Mn-prog-events Mailing List: Progressive Calendar 05.16.06

[David Shove (shove001]

            P R O G R E S S I V E   C A L E N D A R    05.16.06

1. Choice vigil       5.16-19 8:30am-4pm
2. Vietnam/Madison/TV 5.16 8pm

3. German internment  5.17 9am
4. AmInd/feast        5.17 12noon
5. Natural step       5.17 2:30pm St Joseph MN
6. Womens Consortium  5.17 5:30pm
7. Mustard out        5.17 6:30pm
8. Anti-torture       5.17 6:30pm
9. Lynching/film      5.17 7pm
10. Rock-Tenn future  5.17 7pm

11. Kristen Olson  - Job/Green Party
12. Ashley James   - Green Party endorsing convention results
13. W David Kubiak - The 9/11 key to political transformation

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Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 08:35:35 -0400
From: Bonnie [at] mnwomen.org
Subject: Choice vigil 5.16-19 8:30am-4pm

Hello to all E-friends of the Minnesota Women's Consortium!

You will see our regular edition tomorrow or the day after, but today we
pass on this special alert, in case you can help make a difference at a
critical moment.  Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota, Midwest
Health Center for Women, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice,
and others ask you to join them in a vigil at the Capitol.  The vigil may
well continue all this week and into the day Sunday - so please consider
coming for several blocks of time.  You can check the websites below for
updates, and RSVPs to the various groups are helpful so they can let you
know if there are last-minute changes.

In these last heated days of the state legislative session, there is great
danger that anti-choice forces will amend the "Abortion Regulation Act"
onto other important bills. This assault on our rights is more
far-reaching than any legislation we have yet seen in Minnesota! The
"Abortion Regulation Act" will:

(a) Attack the Gomez decision, which is Minnesota's version of Roe v.
Wade. The Gomez decision interprets our State Constitution as protecting
reproductive privacy; if the already-fragile Roe were to crumble, Gomez
would give Minnesota women protection for our freedoms;

(b) Target judges who enforce the law by granting bypasses to young women
who are unable to involve their parents in their abortion decision, paving
the way for these judges to become political targets for electoral defeat;

(c) Target doctors who provide abortions, singling them out for burdensome
restrictions above and beyond those required of any other outpatient
surgical doctor in an effort to make it even more difficult to provide
this essential service to women.

Although the anti-choice legislators want to delay the vote on this
amendment, it is important that we stay vigilant and send a message that
the pro-choice community is watching.  We will be there every remaining
day this week letting them know that we will not allow this restrictive
bill to pass!

Pro-Choicers will fill the Senate gallery while the Senate is in session
(also a great opportunity to see this beautiful building, observe the
process in chambers, and maybe say hello to your own state Senator when/if
there is a lull), and flood the halls outside the Senate chambers when
they are on recess.  The pro-choice groups will provide signs and
stickers.

Where: The gallery of the Senate and the halls outside the Senate chambers
at the MN State Capitol in St. Paul.  Park on the streets north of the
Capitol, or in one of the public ramps and lots nearby.

When: Tuesday, May 16th- Friday May 19th

Shifts: 8:30am-10am, 10am-1pm, 1pm-4pm, 4pm-end of session.

If you like, wear black to the Capitol to show your protest of the loss of
reproductive rights for the women of Minnesota.

Please RSVP to one of the groups if you plan to take action at the Capitol
and let us know what date and time you are going to be there.  And forward
this to all of your pro-choice friends and family.

For more information:
www.ppmns.org, www.prochoiceminnesota.org, www.midwesthealthcenter.org,
www.rcrc.org/mn.

We hope to see you there!  It's scary to see how close women are to losing
basic rights - but always good to spend a little time with those who care.

Bonnie Watkins for the Minnesota Women's Consortium


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Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 05:57:02 -0500
From: Richard L. Dechert <ldechert [at] webtv.net>
Subject: Vietnam/Madison/TV 5.16 8pm

For those who didn't see the powerful American Experience: Two Days in
October on tpt-2 last eve, it repeats this eve from 8-9:30pm, and recounts
two turbulent days in 1967 when a U.S. battalion marched into a Viet Cong
trap, and a University of Wisconsin demonstration spiralled into violence.
It is followed from 9:30-10pm by Looking Back: Two Days in October, where
four people in the program share their thoughts.

