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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NLRB 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.
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...
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
Bush
Isn't Spying on al Qaeda ... He's Spying on You By 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 »
“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."
also...College
libraries not just books - Jul 25,
2007 By JUSTIN POPE - AP Education Writer
--
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Sussman
http://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/
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)
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
Write
Your Reps!
Contact Federal, State or Local Officials
and tell them what's on your mind.
"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
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