Bill Sizemore Goes To Jail:
December 1st, 2008 At 11:30 Monday morning,
Bill Sizemore was led to jail by Multnomah County
sheriff's deputies after being ruled in contempt of court. The latest finding of contempt stems from a 2002 lawsuit in which a jury
and the court found Sizemore's organizations engaged in fraud, forgery, and
racketeering. (That ruling was upheld in July by the Oregon Supreme Court.)
The current contempt order revolved around Sizemore's innumerable violations
of the original injunction that accompanied a jury verdict finding Mr.
Sizemore and his organizations conspired to violate Oregon law.
Quiet Library
is a sketch comedy group in New York City. They met
through The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and
subsequently performed live in venues all over New York
City. Recently we've taken a hiatus from live performance to
produce a number of internet videos. our online content has
generated a lot of really positive feedback... we frequently
upload new material. Thanks, QL
http://www.quietlibrary.com
Is Martial Law Around the
Corner? By Matthew
Rothschild, The Progressive "The ACLU isn't
worried about the new presidential directive,
but I still am."
Don't We Have a
Constitution,
Not a King? By Marjorie Cohn,
AlterNet Bush has issued a
directive that would
place all governmental powers in his hands
in the case of a catastrophic
emergency.
What has our nation come to?
In Italy,
trial of CIA agents
begins Human rights officials accuse the Bush administration of using
scores of extraordinary renditions to "outsource" torture...
Democrats who lead vs. those who follow [VIDEO] By Adam Howard In one of the more
interesting exchanges from the New Hampshire Democratic debate, John
Edwards takes Senators Clinton and Obama to task...
"She gave
me a look that only a mother could give a child."
PRESIDENT BUSH , on the reaction of Queen Elizabeth II after he
nearly said she had visited in 1776.
The
fatal
incompetence of the Bush administration has been their
undoing...
8 more U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq
Enlarge Photo BAGHDAD
- Eight more American soldiers were killed, including six who died
with a civilian journalist in a roadside bombing northeast of
Baghdad, the U.S. military reported Sunday.
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“Imagine a library
that collected all the world’s information about all the
world’s books and made it available for everyone to view and update,”
write members of
the Internet Archive's
Open Content Alliance.
“We’re
building that library." College
libraries not just books - Jul
25, 2007 By JUSTIN POPE - AP Education
Writer --
Impeaching Dick Cheney: The Tide is Turning [Video] By Robert Greenwald
54% of Americans
now support the removal of
Cheney from office --
we're waking up to who has the real power in
the
White House. And we should not stop with
Cheney...
Examine various ideas, viewpoints, and
perspectives at:
AlternativeNewsResource.org/ Just look at our
economy—workers’ paychecks are stagnant while our productivity goes
up and up.
Just think back to the administration’s catastrophic
response to Hurricane Katrina, the poor conditions
at Walter Reed
Army Medical Center, the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, our
health care crisis—
many, many people are wondering, “What’s
wrong with America?” (AFL-CIO)
Death Penalty in America:
Judicial Homicide... The brazen execution of prisoners in
violation
of the Geneva accords and the moral imperatives of our
churches
promoting
information exchange, research & critical dialogue in the
field of community-based art
Dorothy Eck, pioneer for Montana
women, still trying to change the world By
GAIL SCHONTZLER
Chronicle Staff Writer
~~~She grew up in an era when faculty wives
were expected
to attend teas and formal dances - not assault the power
structure and invade its smoke-filled rooms.
SEAN SPERRY/CHRONICLE Politics “is a matter of trying to
persuade people; I've always been good at that," Dorothy Eck
said while sitting on the deck at her home. Eck has spent
more than 40 years in public life and is still a champion
for her causes.
Yet Dorothy Eck did just that,
in her calm but determined way. The former stay-at-home mom challenged the good ol' boy
world of Montana politics. As state president of the League
of Women Voters, she became one of the pioneers for women in
state politics. More than that, she helped bring about
profound changes in government that touch the lives of
ordinary Montanans to this day. “I think I've always had the feeling, if something works
in a way that doesn't seem right, that you've an obligation
to try to change things,” Eck said.
E-book devices haven'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...
The Employee Free Choice
ActIt’s Time to Restore
Workers’ Freedom to Form Unions The right to organize
is among the most fundamental of workplace human
rights. It is the workplace expression of
freedom of association. Employees are
entitled to work collectively on common issues.
This tool is critical for securing other
workplace rights.
Here is a big part of the problem...
While Republicans Remain Deeply Distrustful of
News Media (as well they should)
Democrats, have a great deal more trust in the media's
accuracy. (It is wake-up time for Democrats....if you
"trust" the corporate media, you miss most of the story.)