The parallels between Vietnam 1967 and Iraq 2006 are striking. The program
is in full transcript with other resources at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/twodays/.


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From: Lydia Howell <lhowell [at] visi.com>
Subject: German internment 5.17 9am

The Bus-eum is Back with "Vanished"
Wednesday, May 17, 9am-8pm
Central Library, 90 W 4 St Saint Paul
Dayton's Bluff Branch Library, 645 E 7 St Saint Paul
Rice Street Branch Library, 1011 Rice St Saint Paul

This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 651-222-3242 or friends [at] thefriends.org

There are three opportunities to visit the TRACES traveling exhibit
"Vanished: German American Civilian Internment 1941-48" at the Saint Paul
Public Library on Wednesday, May 17.  "Vanished" explores the internment
of 15,000 German-American civilians by the U. S. Government during World
War II.  Using narrative panels, documentaries and historic documents,
TRACES presents this unknown history to a wide audience.  It explores a
virtually unknown yet significant historical event--possibly one of the
least-known chapters of World War II.

Housed in a bus, the exhibit will be parked outside Central Library, 90 W.
4th St., Saint Paul, on the Rice Park side, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Then
the bus will travel to the Dayton's Bluff Branch, 645 E. 7th St., Saint
Paul, where it will be available from 1 to 4 p.m.  The "Vanished" exhibit
ends the day at the Rice Street Branch, 1011 Rice St., Saint Paul, from 5
to 8 p.m.

This exhibit is presented by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library
and TRACES, a non-profit organization created to gather, preserve and
present stories of people from the Midwest and Germany or Austria who
encountered each other during World War II.  The exhibit is free and open
to the public.  For more information, please call The Friends at
651/222-3242 or visit our website at www.thefriends.org
<http://www.thefriends.org/>.


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From: Chris Spotted Eagle <chris [at] spottedeagle.org>
Subject: AmInd/feast 5.17 12noon

Wednesday, May 17th- 12 Noon (until 3PM)  Minneapolis American Indian
Center/Open House & Feast, 1530 E. Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN,

Join us in celebrating MNšs American Indian Month with good people, good
times, raffles, entertainment, and a feast, Free and open to the public,
FMI call DeVonne at (612) 879-1700 or visit www.maicnet.org
<http://www.maicnet.org/>


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From: Alliance for Sustainability <sean [at] allianceforsustainability.net>
Subject: Natural step 5.17 2:30pm St Joseph MN

2:30-4 pm May 17 Presentation: Sustainability and the Natural Step
Framework -- Can Your Institution Become a Sustainability Leader? by
Alliance President Terry Gips at the First Conference of the Upper Midwest
Association for Campus Sustainability May 17-19, 2006 at The College of
St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN. Details at www.umacs.org
<http://www.umacs.org/>


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From: erin [at] mnwomen.org
Subject: WomensConsortium 5.17 5:30pm

Hello friends of the Minnesota Women's Consortium!

We would like to invite you to our Spring Membership Meeting on Wednesday,
May 17 from 5:30-8pm at the Minnesota Women's Building in St. Paul
entitled "Self-Care for the Busy Woman."

During this busy year, with elections coming and intense legislative
sessions to endure and plan for, it is important we take time out to care
for ourselves. Join us for an activist's "time-out." Enjoy a great meal,
networking opportunities, chair massages, discussions on women's health
and wellness as well as practice in relaxation techniques.

It will be a lot of fun and it is TOTALLY FREE!
Please RSVP at (651) 228-0338 or Bharti [at] mnwomen.org.


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From: Elizabeth Storey <bstorey [at] fmr.org>
Subject: Mustard out 5.17 6:30pm

Garlic Mustard Days!
Help protect native plants and animals by removing the invasive garlic
mustard from restoration and trailside areas during Garlic Mustard Days.
Learn to identify the culprit on Sunday, April 23 at 1:30p.m. when FMR
staff will train volunteers. We'll also have recipes on hand so you can
try spicing things up a bit using garlic mustard leaves! Gloves and bags
provided for all events.

