Bush's Lousy Civil Rights Record, Part II
Summary of the Report written by the US Commission on Civl Rights: 'Redefining Rights in America: The Civil Rights Record of the George W. Bush Administration, 2001-2004.' This report documents that civil rights problems are entrenched in American society, the result of unequal treatment over the course of history. Furthermore, new means of prejudice and discrimination have become manifest. George W. Bush has fueled much of this new unequal treatment and hasn't lifted a finger to turn back the tide of racism.
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Our Battle for Democracy
In this last week of the campaign, we who fight against the Bush administration, the horror that we know, fight also to turn away from a reactionary past and begin to work directly for a civilized future. I say civilized rather than socialist or even progressive, because that is where this administration has led us.
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If Bush Says It's True, It Must Be So
I didn’t realize my wife was a terrorist until the Bush administration’s Rod Paige informed us last spring. Rod Paige, Bush’s Secretary of Education, called America’s largest teacher’s union a 'terrorist organization.' Since President Bush didn’t condemn Rod Paige’s statement Bush must agree with him. Bush obviously must believe that teachers are terrorists too.
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Bush’s Lousy Civil Rights Record
Like many groups, each year the NAACP issues a Civil Rights Report Card, grading members of Congress on issues important to African-Americans. Every year they were in office, both Kerry and Edwards received As. When Cheney served in Congress from 1977 to 1988, he received an F every session. Of course, President Bush has never served in the House or Senate, making it more difficult to assign him a grade.
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We are nobody's pawns
Some in the west have argued wrongly that the chaos in Iraq represents a national liberation struggle. They risk perpetuating a historical myth about our country. There is always a risk of cultural imperialism when people speak for others in the name of national liberation.
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The Bush Administration's Attack On Workers
With the message 'Give back our hard-earned money! Take back your overtime pay cut!,' several thousand workers on Wednesday, October 5, delivered hundreds of thousands of postcards to the Bush/Cheney office headquarters in 17 battleground cities against the Bush overtime pay cut, even taking over their offices in several cities.
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Cobb, Kerry and Nader
I was struck by two emails that came my way a few days ago. One was an endorsement of John Kerry by Winona LaDuke. The other was a press release from the N.Y. Independence Party announcing that, this coming week, Ralph Nader will 'campaign in the Black community with Independence Party leader and activist Dr. Lenora Fulani.'
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The Bush Oil War in Colombia
Even as the US becomes more bogged down in an unwinnable war in Iraq – fueled by the desire to control Middle East oil, the Bush administration has stepped up the American military presence in Colombia. For the first time, Special Forces have been sent to Colombia to train units of the Colombian Army to protect the commercial interests of private oil companies.
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