Overall, less than half of Americans, regardless of
partisanship, have a great deal or a fair amount of trust in
the mass media. (A good trend, since they cannot be trusted)
Over three-quarters of Republicans, and nearly half of all
Americans, perceive the media as too liberal. (The Rovian
spin machine is effective.) Fewer than one in five say
the media are too conservative.
(Way too effective...) see the original Gallop Poll
at:
Galloping Along
GONZALES LIED TO CONGRESS News reports revealed on Tuesday
that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales lied
to
Congress when he testified he was unaware of
any civil liberties abuses related to FBI
National Security Letter (NSL) records demands.
Contrary to Gonzales's testimony, FBI documents
show he was well aware of the abuses.
In 2005
testimony before the Senate Intelligence
Committee, Gonzales and members of the
administration claimed that no abuses of the
Patriot Act's NSL provisions had ever occurred
Learn more: ACLU clients who received NSLs react
to the news.
Huffington
Post, The Offering syndicated columnists
and news.
www.huffingtonpost.com/
Immigration
Updates
How
do you explain to people asking for refuge that even in the
United States of America we can’t assure them they will
receive due process and justice?"
CHERYL LITTLE|U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in
Portland following a criminal investigation.
Over 165 workers were caught up in the raid. Find out More!
PDX Immigration Roundup: Tip of the
ICEberg
And a
Portland ICE Raid Follow Up (Del Monte)
The Immigration, Customs and Enforcement Raid
on a Del Monte food factory in North Portland has inspired community organizing
and civic-engagement.
The Misery StrategyThe
federal government’s abandonment of comprehensive
immigration reform has been matched by unprecedented
crackdowns at the state and local level.
Sixty-two percent of Americans say the United States
made a mistake in sending troops
to Iraq, the highest
level of opposition to the war Gallup has measured. Most
Americans
think the recent surge in the number of U.S.
troops in Iraq is not having much impact,
with slightly
more saying it is making the situation worse rather than
better. Seventy-one
percent favor a proposal to withdraw
most U.S. troops from Iraq by next April.
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.
"If physical death is the price
that I must pay to free
my white
brothers and sisters
from a
permanent death of the spirit,
then nothing
can be more redemptive."
(
On learning of threats on his life, June 5,
1964)
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.
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
Service
Learning & 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
Support
Our TroopsAaron
Sussmanhttp://www.acrowdedfire.com/ "In support of our troops at
Haditha"
Online Journal Contributing Writer
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_907.shtml
"Calm down. Take a moment and think. Now, I’m the
first one to say that murder is wrong. But this incident in
Haditha is a little more complicated than that and everyone
needs to just relax a little and think things over. Make no
mistake: if we condemn these men, we’ll be on a slippery
slope so severe that it will make the legalization of gay
marriage look almost harmless."
Shannon
Wheeler of Too Much Coffee Man presented the world's first
opera based on a comic-book and it's debut was right here in
Portland, Oregon.
Details here!
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 TortureAri 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.
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/
Bush
Isn't Spying on al Qaeda ... He's Spying on YouBy Robert Parry, Consortium
News The extraordinary secrecy
surrounding the spying operations revealed in Alberto
Gonzales' Senate testimony is not aimed at al-Qaeda, but at
the American people.
Read more »
Wisdom
small wisdom,
large wisdom, and medium sized...
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
by
Glenn
Greenwald 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)
"The spread
of evil is the symptom of a
vacuum. whenever evil wins,
it is only by default: by the
moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be
no compromise on basic principles."
Ayn Rand
Official
site of the Democratic hopeful; includes
testimonials, positions on issues,
press, event calendar, photos and video
clips, web log, and volunteer ... johnedwards.com/
- Jun 13, 2007
KBOO's
Talking Earth poetry program
is an important part of the Portland Poetry
universe.
The show airs Monday nights on 90.7 fm: 10-11
PM , co -hosted by Walt Curtis and Barbara LaMorticella.
Editorial:
The Tragic End
of the Rule of Law:
October 18, 2006
06/02/07
A packed court and our cowardly congress have betrayed
the American people.
We must restore constitutional mandates and the rule of law. Those
who have abandoned their duties and principles need to be brought to
justice. Whatever it takes.
Feckless surrender to the misuse of our troops in a corporate
occupation and exploitation of Iraq is not acceptable and cannot
stand. If neither
congress nor the courts find the courage of their convictions, it
may take principled military intervention to do some house-cleaning
in Washington. Even if we must
resort to Jeffersonian solutions,
it is essential that we restore the balance of power. Our
reputation, credibility, and honor hang in that balance.
Noam Chomsky
speaks about democracy
in Iraq, U.S. imperialism
over Latin America, and
the media's shallow
coverage of foreign affairs
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Imposes 6
Month Ban On SEIU
Local
49's Use Of Card Check
The National
Labor Relations Board has banned SEIU Local 49 in
Portland,
Oregon from using card checks to organize building
service workers for 6 months.
ore Goes To Jail
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