This is fucked up: police beating lawyers who are protesting the imposition of martial law in Pakistan. And so what does the Bush Administration do in response to the repression and detention of human rights activists, lawyers, opposition politicians, and media? They choose to continue aid to the military of Pakistan, using the “key allies in the war on terror” as their bullshit excuse for abandoning the rule of law. At least they are consistent! (consistently authoritarian assholes.)

read Bob Herbert’s “The Ugly Side of the G.O.P.” Kanye was right.

It’s fitting that the “religious” party are crusaders for racism and war.

I welcome all moral people in this country to come to St. Paul, MN, next year, to protest the Republican National Convention. If we’re gonna have a two-party system, let’s replace the Republicans with the Greens.

P.S. Read here about the Jim Crow style (in)justice for the Jena Six. To fight racism in the judicial system, sign this petition for the Jena Six.

http://uofmhungerstrike.com

Check it out! -> info, updates, videos, interviews, pictures, articles, etc.

By commenting on the blog, you can enter the discussion with the hunger strikers about how we students can remind the UofM administrators that they are supposed to be serving the public good - starting with a fair contract for the AFSCME workers who keep our school running.

The website is run by the hunger strikers and their support collective, which is open to all - if you’re in the Twin Cities, please come talk with them and lend a hand at their encampment on the east end of the Washington Ave. pedestrian bridge.