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WEB RESOURCES ARCHIVE

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MAY 2005

05.11.05 | Scourge

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Marc Bamuthi Joseph's "Scourge"

Exclusive Interview with Mr. Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Pretoria - By Claude Ribbe

Website of Marc Bamuthi Joseph

Haiti Action

Global Exchange's 5th Annual Human Rights Awards Ceremony with Paul Farmer
Thursday May 12th

Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti


Why the Cocks Fight : Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola by Michele Wucker


Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti by Maya Deren


Island Possessed by Katherine Dunham

05.10.05 | Terror Incorporated


Terror Incorporated : Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks by Loretta Napoleoni

05.09.05 | Standing Alone in Mecca


Standing Alone in Mecca : An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam by Asra Nomani

05.06.05 | Media Roundtable

Stephen Labaton, Lorne Manly, and Elizabeth Jensen, New York Times: "Republican Chairman Exerts Pressure on PBS, Alleging Biases"

Karen Everhart, The Current: "As CPB watches, PBS panel debates balance policy"

FAIR Action Alert: CPB Exerting Political Pressure on Public Television

Jack Schafer, Slate: "PBS Unplugged"

05.05.05 | Message vs. Machine

Robert Reich, The New Republic: Story Time

Christopher Hayes, In These Times: How to Turn Your Red State Blue

The Detroit Daily News: Why Bush Won, Kerry Lost, and Where America Goes Now

Christopher Hayes, The New Republic: Lessons Learned About Undecided Voters

05.04.05 | Why Civilian Casualties Matter

Marla Ruzicka, AlterNet: "Why Numbers Matter"

CIVIC Worldwide: The Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict

Iraq Body Count

Human Rights Watch

Marc Herold's website

05.03.05 | Iran & the U.S., Then & Now


All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer

05.02.05 | Pulpits for Progressives?


God's Politics by Jim Wallis

Sojourners Magazine: Faith, Politics, Culture

APRIL 2005

Call To Renewal: A faith-based movement to overcome poverty

04.29.05 | Media Roundtable

Sydney Schanberg, Village Voice: "A Time for Disobedience"

Military Reporters & Editors: "Dear Secretary Rumsfeld: We have grave concerns about restrictions . . ."

Media Matters

Dave Moniz, USA Today: " Female amputees make clear that all troops are on front lines"

Deborah Solomon, New York Times: "Questions for Ken Feree -- Recasting PBS?"

04.28.05 | The Life and Legacy of Andrea Dworkin

Andrea Dworkin, The Guardian: Through the Pain Barrier

AP: Judiciary Committee passes cockfighting bill, tables domestic violence bill

In the Nation by Katha Pollit: Obituary

In the New York Times by Catherine MacKinnon: Who was afraid of Andrea Dworkin?

In the Guardian by Katharine Viner: She never hated men

Washington Post Obituary: Radical Feminist Writer Andrea Dworkin Dies

New Statesman story : About Dworkin's Rape in 2000

The Dworkin Memorial

Wikipedia: Andrea Dworkin

Adbusters Obituary and Comment

CBC interview with MacKinnon re Dworkin
Note: there's about 15 seconds of silence at the top.

04.27.05 | Universal Coverage in California?

Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee: "Panel kills universal health insurance"

David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle: "New Tack for Health Insurance"

Health Care for All

Assemblyman Joe Nation: Legislation

Senator Sheila Kuehl: Legislation

04.26.05 | Big Brother, Inc.


No Place to Hide by Robert O'Harrow

Center for Investigative Reporting: No Place to Hide -- A Multimedia Investigation

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

CalPIRG: Privacy Rights & Identity Theft

04.25.05 | Letters to America


Letters to America: A Chance for Us to Listen by Erica Chawn Geller (Editor), Mark Brecke (Photographer)

Letters to America

One World

American Forum for Global Education

International Pen Friends

04.22.05 | A Benediction for Reform?


Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church by Angela Bonavoglia

Sister Joan Chittister, National Catholic Register: An American Catholic in Rome

Mary Jo McConahay, AlterNet: "The Silencer"

Terry Golway, New York Observer: "Meet The Pope! For Benedict XVI, A Wary Welcome"

04.21.05 | Bob Herbert


Promises Betrayed : Waking Up from the American Dream by Bob Herbert

A Radical in the White House by Bob Herbert

For Marla, No Sacrifice Too Great by Bob Herbert

04.20.05 | EarthWeek- The Toxic Side of Your House


Blue Vinyl

Detoxify Your House: Debra Lynn Dadd

Blue Vinyl Official Website

The World Wildlife Fund's Guide to Freeing Yourself from Toxics

04.19.05 | EarthWeek- The End of Suburbia


The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler

The End of Suburbia

James Howard Kunstler

The Post Carbon Institute

04.18.05 | EarthWeek- Eating Like It Means Something


Holy Cows & Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer's Guide to Farm Friendly Food by Joel Salatin

Eco Friendly Foods

California Certified Organic Farmers

Organic Consumers Association

04.15.05 | Popapocalypse


With God on Their Side by Esther Kaplan


Rapture Culture by Amy Johnson Frykholm

04.14.05 | Tariq Ali


Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali

BBC Four Documentary: Tariq Ali Profile

Progressive Interview: Tariq Ali with David Barsamian

ZNet's Tariq Ali Page

Wikipedia Entry for Tariq Ali


Bush in Babylon by Tariq Ali

04.13.05 | Nurse Power


Nursing Against the Odds by Suzanne Gordon

California Nurses Association

The Center for Nursing Advocacy

Kathy Robertson , Sacramento Business Journal: "Nurse-rules fight may be mostly words"

Neil Nisperos, The Lompoc Record: "Hospitals scramble to meet nurse-patient ratios "

News10 Sacramento: "Judge Rules Governor Acted Illegally in Delaying Nurse-Patient Ratio Law"

The Associated Press: "State to track nurse pay"

The Associated Press: "Governor releases $13 million for new nurse training in California"

David M. Drucker, Whittier Daily News: "Governor's reform package still faces major resistance"

"Nurses: Major protest against Schwarzenegger set for Tuesday"

Beth Fouhy, ASSOCIATED PRESS: "Schwarzenegger's pension pullback a cautionary tale for political hubris"

04.12.05 | The Bay Area Arts Scene

San Francisco Foundation

Dance Mission

Dance Mission Presents the First Annual Cuba Caribe Festival of Dance, Music and Theater

Intersection for the Arts

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery

SF Arts Monthly

Half-Price Tix

National Dance Week

SF Station

04.11.05 | Media Roundtable

American Friends Service Committee: Do You Know Enough to Enlist?

