Don’t forget that we need to stay active in our anti war activities as the fifth anniversary of the beginning of this war approaches.  Our monthly vigil will be on Monday , March 3 in front of the post office at four pm.  Please join us.
Margarita McClarity is planning an anti war action on March [...]

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From: Francis, Laurie [mailto:francisl@chphealth.org]
Sent: Tue 2/26/2008 6:40 PM
To: Burns, Cassie; Margot Kidder; Marshall, Barb; Marti, Michelle; eralicke@earthlink.net; Matthews, Lori; amy cunningham; Bartholomew, Kathryn; Caitlin Dougherty; Rebecca Canner; Daley, Scarlett; D. and R. Rockafellow; Dr. Gillette; Dave Schaub; epessl@aol.com; Pamela Frasier; Hintze, Rebecca; Robin Houston; Joan Kresich; Leslie Jo Newhall; Karen O’Connor; Lynne Scalia; Mary Ackermann; [...]

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Analyzing Election Ads
Bill Moyers Journal
t r u t h o u t | Programming Note
PBS Airtime: Friday, February 29, 2008, at 9 p.m. EST on PBS (check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html).
As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama make their appeals to lower- income voters in Ohio and Texas, expert on media and politics Kathleen Hall Jamieson [...]

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US Steps Up Deportation of Immigrant Criminals
By Ernesto Londoño
The Washington Post
Wednesday 27 February 2008
Immigration officials are increasingly scouring jails and courts nationwide and reviewing years-old criminal records to identify deportable immigrants, efforts that have contributed to a steep rise in deportations and strained the immigration court system.
Long accused of failing to do enough to deport [...]

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Most of the candidates this election season, in particular each party’s front runners, have spend amounts of money equal to the budgets of many small nations. The hideous reality in American politics, that he who spends more generally wins, is one of the creepier secrets our political parties keep. We must press hard for [...]

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Election Madness
By Howard Zinn
The Progressive
March 2008 Issue
There’s a man in Florida who has been writing to me for years (ten pages, handwritten) though I’ve never met him. He tells me the kinds of jobs he has held-security guard, repairman, etc. He has worked all kinds of shifts, night and day, to barely keep his family [...]

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A Dose of Dean Baker
I have to run but here’s Dean Baker on Ben Bernanke. Dean was on our show again last Saturday. Below and on the left hand side of this blog is a link to the podcasts of the radio show and I have our segment up with Dr. Baker.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/021808A.shtml
In addition [...]

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From: The Pen <democracy@peaceteam.net>
Date: February 13, 2008 3:44:46 AM MST
To: riverinn@wtp.net
Subject: Amazing “I’m On The Table” Video, A Primary Challenger For Pelosi
We have sent countless emails, faxes and made phone calls beyond
measure, demanding that Congress actually stand up for itself and for
us, and confront the runaway Constitutional train wreck that is the
Cheney/Bush administration. But there [...]

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Dear Montana ACLU Family-
Below is an action alert sent out a short while ago by the national ACLU to the 1200 e-mail addresses they have for folks who reside in Montana. We got them to send this REAL ID action alert instead of sending an alert on the pending FISA vote in the Senate. They [...]

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Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There
By Jim Hightower
The Hightower Lowdown
Thursday 07 February 2008
Seal-the-border hysteria is everywhere. Instead of blaming immigrants for America’s problems, let’s look at executives on both sides of the border.
The wailing in our country about the “invasion of immigrants” has been long and loud. As one complainant put [...]

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