Blog Entries http://brainshrub.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:48:31 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=A-Labor-Day-Attack-on-Farmworkers.html&Itemid=99999999 <p style="text-align: left">by: Bruce Goldstein </p><p> &quot;Amid all the hype of hurricanes and political conventions, the Bush<br /> Administration is about to launch a major attack on the nation&#39;s<br /> farmworkers...&quot;</p><p>Entire story here:</p><p><br /> http://www.harvestingjustice.org/index.php/immigration-labor-rights/187-a-labor-day-attack-on-farmworkers</p> Paulv http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=First-al-Bashir-next-...-Bush-.html&Itemid=99999999 <p>By Mark Levine , Middle East historian </p><p><img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/200871673059374621_8.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="536" height="283" /> </p><p>While there is little chance Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president,&nbsp;will ever be brought to trial following his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC), the charges brought&nbsp;against him nevertheless offer hope for anyone concerned about human rights around [...] greenascanbe Iraq Darfur Bush al-Bashir http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=McKinney-Wins-Nomination!-Picks-Rosa-Clemente-as-VP!.html&Itemid=99999999 <p><img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/cynthia-rosa.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="366" height="184" align="left" />Cynthia McKinney won the Green Party of the United States presidential nomination at the July 12 GP-US Convention in Chicago. McKinney, a former Member of Congress from Georgia, received 313 of 532 first round votes to earn nomination by Greens delegates from across the country excited that she will be their standard bearer this year. Hip-hop a [...] greenascanbe Rosa Clemente Green Party Cynthia McKinney 2008 election http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Loss-of-Civil-Liberties-Since-9-11.html&Itemid=99999999 <p>If you care to know what rights you have left, or better which you have already lost this is a great resource web page.</p><p>&nbsp;<img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/nationaldatabank1967.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="321" height="284" align="left" /></p><p>Open-Content investigative project managed by Paul , blackmax</p> <p class="small">This is the home page for the Loss of Civil Liberties Since 9/11 investigative project, one of several grassroots inv [...] greenascanbe Civil Liberties 911 http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Black-Agenda-Report-says-support-McKinney-not-Obama.html&Itemid=99999999 <p>&nbsp;<img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/mckinney1.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" align="left" /></p><p> By: Glen Ford </p> <p> Source: Black Agenda Report </p> <p> Published: 07.02.2008 </p><p> Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who seems poised to capture the Green Party presidential nomination, in Chicago, this month, &quot;is at this juncture in [...] greenascanbe Obama McKinney Iraq Green Party http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=7-Terrible-Abuses-Suffered-By-Women-Around-The-World.html&Itemid=99999999 <p>This is so important to share! So I lifted it from: The List Univers Go here to give them some support!&nbsp; </p><p>NOTE: Some readers may find the text and images on this list disturbing. </p><p>For most readers, the biggest troubles in their lives are petrol prices, long working hours, and increasing food costs. For many women in the world, these are the least of their concerns. Terrible atrocities are committed against untold numbers of women around the world every day and for most of th [...] greenascanbe http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=I-am-not-a-crook!.html&Itemid=99999999 <p> Well history says differently, alas we have not learn from it. How long will we the people let the current administration get away with breaking the law? Isn&#39;t it time to impeach Bush &amp; Co.? </p><p><img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/nixon.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="280" height="273" align="left" /></p><p> June 17, 1972 </p><p style="margin-b [...] greenascanbe Nixon Impeachment Bush http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Free-public-transport-for-all---an-idea-whose-time-has-come!.html&Itemid=99999999 <p>Considering the cost of fuel and environmental impact of personalized transportation I believe we need to examen our way of travel.</p><p> <img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/bus_cartoon.gif" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="331" height="289" align="left" /> </p><p>The Scottish Socialist Party &rsquo;s campaign for free public transport is an ``audacious, eye-catching idea&#39;&#39; according to Douglas Fraser, political editor of The Herald newspaper.</p><p>Watch [...] greenascanbe Socialist Party Public Transportation Green Party http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=So-how-much-do-you-spend-of-your-income-on-Gasoline-.html&Itemid=99999999 <p><img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/Bush.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="229" height="313" align="left" /> June 28, 2000: Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality.</p><p> &quot;I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply and I will use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or t [...] greenascanbe working poor Saudi Arabia renewable energy OPEC Oil Kuwait Green Crude Oil Biofuel biodiesel http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Green-is-the-Conservatives-new-favorite-color-in-Germany.html&Itemid=99999999 The Conservatives&rsquo; New Favorite Color; An alliance of Germany&rsquo;s Christian Democrats and the Greens suggests a potentially radical political realignment <p> Stefan Theil | Newsweek International | 05.26.2008</p><p><img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/negermangreenpartylogo.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="283" height="199" align="left" />While the future effects of global warming are still hotly debated, the one very real thaw it has already pr [...] greenascanbe SPD Obama McCain Green Party Germany FDP Die Linke CDU http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=AMERICA-WAITS-FOR-CLINTON-TO-FUCK-OFF.html&Itemid=99999999 <p>The Democratic Party&#39;s Primaries are over and we got a winner! Now someone tell Mrs. Clinton.