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05.07 YouthWorks Campaign Needs Support for Summer Jobs

04.14 The High Cost of School Violence

Books, Art & Entertainment

04.30 A Litany of Horrors

04.17 Peter Hallward's "Damming the Flood" (Part II)

04.14 Peter Hallward's "Damming the Flood" (Part I)

Letters

Ref. : Letters to the editor

Health & Environment

04.28 Green Scare State Terrorism

04.21 Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World

04.16 WORLD FACING HUGE NEW CHALLENGE ON FOOD FRONT

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Ref. : Environmental Health News

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Ref. : What is Global Warming, and what can citizens do about it?

Ref. : Global Warming Links

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Media Watching

05.06 US Media Trivializes Campaign 2008

05.06 Death's Factotum: Michael Gordon and the Times Pour Pentagon Poison into Nation's Ear

05.05 TV News Blackout on Pentagon Pundits

05.05 Color-Coded: Jeremiah Wright and the Real Deal on Race

05.02 The Right's America-Hating Preacher

04.23 Pentagon Pundits

04.22 US News Media's Latest Disgrace

04.18 ABC's Debate Debacle

04.16 Reprising the Genocidal Fury of Thomas Friedman

04.11 The Very Annoying Washington Post

04.10 BBC: Imperial Tool

US Politics, Policy & Culture

05.09 The Democratic Presidential Race: A View from Pennsylvania

05.08 Serving the System: Corporate Control of U.S. Would Continue Under Obama

05.06 A Republican for Barack

05.05 Thinking About Voter Registrations

05.05 'Beware the Terrible Simplifiers'

05.01 U.S. Military Coordinated Day Of Prayer Events With Christian Right Group

04.30 John McCain Won’t Be Looking for the Union Label

04.30 Put Him Out With the Pastor!

04.25 Clinton Courted Racists in the Pennsylvania Primary

04.24 Groundbreaking Book Documents Widespread Election Fraud; Warns Elections Vulnerable to Theft

04.24 Triviamongering in the U.S. presidential race

04.24 Campaign 1988 Lives!

04.23 Hillary Clinton's Monstrous Threat

04.21 Brilliant Disguise: Bush Torture, Obama and The Boss

04.19 The Clintons, Triangulating with China

04.18 American Hegemony Is Not Guaranteed

04.18 Are the Clintons Playing Joe McCarthy?

04.17 The Weather Underground 'Theme'

04.15 Political Log Rolling in Clinton Country

04.15 Clinton's Experience: Fact and Fancy

04.14 Bill and Hillary's 'Stockholm Syndrome'

04.14 Finding Voters “Bitter and Frustrated,” Obama is Sounding Like Nader

US “High Crimes” & Incompetence

05.09 Fallujah Revisited: Bush, Petraeus Prepare 'Cleansing' of Sadr City

05.09 Shoot, Kill, Lie, Repeat: America's New Moral Universe

05.07 Willing Executioners: America's Bipartisan Atrocity Deepens in Somalia

05.05 The Terror Master: Bush Orders Covert 'Surge' Against Iran, with Dem Support

05.01 American and Israeli War Crimes: Same Atrocities, Different Responses

04.30 Halliburton Bribe Case Haunts Cheney

04.29 Getting Over Scalia

04.29 The Iraq War Morphs Into The Iranian War

04.28 The Torture Election

04.28 The Clock is Ticking for A US Attack on Iran

04.28 The Bush Team's Geneva Hypocrisy

04.25 New Terror War Atrocity: Beheading the Innocent for Bush in Somalia

04.23 Glorious Fruits of the War for Civilization

04.22 VA Tried to Conceal Extent of Attempted Veteran Suicides, Email Shows

04.21 What About the War, Benedict?

04.18 Updating Sami Al-Arian - His Ordeal Continues

04.16 Would Obama Hold Bush Accountable?

04.15 Bush's Torture Quote Undercuts Denial

04.14 Too Much of Nothing: Crime Without Punishment, War Without End

04.11 Capital Crimes: Another Smoking Gun on Terror War Torture

04.10 Catch 2,200

04.10 Yoo's on First?

Economics & Business

05.08 Portrait of an Oil-Addicted Former Superpower

04.28 Thinking About Subtleties

04.23 The Oil Vice

04.22 The US Economy and the Costs of War

04.21 Thinking About Shakiness

04.15 Watching the Dollar Die

International

05.05 Sixty Years of Palestinian Displacement, Occupation and Suffering

05.02 Feeding Moloch: Last Barriers to War on Iran Come Down

05.01 The Iranian Chessboard

05.01 Blood Diamonds, Blood Oil and Blood Food

05.01 Denying Palestinians Free Movement in the West Bank

04.30 The Ignored Lessons on the Stupidity of War

04.24 Breaking the Silence - Israeli Soldiers Speak

04.23 What the Iraq War is about

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Acting Ambassador of Pakistan to U.S. To Speak in Baltimore on Thurs., May 15

Muhammad Aslam Khan, Deputy Chief of Mission and Acting Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, will address the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs on “United States-Pakistan Relations,” on Thursday, May 15, 2008, in the Constellation Room of the World Trade Center-Baltimore, 401 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland at 6:00 p.m.

Khan will address the complexities of Pakistan's efforts against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the strains within that nation's internal order, and the range of critical matters affecting Pakistan's relations with the United States.

Reservations are required. There is a $15.00 fee for Non-Members. Members are free of charge; and membership is open to the public. For membership and/or ticket information call (410) 727-2150, write to the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs, World Trade Center, 401 E. Pratt Street, Suite 1611, Baltimore, MD 21202, or e-mail bcfaprograms@verizon.com.

