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Dalai Lamaroad triprobert downey jr.sadr citysame sex marriagesatirescare tacticsshake fistsingle payersmear campaignsmokey robinsonsoftwaresolange knowlessouthern californiaspeechspyingstabbingsteelersstem cellsstemlitstrikessuicidesuperdelegatetacticstax the richtaxpayersteen pregnancyteenagertelevisionterrorismthe supremestibettown halltroopergateundocumentedunionshttp://blog.aflcio.org/2008/11/07/kudos-to-afl-cio-secretary-treasurer-trumka/unite herevaccineveteransvictoryvolcanovotesvoucherswarwealthwealthyweathermenwelcomewhich side are you onwhite housewomen's rightsworkers' rightsyoungThis blog features the rants, raves, and ramblings of the writers and editors of the Peoples World / Nuestro Mundo newspaper.http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (The People's Weekly World / Nuestro Mundo Newspaper)Blogger362125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-3239208611793490913Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:03:00 +00002009-10-01T20:35:00.515-07:00By Emile SchepersSPECIAL NOTE: This week, the PWW website is making a transition to a new consolidated website, about which you will be informed very soon via the existing site, pww.org. For this reason, there will be a hiatus in my blog until the new system is set up. The new consolidated webstie will be at http://www.peoplesworld.org. Meanwhile, here is the latest, and it is important.1. http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/honduras-update-october-1-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-1927426611883823256Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:44:00 +00002009-09-30T20:02:52.576-07:00By Emile SchepersHere are the most significant items to report:1. MARTIAL LAW ON AGAIN, OFF AGAIN. Honduran de facto coup president Roberto Micheletti announced martial law late Sunday, then the next day said he would drop the decree, now today seems to be going back the other way. The Supreme Electoral Council and others turn out to have pointed out to him that 45 days of martial law would http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/honduras-update-september-30-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-1802049441317833665Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:50:00 +00002009-09-30T10:40:05.981-07:00crimesLolitapunishmentRoman PolanskiI was 16. She was 13. But I never forgot the name. It always meant ugly things. Pedophilia, rape, degradation and other things my mother didn't want to talk about. It was there throughout my life.Roman Polanski. Great director. Artist. Fugitive. Sicko.My mother was always one to warn about the evils that women could face. "If he hits you once, you leave," she would say."Roman Polanski is a pig," http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/from-lolita-to-polanski.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teresa Albano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-5622654162290009378Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:26:00 +00002009-09-29T22:12:59.756-07:00By Emile SchepersI had intended to report this morning (Sept. 29) but it was not possible. Here's the latest.1. MICHELETTI BACKS OFF MARTIAL LAW DECREES, BUT WHAT ABOUT RADIO GLOBO AND CHANNEL 36? On Sunday, coup leader Roberto Micheletti had issued martial law decrees, to be in force for 45 days, evidently to stop a mounting movement of pressure that was supposed to peak with a huge http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/honduras-update-september-29-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-2930918550152674609Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:16:00 +00002009-09-28T21:27:28.935-07:00By Emile SchepersWhat a wild and crazy day on the Honduras front! It is now past midnight and I am not able to do my full blog right now. I will do it tomorrow AM; also watch for a new article I just sent to the People's Weekly World and Nuestro Mundo.Just to give you a taste:1. IN THE MORNING, evidently to stave off a promised mass pro-Zelaya march, the Micheletti regime announced the 45 day http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/honduras-update-september-28-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-9201406837453923500Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:32:00 +00002009-09-28T07:37:54.146-07:00capitalismKentuckypoliticssocialismOne of the favorite gloats of neoconservatives (and neo“liberals”) especially in the 1990s bore a woman’s name: TINA, for “There Is No Alternative” to capitalism. Perhaps nothing symbolized this notion more fully than the so-called World Economic Forums, whose genesis was in 1971, held each winter in Davos, Switzerland, at which “select” corporate leaders and international heads of state met to http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/kentucky-social-forum-yes-there-are.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-3394149531230157912Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:58:00 +00002009-09-27T18:35:11.384-07:00Emile SchepersA tense day, as tomorrow will also be.1. MICHELETTI SENDS ULTIMATUM TO BRAZIL. Coup de-facto government head Roberto Micheletti has issued an ultimatum to Brazil to the effect that if Brazil does not clarify, in 10 days, what it is going to do about the presence of Honduran President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, the coup regime will revoke the http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/honduras-update-september-27-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-4478576901852585894Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:20:00 +00002009-09-26T22:32:05.506-07:00By Emile SchepersThe situation in Honduras is still extremely tense and volatile, though there is nothing dramatically new to report. Here are the main trends:1. IN THE BRAZILIAN EMBASSY: Red Cross and others have