Campus Anti-War Network

CounterRecruiter.net

Coalition Against Militarism In Our Schools

Erika Hayasaki, LA Times: "They're Taking Up Arms"

Rick Hampson, USA Today: "Counter- Recruiters' Shadowing the Military"

Rick Jervis, USA Today: "Military Recruiters Working to Win Over Wary Parents"

Caleb Hale, The Southern: "The Military Option: Recruiters Look to Offer a Little More to Attract People Into Services"

04.08.05 | Media Roundtable

Eric Boehlert, Salon: "The roof collapses on Tom DeLay"

Franc Contreras, Latino USA: "The Minuteman Project now patrolling the border in Arizona"

Pacific News Services: News for the New America

Sam Smith, Progressive Review: "Media Objectivity Embalmed With Pope"

Richard Rodriguez, Pacific News Service: "The Actor-Pope"

Andrea Walker, Baltimore Sun: "Wal-Mart hopes to roll back criticism"

04.07.05 | Worker's Who Won

Eric Schlosser's op-ed from NEW YORK TIMES about the Imokalee workers

Evelyn Nieves, Washington Post: "Accord With Tomato Pickers Ends Boycott Of Taco Bell"

Jennifer Lenhart, Washington Post: "Georgetown Rally Presses Pay Issue:Students Join With Labor Officials"

David Swanson, St. Louis Weekly: "Wage Fright: States and cities consider a livable minimum wage as the Bush administration does nothing"

Stephen Curran, Las Vegas Sun: "Nevada's minimum wage bill could set U.S. example

MAUREEN TURNER, VALLEY ADVOCATE: "Labor Pushes Back Against Bush: A proposed bill would secure the position of new unions -- including one in South Hadley"

InteliCoat Workers Celebrate Wage Increase In First Contract

04.06.05 | The Occupied Economy of Iraq


Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation by Pratap Chatterjee

David Munir Nabti, The Daily Star: "Iraq expo attracts large crowds of exhibitors and participants"

David Baker, San Francisco Chronicle: "Rebuilding Iraq a big, slow job"

David Phinney, CorpWatch: "Halliburton Bribery Scandal Deepens" Former Kuwait Manager Indicted For Million Dollar Payoff

04.05.05 | Taxes: Who Pays and Who Gets Paid?

National Priorities Project: "Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go?"

National Priorities Project: "A Breakdown of How the Federal Government Spent Your Income Taxes"

Taxpayers for Common Sense

Public Policy Institute of California

Citizens for Tax Justice

04.04.05 | What Are You Reading?

Articles by San Francisco Chronicle's David Kipen

San Francisco Chronicle: Books

04.01.05 | Media Roundtable

Tom Lasseter and Yasser Salihee, Knight Ridder: "2nd meeting of Iraqi assembly collapses amid infighting"

Linda Feldmann and Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor: "The Terri Schiavo legacy"

AllAfrica.com

Susan Greene & Mike Soraghan, Denver Post: "3 ask feds to probe ouster at Bush event"

Jeff Cohen, Common Dreams: "Schiavo Case: Media Pander to the Right "

BBC: "Children 'starving' in new Iraq"

MARCH 2005

03.31.05 | And Hybrids for All?

Brendan I. Koerner, Wired: "Rise of the Green Machine"

CalCars: The California Cars Initiative for Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles

Jumpstart Ford: Pressuring Ford to make cleaner cars

Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek: "Imagine: 500 Miles Per Gallon"

Paul Eisenstein, Wired: "Hybrids Hed2Hed"

03.30.05 | Public Broadband in San Francisco

San Francisco public utility approves muni broadband study

Supervisor Ammiano, Media Alliance and Consumer Advocates Announce Municipal Broadband Plan

Utah Telecommunications Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA)

San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association

Media Alliance

California ISP Association

Marisa Lagos, The San Francisco Examiner: "S.F. closer to being digital: City PUC approves feasibility study"

03.29.05 | Regulating Medical Marijuana

Suzanne Herel, SF Chronicle: "Newsom Wants Rules on Pot Clubs"

Rachel Gordon, SF Chronicle: "Regulation Sought for Pot Clubs"

Guy Ashley, The Mercury News: "County Extends Pot Club Restriction"

Todd Milbourn, The Modesto Bee: "45-Day Ban on New Pot Stores"

03.28.05 | Latin American Left

VenezuelaAnalysis

Christian Parenti, The Nation: "Hugo Chavez and Petro Populism"

Alvaro Vargas Llosa, New York Times: "The Return of Latin America's Left"

Kevin Gray, AP: "Latin America's New Left Shows Lots of Old Faces"

Diana Cariboni, IPS: "Politics, A Territory Still to Be Conquered"

Gibby Zobel, Aljazeera: "Latin America Takes a Leftward Turn"

Council on Hemispheric Affairs: "Lula's Growth Strategy: Good for Brazil's Business, Bad for its Environment"

Council on Hemispheric Affairs: "Venezuela and the Latin American New Left"

03.25.05 | Media Roundtable

La Jornada

"The Current" on CBC Radio

Orange County Register editorial: "Mixed results two years on"

Editor & Publisher: "'O.C. Register' First Major Paper to Call for U.S. Pullout in Iraq"

Brian Montopoli, CJR Daily: "When Politicians Go Bad, Must the Press Follow?"

Internet News: "AFP Says 'Non' to Google News"

Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch: "'Protests, You Say? What Protests?"

03.24.05 | Iran Beyond Nukes


"America's Oil Wars" by Stephen C. Pelletiere

Michael A. Fletcher and Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post: Bush Tries To Allay E.U. Worry Over Iran: Notion of U.S. Attack 'Is Simply Ridiculous'

al Jazeera: "Rice backs jets to India but not Iran oil"

Stephen C. Pelletiere, New York Times: "A War Crime or an Act of War?"

A list of Pelletiere's publications

Bloomberg: "India Oil Chief Says U.S. Would Be `Stupid' to Attack Iran"

Jalal Ghazi, Pacific News Service: "Arab Media See U.S.-Iranian Deal-Making Behind a War of Words"

From Jad Mouawad The New York Times: "For OPEC, Iran talks are a first in 34 years"

"War-Gaming the Mullahs: The U.S. weighs the price of a pre-emptive strike," from Newsweek, September 27 issue, 2004.

Macalister, Terry, "Iran takes on west's control of oil trading,"

"The Choice of Currency for the Denomination of the Oil Bill," Speech given by Javad Yarjani, Head of OPEC's Petroleum Market Analysis Dept.

