 Activism Calendar! "In Russia, in China, and here... very mediocre people have the power to end life altogether." Saul Bellow
Unions seek  I called Congress French
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AFT-Oregon Summer School,which was to be held Fri, Jun 1, 2007 to Sun, Jun 3, 2007 |
Location: Hood River HAS BEEN CANCELLED!! Why does Big Business think America should be subject to lawsuits by transnational corporations but not by multinational unions?And more important, how come not a single reporter is even bothering to ask...? |
Top Teacher Shown the Door After Showing“Baghdad ER” May 10, 2007 by Matthew Rothschild |
“Teachers that teach against the grain often have difficulties with school systems. What has happened to me is certainly not unusual.” Tuesday, May 15, 2007 byAgence France Presse US Health System Ranks Last Compared to Other Countries:for quality, access and efficiency, according to two studies |
Alphabetical Listing of Previously Published Articles: A book reviews itself... an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson... |
A Free Press,The Myth of The"Liberal"Media,&Dirty Underbelly of The New York Times: |
Intolerant, amoral, anti-worker, anti-family,&anti-union. Those who label our media"liberal"are clueless, or liars. ActiveResource.org/ AResource for Writing, Writers,&Creative Arts |
Art Portal: Sang Choi Gallery Stephen McCandless McCandless 2 Kurinsky&Others |
A Convenient Execution The U.S. did much to create Saddam Hussein and others like him. |
A Day in the Life of Joe: Middle-Class Republican Conservative |
| American Dreams: Our nation has been forced into bankruptcy and foreign ownership. |
We must not allow these tactics or this treason to continue... A Reading List! James Baldwin,Saul Bellow,Noam Chomsky,Norman G. Finkelstein,Kitty Hart, |
Langston Hughes,MLK, Thomas Jefferson,Franz Kafka,Garrison Keillor,Coretta King, Flannery O'Connor,Gary Younge, and more... |
 Axis of Aggression...The U.S. and Israel:FOG WATCH QUIDDITY: Chomsky on Israel, Lebanon, and Palestine PROTESTING: Venezuelan Women's Organizing LABOR NOTES: New Generation Youth Labor Activists atZMAGAZINE ADVOCATING: Local Calls for an End to the War VETS FOR PEACE: Soldiers Must Choose to Stop Fighting HEALTHCARE: Medicare $ is Not Running Out Blogging, conversation, and more.. atwww.ActiveResource.org/wordpress |
http://groups.msn.com/TheWordsmithCollection/links.msnw Blues in Portland! And more blues Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival,Fri, June 30-Tues, July 4, 2006. |
Breaking news: MIDEAST CRISIS THREATENS BUSH'S VACATION August Ranch Stay in |
Jeopardy, President Sayshttp://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6545 |
 Cartoons! Robert Ariail skewers politicians on both sides of the aisleCoffee,Wireless,&Artare religious concepts in Portland, Oregon Censorship in America A Step Shy of Book-Burning |
The White House is closing EPA research libraries to the public and its own staff, ...a new dark age. Civil Rights in America: 2007 The fight for civil rights was easier in the 1960s. |
Constitutional Questions The current suspension of Habeas Corpus is unconstitutional. |
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Death Penalty in America: Judicial Homicide... The brazen execution of prisoners in violation |
of the Geneva accords and the moral imperatives of our churches DoIran,Korea,Iraq,Islam, and nebulous 'isms" threatenFreedomlike Hitler or Fascism? |
Do you need a basic website, server,&e-mail system? Easier than you think! |
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Download Free Posters: 1.WANTED 2.WANTED 3.WANTED 4.WANTED 5.WANTED E-book deviceshaven't exactly taken the world by storm, but there's plenty of hope for them yet, according to Bill Gates."Reading is going to go completely online..." |
public documents for you, your students, or others... |
Environmental Resource we must nurture and sustain our planet... |
Famous but Fallible Leaders... Bush league leaders... |
Go Ask about Alice. Resources for Reading atwww.ReadingResources.org/ |
Huffington Post, The Offering syndicated columnists and news. www.huffingtonpost.com/ Its the War, Stupid! The Clinton slogan was It's the Economy.... but war has eclipsed that issue |
and at this point, we need to look atThe Choices Ahead...especially the Suicidal"Surge"Semantics... Literary Arts: Coming up soon in Portland, Oregon: Calvin Trillin,Frank Rich,Frank McCourt. |
Suzan-Lori Parks,Mary Gaitskill&George Saunders,Jonathan Lethem Literary Kicks Lit News...Postmodern...Spoken Word Existential... and more... LOYAL TO THE SKY Notes from an Activist/Journalist about civic-commitment |
Magazine Scene Barack, Iran, Justice, Bush, Chomsky, Iraq War, and more |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
 Men of Great Intellect or not |
Middle East Peace regional and world leaders have an obligation to stop arguing about blame |
