Month: March 2006

Traprock Homepage March 28, 2006 Seven Months After Katrina: Sleeping in Your Car in Front of Your Trailer in Front of Your Devastated Home, Tales of Lunacy and Hope from New Orleans By Bill Quigley. Bill Quigley is a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. His email address is Quigley@loyno.edu In New Orleans, seven… Continue reading Seven Months After Katrina

Traprock homepage Edge of Sports “Death Row” Talks Back to Etan Thomas By Dave Zirin This Sunday at 4pm, I am proud to be speaking at an event in San Francisco called a “Civil Rights Slam for Justice,” sponsored by among others the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. The slam will be at the… Continue reading “Death Row” Talks Back to Etan Thomas

Traprock Homepage March 21, 2006 by Charles Jenks It’s hardly news that the conservative movement in the Catholic Church has it in for feminists, gays and heretics. Still, I was shocked this week by the report on a conference of 5000 Catholic men in Boston, and the results of a little googling of Opus Dei… Continue reading Bigotry in the Catholic Conservative Movement

Traprock Homepage The Logic of Withdrawal by Anthony Arnove March 18, 2006 We find ourselves in a remarkable situation today. Despite a massive propaganda campaign in support of the occupation of Iraq, a clear majority of people in the United States now believes the invasion was not worth the consequences and should never have been… Continue reading The Logic of Withdrawal by Anthony Arnove

Dear friends of Mountain View Voices for Peace, Dear friends of United for Peace and Justice, Dear Danny Schechter, Dear Leslie Cagan, In the Mountain View Voices for Peace poster for the March 2006 third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq – https://www.mvvp.org/ – there is written 30,000 Iraqis I found the same poster in… Continue reading Open Letter to UFPJ on Counting Iraqi Dead

THE INSANE SOCIETY The war criminals’ freedom, the jesters’ democracy, the fat banquet and those mountains of corpses that nobody cares. But the Emperor is naked. By Gabriele Zamparini (*) “The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does… Continue reading THE INSANE SOCIETY by Gabriele Zamparini

Traprock Homepage There Are Criminals, and Then There Are CRIMINALS Cindy Sheehan As I lie here in bed recuperating from the injuries that I received from a federal agent and the NYPD in front of the US Mission to the UN (USUN) the other day, I have had time to reflect on the experience, the… Continue reading There Are Criminals, and Then There Are CRIMINALS

Traprock Homepage By Steve Werlin The Creole word for a demonstration is “manifestasyon”. It’s the word used to describe the times that people take to the streets to protest. They might be objecting to the murder of a popular figure or the high price of various commodities or the firing of a university official or… Continue reading Manifestasyon Yo

Traprock Homepage By Steve Werlin Over the course of the last weeks in January, it began to seem increasingly likely that there would be an election in Haiti. This is an odd claim for an American to make. The regularity of our own democratic processes means that the question as to whether they’ll be an… Continue reading An Election After All

Traprock Homepage “Guardians of Power. The Myth of the Liberal Media” is a new book by David Edwards and David Cromwell, the two editors of Media Lens, an excellent watchdog “correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media”. According to Noam Chomsky “Regular critical analysis of the media, filling crucial gaps and correcting the… Continue reading Guardians of Power – Exclusive interview with Media Lens editors David Edwards and David Cromwell By Gabriele Zamparini