Thursday, May 17, 6:30-8pm, 36th Street and West River Parkway
Meet at the parking lot at 36th St. & WRP in Minneapolis

Elizabeth Storey River Stewardship Coordinator Friends of the Mississippi
River 360 North Robert Street Saint Paul, MN 55101 Phone: 651/ 222-2193
ext. 16 Fax:  651/ 222-6005


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From: Dave Bicking  <dave [at] colorstudy.com>
Subject: Anti-torture 5.17 6:30pm

Every Wednesday, meeting of the anti- torture group, T3: Tackling Torture
at the Top (a sub-group of WAMM).  Note new location:  Center School, 2421
Bloomington Ave. S., Mpls.

We have also added a new feature:  we will have an "educate ourselves"
session before each meeting, starting at 6:30, for anyone who is
interested in learning more about the issues we are working on.  We will
share info and stay current about torture in the news.


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From: bkucera [at] csom.umn.edu
Subject: Lynching/film 5.17 7pm

Documentary examines community's response to lynching

How can a community come to terms with a horrible experience like a
lynching? That's the focus of a new film, "Lewis County: Hope & Struggle,"
screening Wednesday, May 17.

The showing, free and open to the public, will be at 7pm in Room 1-127 of
the Carlson School of Management Building, 321 19th Ave. S., on the West
Bank of the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus.

"Lewis County" is about a community's attempt to come to terms with a
suppressed history of labor struggle. In 1919, in the town of Centralia,
Washington, members of the American Legion attacked the union hall of the
Industrial Workers of the World.

The attack was widely expected, and when it occurred, armed IWW members
stood ready to defend the hall. Four Legionnaires were killed in the
battle, and in its aftermath, IWW organizer Nathan Wesley Everest was
tortured and lynched.

For many years, residents were actively discouraged from discussing the
Centralia massacre, and organizing in the community declined. The film
documents the efforts of Centralia residents to produce a mural (painted
by noted muralist Mike Alewitz) to address this suppressed history and
documents the organizing efforts surrounding the making of the mural. It
also shows tensions within the mural committee as people respond to
different experiences of history and community.

Finally, it examines the changing landscape of work and opportunity in the
county generally in an effort to pose the question: How can working people
today begin to connect with, reinterpret and actively use their history of
hope and struggle?

The film is part of the 2005-2006 Labor & Community Film Series, sponsored
by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service. The series
highlights recently released films that give voice to workers and
communities in the Americas.


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From: stpaulunions.org <llwright [at] stpaulunions.org>
Subject: Rock-Tenn future 5.17 7pm

Important Community Meetings Regarding the Future of ROCK - TENN
Make sure that good jobs, environmental concerns and other important
issues are discussed at these meetings!

Merriam Park Community Council
Land Use Committee
Wednesday, May 17 at 7pm
Merriam Park Library - 1831 Marshall Avenue - Lower Level Meeting Rooms

Hamline Midway Coalition
Public Meeting
Monday, May 22 at 7pm
Hamline Midway Coalition Office - 1564 Lafond Avenue


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From: Kristen Olson Krisrose02 [at] aol.com
Subject: Job/Green Party

JOB POSTING:  Green Party of  Minnesota
JOB TITLE:  Coordinated Campaign Associate
POSITION:   Part Time - 20 to 30 hours per week, Temporary - through  November
14th.
Application Deadline:  Open until filled.

The Green Party of Minnesota (GPMN) is seeking an organized, enthusiastic
individual to help with the coordination of state Green Party electoral
campaigns this year.  This is a fun, evolving, fast paced job, with a
variety of duties.  The GPMN is a political party in Minnesota and is
based on the values of Grassroots Democracy, Non-Violence, Social and
Economic Justice, and Ecological Wisdom.

Job Duties:

Will include organizing volunteer efforts, petitioning, fundraising,
maintaining contact with Green Party candidates and local Party units,
event planning, and media and advertising coordination.  A second
associate will be hired in September to assist with coordination duties.
Hours are flexible but will include some nights and weekends.  Some travel
will be necessary to facilitate coordinating tasks.

