HELIOLITH

Thank you to the people of Italy…
…for crying out against the bogus war on Iraq. Finally, we hear a commitment to bring your soldiers home, even though it may be too little, too late. My condolences for all of the deaths you’ve suffered because of being put in harm’s way for a […]

I instant messaged with a friend in Italy after the shooting of Nicola Calipari, the Italian secret service officer who died by taking bullets? shrapnel? a single round to the temple while heroically throwing his body over Giuliana Sgrena’s. She is the Italian journalist who had just been released from being a hostage […]

(Fast Foward to ENGLISH at the End)
Mujeres valientes: ¿enemigos del estado?
Hablamos de Dora María Téllez, Giuliana Sgrena, y Digna Ochoa.
Hay trés mujeres en las noticias de los últimos trés días que han sido víctimas de los abusos de poder. Sus historias no son directamente relacionadas, pero las tomo como otros ejemplos del maltrato a […]

Err… Christmas. I wouldn’t normally pay too much attention to the ultra conservative wing or to Christian propaganda, but considering who is sitting in the White House, unless you’re in denial still, I’d say it’s an imperative to keep tabs on the radical right.
Today the La Times reports that one southern church […]

The BBC reported yesterday,

“The Pentagon is spending $10bn a year on the missile system, which was meant to be in operation by the end of 2004. The Missile Defence Agency said an “unknown anomaly” was to blame for the system shutting down.
Can you comprehend that we’re still going at this? Ronald Reagan’s […]

If none of the arguments for peace thus far have persuaded the Americans who still support the war, perhaps Reservist Wilson’s questions of Rumsfeld yesterday will hit home. When Rumsfeld went to Kuwait to give war-bound army reservists a pep talk, he found himself confronted by several angry soldiers unintimidated by rank. One asked […]

Here I am, trying to make a dent in my Easter candy (it somehow lasted longer than Halloween’s), and cleaning up my desk. I found a business card I’d almost forgotten about. Weeks ago, while I was waiting tables, a customer left the card with his cash on the table when he left. He left […]

*(If you live in Duval County, Florida). Unfortunately, many people are unaware of the serious risks associated with common over-the-counter pesticides. It seems that society has regressed from the environmental consciousness catalyzed in 1962 when Rachel Carson published Silent Spring. Roundup is common enough to be a household name, and household insecticides […]

Stumbling upon these words, I cannot help but think that they are the same words the whole world is whispering, shouting, screaming at the United States as we continue the pre-emptive strategic decimation of countless people. The refrain is so loud in fact, so universal, that Bush cannot even address our friendly northern neighbour Canada’s Parliament for fear of ridicule and dissent. (via Cfarivar)

*(I would really like to find the poem Hecate quotes in the original Spanish saving my pennies since I can’t find it online at the moment)

In researching the ACLU’s position on Proposition 69, I discovered this gem of resistance. In Missouri, attorneys for 16 year old Brad Mathewson are suing the school that has prohibited him from wearing 2 different gay-friendly shirts. One that simply says “FHS gay/straight alliance” and another with a rainbow and […]