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"Solidarity, Not Charity" - Revolution in the Ninth Ward
by Beth Moore April 7, 2006
- "Solidarity, Not Charity"
- In the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, there is the revolution, and there is hope. In the abandoned ruins, amid the irrevocable losses and lives washed away in the storm and floods, the people are taking action -- direct and positive action for their own survival, and for their neighbors and community. Sisters and brothers from all over the country, from universities, churches, and other organizations, and many who simply read of the need and came on their own are joining them.
No War But Class War!
by Beth Moore September 13, 2005
- No War But Class War!
- Look upon the city of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast now, and you see the true face of capitalism. Look upon the tens of thousands of people who were abandoned, displaced, and then even disparaged by our government and its media minions for being trapped there by poverty, age, youth, or disability. They lived for days on end with no food, water, or shelter. They lived amidst corpses and raw sewage, seeing the ill and elderly die with nothing but the odd blanket or sheet with which to cover their bodies, watching babies being born with only contaminated water in which to wash their tiny bodies, and being promised that help would come tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, until tomorrow never came for thousands.
United States Declaration of Independence for the 21st Century
By Beth Moore July 2, 2005
- Declaration of Independence for the 21st Century
- What do we celebrate on this coming Fourth of July, called Independence Day? What does this country's birth and progress mean to the world?
U.S. Military "They'll Never Take My Sons Again"
By Beth Moore May 28, 2005
- "They'll Never Take My Sons Again"
- They're rollin' out the guns again, haroo, haroo,
They're rollin' out the guns again, haroo, haroo,
Well they're rollin' out the guns again,
But they'll never take my sons again,
No, they'll never take my sons again,
Oh, Johnny I'm swearin' to ya! - "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya"
The Shape of the Iraqi Resistance
by Paul D'Amato & Beth Moore March - April, 2005
- The Shape of the Iraqi Resistance
- In his speech on June 29, 2005 President Bush characterized the Iraqi resistance forces as terrorists, often foreigners, and as evil people, who, for no apparent reason aside from the fact that they are evil, fight against U.S. forces in order to prevent what the Bush administration says it works toward in Iraq. Throughout this criminal enterprise whose beginning was officially on March 19, 2003, but which has gone on since 1991, we in the U.S. have been told, ad nauseum, that the goal is a "peaceful, democratic Iraq." Our forces, in order to accomplish that goal, have committed horrendous war crimes, incited sectarian antipathy and violence where none existed before, and sacrificed our children in the cause of the wholesale murder of Iraqi people and their children. This article refutes with facts the lies once again told by President Bush concerning the Iraqi Resistance, and shows why the U.S., the world's greatest military power, faces defeat in that country. - Beth Moore
REVOLUTION - Don't Be Afraid of the Word
By Beth Moore March 24, 2005
- Don't Be Afraid of the Word
- "Revolution is the abrupt upheaval of the human tendency toward
improvement, when a fairly numerous part of humanity is subjected by violence to a state incompatible to its needs and aspirations."
"The end of all revolutions . . . is to guarantee for everyone the right to life, destroying the causes of misery, of ignorance, and of despotism . . ." - from To Die On Your Feet: the Life, Times, and writings of Praxedis G. Guerrero; selected writings from the periodical, Regeneracion Revolution.
Eyes Wide Open: "We're Sorry, Kids"
by Beth Moore February 10, 2005
- "We're Sorry, Kids"
- The first thing we saw before we entered the Eyes Wide Open exhibit at Live Oak Friends Meeting Grounds in Houston, Texas was a row of silver plaques, each filled with names and ages of Iraqis killed since the U.S. invasion in March, 2003. From one side of the building to the other, the small lettering on these plaques included names entire families, elderly people, and, most heartbreakingly, young children. I was in tears before I even entered the exhibit. So many lives, so many children. How could our government do this? How can we live with the fact that the money we pay in taxes is used to exterminate so many innocent people, and in the name of "liberation" and "democracy"?
