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Gordon Soderberg TIME FOR IRAQ WAR OIL PROFITS TAXES –PART I

By Nick Mottern, Director, ConsumersforPeace.org HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, NY - The reality of U.S. troops killing and dying for Iraqi oil hit U.S. public consciousness hard on June 19, 2008 when it was announced that the occupied government of Iraq intended to award no-bid oil service contracts to ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and Total. Political cartoonist Jeff Danziger deftly captured the contradiction of great wealth being amassed by giant oil compani… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on July 8, 2008 at 3:33pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Slide Show of NY2NO Volunteers

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Posted by Gordon Soderberg on July 8, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Bush Legacy Tour

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Posted by Gordon Soderberg on July 6, 2008 at 10:19pm — 1 Comment

Gordon Soderberg St Johns County Sherriff threatens peace group

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com: St. Augustine People for Peace and Justice has been encountering problems with the St. Johns County Sheriff's Department in the recent past. I have attached a letter that our group has sent along with photos of t-shirts being distributed by the Sheriff (see t shirts in the video link above). 30 June 2008 Dear Sheriff Shoar, As citizens of St. Johns County and me… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on July 5, 2008 at 8:34pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Impeachment Demand Issued by Veterans for Peace for July 4

Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are instituted to secure the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But “…whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. …all experience hath sh… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on July 1, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Parting comment from George Carlin

"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. T… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on June 28, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg John McCain and the Project for the New American Century

John McCain has long been a major player in a radical militaristic group driven by an ideology of global expansionism and dominance attained through perpetual, pre-emptive, unilateral, multiple wars. The credo of this group is “the end justifies the means,” and the end of establishing the United States as the world’s sole superpower justifies, in its estimation, anything from military control over the information on the Internet to the use of genocidal biological weapons. Over its two terms, the… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on June 25, 2008 at 9:12pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Special fund supports peace

In Matthew 22:21, we read the words of Jesus, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” How can this seeming dilemma be resolved? With about 47 percent of the federal budget going for the costs of all our wars to date, some taxpayers who fully pay their taxes may feel their deeply held moral consciences' are violated. This dilemma can be resolved by the legislation which has been introduced in Congress by 50 bi-partisan co-sponsors. This Peace Tax F… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on June 24, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg New York 2 New Orleans

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Posted by Gordon Soderberg on June 16, 2008 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg He Still Loves New Orleans, and Now He’s Mad

By JON PARELES NEW ORLEANS — Mac Rebennack, the 67-year-old New Orleans pianist, guitarist and songwriter better known as Dr. John, carries the city’s lore in his fingers, his scratchy voice and his memory. He has lived in New York City and on Long Island since the 1980s, but when he… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on June 7, 2008 at 8:41am — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg How Karl Rove played politics while people drowned

By Paul Alexander Hurricane Katrina posed a huge test to Bush's administration. But instead of bailing out Louisiana, Karl Rove played Blame the Democrats On Monday, August 29, 2005, at about 6:00 a.m., Hurricane Katrina slammed into the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. A category 5 hurricane until just before landfall, it was one of the worst storms ever to hit the Gulf Coast. Kathleen Blanco, the governor of Louisiana, had been briefed extensively about what to expect when the… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on June 6, 2008 at 2:27pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870

by Julia Ward Howe Arise then...women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be of water or of tears! Say firmly: "We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, For caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. We, the women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our so… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on May 11, 2008 at 1:37pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Peoples' Festival Raises Funds, Roof

Cy Eugene Yacobson On May 2, far from the crowds and caravans of JazzFest, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in the Lower 9th Ward was filled with the sounds of brass, blues and general jubilation. The occasion was the 1st Annual Peoples’ Festival, organized by Common Ground Relief, and featuring such JazzFest heavy-hitters as Big Chief Victor Harris and Fi Yi Yi, the Rebirth Brass Band and Michael Franti with Spearhead – all playing f… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on May 9, 2008 at 2:03pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Complicated Care: An Army veteran battles the VA’s homeless policy

