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Official surveys indicate that every year more than 350 billion pounds (160 billion kg) of edible food is available for human consumption in the United States. Of that total, nearly 100 billion pounds (45 billion kg) -- including fresh vegetables, fruits, milk, and grain products -- are lost to waste by retailers, restaurants, and consumers.
By contrast, the amount of food required to meet the needs of the hungry is only four billion pounds, according to Food Not Bombs, an advocacy group, which estimates that every year more than 30 million people in the United States are going hungry on regular basis.
"Immigrants are not taking a `toll' on America; they are America. Immigrants are not asking for red carpets of any sort; they'd merely like an opportunity to raise healthy, secure families, to contribute to society, to live the American dream."
The movement to supplant the corporate RepubliCrat Commission on Presidential Debates with a real People's Debate Commision is picking up steam. The Oregonian has even endorsed the open debates agenda. Both the FEC and the CPD were just caught red-handed by a federal jugde in their illegal bias toward the Repub/Dem corporate duopoly.
This letter is being written not only to Gullah/Geechees, but also to all of our supporters the
world over. As you all know, we formed as a Nation in order to protect the continued existence of our culture on our islands and in the Lowcountry which is now called "The Gullah/Geechee Nation." ...On behalf of my people, I am asking you to take the time out to write a letter stating that you do seek the support of the UN in insuring that the Gullah/Geechee Nation's right to self-determination and their human rights are no longer violated.
an article appearing in newsday detailing the conditions of the warehouse anti-RNC protesters were placed in.
Kerry is the biggest loser I have ever seen as a campaigner. He is flailing desperately about, endlessly babbling about Vietnam, while the fascist Republican campaign keeps moving resolutely ahead, and Bush keeps getting farther ahead in the polls. It is time to admit that the BushHitler is going to get another four years.
Bush administration screws the elderly again.
Vandals used on-site construction equipment late Friday night to ram into the shell of the Wal-Mart Supercenter on Swannanoa River Road, causing an estimated $900,000 in damage.
An open Letter to Governor Owens of Colorado regarding the upcoming September 10th, 2004 sentencing of Constitutional rights ativist, Rick Stanley (www.stanley2002.org) who is facing up to 32 years in prison for exercising his constitutionally guaranteed rights.
Bush's latest slogan is the most anti-democratic (small d) slogan in history. At least since "Hail Victory!" (which loses a little in translation from the original: "Sieg Heil!")
1 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security
issued between 20 January 2001 and 10 September 2001 that mentioned al-Qa'ida. 104 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security and defence in the same period that mentioned Iraq or Saddam Hussein.
Austrian historians are challenging California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for telling the Republican National Convention that he saw Soviet tanks in his homeland as a child and that he left a "Socialist" country when he moved away in 1968.
"It's a fact -- as a child he could not have seen a Soviet tank in Styria," the southeastern province where Schwarzenegger was born and raised, historian Stefan Karner told the Vienna newspaper Kurier. Schwarzenegger, now a naturalized U.S. citizen, was born on July 30, 1947, when Styria and the neighboring province of Carinthia belonged to the British zone. At the time, postwar Austria was occupied by the four wartime allies, which also included the United States, the Soviet Union and France. The Soviets already had left Styria in July 1945, less than three months after the end of the war, Karner noted.
George W. Bush
3911 votes (11 %) John Kerry 11271 votes (32 %) Ralph Nader 20364 votes (57 %) Total Votes: 35546
"Frankly, I want to be a politician. I'd like to survive to see that," said Vivian Lee, 17, a war supporter visiting the RNC from Los Angeles.
"While I love my homeland, I believe the leaders have taken this horrible road. I have no belief in what the American Army has asked me to do. They have taken me from my family and sent me to die," ...But Anderson, a convert to Islam, said he would not fight overseas against "brother" Muslims. "I am very upset about that," he said. "I love my country, but I fear my government."
Security Apparatus Fairmont Hotel (in Santa Barbara, California) security (assaulted) a 14 year old NYM warrior during a peaceful info rally which (led) to the arrest of two NYM Warriors.
