president talks to God
Are the consonants all hard or soft?
Is he resolute all down the line?
Is every issue black or white?
Does what God say ever change his mind
When the president talks to God?
When the president talks to God
Does he fake that drawl or merely nod?
Agree which convicts should be killed?
Where prisons should be built and filled?
Which voter fraud must be concealed
When the president talks to God?
Gina wanted this from Democracy Now! noted because it's on Haiti and so was an article she found that she wanted to share:
Rev. Jackson Meets Aristide in South Africa
In a visit to South Africa, civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson lent support to exiled Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide. Aristide has been living in exile in South Africa since being ousted in a coup in February 2004. Rev. Jackson said: "The people did not remove him, the US government removed him."
The article Gina wanted to share is Chuck Strouse's "Free This Priest: Father Gerard Jean-Juste is no outlaw. He's a Magic City hero" (Miami New Times):
Now Jean-Juste -- a puckish, pudgy-faced, twelve-year South Florida resident who left Miami soon after the riot and has ministered to Haiti's poor children ever since -- is stuck in a prison cell in Port-au-Prince. Falsely accused of participating in the killing of his cousin, journalist Jacques Roche, he has become a martyr. Amnesty International has declared him a prisoner of conscience. Thirty-four members of Congress have called for his release. And 400 clergy of all stripes signed a petition demanding his freedom.
The man ultimately responsible for jailing Jean-Juste on the trumped-up charges -- he was in Miami at the time Roche was kidnapped -- is long-time Boca Raton radio commentator Gerard Latortue, who's now the country's interim prime minister.
The dispute is a distinctly South Florida affair.
"Jean-Juste is still a hero here," comments Dufirstson Neree, a thrice-minted Ivy League grad and Haitian American who's running for Congress from an area that includes Little Haiti. "No one can defend the position that he is a terrorist or a menace to society."
Three decades ago, Jean-Juste became the first Haitian ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in the United States. In 1978, just two years before a huge wave of his countrymen transformed Miami in a boatlift, he helped establish the Haitian Refugee Center, a group that has fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court for the rights of people from the world's first independent black republic.
Jack Lieberman, another HRC cofounder, remembers that Jean-Juste manned the center in Liberty City and helped keep the peace during the many Eighties riots that shook the Magic City. "When he first came to the Haitian Refugee Center, most of the church agencies wanted to treat the Haitian refugee issue as one of charity," Lieberman says. "Jean-Juste pointed out that there was an injustice. Cubans were treated better than Haitians."
In the years that followed, Jean-Juste organized marches against Haiti's Duvalier regime, bad U.S. immigration law, and discriminatory policies in everything from housing to blood donation. For the Miami Herald I covered a half-dozen protests he led with megaphone in hand. I studied Kreyol and sat with him in the empty office of Veye Yo, a political meeting house on 54th Street he helped create.
He often spoke of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Gandhi. He was a true leader.
End Zone e-mails to note Cara DeGette's "All shook up: Feisty and rebellious, D-11 president Sandy Shakes explains her wild ride and defection from the pro-voucer crowd" (Colorado Indy Springs):
The breaking point for Shakes, she says, came on May 25, 2004. That day, accompanied by Ridder, she drove to Denver to attend a conference, called "Revolutions in Colorado Education."
In attendance were about 50 wealthy charter school and voucher advocates. The two arrived just as Denver businessman and voucher proponent Alex Cranberg was introducing Schuck as the next speaker.
"Steve got up there, and he was red and he was beating and pounding his fist on the podium, screaming 'This is the revolution, and we are going to have to be willing to get bloody!' and that moment is when I said, 'It's over the line,'" Shakes recalls.
"It's not about kids for these guys. It's about a revolution, and the revolution is that the haves are going to have and the haves are going to control, and we are going to tell people how it is going to be, without any discussion about what would be adequate for these kids.
"A revolution? Getting our hands bloody? I just looked at Norm and said, 'He's lost it.' "
The e-mail address for this site is common_ills@yahoo.com.
dahr jamail
democracy now
haiti
cara degette
father gerad jean-juste
chuck strouse
rosa parks
now
bright eyes
conor oberst
when the president talks to god
leslie cagan
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