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No one has the right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do. Dorothy Day
Coltan vs King
Kong
InterAct has been working with Senator Allard's office to introduce a bill Suspending the Sale and Use of Depleted Uranium in Munitions. Learn more about this bill and Depleted Uranium. When American Intangibles Do Not Save Afghan lives Commentary By Mohammed Daud Miraki PhD, MA, MA Find out who holds patents related to Depleted Uranium
The person who says it cannot be done should
not interrupt the person
doing it.
Chinese proverb InterAct’s 5 Minutes to Make a Difference
Taco Bell has been urged by dozens of groups to
do something about the abuses of the growers and labor contractors it does
business with. But they have made it clear they don't care if their food
is made with slave labor.
When asked in a radio interview whether Taco Bell could guarantee that there was no slavery behind their tomatoes, the best answer a company spokesperson could muster was that "slavery was abolished years ago in this country... in case you didn't know."
Fire Rumsfeld and Change Course What’s your reaction to InterAct, our stories or our letters? Contact us and we’ll print your comments, like those of … Shelly N - regarding Bush's broken AIDS promises in Africa President Bush Shortchanges Funding for His Own Emergency AIDS Program Yes, without
a doubt my duty is to serve my country despite her faults. I have learned I
will not be able to get education and training services while I am here and
I am accepting that. I am here to serve out of obligation and duty. What I'm
wondering is if there are any checks and balances for those who are making
decisions here? Sergeant Leanne Duffy, An excerpt from With no plan apparent, GIs in Iraq slowly becoming frantic Editorials: Notable and Newsworthy There's Good Reason to Fear U.S. by Noam Chomsky New York, You’ve Been Used by William Rivers Pitt This war on terrorism is bogus by Michael Meacher The Disturbing Reality of Sweatshops by Pablo Ortellado Coke: Hazardous Even Without Pesticides by Vandana Shiva The War Abroad - and at Home by Anthony Arnove Three Easy Pieces for Any Decent American by Michael Moore Wounded in Iraq, deserted at home by Bill Berkowitz Bush Resignation Hailed by World Leaders by Greg Palast
But as the months passed,
something about the public response to Jim's death did not sit well with me.
While the humanity of the 9/11 victims - their names, faces and stories -
became better and better known, our society seemed to care less and less
about the traditions, histories and humanity of other innocent victims. David Potorti in Mourner's Morning responding to the US retaliation of his brother's and all 9/11 victims' deaths.
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by Jodie Hemerda
Because my country has sold its soul to corporate power Because consumerism has become our national religion Because we've forgotten the true meaning of freedom And because patriotism now means agreeing with the president I pledge to do my duty . . . and take my country back.
As soldiers serving in Iraq, we have
been told that our purpose here is to help the people of Iraq by providing
them the necessary assistance militarily as well as in humanitarian
efforts. Then tell me where the humanity was in the recent Stars and
Stripes account of two children taken to a U.S. military camp by their
mother, in search of medical care. The children had been unknowingly
playing with explosive ordnance they had found and as a result were
severely burned. The account tells how they, after an hourlong wait, were
denied care by two U.S. military doctors. A soldier described
the incident as one of many "atrocities"
he had witnessed on the part of the U.S. military.
Tim Predmore in Paths of Glory Lead to a Soldier's Doubt, An American carrying out his duty in Iraq wonders aloud why he's there.
An Audio Postcard from Those who accept elementary moral standards have some work to do to show that the United States and Britain were justified in bombing Afghans to compel them to turn over people suspected of criminal atrocities, the official reason given when the bombings began.
Noam Chomsky Iraq -Rumsfeld claims "I don't believe it's our job to reconstruct that country after 30 years of centralized, Stalinist-like economic controls in that country"; Arab stations in Iraq face curbs; US grenades lack safety device of other countries; 2 Iraqi Boys, Injured, Tell of a Jet Attack in the Night Guantanamo - Families of Guantanamo Bay prisoners launch US Supreme Court appeal; The US military detains another of its Guantanamo Bay soldiers Civil Liberties - Anti-War U.S. Marine Sentenced to Six Months in Jail ; Fear as Human Shield Faces Jail War On Terror - Relatives of 9/11 victims march in opposition to US war policies; As Factory Jobs Disappear, Workers Have Few Options
This logic represents a
fundamental challenge to the principles on which, however imperfectly,
world peace and stability have rested for the last fifty-eight years ...
if it were to be adopted, it could set precedents that resulted in a
proliferation of the unilateral and lawless use of force, with or without
justification.
Kofi Annan responding to the illogic of pre-emptive, unilateral aggression; an excerpt from Annan Trounces Bush at UN by Ian Williams
Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.
George Herbert Walker Bush, 1999
An excerpt from
The Most
Insidious of Traitors
This unprecedented use of
criminal restitution threatens to chill speech and political participation
Civil liberties advocates responding to Lockheed Martin suing nonviolent protesters for $15,000. Amnesty shares that, "After tremendous pressure from thousands of activists in the US, Guatemala and around the world, and from governments who joined in our calls to action, on September 24, 2003 the Guatemalan Congress passed a law to abolish the EMP (Estado Mayor Presidencial or Presidential Guard)."
The infrastructure of [Iraq]
was not terribly damaged by the war at all.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Bush Administration Spends Week Retracting Assertions about Saddam's Threat to the U.S. The Bush administration this week backed away from three major rationales for going to war in Iraq last March, undermining its assertions that Hussein's Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States and its allies.
A desperate five-month search by a team of
1,400 U. S. investigators reportedly has failed to find any new physical
evidence of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons in Iraq, despite
President Bush's continuing insistence the weapons not only existed but
posed an imminent threat to the United States.
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