Stories from 2002-04-14
"A magnet for violence-scarred protests, international finance meetings are attracting thousands of demonstrators to Washington next weekend on issues ranging from the war against terrorism to the Mideast conflict." [more]
"A confluence of events ó part happenstance, part strategy ó- led several activist groups to link their plans, their people and their marches. Now, violence in the Middle East ó and U.S. support of Israel ó has moved to the forefront, yet still comfortably tucked under the anti-oppression umbrella." [more]
"The attacks of Sept. 11 demonstrate that the danger increases when people are left without hope and help in desperate situations in which they have nothing to lose." [more]
"As fiscally strapped governments cut funding for public services, privately funded Islamist schools, clinics, hospitals and welfare agencies filled the breach, lending credence to the Islamists' claim that 'Islam is the solution!' " [more]
"Bush's new rules allow military courts to sentence defendants to life in prison either with or without parole for serious crimes such as murder, rape and kidnapping. Previously, the courts could sentence those criminals to a life sentence with no determination of whether parole would be allowed." [more]
"The United States maintains a close alliance with the unsavory House of Saud ó which continues to fund schools that teach Islamist extremism and anti-Semitism ó because we need Saudi oil." [more]
"Jensen wrote a piece in which he urged Americans to confront some of the 'ugly truths' about their country's history of targeting civilians in war as a way to understand why some fundamentalists hate America. After a Texas newspaper published the column, more than 4,000 e-mails flooded in, many demanding he be fired and announcing intentions to stop donations to the school." [more]
"A terrible crime has been committed by Israel in Jenin refugee camp, and the world is turning a blind eye. Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, visited the scene of a suicide bombing that murdered six Israelis in Jerusalem, but he did not visit Jenin, where the Israelis admit they killed at least 100 Palestinians. The Israel army claims all of the dead were armed men, that it took special care to avoid civilian casualties. But we saw the helicopter rockets rain down on desperately crowded areas: civilian casualties could not have been prevented." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more]
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