GRITtv: Protesters Continue to Come Up Against Wall in DC
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Here We Go: Year Nine in Vietghanistan: Catch Me on Democracy Now Wednesday Morning
Rep Barbara Lee will be on too. Here’s her bill (22 cosponsors) to block funding for an escalation in Afghanistan: HR 3699. Why hasn’t your representative signed on? Of course we have to use this to build a list of House members committed to voting No on funding bills. The House alone can block funding by voting No. Passing a bill does no good without the Senate and the President on board.
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We Were Arrested for Speaking
By David Swanson
U.S. Park Policeman (USPP) who shall remain nameless on Monday, October 5, 2009: Next!
Me: Is that me?
USPP: Whoever. I’m flexible. I’m agreeable. I’m just here to please.
Me: Except for the whole arresting us part, huh? [climbing out of a cramped metal van where I’d been stuck with a dozen other men, our hands cuffed behind our backs so tightly they left marks and my friend’s hands went numb]
USPP: What? I thought that
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Creative Loafing, Struggling for Justice in the Florida Sunshine
Check out this interview I did with Creative Loafing in preparation for coming to Florida.
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A Theme Song for Capitalism
By David Swanson
Michael Moore’s movie motivated me to bring this out. Here’s a theme song for Capitalism that I wrote at the time of Paulson’s Plunder. Here it is sung by Timbrewolf:
And sung by leading Mad As Hell Doctor, Margaret Flowers:
And here is audio by Great Rain: The Day Hank Paulson Lied (Audio)
Original
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Un-Spinning the Spin: Progressives, We Are Mainstream After All
Greener Times
Maryrose Asher is a former Chair of the Green Party of Washington State and a tireless activist of many causes.
The co-founder of the After Downing Street Coalition, David Swanson, has just written a book, Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union, which I will review for next week’s column. Swanson uses a reference to a Yes! Magazine article, “Our Own Agenda to Policies for a Better America” by Sarah
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