6C)¼;?ment defines real 100% debt cancellation for Africa as understood by Africa Action. It is equally a statement of solidarity with civil society throughout Africa, whose leaders have long declared Africa’s debts to be both unpayable and illegitimate. Africa’s debts must be cancelled as a matter of economic justice because they are largely illegitimate and odious debts.

Despite the formation of a new Sudanese "Government of National Unity" in Khartoum, there is overwhelming evidence of bad faith on the part of the National Islamic Front (NIF) in creating what is only the semblance of a new political order.

This week the Bush Administration prevented witnesses from providing public testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee about Able Danger, "a secret military unit that is said to have identified four of the Sept. 11 hijackers more than a year before the terrorist attacks."

The devastation caused by hurricane Katrina has led millions of Americans to open our hearts to the helpless victims of the Gulf Coast communities. Donations by the millions have poured in. Volunteers by the thousands have rushed to disaster sites to help with rescue work and reconstruction. And the unions and union members of our country have been among those who have given generously.

With rising pressure from many sectors in the U.S. for troop withdrawal from Iraq, Bush's rhetoric of stubbornness is raising comparisons in some quarters to President Lyndon Johnson's own regarding the war against Vietnam. "We shall stay they course," they have both said.

I came to know Cindy Sheehan in May, and – like most people – I immediately loved her. She is a very friendly and loving person, and you cannot work on a project with her without being constantly reminded of what it is all about, how important it is, how right it is.

As the people of the Gulf Coast begin the long road to recovery after the worst natural disaster in American history, President Bush is choosing to use this tragedy to push his conservative political agenda on the region.

Sat., 9/24 : Massive March & Rally,Peace and Justice Festival,
Operation Ceasefire Concert
Sun., 9/25: Interfaith Service,Training for Grassroots Lobby Day,Training for Nonviolent Civil Resistance, National Meeting for Counter Recruitment,Other Activities
Mon., 9/26: Grassroots Lobby Day, Mass Nonviolent Civil Resistance

A Chilean socialist congressman has demanded increased rigor from the Ricardo Lagos government to end recruitment of Chilean mercenaries bound for Iraq. Alejandro Navarro, who has continuously denounced this practice in Chile, said Wednesday that he will urge the government to expedite a bill in Congress to prevent recruitment of Chileans by foreigners.

On St. Patrick's Day in 2003, just days before President Bush launched his war on Iraq, four members of the Catholic Worker Community in Ithaca, New York staged a peaceful protest by entering a local military recruitment station, prayed, read a statement, and poured their own blood near the entrance of the facility to signify the violence of war.Their trial ... ended in a hung jury with most of the jurors voting to acquit.

To enrich his corporate friends in the wake of the Katrina disaster, Bush elimnated rules protecting wages in the Gulf States. Send him a message about. Also, demand that farm workers in Washington be protected from exploitation.

In another major defeat for the Coca-Cola company in India, the state government of Kerala has challenged the company's right to use groundwater in the Supreme Court of India, arguing that water is being taken from poor communities to produce drinking water for the rich.

1968. There was never a year when the worlds of sports and politics collided so breathlessly, without mercy or respite. It was the year Muhammad Ali, stripped of his heavyweight title for resisting the draft, spoke on 200 college campuses and asked the question, "Can they take my title without me being whupped?"

From "faith-based" discrimination to arch-conservative Chief Justice nominee Roberts and a National ID card concept, Constitutional protections are being sacrificed to an ultra right agenda. Learn more and find ways to fight back.

A very good friend of mine voted for Bush last November. It shocked me then and it continues to bother me now. She was a student, just like me, working multiple jobs to cover the ever-rising costs of tuition, rent, and food. Couldn’t she see how the Bush Administration’s cuts to funding for higher education and the illegal Iraq war, diverting funds from books to bombs, have endangered the lives of young people everywhere?

Of the 29 ministries, 16 remained in the hands of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP). Nine went to the SPLM/A, and the remaining four were divided among various other political parties in accordance with the wealth- and power-sharing quotas agreed to under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

"Lebanon’s victims of trafficking are often invisible because they suffer in places that remain hidden to the public eye such as private homes or hotel rooms," Sigmu Huda, the UN Special Rapporteur on human trafficking told reporters following a fact-finding mission that lasted from 8-15 September.

Is peaceful protest a security threat? The Howard government seems to think so after it removed American teacher and peace activist, Scott Parkin, from Australia last week. His crime: advocating peace, which the government views as a threat to national security.

Republicans like to brag that, as a political party, they are more fiscally responsible than their Democratic counterparts. Well, thanks to President Bush’s four years in office that theory can now take up residence in the urban legend department.

ICFTU General Secretary Guy Ryder warned world leaders not to turn their backs on the world's poor following extremely mixed results at the UN Millennium + 5 Summit held in New York that finished today.""This summit did not deliver enough on poverty, security, United Nations reform, or the reaffirmation of the UN as the core of the multilateral system..."