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Grab a seat! Yer gonna need it… ‘Mornin’ folks! How the hell are ya this mornin’, anyways? Coffee’s on, and is it good this mornin’! Ya best grab a cup and get some! Feller’s gotta have his eyes open some ‘fore he heads out the door inna mornin’. Paper’ll be along directly, too. I gots first dibs onna funny pages! Well, it looks like CBS News done deconstructed. Their ratin’s in some of them big city markets was lower than the re-runs onna other channels! Lots lower! That’s pretty bad, folks. Well, in case ya didn’t know, them documents that...

WSSU students question Blair's paid appearance Former reporter, forced to resign from N.Y. Times, will speak, answer questions By Mary Giunca JOURNAL REPORTER Tuesday, September 14, 2004 Disgraced journalist Jayson Blair will speak at Winston-Salem State University on Wednesday, and some students are asking why the university is spending $3,000 to bring him there. Ebonee Russell, a senior and a reporter for The News Argus, the school's paper, said she wonders whether Blair deserves any attention from the university at all. "What kind of role model is he? What kind of example is he setting for the students here?" she...

Mrs. Heinz-Kerry and her connection to The Tides Foundation is not ‘new‘ news. The Tides Foundation’s connection to moveon.org isn’t breaking news, either. Nor is moveon.org’s connection to Texans for Truth. What is lesser known is the Communist Party’s willingness to back Kerry in this election. They’ve encouraged their members to vote for him instead of their own candidate. Their sole reason? Getting rid of President Bush. The W.W.W.P. (The Socialist Party) openly brags of infiltrating the unions. They brag about having Party members placed in positions to negotiate contracts for union memberships. Many of the people who give money...

Before I continue, I'd just like to note that this report on Thurday's activities in Manhattan has been passed on to me by another freeper, whose posting privileges have been revoked. Well, well, well. Once again, the Kerry supporters "shined" brightly last night. Yet, there were many conservative protesters out on the streets, whom the media chose to ignore. On Thursday, a few freepers met up with "Protest Warrior" to make our voices heard and ruffle a few feathers on the left; both missions were accomplished. First, we hit Herald Square to take on the liberals at "Hardball." A man-approximately...

Until recently, the International Solidarity Movement website openly encouraged lying and lawbreaking in supporting Palestinian “armed struggle” against Israeli “occupation.” However, a Front Page Magazine article last July has caused much of this to be removed and led to ISM activists being stopped at Israeli borders and even deported. The Front Page article in question exposed the activities of San Francisco ISM lead trainer Jamie Spector, a 33 year-old social worker who claims to be Jewish, after FPM writer Lee Kaplan went undercover and attended an ISM session. Spector taught a class of about ten ISM “volunteers” who were to...

How do we expose and discredit all of these groups as having real communist ties. I bet moveon.org, ACT, ANSWER, code pink, and others would fall apart if the general public knew who and what they're members ares are. Is there physical proof of how these groups are socialist/communist fronts?How do we expose them?

If local political activism could be explained in Olympic terms, then the latest round of the "Middle East Match" played out it in San Francisco on Sunday, August 29. About 25 or so members of International A.N.S.W.E.R. and a group calling itself Bay Area Palestine gathered at the busy intersection of Powell and Market Streets for their latest protest of all things Israel. And in what has become a regular occurrence, around 30 members of San Francisco Voice for Israel and Protest Warrior were on hand to counter-protest. Indeed, their tireless efforts on behalf of Israel have become so reliable...

Reggie Mapry, left, of New York argues with Richard Ivory of Arlington, Va. who supports the Iraq war during a protest march organized by the group United for Peace and Justice in New York, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004. Tens of thousands of Bush administration opponents denounced the war in Iraq and demanded the United States withdraw its forces. (AP Photo/Jennifer Szymaszek) New Yorkers Harvey Freeman, left, supporting John Kerry (news - web sites) for president, and Pincus Shain, right, supporting President Bush, face off during the anti-Bush march organized by United for Peace and Justice in New York Sunday, Aug....

NYC police on watch for Port courthouse bomber By Andy Smith and Stephanie Akin Staff writers New York City police are targeting a man who bombed Newburyport Superior Court 28 years ago, saying he poses a threat to next week's Republican National Convention. But an anti-war activist group has accused police of trying to "smear" their reputation by linking the group with the convicted radical who terrorized New England with a series of bombings in the 1970s. New York City police say Richard J. Picariello, 55, is among 50 activists whose criminal histories will earn them extra attention next week....

Note: it is a shame that they didn't sign a petition so we could see all their names. I think I know what to with something like that. :) ================================================= The Power of the People August 24, 2004 The political equation is changing very rapidly in New York City since Friday, August 20. The legal and political challenge has created a political crisis for the Bloomberg Administration. The lawsuit filed by the attorneys for the National Council of Arab Americans and the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition led to a dramatic emergency hearing on Friday, August 20. This legal challenge put front and...