Itemizing the Butcher's Bill
By Beth Moore January 19, 2005
- Itemizing the Butcher's Bill
- In his op-ed column, "Health Care? Ask Cuba," published in the New York Times, January 12, 2005, Nicholas D. Kristof refers to Cuba as "impoverished and autocratic", but praises their health care system, which is responsible for Cuba being among the 41 countries that have lower infant mortality rates than the United States. He refers to Bejing's "brutality" toward dissidents, but contrasts the annual infant mortality rate of that city, 4.6 per thousand, with that of New York City, 6.5 per thousand. In the final paragraph of his column, he admonishes that "We should celebrate this freedom that we enjoy in America - by complaining about and working to address pockets of poverty and failures in our health care system."
Massacre in Fallujah: "where is the world? WHERE IS EVERYONE???"*
By Beth Moore November 15, 2004
- Massacre in Fallujah: "where is the world?
- "Those that scaped the fire were slaine with the sword; some hewed to to peeces, others rune throw with their rapiers, so as they were quickly dispatchte, and very few escaped. It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fyer, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stincke and sente there of, but the victory seemed a sweete sacrifice, and they gave the prayers thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for
them, thus to inclose their enemies in their hands, and give them so
speedy a victory over so proud and insulting an enimie."
William Bradford, History of the Plymouth Plantation, of Captain John Mason's attack on a Pequot village on the Mystic River.
Someone Bigger Will Save Us* . . . Or not.
By Beth Moore November 2, 2004
- Someone Bigger Will Save Us* . . . Or not.
- "Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush, or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands. Each and every state that does not tamper with our security will have automatically assured its own security".
"The reasons are still there to repeat what happened".
-Osama bin Laden
The Anti-War Movement Faces Off With the DNC
By Beth Moore August 2, 2004
- The Anti-War MovementFaces Off With the DNC
- Since 9/11/01, we have participated in about 30 protests against the latest wars of the ruling class. Yesterday's antiwar demonstration on Boston Common and our march to the Fleet Center was nothing less than an unparalleled success. It began with long-range strategic planning by Boston
ANSWER. The city and federal governments and corporate media set the stage with fear-mongering about the possibility of a "terrorist" strike during the Democratic National Convention being held this week at the Fleet Center in Boston.
Using that platform of fear, they exposed their new police state as never before - drawn from all over Massachusetts, neighboring states and Federal Agencies under the pretext of the "war on terrorism".
Boston Police Crack Down on Walking, Looking, and Stopping
By Beth Moore July 26, 2004
- Boston Police Crack Down on Walking, Looking, and Stopping
- "LET HIM GO! LET HIM GO!
LET HIM GO! LET HIM GO!"
"Why did they grab him?"
"I have no idea."
Cheaper By The Million
By Beth Moore June 20, 2004
- Cheaper By The Million
- "One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin
Monstrous Innocence
By Beth Moore June 10, 2004
- Monstrous Innocence
- "People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. Anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster."
James Baldwin
NO GAS DAY
By Beth Moore May 18, 2004
- NO GAS DAY
- On Wednesday, May 19, we are calling on everyone in the U.S. to steer clear of the gas station. In response to a popular grassroots movement all over the country, we support NO GAS DAY.
Vote, or Revolt?
By Beth Moore April 2, 2004
- Vote, or Revolt?
- Last December, I took my daughter and a friend of hers to a Distillers concert up in Houston. For those of you who have no contact with teenagers, punk music, culture, and politics are becoming the "new" counter culture (and I have, I swear, actually heard those words used by people twenty years younger than I am). The reason for the quotation marks is that not only are the Distillers, Thrice, and NOFX popular, but so are the Clash, the Ramones, and other punk bands from the past two decades.
