President Bush’s response to the introduction of a Spanish-language American national anthem:
“I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English…. One of the important things here is that we not lose our national soul.”
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At 10:24 a.m. on Tuesday, April 25, 2006, Saskatchewan Radio Talk Show host and media personality John Gormley said
Justin Podur
ZNet
On Thursday April 20, Hazel Hill, one of the Six Nations Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) leaders on the blockade at the Douglas Creek Estates near Caledonia, told me about her beating at the hands of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) hours before.
Nepalese have lost their fear of repression and are making a genuine, old-fashioned revolution
by Tariq Ali
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
The Guardian
What is taking place in Nepal is the culmination of decades of social, cultural and economic oppression.”
There is something refreshingly old-fashioned taking place in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal: a genuine revolution. In recognition of this, the US has told citizens except for “essential diplomats” to leave the country, usually a good sign. Since April 6, Nepal has been paralyzed by a general strike called by the political parties and backed by Maoist guerrillas. Hundreds of thousands are out on the streets - several have been shot dead and more than 200 wounded. A curfew is in force and the army has been given shoot-to-kill orders.
But the people have lost their fear and it is this that makes them invincible. If a single platoon refuses to obey orders, the Bastille will fall and the palace will be stormed. Another crowned head will fall very soon. A caretaker government will organize free elections to a constituent assembly, and this will determine the future shape of the country.
Work in the hustle and bustle of the now is central to the human experience, yet rarely do we sit back and think about how work has come to define our being. In an attempt to explore this notion we are challenging experienced and beginner poets to submit poetry that captures their worklife experiences. We
All Indian communities across Canada can be overwhelmed and bulldozed for developers from all over the world. They are being welcomed to come and take over stolen Indian land.
by Orakwa International Indigenous Ent.
April 21, 2006
(via Rabble.ca)
The Canadian government wants to send us a message that if we ever again lift our heads and demand our rights, they and their goons are coming after us with overwhelming military force. They want to show us they are the conquerors and we are the conquered. They want to tell us we have no rights and, even though we are in the right, they are taking our land and resources away from us anyway.
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The Suicide of Anthony Soltero
By ALAN MAASS
Counterpunch
April 12, 2006
School officials threatened to punish 14-year-old Anthony Soltero for standing up for immigrant rights. Now he’s dead as a result of their threats.
Anthony’s tragic suicide has shaken and saddened people around the country–but also made them more determined to continue the struggle for equality that he was a part of.
(a must-read…)
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Tuesday 11 April 2006
I had a debate with my boss last night about Sy Hersh’s terrifying New Yorker article describing Bush administration plans to attack Iran, potentially with nuclear weapons. After reading the Hersh piece, my boss was understandably worried, describing his reaction to the article in road-to-Damascus-revelation terms. They’re going to do this, he said.
by Andrew Gumbel and Andrew Buncombe
The Independent (UK)
The unprecedented wave of immigrants’ rights protests sweeping the United States reached a new high yesterday as an estimated two million people took to the streets in 140 different cities around the country –