I see by the papers the courts have barred two "protest" organizations from rioting on the Great Lawn of Central Park during the Republican convention. One group is a home-grown variant of Hezbollah;the other is International A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism).Just for the heck of it,I decided to check out the latter group's website. It's pretty clear, from the articles posted today on their site,they are telling their followers they have "overcome" the hostile City and its running-dog Courts,and that the way is clear to hold troop and stomp on the Great Lawn (which they are...

NEW YORK - The city's decision to deny a permit to protesters for a rally on Central Park's Great Lawn on the weekend before the Republican National Convention is about preserving the lawn, not suppressing speech, lawyers for the city said in federal court Friday. The lawn would be ruined if 75,000 people gathered there for a rally on Aug. 28 and then 250,000 people used the lawn for another rally the next day, said Gail Donoghue, representing the city. "I think two is too many back to back. The lawn would have no time to recover," Donoghue told U.S....

August 7, 2004 U.S. Mass Murder in Iraq Will Not Defeat the Resistance As U.S. fighter jets and attack helicopters bomb and strafe densely populated neighborhoods in the holy city of Najaf, and kill and round-up the citizens of Sadr City, the poorest neighborhood in Baghdad, it has become crystal clear that the capacity of the occupation forces to launch a high tech campaign of murder and destruction has utterly failed to defeat the resistance in Iraq. Bush’s and Kerry's Dilemma in Iraq Iraq is erupting. The occupiers cannot win and yet they are determined not to leave. The dilemma...

NEW YORK (AFP) - An Arab-American organization and a group opposed to war and racism filed suit charging they were unconstitutionally denied a permit to hold a protest in Central Park during the upcoming Republican National Convention. Attorneys for the National Council of Arab Americans (NCA) and ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), filed suit in US District Court in Manhattan accusing Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the New York Police Department and others of violating their right to a permit for the park's Great Lawn. The groups want to hold a civil rights rally on Central Park's Great...

Where Have You Gone James Otis? July 26, 2004 © New Republican Archive Boston – The Democratic National Convention started today with most local Bostonians fleeing for the hills and protesters driven away by the palace guard (Secret Service). Traffic on the roads and in the subways was so light today that it was like a normal Sunday evening, only this wasn’t Sunday, and it was anything but normal. The local traffic was so light, nearly a 70% drop from the norm we are told, that police are reported on the local airwaves to be planning to scale down their...

Protesters leave a modest footprint, so far Activists take on issues from the Iraq war to the two-party system, but security strictures dampen size of the turnout. By Sara B. Miller | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor BOSTON – He isn't your average American patriot. Two "Bushocchio" inflatable dolls dangle from his hands. "Stick it to Bush," the man, who calls himself Nick Williams, yells out, "it's the ultimate in electoral pleasure." He's draped in the flag - but only from the waist down, where red and white stripes wind around his legs and corporate logos replace the...

BOSTON -- An antiwar march to the FleetCenter planned as the first major protest of convention week fell far short of the thousands expected, but the city still crackled with energy yesterday as protesters, delegates, and onlookers mingled on the eve of the Democratic National Convention. (snip) What was expected to be the biggest protest of the day -- an antiwar march from Boston Common to the FleetCenter -- drew only 1,200 to 1,500 people, according to police estimates, far fewer than the 5,000 police expected and the "thousands" predicted by organizers. About the same number rallied in support of...

BOSTON - Delegates arriving for the Democratic National Convention were greeted Sunday by competing protests against the war in Iraq (news - web sites) and abortion. About 2,000 protesters gathered at noon on the historic Boston Common, site of many of the city's most memorable demonstrations. After about two hours there, they marched half a mile to the FleetCenter, where Democrats plan to nominate hometown candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) for president on Wednesday. "This is just the beginning of a week of protests," said Larry Holmes, spokesman for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, a...

This morning on MEET THE PRESS, Tim Russert was interviewing DNCC keynote speaker and IL Senate candidate Barak Obama. Tim put up on the screen some quotes by Obama given at an unspecified "anti-war" rally.Perhaps the nation should know exactly what was this so-called 'anti-war' rally on Oct 2, 2002, [presumably in Chicago]? Was this yet another one of those anti-American, pro-marxist, pro-Terrorist, pro-Jihadist C*ANSWER rallies? If Freepers or ProtestWarrior, etc, could get tape of his speech (and esp of those other rabid anti-American speakers) and air them on Hannity, etc, perhaps such scandal could put enough pressure on the...

Anti-war group sues over planned pre-convention march The Associated Press July 19, 2004 5:22PM BOSTON - A coalition of groups that wants to march to the FleetCenter the day before the Democratic National Convention sued the city Monday after it was told it must stop its march two blocks away. The A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition said the city cited security reasons when it denied their request to march directly in front of the FleetCenter. "The whole threat of terrorism, you can't continue to use that as a blanket excuse to suppress civil liberties," said Dustin Langley, volunteer for the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition. Mary...