April 25, 2008 – 11:36 am
As a person who works in the maritime industry, which is pretty conservative, this is cool*:
THE ILWU West Coast longshore workers have voted to “stop work to protest the US war and occupation on Iraq and Afghanistan on May Day 2008,” the ILWU said. All 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast are to be [...]
Good article over at OpEd News about the state of our country. An analogy of our current state of affairs comes to mind of the spouse (i.e. we Americans) who refuses to acknowledge that his/her mate is unfaithful (i.e. our government’s illegal and immoral Iraq occupation and the lies supporting the occupation). The [...]
December 13, 2007 – 11:43 am
Sometimes to find hope for the future we have to look to the past. In the excellent book Jewish Travellers, you can read the travelogue of Rabbi Benjamin ben Jonah of Tudela in Navarre, the most famous of Jewish travellers in the late Middle Ages. He finished the travels he describes in 1173:
[The [...]
November 21, 2007 – 9:53 am
This year, I’m most grateful for the successful treatment of my father-in-law’s prostate cancer, which caught us all by surprise back in February when an x-ray to diagnose L.’s hip pain revealed what his annual PSA tests had not. (Some of the rarer and more aggressive forms of prostate cancer do not raise the PSA [...]
November 13, 2007 – 3:54 pm
Thanks to Marion Ward for pointing this video out about some veterans being prevented from marching in the Boston parade and their subsequent arrest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YnwXHBxD9s
Marion also just pointed out this video of Olympia port protesters stopping another military cargo truck this morning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM2tNL_roBY
These videos make me proud to be an American.
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November 4, 2007 – 5:59 pm
The Columbian has a piece today on some of the praiseworthy people that have been participating in sign waving for peace and justice every Thursday afternoon for several years now on the corners in front of the main library. There is also a video of them to the right of the article.
A big shout [...]
October 29, 2007 – 11:42 am
Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaking on CNN on Iran’s nuclear program, yesterday:
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[W]e are not talking about Iran having today a nuclear weapon. We are trying to make sure that the future intention of Iran is peaceful, and that’s really what we are talking about. Risk assessment of possible future [...]
October 26, 2007 – 5:22 am
Pay attention to the last few seconds of audio in this 1 minute video. “How are you” “yah” “It’s great to see you” “Thank you”. People being dragged from the room is just business as usual. Reminds me of “So why should I waste my beautiful [...]
October 9, 2007 – 11:10 am
From Chevron Protester:
We will be holding the CHEVRON PROTEST through FAX and PHONE calls on TUESDAY October 9th from 1:00pm-3:00pm Pacific Time (4:00pm-6:00pm Eastern / 8:00pm-10pm GMT).
* Chevron pays millions of dollars in oil and gas royalties to the current military junta. We will demand that they put these royalties in escrow for the legitimate, [...]
October 5, 2007 – 7:35 am
[ October 6, 2007; 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] While this isn’t a Vancouver area event, I thought it warranted our attention and support:
“Hammerskin Nation” Racists Will Meet with Opposition:People from All Backgrounds Unite Against White Supremacist Organizations Portland, Oregon
The Hammerskin Nation, a neo-Nazi skinhead organization, aims to attract hundreds of hardcore racists to the group’s twentieth-anniversary celebration, to be held October 5 [...]
October 1, 2007 – 2:14 pm
Unlike most white folks from the South, Burma has been a part of my consciousness since I was in kindergarten.
My education began in the first kindergarten class of a new, progressive-minded Episcopal school. St. Stephens back then was tiny: fewer than 200 students in 13 grades, and six of those students were Newhalls.
And two [...]
September 10, 2007 – 5:15 pm
Open Left, Glenn Greenwald and Firedoglake have put together an action campaign called Stop the DC Establishment at http://stopthedcestablishment.com.
This video lays out quite succinctly why statements by Gen. Patraeus do not have much (if any) credibility, given his prior grossly inaccurate assessments about “progress” in Iraq.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lz-PxpPGXo
You can sign the petition here.
Do not be deceived about [...]
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