Contractors will work under supervision of Politics Chair, and Coordinated
Campaign Committee. Contractors will attend CCC meetings as a part of
their contracted hours. Contractors will attend GPMN Coordinating
Committee (CC) meetings monthly to provide a report of their progress,
needs, and activities. Contractors will work from the GPMN office with the
exception of time spent petitioning, organizing and staffing at event
locations, and other travel necessary to accomplish their tasks.

Compensation:

This position pays $13 per hour for 20 hours each week June and July, and
30 hours per week August through November 14th.

Contractor Qualifications:

Candidates should be organized, detail oriented, and able to problem solve
and initiate tasks in a self directed manner.

Knowledge of the Green Party values and platform is essential. Candidate
must be able to demonstrate such knowledge. Candidate will have a pleasant
telephone demeanor and be attentive to communications with Green Party
candidates. Fundraising experience a plus, but the GPMN will train
candidates without fundraising experience. Candidate should be familiar
with Minnesota political process and procedures. Computer and internet
knowledge and proficiency required.

The Green Party of Minnesota does not discriminate based on race, gender,
age, disability, religion, sexual preference or identity, or any other
identity factor.  Everyone is encouraged to apply!

Contact:  Rhoda Gilman 651-224-6383 and Kristen Olson 651-210-0789
ccc [at] mngreens.org <mailto:ccc [at] mngreens.org>


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From: Ashley James <Ajames [at] aem.umn.edu>
Subject: Green Party endorsing convention results

Fifth Congressional District Green Party Endorses Farheen Hakeem and Jay Pond

Contacts: Becki Smith, 612-378-0081
Neil Cunningham, 612-722-0626

By an overwhelming majority, members of the Fifth Congressional District
Green Party (5CDGP) voted to endorse Farheen Hakeem for Hennepin County
Commissioner and Jay Pond for U.S. Congress at its Endorsing Convention
held May 13 at the Golden Valley Public Library.

The 5CDGP members in attendance voted unanimously to endorse Jay Pond for
U.S. Congress. This is Pond's second bid for the Fifth District
Congressional seat; in 2004, he received 18,000 votes when he ran against
incumbent Martin Olav Sabo, who has announced that he will be retiring
from his seat.

"We're really excited about Jay's platform of renewable energy, peace, and
single payer universal healthcare," said Green Party leader Ashley James.

All but one Green Party member voted to endorse Farheen Hakeem, who
garnered a respectable 14% of the primary vote last September when she ran
for mayor against current Commissioner Peter McLaughlin and Mayor R.T.
Rybak.

Hakeem's experience as a community organizer and advocate for social
justice brings a fresh perspective that honors the diverse needs of the
people who live in Hennepin County. Hakeem says a core value of her
campaign is determining budget priorities. "When our Health and Human
Service Programs are suffering a 19 million dollar cut," she says, "we
have much greater priorities than a publicly financed stadium."

A third candidate, Doug Mann, who is running for Minneapolis School Board,
received approximately 50% of the membership vote, but did not receive the
two-thirds required for 5CDGP endorsement.

The two strong endorsments send a clear message that the Fifth
Congressional District Green Party, like the State Green Party and its
other locals, produce and support electable candidates for local, state,
and federal offices.

For more information about the Fifth Congressional District Green Party
and its endorsed candidates, visit http://5cd.mngreens.org/


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The 9/11 Key to Political Transformation
-- A belated strategic initiative to turn the world around
by W. David Kubiak

Given the momentum and added troop strength of the corporate forces now in
power, citizens will face unending appeals this year to help combat
firestorms on many different fronts.

Already we are struggling to prioritize our efforts to stop war
atrocities, torturers' appointments, escalating Pentagon appropriations,
horrific new weapons, the resurrection of Star Wars, and the imminent
draft, not to mention environmental assaults, our ballooning debt, attacks
on our rights, the slashing of the social safety net, and a dozen other
centrifugal symptoms of the sickness at the top.

Alternatively we could step back a pace or two and see where all this
carnage connects and focus on a strategy that might stop it all at once.