Two Native Youth Movement Warriors Arrested in California
I personally believe bypass or not he will be running the Bush reelection campaign from the hospital room while remaking Hillary as the caring wife, and leave John Kerry to flap in the wind...
The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, is calling for open hearings on the latest leak involving a Pentagon analyst accused in the press by anonymous sources of spying for Israel.
original (facing the audience)
and inverted (so you can read if from the "Bush side" of things)
OPINION -- Make no mistake; the liberal media is waging a war against Alan Keyes that knows no journalistic Geneva Conventions. Why? One may be unable to delve all the depths of that question, but I would like to treat that later. What is this battle about, for Keyes? Let me address that now, please.
The widow of a Bush family confidant says her husband gave the future president an Alabama Senate campaign job as a favor to his worried father. Did they see him do any National Guard service? "Good Lord, no."
By Mary Jacoby Salon.Com  http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/02/allison_moveon/index.html
A little humor
Another example of a military person having their right of free speach trampled by the Bush neo-con Pentagon.
"We know that unless a politician feels real pressure, or a
chief executive senses a threat to his market, everything else is just talk."
Bad news for director David O. Russell and his shocking and brilliant 1999 movie Three Kings. Warner Brothers had planned a fall re-release of the film starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube but has now delayed the special editon and DVD after they deemed Russell's documentary "totally inappropriate" for release in the current political climate by Warner Brothers.
Details several real life Acts that have come about as a result of the fake terrorism of 9/11/01 that threaten the safety, security and sovereignty of all American citizens.
Sounds as if he could be referring to his own police force, though..
The Florida Democratic party and an independent group of voters separately sued the state Tuesday, trying to keep Ralph Nader off the November ballot
As Hurricane Franes bears down on Florida, many have become tired of hearing the same corporate newscast about what you need to buy, where you need to go, and what you need to think to survive a hurricane. Central Florida Indymedia has a novel thought: tune into our webstream for hurricane information! That's right. We might get slammed by the hurricane, but we're STILL going to be online providing hurricane information and entertainment to anyone that's willing to listen. Read on to find out how to tune in for a good time!
We still have our work cut out for us.
Lets all watch the "LOTR" parody, empower ourselves and get right to it. We're not just fighting Bush, we're fighting En Ron Hubbard, Diboldly, the Heritick Foundation, and patRIOT acts I and II!!!
In the 2000 presidential election, George. W. Bush named Jesus his favorite philosopher. We might be wise to take him seriously and compare George W. with J.C., his philosopher king.
repost to pdx indymedia: "the united states. the earth's biggest exporter of capitalism. it's the one place where we can fight empire. but we don't know how to make a revolution." ... "we can't smash capitalism by passing more laws. or we would"
Here's the fifth, and last, archive of a day's worth of breaking news items as posted to the portland indymedia site during the RNC protests in NYC. Events covered include protests/marches in/from Union Square, an ANSWER-sponsored rally, protesting around Madison Square Garden, and the unfolding legal drama concerning the City's trampling of habeas corpus rights of rounded-up protesters.
Deeper analysis can start to emerge now about the meaning and significance of the events of the last week, which were often played out in the context of protester vs. authority. Authority here was embodied not just by the Bush administration - the direct target of demonstrations - but by the police and City. Overall, i belive we can at least declare a draw. That is, the protesters were not defeated; that feeling is not pervading the air, nor did it taint the actions on the ground. In the legal arena, we can perhaps actually declare victory. The National Lawyers Guild forced the City to back down when it clearly did not want to. When push came to shove over habeas corpus, a judge demanded that the City release all prisoners since it was clearly in violation of that legal concept, and when the City did not act fast enough, the judge declared the City in contempt and levied fines. Finally, the City relented, and by the end of today, it seemed that everyone had been released. In other cities after big actions, such courtroom dramas have often played out for much longer. So we can chalk at least one checkmark in the Win column. Over the five days of breaking news updates from Aug. 29-Sep. 2, about 800 items were posted. The news came from call-ins from the street to pdx indy radio and to A-Noise Radio, from the breaking news wire on NYC indymedia, and from an internal indymedia communication board. In such a way, hundreds of people contributed information over those five days. That's a helluva lot more reporters than corporate media had out there, and it shows. The overall coverage of the protests using the indymedia tactic, on the web, the radio, and with the video and other projects yet to come, is an example of what reporting and journalismm are really about. Once more, indymedia put corporate media to shame! Previous daily archives: [ Aug. 29 | Aug. 30 | Aug. 31 | Sept. 1 ] NYC IMC's archived breaking news: [ A27 | A28 | A29 | A30 | A31 | S1 ]
NEW YORK — If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times from discouraged Democrats and liberals as the Republican convention here wrapped up this week. Their shoulders hunched, their eyes at a droop, they lower their voice to a whisper hoping that if they don't say it too loud it may not come true: "I...I...I think Bush is going to win."