by Richard A. Webster NEW ORLEANS - Nathan Robertson’s biggest problem isn’t that he is homeless — it’s that he’s not an alcoholic or a junkie. Mike Miller, director of supportive housing placement for Unity of Greater New Orleans, found Robertson, 62, living under the Claiborne Avenue overpass in April. He figured the easiest way to get the disabled military veteran help was to contact the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ homeless program. Robertson, using Miller’s cell phone, told the V… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on May 9, 2008 at 12:04am — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Myanmar: Slow relief work'

by Mong Palatino First, an update on the situation in Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis hit the country a few days ago. The death toll continues to rise. The official report on the number of casualties is way below international estimates. The government is still placing the number of dead people around 23,000 while international aid groups believe the figure could now reach 100,000. Golden Colour Revolution hints the death toll could be worse: “According to an undisclosed interview with one gover… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on May 8, 2008 at 1:25pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg VA blasted over veterans suicides

By Lisa Desjardins WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The chairman of the House Veterans Committee blasted the Veterans Affairs Department on Tuesday, accusing the agency of criminal failure to respond to evidence of rising suicide rates among former soldiers. "This is a matter of life and death," said Chairman Bob Filner, D-California, "and I think there was criminal negligence in the way this was handled." In a follow-up hearing on the veteran suicide issue, Filner insisted the VA either ignored critical… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on May 7, 2008 at 7:47pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Another Year of Carnage Brought to you by Corporate Democrats

By Cindy Sheehan The Democrats are working diligently to put a war funding bill on George's desk that will give him two cycles of money for the illegal and obscene occupations in the Middle East connecting anti-poverty programs and VA educational benefits to the appropriation's bill to exploit the horrible condition of poor families and vets who have risked life and limb because Congress is too worried about their political stakes than our children's lives. The Democrats, with shaky reasoning,… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on May 7, 2008 at 12:39am — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg George Bush resume

I will be available in January 2009, am willing to relocate. RESUME GEORGE W. BUSH 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20520 EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Law Enforcement: I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been 'lost' and is not available. Military: I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug t… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on May 6, 2008 at 2:15pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg JANE FONDA’S SPEECH ON ART & ACTIVISM FOR V-DAY NEW ORLEANS

Oh mercy, oh my—it feels like when the levees broke it blew the lid off the ninth ward and Parrish unleashed these voices, these poems, these words, these doves of peace, these attitudes --power and solidarity. I don’t know think they knew what they were unleashing. And I say “they” because it wasn’t the natural disaster that did it, it was man made—it was negligence and lack of caring. That broke the levees. I don’t know about you but I’ve been rocked to my core and I’m so grateful to Eve and… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on May 6, 2008 at 12:07pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Remembering Kent State Shooting Victims

by Jim Mackinnon Kent, Ohio - The shooting deaths 38 years ago of four Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard need to be seen as a gift, ‘a lesson’ to the entire United States, a former United Nations weapons inspector said yesterday.0505 09 But if the May… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on May 5, 2008 at 3:59pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Friday May 2nd Benefit Concert Lower Ninth Ward

Friday, May 2 Michael Franti Spearhead Rebirth Brass Band TBC Brass Band (Youngest New Orleans Brass Band!) Matrina Luther King School Lower Ninth Ward. In 2005 Hurricane Katrina and Rita devastated New Orleans in the greatest national disaster in American history. Breached levees and rising flood waters forced people to abandon the great city, and the world watched in disbelief as government at all levels failed to provide timely and effective relief. The cost in human lives and dislocated… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on May 1, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Jakki Smith Revolution March on DC: July 12th, 2008

Since June 21st was not possible, we held a vote and YOU picked the next available date to have our Grand March and Rally in D.C.! Thank you for voting! With your votes and Dr. Paul's availability on July 12th, WE HAVE A DATE! Revolution March on DC: July 12th, 2008 Confirmed Keynote Speaker: DR. RON PAUL! The march will end and we will rally on the West side of Capitol Hill. The march route will be published soon. GOALS: Our goal is to organize a peaceful, non-violent march on the street… Continue

Posted by Jakki Smith on April 30, 2008 at 2:40pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Katrina Relief in Waveland, Mississippi New Camp

