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Dear Friends:
Please write to your Senators and Representatives to oppose this Act, yet another anti-Arab racist move by those who would defame Muslim and Arab countries From: The Media Monitors
Saudi Accountability Act S.1888/HR 3643
Date: 1/14/04 From: Cbrad4334
The Saudi Arabia Accountability Act (S.1888/HR 3643) seeks to place harsh sanctions against the kingdom for not cooperating in the war on terror. This bill will damage the U.S.-Saudi relationship and impair the U.S.'s ability to effectively work with its allies to counter terrorism. The Bush Administration has publicly stated on many occasions, particularly since the bombings in Saudi Arabia this year, that the kingdom is cooperating fully with the United States in combating terrorism. Congress should not undermine the efforts of the Administration in the war on terror and thereby make Americans less safe.
Tims Stinson
The SUV tax is gone but...has California cut off its nose to spite its face?
"I have fulfilled my promise," stated Governor Schwarzenegger recently. "I have eliminated the SUV tax." Smart shopping, California? Not!
What can we possible buy with the money we saved that can possibly be more valuable to us than healthy local government, good schools and the protection of our property and lives in case of fire, burglary or medical emergency?
Next time we dial 911 and get a busy signal, let's just remember all that extra lingerie we got to buy from Victoria's Secret with the money we saved on SUV taxes and be glad. Remember what Mama used to say. "If you get in an accident, make sure you are wearing clean underwear!" Of course this thought will console us as we bleed to death out in the middle of some deserted freeway south of Fresno because the state can no longer afford adequate CHPs.
When they close our children's schools, will we still think that sacrificing our children's education was worth not paying the SUV tax because now our kids have an extra big-screen television to watch instead of knowing how to read? Will watching cartoons five hours a day help train Junior for California's shrinking job market? We are about to find out!
Was paying a SUV tax really the greater of two evils? Not even close! What we SHOULD have done was demand our money back from Enron and stop paying exorbitant blackmail money to PG&E. Then, if Pacific Gas & Electric actually does go belly-up, it will be the Schwarzenegger/Davis/Wilson crowd, not us, who will lose their shorts. And, meanwhile, we smart Californians will be off making firemen happy and buying little frilly lacy things from Victoria's Secret.
Jane Stillwater
Longshoremen To Strike Against The War on March 20
From Liberation News (Steve Argue)]
Yamamoto-san, The San Francisco longshore union has voted at our membership meeting to stop work on March 20 to protest the war in Iraq. We will demand an end to the war, an end to the occupation and the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. troops now!
We are trying to organize all ports on the U.S. West Coast to take the same action as Local 10. If they decide to follow our lead, then it will send a powerful working class message to the warmongers in Washington that we don't support imperial wars like the one in Iraq.
We hope this action will coincide with yours in Japan and help to put an end to the needless slaughter in Iraq.
For international solidarity,
Jack Heyman
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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