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8 June 2006
Volume 3, Issue 5

Free Voices
eZine of the People

 

Shout the Truth....

We Will Not Go Silently: The Death of the First Amendment
Brandon Batzloff
Free Voices Editor

The corporate media have never been particularly good at exposing government corruption and have often been active participants in the suppression of information. Now we are seeing that when journalists and news agencies actually do their jobs correctly, they are in danger of arrest and prosecution by the federal government. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has made it clear that any utterance of the truth about crimes perpetrated by the government will not be tolerated. If corporate media is being targeted, independent media is in great danger. Continue

Does The New York Times Want to Kill Gay Men?
Liam Scheff

A January 22, 2006 article in The New York Times Magazine promoted the idea that gay men – not just HIV positive gay men – but all sexually-active gay men (among others) should be given an AIDS drug, on the assumption that doing so would stop AIDS. The drug in question is called Tenofovir (brand name Viread), which the writer, Jon Cohen, described as “a drug that appears safer than the other AIDS medications on the market.” Continue

Media Crimes Sanitize War Crimes in Iraq
Danny Schechter

As events in Iraq continue to slip from bad to worse, the good news brigade is scrambling for new stories— - ‘anything, give me anything’ - to shore up what’s left of public support for a bloody war without end. As some feared and many predicted, the war hovers over our politics and the president who “brought it on.” He is, as the journalist Sid Blumenthal puts it, stuck in a “paradigm” of his own making. The operative word is the title and refrain of an early Springsteen song: “TRAPPED.” Another tipping point seems to have tipped. Continue

Sweaty Southern Radical Queer & Trans Convergence Report Back
Marcelitte Failla
New York, NY, US

About 300 queer and trans folks gathered to take part in workshops from Men Against Patriarchy, to Sex, Race and the Revolution and even sexy workshops on BDSM.. Thanks to the organizers and volunteers, six meals of vegan/vegetarian free food were served throughout the convergence. All day Saturday there were workshops and the day ended with dance performances by So-Fuct from South Florida and No-Fuct from the North, followed by a Burlesque show that had the audience humping the floor. There was spoken word concerning issues of trans identity and a dance party that continued out into the parking lot. Continue

What is the Purpose of Anarchist Action?
Matthew Lamont
Chino, CA, US

I would like to start by saying that I believe revolution has lost its meaning. It is a word that has been passed down through centuries of uprisings and philosophical or idealistic books written in the aftermaths of those revolts to explain their meanings in intellectual terms. Its meaning is to overturn or bring in full circle. It is an end, not a means. It is the act of the oppressed people taking the boot off their neck and throwing their oppressor on his back. The fight for freedom, or the fight for equality by overturning the current social, economic, and political system in replacement for whatever the people favor. This is a revolution. Continue

Nazi Ties, Grave Robbing, and the Bush Family
Margaret Kimberly
New York, NY, US

It must be very difficult to become a healthy adult in a family with a history of multi-generational pathology. Normalcy must be an impossible goal to reach if your grandfather robbed bones from graves and then made money for and with Hitler’s war machine. The Bush family has all of the outward appearances of success. They are wealthy, white, except for Jeb’s “little brown ones,” hold powerful positions and can trace their ancestry back to the bluest blooded New Englanders. Most of them attended Yale, a prestigious institution of higher learning and more importantly a place that can guarantee entry into the rarified world of the American elite. Continue


Crying Art....

America: Freedom to Fascism
Aaron Russo
Determined to find the law that requires American citizens to pay income tax, producer Aaron Russo ("The Rose," "Trading Places") set out on a journey to find the evidence. This film which is neither left, nor right-wing is a startling examination of government. It exposes the systematic erosion of civil liberties in America since 1913 when the Federal Reserve system was fraudulently created. Through interviews with U.S. Congressmen, a former IRS Commissioner, former IRS and FBI agents and tax attorneys and authors, Russo connects the dots between money creation, federal income tax, and the national identity card which becomes law in May 2008. This ID card will use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips which are essentially homing devices used to track people. This film shows in great detail and undeniable facts that America is moving headlong into a fascist police state. Wake up! Continue


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