We need what social analyst George Lakoff calls a "strategic initiative" -
a plan in which a change in one critical area has automatic reverberating
effects in many, many, many other realms.

                    THE SOURCE OF DARK FORCE

Looking at the onslaughts we face, it's obvious that this administration's
primary source of war-making, rights-taking, vote-raking power is still
and always has been the "official 9/11 story." The exquisitely timed
"surprise attack" it portrays instantly justified what we now know was a
long planned agenda to take us into endless war, crippling debt and
constitutional twilight.

There is now an enormous amount of scholarly evidence and expert testimony
that a) clearly demonstrates the official 9/11 story is a sham, and b)
supports the millions of New Yorkers who, according to a recent Zogby
poll, believe that top US officials "consciously" allowed the attacks to
happen and that we desperately need a new investigation now.

This is no longer a fringe position. Identical calls have been made by
fifty victim families and over one hundred prominent Americans including
three 2004 presidential candidates [Nader (Ind), Cobb (Green), Badnarik
(Libertarian)], respected rabbis and imams, historians and legislators,
military officials and diplomats, as well as celebrated leaders from the
environmental, alternative economics and "peace & justice" communities.
Examining these eminent names on the 9/11 Truth Statement at 911truth.org
will quickly show that with regard to 9/11 at least, today's so-called
"conspiracy theorists" are not who they used to be.

Indeed one of America's greatest theologians, Dr. David Ray Griffin,
methodically demolished the credibility of the Kean Commission cover-up in
his latest book, "The 9/11 Commission Report - Omissions and Distortions."

As this extraordinary breadth of skepticism clearly signifies, the demand
for 9/11 truth is not about to go away. It is not simply a matter of
belated justice for the tragedy's immediate victims. The attacks have
since been relentlessly exploited to keep generating new victims for many
years on many fronts both here at home and in places far away.

                   UNPLUGGING THE NEOCON POWER SUPPLY

The fabricated "official 9/11 story" has in fact empowered so many
subsequent offenses that 9/11 truth has become the mother of all issues
and remains the key to widespread redress. If anyone is really looking for
a "strategic initiative" to unplug the entire neocon power supply,
consider the impact that full disclosure of 9/11 deceit would have upon
the following range of concerns.

Uncovering the truth of 9/11 is simultaneously:

* A peace issue: the public's ongoing ignorance of official 9/11 lies will
continue to feed the fear and hostility the "War on Terror" depends upon.
Once the truth is known, "Remember 9/11!" will take on a whole new
significance and foster a vital "fool me twice" mistrust of our
military-industrial complex and most aggressive leaders.

* A national security issue: as long as 9/11 lies are exploited to mount
support for brutal resource wars, the more the Muslim world will
rightfully despise us and threaten our kids for generations to come. (Some
indeed argue that creating this durable new defense budget-sustaining
threat was a more important motive for the phony 9/11-to-Iraq war segue
than seizing oil or shoring up Sharon.)

* A children's issue: the social programs sacrificed for "War on Terror"
boondoggles and profiteering overwhelmingly victimize the young,
especially those with disabilities.

* An environmental issue: post-9/11 calls for "energy independence" have
been seized and twisted by Bush's corporate sponsors to justify more
wilderness oil drilling, abusive environmental practices, and a rebirth of
nuclear power, not to mention a lengthening list of corporate takings from
the ecological commons.

* A public health issue: in New York, official lies about post-attack air
quality promise to kill more residents from toxic WTC pollution than those
who died from the attacks themselves; nationally, the cost of the
9/11-fueled War on Terror is gutting public health budgets across the
land.

* A women's issue: the ongoing costs of 9/11-related warfare, job loss and
social program austerity fall far more heavily upon women and children
nationwide; and 9/11 fear has politically empowered the far right to
launch a war here at home on women's basic rights.

* A human rights issue: the official 9/11 story has spawned such bigoted
and vengeful fear that a recent Cornell University poll found that 44% of
Americans are now ready to slash US Muslims' civil rights, while a nearly
equal number now accept the "need" to torture prisoners.