Katrina Relief in Waveland, Mississippi, has added a "new" volunteer camp, 14 showers, 9 toilets, air conditioning,/heat, large laundry, large commercial kitchen, dining room, close to beach, golf, pond, 17 RV hookups onsite............... Katrina Relief has inherited a wo… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on April 26, 2008 at 5:07pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Caravan of Activists to Travel from the Coachella Festival to Jazz Fest from April 28-May 5th

http://www.thedirtyhandscaravan.com/ Los Angeles, CA, April 23, 2008 - The morning after the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, CA, a string of bio-diesel buses transporting up to 300 people will caravan 1800 miles in an… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on April 24, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Dear Road Home Applicant

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Posted by Gordon Soderberg on April 23, 2008 at 12:30am — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Oh When Codepink Came Marching In (To New Orleans On Eve's V-Day)

by Linda Milazzo For my entire life - years before Hurricane Katrina - I've fantasized about New Orleans. I dreamed of being decadent in the French Quarter in clubs where my music heroes played. I dreamed of tasting the food, studying the architecture, hearing the accents, and being cradled in the arms of the city – in the cream, black, brown and white blended arms of the city. I wanted to earn my beads at Mardi Gras, search the bayous for magic, and be transformed beyond the boundaries of my p… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on April 22, 2008 at 1:52pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Class-action suit against Veterans Affairs opens

By Jia-Rui Chong Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs may paint a rosy picture of improving healthcare for veterans, but the agency has systematically denied benefits to sick veterans and delayed claims so long that many of them commit suicide, a lawyer for two advocacy groups argued in federal court Monday. "The court faces an agency that is in denial and a healthcare system and an adjudication system that are broken down and in crisis," said Gordon P. Ers… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on April 22, 2008 at 1:42pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg The "Building a New World" Conference is right around the corner!

Dear Friends, The "Building a New World" Conference is right around the corner! May 22nd through 25th leaders from many walks of life who are engaged in the fight for justice will be converging to Radford University to discuss radical solutions to the crisis facing our nation and world. Please join us on May 22-25, 2008 in Radford, Virginia. Join us on May 22-25 at Radford! In 2008 many of us understand that our nation and our planet are in a state of crisis. The deep longing for positive, l… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on April 21, 2008 at 8:57pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg TV News: Pimping for the Pentagon!

Written by Reggie Is it a still a conspiracy theory when the entire plot is exposed on the front page of the Sunday NY Times? Today’s story blows the lid off the myth that television is an any way fair and balanced, in any way trustworthy, and in any way real news. Most Americans will never see the NY Times story because the TV news networks will not expose their own lies on their own news programs. Just imagine CNN, FOX News or NBC, ABC or CBS featuring this headline: Behind Military Analyst… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on April 20, 2008 at 6:16pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg As HUD Chief Quits, a Look at Close Ties

By Rachel L. Swarns The New York Times Hilton Head, South Carolina - Most of the time, the prominent men hovered in different orbits and different cities. Yet for years now, their lives have converged here on this resort island of white beaches and rippling sea. There was William Hairston, a local builder whose wife is active in Republican circles here. There was Michael R. Hollis, an Atlanta lawyer, entrepreneur and presidential history buff who vacations here. And there was President Bush's… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on April 19, 2008 at 2:47pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg HOMILY MASS OF THE RESURRECTION for Tom Lewis

Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy. ST. FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH I have known Tom for more than twenty-five years. The last time we were together was almost six months ago when we spent a day reflecting on the Nonviolent Jesus and the implications of His Way of Nonviolent Love of friends and enemies. When I heard that Tom had died, I was surprised by my reaction. My very first thought was of Brother David Darst, a Christian Brother who was also one of the Catonsville Nine with Tom. Over the decades—s… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on April 13, 2008 at 8:15pm — No Comments

Jakki Smith President Bush to Host North American Leaders' Summit

President Bush to Host North American Leaders' Summit As he noted in his State of the Union address, the President will be hosting the North American Leaders' Summit on April 21-22 in New Orleans. This fourth meeting of North American leaders since 2005 will continue our work on Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) initiatives. It will also serve as an opportunity for the three leaders to discuss hemispheric and global issues of importance to North America. This is a pivotal chance for Ame… Continue

