Dan SavageA Tale of Two Savages
by Saab Lofton

"The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."
--Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)

"No romance without finance ... your silky words are sweet, but your pockets sure look empty."
--from the song Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent by Gwen Guthrie

New version directed by Kayla Kromer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icOWkGgR3ks

Demand justice for Sean Bell!
Jail racist killer cops!

Sean Bell and his fiancee Nicole Paultre with their daughter.

Rally and community speak-out
Today, April 25, 5:30pm
in front of Queen's DA office:
125-01 Queens Blvd
(bet. Hoover Ave & 82nd Ave)
E/F train to Union Turnpike
Called by the People's Justice Coalition

Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan BuddhismChina to meet Dalai Lama aides amid Tibet tension

Fri Apr 25, 2008

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese officials will meet representatives of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism whom China blames for a wave of unrest, Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, citing official sources.

The move marks a change in tactics on the part of Beijing, which has stepped up its vilification of the Dalai Lama since anti-government protests hit Tibet and rippled across ethnic Tibetan parts of China in the past weeks.

World Food Program warns of 'silent tsunami' of hunger

By DAVID STRINGER,
Associated Press

Ration cards. Genetically modified crops. The end of pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap supermarkets.

These possible solutions to the first global food crisis since World War II — which the World Food Program says already threatens 20 million of the poorest children — are complex and controversial. And they may not even solve the problem as demand continues to soar.

A "silent tsunami" of hunger is sweeping the world's most desperate nations, said Josette Sheeran, the WFP's executive director, speaking Tuesday at a London summit on the crisis.

Affirmative Action in Fiction
by Saab Lofton

"White fear is profitable. Bond issues for prison construction managed by major investment banks are more profitable than school construction bonds for improving the decrepit, crowded public schools like Taft High School in the Bronx. The prison construction bonds also depend heavily on a steady flow of young, brown bodies of former students of de-funded schools, as do the crowded barracks in Iraq's deserts."
--Roberto Lovato of the Pacific News Service, May 18th, 2004

"Over the past 20 years California has built 23 new prisons and only one new university."
--Workers World, May 22nd, 2003

New York trash can filled with important stuff

Report: NYC Freedom Tower plans found in trash

Homeless NYC man says he found secret Freedom Tower blueprints in a corner trash can

Staff
AP News

Raw Story
Apr 18, 2008 10:41 EST

A homeless man has come forward with two sets of confidential ground zero blueprints that he says were dumped in a Lower Manhattan trash can.

The man brought the Freedom Tower plans to the New York Post, which says the 150-page schematic is marked: "Secure Document — Confidential."

Obama-Clinton debate: A whiff of McCarthyism as media pushes Democratic campaign to the right

By Bill Van AukeWSWS
18 April 2008

The debate aired Wednesday night by ABC television from Philadelphia was the 21st such contest held since the beginning of the Democratic primary campaign and, without a doubt, the most reactionary and contemptible.

After two brief opening statements followed by a commercial break and a stale repetition of the attempt to get Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to declare that each would accept the other as a running mate, the moderators—ABC’s Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos—settled into what can only be described as a right-wing inquisition.

Support Your Protesters!
by Saab Lofton

"Although publicly I continued to ignore the raging anti-war controversy … I knew, however, that after all the protests and the Moratorium [the nationwide protests of October 1969] American public opinion would be seriously divided by any military escalation of the war."
--The Nixon Memoirs

Tibet Declare Independence

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmk1BXqpPE8

Björk | Declare Independence

"It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them."

"Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion."