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 >in this issue:                   

• CIVIL RIGHTS CASES:  Civil Rights in America
• CURRENT EVENTS:   
• EYE ON HUMAN RIGHTS:    
• DISPATCHES FROM IRAQ:  Sects and Solidarity in Iraq / Interview with Dahr Jamail--"Life in Fallujah is a Horror Story"
• FOCUS ON NEWARK, NJ:   Follow the Money
• IN RETROSPECT:   The Myth and the Dream 
• RECOMMENDED READING:  Poor People's Movements / Hitler's Pope / Manuel Noriega--America's Prisoner
• WORDS OF INSPIRATION:  Civil Rights / Legal Corruption / A Free Press
• NEWS-LINK TICKER:  Today's News  / Prior News:International;National;Commentary/Opinion
• COMMENTARY by JIM HIGHTOWER:  "How the BUSHITES 'SUPPORT TROOPS' " / Preaching Democracy
• EDITORIAL page:   At it Again; Making the World Safe for... ? 

>Essays & articles of interest published by other sites:  

American Civil Liberties Union:

MULTIMEDIA:

THE NEW FACE OF AMERICA

http://www.aclu.org/rumsfeld/flash/index.html

Interrogation Techniques Approved by Lt. General Sanchez Included Intimidation by dogs, stress positions, sensory deprivation,  http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17852&c=206

Amnesty International

OBITUARY: Peter Benenson

Founder of Amnesty International

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=615411

Peter Benenson Biography

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/action/events/biography.shtml

http://news.amnesty.org/index/engorg100012005

MULTIMEDIA:  Tribute to Peter Benenson

http://news.amnesty.org/mavp/mediaclip.nsf/0/5982E1E37E56174580256BDB003A8891

HUMAN RIGHTS INFORMATION BY COUNTRY AND REGION:

AMERICAS:  http://web.amnesty.org/library/engworld/2am

AFRICA: http://web.amnesty.org/library/engworld/2af

ASIA & THE PACIFIC:  http://web.amnesty.org/library/engworld/2as

EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA:  http://web.amnesty.org/library/engworld/2eu

HUMAN RIGHTS THEMES:  http://web.amnesty.org/library/engthemes

ACT NOW FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: http://www.amnesty.org/actnow/index.html

EPIC

OBSERVING SURVEILLANCE IN ACTION

Washington, DC, is a 'new' city. Cameras are everywhere ! So, SMILE--BIG BROTHER is watching.

http://www.observingsurveillance.org/

FOIA NOTES / FORMER SECRETS

http://www.epic.org/foia_notes/note1.html

http://www.epic.org/open_gov/foiagallery

http://www.epic.org/open_gov/foia/secrets.html

COMPANIES UNBLOCK LINKS TO FREE CREDIT REPORT SITE
annualcreditreport.com. Fair Credit Reporting Act Page.

GREENPEACE

PLAY THE ECO QUEST GAME

http://activism.greenpeace.org/eco_quest/

NOT ONLY the environment is changing for the worse, so is our FOOD...

http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/news/details?item_id=806365

Human Rights Watch Reports:

CHILD SOLDIERS

Children are Used as Soldiers in Most Major Conflicts

http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/11/17/global9677.htm

SUDAN: DARFUR IN CRISIS

http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/darfur

Multimedia:  Videos / Photo Essays / Audio Clips

IRIN NEWS Reports:

IRIN NEWS WEB SPECIALS

http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/guinea/default.asp

Organized Crime and Corruption Information:

Bibliographic Database Search

Global Corruption Report 2004

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

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

On PEACE:

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors:

Other Peace Related Issues:

Children's Defense Fund 2005 Gun Report: Protect Children Not Guns http://childrensdefense.org/education/gunviolence/gunreport2005/default.aspx

 

 

TALIBAN COUNTRY, A FILM BY CARMELA BARANOWSKA (see it online) http://www.journeyman.tv/download.php?id=10258

PUBLIC CITIZEN

WATCH WHERE www.citizen.org 

Public Citizen is not affiliated with THE CITIZEN for Social Responsibility in any manner.

WBAI--99.5 FM, NYC

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

Live from Riverside Church, NYC

Mon., Apr. 4, 7:00-9:30 pm: Coverage of Martin Luther King Memorial Event Opposing the Iraq War

Readings from Dr. King's 1967 speech against the Vietnam War; various religious readings and chants; speakers including Rev. James Forbes, Dr. Susannah Heschel, Imam Feisal Rauf, Sister Joan Chittister, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, Rev. Osaqyefo Sekou; and (invited) Rev. Jim Wallis, Marian Edelman, Rev. Jesse Jackson, & Harry Belafonte.  Read more... 

IN MEMORIAM:  Activist Judge Hon. Bruce Wright (1918 - 2005)

(DailyPrincetonian.com,) Bruce Wright, who crusaded against racial discrimination for a quarter-century as a New York judge, died in his sleep Thursday at the age of 86. His wife, Elizabeth Davidson-Wright, announced his death from their home in Old Saybrook, Conn.  Read more...

Sights & Sounds: Video of NYC Rally in Harlem and Central Park

(Don DeBar, Special to wbai.org, last updated Mar. 26, 2005) Videos 1 thorugh 10 - covering the train ride in, the walk to Marcus Garvey Park, the rally there, the march along 125th Street, the walk to Central Park and video of Pam Africa, Howard Zinn and others on the East Meadow stage - are the first of 11 videos, produced to be viewed in sequence.

Read more...

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