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"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
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Mr McCain: You're going to argue against HOPE?
Frank Rich - on Double Standards Bill Moyers essay a week after his Rev.Wright interview. Watch Video How about Hillary's Pastor? We hear about Rev. Wright’s racism 24/7, but there's nary a peep about Clinton's former pastor who's been convicted for sexual child abuse. Read article here. The Lastest Attack on our Freedoms: Tell your Representative that telecom companies should be held responsible for illegally spying on Americans. CLICK HERE TO TAKE ACTION The Senate gave in to the White House - again. MORE INFORMATION: Yesterday (2/12/08), the Senate passed a bill that would grant immunity to telecom companies that helped the government illegally spy on American citizens.1 And while this is a definite setback, there's still hope. The debate now moves to the House where there are currently much stronger versions of the bill. Tell your Representative not to vote for any bill that provides immunity for telecom companies that broke the law. Telecom companies should be held responsible for illegally spying on Americans. It's impossible to justify undermining the very essence of our constitution in order to protect it. As the White House continues to use fear to drum up support, more people in Washington need to get the courage to stand up. Senator Dodd has already promised that he will filibuster any final version of the bill that includes telecom immunity. The House can make sure it doesn't come to that. Who's listening now? Watch Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on this topic Less Jobs More Wars - three videos that may encourage you to do something. BUSH SHOULD RESIGN - Keith Olbermann Americans Have Become 'Good Germans' - Frank Rich On July 4, Put Away the Flags - Howard Zinn The Accomplices in the Virginia Tech Shootings: Bush and Reid There is no such thing as Christian politics Please consider listening to an important speech by Barack Obama from his appearance at the Call to Renewal conference. It deals with faith and politics... An important listen for any person of faith who believes that their faith plays an important role in their public life, their voting, their government. click here to listen reinform peace thoughts click here to be challenged and inspired reinform contact the media click here 
Why Libby's Pardon is a Slam Dunk How did your Congress and Senate vote on issues that matter most to the middle class? click here The Radical Christian Right Is Built on Suburban Despair - Chris Hedges Bush's Survival depends on Terror Threats Don't Bow to God's Bullies - Power? Cultural Christianity gets it all wrong! On Voting to Lower Abortion Rates - Let's treat the root causes of abortion rather than make empty promises to win elections. click here Global Warming: An Inconvenient Truth Seymour Hersh: U.S. Helped Plan Israeli Attack, Cheney "Convinced" Assault on Lebanon Could Serve as Prelude to Preemptive Attack on Iran Digging up the Truth about AWOL G.I. George The Logic of War Crimes in a Criminal War Election Fixing - testimony by computer programmer and in that same vein... Steven Colbert - New American Hero - a review of his "career-making" roast of President Bush - click here Pentagon Gone Wrong - All hell is breaking loose under this administration. Despotism - look it up - then watch this 1946 film to see how we're doing as a nation. Ethanol - The Panacea to our Fuel Addition? Love will Outlast Bush Garrison Keillor, once again, has something important to say and says it well. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and likewise a society with many sores will twitch when someone has the courage to touch one and say: “You have to treat that. You have to get rid of that.” - Archbishop Oscar Romero (assassinated by graduates of School of the Americas - trained on US soil with our tax dollars - see below) Bush on the Constitution: George W. Bush's Resume - MonkeyDyne Our "Christian" Responsibilities - And examination of Jesus Christ's teachings reveals that he calls us to be activists - not about hot button issues like gay marriage or abortion - rather in issues of peace and justice - fighting corporate greed, government corruption, and the oppression of God's children. click here This article by Jimmy Carter echoes the premise of his new book, "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis". The Governing Board of the National Council of Churches USA invites you to join them in a call to pursue peace and justice in Iraq. click here ON THE OCCASION OF 2000 AMERICAN DEATHS (and over 100,000 Iraqi deaths) - Op Ed columnists provide a voice of outrage about the lack of leadership in an unjust war. click here FRAMING KATRINA - George Lakoff With millions of Americans displaced, injured or dead in the disaster's aftermath, America watched modern conservative ideology -- less government, lower taxes, a strong defense -- crumble. Eyes Wide Open American Friends Service Committee has created a very effective and widely acclaimed touring exhibition calling for the end to the killing in Iraq and to war in general. Watch the video at http://www.afsc.org/eyes/default.htm IRS has troubles with the teachings of Jesus Christ SCHOOL OF AMERICAS - Terrorists being trained by the U.S. Military ON U.S. SOIL (Georgia) using OUR TAX DOLLARS. Learn about this dirty little secret and start making noise about it! Who Would Jesus Torture? - A look at our nation's troublesome policy of condoning and even encouraging torture. What's Wrong with George? Various writers offer their comments and criticisms of George W. Bush Vote to Impeach George W. Bush Dishonest, Reprehensible, Corrupt... - op ed by Frank Rich 11/27 9/11 update: A 757 hit the Pentagon - or did it? Overwhelming evidence of conspiracy is highlighted in this flash video. click here "An Eight Dollar Bed" - by Jake Nyberg How to be a Bridge - Brian McLaren offers examples of how to communicate in these polarized times - based on Jesus' examples.
