ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — Protesters repeatedly interrupted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld during a speech Thursday, and one man, a former CIA analyst, accused him of lying about Iraq prewar intelligence in…
Category: Press Coverage
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT
Cleveland Free Times, 5/3/06 Carol Fisher, a longtime peace activist and a volunteer at the local communist bookstore Revolution Books, has been found guilty. The 53-year-old, 5-foot-4, 130-pounder will be sentenced June…
Cleveland Plain Dealer on Carol Fisher’s Guilty Verdict
Activist tells supporters she will refuse test, go to jail Sunday, April 30, 2006 Michael Sangiacomo, Plain Dealer Reporter Activist Carolyn Fisher finds it interesting that a judge believes anyone who would…
Immigration groups promote citywide march
San Antonio Express-News, 4/6/06, Excerpt: Leaticia Hernandez, 23, with bright pink hair, spoke passionately against House Bill 4437, which if passed would seal off nearly the entire length of the Arizona-Mexico border,…
From San Francisco Bay Times
BattleCry Fundies Invade The City. So What? By Dennis McMillan, Published: March 30, 2006 Demonstrator Phil Nickerson showed the invaders exactly what he thought of their little event. Photo by Rink City…
FOX’s “O’Reilly Factor” Features Debate Between World Can’t Wait and “Battle Cry”
On Monday night, March 27, on national TV (Fox’s ‘O’Reilly Factor’), World Can’t Wait (worldcantwait.org) advisory board member Sunsara Taylor debated Ron Luce, the middle-aged head of “Battle Cry,” a Christian fundamentalist…
Christian revivalists and counter-demonstrators both warn of cultural terrorism
San Francisco Sentinel, 3/24/06 Christian revivalists strode birthplace of same sex marriage Friday returning hymns to LGBT counter-demonstration go-home chants. [read more]
Cleveland Sun Press on Trial of World Can’t Wait Activist
Fisher case on “fast track’ to trial Thursday, March 16, 2006 By Jeff Sikorovsky The Sun Press CLEVELAND _ The trial for Carol Fisher, the political activist accused of assaulting two Cleveland…
NY Times on military mom Elaine Brower’s protests against the war
“The Quest”, NY Times By SUZANNE DeCHILLO Published: March 22, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/22/nyregion/22lens.html?_r=1&oref=slogin “I support the war,” says James Brower, a 24-year-old corporal in the Marine Corps. “I am a marine. You…
Cleveland Plain Dealer Report on Bush Protest
Bush speech here draws 300 protesters Tuesday, March 21, 2006 Michael Sangiacomo, Plain Dealer Reporter As President Bush addressed the City Club in the Renaissance Hotel on Monday, about 300 people stood…