...well, not exactly, but I must say I like the intellectual look he sports in this photo. Too bad for him the image doesn't fit the brain it surrounds.
Critical Mass arrests A27
Justice Department now admits widespread prosecutorial misconduct.
In a case the government once hailed as a victory against terrorism, Karim Koubriti, 26, and Abdel-Ilah Elmardoudi, 38, were convicted in June 2003 of conspiracy to provide material support for terrorism and to engage in fraud and misuse of visas and other documents.
Now suppose the Democratic Convention had been used to announce the bringing of impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney, as Nader has been calling for for months. Suppose they had threatened to hold every Republican Congressional Rep and Senator accountable in November if they opposed the double impeachment.
Illinois Republican Senate candidate Alan Keyes has labeled homosexuality "selfish hedonism" and said Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter is a sinner.
Krugman blames the symptom, the corporate criminals, but not the disease of capitalism itself. On the contrary; Krugman was and is a big defender of capitalist globalization.
An interview with Sue Niederer, Military Families Speak Out member, whose son Lt. Seth Dvorin was killed in Iraq on February 3rd, 2004
The people have taken back their voices from the lying, conniving, manipulating, profit-driven, corporate fucking media. I've been glued to indy coverage for days on end, and I thank you all!!!
bush is live on th tv..
Jails are essentially empty. The court was to have reconvened at 10:30 to examine the remaining 8 people charged with felonies.
Going against a recommendation from its own scientists, the Bush administration took another step toward removing the marbled murrelet from the threatened species list, which could ultimately increase logging in old growth forests.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided Wednesday that marbled murrelets in Washington, Oregon and California, though they continue to decline in population, should not be considered for protection apart from their more abundant cousins in Canada and Alaska.
State Supreme Court Justice John Cataldo fined the city $1,000 for every protester held past a 5 p.m. deadline that he had set for their release. It was unclear how many detainees were still in custody, but Cataldo had ordered the release of 470 people.
We need 12 more busses down here...
Notes from the book by Paul Le Blanc, comments and quotes.
Discontent that the Green Party missed a great opportunity to capitalize upon a giant gulf between the pro-war Democratic Party elite and anti-war rank-and-file Democrats and other voters on the left in 2004? Angry with the Democratic Party's undemocratic violation of voting rights of supporters of Ralph Nader/Peter Camejo and other candidates on the left? Want a political party that grows out of, and in turn helps grow, social movements on the left? Join the Green Alliance.
"Habeas corpus" is Latin for "you have the body". It is a Constitutional concept, meaning that if you arrest & detain someone, you have a certain amount of time to charge them, and that if you don't do so within that time, the person or people must be released. A eoman from the National Lawyers Guild in NYC stated that this period is 24 hours in the state and City of NY.
A writ of habeas corpus is presented to a court on behalf of a detainee or detainees. The writ issued by the National Lawyer's Guild to the City of NY, demanding the release of all RNC detainees, can be read here. The City's excuse for violating habeas corpus was that it couldn't release people until the proper paperwork was done. As reported on indymedia, a NY Judge ordered the City to release hundreds of people because they had been held so long (24-30 or more hours), but the City has not been complying. NYC is not the first city to ignore habeas corpus; indeed, it is a tactic, consciously executed, as part of a national trend toward fascism.
The Newswire reports: "pdx indy radio activist reports law enforcement personnel with automatic or semi-automatic rifles and bayonets."
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