How to Spread Democracy and Freedom (Bush Style) The Iraqi Death Toll A Bipartisan Plan to end the War Wal-Mart Watch What's wrong with Wal-Mart and what we can do about it? Get up to speed quickly with this humorous animation from JibJab. Watch the trailer: WAL-MART, the high cost of the low price. Is America becoming a Fascist nation? Read these fourteen characteristics of Fascism and you decide.  The sign above is available here as a PDF file for you to print out and post. Or, you may purchase the phrase on apparel and other merchandise from our store. The merchandise that we sell is our only means of funding this site. Thank you for your participation. |
"It is never too late to give up our fears and prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true today may turn out to be falsehood tomorrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle rain on their fields. What other people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new." - Henry David Thoreau “The dread of being open to the ideas of others generally comes from our hidden insecurity about our own convictions. We fear that we may be “converted” – or perverted – by a pernicious doctrine. On the other hand, if we are mature and objective in our open-mindedness, we may find that viewing things from a basically different perspective – that of our adversary – we discover our own truth in a new light and are able to understand our own ideal more realistically. "The Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and should not be demonized for disagreeing with them.... To question your government is not unpatriotic - to not question your government is unpatriotic." |
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| progressive links: t r u t h o u t multimedia site - a wonderful collection of audio and video Rockridge Institute - Rethinking Progressive Politics, Reframing Public Debate, Changing Public Policy MoveOn.org - Democracy in Action TrueMajority.com - one click method to get your voice heard by Congress Rockridge Institute - rethinking progressive politics WellstoneAction.org - continue the Wellstones' work for a better, more just and sustainable future. Political Campaign Action Fund - fixing the Presidential campaign financing system Peace Not Poverty - national online write-in StartMakingSense.org - a place to plug in to grassroots efforts to save our country ThinkProgress.org - A digest of current events by the American Progress Action Fund American Progress Action Fund - news: in depth and under the radar Grassroots.org - looking to change the world slowly, but surely through the internet. My Bill of Rights - rebuilding faith in our forefathers' vision The Peoples Government - a stab at effective government from across the pond media watchdogs: Media Matters for America a Web-based, not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. Take Back the Media - Who owns the media? FreePress.net - involving the public in media policymaking MediaChannel.org - the global network for democratic media Media Reform Information Center - resources on Media Reform Operation Truth Vets fighting a new war: to get the truth about Iraq to the public MichaelMoore.com Filmmaker and author Michael Moore's web site whereisthemoney.org Enron-style looting of the U.S. Treasury and what it means to you. StopFakeNews.org - The Bush Administration is spending your tax money creating propaganda for United States' Citizens' consumption. OpenAirwaves.org - The Center for Public Integrity - Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest Media Alliance - Promoting excellence, ethics, diversity and accountability in the interests of peace, justice and social responsibility Media Access Project - Non-Profit Public Interest Telecommunications Law Firm Media Transparency - the Money behind the Media congressional and senate watchdogs:
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