03.23.05 | Killer Cosmetics

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

The Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep Report

The Environmental Working Group's Searchable Product Guide

The Breast Cancer Fund

Environmental Working Group: "FDA Warns Industry to Follow Law on Untested Ingredients"

National Environmental Trust

03.22.05 | Left, Right & Wrong


"Help: The Original Human Dilemma" by Garret Keizer

Garret Keizer, Mother Jones: "Left, Right, & Wrong"

Peter Gorrie, Toronto Star: "Spreading the Message"

03.21.05 | The Battle for California

Gary Delsohn, Sacramento Bee: "Ambitious initiative effort is on"

Arnold Schwarzenegger: "2005: Year of Reform"

Citizens to Save California

Speak Out California

California for Democracy: Stop Schwarzenegger from Terminating California

03.18.05 | Media and the Military


Baghdad Bulletin: Dispatches on the American Occupation by David Enders

Mark Benjamin, Salon: "The invisible wounded"

Los Angeles Times: "The Guard Goes To War: Following California Units to Iraq"

David Enders, The Nation: "The Business of Jihad"

David Enders' Iraq blog

03.17.05 | The Truth About Guantanamo

"Guantanamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom'"

Showing at San Francisco's Brava Theatre from March 23 thru April 17


"Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom" by Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo


"Guantanamo: What the World Should Know " by Michael Ratner

03.16.05 | The FCC After Michael Powell

FCC

Free Press

Drew Clark.com

03.15.05 | The War at Home

Casey's Peace Page

Blue Star Moms

Gold Star Families for Peace

Dolores Park Rally on March 19th

American Friends Day of Action: Stand for Peace

Cindy Sheehan Write about her son: " Not Worth My Son's Sacrifice"

South Bay Bring the Troops Home Now March and Rally

Answer Global Day of Action

Free Republic's List of Actions

Right Wing Response to the day of action

The Big Fort Bragg Rally

03.14.05 | Asian American International Film Festival

Monkey Dance by Julie Malozzi

Continuous Journey by Ali Kazimi

Asian American International Film Festival

03.11.05 | Our Media Roundtable

Michael Scherer, Mother Jones: "Make Your Taxes Disappear!*" Khaled Dawoud, Al-Ahram: "Torture from the Top"

Editor & Publisher: "Garrett of 'Newsday' Rips Tribune Co. 'Greed' in Exit Memo"

Jon Carroll, San Francisco Chronicle: "Today I seek to defend the humble pajama . . ."

Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe: "What rise in freedom?"

Antonia Zerbisias, Toronto Star: "Colleagues under fire but U.S. media mute"

03.10.05 | The Great Bankruptcy Swindle

Ari Berman's Latest Bankruptcy Post from The Nation

Warren and Jacoby's Paper on Medical Disaster and Bankruptcy

A very thorough walk through of the bill and it's political history from Daily Kos

The Bankruptcy Blog

How credit card fees unbound lead straight to bankrupcty from the Washington Post

Frontline's interview with Professsor Elizabeth Warren about bankruptcy reform.

Negative Amortization of Credit Cards from the Washington Post

03.09.05 | Laura's IPA Address

The Independent Press Association

03.08.05 | Trans Truth


"The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Right" by Deborah Rudacille

GLBT Historical Society: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History Archives and Museum

Trans Bay

03.07.05 | Bird in Flight

Bird Up: The Charlie Parker Remix Project

Bird Up: The Originals

Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes

03.04.05 | Right Wing Strategies And The Status Of Women

Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle: "Iraqi, Afghan ex-detainees sue Rumsfeld"

Holly Yeager, Financial Times: "Support wanes for Bush Social Security plan By Holly Yeager in Washington"

Dan Morain, L.A. Times: "'News' Video Extols Gov.'s Plan -- Critics say the state used taxpayer money to promote a proposal to alter meal break rules"

Margaret Carlson, L.A. Times: "When You've Got Good PR, Who Needs Shame? Martha's back, remorse-free and with a hotter career."

03.03.05 | Right Wing Strategies And The Status Of Women

Beijing and BeyondThe Global Week of Action

International Women's Health Coalition

Dorothy Aken 'Ova of International Centre for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights (INCRESE)

International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region

Beijing Declaration Platform for Action

On the presence of right-wing anti-feminist groups at the UN: Beijing+5

Warren Hoge in the New York Times: "United States Drops Anti-Abortion Demand at U.N. Equality Forum"

National Women's Studies Association petition to get the US to re-affirm Beijing

03.02.05 | The AWOL Option

GI Rights Hotline: (800) 394-9544

Harpers Magazine

Camilo Mejia, Common Dreams: "Regaining My Humanity"

03.01.05 | Safe Drugs & The FDA

Worst Pills

"Worst Pills, Best Pills: A Consumer's Guide to Avoiding Drug-Induced Death or Illness" by Sid Wolfe

"Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs," by Dr. Jerry Avorn

Public Citizen: "Petition to Remove Celebrex and Bextra From the Market"

Bloomberg: " FDA Says It Screened Merck, Pfizer Drug Panelists for Conflicts"

LA Times: "Questions Hang Over FDA Panel"

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, LA Times: "Senator Questions FDA Panelists' Ties to Industry"

Bernadette Tansey, SF Chronicle: "The Side Effects of Drug Promotion"

FERBUARY 2005

02.28.05 | Healing Rage

"Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible" by Ruth King

02.25.05 | Media Roundtable

Al-Jazeera's English-language site

BBC News

Norman Birnbaum, The Nation: "Europe by, and for, Itself"

Rupert Cornwell, The Independent: "US Accused of Plan to Muzzle Al-Jazeera Through Privatization"

Jefferson Morley, WahsingtonPost.com: "Bush Gets Stoned by the World Media"

Aaron Barnhardt, TV Barn: "War is hell, and a few other words, too"

02.24.05 | God's Politics


"God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It" by Jim Wallis

JIM WALLIS IN THE BAY AREA

Feb. 24: Grace Cathedral, 1100 California St., SF, 8 pm

Feb. 25: First Congregational Church of Berkeley, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, 7:30 pm

Feb. 27: Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, 950 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park, 7 pm

Feb. 28: Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 1 pm

Apr. 10: Grace Cathedral, 1100 California St., SF, Forum and Sunday Service, 9:30 am

Sojourners

Call to Renewal: People of Faith Overcoming Poverty

02.23.05 | Debating the Toll Zone

London Congestion Charging Zone

SF Examiner: "Toll to drive downtown? Supe suggests fee to drive in congested area."

SF Examiner: "Toll proposal draws strong reactions: Many feel plan would relieve downtown traffic."

SF Examiner: "Downtown toll zone? Examiner View"

SF Indy Media, by Louis Bettencourt & Justin Nyber "Toll to drive downtown?"

