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last updated 12/9/04

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Yale prof Robert Dahl's snappy little book:
How Democratic is the American Constitution?

how it came to be and who's doing democracy better

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post-election madness: news + humor

MAINSTREAM REPORTING
IS STARTING UP:
PROBLEMS YES, BUT FRAUD?

Election questions keep coming (Ann Woolner, Bloomberg News, 12/3/04)
Boston Globe overview of problems country-wide (12/1/04)
Kerry joins Ohio recount suit (Washington Post, 12/1/04)
Keith Olbermann's blog
(MSNBC): 1st mainstream reporter on this, detailed blog

ALTERNATIVE PRESS:
VOTE COUNT PROBLEMS,
VOTER SUPPRESSION,
COMPUTER MADNESS

Ohio uproar: demonstrations & revelations... (The Free Press in Columbus, 12/8/04)
Sworn affidavit: programmer wrote vote-rigging code in FLA (BlueLemur.com, 12/6/04)
Jesse Jackson on Ohio (re)count (Chicago Sun-Times, 11/30/04)
By Ukraine standards our election was stolen
(James Galbraith, Salon.com, 11/30/04)
Saudi money funded election rigging? (Wayne Madsen, OnlineJournal, 11/25/04)
Activists uncover Florida fraud (Thom Hartmann, CommonDreams.org, 11/18/04)
UC-Berkeley researchers suspect major Florida error (Wired, 11/18/04)
Fraud or broken system?
Greg Palast vs.
Farhad Manjoo (Salon.com, 11/16/04)
How the votes in Ohio vanished, (Greg Palast, In These Times, 11/14/04)
Worst voter error: apathy on irregularities (Donna Britt, Washington Post, 11/12/04)
Florida election results statistically improbable (ConsortiumNews.com, 11/9/04)
Worse than 2000 (William Rivers Pitt, truthout.com, 11/8/04)
Exit polls variance insignificant (BlueLemur.com, 11/8/04)
"None Dare Call It Voter Suppression & Fraud" (Bob Fitzrakis, 11/8/04)
Election hacked: the evidence (Thom Hartmann, CommonDreams.org, 11/6/04)
Kerry can still win Ohio
(OpEdNews.com, 11/4/04)
"Kerry Won" (Greg Palast, TomPaine.org, 11/4/04)
David Corn's blog (The Nation's Washington editor): disbelieves Republican fraud

MONEY AND BAD CODE:
DIEBOLD, ES&L & YOUR VOTE
Vote machines = tax $ for corporations, fraud (Thom Hartmann, 11/4/04)
Ohio's problems predicted before election (Fitzrakis/Wasserman, Mother Jones, 3/5/04)
ELECTION NEWS
WEBSITES

This Time We're WatchingSteal Your ElectionDeRelection2004.comCitizens for Legit Govt WhatReallyHappened.comVotersUnite: election problems compiled • BlackBoxVoting.ORG: Bev Harris exposes e-voting; Salon.com on Harris, "the Erin Brockovich of elections" • BlackBoxVoting.COM: used to work with Harris.

OFFICIAL INQUIRY
GAO will investigate election irregularities (CNN, 11/24/04)
Thank & encourage NY Representative Jerrold Nadler
for pressing the issue
SIGN PETITIONS, DONATE
MoveOn's petition to Congress for an investigation
Read Code Pink's Voter Bill of Rights and sign accompanying petition
Common Cause is organizing a Congressional public hearing
PetitionOnline.com
Justice Through Music is offering $100,000 for evidence of vote count fraud
film is in production about the eVoting fraud, narrated by George Wendt
High school and college students are organizing acts of civil disobedience
London paper asks, "How Can 59,054,087 People Be So Dumb?"
Tell the world that half of us don't suck! Read about the huge reaction to this site.
Sick of red state hypocrites? Read this, see the slave state & election maps compared.
"250 Ways to Make It Through the Next Four Years Without Misunderestimating the Dangers Ahead, and Other Subliminable Strategeries"
O CANADA!
From slavery to
the Vietman war to now...
and I thought I was jealous before!

