I was in attendance this morning when the governor’s limousine pulled up outside the Legislative Office Building to discharge Joseph Lieberman, scheduled to appear at a health care meeting of some kind on the inside. (more…)
September 2007
Monthly Archive
Mon 17 Sep 2007
Mon 17 Sep 2007
Said Zaim-Sassi was deported to Morocco last week.
On September 20, there will be an immigrant rights workshop at 4:30 p.m. The event will take place at the Omni Hotel at 155 Temple Street in New Haven.
On Saturday September 22 at 6 p.m. there will be a public forum at St. Augustine’s Church on 10 Campfield Avenue. The conversation will be regarding the ways that the immigrant community can protect itself.
Fri 14 Sep 2007
Hartford Dems Say “No” to Eddie, He “Wins” Anyway
Posted by kevin under Hartford , it's the stupid media , government , politics[10] Comments
Despite what the Perez-enamored Courant says, Hartford’s mayoral primary is a sign of Perez’s weakness - namely his inability to capture a majority of the city’s Democratic voters. The plurality Perez received (49% of the Tuesday’s vote) shouldn’t mean that he “won.” Simply reversing the numbers, we see that a majority of Hartford Democrats voted against the sitting mayor. Why then is plurality synonymous with victory? It should be a cue for Hartford, and this country at large, to live by its supposed “majority rules” philosophy. It’s time for instant runoff voting. (more…)
Fri 14 Sep 2007
Time for CCSU to toss The Recorder’s editor and staff
Posted by Peter G under it's the stupid media , gender , race , education[8] Comments
Today’s Courant has an article about the latest outrage by the editor and staff of the CCSU student newspaper, The Recorder.
Seems after sitting down and actually discussing the matter, editor Mark Rowan and his writers concluded that publishing a cartoon “that made reference to locking a teenage Hispanic girl in a closet and urinating on her” would not be offensive. The cartoon appears in the September 12 print edition of The Recorder and can be viewed as a pdf on its website. (more…)
Thu 13 Sep 2007
So, Where Were You When the Towers Fell Down?
Posted by Undercurrents under uncategorized[7] Comments
The media love to do anniversary reminiscences of cataclysmic events of national interest. Why should we be different?
So, on Sept. 11, 2001, where were you when you heard the news? What did you think then? What do you think now? What should be done to avoid such acts of mass violence?
Wed 12 Sep 2007
Last night a sizable crowd gathered at Real Art Ways in Hartford for An Evening of Literary and Patriotic Dissent. Three writers were billed to speak about patriotism, partisan politics, and how our national identity has evolved in the six years since September 11th, 2001. Only Steve Almond, the last speaker, really addressed the topic head on. (more…)
Tue 11 Sep 2007
Corporate Loan Sharking or The New American Century Money Changers…
Posted by jerimarie liesegang under economics , crime , housing[2] Comments
The Courant ran a piece yesterday about the impact of predatory subprime lending in the Connecticut mortgage market. Of course the good Corporate Capitalists they are, it was entitled Thousands to Feel Mortgage Pain. My guess is that their pain is more that of anger and outrage against Corporate greed and profiteering that feeds off the poor! But alas, does not our corporate media continously re-victimize the victim, rather than place the blame directly where it lies: at the doorsteps of greedy and lying mortgage brokers. (more…)
Tue 11 Sep 2007
You gotta watch out for the spin bombers tossing around cherry picked factoids regarding how well/how bad our excellent adventures in Iraq are going. General Petraeus did his best to put a new coat of fresh paint on the blood-spattered war machine he’s driving. Did anybody ask him how long we plan to occupy Iraq? He did say that troops will be there a long time. Meanwhile, the Courant print edition ran a photo of Baghdadians outraged by a U.S. airstrike in which 14 civilians were killed and their homes destroyed. What will the official military report on this incident say?
Let’s all go pick us some more cherries. What kind do you like?
Mon 10 Sep 2007
Tim O’Brien, author and Viet Nam veteran, describes a “true war story” in these words…”a true war story is never moral, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. There is no rectitude, there is no virtue.” Tim O’Brien is the author of the now classic “The Things they Carried,” a novel about his experiences in Viet Nam. I have a true war story to tell – it goes like this.
I was a 19 year old medic with the ambulance platoon at Chu Lai serving with the 23rd Infantry , the Americal division 1970-71. We had all done dust-off medevac, emergency room, convoy duty and line duty as grunts. Some of us did lab work and Graves registration, where bodies are prepared to be sent home. (more…)
Thu 6 Sep 2007
Are you fed up with Connecticut’s war on ex-offenders?
Posted by Peter G under Hartford , crime , raceNo Comments
Join Us, Clean Slate Committee, Hope Out Loud, Undoing Racism, Middletown-Hartford Connection, CT Chapter of National Lawyers Guild, Spanish Speaking Center of New Britain, CT Network to Abolish The Death Penalty, American Friends Service Committee and Martin Street Neighborhood Committee for a…
Press Conference Tuesday, September 11 at 12 Noon
Legislative Office Building, Room 2E 300 Capitol Avenue, Hartford
For more info call: (860) 570-0782 or email: samuelssloflo@aol.com