02.22.05 | Pension Power

Tom Raum, AP: "Bush Seeks Greater Trans-Atlantic Unity"

European Greens

Heinrich Boll Foundation North America

Jean Lambert, London's Green Member of the European Parliament

David Hammerstein, Spain's Green Member of the European Parliament

02.21.05 | Pension Power


"The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy" by William Greider

Christian Berthelsen, San Francisco Chronicle: "CalPERS elects president Feckner expected to continue fund's activist policies"

William Greider, The Nation: "The New Colossus -- The New Politics of Capital"

Daniel Clifton, American Shareholders Association: "Portable Public Pensions: The Inevitable Reform"

Pacific Research Institute: National Tension Builds Around California's Growing Pension Fight

02.18.05 | Media Roundtable

Julie Rovner, NPR: "FDA Panel to Address Drug Safety Oversight"

Peter Byrne, Salon: "The truth about Arnold"

Aaron Glantz, InterPress Service: "Leaving Kurdistan, Like Leaving a Country"

Free Speech Radio News

David Corn: "The Bizarre Gannon Affair"

Carla Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle: "'Governor, your suits look so beautiful' Media sometime appear starstruck by Schwarzenegger"

John Tierney & Jacques Steinberg: "Conservatives and Rivals Press a Struggling PBS"

Ari Armstrong, Boulder WeeklyCU comforts terrorist

02.17.05 | Fire the Boss

Official Site for "The Take" by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis

"The Take" plays at the 2/18-2/27 Red Vic Movie House

Naomi Klein: "War & Fleece: How Economic Shock Therapy Backfired in Iraq"
Saturday, February 19 7:30pm
First Congregational Church
2501 Harrison Street Oakland

The Making of "The Take": A Conversation with Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis
Sunday, Feb. 20, 2-4 pm
Unitarian Universalist Center
1187 Franklin (at Geary) in San Francisco

02.16.05 | The Dean-o-cratic Party

Daily Kos

Kenneth Baer, The New Republic: "United We Fall"

Chronicle Wire Reports: "Text of Howard Dean's Remarks at DNC Event"

Paul Krugman, New York Times: "The Fighting Moderates"

Bob Burnett, CommonDreams.org: "Meet the New Boss"

Will Lester, AP: "New DNC Head Dean Looks to Rebuild Party"


"Howard Dean: A Citizen's Guide to the Man Who Would Be President" edited by Dirk Van Susteren

02.15.05 | The Man Behind Craigslist

Craigslist

Craig Newmark's Blog

24 Hours on Craigslist

Daniel Terdiman, Wired News: "Wanted: Just About Everything"

02.14.05 | Our Friday Media Roundtable

Stairway to Heaven
At Intersection
February 10 through March 7, $9-$15
Thursdays through Sundays, 8 PM

Intersection for the Arts

Campos Santos

Hagedorn Web Resource

On Hagedorn

Danger and Beauty by Jessica Hagedorn

02.11.05 | Our Friday Media Roundtable

Mark Danner, New York Review of Books: "How Bush Really Won"

Corporate Agribusiness Research Project: The Agribusiness Examiner

Mark Jurkowitz, Boston Globe: "CNN clarifies Iraq comments"

Jane Mayer, New Yorker: "Outsourcing Torture: The secret history of America's 'extraordinary rendition' program."

02.10.05 | No Kyoto? Go Local!

Geoffrey Lean, The Independent: "Apocalypse now: how mankind is sleepwalking to the end of the Earth"

Recommendations of the International Climate Change Taskforce

International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives: Cities for Climate Protection

Jane Kay, San Francisco Chronicle: "Automakers Sue to Toss Smog Law"

Union of Concerned Scientists: Take Action! Automakers v. The People

Jerry Taylor, Cato Institute: "Stop Global Warming? California's Dreaming"

Carl Hall, San Francisco Chronicle: "Lake Tahoe warming mirrors world trend -- Deep Sierra basin's temperature rises 1 degree in 30 years

02.09.05 | Resources for Mary Ellen Pleasant

HAPPENING LOCALLY:
Celebrating the Life of Mary Ellen Pleasant
Thursday, February 10, 6:00-7:45 pm
San Francisco Main Library, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin @ Grove

Mary Ellen Pleasant


"Sister Noon" by Karen Jay Fowler


"The Making of Mammy Pleasant" by Lynn Hudson

02.08.05 | Resources for Returning Veterans

HAPPENING LOCALLY:
Report-backs from Military Family Members on Humanitarian Aid Mission for Fallujah Refugees
New College Theatre, 777 Valencia, S.F. February 8th, 7 p.m.

Berkeley Unitarian Fellowship, 1924 Cedar, at Bonita February 15th, 7 p.m.

Rose Aguilar, AlterNet: "Gimme Shelter"

Cheryl Reed, Chicago Sun-Times: "Homeless Vets Wait Years for Aid"

Bill Berkowitz, WorkingForChange: "To Hell, and They're Coming Back"

Graham Rayman, Newsday.com: "Returning Home to an Uncertain Future"

Department of Veterans Affairs

The National Coalition for Homeless Veterans

Swords to Plowshares

Black Veterans for Social Justice

02.07.05 | Resources for Taboo, Dissent and Freedom of Expression in W's America


Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President : Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House by Helen Thomas

National Center for Science Education

"The Year of Living Indecently" By Frank Rich in the NYTimes

Women's Educational Media

Evolution Takes a Back Seat in U.S. Classes" By Cornelia Dean in the NYTimes

Bluster Over 'Buster' By Debra Chasnoff in the Washington Post

Cartoon Wars by Richard Goldstein in The Nation

Red Sluts, Blue Sluts by Richard Goldstein in The Nation

Helen Thomas Interviews in the Progressive

Helen Thomas Prior to the War

Helen Thomas: "Insurgents Hate Our Policies, Not Our Freedoms"

Helen Thomas: "Comparing Two Presidential Texans -LBJ Had Domestic Record To Be Proud Of



02.04.05 | Resources for Our Friday Media Roundtable


Corporate Predators: The Hunt for Mega-Profits and the Attack on Democracy by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman

Russell Mokhiber, Corporate Crime Reporter: "Eliot "Roosevelt" Spitzer New York AG Makes the Case"

Grade the News: The Bay Area Journalism Report Card

Harper's Magazine

Sam Ramdani, The Guardian: "The Vietnam turnout was good as well -- No amount of spin can conceal Iraqis' hostility to US occupation"

Congress: Investigate and Outlaw Payola Pundits

02.03.05 | Resources for Your State of the Union

NPR: "Fact Check: State of the Union Address"

Think Progress: "Checking Bush's Claims"

Transcript of President Bush's 2005 State of the Union Address

Missouri Rural Crisis Center

La Raza Centro Legal

Eyes Wide Open: An Exhibition on the Human Cost of the Iraq War

Operation Truth

Women's Choice Clinic

02.02.05 | Resources for Grassroots Activism


Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards

Tara Weiss, Connecticut Business: "Feminism Gets More Personal"

Jennifer Baumgarder and Amy Richards Bay Area Appearances:

TONIGHT
Wednesday, February 2, at 7:00
A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books in San Francisco
601 Van Ness Avenue


Thursday, February 3 at 7:30 pm
Cody's Books
2454 Telegraph Avenue at Haste in Berkeley CA 94704
510-845-7852

02.01.05 | Resources for Can't Stop, Won't Stop

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Culture by Jeff Chang

Boogaloo Robot Struttin' Arts Alliance

Bay Area Boogaloo Allstars
April 22nd and 23rd
Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts
A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books in San Francisco
601 Van Ness Avenue


For Dancers Only, A Freestyle Dance Party
February 11th
Featuring the Black Messengers
Traci Bartlow Presents


African Dance Conference
March 12th
The Calvin Simmons Theater
Traci Bartlow Presents

January 2005

01.31.05 | Resources for Debating the Neoconomy


Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble with America's Future Daniel Altman