for the current warfare and start working on ways to end it. NAFTA why we have an"immigration problem" and how we fix it.... |
National Security How can we stop these guys...? 2008 will be too late... |
Notes from Michael Dembrow,Portland Community College Faculty Federation President/ AFT/AFL-CIO |
Our Mythical Free Press in America: Who owns it, and what does that mean for us? |
Rachel Neumann Portal Rights and Liberties in America (Alternet) |
On and Offline Magazines a growing collection |
On"Isms:" How fear-mongering, race-baiting, and ugly prejudice are used to terrorize America |
Peace Newsa march on Washington on Janaury 27... why it is necessary. |
Poetry Resource "It is the human soul entire, squeezed like a lemon or a lime, drop by drop into atomic words." Portland BritTzedek v'Shalom Don't let our government shut the door to negotiations! Portland Literary Resource The Wordsmith Collection, Inc., Volunteer Task Force organizing |
Portland Reading Resources: www.ReadingResources.org/ local Portland writer's forum |
Reading Resources, by Author |
Reclaiming the Ivory Tower "Joe Berry has made a vital contribution to the most urgent subject on many a |
campus: the sudden transformation of the teaching workforce ServiceLearning & Civic-Engagement:"Students seem to learn best when they are made to see connections between |
their books and their world." /www.angelfire.com/blues/writing/service.html Spiritual Discussion Gender Bias in Religious Denominations.. interactive! |
State of the Union 2007 |
Support Our Troops Aaron Sussmanhttp://www.acrowdedfire.com/ The Gatheringvisit the Federation website for instant access. http://www.pccff.org/ The Issues List!International News, Global Politics,&Local Action Bookmark This! TheIllumination Projectwill focus on racism and cultural pluralism. |
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The Joy of Readinghttp://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/08/24/joy.of.reading.par/index.htmlBy Barbara Rowley Today's Paper   The Rule of Law: Developments in the Maher Arar case in the U.S. and Canada inthis AlterNet commentary |
DOUG THOMPSON A call for a New American Civil War We can't solve our problems by calling the |
other side names. America cannot be salvaged by flooding bulletin boards and ... web sites with rabid rhetoric. The Politics of Torture Ari Berman A compromise on the treatment of detainees reveals an uncomfortable truth |
Democrats have chosen to outsource their influence to John McCain, who capitulated to the President. Jan Underwood's Day Shift Werewolf I feel deeply, deeply subversive. |
UC Berkeleyhas some great lectures in streaming format: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/audiofiles.html |
Unconventional Wisdom Portal critical ideas for social change... |
Update on the War: recent developments in Iraq as well as analysis of the road leading to war |
U S Munitions sales 80% of U.S. arms exports to the developing world go to non-democratic regimes |
Values: The Death Penalty, Judicial Homicide,&American Values "I have observed that it never does a boy much good to shoot him." --President Lincoln on Roswell McIntyre, sentenced to death for desertion... When innocents die, this diminishes our nation... |
Vigilance congressional update&resource |
Was the CIA involved in Robert Kennedy's Death? |
Willamette Writers Conference 2006 The inspiration you gain during the Willamette Writer's 2006 |
conference this August will help fire you up and carry you forward... www.willamettewriters.com/wwc06/ While We Slept The Nation. - New York,NY,USA |
Wisdomsmall wisdom, large wisdom, and medium sized... |
Working America:solidarity,equity,social change,civic commitment,&human progresswww.UnionResource.org/ |
Yiddish Link |
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 Editorial Humor Cartoons! CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK |
 Books on the Bush Administration"Taken together with earlier volumes, these books create a cumulative, and in many respects surprisingly coherent portrait of the Bush White House and its management style" Michiko Kakutani What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years? Published: May 21, 2006 |
The Book Review asked writers, critics and editors. Their answers may surprise you. Portland Peace Portal needs an editor contact us |
The Issues List! AlternativeNews |
www.Wordsmith.org Portal |
 Publisher Comments Glenn Greenwald was not a political man. Not liberal, not conservative. Politicians were all the same and it didn't matter which party was in power. Extremists on both ends canceled each other out, and the United States would essentially remain forever... (read more)  Union Activism Newsletter!
Working Families Update |
Human Rights and Dignity |
The new anthem.http://filmstripinternational.com/ |
 The Best Blues Online ~OO~ James Baldwin Flannery O'Connor Poetry Langston Hughes Garrison Keillor Places to Write! |
Molly IvinsPortal Activism News Neil Young Blues Jazz
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