* A social justice issue: poor and minority Americans are deeply scarred
by "War on Terror"-related cutbacks in social programs at the same time
that their youth are the most heavily recruited by the military and
sacrificed in battle as the conflict proceeds

* An electoral issue: although "god, gays & guns" are often characterized
as "family values" election ploys, their common denominator is fear. Fear
that we are beyond self-help as a people, fear our children will not think
or act like us, fear that without our firearms we are helpless in a sick
and scary world. The higher the national fear quotient (and custom
color-coded threat level), the more these constituencies will flock to
bellowing "tough guy" leaders who peddle dread, feign infallibility, and
seem happy to wield deadly force to protect them from all harm. (See Erich
Fromm's "Fear of Freedom" for the classic study of how fear fuels
authoritarianism and acceptance of fascist societies.)

* A Constitutional liberty issue: the official 9/11 story (and deftly
timed anthrax attacks) generated instant blind assent to the
Constitution-shredding Patriot Act as well as scores of other presidential
and Department of Justice directives that further threaten accountability
and our shrinking Bill of Rights.

* A national solvency issue: the "national 9/11 emergency" has allowed the
Bush team to abandon any pretense of fiscal restraint, flood corporate
backers with exorbitant profits, plunge the nation into an abyss of debt,
and hasten arch-privatizer Grover Norquist's dream of "a government small
enough to drown in a bathtub."

* A media reform issue: the consistent, breathtaking refusal of mainstream
media to investigate official deception since 9/11 (up through Iraq and
2004 electoral fraud) has openly exposed the industry as cowardly and/or
corrupt. Thus far only the independent and second-tier media have shown
any journalistic integrity regarding these questions and will benefit
enormously when public outrage over the cover-up finally forces the
breakup of conglomerates and across the board reform. And so on...

                      REVERSING THE ARTS OF ROVE

In sum, the official 9/11 myth's emotional and political power will
continue to drive the country in a dozen different destructive directions
until we confront and deconstruct it with 9/11 truth.

This cynical fable has indeed become the corporatists' essential power
supply upon which all their military crimes, legislative overreach, and
electoral success depend. (See how incessantly they invoke it to justify
every brutality, theft and assault upon our rights.)

It is, however, also their gravest vulnerability since it is only
sustained by a tissue of lies, corrupt media and public ignorance.

One of Karl Rove's most useful axioms is "attack your opponent's greatest
strengths." He thus focused on Kerry's war record and Gore's intellect,
and systematically savaged them with loud and clever lies. We can likewise
devastate support for the current administration, but honestly and
honorably using 9/11 truth.

We can also use it to forge a wider, more diverse coalition with many
others equally afflicted by this government's abuse of its misbegotten
power. In fact, there are few groups fighting for social justice, the
environment, or basic human rights in the world today who would not profit
immensely from a fearless indictment of our top officials for their 9/11
lies and crimes.

                      THE OTHER 9/11 FEAR FACTOR

For many of us that truth may prove more disturbing than the countless
lies we've recognized, but the threat will no longer be invisible,
mysterious or misunderstood. It will also be within our power to deal with
as a democratic people, using the force of law instead of black ops,
torture or high tech brutality. Yes, it will take a lot of anachronistic
courage, but recently the Ukrainians, Serbs, Venezuelans and Filipinos
have all been kind enough to show us the way. Closer to home but long ago
in 1775, Patrick Henry also challenged us with words that ring today.

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth - and listen to the
song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part
of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we
disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and
having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal
salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am
willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it
now."

W. David Kubiak is a Project Censored Award-winning journalist, executive
director of 911truth.org, and founder of Big Medicine, a Maine-based
research & education institute focused on the corporate takeover over our
country, culture and consciousness. Email: kubiak(at)nancho.net

[All the above BuchCo policies are those of the ruling class; this is who
and what the ruling class is. The biggest advantagethe ruling class has
going for it is the carefully manufactured myth of American super-goodness
and Edenic innocence. This gives the ruling class reams of benefits of
doubts, as its members systematically destroy democracy and freedom. We
declared and fought for independence from the British ruling class; now we
must break free from the American ruling class. -ed]

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