Photos of Cesar Chavez Birthday celebrations -- Davenport Resource Center, Watsonville Brown Beret Youth Empowerment March and Rally.

For the past 3 years, the Bush administration has been fighting to nullify a judgement in favor of Gulf War veterans who were tortured in the Abu Ghraib prison when it was still run by Saddam Hussein. The money for this judgement was to come from assets of the Iraqi government that have been frozen. This is only a small part of the 9 billion dollars that dissappeared on the watch of L. Paul Bremer while he managed the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
What has happened to the money and what excuse does the Bush administration have for the absurd arguement it has taken all the way to the supreme court?

I am always having to set the record straight...

"One thing that God has brought to us is Terri Schiavo to elevate the visibility of what's going on in America."

Tom DeLay, Congressman from Texas, House Republican Majority Leader,
speaking to his co-thinkers of "Family Research Council"

Tom DeLay is a powerful right-winger who wraps his ambitions in a frenzied god-speak. He is the cynical manipulator, who redistricted Texas to disenfranchise political opponents, and is now rewriting congressional ethics procedures to rescue himself from his own colossal corruption. He is an aggressive liar, who recently dared describe Terri Schiavo as "lucid."

But, for a half second there among allies, he let out something true.

This huge national power struggle over Terri Schiavo's fate has, in fact, elevated the visibility of what's going on in America.

i have become very involved in a 'right to sleep' campaign in victoria bc... a
friend of mine (David Arthur Johnston) has been in and out of jail (fasting
each time) in relation to what he calls the 'occupation of st. ann's
academy'... i started making a documentary about the right to sleep focusing
on...