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TennCare Enrollees Discuss Strategies for Smart Reform |
by Matt Leber
Email: matt (nospam) nashvillepeacejustice.org |
30 Nov 2004
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 Given the life-saving role that TennCare plays for hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans, it’s important for our state to consider all the available options to get us out of the current crisis. While most media attention has focused on only two of these options (drastically cutting benefits or killing the program entirely), TennCare enrollees are pointing out viable strategies for a “third way”—smart reform that lowers costs without compromising care. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Gender and Sexuality |
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Southern Activists Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide |
by Chris Lugo
Email: christopher_lugo (nospam) yahoo.com |
29 Nov 2004
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 In an apparent murder-suicide, virginia activist Niklan Jones-Lezama murdered activist Sue Daniels, set fire to the cabin Daniels was residing in, and then slit his wrists on the evening before he was scheduled to attend to the annual SOA protests in Fort Benning, Georgia.
Both Nik and Sue were active around varous social justice issues, such as opposing war in the Middle East, oppression in Central America, and violent mountaintop removal in Appalachia. The two had spent several months in federal prison last year due to their participation in the annual School of the Americas protests in Georgia. |
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Colombian Labor Leaders-An Endangered Species |
by Mik Tulumello
Email: Fuzybadger (nospam) cableracer.com |
29 Nov 2004
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 Miguel is a high school Social studies teacher and a teacher’s union leader in the department of Cauca, Colombia. The day I met him, he was at a Colombia Teach-in at the SOA Watch Event. The T-shirt he was wearing caught my eye first. It had a statement on the front about Colombian Union Leaders being endangered and on his back, between the shoulder blades, was a bull's-eye.
Because of death threats from paramilitary organizations, Miguel was forced to leave his family and the country of his birth in an AFL-CIO protection program that offers sanctuary in the United States to endangered union leaders. 3 out of every 4 union leaders assassinated worldwide are killed in Colombia and nearly 2,100 union members have been slain since 1991. Just to give that some perspective, Colombia is a country of only 44 million people. According to the UN, lecturers and teachers are “among the workers most often affected by killings, threats and violence-related displacement.” As both a teacher and a union leader Miguel is a very “high value target”for the paramilitaries. |
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Community Supported Agriculture Sprouts in Fernvale |
by Christopher Michael Durai
Email: cdurai (nospam) peoplepc.com |
25 Nov 2004
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 In a time when rural communities in Tennessee and across the world are in danger of being "developed" into ill-planned, mismanaged and environmentally destructive suburban areas, people are beginning to band together in order to save the land and the slow paced rural way of life they love.
From the beginning, communities flourished because of the availability of clean water and food. It was agriculture that ended the way of the nomad and gave birth to the form of civilization we know today. Yet with the industrial revolution and the outsourcing of our food production, we have become ever more disconnected from our food source. Yet while we all owe our very lives to farmers, we rarely think about them, sometimes forgetting while walking through the grocery store isles how vital they are to our existence. |
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Soldier Opposes Unofficial Draft Policy |
by Carl Webb
Email: carlwebb (nospam) gmail.com |
23 Nov 2004
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 This press release is about my refusal to go fight in the Iraqi war. I was recently visited by the Knoxville City Police but was not arrested as there was no warrant out for me. It seems my unit hasn't reported me missing yet. |
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News :: Peace : Protest Activity |
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Presente! 16,000 Protesters Gather to Close the School of Americas |
by Chris Lugo
Email: christopher_lugo (nospam) yahoo.com |
22 Nov 2004
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 Over 16,000 people from across the Americas — including actors Martin Sheen and Susan Sarandon — gathered this weekend outside the gates of Ft. Benning, Georgia in the most diverse demonstration yet of opposition to the School of the Americas/ WHINSEC!
Stories by SOA Watch, Atlanta IMC and Tennessee Indymedia . . . |
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Interview :: Media |
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One Hundred New Pirate Radio Stations |
by kirsten anderberg
Email: kirstena (nospam) resist.ca |
19 Nov 2004
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 In light of recent actions against Knoxville's First Amendment Radio and other pirate radio stations across the country, it is time for Indymedia activists to challenge the corporate stranglehold on the public airwaves and take it to the air. Pirate radio is a legitimate forum for the expression of community voices. The only reason that corporations have their stranglehold on our voices is because we have not done enough to resist and challenge. Examples like Nashville's Radio Free Nashville LPFM are excellent examples of legal low powered community radio, but the FCC has only given out a limited number of low power radio licenses, so for the vast majority of communities in this country which have no true community voice, pirate radio remains their only real option... |
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What Tennessee Can Tell Us About US Politics |
by Ryan Kaldari
Email: kaldari (nospam) monsterlabs.com |
17 Nov 2004
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 Tennessee is a strange place politically. We went 57% for Bush this election, both of our Senators are Republicans, and most people consider Tennessee a very conservative Bible Belt state. Despite these facts, Democrats still wield an enormous amount of power here in a sort of political-reality-warp-field. For example: our Democratic Governor has one of the highest approval ratings in the country; most of Tennessee's Congressmen are Democrats; the state House and Senate were both overwhelmingly Democratic up until this election, and despite the fact that Republicans won control of the State Senate for the first time since the Civil War, they are still going to let a Democrat remain as the Speaker of the Senate! I predict that the national Democratic leadership will be studying Tennessee closely if they want to figure out how to reclaim the South. |
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