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Melissa G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:23 PM
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15 Things About Bush&Co.: An Impeachment List


15 Things About Bush&Co.: An Impeachment List
Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 3:11 pm
Opinion: Bernard Weiner

15 Things Learned About Bush&Co.: An Impeachment List

By Bernard Weiner
The Crisis PapersThough my degrees are in government and international relations, I hadn't been part of the political arena in an activist way since "The Sixties" -- roughly the Civil Rights Movement late-'50s through the anti-Vietnam War mid-'70s. Instead, after years of college teaching, I found myself more engaged in cultural work as a playwright, poet and newspaper reporter, and, for nearly two decades, as a theater critic.

When 9/11 arrived, something snapped open in me, as it did for many Americans. The world indeed had changed, not just the fact that the U.S. was attacked in such a horrific way and had to respond but also, and perhaps more significantly, in the brazen, power-hungry way the Bush Administration had chosen to use those multiple terror-murders.

My political instincts and intuitions were re-activated, along with a desire to talk about what I saw happening, and I began writing political analyses for a wide variety of internet websites. If one examined those early columns, one could see a moderate progressive struggling, along with everyone else, in trying to make sense of what was going on politically, socially, economically.

After a year or so of writing for other publications, co-activist philosopher Ernest Partridge and I in November of 2002 founded our own website The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org), where we not only would publish our political analyses but also link to the best writing we found out there on the Web, and help the fledgling resistance gain momentum.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00400.htm
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LightningFlash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-28-05 11:35 PM
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1. Nice article....
...Really makes things alot more sensical..
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