Even though Tucson has no freeways, I think it is time to start freeway blogging again. People are getting complacent or burned out. I know I’m burned out, but I think it is time to start a new freeway blogging campaign for war crimes prosecution, impeachment, a truth commisson (a la South Africa) …. something. […]
Media Savvy Workshop — How Peace and Justice Groups Gan Get Media Coverage
This morning I attended a workshop at the UU Church on 22nd St. to help social justice groups learn how to connect with media for better coverage of their events. I applaud the representatives of the Media Companies and the Radio Station that were on the panel. Amanda Shauger, News Director of KXCI. Cara Rene, […]
Domestic Surveillance Talk Looks Interesting
This announcement rom an email announcement I received — the topic of this talk looks like one a fair number of activists and folks who want to stay informed might want to attend and it is free and open to the public: Tucson Community Forum on Domestic Surveillance How is the Government spying on us […]
Rice Is A War Criminal
The campaign to get the Presidential Candidates to call for Rice’s resignation is one of best moves I’ve seen made on the public stage in quite some time. Rice chaired the meetings that explicitly designed and outlined torture procedures to be used on terrorism suspects. I am personally outraged that individuals committed war crimes without […]
Are any of your views extreme? Then you are the enemy.
Robert Gates and Nancy Pelosi spout differing, but equally dangerous, falsehoods on Face the Nation this morning. Robert Gates used a very dangerous new phrase as to who the U.S. military and mercenary troops are fighting in Iraq and elsewhere (such as in the U.S.?) this morning on Face the Nation. We apparently are no […]
Mountain near Phoenix is renamed Piestewa Peak.
Mountain renamed for fallen Arizonan soldier is so much more than a name change. Mountains change on a geological time scale that is invisible to us as short-lived humans. Changing the name of a mountain near Phoenix, Arizona seemed for a while to be moving almost that slowly, but finally after years of controversy, the […]