Posted by Jakki Smith on April 11, 2008 at 3:37pm — 1 Comment

Gordon Soderberg Cindy Sheehan Key Note Speech "Greed" 2nd Encuentro Continental Mexico City, Mexico

By Cindy Sheehan First of all I would like to thank the International Labor Council and the Electrician's Union for such a warm welcome and I would like to assure you all, my brothers and sisters that I represent millions of North Americans who are in solidarity with you, because we are also plagued with an illegitimate President! Once, a couple of years ago, I was getting a pedicure in the deep south in the USA, of all places, and my pedicurist was a Latina from Mexico. She lived two hours fr… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on April 5, 2008 at 12:08pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Share these videos:

IVAW members seize National Archives Building in front of hundreds of surprised museum visitors. Response from visitors including teachers, students, vacationers was highly positive though there were a few horrified faces in the crowd. IVAW read the terms of our Citizens Arrest Warrant and stood their ground for 90 minutes. They were allowed to leave without being arrested in one of the most spectacular CD events I've ever witnessed.… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on April 5, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Jakki Smith HI EVERYONE!!!

I am just get backting myself together again.Will everyone please catch me up on what I missed,and up comming protests? Continue

Posted by Jakki Smith on April 5, 2008 at 3:09am — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg April 9-20, 2008 12 Days, Over 50 films, Five world premieres

By Jamie Menutis 20 directors present, workshops, music and dance performances, parties and more... 2008 New Orleans International Human Rights Film Fest Highlight Hope and Solutions Unlike other Human Rights Film Festivals, New Orleans is preparing to hold a truly different kind of event. With an aim towards building awareness around many difficult global human rights issues, this year’s festival includes over 50 award-winning and truly inspirational films made by local and international fil… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 29, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg "Listen to the Troops"

From time to time, Anita Dennis, the mother of Purple Heart veteran and war resister Darrell Anderson, hosts a web radio show called Listen to the Troops. Anita called and told me that tonight, Friday, March 28 at 9 p.m. Central Time, she will be hosting a show with the mother of PFC James Burmeister, the AWOL soldier who left Canada and turned himself in at Ft. Knox earlier this month, the soldier that many of you generously helped wi… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 28, 2008 at 10:34pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Veterans groups offer different views of conflict

By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON — A pair of veterans groups on opposite sides of the country this week are offering drastically different views of the war in Iraq and the future of U.S. troops there. In Washington on Thursday, Iraq Veterans Against the War launched its four-day Winter Soldier event, which organizers promise will show evidence of systemic war crimes, war profiteering and mismanaged strategy that has cost troops’ lives. In San Diego on Friday, Vets for Freedom la… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 23, 2008 at 9:29pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg The Iraq Follies

From Mother Jones: Commentary: Eighteen things you've already forgotten about the media's flawed coverage of Iraq. By Greg Mitchell In putting together my new book, So Wrong for So Long, on Iraq and the media, I revisited the good, the bad, and the ugly in war coverage from the run-up to the invasion through the five years of controversy that followed. Even though I monitored the coverage closely all along, I was continually surprised to come across once-prominent names, quotes, and incidents… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 17, 2008 at 12:21am — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg KFAI¹s Indian Uprising for March 16, 2008 from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. DST #257

Leonard Peltier vs. FBI, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, Case No. 07-1745MN, University of St. Thomas School of Law Frey Moot Courtroom, Minneapolis, March 11, 2008. Peltier was convicted of killing two FBI agents during a 1975 shootout on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. But his supporters, including some human rights groups, believe that he is innocent and that he was targeted because of his political activism. About 3,500 pages were turned over for Peltier's origin… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 17, 2008 at 12:00am — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Religious Leaders Help Renters Buy in New Orleans

by Greg Allen Listen To It Here Greg Miles for NPR Morning Edition, March 14, 2008 · In post-Katrina New Orleans, neighborhoods suffer from something locals call the "jack-o-lantern" effect: New and rebuilt homes are scattered amid derelicts and empty lots. Nestled among the freshly planted gardens and newly painted rehabbed homes in the Gentilly neighborhood, there are two or three derelict houses. In recent months… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 16, 2008 at 11:15pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Jeremy Scahill: Testimonial and Bio

Jeremy Scahill: Testimonial and Bio - Listen to the audio clip (or download)
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Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 15, 2008 at 12:00am — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Half New Orleans Poor Permanently Displaced: failure or success?

