"... Argentineans have overwhelmingly rejected violence and demonstrated a commitment to peaceful solutions."
A student in my Mass Media class at UNH, Kirk will be presenting on alternative media in class soon. The excerpt above comes from Left Turn: Notes from the Global Intifada.
I'm curious about the history of the press's name, when, why and how did they choose intifada?
Right in time for the Censure hearings this Friday, some mass media outlets finally change their tune.
"White House Memo" Drives a Stake into the Heart of White House Lies
Bob Fertik writes, "Something remarkable happened Monday: the Corporate Media finally got sick of Bush's endless lies about Iraq, and started to tell the truth. The immediate cause was a front-page New York Times story about the "White House Memo," which proved Bush was determined to invade Iraq no matter what. Now we have reached a turning point in our "long march" for Truth. Everyone in the world knows in their heart that Bush lied. Soon everyone will say it out loud: Bush Lied. When millions of Americans say those two simple words - and the media finally joins us - Bush's reign of fear will come to a crashing halt. Let's make that happen now."
Truth Seeping Through Media After Ten Months
David Swanson writes, "There is something about this week that feels better than the average one for bringing a child into the world. I have hope that others will have hope, and that this will let them press hard for action. And there is something about bringing a child into the world that makes me want to push harder for a full measure of truth, and not be satisfied with the thrill of seeing bits of truth squeeze through. Someone said: He not busy being born, is busy dying. That certainly goes for democracies."
My state gets into the action and other news follows:
The Oglala Sioux in South Dakota have committed to open an abortion clinic on the Pine Ridge Reservation to enable women to have abortions in this state which just passed the most restrictive anti-abortion laws since Roe v. Wade.
I love her work. She's the only SF author I've read who had humanity lose to aliens. Our Achilles' heel? The instinct for hierarchy.
Which side will you be on? Since the successes of the New Deal - when all of the US safety nets were put in place to protect people from abject poverty and unions secured benefits for workers - management, owners, and stockholders have worked to dismantle the laws that structure these mechanisms which enable the vaunted individual "pursuit of happiness".
The assault on worker's rights has gathered momentum since the 1980s. When will the tide turn? Now, according to the NY Times, labor leaders are being equated to some of the worst political characters in history through the commercial battleground of advertising.
Dr. Wafa Sultan is an inspiration. I hope she is right about having "walked the first and hardest 10 miles."
