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April 17th, 2005
Social Justice

Akha Journal. US State Dept Terrorizes Family of Dissident

Message: 1
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:00:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: eco man
Subject: [Needtoknow] Re; Akha Journal. US State Dept Terrorizes
Family of Dissident
To: needtoknow@green-rainbow.org, greenpartydrugsgroup@gn.apc.org
Message-ID: <20050416200040.4258.qmail@web32006.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Please forward widely. Matthew McDaniel was in Thailand many years until a year ago
when […]

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April 12th, 2005
Queer, Social Justice

Fascinating story about Emile Griffth, a boxer, subject of the film Ring of Fire

The Shadow Boxer
Emile Griffith beat Benny (Kid) Paret to death in the ring after Paret called him queer. That was 43 years ago. He’s still struggling to come to grips with it. So are we
It was silent in the backseat of the car. The old boxer had just left the gay bar outside of which […]

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March 30th, 2005
Social Justice

Here’s a statistic for you…

From the www.RadioInsideScoop.com update list… Dr. Young was a guest on their March 28th, 2005 show.
Universal Health Care?
Guest: Dr. Quentin Young, Chair of the Department of Medicine at Chicago’s Cook County Hospital and National Coordinator of Physicians for National Health Program
According to Dr. Young: “It is stunning how little regard this president has for
human […]

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March 30th, 2005
Social Justice

New Survival Show

Have you heard about the next planned “Survivor” show? See if Trump could
handle this one!
Three businessmen and three businesswomen will be dropped into an
elementary school classroom for 6 weeks. Each businessperson will be
provided with a copy of his/her school district’s curriculum, and a class
of 28 students.
Each class will have five learning-disabled children, three with
A.D.D., […]

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March 19th, 2005
Social Justice

Proposed amendments to panhandling laws.

[The item below seems radical, until you realize that this the exact opposite is the current situation, and that if you turn this around and apply this to actions by homeless folk, this is exactly how they are treated. … if the well off had to put up with the presumptive justice that poor homeless […]

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February 20th, 2005
Social Justice

FOCUS: Tom Engelhardt | In the Zone with G.I. Joe
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/122004V.shtml
Fascinating stuff. Spot on. The emergence of “corporate consumer culture” really is the story of the 20th century… and our politics have yet to really come to grips with this. We’ve yet to create a widely understood and agreed upon vocabulary with which to discuss and […]

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January 21st, 2005
Social Justice

Garbage to You

[Goddamn -long string of expletives deleted- son of a… what the HELL where they THINKING? Argh. Just want I wanted to read on my birthday. I bet you probably don’t want to read it. You should though. Even though you’ll be in a lousy mood afterwards. Sigh. -Thomas]
Garbage to You […]

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August 20th, 2004
Social Justice

40 years…

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/20/wrongful.conviction.ap/index.html
Wrongfully convicted man free after 40 years behind bars
Friday, August 20, 2004 Posted: 11:45 AM EDT (1545 GMT)
LUFKIN, Texas (AP) — A 76-year-old man who spent nearly every day of the last four decades in prison walked free after a judge found that deputies extracted his confession to a 1962 robbery by crushing his fingers […]

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August 13th, 2004
Social Justice

U.S. Prison population explodes after requested research ignored.

Fred Nold’s Legacy
Why We Send So Many Americans to Prison and Probably Shouldn’t
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040812.html
By Robert X. Cringely
The interface between science and public policy is awkward at best.
Scientists and academics need money for research, while politicians need
research to build better weapons and sometimes to justify intended policy
changes. But what happens if you look for scientific support for […]

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July 17th, 2004
Social Justice

N.Y. woman gets 6 months in jail for ‘obnoxious’ activism

[Country is going to hell in a handbasket. -Thomas]
N.Y. woman gets 6 months in jail for ‘obnoxious’ activismElena Sassower couldn’t bring herself to say, “I’m sorry, I was wrong.” Convicted of disrupting Congress, the judicial activist from New York refused to accept probation with conditions imposed by the judge that she believed were onerous and […]

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June 30th, 2004
Progressive Issues, Social Justice

Million Worker March

Statement by the Organizing Committee of the Million
Worker March on Washington in Reply to Letter from AFL-CIO
National Field Mobilization Director Marilyn G. Sneiderman
MILLION WORKER MARCH ON WASHINGTON
ILWU Local 10 Attention: Clarence Thomas 400 North Point
Street San Francisco, CA 94133 www.millionworkermarch.org
On June 23, 2004, at the behest of John Sweeney and the
leadership of the AFL-CIO, Marilyn […]

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June 22nd, 2004
Social Justice

Rep. Sam Farr, D-17/Santa Cruz, defends comments re: “open shop” vs. “union shop”

My original letter, auto-generated by ProgressiveSecretary.Org:
Note: This letter supports a campaign of the AFL-CIO Working Families
e-Activist “Union Voice”. It goes to Congress.
From: Thomas Leavitt

To: Senator Barbara Boxer
Subject: Protect workers’ rights
Dear Congressman Farr:
It has become increasingly difficult for American workers to form and join unions. It […]

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June 17th, 2004
Social Justice

A recent site created by my wife Gunilla for a client: BushRat.org

http://www.bushrat.org/
This might amuse some of you.

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June 17th, 2004
Social Justice

A Must See Movie: The Agronomist

Why, oh why, oh why are the friggin’ movie studios so obsessed with using Flash for their web sites? It is just annoying.
But, that said, you still need to go see The Agronomist.
Here’s the synopsis:
From Academy-Award winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme, THE AGRONOMIST tells the story of Haitian national hero, journalist, and freedom fighter Jean Dominique, […]

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