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Robert Greenwald, who produced "Outfoxed" about Fox News, is making a new film, "WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price," which is scheduled to be released this November.
"WAL-MART" promises to expose the mega-retailer in the same way that Greenwald's "Outfoxed" and "Uncovered" shed new light on Fox News and the Iraq War. Wal-Mart's practices are hurting U.S. women and our families, and the National Organization for Women believes it is critical to our future that a vigorous debate on these issues take center stage in this nation. That's why NOW is partnering with Greenwald's Brave New Films and other progressive groups to help make and promote this movie. This movie is a perfect fit with NOW's 3-year campaign to expose Wal-Mart as a "Merchant of Shame" and as a retailer whose greed for profits comes at the expense of women and people of color.
"WAL-MART" promises to expose the mega-retailer in the same way that Greenwald's "Outfoxed" and "Uncovered" shed new light on Fox News and the Iraq War. Wal-Mart's practices are hurting U.S. women and our families, and the National Organization for Women believes it is critical to our future that a vigorous debate on these issues take center stage in this nation. That's why NOW is partnering with Greenwald's Brave New Films and other progressive groups to help make and promote this movie. This movie is a perfect fit with NOW's 3-year campaign to expose Wal-Mart as a "Merchant of Shame" and as a retailer whose greed for profits comes at the expense of women and people of color.
Freep Heroes: Out of Iraq Congressional Caucus
With six out of ten Americans saying the U.S. should withdraw from Iraq, finally four key legislators introduced a resolution in Congress demanding that W begin to bring U.S. troops home. The sponsors are Rep. Walter Jones, (R-NC), Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Neil Abercrombie (D-HI). Just two years ago, Jones was spearheading the movement to rename Capitol Hill cafeteria French fries "Freedom Fries." Their heroic and historic resolution gives hope that the militarist and war profiteers going by the name "Bush junta" can be directly challenged.
The Free Press Salutes Backbone campaign
With six out of ten Americans saying the U.S. should withdraw from Iraq, finally four key legislators introduced a resolution in Congress demanding that W begin to bring U.S. troops home. The sponsors are Rep. Walter Jones, (R-NC), Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) and Neil Abercrombie (D-HI). Just two years ago, Jones was spearheading the movement to rename Capitol Hill cafeteria French fries "Freedom Fries." Their heroic and historic resolution gives hope that the militarist and war profiteers going by the name "Bush junta" can be directly challenged.
The Free Press Salutes Backbone campaign
The Ohio State University (OSU) is hosting a course that many physicians consider a pointless exercise in cruelty. Nicknamed "Cruelty 101," the course attempts to instruct students in spinal cord injury research methods. Unfortunately, students will not be focusing on the newest in vitro cell biology, neural cell imaging, and clinical research techniques. Instead, OSU neurologists are teaching the students how to systematically injure the spinal cords of rats and mice using a weight dropped on the animal's exposed spinal cord and then to put the animals through behavioral tests and surgical manipulations.
Over the course of the three-week class, the 269 injured mice and rats are subjected to additional surgeries, invasive laboratory procedures, and physically demanding behavioral exercises before they are killed. The course is funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The university states that the class teaches a "standardized" methodology for inflicting spinal cord damage.
Over the course of the three-week class, the 269 injured mice and rats are subjected to additional surgeries, invasive laboratory procedures, and physically demanding behavioral exercises before they are killed. The course is funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The university states that the class teaches a "standardized" methodology for inflicting spinal cord damage.
The spring of 2005 has been a banner for Columbus' tele-revivialist cum spiritual adviser to the Republican Party, Rod Parsley, Pastor of World Harvest Church in Canal Winchester; interviews in James Dobson's daily online news commentary Citizen Link and Chuck Colson's Breakpoint; features in Charisma Magazine, the Scaife owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Columbus Dispatch, the Other Paper and the Newark Advocate; and citations in the New York Times and Dallas Morning News.
The US House of Representatives Wednesday turned back a measure that would have barred the use of federal funds to go after sick people using pot. The vote came just a week after the US Supreme Court gave federal drug law enforcers the okay to resume arresting and prosecuting medical marijuana patients and providers in states where it is legal. The Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment, named after cosponsors Reps. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), would have amended the Justice Department appropriations bill for the next fiscal year. But when the smoke cleared after a half-hour of debate Wednesday morning, the measure was defeated by a margin of 161-264.
Although not entirely a party-line vote, the measure fared much better among Democrats, with 146 of 205 voting in favor. On the Republican side of the aisle, only 15 of 229 members voted for Hinchey-Rohrabacher.
While a defeat, Wednesday's vote showed a slow but steady increase in support for medical marijuana on Capitol Hill. The vote count is up by 13 votes over an identical proposal last year.
Although not entirely a party-line vote, the measure fared much better among Democrats, with 146 of 205 voting in favor. On the Republican side of the aisle, only 15 of 229 members voted for Hinchey-Rohrabacher.
While a defeat, Wednesday's vote showed a slow but steady increase in support for medical marijuana on Capitol Hill. The vote count is up by 13 votes over an identical proposal last year.
Raich case ruling: Feds can enforce marijuana laws against patients, but state laws remain in effect
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that federal officials may arrest and prosecute medical marijuana users and providers even in states where it is legal. The decision in Gonzales v. Raich returns California and other Western states to the situation that held before plaintiffs Angel Raich and Diane Monson won a 2003 injunction at the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco barring federal officials from raiding or prosecuting medical marijuana patients and providers in California and other medical marijuana states within the jurisdiction of the appeals court. In Monday's ruling, the court overturned the 9th Circuit, holding the Constitution's interstate commerce clause could be employed to allow the federal government to claim jurisdiction over medical marijuana through the Controlled Substances Act.
