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An LGF reader emailed the link to this video of the Portland anarchists who burned a soldier in effigy. For once, I’m speechless. The photographs were only the tip of the iceberg; listen to what they’re chanting. Watch the Video here

January 5, 2006Dear XXXXXXX,Let's do something historic. Let's make 2006 the year we end the war in Iraq, and let's join together with women from every corner of the world to do it! TODAY, January 5th, CODEPINK is launching a new campaign called "Women Say No to War" to bring together US women like Alice Walker, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Susan Sarandon, Cindy Sheehan and Dolores Huerta with women from countries such as Britain, Canada, Australia, Mexico, the Philippines, Japan, Jordan, Iran and especially Iraq. Our purpose? To tell our leaders - and the world - that women have had...

Some relatives of the Sept. 11 victims, upset about plans to build a cultural center at ground zero, launched an internet campaign urging donors to withhold contributions to the World Trade Center memorial. An open letter, published on a Web site called ``Take Back the Memorial'' and purportedly signed by 14 family groups, urged the boycott. But the letter was withdrawn after at least one group protested the use of its name on the posting, according to a report in The New York Times on Tuesday. Gov. George Pataki, speaking Tuesday in Troy, N.Y., said it was ``very unfortunate'' that...

War Tax Resistance: Refusing to Fund War on Tax Day Amy: Ruth Benn, coordinator of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, a coalition of local, regional, and national groups founded more than 20 years ago to provide information and support to people who are conscientious objectors to paying taxes for war. Welcome to Democracy Now! Ruth:Well, war tax resistance is done by people who really don't want their tax money to go for anyone to fight in war, for, you know, people to be victims of war, for all of the weapons of war. So, myself, I'm a long-time...

Medea Benjamin will reach new heights in the next three days with the nation-wide “The World Says End the War” march (where). Benjamin and her cohorts, operating under her group Peace and Justice United, has organized over 1,350 left-wing and radical groups, such as the Communist Party USA, the Marxist Feminist Lesbians, Punks For Peace, Queers for Peace and Justice, RANT (Root Activist Network of Trainers), the Ruckus Society, the Socialist Party USA and Cabbies Against Bush (list) to march against the war. Benjamin, who wrote in The Nation magazine, that, “The most exciting aspect of the antiwar organizing...

The courage and fortitude of our nation’s leaders, particularly President Bush, has been on display since the outbreak of the Iraq war. But for Democrats, polls that show continued high support for Bush's war effort - 72 percent in the latest survey - could spell trouble in next year's election. They face a genuine political conundrum. While opposition to war by left-wing activists threatens to turn the Democratic Party into a haven for unelectable peaceniks, Democratic candidates who support the war are finding it difficult to secure backing within the party. On the other hand, Democrats who actually stand a...