Bubbleology: The Amazing Science of Stock Market Bubbles Kevin Hassett

Neoconomy

Kevin Hassett at The American Enterprise Institute

The Coming Bush Bust by Robert Kuttner in the American Prospect

The Mother Jones Interview: Daniel Altman

Kevin Hassett:Price Controls Harm Patients

Kevin Hassett: Pro-Growth of Pro-Pork

Bureau of Economic Analysis

01.28.05 | Resources for Our Media Roundtable

Mother Jones

Husain Haqqani, The New Republic: "Bush's Hypocritical Oath"

Arab American News

Media Matters: "Kristol, Krauthammer lauded Bush inauguration speech without disclosing their role as consultants"

Barton Gellman, Washington Post: "Secret Unit Expands Rumsfeld's Domain -- New Espionage Branch Delving Into CIA Territory"

Howard Kurtz, Washington Post: "Propaganda Wars"

01.27.05 | Resources for War in Iran, Past and Present


All the Shah's Men: The American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror Stephen Kinzer

The Coming Wars: What the Pentagon can now do in secret by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker

Iran: US tops list for threatening world peace from Xinhua newsagency

Iran approaches a flashpoint by Kam Zarrabi in Asia Times

01.26.05 | Resources for Is "Troops Out Now" Enough?

Alternet: "Rethinking Iraq: A Debate Among Progressives"

Brendan O'Neill, Spiked Online: "Electing to Cut and Run"

The Guardian: "Death and disorder - when is the right time for troops to pull out?"

Naomi Klein, The Nation: "You Break It, You Pay For It"

01.25.05 | Resources for the Intergeneration Dialogue on Social Security

Ben Hubbard, Boston Globe: "Generational Warfare"

Frederic Frommer, AP: "Social Security Beneficiary Seeks Bold Changes"

Remarks by President Bush in a Conversation on Social Security Reform

Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe: "Two Americas -- One With Gray Hair, One Without"

Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan - "Protecting Social Security" Campaign for America's Future: Social Security

01.24.05 | Resources for the Blockbusters of Independents

International Buddhist Film Festival
Begins Friday, January 28th

Anthony Breznican, USA Today: "If the Oscars Are Like the Globes..."

Joe Horton, Daily Trojan: "Foreign Directors Tell State of Films"

Movie Trailers from Apple

01.21.05 | Resources for the Media Roundtable

Tara McKelvey, The American Prospect: "Unusual Suspects: What happened to the women held at Abu Ghraib?"

Jamal Dajani, Pacific News Service: "'Occupied Democracy': A New American Foreign Policy"

Le Monde

Mosaic: World News from the Middle East

Dominic Timms, The Guardian: "Fearful US TV networks censor more shows"

Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker: "The Coming Wars - What the Pentagon can now do in secret."

Bill Carter and Jacques Steinberg, New York Times: "CBS Plans to Change Evening News Format"

01.20.05 | Resources for the Counter Inaugural

Counter Inaugural Rallies

ANSWER Coalition

Its not a party without a protest from the St. Petersburg Times

New dissent tactics will mark Bush inaugural from the Boston Globe

Spending halt urged as protest from the (NY)Journal News

01.18.05 | Resources for The Debt Threat


"The Debt Threat" by Noreena Hertz

Noreena Hertz, MediaChannel.org: "The Debt Threat Complicates Tsunami Disaster"

Oxfam: "Rich Countries Risk Failing Tsunami Victims"

Julio Godoy, IPS: "Many Insist on Repaying Debt"

Celia Dugger, New York Times: "U.N. Report Urges Rich Nations to Double Aid to Poor"

iafrica.com: "Brown Renews Call for Debt Relief"

Matthew Tempest, Guardian: "Debt Relief Will Not Save Africa, Warns Short"

01.17.05 | Resources for the Roadmap to Social Justice Show

Van Jones: "Our Moment of Truth: Moving Forward & Deeper"

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

01.14.05 | Resources for the Media Roundtable

Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

Chicago Reporter

Progressive Review

David Corn, The Nation: "Armstrong Williams: I Am Not Alone"

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Pacific News Service: "Media Manipulation: Armstrong Williams Payoff Tip of Iceberg"

Jack Schafer, Slate: "Investigating the Investigators"

Thomas B. Edsall and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, Washington Post: "Big-Money Contributors Line Up for Inauguration"

01.13.05 | Resources for Tony Kushner


"Caroline, or Change" by Tony Kushner

"Caroline, or Change"
at San Francisco's Curran Theatre
Previews: January 14-16
Run: January 18-February 20

Richard Goldstein, Village Voice: "Angels in a Changed America"

The New Yorker's John Lahr, on interviewing Tony Kushner

01.12.05 | Resources for Rethinking Abortion

Catholics for a Free Choice

Frances Kissling:"Is There Life After Roe? How to Think About the Fetus"

Sharon Lerner, The Village Voice:"The Fetal Frontier"

Joe Feuerherd, National Catholic Reporter: "After Election Loss, Some Say Democrats Should Rethink Abortion Stance"

AP: "Abortion Opponent Roemer Enters Race for DNC Chairman"

01.11.05 | Resources for the Health Care Rights

Health Access

Consumers for Quality Care

The California Patient's Guide: Your Health Care Rights and Remedies

01.10.05 | Resources for the Palestinian Election Show

Akiva Eldar, Haaretz: "Israel's excuses are running out"

Wikipedia entry on the Palestinian Election

List of articles by Akiva Eldar

Steven Erlanger , New York Times "Palestinian Ballot Presents Quandary For Hamas"

Greg Myre , New York Times "Israel Eases Travel Limits On Palestinians Before Election"

Steven Erlanger , New York Times "For Abbas, Palestinian Election May Be Easy Part"

Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post "Bush Praises Successful Vote As Key to Palestinians' Future"

01.07.05| Resources for Media Roundtable


"The Hammer: Tom DeLay: God, Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congress" by Lou Dubose and Jan Reid

Beth Fouhy, Associated Press: "Democrats label plans as 'partisan'"

The Electronic Intifada

Lou Dubose, LA Weekly: "Letter from Austin -- Accommodating Al"

The Texas Observer

David Swanson,Counterpunch: "Missing in Action -- The Media and the Ohio Recount"

Khalid Amayreh, Al Jazeera: "Israel arrests Palestinian candidates"

Laura Meckler, AP "Faith-based initiative' grants total $1 billion"

01.06.05| Resources for American Illusions, Iraqi Reality


"The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq" by Christian Parenti

Christian Parenti, The Nation: "The News From Planet Falluja"

Christian Parenti in the Bay Area:
Wednesday, January 12th at 7:30 p.m.
At Modern Times, 888 Valencia in SF
Thursday, January 13th at 7:30 p.m.
Cody's on Telegraph in Berkeley

01.05.05| Resources for The Legacy of Shirley Chisholm

Chisholm '72- Unbought and Unbossed

Chisholm Campaign Recalled By BECKY O'MALLEY

Have the guts to follow Chisholm from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution

The legacy of two pioneer Democrats by THOMAS OLIPHANT in the Boston Globe

Chisholm's Legacy by John Nichols in the Nation

The Asian-American view of Matsui and Chisholm from LA Chung in the San Jose Mercury News

Back Home in Brooklyn, Rivals and Allies Remember Chisholm By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD in the New York Times

01.04.05| Resources for The Death of Environmentalism


"Act Now, Apologize Later" by Adam Werbach

Common Assets

Adam Werbach Commonwealth Club Speech: "The Death of Environmentalism and the Birth of the Commons Movement"

Adam Werbach, SF Chronicle: "A Challenged Environment: How Environmentalists Can Matter Again"

Lakshmi Chaudry, AlterNet: "Is Liberalism Dead?"

