Metro Justice June 2007 Newsletter
- Why is our Oil Under Their Soil?
Excerpted from articles by Matt Tabibbi, Sara Flaunders and Salim Muwakkil
Behind the veneer of partisan politics, the Democratic Leadership agrees with the Bush White House on the importance of enforcing multinational access to oil in Iraq and elsewhere. The American corporate oil proboscis is now poised to start sucking the oil out of Iran and nations in Africa. - Race and Worldview
Richard Kirsch, Citizen Action
Conservatives came to power by appealing to white supremicists' fear. Busing, states rights, quotas, law and order, welfare queens and Willie Horton are really about more than the surface issue. It's about race. How should the progressive left respond? - COMIDA's Shame (Sham)
Tom Stephens, Metro Justice Member
Let's face it, COMIDA really sucks when it comes to creating local jobs. In the latest battle we took on Maggie Brooks- but the war is about winning structural reform in Albany. - Women and Children First... In Bush's Crosshairs
Excerpted from article by Andrew Bunscombe and Katha Pollitt
You can now officially add "but the women are better off" to the list of Bush "truths" (that list contains gems such as "we're in Iraq because they attacked us on 9/11" and "if we don't fight them over there we'll have to fight them here"). Domestic violence and "honor" killings are on the rise in Iraq. Rapes have quadrupled. Iraq's child mortality rate has more than doubled during the U.S. occupation. Which raises the question, "Who are the terrorists?" - New York Must Reform its Racist Drug Laws
By Garbriel Sayegh, Alternet
Although whites are just as likely to use drugs, people of color are more likely to get arrested, get convicted, and do longer time (91% of people incarcerated under the Rockefeller drug laws are Black or Latino). Families are torn apart and ex-offenders are stuck with a record as they try to find employment. Black men are being shipped to upstate prisons where they can't vote but are counted in the census, thereby creating more legislative districts for upstate Republican legislators. How is this a good thing? - Stop Dem Sell-Out on Free Trade!
Public Citizen
At a recent economic summit in Butte Montana, corporate leaders gathered to expound on the benefits of “free trade.“ - Americans are Sick and Tired with No Time Off
Center for American Progress
The United States is the only advanced economy in the world that does not guarnatee its workers paid vacation. Eighty percent of low income Americans get no sick days from their employers, People are reporting to work sick, sending their kids to daycare sick, and generally getting REALLY CRANKY! Is the status quo an immutable law of nature or just a reflection of the fact that the grassroots haven't stomped hard enough on the corporatocracy? - A Nicaragua Trip in your future?
Ciudad Hermana
July12-23 - Support High-Speed Internet Access for All
Speedmatters.org
Imagine an America with no digital divide, where every home has high speed internet access.