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 THE CITIZEN

 November/December  2006                                     Vol. 7 Issue 4

 


 

 

 

 >in this issue:                   

              

          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

           

         

             > Organized Crime and Government, (EXCLUSIVE)  by Leonard Manfred
 
        > Corruption Isn't the Exception...  by Victor Saraiva

       > 

          > Dag Hammarskjöld   

         

          Who Speaks for Earth, by Carl Sagan

> Sensible Priorities

 

> The "BURDEN"; on Corporate Crooks

The Truth About Hybrids and Hydrogen

          Hacks, and other sounds of the night    by Victor Saraiva

 

        > Open Letter on Behalf of the Webb Family

Today's News  

 

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International; 

National;

Commentary / Opinion

 

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American Civil Liberties Union

 

 

50 Books That'll Boost Your Civil Liberties Savvy

http://www.aclu.org/freedomwire/books/booklist.htm

 

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

http://www.aclu.org/spyfiles

 

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.

http://www.controlarms.org

 


 

EPIC

 

Medical Privacy Petition

http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/petition

 

EPIC PRIVACY.ORG

http://www.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

Listen

http://oceans.greenpeace.org/raw/content/en/photo-audio-video/audio-files/ocean-defenders-audio-podcast

 

Eco Headlines by email

News-headlines Archives.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/subscribe3

 


 

Human Rights Watch Reports

 

HRW 2006 report

http://www.hrw.org/wr2k6/

 

Global Campaigns:

Human Rights in the U.S.

http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=usa&c=usdom

 

Promises Broken

 

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

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/files/pdfs/Corporate%20Accountability%20International%20Standards%20of%20Political%20Conduct%20for%20Corporations.pdf

 

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

 

Bibliographic Database Search

 

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 

 


 

LobbyingInfo.org

Tracking the activities of special interests.

http://www.lobbyinginfo.org/

 

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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