Revolution #51, June 18, 2006 The St. Bernard(pre-Katrina home to about 3,000 residents, overwhelmingly Black(is New Orleans’ largest public housing complex. The residents, who desperately want to reoccupy their homes, have been…
The Seattle Times on Bush’s Visit & Protests chanting “Drive Out the Bush Regime!”
From “Here for swanky fundraiser, Bush speaks from the heart”, The Seattle Times, 6/17/06: About 90 protesters gathered at an intersection in Medina along the path of the president’s motorcade. Some of…
The Seattle Times on Bush’s Visit & Protests chanting “Drive Out the Bush Regime!”
From “Here for swanky fundraiser, Bush speaks from the heart”, The Seattle Times, 6/17/06: About 90 protesters gathered at an intersection in Medina along the path of the president’s motorcade. Some of…
The Bogus Take Back America Conference
By Charles Sullivan, Information Clearing House, 6/16/06 A few weeks ago I received an invitation to attend the Take Back America conference held in the nation’s capital this week. It was a star-studded…
Marine sings about shooting child dead
The Times Online, UK, 6/15/06 A US corporal was forced to apologise for writing and singing a song to fellow Marines about him shooting dead an Iraqi child. A video of…
Arkansas bans gay couples from being foster parents
AP News, 6/15/06 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Lawyers for gay couples told the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday that a policy banning homosexuals from becoming foster parents is unconstitutional, but the state…
Enough Bush Crimes: Bring This to a Halt!
Statement from the World Can’t Wait National Steering Committee, 6/15/06 Haditha. Guantanamo. Unapologetic, illegal spying on a grand scale. “Shoot to kill” orders issued at black people on rooftops in New Orleans….
House Rejects Timetable for Iraq Pullout
NY Times, 6/16/06 WASHINGTON, June 16 ( The House of Representatives voted, 256 to 153, today in favor of a resolution promising to “complete the mission” in Iraq, prevail in the global…
Taunted and Jeered – Bolton Bolts from Oxford Protests
By MICHAEL CARMICHAEL, Counterpunch.org, 6/14/06 Facing an increasingly hostile group of law students in an Oxford seminar that had somehow gone dreadfully wrong, beads of sweat began to pop out on John…
US newspapers protest expulsion from Guantanamo
Yahoo News, 6/15/06 WASHINGTON (AFP) – Three US newspapers — the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald and the Charlotte Observer — protested the expulsion of their reporters from the US “war…