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19 January 2005
Volume 2, Issue 2
Made possible by Contributions from our sponsors:
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Denver, Co
Telling the Truth....
SilentProtest Launches Website to Coincide with George Bush Inauguration
www.silentprotest.org
Boulder, CO
A new trend has started among antiwar activists throughout the country. Black silent protest bracelets are being distributed to raise money for worthy causes related to the war. SILENTPROTESTô is a charitable organization founded to maintain the momentum of political awareness and participation which has been elevated to historic new levels throughout the 2004 campaign season and, to continue to encourage such participation through the approaching 2006 midterm and 2008 presidential elections. Continue Reading
"I Will Continue to Speak Out Until the Last Soldiers Leave Iraq:" Interview With Antiwar Veteran of the Iraq War
Patrick Resta, Specialist/E4 Interviewed by Derek Seidman
Providence, RI
Patrick Resta, Specialist/E4, served as an Army medic in Iraq with the 30th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division. He was stationed in Iraq for eight months in 2004, returning home just about two months ago. He has recently begun speaking out against the war and occupation, and he is involved with Iraq Veterans Against the War. Left Hook's Derek Seidman was recently able to catch up with Patrick Resta to ask him some questions about his experiences in Iraq, his reasons for making vocal his opposition to the war and occupation, his current activism, and his thoughts on several other topics. Continue Reading
Crying Art....
The Garbage Ring: Jakarta Indonesia
By Jonathan McIntosh
Boston, MA
A few words on poverty. Real poverty means not having access to the essentials vital for life. Real poverty means not having community control over the basics that provide livelihood. Real poverty means deprivation from your water, your soil, your seed, your land, your food, your shelter, your education, your healthcare and your environment. These human necessities are being ripped from the hands of local people and turned over to transnational corporations for profit through privatization with the help of the IMF, WTO and World Bank. In their wake, these tyrannical institutions are leaving the majority of the world's populations devastated and enveloped in cultural, spiritual, and psychological poverty. This real poverty can not therefore be measured on the "dollars per day" index. Real poverty doesn't just happen, it is artificially created by a system of callous greed. It can be stopped, but only by removing the organizations that implement corporate globalization and by giving the essentials of life back to the people from whom it has been stolen. Ideas few dare even to whisper in the world of so-called "international development". Continue Reading
Talking About....
Bright Shining Things
By Darryl Clark
Rochester, NY
If Tiffany and Company produced films; they would make films like Being Julia. This film is a delectable little bauble, and, within it, like a marquise-cut diamond, is Annette Bening giving a delicious, witty, sparkling performance that actresses are not called upon to give these days. Being Julia is set in the early 1930s and centers on Julia Lambert, a 45-ish actress tailing away in stodgy British melodramas. Continue Reading
An Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire
By Arundhati Roy
Review by Peter Reed
Portland, OR
In her new book "An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire" Arundhati Roy lay's out the rudiments of a world under the thumb of the American Empire with strength, Intelligence, and clarity. She expresses informatively the anger and the sadness of the new world order, tackling issues of war, neo-liberalism, racism, and corporate media. Yet through all the violence, poverty, and stringent control of everything from self __expression to water, Roy maintains a belief in the potential of grass roots resistance to change the world. Continue Reading
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