Viagra Nation - The Village People Meet Cotton Mather
By Beth Moore February 4, 2004
- Viagra Nation
- Things have gotten really creepy in the land of the Humvee over the past three years. Sock-stuffed flight suits. Canned bird hunts. Plastic turkeys. Cowboy hats, cowboy boots, cowboy lingo, from guys a century and a world away from the working men who spent months in the rain and heat and merciless winds on cattle drives. "Bring 'em on!" from a man exempted from service in Vietnam by his Daddy's influence and his own desertion.
Action Alert: Torture on Death Row in Texas
By Beth Moore January 15, 2004
- Torture on Death Row
- Yesterday, I received this e-mail from Gloria Rubac of A.N.S.W.E.R. in Houston. She has been very active in opposing the death penalty in Texas. This is an urgent action notice based on her correspondence with Nanon Williams, a young man on death row.
Mask of Sanity -- Face of Death: The Execution of Charles Singleton
By Beth Moore January 8, 2004
- Mask of Sanity -- Face of Death:
- On the night of January 6, 2004, the State of Arkansas executed Charles Laverne Singleton. According to Warren Watkins, editor of the Sherwood Voice, in a report to the Ashley County Ledger, "A full moon illuminated the icecold prison courtyard as volunteer executioners administered final earthly
justice%u2026," ending Singleton's 24-year sojourn on death row. This was his seventh, and final, execution date.
"Why Is Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?" - Why don't you ask John Ashcroft, Rush?
By Beth Moore December 9, 2003
- "Why Is Everybody Always Pickin' On Me?"
- Rush Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, came out strongly in his defense last week, accusing Palm Beach investigators who obtained search warrants for Limbaugh's doctors' offices of political motives. On NBC's Today show, he claimed that, "They are looking to publicly embarrass him and affect his radio program%u2026Why is rush Limbaugh the only person treated like this in America?"
El Pueblo, Unido, Jamas Sera Vencido!
By Beth Moore December 1, 2003
- The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated!
- "This is what democracy looks like!"
I have shouted those words at many protests, always against a government that does not hear my voice or the voices of any of its citizens. In Venezuela, in April of 2002, the voice of democracy, the voice of the people, was heard, and it prevailed.
Two Irish journalists, Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain, recorded that victory in their documentary, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
They had gone to Venezuela in December of 2001 to film a documentary about Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's charismatic, controversial President. Initially, the story was about Chavez, his rise to power, his love for his people, and theirs for him, and about the
constitution and the Bolivarian revolution. The climax and conclusion was the first Latin
American coup of the 21st century, and its defeat by the voices and power of the people.
Resistance By Any Other Name
By Beth Moore November 11, 2003
- Resistance By Any Other Name
- I watched the bombardment of Baghdad this past spring in horror. Later, and much worse, I saw pictures of Iraqis' homes crushed into dust and jagged blocks, and of small Iraqi children wrapped in bloody cloths, lying in wooden coffins. I thought of my children, of my neighbors, and of their children.
How would I feel toward someone who would do this to us? What would I do?
Mama Ain't Happy, George
By Beth Moore November 7,2003
- Mama Ain't Happy, George
- "If Mama Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy!"
Yeah, it's one of those slogans you see on T-shirts, often draped over breasts that were obviously used for their intended purpose - feeding the babies. Breasts you know need real bras to keep them from sagging; breasts that probably have stretch marks. On women whose bodies bear all the scars of love and care and sacrifice and pain, whose hearts have broken but still beat with love for those who depend upon them for everything from rent money to cooked meals to clean clothes and help with homework.
God is a Capitalist: Textbook Censorship in Texas
November 5, 2003 By Beth Moore
- God is a Capitalist
- Down here in Texas, God is a Capitalist, and He's not about to tolerate any of that anti-Christian, anti- American environmentalism like they've got out there in Berkeley. That's why the Texas State Board of Education, under the influence of the Texas Public Policy Foundation and Citizens for a Sound Economy, two conservative think tanks, rejected a textbook on environmental science by Daniel D. Chiras, Ph.D. They adopted, instead, a book financed by the mining industry.
