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Anti-War Stuff

By ~LS~ On March 14, 2003 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Politics, War

I had a brief and strange convo on the hallway with Shaun Treat today about “this whole Iraq thing.” He was passing out printouts of the Impeach Bush website he emailed me (see 3/12/03). Treat’s explosion of anti-Bush, anti-war “stuff” on his walls attracted the attention of a Reveille columnist (see Tolerant Ones? and also Treat’s response). Anyway, I think it was the strangest Treat conversation I’ve ever had. It resembled Morse Code — we both nodded a lot, left sentences unfinished, rolled our eyes, and ended up giggling at our own paranoia and conspiracy theory tendencies. I told him I was going to the hardware store to stock up on survivalist gear. It was one of those sad but hysterical moments where, at the end, all we could do is shake our heads, throw up our hands, and pronounce that we live in interesting times. I’m still [...]

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VVAW Anti-War Quiz

By ~LS~ On March 8, 2003 · 1 Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Politics, War

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Coalition against War and Injustice — Baton Rouge

By ~LS~ On March 2, 2003 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Politics, War

Listening: Everclear, Slow Motion Day Dream

This Everclear album rocks. I love Everclear.

From the CAWI List, which posted an article by Howard Zinn:
In the cartoon “The Boondocks,” which reaches twenty million readers every day, the cartoonist Aaron McGruder has his character, a black youngster named Huey Freedman, say the following: “In this time of war against Osama bin Laden and the oppressive Taliban regime, we are thankful that OUR leader isn’t the spoiled son of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations, has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents, and uses war to deny people their civil liberties. Amen.”

Some CAWI people are protesting by holding a vigil on the parade grounds at LSU but they’ve already been kicked off by the LSU police.

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Robert Byrd Anti-War Speech

By ~LS~ On February 25, 2003 · Add Comment · In Politics, Rhetoric and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Politics, War

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Anti-War Activism

By ~LS~ On February 7, 2003 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Politics, War

All this anti-war activism (that never gets reported, of course, except in places like the Village Voice) reminds me of my grandmother, Anna Zuckerman, who was a peace activist for pretty much all of her life. I remember when I was a child, during the Viet Nam war, she had a framed poster on her wall that said: War is unhealthy for children and other living things. I still have a patch of that slogan that I’ve never used. So it occurred to me that I could buy a copy of that poster and put it up somewhere, probably at school. I found some interesting stuff about that poster, most of which I had forgotten or barely knew about because I was so young. Here’s what I learned:

1. CBS censored this poster! From a list of “13 Outrageous Moments of U.S. TV Censorship“:

THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY [...]

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Four Scary Things – After 9/11

By ~LS~ On November 29, 2001 · Add Comment · In Academentia, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Bush, News Media, Politics, War

Scary Thing #1

American Council of Trustees and Alumni

I recently read an article in a newspaper about the way that Lynn Cheney and her organization, The American Council of Trustees and Alumni, is trying to shut down dissent about the “war” in Afghanistan and the government’s response to the WTC. This organization published a manifesto, entitled “Defending Civilization: How Our Universities are Failing America and What Can Be Done About It,” that collects various quotes from university professors and students in response to the WTC. You can read various write-ups about this report from the following sites:

Conservatives Denounce Dissent at Common Dreams News Center (a reprint from the Boston Globe)

Lynn Cheney’s Campus Crusade at Working for Change (part of Working Assets)

Lynn Cheney’s Free Speech Blacklist at TomPaine.Com(mon sense)

My response to this document, of course, is to make my students in [...]

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