01.03.05| Resources for Van Jones

Van Jones, Yes! Magazine: "Healing & Resistance"

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Jenifer Warren, LA Times: "State Youth Prisons on Road to Rehab"

December 2004

12.31.04 | Resources for Auld Lousy News

Geov Parrish, WorkingForChange.com: "2004 media follies!"

Geov Parrish, WorkingForChange.com: "More media follies"

Norman Solomon, FAIR Media Beat: "Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2004"

Laura Miller, Center for Media and Democracy: "Thanks for the (False) Memories: the 2004 Falsies Awards"

12.30.04 | Resources for Beyond "Rock en Espanol"

Songs played on the show:

Los Prisioneros: "We Are Sudamerican Rockers"
Bola de Nieve: "Ay Mama Ines"
Toncho Pilates: "Espera"
Mecano: "La Fuerza del Destino"
Mano Negra: " Mala Vida"
CafŽ Tacuba: "Tropica de Cancer"
Tortoise: "The Equator"
Cornelius: "God Only Knows"
Atom Heart featuring Tea Time: "Muchacha"
Control Machee: "Ë Te Aprovechas del Limite?"
Murcof: "Ulysses"
Pepito: "Business"/"Tijuana, Habana"/"Details"

Static Discos records

Pepito

12.29.04 | Resources for Reporting Bill Hicks

Jack Boulware, San Francisco Chronicle: "Too close to the bone -- Bill Hicks' biting routines kept him a cult comedian"

The DVD Collection Bill Hicks Live from Rykodisk


"American Scream- The Bill Hicks Story" by Cynthia True


"Love All the People- Lyrics, Writings and Routines"

Ed Hamell: Hamell on Trial Songwriter of Bill Hicks Ascension

12.23.04 | Resources for Reporting the Global Vote

Anna Badkhen, San Francisco Chronicle: "U.S. poured millions into Ukraine, but State Department denies trying to influence vote"

Andrew Gumbel, LA CityBeat: "Reality Check"

Hannah Allam, Knight Ridder: "Secularism, defeating insurgency key planks in Allawi's platform"

Jonathan Steele, The Nation: "Ukraine's Untold Story"

Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman: "Ohio electoral fight becomes 'biggest deal since Selma' as GOP stonewalls"

Wired.com: Machine Politics: The Lowdown on E-Voting

12.23.04 | Resources for the San Francisco's Youth Speaks Out Show

Vision Youthz

Yo! Youth Outlook

San Francisco Youth Commission

San Francisco Youth Groups

12.22.04 | Resources for the Daily Life Under the Occupation Show

Occupation Watch

An Iraqi Timeline

Resource Page of Information Sites About Iraq

Iraq Casualty Counter

Car bombs kill 62 in Karbala, Najaf By Paul Garwood of the ASSOCIATED PRESS

12.21.04 | Resources for the Protecting Your Credit Show

Frontline: "Secret History of the Credit Card"

Patrick McGeehan, NY Times: "Soaring Interest Compounds Credit Card Pain for Millions"

Will Lester, AP: "Poll: Half in U.S. Worry About Debt Level"

California Public Interest Research Group

Consumer Credit Counseling Service of San Francisco

Institute of Consumer Financial Education

12.20.04 | Resources for the Radical Jesus Show

Sojourners: Faith, Politics, and Culture

12.17.04 | Resources for Media Roundtable

Jeff Cohen, AlterNet: "R.I.P. Gary Webb -- Unembedded Reporter"

Mark Hosenball, Newsweek: "Withdrawn"

Robert Parry, ConsortiumNews: "America's Debt to Journalist Gary Webb"

Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman, The Columbus Free Press: "American Democracy Hangs by a Thread in Ohio."

Robert Scheer, LA Times: "Kerik's 'Nannygate' Was the Least of It"

Zachary Roth, CJRDaily: "USA Today: Whatever the White House Says"

Jeffrey Chester, AlterNet: "PBS' Future Post-Moyers"

12.16.04 | Resources for Videogames as Cultural Artifact Show

Ludology: The Study of Games

Game Studies

Game Spy

Game Tab

12.15.04 | Resources for The Future of Social Security Show

Paul Krugman, New York Times: "Inventing a Crisis"

Center for Economic & Policy Research: Social Security

For Our Grandchildren: Social Security has to be fixed: personal accounts are the solution.

Dean Baker, The Nation: "Anti-Social Security"

AARP Action Center: Social Security

12.14.04 | Resources for the Care Not Cash Check In

"Shame of the City: A Special Report on the Homeless"

Tiny and Clive Whistle, Poor News Network: "Newsom's Homeless Plan: Truth or Lies?"

Coalition on Homelessness

Community Awareness & Treatment Services, Inc.

San Francisco Homelessness Organizations

12.13.04 | Resources for the Electoral Election

20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA

Citizens' Alliance for Secure Elections

National Voting Rights Institute

Sacramento for Democracy: Emergency Rally Outside California's State Capitol

Code Pink: Voter Bill of Rights

List of Election 2004 Lawsuits

AP: "Kerry Lawyers Asks for Visual Inspection of Some Ohio Ballots"

The Blue Lemur: "Congressman Accuses Ohio of Stonewalling, Obstructing State's Recount"

Rachel Conrad, AP: "Doubts Persist About Election Results"

12.10.04 | Resources for the All Blog Media Roundtable

The Daily Kos

The List of Blogs mentioned on today's show:
Eschaton by Atrios
The Washington Note
Washington Monthly
Slashdot Politics
MYDD
Free Republic
Talking Points Memo
Instapundit

How to find Blogs:
Bloglines
Buzzflash
Technorati

Blogs from our Listeners:
Fletcho the Photoblog
Ranunculus
Fairshot

Blogs in the News
Blogs: New Medium, Old Politics from CBS news
and Duncan Clarke Responds

12.09.04 | Resources for the Employing the Disabled Show

National Organization on Disability

The Arc of San Francisco

Women's Initiative for Self Employment

Disability Organizations in San Francisco

"Disabled Women Pull for Parity"Rose Aguilar, Bay Area BusinessWoman

"Professor Fighting Discrimination Step by Step"Jake Ellison, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"HP Honored with 2004 New Freedom Initiative Award by U.S. Secretary of Labor Elain Chao"