Who's The Terrorist, George?
By Beth Moore October 30, 2003
- Who's The Terrorist, George?
- Well, Mr. Bush, your press conference turned out to be remarkably appropriate viewing just prior to Halloween. It was, in its way, more frightening than any of the tales of horror and twisted reality that run non-stop on TV in October.
The star of the show was indeed a monster. You invoked its evil, its pervasiveness, its imminent threat approximately fifty-one times within forty-five minutes.
Terror. Terrorists. The War on Terror. Over and over and over again, cropping up more often when the questions got a little pointed.
Response to Vice President Cheney
By Beth Moore October 12, 2003
- Response to Vice President Cheney
- New York Times: "Vice President Dick Cheney lashed out on Friday at critics of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, ridiculing their arguments against the war as naïve and dangerous in a speech that was a culmination of a campaign by the White House to regain support for the postwar effort. "
The Mephisto Tap Dance
By Beth Moore October 10, 2003
- The Mephisto Tap Dance
- Tap-dancing. That's what we see at every White House press briefing or interview with any member of the Bush administration. Bush himself is not so verbally nimble. He just tells outright, flat-footed lies about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the
obscene mess he and his buddies have made of the country they claim to have liberated.
McClellan, Rice, and others in the administration, however, are dancing more frantically than Richard Gere in the courtroom scene in Chicago. The difference is that they obviously don't like the music one bit. They want the news media and interviewers to keep playing the same cloying love songs, the same patriotic fanfares that hailed their every move six months ago.
The Persistence of Selective Memory
By Beth Moore October 1, 2003
- The Persistence of Selective Memory
- How do they do it? Does the Truth Fairy come in every night, reach under their pillows, and remove unpleasant facts, nettlesome knowledge, and past transgressions, leaving behind a comforting daily rationalization?
How do they do it? How do our leaders manage to wake up in a new world every day? And do they truly believe that we do, as well?
As I listen to the newest excuses for a unilateral, first-strike attack on a sovereign nation, I have to wonder where these people have been for the past thirty years. I know that's a long time, and there are certainly things I don't remember from the late '70s to the present. But I do remember a few things.
Bush's U.N.Speech: No Truth, No Justice, No Mercy, No Peace
By Beth Moore September 25, 2003
- Bush's U.N.Speech:
- About five minutes into George W. Bush's speech before the U.N. Security Council, the nurse at the oral surgeon's office called my name. Even the Valium I'd been required to take an hour before my surgery could not dull the frustration and indignation I felt at his opening remarks. After disingenuously stating days before that he knew there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks, and feigning surprise that anyone could have thought he had suggested such a thing, he once again invoked those events to tie his misbegotten neocolonial snafu in Iraq to his handy-dandy, all-purpose War on Terror.
Never before have I actually felt relief at the prospect of lying in a chair for complicated and painful dental work; a spinal tap would have been preferable to watching him use the dead of September 11, 2001 as a platform from which to hawk his opportunistic lies, as he has done almost daily for the past two years. From their responses, it seems that many of those who sat through Bush's delusional, narcissistic meanderings might have appreciated a similar option.
The Iron Triangle
By Beth Moore May 19, 2003
- The Iron Triangle
- The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group, by Dan Briody
"The purpose of journalism is to monitor the centers of power." - Amira Haas, Journalist, Ha'aretz
Many of us first heard of the Carlyle Group sometime after the waking nightmares of September 11, 2001, tore into our nation out of a bright, blue, Indian summer sky. The name "bin Laden" had become synonymous with pure evil. The United States was gearing up for war; George Walker Bush had promised to take Osama bin Laden "dead or alive." The news that the President's father was a consultant to a company in which the bin Laden family was invested got some media attention, but that was somewhat defused by the withdrawal of the bin Ladens from the company. The ever-handy "fog of war" further distracted the public from what could have been a public relations nightmare for both the Carlyle group and the Bush administration.