</p><p><img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/kiddraw.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" align="left" /></p><p>AMERICA was waiting with bated breath last night as Hillary Clinton signalled she may be about to fuck off.</p><p>Sources close to the New York senator suggested she is now ready to pick a date to concede the election, and has already pencilled-in April 23rd, 2017.</ [...] greenascanbe Hillary Clinton Democratic Party Barak Obama http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=-Bible-and-Bible-Studies-.html&Itemid=99999999 <p>This story made me smile a lot today so I thought I would share it.</p><img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/bible_shelf.jpg" alt="Sam Harris&#39; Letter to a Christian Nation " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="450" height="304" /> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; That&#39;s Sam Harris&#39; Letter to a Christian Nation sitting all alone there.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p> &quot;A couple of college students in Toronto took offense at the patent absurdity of the &quot;Bi [...] greenascanbe Humor Christianity Bible http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=How-much-is-the-life-of-a-farm-worker-worth-.html&Itemid=99999999 <p> How much is the life of a farm worker worth?<br /> Is it less than the life of any other human being?</p><p><img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/mariaphto.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="324" height="238" align="left" /></p><p>On May 14, the official temperature was 95 degrees; it was even hotter inside the wine grape vineyard owned by West Coast Grape Farming, east of Stockton, where Maria and her fianc&eacute;, Florentino Bautista, worked. Maria had been w [...] greenascanbe http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Will-the-Democrats-ever-cut-our-bloated-military-budget-.html&Itemid=99999999 <p> An expanding military budget taxpayers can&#39;t afford by Bernie Sanders</p><p><img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/nusseekpeaceandpursueitsign.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="244" height="137" align="left" />Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the swea [...] greenascanbe War Military Budget Green Party Federal Budget Democratic Party http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Show-Us-Some-Green.html&Itemid=99999999 <p>&nbsp;</p>America&#39;s most colorful third party could use some attention &mdash; and some cash.<p><img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/money.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="280" height="211" align="left" /></p> By Deirdra Funcheon Published on May 15, 2008 You might not know it from watching TV or listening to the radio, but a local landowner recently bulldozed a community garden, a power plant is set to be constructed between two wildlife refuges in the E [...] greenascanbe Randi Rhodes radio Green Party fundraising Air America http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=The-Politics-of-Denunciation-by-Mumia-Abu-Jamal.html&Itemid=99999999 <p>by Mumia Abu-Jamal </p><p> <img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/mumia.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="117" height="160" align="left" /> When was the last time that you saw a politician asked to denounce a religious leader with whom he or she was associated? &nbsp;For generations, we have seen a succession of presidents, from both political parties, under the wing of the Rev. Billy Graham.<br />&nbsp; Historians have recently reported that Graham and hi [...] greenascanbe Rev Dr Jeremiah Wright Rev Billy Graham Obama Mummia Abu Jamal http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=First-100-Days-Energy-and-Environmental-Policy-Green-Party-.html&Itemid=99999999 <p>The Green Party Platform : Ecological and Energy Sustainability</p><p> <img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/earth.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="238" height="238" align="left" /></p><p>The human community is an element of the Earth community, not the other way around. All human endeavors are situated within the dynamics of the biosphere. If we wish to have sustainable institutions and enterprises, they must fit well with the processes of the Earth. </p><p>Th [...] greenascanbe Global Warming Capitalism Agriculture http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Discrimination-in-Memphis-School.html&Itemid=99999999 Timothy Kincaid <br /> <p><img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/gaypridenew.170x75.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" width="170" height="75" align="left" /></p><p> The Hollis F. Price Middle College High School is undoubtedly a successful school. As a collaboration between the Memphis school district and LeMoyne-Owen College, it provides an opportunity for gifted African-American students to earn credits towards their college degrees while still in high school. [...] greenascanbe Youth Memphis LBGT Hollis F Price Early Middle College High School Daphne Beasley http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Green-Mayor-Brings-Open-Government-to-Greenwich-NY.html&Itemid=99999999 <p><img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/doonan.jpg" alt=" " hspace="5" vspace="5" align="left" />David Doonan was considering a run for public office last year, but not necessarily for Mayor. But when then Mayor Chris McCormick, was quoted in the local paper as saying &quot;things are easier to get done when the public doesn&#39;t show up&quot;</p><p> Doonan knew he had to run. &quot;That was really the turning point for me&quot;. Doonan said, &quot;People felt like [...] greenascanbe Open Government NY Green Party http://brainshrub.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Students-sit-in-against-sweatshops.html&Itemid=99999999 By Linda Gomaa <br /> Raleigh, N.C. <br /> Published Apr 25, 2008 9:38 PM <p>April 22&mdash;Several students and workers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are entering the sixth day of a sit-in in Chancellor James Moeser&rsquo;s lobby, the longest sit-in at UNC since 1993. About 25 students and workers entered the administration building on April 17 and have been occupying it ever since.</p><p><img src="http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z254/Schwandes9/sitin_0501.jp [...] greenascanbe Student Action with Workers Nike Living Wage Chapel Hill Adidas