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Bob Morris @ Jun 3rd 2004 12:21 - Category: Unfiled ;
Archive for June 3rd, 2004
Danny Glover to speak at…
Bob Morris @ Jun 3rd 2004 00:14 - Category: Unfiled ;
Danny Glover to speak at LA antiwar rally Sat June 5
Just confirmed! Danny Glover will speak at and help mc the main rally. Speakers now include
Danny Glover
Actor, activist
Fernando Suarez
His son Jesus was one of the first US soldiers killed in the Iraq invasion. He has become a tireless and eloquent peace activist.
Ron Kovic
“Born on the Fourth of July”, Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
John Duran
Mayor of West Hollywood. West Hollywood was the first city to pass a resolution opposing the war. He sponsored and wrote the resolution.
Military Families Speak Out
“An organization of people who are opposed to war in Iraq and who have relatives or loved ones in the military.”
I’ve helped organize, what, 10 such rallies in LA these past few years, and this looks to be the best lineup yet. Music and spoken word too.
Kerry Getz
The Believers
Wil B.
Korean drummers and spoken word
Filipino spoken word
You can check in anytime…
Bob Morris @ Jun 3rd 2004 00:10 - Category: Unfiled ;
You can check in anytime you want, but you can never leave
The U.S. Army has issued an order preventing thousands of soldiers designated for duty in Iraq or Afghanistan from leaving the military even when their volunteer service commitment expires, officials said on Wednesday.
Farenheit 9/11 trailer online now
Bob Morris @ Jun 3rd 2004 00:09 - Category: Unfiled ;
Enron manufactured California power crisis
Bob Morris @ Jun 3rd 2004 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
Enron manufactured California power crisis
From Kos
Bush and Arnold’s buddies at Enron fucked California. Their word, not mine.
“Four years after California’s disastrous experiment with energy deregulation, Enron energy traders can be heard - on audiotapes obtained by CBS News - gloating and praising each other as they helped bring on, and cash-in on, the Western power crisis.
“He just fucks California,” says one Enron employee. “He steals money from California to the tune of about a million.”
“Will you rephrase that?” asks a second employee.
“OK, he, um, he arbitrages the California market to the tune of a million bucks or two a day,” replies the first.”
These greedheads need to be in prison. All of them. And after Bush loses, maybe they will be…
PS Bush just hired a lawyer over the CIA leak. When presidents hire lawyers, things are getting dicey for them. “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown?”
Where the tortures at Abu…
Bob Morris @ Jun 3rd 2004 00:06 - Category: Unfiled ;
Where the tortures at Abu Gharib came from
From Democracy Now
One man ran a prison system in Utah where a 29-year-old schizophrenic died after he was stripped naked and strapped to a restraining chair for 16 hours.
Another man ran the system in Arizona where 14 women were raped, sodomized or assaulted by prison guards.
Another ran Connecticut’s prison system where at least two people died after being severely beaten.
All of the men who ran these prison systems were forced out by lawsuits or political controversy. But rather than being sent to prison themselves, these men were sent to Iraq by the US government to set up the prisons there. Actually, one prison - Abu Ghraib.
Veteran activist Tom Hayden has a new book, Street Wars: Gangs and the Future of Violence, which deals in part with how the US is exporting gang violence to El Salvador and Honduras via deportations and by using thuggish tactics inspired by Rudy Guiliani.
In first-ever interviews, representatives of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS) gang in Honduras this week described how security forces were to blame for the May 17 prison fire that killed 105 of those they call their homeboys. In addition to starting the fire, police and prison guards allegedly kept the facility’s gates locked for over an hour while trapped inmates were burnt alive or died from smoke inhalation.
Human rights observers, children’s advocates, and MS members say the tragedy is a direct consequence of Honduras’ mano dura (strong fist) policies. These policies employ suppression tactics based on New York City’s “zero tolerance” police strategies of the ’90s, and were instituted on the advice of the Manhattan Institute think-tank and the Giuliani Group, which have exported the New York model to Latin America.
A great 404 message
Bob Morris @ Jun 3rd 2004 00:04 - Category: Unfiled ;