Katrina Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages in low cost housing, few now expect tens of thousands of poor and working people to ever be able to return home. Half New Orleans Poor Permanently Displaced: failure or success? by Bill Quigley Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2008 quigley77@gmail.com New Orleans Indymedia Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, el… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 13, 2008 at 8:07pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Federal Documents Raise New Questions About Toxins in Trailers for Katrina Victims

Documents feed debate on FEMA trailers MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - AP News Federal officials issued trailers to Hurricane Katrina victims even though some workplace safety tests detected high levels of formaldehyde at government staging areas for the structures just weeks after the storm, a lawyer for hundreds of occupants said Wednesday. Documents from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration raise new questions about how much federal officials knew about the units, which were sent to tens… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 13, 2008 at 6:25pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg EU and US demand for biofuels is pushing up world food prices and increasing climate emissions. We s…

EU and US demand for biofuels is pushing up world food prices and increasing climate emissions. We should feed people, not cars--so join the call for global standards to clean up the biofuels industry: Each day, 820 million people in the developing world do not have enough food to eat1. Food prices around the world are shooting up, sparking food riots from Mexico2 to Morocco3. And the World Food Program warned last week that rapidly rising costs are endangering emergency food supplies for the w… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 13, 2008 at 6:22pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg The Cold, Cold Steel of Handcuffs

By Cindy Sheehan March 12, 2008 With the unbelievable 5th anniversary of “shock and awe” looming before us like a dark cancer that is out of control, the Buffoon in Chief, George W. Bush, once again tormented the nation with another obscene display of idiocy. This time at the Gridiron Club singing to the tune of “Green, Green Grass of Home,” he warbles about the major scandals of his administration: Valerie Plame; Katrina; cronyism; Harriet Miers and Brownie; Dick Cheney and the fatal attracti… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 13, 2008 at 6:14pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Rove's visit fraught with protesters

BY MASON KERNS Register Correspondent/ Iowa City, Ia. — By the time Karl Rove took the stage at the University of Iowa this evening, groups from around eastern Iowa had been protesting his presence for two hours. The protesters staged a mock trial for President Bush’s former top adviser inside the U of I’s student union and draped the side of a nearby parking ramp with a 60-foot anti-Rove banner that police quickly removed. As soon as Rove entered the room, boos, shouts of “traitor” and “war… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 10, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg UN Experts Criticize New Orleans Housing

By JOHN MORENO GONZALES Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Two human rights experts for the United Nations on Thursday criticized a federal plan to raze public housing projects in New Orleans, saying it will force the predominantly black residents into homelessness. New Orleans advocates clamoring to save 4,500 public housing units claimed a victory. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which wants to replace the decades-old housing projects with mixed-income, mixed-u… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 6, 2008 at 7:51pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Trailer risks vary by brand Other factors also play a role, however

By Leslie Williams Gulfstream, Keystone, Pilgrim and Forest River trailers had "significantly higher" formaldehyde levels than other FEMA trailers tested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in December and January, according to a "interim report" released Monday. The report answers oft-asked questions about whether any links exist between specific trailer manufactures and the colorless gas. Those answers, though, are not without qualifiers, said Mike McGeehin, a division director… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 5, 2008 at 7:08pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg In a Massive Disaster, Care Will Be Scarce: State Guidelines Lay Framework for Deliberately Letting Some People Die.

By Dorsey Griffith, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Mar. 2--Older, sicker patients could be allowed to die in order to save the lives of patients more likely to survive a massive disaster, bioterror attack or influenza pandemic in California. It's not how nurses and doctors are accustomed to doing things, nor how Californians expect to be treated. But it is part of a sweeping statewide plan being praised for its breadth, even as it rankles providers who will have to carry it out. The new "surge ca… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 4, 2008 at 5:24pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Half New Orleans poor permanently displaced: Failure or success?

