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Women Lead the Way

Robin Lloyd September 1, 2005 Robin Lloyd

Raging Grannies sing out against torture.
Women are leading the anti-war movement right now. The grief and rage of Cindy Sheehan is spreading across America. Thousands of letters have flooded in to the Crawford Texas, Post Office, demanding that President Bush meet with Cindy. Over 1,600 candlelight vigils took place on Wednesday, August 17, and communities are setting up their own Camp Caseys, named after Cindy's son who died in Baghdad last year. Has the 'tipping point' finally arrived?

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Monkey-Wrenching the Globalization Gang

Aziz Choudry August 25, 2005 Aziz Choudry

I went to Bretton Woods, but all I got was this lousy t-shirt. Amazingly, it's not a 'one size fits all' and it's not full of holes.

Walking through the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods two years ago, in the New Hampshire mountain resort and official birthplace, in July 1944, of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and of plans for an international trade organization - eventually embodied by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/World Trade Organization (WTO), I thought about the genocide of Indigenous Peoples in that part of the USA, now called "New England", perpetrated by Puritans and other settlers who viewed them, as historian Douglas Leach put it, as a "graceless and savage people, dirty and slothful in their personal habits, treacherous in their relations with the superior race…fit only to be pushed aside and subordinated"(i).

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Heartbreak Hotel in Gaza

Remi Kanazi August 22, 2005 Remi Kanazi

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, military man gone peace-loving hippy, is unilaterally "disengaging" from the Gaza Strip. The hardships Israel is enduring are plastered all over the television, play by play. Scenes of Israeli soldiers, emotionally and physically struggling to remove the 8500 settlers from the Gaza Strip is displayed while CNN anchors utter soft, shocked words in the background. Images of Israeli soldiers painstakingly carry flailing settlers who are protesting the move. Their government once spent billions to protect and contain the animosity of 8500 people who once turned to them for help. But as the old saying goes, you break the law, you pay the price.

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60 Years Later: A Look at Hiroshima

Bob Feldman August 4, 2005 Bob Feldman

August 6, 2005 marks the 60th anniversary of Democratic President Truman's use of the atomic bomb against the people of Hiroshima, at a time when the Japanese government was apparently seeking a negotiated end to World War II. Yoshihiro Kimura was a third-grade student in Hiroshima on the morning the U.S. government dropped its A-bomb on the city. In Children Of The A-Bomb, Kimura recalled how it felt:

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Israel-Palestine: Solutions in the Midst of Crisis

Mneesha Gellman August 3, 2005 Mneesha Gellman

International media has failed itself in covering the conflict in Israel and Palestine.  Following the standard tenet, "if it bleeds, it leads," newspapers, radio, and the internet have continued to showcase the gore and ignore the solution-oriented work that many people in the region have dedicated themselves to.  During a recent trip to Palestine, I stayed in the home of Fatima Khaldi in Qarawa Bani Hassan, a town in the West Bank continually threatened with the construction of the separation wall.  Fatima founded and directs the organization Women for Life in the village of Biddya.  Her group has a range of purposes, which revolve around empowering Palestinian women to take charge of their lives and become involved in politics. [Photo: Doors recovered from bombed homes, painted by children's art therapy group, Nablus, West Bank]