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THE CITIZEN

 AUGUST 2005                                             Vol. 6 Issue 4

 


Look for our next Newsletter in October.

 

 >in this issue:                   

  • CIVIL RIGHTS CASES: 
  • CURRENT EVENTS:   
  • NEW-- AFRICA TODAY: 

  • EYE ON HUMAN RIGHTS:  

‘Strange Fruit’ in Iraq; Journalist Who Probed Torture and Executions is Murdered  

  • DISPATCHES FROM IRAQ: 

Censorship 

Slash and Burn 

"What Have We Done?"

  • FOCUS ON NEWARK, NJ: 

City Without Walls, an Urban Gallery Breaking Barriers

  • ORGANIZED CRIME & CORRUPTION: 

Information Revolution Feeds Alternative Intelligence Market

Slavery Survives Despite Universal Abolition 

  • IN RETROSPECT:  

An Heroine for Our Times; Susan B. Anthony

  • RECOMMENDED READING: 

Black Like Me 

Out of My Life and Thought, (the autobiography of) Albert Schweitzer

  • WORDS OF INSPIRATION:  

State Violence  

Fear, and the Falsity of Material Wealth  

Great Ideals 

On Resistance

  • COMMENTARY by JIM HIGHTOWER: 

Manufactured Doubt 

Using Counterterrorism Units to Spy on You

  • COMMENTARY by JOE TRENTO:  

You Gotta Love This Administration for The Chutzpah

  • EDITORIAL page:   

"Our Father Who Art in Heaven"

  • NEWS-LINK TICKER: 

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>Essays & articles of interest published by other sites:  

 


 

American Civil Liberties Union:

 

Authorities Target Political Groups

http://www.aclu.org/spyfiles

 

THE NEW FACE OF AMERICA

http://www.aclu.org/newface

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17572&c=206.

 

RUMSFELD TIMELINE

http://www.aclu.org/rumsfeld/timeline.pdf

 


 

Amnesty International

 

 

The State of the World's Human Rights, 2005 Report

http://www.amnesty.org/report2005

 

VIDEO & AUDIO

http://www.amnesty.org/report2005

 

The arms trade is out of control.  Worldwide, arms are fueling conflict, poverty and human rights abuses.

http://www.controlarms.org

 

COLOMBIA

Lives Blown Apart - Stop Violence Against Women –

http://news.amnesty.org/mavp/news.nsf/index_mi/ENGACT770952004?open&index=AEF65984E0CDABC380256F630063AD58&mediatype=video&publishdate=08-12-2004&

 

Guantánamo detainees remain without access to due process

http://news.amnesty.org/mavp/mediaclip.nsf/0/108E246C29F13F1F802570140037CB37

 

Guantanamo Bay and beyond: the continuing pursuit of unchecked executive power. 

http://web.amnesty.org/pages/guantanamobay-index-eng

 

 


 

EPIC

 

 

Spotlight on Surveillance

WELCOME to the 'new' USA

www.epic.org/privacy/surveillance/spotlight/

 

EPIC ANNUAL REPORT

http://www.epic.org/epic/annual_reports/2003.pdf

 


 

GREENPEACE INTERNATIONAL

 

GREENPEACE  at HIROSHIMA

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/abolish-nuclear-weapons/no-more-hiroshima

 

Abolish Nuclear Weapons

There are over 30,000 nuclear weapons in the world, with over 1,000 ready to launch at a moment's notice 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/abolish-nuclear-weapons

 


 

 

Human Rights Watch Reports:

 

Darfur Drawn: The Crisis in Darfur Through Children's Eyes

http://hrw.org/photos/2005/darfur/drawings/

 

Darfur: A Human Rights Catastrophe

http://hrw.org/photos/2005/darfur/02/index.htm

 

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines

http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/mines/1999/index.htm

 


 

IRIN NEWS Reports:

 

Afghanistan: Child Trafficking

IRIN Radio reports on the alarming increase in child kidnappings in Afghanistan and the measures being taken to stop it.

http://www.irinnews.org/radio/af310705dr..ram

 


 

Water

Corporations like Coca-Cola and Suez are aggressively turning water from a basic human right into an unaffordable luxury.

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org:80/cms/page1131.cfm

 

Tobacco

The powerful tobacco industry led by Philip Morris/Altria is still fighting in the US and internationally to undermine the global tobacco treaty.

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org:80/cms/page1111.cfm

 

Food & Agribusiness

Global food and agribusiness corporations like Cargill, Monsanto and Dow increase their profits as people around the world face hunger and malnutrition.

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org:80/cms/page1132.cfm

 

Oil

Big Oil giants like ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco are causing permanent damage to the air we breathe and the water we drink.

http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org:80/cms/page1112.cfm

 


 

Organized Crime and Corruption Information:

 

Bibliographic Database Search

 

 

Global Corruption Report 2004

http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/download.htm

 

Transparency International’s Web Portal on Anti-Corruption Resources (CORIS) http://www.corisweb.org/

 

CORRUPTION, A Special Report, IPS News, www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/corruption/index.asp

 

Business Principles for Countering Bribery http://www.transparency.org/building_coalitions/private_sector/business_principles/dnld/business_principles2.pdf

 

National Whistleblower Center,

http://www.whistleblowers.org/

KEEPING an EYE on the most CORRUPT CONGRESS  EVER

http://www.ourfuture.org/issues_and_campaigns/accountablecongress/index.cfm

 

GARY WEBB'S  DARK ALLIANCE SERIES RE-POSTED BY NARCONEWS

 

"Dark Alliance" series on U.S.-sponsored  narco-trafficking, finally finds a new on-line home. Narco News will, re-publish the full text of Dark Alliance, plus all the extra documentation, photographs, audio recordings, and other features that made the Internet version of the story so unique and influential. http://www.narconews.com

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/start.htm

http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm

 

 


 

 

On PEACE:

 

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors:

 

 

 

                          

 

 

 

Get the Military Out of Our Schools

Are students getting a balanced education about the military?

http://www.objector.org/

 


 

Other Peace Related Issues:

 

     Children's Defense Fund 2005 Gun Report: Protect Children not Guns

     http://childrensdefense.org/education/gunviolence/gunreport2005/default.aspx


 

 

WHITE HOUSE

http://www.citizen.org/ 

 

CONGRESS WATCH  www.citizen.org/congress/

 

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WBAI--99.5 FM, NYC

 

24/7 ARCHIVING OF PROGRAMS

http://archive.wbai.org/

 

THE LYNNE STEWART CASE

For a PDF [89kb] document on the Factual Overview
of Case Against Stewart and Co-Defendants go to:
http://www.wbai.org/pdf/OverviewEYJSL2-14-05.pdf

 

 

 

Democracy Now !  www.democracynow.org

 

Browse programs aired in August http://www.democracynow.org/browsebydate.pl?year=2005&month=08  

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