Rethinking the "unthinkable": An updated view of communism from Ike to Mao and beyond
by Bob Avakian. 449 pp. 2005
How does a good California boy of the 50's, an elementary school "Traffic Boy" who loved Smilin' Ed's "Froggy the Gremlin," a high school quarterback ("a little guy, brimming with confidence"), a serious fan of basketball and music, and the son of a prominent judge go from a nine-year-old supporter of Eisenhower to a supporter of Mao Tsetung and the Chairman of today's Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP)?
Bob Avakian lays it out in his memoir From Ike to Mao and Beyond.
Most of us don't really know much about Communism. Growing up, we have all been taught to fear and disparage it. Like Avakian, many Americans practiced hiding under their first grade desks in case of nuclear attack by "godless Communists." Like Avakian, many of us lived through the McCarthy witch hunts that found communists under every bush darkly working for the destruction of America.
How does a good California boy of the 50's, an elementary school "Traffic Boy" who loved Smilin' Ed's "Froggy the Gremlin," a high school quarterback ("a little guy, brimming with confidence"), a serious fan of basketball and music, and the son of a prominent judge go from a nine-year-old supporter of Eisenhower to a supporter of Mao Tsetung and the Chairman of today's Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP)?
Bob Avakian lays it out in his memoir From Ike to Mao and Beyond.
Most of us don't really know much about Communism. Growing up, we have all been taught to fear and disparage it. Like Avakian, many Americans practiced hiding under their first grade desks in case of nuclear attack by "godless Communists." Like Avakian, many of us lived through the McCarthy witch hunts that found communists under every bush darkly working for the destruction of America.
Upwards of 5,000 people gathered on Saturday June 4th to celebrate the Ohio Hempfest on the South Oval of The Ohio State University Campus. It was a lower turnout of festival goers than in recent years, which organizer Phil DeSenze claims was due in part to the campus police?s demands for security costs. This year was the first that student organizers faced extensive mandatory police costs amounting to $2,850.
Students for Sensible Drug Policy named the OSU administration and campus police chief as defendants in an emergency Supreme Court filing last spring when OSU "canceled" the event four days before it was scheduled. With scathing criticism of OSU?s attempt to squash the annual festival, Ohio Supreme Court Judge A. Marbley awarded SSDP a temporary restraining order so that last year's Hempfest could proceed.
Students for Sensible Drug Policy named the OSU administration and campus police chief as defendants in an emergency Supreme Court filing last spring when OSU "canceled" the event four days before it was scheduled. With scathing criticism of OSU?s attempt to squash the annual festival, Ohio Supreme Court Judge A. Marbley awarded SSDP a temporary restraining order so that last year's Hempfest could proceed.
Close to 75 protesters gathered by 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 8, on East 17th Avenue, within the Ohio Exposition Center complex, to send a message to President Bush and the Ohio Democratic Party.
Bush?s motorcade arrived around 10:50 am and was greeted with angry shouts and signs to repeal the Patriot Act, bring our troops home from Iraq, reject electronic voting machines and to fully investigate the $215 million diverted from the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation fund into Republican campaign coffers. "I think the George Bush campaign raised a lot of illegal money in Ohio," US Rep. Sherrod Brown said. "That puts the election in some question," as reported at www.ohiohonestelections.org.
Just before noon, as the motorcade of SUV limos exited the Ohio Highway Patrol Academy, and drove slowly past the demonstration, a secret service agent, riding shotgun, raised his machine gun for all to see through an open window.
Bush?s motorcade arrived around 10:50 am and was greeted with angry shouts and signs to repeal the Patriot Act, bring our troops home from Iraq, reject electronic voting machines and to fully investigate the $215 million diverted from the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation fund into Republican campaign coffers. "I think the George Bush campaign raised a lot of illegal money in Ohio," US Rep. Sherrod Brown said. "That puts the election in some question," as reported at www.ohiohonestelections.org.
Just before noon, as the motorcade of SUV limos exited the Ohio Highway Patrol Academy, and drove slowly past the demonstration, a secret service agent, riding shotgun, raised his machine gun for all to see through an open window.
Commission rules against ancient Ohio forest: Coal mining allowed under and adjacent to Dysart Woods
On May 26th, the Ohio Reclamation Commission upheld the granting of a permit allowing coal mining under and adjacent to Dysart Woods, one of Ohio?s last ancient forests. The area has been designated as a National Natural Landmark by the federal government, and as an ?Area Unsuitable for Mining? by the State of Ohio.
The Buckeye Forest Council denounced the commission?s decision saying they ignored evidence proving that the permit is illegal and will harm Dysart Woods.
?The Commission?s ruling to allow the mining beneath the old-growth forest at Dysart to go forward demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that the system set up to safeguard Ohio?s environment and public lands for the citizens of Ohio is broken,? said Susan Heitker, executive coordinator of the Buckeye Forest Council. ?The Buckeye Forest Council could not have shown more clearly that the permit issued to Ohio Valley Coal Company is illegal and will harm Dysart Woods.?
The Buckeye Forest Council denounced the commission?s decision saying they ignored evidence proving that the permit is illegal and will harm Dysart Woods.
?The Commission?s ruling to allow the mining beneath the old-growth forest at Dysart to go forward demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that the system set up to safeguard Ohio?s environment and public lands for the citizens of Ohio is broken,? said Susan Heitker, executive coordinator of the Buckeye Forest Council. ?The Buckeye Forest Council could not have shown more clearly that the permit issued to Ohio Valley Coal Company is illegal and will harm Dysart Woods.?