[Imc-newsroom] Headlines!

[kevin b heinrich]

To whomever is doing the show tonight:
I think I agreed to help read headlines this evening; but it turns out I
won't be able to make it. My apologies...
-Kevin
PS- Has a new meeting time been chosen, or is it still up in the air? Just
curious...





On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Dan Chambers wrote:

> Hey everyone. My life has taken a turn for the absurdly busy. Without
> further ado...
>
> Senator Trent Lott praised Strom Thurmond's racist presidential candidacy of
> 1948, claiming that "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond
> ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of
> the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems
> over all these years, either." When reminded that Thurmond's candidacy was
> blatantly anti-black, Lott's office stated that his comments were meant only
> to pay homage to a great leader, nothing else.
>
>
> BALTIMORE - December 6 - Phil Berrigan died December 6, 2002 at about 9:30
> PM, at Jonah House, a community he co-founded in 1973, surrounded by family
> and friends. He died two months after being diagnosed with liver and kidney
> cancer, and one month after deciding to discontinue chemotherapy.
> Approximately thirty close friends and fellow peace activists gathered for
> the ceremony of last rites on November 30, to celebrate his life and anoint
> him for the next part of his journey. Berrigan's brother and co-felon,
> Jesuit priest Daniel Berrigan officiated.
>
>
> *
>
>
> During his nearly 40 years of resistance to war and violence, Berrigan
> focused on living and working in community as a way to model the nonviolent,
> sustainable world he was working to create. Jonah House members live simply,
> pray together, share duties, and attempt to expose the violence of
> militarism and consumerism. The community was born out of resistance to the
> Vietnam War, including high-profile draft card burning actions; later the
> focus became ongoing resistance to U.S. nuclear policy, including Plowshares
> actions that aim to enact Isaiah's biblical prophecy of a disarmed world.
> Because of these efforts Berrigan spent about 11 years in prison. He wrote,
> lectured, and taught extensively, publishing six books, including an
> autobiography, Fighting the Lamb's War.
>
> *
>
> The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has filed a petition to be argued today
> in British High Court, arguing against the UK's support for a war in Iraq.
> The case rests on the text of the United Nations Resolution 1441. The CND
> argues that it is normal to use the expression "any necessary means" to
> denote sanction of military action. "No such expression appears in the
> resolution," Tony Myers, campaigns officer with CND told IPS Wednesday. "We
> are arguing that military action would be unlawful without going back to the
> UN and seeking express approval for it." Myers acknowledged that "there is
> no precedent for a small organization going to court to stop a government
> going to war." But he said the CND is hopeful that the court will admit the
> case at the preliminary hearing on Monday.
>
> All of the leases were signed between 1968 and 1984, before the ban on oil
> drilling was enacted. They have never been developed. But they are the last
> hope that oil companies have to expand operations along a part of
> California's central coast near Santa Barbara that has significant
> quantities of undersea oil. State leaders said the ruling will make it much
> harder for the leases ever to be used, and may even nullify them.
>
>
> Dan Chambers
>
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