Before your Mom, brother, or friend votes in November, they really should read one, two, or all of these books, beginning with Mark Crispin Miller's "Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order." Tell your family and friends about these books! Buy these books for them! E-mail this list to everyone you know, and print it as a flyer to post in your local cafe or hand out in front of a bookstore. There's enough time before the election for a little good reading to make a big difference.
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Mounting evidence points to Iraq as a collosal failure with little hope for improvement. Dennis Kucinich has called for the House Subcommittee to hold hearings in open session to investigate the lies before the war, and those affecting current policies in iraq. Make a difference- Write one email and have it faxed to the entire subcommittee. Demand accountability. Click Read More and Email them now, it only takes a second to contact 6 congresspeople today.

As we sum up the week of protest at the RNC and look to the struggles ahead, we should think about those who will be cracking history books in the future. We need to think about this today as we run the streets and struggle to win hearts and minds, fighting for a whole different world. As we rise up to say NO! to this rolling juggernaut of imperialist destruction, we need to think about all those future people who will be learning about the historic struggles that took place in the early part of the 21st century. When the world was crackling with both danger and opportunity..how did history unfold?

On September 16, Bruce Gagnon, founder and director of the Global Network Against Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space, spoke in Santa Cruz about the Privatization and Militarization of Space. The Santa Cruz Raging Grannies opened up the evening.

Raging Grannies: [ Listen to the Stream or Download the mp3 ] (4:32 minutes / 4.2 megabytes)
Bruce Gagnon part 1: [ Listen to the Stream or Download the mp3 ] (29:42 minutes / 27.2 megabytes)
Bruce Gagnon part 2: [ Listen to the Stream or Download the mp3 ] (28:17 minutes / 25.9 megabytes)

What actually is it that makes an object “feel� the presence of the other object when the two of them collide? Would it be possible for that object to “feel� the presence of the other object, if it were unable to “feel� its own presence? By what means then does it “feel� the presence of others? Take, for instance, that you are one of those who don’t believe that man has “the feeling of existence.� The question now is: “How then do you come to have the feeling that you are ‘always present’ and that you are always at the present?� Obviously, the feeling meant here is one that has nothing to do at all with your sensory feelings and neither does it have anything to do at all with your emotional feelings.