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November/December 2006 Vol. 7 Issue 4
>in this issue:
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> Preserve the People's Post Office, by Ralph Nader
> Environmental Degradation in the Niger Delta, by Joel Bisina> Deconstructing Culture, by Wangui wa Goro> Affirming a Culture of Values in the Human Rights Framework, by Jody Kollapen
EYE ON HUMAN RIGHTS:
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> Who Speaks for Earth, by Carl Sagan
> Hacks, and other sounds of the night by Victor Saraiva
> Open Letter on Behalf of the Webb Family
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>Essays & articles of interest published by other sites:
American Civil Liberties Union
50 Books That'll Boost Your Civil Liberties Savvy
The ACLU Freedom
Files TV Series Now on 2-Disc Set at Retail
Outlets
http://www.aclu.org/multimedia/freedomfiles/26221res20060725.html
RECENT EPISODES
> Drug
Wars
> Youth Speak
> Gay and Lesbian Rights
INTERACTIVE FEATURES
> The Drug War Clock: See
What the War on Drugs Is Costing You
> Survey: What Age Is Considered
"Adult" in America?
>
Justice Match: Learn How Your Views Align With the U.S. Supreme Court
Justices
Authorities Target Political Groups
ACLU ACTIVIST TOOLKIT
http://action.aclu.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AP_effective_activism
Amnesty International
Latest Reports from
AI:
http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-recent/reports
LIBRARY
http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex
The arms trade is out of control.
Worldwide, arms are fueling conflict, poverty and human rights abuses.
EPIC
Medical Privacy Petition
http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/petition
EPIC
PRIVACY.ORG
DoD Recruiting
Database
http://www.epic.org/privacy/student/doddatabase.html
GREENPEACE
Where Have all the Tuna Gone?
http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/international/press/reports/where-have-all-the-tuna-gone.pdf
PODCAST: Whales and U.S. Military Sonar Noise Pollution
Eco Headlines by email
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/subscribe3
Human Rights Watch Reports
HRW 2006 report
Global Campaigns:
Human Rights in the
U.S.
http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=usa&c=usdom
Every recognized
country in the world, except for the United States and the collapsed state of
Somalia, has ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child,
pledging to uphold its protections for children. Today the convention
stands as the single most widely ratified treaty in
existence.
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/promises/
IRIN NEWS Reports:
Latest Audio Programs IRIN
RADIO
http://www.irinnews.org/radio/default.asp
Standards of Political Conduct for Corporations
CORRUPTION AFFECTS
YOU
http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/public_contracting
Organized Crime and Corruption Information
www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/convention_corruption/signing/Convention-e.pdf
Global Corruption Report 2006
special focus: Corruption and Health
http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/download.htm
Transparency International’s Web Portal on Anti-Corruption Resources (CORIS) http://www.corisweb.org/
PREVENTING CORRUPTION ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
http://www.transparency.org/news_room/latest_news/press_releases/2005/16_03_2005_construct_projects
http://www.transparency.org/tools/contracting/construction_projects
A Special Report, IPS News,
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/corruption/index.asp
Business Principles for Countering Bribery
http://www.transparency.org/global_priorities/private_sector/business_principles
Corruption Fighters' Tool
Kit
http://www.transparency.org/tools/e_toolkit
Anti-Corruption Handbook http://www.transparency.org/tools/a_c_handbook
National Whistleblower Center http://www.whistleblowers.org/
Govt
Doctors Get Whistleblower Protection
http://www.whistleblowers.org/Govt_Doctors_Get_Whistleblower_Protection.htm
Boycott Bush International
Network
Nenhum
dinheiro para a guerra - Boicote a Bush
Pas
D'Argent pour la Guerre – Boycott Bush
Bojkott
Bush
http://www.motherearth.org/USboycott/index_en.php
GARY WEBB'S DARK ALLIANCE SERIES
re-posted by NARCONEWS
GARY WEBB: In His Own
Words
Tribute
to the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter who broke the story of the CIA’s
involvement in the importation of cocaine into the US
http://www.guerrillanews.com/videos/viewer.php?id=30&spd=hi
Dark Alliance: Day One
America's
'crack' plague has roots in Nicaragua war Colombia-San Francisco Bay Area drug
pipeline helped finance CIA-backed Contras by Gary Webb
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day1main.htm
Testimony
links U.S. to drugs-guns trade
Dealers
got their 'own little arsenal' by Gary Webb
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day1list.htm
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/webintro.mov
Dark
Alliance: Day
Two
The
Crack Epidemic's Shadowy Origins, By Gary Webb
If they'd been
in a more respectable line of work, Norwin Meneses, Danilo Blandon and ''Freeway
Rick'' Ross would have been hailed as geniuses of marketing. This odd trio -- a
smuggler, a bureaucrat and a driven ghetto teen-ager -- made fortunes creating
the first mass market in America for a product so hellishly desirable that
consumers will literally kill to get it: ''crack'' cocaine. Federal
lawmen will tell you plenty about Rick Ross, mostly about the evils he visited
upon black neighborhoods by spreading the crack plague in Los Angeles and cities
as far east as Cincinnati. On Aug. 23, they hope, Freeway Rick will be sentenced
to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2main.htm
Drug agent thought she was onto something
big
On a
November afternoon in 1981, San Francisco DEA agent Sandra Smith inadvertently
uncovered the first direct link between cocaine and the secret army the Central
Intelligence Agency was assembling to overthrow the government of
Nicaragua.