been able to get through. People in the Embassy are holding out and recovering from symptoms reported earlier this week. President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, who appeared at the embassy http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/honduras-update-september-26-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-8232422731617892227Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:57:00 +00002009-09-26T06:59:08.849-07:00Growing opposition to banned books, banned ideas, and banned marches in San AntonioSan Antonio, TX. - by John StanfordThe San Antonio Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the San Antonio Public Library will sponsor a Banned Books event on October 1 that will have a special importance for all of Texas and for folks in other states as well. This free event will take place at http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/texans-stand-up-for-freedom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Lane)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-8594756107044062502Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:39:00 +00002009-09-25T22:22:55.426-07:00By Emile Schepers1. BRAZILIAN EMBASSY UNDER SIEGE. In flagrant violation of international law, the de-facto government of Roberto Micheletti is continuing to besiege the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and about 70 other people, including Zelaya's relatives and allies plus press and Brazilian embassy staff (the ambassador is currently in Brazil) are holding http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/honduras-update-september-25-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-457784046958835386Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:53:00 +00002009-09-25T12:55:41.208-07:00connecticuthealth careAt a rally in front of the insurance giant Aetna, demonstrators demanded a public option to be part of the national health care legislation. The rally was one of 150 rallies throughout the United States that took place on September 22.Big health insurance companies like Aetna are spending $641,000 a day to oppose reform because they profit by keeping the system as it is...by denying claims, http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/ct-rallies-for-health-care-before.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-6090994719556102147Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:56:00 +00002009-09-24T21:43:06.649-07:00By: Emile SchepersThe situation in Honduras and New York (at the UN) remains tense and dramatic. Demonstrations continue on the streets of Tegucigalpa (with one source saying a march yesterday,which was repressed, included as many as 150,000 pro-Zelaya protesters). Here are the main happenings:1. JIMMY CARTER TO THE RESCUE--BUT OF WHOM? Evidently ex US president Jimmy Carter called up coup http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/honduras-update-september-24-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-2728951084404253570Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:43:00 +00002009-09-23T21:11:28.910-07:00By Emile SchepersThe Honduras crisis remains tense and critical. Everybody should be passing the word and talking to the White House, State Department and Congress to make sure the U.S. government follows up its stated support for the restoration of President Zelaya with actions such as freezing the bank accounts of the coup leaders etc. Here is a brief list of the many things that are http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/situation-very-tense-honduras-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-3965333857144154046Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:30:00 +00002009-09-22T21:01:28.279-07:00By Emile SchepersDramatic events are happening in Honduras. At the end of this post I provide numbers to call for us to add our voices.1. COUP REGIME REPRESSES ZELAYA SUPPORTERS AND THREATENS ATTACK ON THE BRAZILIAN EMBASSY. This morning heavily armed cops attacked the thousands of people who had gathered around the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, driving them away, injuring up to 84 people http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/action-needed-honduras-update-sept-22.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-1953177437675655480Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:17:00 +00002009-09-21T22:32:27.701-07:00By Emile Schepers. This is the day! As he has been promising, President Manuel Zelaya returned to Honduras in the early hours of Monday, September 21, through a circuitious route. He is said to have traveled secretly via el Salvador and then accross Honduras to Tegucigalpa, accompanied by only 4 people and evading all the gangster coup government's security measures. Though originally it had http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/zelaya-returns-honduras-update-sept-21.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-8993634832967565712Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:37:00 +00002009-09-20T19:40:34.672-07:00By Emile SchepersI really don't have anything new and important today. Tomorrow and all next week there will be important action at the United Nations in New York, plus important meetings between Hillary Clinton and Arias, and also possibly Zelaya. I will keep you updated on that.Here is an important article in the Havana Times, English language newspaper in Cuba online, which gives the goals http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/honduras-update-sept-20-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-2738686862260990404Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:12:00 +00002009-09-19T20:20:10.488-07:00By: Emile SchepersNot much new or earth-shaking today. Just the following:1. U.S. Actor Danny Glover, in Cuba, announced that he will be traveling to Honduras in solidarity to the resistance to the coup. No date was given.2. The de-facto, illegal Micheletti regime is bitching and moaning that those yanqui imperialists in Los Angeles have violated diplomatic procedure by forceably ousting thehttp://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/honduras-update-september-19-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-5566117288606420287Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:04:00 +00002009-09-18T21:42:55.437-07:00Emile Schepers1. ZELAYA TO SPEAK AT U.N. NEXT WEEK. Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will address the U.N. on the first day of debates next week. This is the opening of the new session of the General Assembly, and a number of other heads of state will be there, including Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.2. MICHELETTI ACCUSES ZELAYA'S U.N. AMBASSADOR OF TERRORISM. In an interview with Fox http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/honduras-update-september-18-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-1277660022888535153Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:06:00 +00002009-09-17T18:24:11.463-07:00By Emile SchepersNews on Honduras today has to do with yesterday's meeting of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, the agreed on mediator of the dispute, with five of the six candidates for president in the November 29 elections. The sixth one, who did not attend, was independent leftist candidate Carlos Humberto Reyes.Four of the five candidates who met with Arias yesterday, namely Elvin Santos (http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/honduras-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-3141850521349674429Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:01:00 +00002009-09-16T20:17:50.586-07:00By: Emile Schepers1. MEETING OF ARIAS WITH 4 HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. Today Costa Rican President Oscar Arias met with four of the six presidential candidates in the November 29 elections. The two he didn't meet with are the ones who support Zelaya: The Democratic Unification Party's Cesar Ham and left-wing independent candidate Carlos Humberto Reyes, both of whom are calling for a http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/update-on-honduras-september-16-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-6190956098285043559Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:58:00 +00002009-09-15T19:06:53.184-07:00By Emile Schepers1. ARIAS TO MEET WITH (SOME) HONDURAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. Various sources report that Costa Rican president Arturo Arias, mediator for the Honduras crisis, is meeting tomorrow with at least four of the candidates for the presidency in Honduras' elections of November 29. His aim is reportedly to get them to agree to a postponment of the November 29 elections until after http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/honduras-update-september-15-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-3739792732244309805Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:00:00 +00002009-09-15T10:07:30.771-07:00 James Kille, Rev Dr. Jo Hudson, Rev Colleen Darraugh, Dr Winfred Parnell, and Rev Gerald Britt spoke out on health care reformNorth Texas religious leaders have joined the battle for health care reform and other progressive causes. The Dallas Area Christian Progressive Alliance organized a panel presentation at Cathedral of Hope Church in Dallas on September 13. It was titled, “Who Would Jesus http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/faith-community-speaks-out-for-health.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Lane)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-2838792649849110767Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:59:00 +00002009-09-14T19:07:39.477-07:00By Emile SchepersSome short items, and a link to a recommended reading today.1. I checked the Colombian press this AM, there is nothing new about yesterday's report of AUC ultra-right death squad types being sent to do police work in Honduras. I will keep monitoring this.2. The pro-Micheletti Honduran ambassador was thrown out of the meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights todayhttp://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/honduras-update-september-14-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Emile Schepers)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-2396107174488162993Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:09:00 +00002009-09-14T18:21:38.333-07:00 Rain packed North Texans inside the famous honky-tonk "Gilleys" for a health care rally on September 14. They waved signs that said "Thank You" on one side and "Standing Together for Health Care" on the other. An estimated 600 of them stood elbow-to-elbow in a room that would have been comfortable with half as many.But they didn't mind. Popular political figures like State Senator Royce West, http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/standing-together-gets-new-meaning-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jim Lane)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777340504614808485.post-5280995176239489838Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:50:00 +00002009-09-14T14:01:12.116-07:00Afghanistanantiwarbarack obamapeacewarBy Greg BurryBIRMINGHAM, Mich. -- The Birmingham Bloomfield Democratic Club of Michigan hosted a presentation and discussion on Afghanistan: Now It’s 'Obama’s War' by Dr. Prasad Venugopal, professor at the University of Detroit Mercy, recently. It was a well-received presentation and a needed discussion at an important time when troop increases are ramping up to employ the president’s strategy.http://peoplesweeklyworldblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/afghanistan-now-its-obamas-war.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Teresa Albano)