"Building a New World" Conference on May 22-25

In 2008 many of us understand that our nation - and even the entire planet - are in a state of crisis. The deep longing for positive, lasting change is the bedrock upon which this conference is based. How do we fix our country and our world? And how can we form one mass movement to address the crisis?

Topics to be discussed are cutting-edge, the the speaker lineup is sensational - Kathy Kelly, Michael Parenti, Cindy Sheehan, Lynne Stewart, Robert Jensen, David Swanson, Alice Lovelace, Father Roy Bourgeois, William Blum, and many others.

In Radford, Virginia on May 22-25, thousands of activists, academics, journalists, poets, musicians and policymakers will converge at the 2008 “Building a New World” Conference. If you want to participate in building a new world, sign up now. Hotel and dorm rooms are limited.

Casa Baltimore/Limay Presents Program on Electricity Deregulation Issues on Thurs., May 22

"Control of our public utilities, and how people can change it: The situation in Nicaragua and Maryland" is the topic of an educational program sponsored by Casa Baltimore/Limay on Thurs., May 22 at 7 p.m. at 2640 St. Paul St. (Red Emma's in the St. John's Church). Featured speakers are Maria Allwine, MD Coalition Against the BG&E Rate Hikes; and Tom Loudon, of the Quixote Center in Washington, DC.

Allwine is a local peace and justice activist with the MD Coalition Against the BG&E Rate Hikes, the Pledge of Resistance Baltimore, and the Maryland Universal Heathcare Action Network. She will speak about the work of the BGE Coalition, why deregulation happened in 1999 and why nothing has been done in the General Assembly to reverse it. She will also talk about the specifics of deregulation, how many other states are moving to re-regulation and what deregulation means for BGE’s residential ratepayers.

Loudon, who has worked with the Quixote Center, lived in Central America, including Nicaragua, for 15 of the last 20 years. He worked for two years with Witness for Peace and subsequently for base community organizations with alternative technologies. Most recently, he was Central American Regional Representative for American Friends Service Committee, coordinating regional advocacy programs from Nicaragua. The office commissioned/coordinated a series of studies on neo-liberal policy impacts, including formal studies on CAFTA’s potential impacts regionally, and in Nicaragua specifically. He will discuss the fights in Nicaragua against privatization, and the current state of affairs with the Sandinistas in the government around the issue of water, electricity, and other consumer rights.

Free; refreshments will be served.

Democracy Day on June 5th

On June 5th, FairVote, Common Cause and Liberty Tree will join together with hundreds of activists, organizational partners and a remarkable lineup of speakers at the Minneapolis Hilton Hotel for Democracy Day. Now is your time to register to Get Involved, Get Informed and Get Active with today's leaders in innovative electoral and democracy reform strategies.

  • See speakers, including the prolific novelist Walter Mosely (Devil in a Blue Dress), progressive journalist Amy Goodman, former Nirvana bassist and activist Krist Novoselic and many more.
  • Work with fellow democracy activists and reformers in strategic working groups on topics like Protecting the Vote in 2008, Instant Runoff Voting and Public Financing of Campaigns.
  • Meet with democracy leaders from around the region and the nation -- see what's happening in your own community and who is working to change the way each of us is represented and given a voice in the political process.
What is Democracy Day?

Scheduled the day before the National Conference on Media Reform featuring such speakers as Bill Moyers and Naomi Klein, Democracy Day is a major conference designed to build support among voting rights advocates, electoral reformers and movement organizations for a broader vision of democracy - one based on elections with universal and secure access to the polls, expanded ballot choices and public financing. Our programming will feature workshops on instant runoff voting, proportional representation and how to engage and empower Americans between elections. Lead organizers include FairVote, Common Cause, Liberty Tree, Public Campaign, FairVote Minnesota, Verified Voting and Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota.

Why Now?

We stand at an important moment in history where change is necessary - and within reach. We must run fair elections in 2008, yet look beyond the election for actions on structural reforms and grassroots engagement to truly preserve our democratic experiment and to continue to broaden and deepen our democratic foundations. For this necessary long-term victory, we must connect short-term strategies to medium and long-term reforms to make real the promise of democracy.

Democracy Day is an opportunity to map out a new road to a democratic future. It is an chance for all of us to articulate the case for short-term strategies around the 2008 election, but also put those strategies in a context of a real, sustainable, and proactive democracy movement. Democracy Day is a combination of high-profile speakers on our "main stage" and hands-on working groups for people ready to roll up their sleeves and work hard for real change.


Registration Ends May 30th. Space is Limited-Please Register Now. For great deals on lodging visit Free Press' Discounted Room Page.
Benefit for Alternative Directions on June 10

Alternative Directions, Inc., which helps women and men, both in prison and leaving prison, to become independent, responsible citizens, will benefit from a fundraiser on Tuesday, June 10, 2008, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm at the Douglass Myers Maritime Park, 1417 Thames St. in Fells Point. The event includes a silent auction, beer, wine, food and complimentary parking. Tickets are $50.

Honorees include Judge Brenda Murray, long-time activist for prisoners’ rights; Secretary Gary D. Maynard, MD Division of Public Safety and Correctional Services; Baltimore City State's Attorney Patricia Jessamy; Eleanor Lewis, initial member of board of directors 26 years ago; and Marc Steiner, host of the Marc Steiner Show on WYPR for over 14 years.

Also to be honored for their outstanding accomplishments will be five ADI clients: Lillian Dorsey, Stacy Miller, Yvette Stokes, Everett Walker, and WaShanna Washington.

For more information, email nsokoloff@jjay.cuny.edu or call 410–889–5072.


 

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