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By Lila Schow Sudan Legislative Update and Action Alert Please contact Congress to support funding for African Union troops in Darfur. On July 19, the Senate unanimously agreed to an amendment (SA 1290) to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill (HR 3057) that would provide additional funding to the AU mission in Sudan. Now,House and Senate negotiators will meet to work out differences in this legislation and finalize amendments. The AU has said it lacks $200 million for its mission in Darfur, so it is extremely important that the conference committee members retain SA 1290 in the final version of the bill. Please write your Representatives to urge their support for any amendments to HR 3057 that would provide additional funding for the African Union troops.
Accounts of Depleted Uranium reported by various media outlets around the world
Depleted
Uranium QUOTE OF THE DECADE
They have always taught and trained you to believe it to be your
patriotic duty to go to war and to have yourselves slaughtered at their
command. But in all the history of the world you, the people, have never
had a voice in declaring war, and strange as it certainly appears, no
war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.
US Socialist Party’s presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs Free speech from Lenny Bruce to Ward Churchill What’s your reaction to InterAct, our stories or our letters? Contact us and we’ll print your comments.
The Colorado state legislature passed S.B. 198, which
requires all electronic voting machines to include voter-verified paper
ballots. Last month, Gov. Owens signed the bill into law. This important
new measure will allow voters to verify their vote is recorded correctly.
The paper ballot would be the official record in case of a recount, and
the legislation requires random audits to check the accuracy of the
electronic machines.
The bill will also prohibit a secretary of state from chairing a federal or statewide campaign, as Katherine Harris did in Florida in 2000 and Kenneth Blackwell did in Ohio in 2004. And it will make it easier to vote by provisional ballot, even if you go to the wrong precinct. InterAct’s 5 Minutes to Make a Difference
Connecticut just fined
Wal-Mart for child labor law violations. And in January,
Wal-Mart agreed to pay $134,540 after being cited for child labor
violations in Connecticut, Arkansas and New Hampshire.
Child labor violations. Sex discrimination.
Low wages. Lousy benefits. All from Wal-Mart—a company that rakes in $10
billion a year in profits.
Anti-War and Social Justice
Groups
· Demands of the demonstration · Endorse · Spread the word - Downloadable flyers · Donate Two UK groups, Justice Not Vengeance (JNV) and Voices In The Wilderness UK, initiated silent vigils throughout Britain to deliver "An Antiwar Response to the London Atrocities." JNV's website (www.j-n-v.org), is updated each day to equip groups with literature, talking points and media analysis as part of this response. Voices In The Wilderness has posted much of this material on their website and also on electroniciraq.net. A handout that can be used in your own outreach and education efforts during this crucial time can be found: (http://vitw.org/archives/954).
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Jodie's Editorial
Lila's Editorial
Democracy was at best an afterthought for
the Bush administration, which believed that it had little application to
Afghans. At the conference in Bonn, Germany, establishing international
legitimacy for the new Afghan government, "the word 'democracy,'" Dobbins
points out, "was introduced at the insistence of the Iranian delegation."
Sidney Blumenthal | Tunnel Vision
The key issue in the affair has little directly
to do with former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson; or his wife, Valerie Plame; or
Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby; or even
President George W. Bush's alter ego, Karl Rove. White House v. Wilson/Plame
is about Iraq, where our sons and daughters - and many others - are daily
meeting violent death in an unwinnable war. And it's about manipulation.
Ray McGovern | Plame Case Is about Iraq
He that would make his own liberty
secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.
-- Thomas Paine
In the USA, the curtain
opened on new anti-terror follies [June 13] when three Senate committees, in
blustery response to the London bombings, voted to extend the power of the
FBI under the Patriot Act to obtain library records without a subpoena.
Exactly what suicide bomber or sleeper cell has so far been exposed by this
powerful new intelligence weapon, we are not told.
Greg Palast | It Didn't Take Long, Did It?Editorials: Notable and Newsworthy Did Washington Try to Manipulate Iraq's Election? by Seymour M. Hersh
Can anyone argue with a straight face that
Congress has time to look at steroid use in baseball but doesn't have
the will to provide congressional oversight of the leak of a CIA agent's
name?
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass Democrats
Call for Probe of CIA Leak
Judith Miller -- Drum Major for War by Norman Solomon
One Soldier's Fight to Legalize Morality by Monica Benderman
"Iraq was a War of Choice, Not Necessity" by Senator Boxer
China Floats,
America Sinks by Greg Palast That Tree Stood for So Much by Lee Romney The Tragic Abuse of Corn by Kelpie Wilson
The Case for a
Democratic Marker by
Christopher Hayes
Jobs Americans
Will Not Do by John F. Rohe [He] has no right to be present at his trial. Unsworn statements, rather than live testimony, can be presented as evidence against him. The presumption of innocence can be taken away from him at any time; so can his right not to testify to avoid self-incrimination. If [he is] convicted, he can be sentenced to death. Who is he? According to the government, Salim Ahmed Hamdan is the former driver and bodyguard of Osama Bin Laden. He was captured by an Afghan militia in November 2001, during the U.S. invasion, and shipped off to Guantanamo Bay. In July 2003, the Bush administration brought charges against Hamdan, as it has done against only three others among the hundreds of suspected terrorists being held at Guantanamo. Hamdan was accused of conspiring to commit attacks on civilians, murder, and terrorism, and the Bush administration moved to try him before a special military tribunal. John Roberts has been the Washington, D.C., establishment choice to take her seat on the Supreme Court. As a member of a three-judge panel on the D.C. federal court of appeals, Roberts signed on to a blank-check grant of power to the Bush administration to try suspected terrorists without basic due-process protections.
The silver-spooned cowboy in the
Oval Office just presented a fine new saddle to the nuclear horseman of
the apocalypse. It was a gift worthy of hell. "President Bush agreed
yesterday to share civilian nuclear technology with India, reversing
decades of US policies designed to discourage countries from developing
nuclear weapons."
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