By Bill Quigley Facing South, Guest Contributor Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages in low cost housing, few now expect tens of thousands of poor and working people to ever be able to return home. The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) reports Medicaid, medical assistance for aged, blind, disabled a… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 4, 2008 at 10:09am — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Bear Witness to the Crime of Public Housing Demolition

Press Conference and Rally Thursday, March 6 11:30 AM 500 Canal Street (in front of the Sheraton Hotel) Human Rights activists, housing advocates, teachers, public housing residents, homeless people, and other concerned peoples and organizations from New Orleans and around the country will gather outside the Sheraton Hotel, at 500 Canal Street, 11:30 AM on Thursday, March 6th. There we will join the growing chorus of voices, that now include United Nations Human Rights Experts, calling for th… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 2, 2008 at 11:35pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Vets Break Silence on War Crimes

By Aaron Glantz / IPS Found on www.michaelmoore.com U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries. "The war in Iraq is not covered to its potential because of how dangerous it is for reporters to cover it," said Liam Madden, a former Marine and member of the group Iraq Veterans Against the War. "That's left a l… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 2, 2008 at 11:03pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Hurricane Recovery Chief Steps Down

By BECKY BOHRER NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal official in charge of rebuilding the Gulf Coast after the 2005 hurricanes said he submitted his resignation on Friday because he wants to return to Texas to get back into banking. Donald Powell, former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., acknowledged that work remains to help the region recover from hurricanes Katrina and Rita. But he said he thinks the foundation for recovery has been set. He pointed to federal money set aside for re… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 1, 2008 at 12:53pm — 1 Comment

Gordon Soderberg Cynthia McKinney and the Reconstruction Party Manifesto

By http://jamnyc.gnn.tv/ Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is running for president on the Green Party ticket, up against party mainstay Ralph Nader for the party nomination at their July convention in Chicago. But she has at least one other party interest. Below is a draft version of the manifesto for the Reconstruction Party, which was written at a late January meeting in New Orleans. McKinney helped with the draft, and has since posted it on h… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on March 1, 2008 at 12:48pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Review Protesting Power - War, Resistance and Law

Francis A. Boyle is a distinguished University of Illinois law professor, activist, and internationally recognized expert on international law and human rights. From 1988 to 1992, he was a board member of Amnesty International USA. He was a consultant to the American Friends Service Committee. From 1991 to 1993, he was legal advisor to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and currently he's a leading proponent of an effort to impeach George Bush, Dick Cheney and other key administration figu… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on February 27, 2008 at 7:24pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Agent Orange: Federal Court Sides Against Vietnam Vets, Vietnamese People

by Aaron Glantz Even as the costs of the Iraq war pile up, the human costs of the Iraq war continue to ripple out. On Friday, a federal appeals court rejected an effort by Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange to reinstate claims that U.S. companies (including Monsanto and Dow) committed war crimes by making the toxic chemical defoliant used in the Vietnam War. Incredibly, the three judge panel ruled that Agent Orange was not used as a weapon of war against human populations. "It is significant… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on February 27, 2008 at 1:58pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg Scott Ritter Speaks in New Orleans

by Michael Steinberg blackrainpress@hotmail.com originally posted on: http://neworleans.indymedia.org/ Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter spoke in New Orleans Wednesday night. Ritter called for increased and informed civic responsibility and action to oppose the domination of special interests in government, to prevent Bush from invading Iran, and to create real democracy. New Orleans, February… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on February 27, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Gordon Soderberg TV Broadcast Coverage of Winter Soldier

The following are ways you can watch Winter Soldier live on television Free Speech TV March 14 and 15 9:00AM – 9:00PM EST On the DishNetwork: Channel 9415 Free Speech TV is a full time national satellite channel that reaches over 20 million homes in the United States via satellite broadcast on the DishNetwork. They will carry two full days of Winter Soldier. Link TV March 14th and/or 15th times TBD On the DishNetwork: Channel 9411 On DirectTV: Channel 375 Link TV has yet to determine how much… Continue

Posted by Gordon Soderberg on February 25, 2008 at 10:17am — No Comments

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