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22 November 2004
Volume 1, Issue 16
Telling the Truth....
Conscience and Consequence: A Prison Memoir
By Clare Hanrahan
Asheville, NC
I am singing for courage as I walk toward the entrance gate to Alderson
Federal Prison. My friends Charlie, Kathleen, and Willie are singing
with me. "We're gonna keep on walking forward, never turning
back." The familiar refrain bolsters my courage to pick up
the phone at the gate, dial 313, and announce myself: "I'm
Clare Hanrahan - I'm here to surrender." Continue
Reading
50 to 1 and No More!
Lee Aiken
Washington, DC
Twenty-five to thirty years ago, the top CEOs (Chief Executive Officers
of corporations) earned a generous fifty times the salary of the
lowest wage earners in their companies. Internationally, when the
average US CEO earned $800,000, top European CEOs earned about $500,000,
and in Japan only $300,000. Wage inflation for top CEOs to the current
ratios of from 250 to 400 to one, is an outrage against the American
people.Continue
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Forget the Democrats, Build the Mass Movements!
By Roy Rollin
Staten Island, NY
In the aftermath of the elections, much of the mainstream left remains
in a state of despair or disbelief over Bush's victory. Many are
hoping against hope that some scandal of epic proportions will emerge
out of Ohio. Others contemplate packing their bags and moving to
Canada. Not a few of the liberal literati have taken to writing
off most of America's population as a bunch of religious rednecks
who got the government they deserved by not heeding their enlightened
advice on who to vote for. However, the real tragedy was not the
defeat of pro-war and pro-globalization John Kerry, but the demobilization
and demoralization of the anti-war and global justice movements
that the liberal left's perspective of Anybody But Bush was predicated
upon. Continue
Reading
From Florida to Falluja: What the News Coverage
Covers Up
By Danny Schechter
New York, NY
One minute, we are still debating election returns in Ohio and Florida.
And then, in a flash, the story largely disappears and the subject
changes. Quickly, we have moved on as the news media converges on
Fallujah to report on, and in the view of many, support what may
be the bloodiest chapter to date of the Iraq war. Media coverage
lurches from event to event, and from spectacle to spectacle as
a substance deficit disorder hyperactively drives the news agenda.
No sooner are we focused on one major story, than another intrudes
to change the subject and insures that there is no time for follow-up,
much less thoughtful processing. Continue
Reading
Being "Over There:" Location,
Location, Location
By Colonal Daniel Smith, USA (ret.)
A detailed analysis about the recent changes in locations of American
military bases in relation to the current oil wars and empirical
expansion of the United States. A history of such motivations for
war and containment is given to assist the reader in understanding
the current situation. Continue
Reading
Backtalk....
The Scope of the Disaster
RE: Election Fraud and Emmigration/Immigration Resources
(#15)
By Brandon Batzloff
Editor, Free Voices
As promised in the last issue, here is an extension to the list
of resources. New developments in many of the organizations originally
listed warrent further research. Continue
Reading
Talking About....
Lockdown
Conscience and Consequence: A Prison Memoir
Review by Betty Sisk Swain
Lake Junaluska, NC
A generation ago a frequent conversational reference point was "Where
were you when you heard the news of President Kennedy’s assassination?"
Nowadays, this generation’s common collective memory is embedded
in "Where were you on 9/11?" Clare Hanrahan was in lockdown
in Alderson Federal Prison, a minimum security facility for women
located in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains in southeast
West Virginia. Continue
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Last Word....
My how things have changed in the short time since the election!
Energy seems to be building everywhere. People are ready to express
themselves and demand what they know is right. As things change
for you, let us know! Free Voices will keep you up to date on the
swelling cutlural change taking place all around.
peace love victory.
Brandon Batzloff
Director, Free Voices
freevoices@lycos.com
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