Global
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.), 1980 independent
presidential candidate John Anderson (who now heads Fairvote), Melanie
Campbell of the Coalition for Black Civic Participation, and other
leaders in the movement for election reform will speak at."A Call to
Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections: A Panel Presentation on the
challenges to American elections."
"The numerous allegations of manipulation in the 2000 and 2004 elections and the change of personnel on the U.S. Supreme Court have raised questions about the future of American democracy," said Dean Myerson, executive director of the Green Institute. "The September 16 panel will feature political and activist leaders with a lot to say about barriers to voting, problems with computer voting machines, and challenges posed by our at-large, winner-take-all election system."
The event will take place at the National Press Club on Friday, September 16, 1-4 p.m., and is sponsored by the Green Institute, the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, and Fairvote.
"The numerous allegations of manipulation in the 2000 and 2004 elections and the change of personnel on the U.S. Supreme Court have raised questions about the future of American democracy," said Dean Myerson, executive director of the Green Institute. "The September 16 panel will feature political and activist leaders with a lot to say about barriers to voting, problems with computer voting machines, and challenges posed by our at-large, winner-take-all election system."
The event will take place at the National Press Club on Friday, September 16, 1-4 p.m., and is sponsored by the Green Institute, the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, and Fairvote.
On June 12, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy concluded that Ohio¡¯s supermax prison in Youngstown imposes an ¡°atypical and significant hardship¡± on inmates. Even so, the state plans to relocate 200 death row inmates from Mansfield to Youngstown. Prisoner rights activists are fighting the move.
Before becoming an Ohio State Penitentiary physician, Dr. Ayham Haddad experienced a different side of incarceration, as a political prisoner in Syria. He was arrested and tortured. Upon his release in 1991, Haddad immigrated to the United States to begin a new life.
Now a general practitioner at Ohio¡¯s only supermax, he has a comparative perspective few could imagine, and is amazed to find that the supermax prison where he works also fails to address important human rights issues. ¡°In Syria, I was in solitary confinement for four months,¡± Haddad reflected. ¡°But here, prisoners are kept in solitary confinement for years!¡±
Before becoming an Ohio State Penitentiary physician, Dr. Ayham Haddad experienced a different side of incarceration, as a political prisoner in Syria. He was arrested and tortured. Upon his release in 1991, Haddad immigrated to the United States to begin a new life.
Now a general practitioner at Ohio¡¯s only supermax, he has a comparative perspective few could imagine, and is amazed to find that the supermax prison where he works also fails to address important human rights issues. ¡°In Syria, I was in solitary confinement for four months,¡± Haddad reflected. ¡°But here, prisoners are kept in solitary confinement for years!¡±
The un-reverend Parsley is sowing the wind. Perhaps if he and Karl Rove would have been more concerned about the unfit armaments (instead of gay marriage to get George into the White House) perhaps the almost two thousand soldiers and marines would be alive today. Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind is something Parsley needs to think about. Parsley, like the herb, is only decorative.
Cindy Sheehan has been subjected to an unwarranted backlash by right-wing pundits because of her antiwar protests and some explosive statements she made about President Bush. Perhaps Sheehan, while mourning the death of her son, Casey, a U.S. soldier who died in the Iraq war, lashed out at the president, and decided to take her antiwar message to Crawford, Texas, after doing some fact checking on her emotional state. If so, these are likely some of the circumstances that drove her:
While searching the 600 or so sites identified by United States intelligence and Iraqi officials as places where the country's biological weapons may have been hidden, which was President Bush’s rationale for starting the war, to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, not a single speck of anthrax or other WMD has been uncovered since the war started more than two years ago.
While searching the 600 or so sites identified by United States intelligence and Iraqi officials as places where the country's biological weapons may have been hidden, which was President Bush’s rationale for starting the war, to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, not a single speck of anthrax or other WMD has been uncovered since the war started more than two years ago.
The underlining issue here is oil. And I'm okay with that because I
drive a car, fly, mow my lawn and so on. As long as Americans choose
to live an oil rich life style, America will continue to fight wars in
the Middle-east.
The question is not about why we fight over oil. The question is, how do we end America's dependence on oil?
The question is not about why we fight over oil. The question is, how do we end America's dependence on oil?
Atlanta, Georgia -- Saturday, August 6, 2005 my wife, Andria and I marched from the federal
building on Spring Street in downtown Atlanta to the football stadium at Morris Brown College located on Martin Luther King Drive. Jesse Jackson, Reverend Joseph Lowery (former leader of SCLC) Shirley Franklin, (Mayor of Atlanta) Harry Belafonte, U.S. Congressman John Lewis and other celebrities lead the march. Although, the march was approximately a mile, the significance was not the length of the march or the list of celebrities who marched. We were marching to bring attention to the expiration of the Voting Rights Act in 2007. Unlike the historical marches in the South, we did not have to worry about attack police dogs, being sprayed by firemen water hoses, or police officers sticking us with batons. We only had to worry about the hot Georgia sun.
I thought that I would cry in my private place but when Daniel and William III (Bill Moss’s two sons) began sharing the love their dad gave to them, and how much they loved and missed him. My eyes could not hold back the tears. I felt Bill Moss’s sons’ pain and hollow feeling of being without a father.
I began to get angry because the large crowd of people had a different meaning to me. I reflected to the many rallies, meetings, marches, and other communities events that Bill Moss had sponsored. Where were these so-called Bill Moss Supporters? Where was the crowd of people? I don’t remember seeing lines of people trying to vote for Bill Moss during his last bid for Columbus Board of Election. Elected officials and pastors did not praise Bill Moss, when he ran for Mayor of Columbus, U.S. Congress, and the Columbus School Board.
I began to get angry because the large crowd of people had a different meaning to me. I reflected to the many rallies, meetings, marches, and other communities events that Bill Moss had sponsored. Where were these so-called Bill Moss Supporters? Where was the crowd of people? I don’t remember seeing lines of people trying to vote for Bill Moss during his last bid for Columbus Board of Election. Elected officials and pastors did not praise Bill Moss, when he ran for Mayor of Columbus, U.S. Congress, and the Columbus School Board.
Dennis Kucinich, along with fellow Democrat Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) and Republicans Walter Jones (R-NC) and Ron Paul (R-TX), introduced the first bi-partisan bill calling for an exit strategy from Iraq (H.J.Res. 55). Around this bill and other Iraq withdrawal efforts Republicans are quietly meeting behind closed doors and progressive Democrats have formed the “Out of Iraq Caucus” to push for an exit strategy. Rep. Kucinich is leading the Congress to a real consideration of an exit strategy from Iraq.
Dennis Kucinch has most recently become well known to Americans as an anti-war, progressive Democratic presidential candidate in 2004 who emphasized worker rights, civil rights and human rights in his campaign. But, he has a long history of electoral success beginning when he was elected to the Cleveland City Council at 23 years old and Mayor of Cleveland at 31 – at the time the youngest Big City Mayor. He is currently serving his fifth term as a Member of Congress.
Dennis Kucinch has most recently become well known to Americans as an anti-war, progressive Democratic presidential candidate in 2004 who emphasized worker rights, civil rights and human rights in his campaign. But, he has a long history of electoral success beginning when he was elected to the Cleveland City Council at 23 years old and Mayor of Cleveland at 31 – at the time the youngest Big City Mayor. He is currently serving his fifth term as a Member of Congress.