Hewlett-Packard's Accessibility Program

12.08.04 | Resources related to the Open Line to Iraq Show

"Mayhem in Iraq Is Starting to Look Like a Civil War" by Edward Wong, New York Times

"Bush policies set off skirmish on fate of Iraqi elections"Juan Cole, Detroit News

" Iraq's election wild card: Kirkuk"Annia Ciezadlo, Christian Science Monitor

"Operation Save Face"Peter Galbraith, The American Prospect

12.07.04 | Resources related to the How to Write a Novel Show

National Novel Writing Month

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

"No Plot? No Problem! A Low-Stress, High Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days" by Chris Baty

"Shifting Through Neutral" by Bridgett Davis

"Caucasia" by Danzy Senna

"Symptomatic" by Danzy Senna

12.06.04 | Resources related to the Amos Oz Show


"A Tale of Love and Darkness" by Amos Oz

Meet Amos Oz at the Commonwealth Club
Tuesday Night
5:45 p.m., Check-in | 6:30 p.m., Program
Commonwealth Club Office
595 Market St, 2nd floor, San Francisco
$12 for Members, $18 for Non-members

12.03.04 | Resources related to the Media Roundtable Show

Lane Greene, The Economist Global Agenda: "Towards a more relevant United Nations"

Sandip Roy, Pacific News Service: "20 Years After Bhopal, Women Survivors Globalize Fight for Justice"

Antonia Zerbisias, Toronto Star: "Networks' coverage of visit proves insight is snow joke -- Chilly reports earn frosty reception"

Antonia Zerbisias, Toronto Star: "Probe here over aired Arab slurs -- Arafat mourners derided on MSNBC"

Margaret Carlson, LA Times: "When the Job Stinks, a Woman Gets It"

John Nichols, TheNation.com: "Love One Another? Not On CBS, NBC"

12.02.04 | Resources related to the AIDS & The Politics of Women's Health Show

AIDS Action

Global AIDS Alliance: World AIDS Day briefing

International Women's Health Coalition: HIV-AIDS and Women

Lawrence Altman, New York Times: "Female Cases of H.I.V. Found Rising Worldwide"



11.30.04 | Resources related to the Wing-nuts and Weed Show

AP: "Excerpts of Medical Marijuana Arguments"

David Savagae, LA Times: "Court Weighs Challenge to Medical Marijuana"

Bloomberg: "Medical Marijuana Law Draws Skepticism at U.S. Supreme Court"

Robert Kampia, SF Chronicle: "Election Victories Signal Pot-Policy Reform"

Greg Jonsson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Voters Cut Marijuana Penalties"

11.29.04 | Resources related to the Monthly Book Show

SF Chronicle: Books

David Kipen, SF Chronicle: "A Full Serving for Aficionados of M.F.K. Fisher"

David Kipen, SF Chronicle: "We, the People of California, Deserve Poetry"

David Kipen, SF Chronicle: "A College Novel That Reads Like Homework"

11.24.04 | Resources related to the Holiday Movie Round-Up (Yee haw)

Movie Trailers

SF Chronicle: Movies

Carol Cling, Las Vegas Review-Journal: "At the Movies: Holiday Flicks"

Greg Hernandez, L.A. Daily News: "A Disney Year After All"

11.23.04 | Resources related to the Draft Backlash Show

Soldiers angered by 'unfair' Iraq call-ups By Catherine Miller of the BBC

The Executive Order the Pentagon says Gives Rumsfeld the Authoirty for Stop-Loss and IRR

Filing in Doe v. Rumsfeld involving Today's Guest, Joshua Sondheimer

1 in 3 IRR soldiers fail to report for mobilization By Jane McHugh, Army Times, September 27, 2004

Judge: Reservist Must Report For Duty from the Associated Press

This GI Joe Won¥t Go - Ex-soldier resists backdoor draft into Iraq war by Howard Blume, LAWeekly

The Newshour talks with the Army and Some Soldiers About the Call-ups

A Roll Call of War Resisters from within the Military

Pendleton Marine first Ready Reservist to die after Iraq recall

Reservist refuses to serve in Iraq, and wins

THE COLLAPSE OF THE ARMED FORCES By Col. Robert D. Heinl, Jr. Armed Forces Journal, 7 June, 1971

11.22.04 | Resources related to the Negative Energy Show

David Lazarus, San Francisco Chronicle: "Abraham Won't Be Missed"

Sierra Club: Energy and Global Warming

Citizen Alert: Yucca Mountain Matters

Progressive Government Institute Policy Watch: Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy

Natural Resource Defense Council: The Bush Record on Air, Energy and Global Warming

American Wind Energy Association

11.19.04 | Resources related to the Media Roundtable

Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher: "Landscape After Battle"

Daniel Sneider, San Jose Mercury News: "U.S., China hide worries under smiles"

Omar Khan, ZNet: "Covering Fallujah"

Photojournalist Kevin Sites' Iraq blog

Alternative sites for Iraq coverage:
Fallujah in Pictures

Al Jazeera' English-language site

Juan Cole: Informed Comment

Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

Mosaic: World News from the Middle East

Arab Toronto

11.18.04 | Resources related to the Voting Rights & Wrongs Show

Sign and Circulate the new Voters Bill of Rights

People for the American Way: Act on What We Saw on November 2nd

Sign a Petition to Congress requesting an investigation into the 2004 Presidential Election

Alan Gilbert, Common Dreams: "Corrupt Before a Vote was Cast"

Salon: "Presidential debate -- Reporter Greg Palast and Salon's Farhad Manjoo debate the election results in Ohio."

League of Pissed Off Voters

11.17.04 | Resources related to the The Fight for the Democratic Party Show

The Clinton Formula: Forget the left-center divide -- it's not 1992 anymore. Defend government. Fight smarter. Smile. Win. By Michael Tomasky

Is It Time to Believe? Bill Clinton rebuilt the Democratic Party in crucial ways. But Howard Dean is rebuilding it in a way Clinton missed. Party insiders would do well to make their peace with it.

Democrats Elect Reid as Senate Minority Leader in the NYTimes By DAVID STOUT

Democrats Vie for Party Chair by Marc Ambinder of ABCNews

Talking Points Memo Play-by-plays the knife fight

Talking Points Memo Play-by-plays the knife fight

Vote Righteously! by Brad Carson

11.16.04 | Resources related to the Neil Jordan Show


"Shade" by Neil Jordan

Meet Neil Jordan:
Neil Jordan is reading tonight at 7:00 pm at A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books
601 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco

Reviews:
Margie Thomson, New Zealand Herald: "Neil Jordan: Shade"

Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Daily Nonpareil: "Jordan's 'Shade' Explores Lost Innocence, Murder"

Sara Ivry, SF Chronicle: "A Ghost Witnesses All"

11.15.04 | Resources related to the Palestinian Life Show


"Dishonest Broker: The Us Role In Israel & Palestine" by Naseer Aruri


"Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900" by Beshara Doumani

Jewish Voice for Peace

BBC In Depth: "Death of Arafat"

Ben Lynfield, Christian Science Monitor: "Yasser Arafat's Legacy"

Guardian: "Arafat and His Legacy"

BBC: "Papers Consider Arafat's Legacy"

Corinne Heller, Reuters: "Israelis Unmoved by Arafat Death"

The Jewish Divide on Israel from the Nation by Esther Kaplan

11.12.04 | Resources related to the Media Roundtable Show


Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq

Robert Parry, ConsortiumNews.com: "Explaining Ourselves"

Khaled Dawoud, Al-Ahram: "Licence to kill -- George W Bush seems likely to spend the "political capital" of his reelection on more wars

Phillip Carter, Slate: "Loyal to a Fault? The Senate should hold Alberto Gonzales accountable for his bad legal advice."

