It’s one thing to read about it, but here’s a link to Sally Field’s full, complete, uncensored remarks at the Emmys. It’s totally worth the listen!
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Little known fact–there was a brief stage in my childhood when I wanted to be a nun. I gave it up when I discovered that nuns only fly on television. But I’ve had a love affair with Sally Field ever since and she gets major kudos for her anti-war rant at the Emmys last night. […]
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Happy October–oh wait, it’s still September. I got momentarily confused because all the pink stuff they sell to raise awareness about breast cancer (and coincidentally the wonderful corporations that sell all that pinkness) in October is already creeping onto store shelves and articles are starting to appear in newspapers and magazines. The New […]
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Incite! has an excellent post on their blog about how to talk about/act about the rape and torture of Megan Williams:
“it is critical that in talking about the rape and torture of megan williams that we not allow the media, people of color, white people or others to fall back on stereotypes of poor whites […]
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Many thanks to Jane Roberts of 34 Million Friends for bringing this to our attention:
“For the sixth consecutive year, the Bush administration has decided to withhold funding from the U.N. Population Fund, saying the agency contributes to China’s “coercive abortion” program.
The administration decision was disclosed in a letter from Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte […]
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As has become all too clear, Democrats are no more immune to the Washington war kool-aid than the Republicans. One of the few who consistently speaks the painful truth is Rep. Lynn Woolsey who is,
“…encouraging anti-war activists to find challengers to centrist Democrats, with the aim of moving the party to […]
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It has been known for some time that numerous chemicals wreak havoc on reproduction, with reports of boy frogs having female sexual organs and the like, but this report in The Independent (UK) truly leads me to wonder if we have already written our final chapter:
“Twice as many girls as boys are being born in […]
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You’ve really got to hand it to the Aussies, they don’t beat around the bush, so to speak. The APEC Summit was a huge economic success for the brothel biz according to the Sydney Sun-Herald,
“”It’s been going gangbusters,” Adult Business Association NSW spokesman Chris Seage said yesterday.
Businesses that were banking on a 200 per cent […]
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For those of you who might be feeling as toxed out as I am by 911-itis, Naomi Klein’s new book, “The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, is a must read. Check out this video intro to the book.
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A Change in the Wind has an excellent essay posted about “The Terror Myth in American History.” The last paragraph totally nails the callous playing of women’s lives as a prop to justify the scene that has run throughout this horrid tale,
“Also restored was the defense of helpless femininity. Witness the Bush administration’s much-trumpeted […]
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