By ROBERT L. JAMIESON Jr., Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 8/3/06 Writer Gore Vidal is spot on when he says we live in the United States of Amnesia. People are not attuned to the lessons…
Category: Press Coverage
Mass resistance
San Francisco Chronicle, 9/29/06 Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg, “The Color Purple” author Alice Walker, poet Elmaz Abinader and the Coup’s Boots Riley top the list of speakers at “An Evening of…
Rally Group Prepares to Stop Bush
The New Paltz Oracle, 10/1/06By Jena Leibowitz, Staff Writer “Drive out the Bush regime,” was the slogan of the night at worldcantwait.org’s Sept. 19 meeting. Their main focus of the night was…
Student group sponsors anti-war events Thursday
Western Michigan University News, Sept. 29, 2006 KALAMAZOO–Scott Ritter, former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq, will talk about his new book, “Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for…
Her hunger for peace
The Seattle Times, By Nicole Brodeur, 10/1/06 Patricia Brooks can’t talk very long without her mouth going dry. I listen while she sips water and explains why she hasn’t eaten since Sept….
Anti-Bush group in court for march route
The Chicago Tribune, 9/30/06By Emma Graves Fitzsimmons A judge in Chicago is expected to rule early next week on a dispute between the city and a group planning a downtown march in…
Peace vigil is set for Capitol
By Brad Shannon, THE OLYMPIAN, 9/30/06 OLYMPIA – Activists wanting to protest President Bush’s policies plan a “full moon peace vigil” at the state Capitol next week, coinciding with protests in 100…
Rabbi Michael Lerner & Travis Morales interviewed on Pacifica radio about Oct. 5
Interview about Oct. 5 protests from WPFW Pacifica radio in Washington DC, September 27, 11am, with Travis Morales (World Can’t Wait organizer in DC) and Rabbi Michael Lerner (editor of TIKKUN Magazine…
Priest Arrested During Anti-Bush Protest Says He Was Doing His Job
From NY1 News, 9/20/06: Watch the video: A priest arrested in one of Tuesday’s anti-Bush protests says he was simply doing his job. Father Luis Barrios was arrested and charged with assault,…
Activists Re-enact Photo to Protest Prisoners” Treatment
From The Daily Californian, 9/20/06 Article by Brian Whitley, photo by David Belford Few walking past Boalt Hall yesterday could avoid noticing the man wearing a black hood and clutching an…