Smith,
one of the first female Drug Enforcement Administration agents in the Bay Area,
was investigating rumors that a cocaine ring run by Norwin Meneses was bringing
drugs into California and, for some reason, sending weapons down to Central
America.
It was,
she said, ''the only (case) that I ever worked, in all the time I worked there,
that I thought was really big.''
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2frog.htm
Drug expert: 'Crack' born in San Francisco Bay Area in
'74
Though Miami and Los Angeles are commonly regarded as
the twin cradles of ''crack'' cocaine, the first government-financed study of
cocaine smoking concluded that it was actually born here, in the San Francisco
Bay Area, in January 1974. After comedian Richard Pryor nearly immolated himself
during a cocaine-smoking binge in 1980, the National Institute on Drug Abuse
hired UCLA drug expert Ronald K. Siegel to look into the then-unfamiliar
practice. Siegel, the first scientist to document crack's use in the United
States, traced the smoking habit back to 1930, when Colombians first started
it.
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day2rock.htm
Dark Alliance: Day
Three
War
on Drugs Has Unequal Impact on Blacks in U.S.
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/day3main.htm
On PEACE:
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors:
Why Question the Military's JROTC
Program?
http://www.objector.org/jrotc/why.html
Before You
Enlist...
Don't
enlist before you check out the reality of military life that lies behind the
glamorous television ads and glossy brochures. http://www.objector.org/before-you-enlist.html
Get the Military Out of Our Schools
Are students getting a balanced education about the military? http://www.objector.org/
GI Rights Training
Train to Help Stop the Military Machine! Or at Least to slow it down. http://www.objector.org/gitraining060325.html
Tools for Activists
http://www.objector.org/moos/strategies.html
Other Peace Related Issues:
Children's Defense Fund
2006 Gun Report:
Protect Children not Guns
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/DocServer/gunrpt_revised06.pdf?docID=1761
Tracking the activities of special interests.
Auto and Truck Safety
http://www.citizen.org/autosafety/
Auto Industry http://www.citizen.org/congress/campaign/special_interest/articles.cfm?ID=5730
Asbestos Industry http://www.citizen.org/documents/master%20report.pdf
Congress & the Lobbying Industry http://www.citizen.org/documents/DeLay_Lby_Fndr_Tbl.pdf
http://www.lobbyinginfo.org/documents/RevovDoor.pdf
Energy Industry http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/documents/dirtiest_plants2.pdf
Gambling Industry http://www.citizen.org/congress/campaign/special_interest/articles.cfm?ID=5771
Health Care & Pharmaceutical Industries http://www.citizen.org/documents/MedicareDrugWarReportREVISED72104.pdf
http://www.citizen.org/documents/DrugImportationFactSheet.pdf
Homeland Security Industries http://www.citizen.org/documents/ACF1B7.pdf
Tobacco Industry
http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/tort/articles.cfm?ID=800
Medical Malpractice Facts
Challenging the Malpractice Claims of the Doctors' Lobby
http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/medmal/
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