Month: March 2006

Please keep vigil with me: Tom Fox is coming home

Posted by songbh | Mar 13, 2006 |

(Cross-posted on Street Prophets and Daily Kos) In a special issue of Sojomail, Christian Peacemaker Teams co-director Doug Pritchard describes how a CPT Iraq team member kept vigil besides Tom Fox’s body on the Anaconda...

Another Battle We Thought Was Over

Posted by Alice | Mar 13, 2006 |

When I was in fourth grade circa 1958, my teacher was an intense woman who was obsessed with nuclear war. Our class project was a fallout shelter model, and a lot of our discussion centered on planning for that...

Feingold to Speak at Four PM Eastern

Posted by BooMan | Mar 13, 2006 |

FEINGOLD TO INTRODUCE, SPEAK ON SENATE FLOOR REGARDING RESOLUTION CENSURING THE PRESIDENT Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will speak on the Senate floor today, March 13, 2006, at approximately 4:00 pm ET, regarding...

Aren’t there viable alternatives to Hillary?

Posted by populist | Mar 13, 2006 |

…We as populists need to begin to realize who our real friends are in the struggle to enact a political agenda that is oriented towards the advancement of the interests of the common man and woman. We need to see through...

The Greatest Threat To Democracy Is…

Posted by Cogitator | Mar 13, 2006 |

Public ignorance. Willful or not. This is our greatest threat–greater than terrorism, greater than nuclear proliferation, greater than environmental degradation. Public ignorance gets at the very heart of governance. For...