September 2006

This Is What Democracy Sounds Like

Listen to this 30-second message from Rev. Lennox Yearwood: MP3

Please ask radio stations to play it as a Public Service Announcement.

And please send us money, so that we can air it as an advertisement.

The Pacifica station in DC, WPFW, recorded this audio for us. Please support them.

While we are spending billions of dollars to house people in illegal prisons outside the rule of law or human rights, there are 14,000 homeless people in the Washington, D.C., area. Help us stop the closure of the read more

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Come to Camp Democracy

Come to Camp Democracy!

Camp Democracy opened on the Mall in Washington on Tuesday, and will run through September 21st. We need you to come and join us now!

Here’s what the Washington Post had to say about us this morning:
http://campdemocracy.org/node/234

or
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR200609…


PHOTO: Penny Gamble-Williams, a member of the Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts, performs an opening ceremony at “Camp Democracy.”
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The Cablization of Network News

By David Swanson

On Tuesday, September 5th, at least three things will change. Congress will finish vacationing and return to its long and difficult task of destroying the world; many of us will welcome our Congress Members back to Washington with a giant protest camp called Camp Democracy; and Network News will officially go Cable with Katie Couric playing the role of Edward R. Murrow.

That’s right, Katie will be “anchor” and “managing editor” of CBS Evening “News”. read more

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