Why would a president who did everything he could to not put on a uniform during wartime but couldn’t wait to don one years later as the most protected person on Earth, cast aspersions about a guy who volunteered to wear one in Vietnam and upon arriving back home as a decorated vet did everything he could to help other soldiers take theirs off? For more details about the Bush Baby’s last-gasp grasp at a straw man, read on.

When I used to eat only raw foods, people would constantly ask me what I ate. It was really weird! Eating raw eliminates *a lot* of the crap that is not healthy to eat in the world. You also do not support as many industrial giants and processed food corporations.

A nationwide movement to put names on the numbered gravestones in cemeteries at America's mental hospitals and abandoned "insane asylums" is underway. "It has been said that no families have come forward to claim their relatives (buried here)...WE are their family."

All Israeli Troops, Settlers Out of Occupied Territories!

Interview with Craig Eisendrath, senior fellow with the Center for International Policy, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris

Interview with Craig Eisendrath, senior fellow with the Center for International Policy, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris

On August 12, the California State Supreme Court ruled that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom lacked the authority to issue same-sex marriage licenses, and therefore that the marriages that took place are void. Over 3900 same-sex couples were married at SF City Hall earlier this year. However, the court did not rule on the issue of whether or not same-sex marriages should be legal. Protests were held in cities all over the state. In Santa Cruz, people gathered at the Town Clock. (announcement and discussion)

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In Santa Cruz, people gathered at Town Clock to call for equality.

The worst nomination ever, says Stansfield Turner. Bush wants a lapdog CIA chief, but this could be the worst choice since Allen Dulles, the United Fruit Co. shill for the DuPont family.

On August 12, community members gathered at the Town Clock in Santa Cruz to demonstrate solidarity after an unfavorable ruling from the California Supreme Court.