Go Canadian when you travel! Stay safe, unhassled and less ashamed--buy this kit.
MarryAnAmerican.ca (rescuing U.S. liberals, gay and straight!)
"So You Want to Move to Canada?" -- Canadian Immigration site
"Ten Reasons Not to Move to Canada"
Or get matched with the right country: FleeAmerica.com (Barbara Ehrenreich)
"Electing to Leave" (expatriation facts from Harper's)

Michael Lerner on how the Left abandoned spirituality to the Right

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u.s. war
Civilian casualties update Civilian casualties update
Salon: After reporting ongoing war crimes, a sergeant was "loaded onto a military plane and medevac'd to a military medical center outside the country"
Salon: "A scathing top-level report: 'war on terrorism' is an unmitigated disaster. Of course, the administration is ignoring it."
Toronto Star editorial makes a good case for war crimes charges.
A history of fundamentalist, violent resistance to imperialism
Occupation Watch links to the latest news
Polls show record levels of disgust among British public
Survey of Iraqi death rates much higher than previously estimated
Refusal of "suicide mission"
Uncensored voices
ANTI-BUSH NEWS SITES
Impeachment by the PeopleBushWhackedUSABushTimesMisleader

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more alternative press
TomPaine.common sense Common Dreams
Air America Radio
Michael Moore
Media Workers Against War The Progressive
FAIR

mediachannel.org

Chicken Hawks Iraqometer World War III Report

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political and cultural activism some NYC, some national

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listen to anti-war songs - please more links for anti-war music
list of hip hop anti-war songs
oodles of free downloads from Thurston Moore's site
Eminem: "Mosh"
great anti-Bush video
awesome song!!!
Saul Williams: "Not In Our Name" and more
also remixes by DJ Spooky, DJ Goo and Coldcut
George Michael: "The Grave"
check out Bush & Blair singing "Endless Love" too!
Zach de la Rocha & DJ Shadow: "March of Death"
 
scroll down for the download links
Scott Amendola & Carla Bozulich: "Masters of War"
an alt jazz Bob Dylan cover...protest-records #9
Billy Bragg: "The Price of Oil"
 
1,000 Paper Cranes: "Baghdad Suite"
protest #34
Chris Brown & Kate Fenner: "Resist War"
 
Cat Power: "Rockets"
protest #4
Stephan Smith: "The Bell"
with Pete Seeger, Dean Ween and Mary Harris
danceable Bushisms from New Zealand
Urban Box Office: "Raise Your Hands High..."
rappers can add rhymes! Benefits Not In Our Name.
Dubya & Matt Rogalsky: "2:50 Silence for the USA"
protest #12
scroll down to track 50
Chumbawamba: "Jacob's Ladder"
 
Soylent Gringo: "Let's Start a War"
protest #15
Pat Humphries: "Code Pink"

 

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T-shirts, buttons, flags, stickers, cards, posters some free
 
Dead-on satire exposes US war criminals - browse, download, order
section of flag shown at right
 
"Got Democracy?" "Fear is the Enemy"
great T-shirts, buttons, bumper stickers, and more
"No War on Iraq," "Get Rid of Saddam -- Ride a Bike" and more
bitingly satiric posters, bumper stickers, T-shirts, etc.
T-shirts  
also "Drop Bush Not Bombs" and more
"Got Peace?" and other great T-shirts and loads of paraphenalia
all kinds of paraphenalia!  
T-shirts, stickers -- "It's the OIL, stupid," and more
stickers, magnets, buttons, stamps and more, since 1982
proceeds benefit anti-war organizations
eCards from the Netherlands  
downloadable art by Chris Habib
download posters, print, photocopy, resist!
amazing art work from all over the world - free for download
   
 

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the funnies
the onion
"America's Finest News Source" u.s. of canada
editorial comic strip
editorial animations
satiric comic strip
strip featuring radical black kids
Dead-on satire exposes US war criminals - browse, download, order
ever feel like you get paid for your cultural-educational work?
bitingly funny -- a companion site of sorts to Rent-A-Negro.com
hilarious spoof of "Homeland Security" government site
spoof White House web site  
insanely funny and true quotes from the Shrub

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other favorites
great for fact-checking the latest weird email-forwarded tall tale
complete cast lists for trivia-minded people like me
amazing radio magazine from WBEZ in Chicago
political & cultural interviews, reviews and commentaries
especially necessary for those of us who were educated in America

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