Bob Morris @ Dec 9th 2002 21:40 - Category: Unfiled ;
Goodall goes ape for Sasquatch!.
“World-renowned primate expert Dr. Jane Goodall said in a recent NPR Science Friday interview that she believes in “undiscovered” primates like Bigfoot. Now that’s a pretty damn good celebrity endorsement!”
Bob Morris @ Dec 9th 2002 11:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Nepal schools set for shutdown.
Thousands of schools in Nepal are expected to heed a call by Maoist students to close this week, in support of demands for educational reforms.
Revolutionaries can only exist when a) there is something to rebel against and b) they have the support of at least some of the populace. It’s clear the Maoist insurgents in Nepal enjoy such support.
Bob Morris @ Dec 9th 2002 10:37 - Category: Unfiled ;
Raised by radicals, now a Rhodes scholar
Chesa Boudin, a 22-year-old Yale senior and activist who speaks widely on the problems of children with incarcerated parents, was among the 32 American college students selected Sunday for Rhodes scholarships.
Chesa Boudin is a second-generation activist; his mother is a former leader of the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground. She and his father, David Gilbert, are in prison for their roles in a 1981 armored car robbery in New York that left a security guard and two police officers dead.
Since his parents’ arrests, Boudin has become part of the family of two other former Weathermen, Bill Ayers, now an education professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and Bernadine Dohrn, director of the Legal Clinic’s Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University.
Boudin often is invited to speak at conferences, to prison officials and other groups as an advocate for children whose parents are imprisoned. He also is member of Yale Coalition for Peace, helping organize protests against military action in Iraq. He hopes to pursue a career fighting for human rights and social justice issues in developing countries in Latin America.
“I feel very lucky to have grown up in a household where people care, where people are interested in the way that our system works,” Boudin said.
Bob Morris @ Dec 9th 2002 00:13 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ Dec 9th 2002 00:11 - Category: Unfiled ;
La Cucaracha just became the first Latino-themed political syndicated daily comic strip! By Lalo Alcaraz, it has been appearing for years in various L.A. publications, so it’s nice to see it go nationwide.
Bob Morris @ Dec 9th 2002 00:06 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Venezuela;
Why are the Venezula coup plotters so impatient?
and how Venezuela can defeat them legally
Under the Venezuela constitution, President Chavez can legally be recalled in a referendum in Aug 2003. So why are the anti-Chavez forces pushing so hard now to remove quickly?
From NarcoNews, translated from Rebelion.org
1) Since the April 11th coup d’etat, which was their maximum point of power, the conspirators have been weakened in two key ways. A. They have lost internal unity and fight among themselves for power, and, more importantly, B. They have lost a fundamental part of their social base in the middle classes.
2) Various important laws that come into effect on January 1, 2003, that touch vital interests of the economic elite: Among them, the Land Law that affects not just the large plantation owners in the country but also real estate speculators and vacant lots in urban zones. The Hydrocarbon law is even more important because it will permit the dismantling of the meta-State of the petroleum business PdVSA, the corrupt oil group that controls the economic life of the country.
3) Their doubts about being able to win a recall referendum.
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Bob Morris @ Dec 9th 2002 00:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
Boston Cardinal probably toast and damn well should be
Cardinal “I ignore the” Law of Boston has suddenly left for Rome on an “unscheduled trip” after court-ordered personnel files showed he had full knowlege of and did nothing about pedo / predator priests. Even parish priests in Boston are calling for his resignation.
The documents revealed one priest was assigned to two parishes despite his record of molesting boys, another molested young girls while telling them he was the living embodiment of Jesus Christ and a third fathered two children and did not immediately call for help when their mother overdosed.
And oh yeah, one priest got nicknamed “Pastor Pothead” because he was selling drugs to teenagers.
Damn, first Kissinger gets appointed to head a truth-seeking commission about 9/11, now this.
It’s getting increasingly difficult to do satire with headlines like this.
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