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[Dick Bell]

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Design Credit: Matt Dunphy




Cast (l. to r.): Alok Tewari, Maboud Ebramizadeh, Sorab Wadia
photo credit: Christopher Eaves/Eavesdrop




Cast: Johanna Cox in front, back, L to R: Marietta Hedges, H. Clark Kee, Sorab Wadia, Shanti Elise Prasad, Alok Tewari, Charles Linshaw, Maboud Ebramizadeh, Nicole Shalhoub
photo credit: Christopher Eaves/Eavesdrop

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From the script:

Reporter: Justice William O. Douglas once said: “As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilights that we all must be most aware of change in the air-however slight-lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.”

As a reporter, it is my job to tell the stories about these slight changes.

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[dwahzon]

Today’s Call to Arms is: CAMP DEMOCRACY NEEDS YOU!

Up and Running...

Tired of a government that can steal elections, strip away basic rights, spy on citizens, and launch wars based on lies, but where the people do not take over the nation's capital in protest?

Then come to Camp Democracy on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Join with fellow citizens from across the country to demand a return to democracy and to learn new skills you can use to organize in your community.
http://www.campdemocracy.org


Share a Ride to Camp Democracy, Share a Room When You Get Here!

Camp Democracy is up and running on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., every day until September 21. This will be a camp for peace, democracy, and the restoration of the rule of law. Our friends from Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas have joined us here in DC to create a larger camp focused not only on ending the war but also on righting injustices here at home and on holding accountable the Bush Administration and Congress.
http://www.campdemocracy.org

Your travel to Camp Democracy is part of the camp and should be a community-building experience. Do you have two people in your car but four seats? Can you bring a van? A large bus? Or do you want to fly on a plane together with others bound for Camp Democracy? Sign up here to offer a ride or to ask for one: http://spaceshare.com/campdemocracy

Do you have or need a room in the Washington, D.C., area?
Sign up here to offer a room or request one:
http://spaceshare.com/campdemocracy

We Need Your Help!

Camp Democracy is a grassroots effort and will only succeed with the help of many, many people contributing the small amounts they can afford. This is our opportunity to do what the citizens of the Ukraine, of Mexico, and of other countries do when their democracies are taken from them. This is our chance to say "Enough is enough!" Can you help us?

http://campdemocracy.org/sponsor

[Karen]

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Abu Ghraib

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In our increasingly bizarre and hallucinatory times, the United States Congress is poised on the edge of adopting torture as the official policy of the United States of America. Could we have lived so long as a free people, to arrive at such a travesty? There is no way to express in words our profound dismay at this perversion of democracy and human rights. We note that at least some of our fellow citizens have expressed their feelings in the last few days through direct action, acts of civil disobedience resulting in their arrests in front of the Capitol itself, before the Russell Senate Office Building, in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building, and in the gallery of the House of Representatives. Some of our fellow citizens, but not nearly enough.

This same vile proposal also ends the writ of habeas corpus, one of the cornerstones of free people in the Anglo-American world for the last 900 years. Out the window. Gone. Our legislators are turning over to the president the power of life and death over anyone whom the President, whoever he or she may be, designates as an enemy combatant. Anyone. Citizens of the United States. Citizens of our allies. Citizens of every country on the planet. Anyone. Snatched off the street, imprisoned and tortured, with no access to the courts to review the charges, until the president frees you, you die, or the so-called war on terror “ends,” whatever that means. You could be locked away for the rest of your life and never be charged with anything.

What is happening to our country?