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Marines and coal miners: Bush dishonors all veterans
Vigils across the U.S. grieved the human cost of the Iraq war last week. At the same time, Marine generals and Iraq veterans teamed up with coal miners in a new initiative to bring an antiwar, anti-Bush message to key swing states. click here for Spanish text
Kerry slams war costs
$200 billion robbed from jobs, kids, health care, security Campaigning in Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 14, Democrat John Kerry articulated the hope and the anger that workers and their families are feeling. “George W. Bush keeps saying that things are getting better even when we all know that is just not true,” Kerry told a cheering crowd.
Texas official rebuffed in child custody bid
HOUSTON — Texas state Rep. Talmadge Heflin (R-Houston) is a right-wing legislator and chairman of the Texas House Appropriations Committee.
Compassionate GOP-ers beat protesters
MILWAUKEE — Speaking from New York after being released from police custody, AIDS activist Mark Milano told the World that he and fellow protesters at a Republican National Convention event on Sept. 1 were nonviolent, but that the Young Republicans who set upon them acted “like mad dogs.”
Actors Equity approves four-year contract
NEW YORK (AP) — Members of Actors’ Equity have overwhelmingly approved a new four-year contract that covers Broadway shows as well as touring productions.
Courageous resisters
NEW YORK — The Artists Network of Refuse and Resist honored 15 “unconventional heroes” here Aug. 26, on the eve of the Republican National Convention. Actress Blair Brown emceed the program, which took place at New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
Exhibition of photos by Iraqi civilians
NEW YORK — As part of New York City’s Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues and Ideas, New York University’s Department of Photography and Imaging is sponsoring an exhibition of 30 color prints taken by Iraqi civilians in the months of April and May titled “Photographs by Iraqi Civilians, 2004.”
Q & A Ask the Communists
Ask the Communists Q: I agree with some of the Communists’ ideas, but how do you convince others to work for the common good? A: The question you ask is a crucial one. There is no simple answer, and there certainly is no quick answer.
Bushs groupthink caused failure of imagination
“Bush’s lack of interest in the flood of attack warnings” before 9/11 (PWW 7/31–8/6) can be explained by this administration’s Iraq obsession.
