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The Gay Marriage Race: Which State Will Be Next? :: EDGE Boston

excerpt from PART ONE OF THIS ANALYSIS PIECE AT EDGE PUBLICATIONS

Whither California, the nation? That's the question LGBT activists and just-plain folks across the country are asking. Will legalizing marriage in the California Republic set off a wave of such actions across the country? Judging from what happened in New York, it may already have. EDGE analyzes the move toward (and away from) gay marriage state by state and handicaps the race to be next in line to the altar.

Activist wants Bush arrested on arrival

Minneapolis activist will ask that President Bush be tried for war crimes. Ed Felien wants Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman to convene a grand jury.

New York City Gay bloggers make their mark :: EDGE New York City

"The mainstream media is so full of lies and distortions that we need the unfiltered information which comes from some of these blogs" she said. "Unfortunately too many gay men have the body of Gods and the brains of 15-year-old school girls. So I try to mix in some politics with more entertainment-oriented posts to trick them into caring about issues other than Jennifer Aniston's new hair style."

Film legend Charlton Heston dead at 84

Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.

Pete Seeger: How Can I Keep from Singing? :: Interview with Sarah van Gelder

It’s not fame he’s been after during his decades of singing. “Fame is a snare and a delusion,” he says. He marched for civil rights from Selma to Montgomery, played music on the banks of his beloved Hudson River, and was celebrated at Carnegie Hall.
He’s been working for change all his life, and he’s seen some of his fondest hopes come to pass.
Sarah van Gelder interviews Pete Seeger

Police probe fires near Seattle suspect eco-arson

The homes are in a development near the headwaters of Bear Creek, which is home to endangered chinook salmon. Opponents of the development had questioned whether the luxury homes could pollute the creek and an aquifer that is a drinking water source, and whether enough was done to protect nearby wetlands.

Hoover had plan for mass arrests

WASHINGTON - Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document.

Live Free�Do It Yourself :: by Sarah van Gelder YES! Magazine

What happens when we throw off the invisible chains that keep us from realizing the world we want when we, as they say in the global south, decolonize our minds? Step off the path and Live Free.
by Sarah van Gelder

Inteligenta Indiĝena Indigenismo Novaĵoservo: BOYCOTT RUSH LIMBAUGH

Enough is enough. The Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo Novajoservo blog is calling for a nationwide boycott of the Rush Limbaugh radio show by the Native American community and all people who give a damn about accountability in media.

granma.cu - 200 anti-war protesters arrested

WASHINGTON, (PL). Police arrested close to 200 anti-war protesters this past Saturday during a demonstration in front of the U.S.

Protests Persist in Myanmar, Despite Arrests by Junta

A crackdown by the ruling military junta is failing to stop an apparently spontaneous wave of protests - triggered by a sharp increase in fuel prices, and sustained in part by photos and video transmitted over the Internet.

Action Alert: Oppose S. 456, Feinstein's Gang Legislation Bill

The time is now to send your Senators a letter opposing Sen. Diane Feinstein's gang legislation bill, S. 456, the Gang Abatement and Prevention Act of 2007.

Sheehan quits as face of US anti-war fight

"This is my resignation letter as the 'face' of the American anti-war movement," she wrote in a sometimes bitter diary entry on the website Daily Kos. "I am going to take whatever I have left, and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children, and try to regain some of what I have lost."

Evidence Mounting for Armchair Revolution

Five giant corporate entities own most of media now and there is essentially no free press interested in doing investigative journalism anymore but if it does, it s smeared as that leftist or liberal press. The truth of current events can often be found on the web. But even when we know the (questionably vetted) truth, does that really change anything, I mean, in the long run?

World |Germans put price on protesting

Young, good-looking, and available for around 150 euros ( 100), more than 300 would-be protesters are marketing themselves on a German rental website.