Phillip Carter's blog: Intel Dump

Media for Democracy: "Networks Return to the Front, and to TV Group Think"

11.11.04 | Resources related to the Civilians in War Show


Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood

Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Gilbert Burnham, et al., The Lancet: "Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq"

Johns Hopkins Center for International Emergency, Disaster, and Refugee Studies

Women for Women International

Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling

Event Where Guests Will Be Appearing
Maha Abu-Dayyeh Shamas speaks on Nationalism, Fundamentalism and Gender: the Palestinian Women's Experience
Sunday, November 14 from 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Middle East Children's Alliance
901 Parker Street (at 7th St.), Berkeley
Middle East Children's Alliance

11.10.04 | Resources related to the Justifications for Violence Show


Rising Up, Rising Down

Rising Up, Rising Down: Publisher's Site

Big Question Gets Long Answer from the New York Observer

Times Literary Supplement Review

Literary Review of Canada Interview

New York Times Book Review/Pan

11.09.04 | Resources related to the Community Building Show

Northern California Council for the Community

The India Basin Neighborhood Association

TEAMS: Transformation through Education and Mutual Support

11.08.04 | Resources related to the Slow Food Show

Slow Food

Chez Panisse

Michael Pollan, New York Times Magazine: "Our National Eating Disorder"

Sylvia Poggioli, NPR: "Saving Slow Food in Turin"

Carol Ness, SF Chronicle: "Fighting for the Future of Food"

11.5.04 | Resources related to the Media Roundtable

Andrew Gumbel, The Independent: "Signing off from duty: Kerry calls on Bush to begin building bridges"

Andrew Gumbel, The Independent: "Ohio: Tight ballot security prevents dirty tricks"

Univision: Voz y Voto

Ruth Conniff, The Progressive: "Nader's Students"

11.4.04 | Resources related to the What Next Show

New Democrat Network

Democracy for America

Shobak: Outsider Muslims

Empire Notes

11.3.04 | Resources related to the Morning After Show

California Proposition Results

Cleveland Electoral Blog

If all else fails: Marry an American

The French Consulate in San Francisco

Escape From America Magazine

11.2.04 | Resources related to the Election 2004 Show

Know your rights as a voter:
*If you vote in a California county that uses paperless, electronic voting machines (see a list here), you have the right to request a paper ballot.
*You have the right to vote if you are in line before the polls close -- no matter how long it takes.
*You have the right to request a new ballot if you make a mistake.
*You have the right to ask questions. If you do not understand how the voting equipment works, just ask one of the poll workers. They are there to help!

Find Your Polling Place

Toll-free Election Protection Voters' Hotline: 866-OUR-VOTE (687-8683) Election Protection

Election Incident News Archive

If all else fails: Marry an American

11.1.04 | Resources related to the World to America Show

Paul Reynolds, BBC: "The World Waits: Bush or Kerry?"

Daily Times: "Bush vs Kerry: Foreign Policy"

Mike Belt, Journal-World: "Diplomats Weight in on U.S. Election"

Rory Carroll, Guardian: "Why Africa Roots for Kerry"

The Korea Herald: "U.S. Election and Asia"

Tony Parkinson, The Age: "An Election That Touches Us All"

The Economist: "America's Next President"

Reuters: "U.S. Expats Jump on Planes to Vote"

October 2004

10.29.04 | Resources related to the Media Roundtable Show

Russ Baker, Guerrilla News Network: "Exclusive: Bush Wanted To Invade Iraq If Elected in 2000"

Russ Baker's reporting archive

Kareem Fahim, Village Voice: "First the Guns, Now the Butter: America shows two faces in Yemen, both meant to fight terror"

Eric Boehlert, Salon: "RNC pretends newspapers lean left"

Scott McConnell, The American Conservative: "Kerry's the One"

10.28.04 | Resources related to the Gore Vidal Show


Imperial America

Gore Vidal, The Nation: "State of the Union, 2004"

Imperial America by Gore Vidal

10.27.04 | Resources related to the Morning After Show

Medea Benjamin, Common Dreams: "Stolen Election? This Time Around, Let's Be Prepared"

Steve Cobble and Charles Shaw, AlterNet: "This Time, the People Are Watching"

Andrew Gumbel, Independent: "Portrait of a Country On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown"

New York Times Editorial: "Election Day Misdeeds"

Geov Parrish, Workingforchange.com: "Coping With the Post-Election World""

Pledge of Action to Stop A Stolen Election

No Stolen Election Events

Beyond Voting

Election Protection

10.26.04 | Resources related to the Countering Voter Suppression Show

National Coalition for Black Civic Participation

Big G.O.P. Bid to Challenge Voters at Polls in Key State By MICHAEL MOSS in the NYTimes

People for the American Way, State of Florida Sued to Prevent the Disenfranchisement of Thousands of Voters

S.C. lawmaker accuses GOP of trying to suppress vote In speech to Toledo union, Clyburn decries hiring of poll-watchers By CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK , Toledo Blade

Kerry sounds clarion call to Florida's black voters, by ADAM C. SMITH and TAMARA LUSH

Fears voiced about election irregularities By Toby Eckert COPLEY NEWS SERVICE

10.25.04 | Resources related to the Propositions Show

Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee: "Governor Leads Ballot Issue Fights"

California Journal

California Journal Ballot Propositions

The California Budget Project

California Voter Foundation Proposition Guide

Harry Saltzgaver, Gazettes.com: "Ballot Propositions Likely to Decide Two-Party System's Fate"

Bloomberg: "Californians Favor Stem-Cell Study, Millionaire Tax, Polls Say"

10.22.04 | Resources related to the Reporter's Roundtable

Esther Kaplan, The Nation: 'Follow the Money'

Camille Taiara, San Francisco Bay Guardian: "The New Cointelpro"

Iraq: A Profitable Occupation by Pratap Chatterjee (Seven Stories Press)

David Phinney, CorpWatch: "Iraq Contractor Accused of Offshore Shell Game"

10.21.04 | Resources related to the Operaganda show

Steve Winn, San Frncisco Chronicle " As Nov. 2 nears, artists get in their last licks, sending up Bush and company on center stage"

Laura's Bush Homepage

Hell: The Opera Homepage

10.20.04 | Resource